The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-02
WILSON IS NOW
IN THE CAPITAL
Given Great Send off At Prince
ton by Enormous Crowds
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are decorated until hardly anything
except flags and bunting is visible
All the mass of plans, worked out in
detail by small army of committees,
among whom the labors were divided,
are complete. and all that Is now need
Is propitious weather. In all the lead.
ing features of the days ceremonies
the etiquette and presidents estab-
lished in previous years will be fol-
lowed. The program may be sum-
married. as follows:
Al 1926 o'clock tomorrow morning
members of the congressional COM
mittee will wait upon Mr. Wilson at
the Shoreham Hotel to escort him 10
the white house. similar party will
wait upon the vice president elect,
who Is also stopping at the Shore
ham. The incoming president and
vice president will be greeted by Pres
i6ent Taft and in a few minutes will
begin the trip To the capitol.
The president-eect will have as a
special guard of honor the Essex
County Troop of Newark, y. j., and
the vice president elect will have n
similar escort consisting OF the Culver
Black Horse Troop from Indiana.
President Taft, the president elect
and Senators Crane OF Massachusetts
and Bacon of Georgia win occupy the
first carriage. With the vice presi-
dent-elect will ride Senator Overman
of North Carolina and Representative
Rucker of Missouri.
Marshall Takes Oath First
on arriving at the Senate wing oc
the capitol the president and presi-
Gent-eloct viii go Immediately to the
presidents room and the vice pres-
dent elect to the vice presidents room.
Committees viii then escort the pres
ident and president elect and the vice
president elect into the Senate cham
her, which will b. filled with the
members Of both branches of Con-
gress and the judges OF the supreme
court of the United States.
The oath of office as vice president
will be administered to Mr. Marshall,
who will then deliver his inaugural
address and administer the oath of
oce To the senator's elect, With the
organization of the new Senate COM
pleted all of the participants in the
ceremonies will march To the plat
form erected at the east front of tho
capitol, where the big event of the
day the actual swearing i'm of Pres
idcnt Wilson, will take place. The
oath of office will be administered by
Chief Justice White. President Will
son will then deliver his inaugural
address.
When the inaugural address has
been concluded and the last cheer has
died away. President Wilson. Vice
President Marshall and ex-Presidcnt
Taft will proceed to the White House
for luncheon. Meanwhile, the inaugu-
ration parade will be forming at the
capitol BY the time the luncheon at
the white house is completed il will
I've time for the leading figures of the
day to take their places on the review
ing stand erected i'm front of the ex-
ecutive mansion.
From a spectacular point of view
the parade will be the big feature of
the day. 1t will be viewed by several
hundred thousand American citizens.
CT as many as can pack themselves
along the line of march. Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood. chief of staff of tho
United States army. will act as grand
marshal Of the procession.
Tammany Leaves For Capital.
New York, March Silk hats of
uncertain vintage, frock coats and
gray gloves were conspicuous in and
about the Pennsylvania and Baltimore
& Ohio terminal today. Tammany.
2,5OO strong, headed by it's leader.
Charles j.. Murphy. was leaving for
Washington To March in the inaugural
parade for the first time in twenty
years. Six special trains carried tho
braves. The railroads estimated there
were forty Thousand in all.
Accident to Militia Train.
Philadelphia, March 3.--A locomo-
tive drawing special train, carrying
the Massachusetts volunteer militia of
New England to Washington for the
inauguration blew up at East Rah-
way, y. j., ON the Pennsylvania rail
road At 9:25 today. The engineer and
hremen were badly injured but no
passengers were hurt, Three or four
tracks were blocked interfering with
the Inauguration traffic.
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