The Washington times., 1913-02-16
WOMEN DEMOCRATS
TO GIVE RECEPTION
TO HERE
Event at Willard on March 3
DispIaces Leagues Ball on
Weeks Social Calendar.

weeks S0CIdl CdlcnudT.
Governors and visiting Democratic
men and women will be the guests Of
the District branch of the Southern
Wilson and Marshall League at man.
| moth reception in the Willard on
March ..
President-elect Wilson. although in
vited to the affair. will not attend.
The league. frightened by Governor
Wilson's attitude toward inaugural
week social affairs, has abandoned its
plan for a big ball on the night Of
March 8. The governors reception
takes its place as the most .pretentious
| social event of inaugural week.
League headquarters will be opened
| in the willard on Sunday. March
.. and .'open house will be OBJ
| served until the weekend. Women
from all the Southern States will have
| representation on the committee In
| charge, with the largest delegations
coming from Virginia and Georgia.
Adopts Hospitality Slogan.
The league has adopted the Southern
I SioSdH VI thS ihooe 49,
committee To make the slogan real
ity, the headquarters will be turned into
a regular meeting place for Democratic
men and women. Guests will be In
vited tc register, SO that friends may To-
cate them readily. Headquarters will
contain rest rooms. Women from the
! Southland can come in and renew old
acquaintances. The glad hand will be
| awaiting them.
Plans for the reception are taking
| shape, and within the week committees
! will be named to take charge of the af-
! fair.
The league may decide TO hold bali
at Easter time and invite President Will
son as the guest of honor.
Further proof of the inaugural COM
mittee's declaration that Washington is
not planning to '.gouge" visitors at in
! auguration time is given by the District
restrictions against taxicab companies
and cabmen. There has been much re-
gret among these men that they could
| not reap their usual harvest from in
| augural ball guests. Now the District
has regulated the fares, SO that the
| rates will not be higher than at ordin-
| ary times.
Correspondents Continue Fight.
Chairman w. c. Eustis, of the inau-
gural committee. this afternoon declined
to make any comment on the letter of
Senator Sutherland concerning the press
gallery war against the committee. Mr..
| Sutherland called attention to the stu
alton concerning correspondents tickets
and expressed the hope for an early and
satisfactory adjustment The corre-
| spondents have not ceased hostilities.
for they claim they would have had =
stand Of their own except for the conf
| the Lafayette and Presidential review
Ing stands.
The situation is becoming acute, in
asmuch a. the correspondents war Is
doing more to hurt Washington and
| the Inauguration attendance than any
thing else possibly could do. The at
| tacks are becoming personal.
Politics. Acknowledgement, 'gouging'
| and the Hike are some of the claims
Of the correspondents In their stories
1 to the outside world.
| Word reached here today that Gen.
| Cipriano Castro, no longer barred from
this country. will attend the Inaugural
ton ceremonies as a mark of his good
| feeling over his freedom.
The Kings county banner, carried I'm
| Clereland's Inauguration, will be used
| again by the Kings County Club Of
| Brooklyn. which Is sending 500 men
| INTO tne pdidue-
War Causes Worry.
The Mexican war situation is the lat
| est worry of the inaugural committee.
With this new trouble looming up as a
prospective bar to militia and regular
army delegations in the inaugural par
| ade, the committeeman felt today that
the regular warfare of the Capitol cor
| respondents was Of second Importance.
| However. the more optimistic members
of the committee felt that even though
| the troops were called to Mexico for
| fighting, there would still be enough
civic organization marchers to make
| the parade a success.
| The committee. as whole. has
reached the stage where 1t believes that
there will be an enormous crowd here.
no matter what happens. Woodrow
| Wilson. they declare. will be sufficient
| attraction to the Democrats, starved by
many years Of political hunger. All in
dications point to a record breaking at
| tendance.
| Arrange for 400.
| Plans for the mammoth New Jersey
| delegation will be completed this week
| Colonel Birch, the Presiden: elects aid,
is chairman of the New Jersey lnaugu-
raj committee and is looking after the
| needs OF all the Jersey delegates. Bay
onne. n. j.. has taken SO much inter-
est In the preparations that 1t has sent
its mayor and a group of prominent
| citizens here to make arrangements for
| accommodating at least 400 citizens
| President-elect Wilson has declared
that his first public utterance in Wash
| ington will be his inaugural address. At
the Princeton alumni smoker, March 5.
/! he will mingle informally with the
| guests in the same way that he did as
| president Of Princeton. March 4. the
| President expects to have a few guests
at luncheon but will accept no invita-
l tinns to social functions.
His latest invitation is to the National
| Democratic Association of the United
| states ball to be held in the Arcade the
| night of March 4. The attendance will
he limited to LOCO. Democratic Sena-
| tors and Congressmen will be on the re-
| ception committee, and the scope of the
entire affair will be national.
| Special Police.
Members of the public order commit
tee will be sworn in as special police
| men Friday night at a meeting in the
New Willard Hotel. These policemen
will be expected co perform active SER
! vice IL called on. Included in the list
are ahout eighty physicians who will