The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-03-04
Wild Over Wilson,
Marshall Too.
PARADE IS BEST YET
Many New Wrinkles In the
Inaugural Pageant
JUST HOW IT ALL HAPPENS

New President Sworn In Before Cheer.
ing Thrones by Chief Justice White
and Delivers Simple Address-Wild
and JubiIant Crowds Line PennsyI.
vania Avenue, Jam Stands, Dot
Windows and Lean Over Roofs as
Elaborate Procession Passes-Wil-
son Family Holds Reunion.
Washington, March An the pres
ence of the biggest crowd that ever
packed and jammed itself into the
great plaza at the east end of the cap
itol, surrounded by high civil and mil
itary dign.taries, diplomats and states
men of his own and foreign countries,
Woodrow Wilson, erstwhile governor
of New Jersey and president-elect, to.
day took the oath of Office that made
him the twenty-eighth president of the
United States.
Less than an hour before, with SOL
emn ceremonial, Thomas R. Marshall
the vice pr"s;dent-e]ect. had been In
Quoted into his Office in the senate
chamber before the members of both
houses. Somewhat earlier still Presi.
dent Taft, the president and vice pres
ident-elect, with their respective guard
of honor, the Essex troop, of Newark,
N. J., and the Culver Black Horse
troop, of Indiana, had swept down
Pennsylvania avenue on their way to
the capitol between row on row OF
cheering, shouting thousands.
Before that and barking back to the
dim and distant yes ,erday, when "the
man of the hour" left his Princeton
home for his four year sojourn in this
city, escorted by two special train
loads of his "boys," members of the
student body of Princeton university
events followed each ot1leE ~
sequence. Among these was the presi
dent-elect's reception by a committees
headed by DR.. Thomas Nelson Page,
the famous author, at the Union sta
ton last night and the reception ana
smoker given in his honor by his old
classmates and others of the Princeton
Alumni association at the New Will
lard.
Yet all the receptions and formal
speechmaking that went before, just
as the White House luncheon and the
great military pageant that followed,
were but the setting of the principal
scene, the background of the event
which will make the history of this
country for four years to come.
Soon after daybreak this morning
the crowds began to gather along
Pennsylvania avenue and in front CT
the great platform that had been erect
ed for the inaugural exercises at the
eastern end of the capitol. Long be-
fore noon every available inch of
space was taken
AS the august procession, which
precedes the inaugural ceremony, filed
out of the capitol and wound its way
across the platform hush fell over
the crowd. Mechanically many uncov-
cred their heads.
The sergeants-at-arms of the senate
and house. followed by the marshal OF
the supreme court and the marshal OF
the District of Columbia, made up the
vanguard of the procession of high
dignitaries. Behind these last came
Chief Justice Edward D. White, of the
supreme court, whose duty 1t was to
administer the oath of Office to the
and the associate JUS
tices, followed by the committee or
arrangements.
Then came the president and the
and at their rear
DISTINGUISHED following of ambassa-
dors, governors and other dignitaries,
including the newly sworn vice prest-
dent.
Chief Justice Administers Ooath.
When the procession paused every
ear strained attention to catch the
words that would usher into the chair
Of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln
the first Democrat to gain that high
place in a score of years.
Solemnly and distinctly, though
most of the waiting thousands hang
ing on the event of his words could
not even see the motion of his lips,
the chief justice administered the oath
of Office to the president-elect.
An instant the waiting host stood
silent. Then it became shrieking,
leaping mob, roaring a pandemoniac
welcome to the nations new executive
and all but smothering the saluting
cannon which first gave notice that
new president had been inauguratoc