Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-16
PUBLIC ORDER PLAN
Precautions to Be Taken Dur
ing Inauguration Period.
COMMITTEE MEETS FRIDAY
Sylvester to Outline Work of His
Four Hundred Aids.
WELLER REFUTES CHARGES
Declares Prices of Accommodation
in Washington at Inauguration
Are Reasonable.
COMMITTEE MEETS FRIDAY
WELLER REFUTES CHARGES

The committee on public order of the
inaugural committee is to meet next Fri
day evening at the New Willard Hotel,
according to announcement made last
night by Maj. Sylvester, superintendent
of police and chairman of the committee.
There are about 400 members of this
committee and all will be sworn in as ad
ditional members of the police force and
given full police powers for the inaugural
period. Each member of the committee
will be furnished with police badge and
expected to perform police duty, If called
upon. Among the members of this com
mittee are eighty physicians. who will
serve with the twenty ambulanceS along
the line of the parade
MAI Sylvester has been supplied with
several thousand copies of the regula-
lions promulgated by the Commissioners
to be enforced during the inaugural Pc
Rod. or one week before inauguration day
and one week thereafter. He Will dis
tribute these regulations through the
police precincts. Copies may be obtained
also from police headquarters.
Rates for Vehicles Specified.
The rates permitted to be charged for
public vehicles are given in the regula-
tons. The peace and order act and the
vagrancy act are also contained in the
regulations. There is regulation against
the sale of liquor on government reser-
.vations or thoroughfares. and another
prohibits throwing confetti and the use
of 'ticklers." Provision is made against
the distribution of handbils or other adj
vertising material, and a penalty is pre-
scribed for the loaning, selling, carrying
or displaying an imitation or toy pistol
Arrangements have been made by
Maj Sylvester to have supply of
sand in readiness for use on Pennsyl-
vanla avenue March should sleety
condition of the pavement require
something to prevent accidents. The
sand will be used March 3, the day
of the suffragist parade, should wealth
or conditions make It's use necessary.
Withholds Lunch Stand Permit.
mitted by Capt. Byrnes. in charge of
the sixth precinct. Maj. Sylvester has
decided to give no permit for lunch
stand about the fountain at the north
east corner of Pennsylvania avenue
and eth street Heretofore lunch
stands have been erected there and
many applications for permission to
erect stands this year have been re-
ceived.
capt ByTneS suggested tnat the SIDE
walk there should be kept free of such
distractions this year. and his suggestion
will prevail unless the Commissioners
later conclude that the stands should be
there as matter of public convenience.
1t is the intention of Maj. Sylvester to
make provision for furnishing policemen
in the shopping district with sandwiches
and coffee March 4. Policemen will be
required to perform much extra duty
inauguration day, the chief of police
says, and he is anxious to have them
given hot coffee and sandwiches, realizing
they will have no time to go to their
homes to meals.
Reasonable Rates Charged.
Chairman NJ. l. Weller of the public
comfort committee last night reiterated
his assertion that visitors to Washington
for the inauguration need not be over
charged for room and board, and that
they are not overcharged as had been
claimed. He said that his committee
had listed at present accommodating
for 10000 persons at rates from $3.50
TO $3.50 a day.
Il have been chairman Of the public
comfort committee on the occasion OF
many inaugurations, and in each case
we have had more accommodations list
ed with us than are called for, and
reasonable and good accommodations,
too said Mr.. Weller. I'VE could take
care of great many more persons than
apply for accommodations"