The Hattiesburg news., 1913-03-03
WASHINGTON CROWDED ON EVE
OF OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
TAXED To LIMIT.
THOUSANDS WILL SEE PARADE
viii Be Big Feature of The Day From
Spectacular Point of View-Presi-
dent-elect viii Witness Administer
ing Oath to the New Vice-President.

Washington, D. c., March 81
Washington today is in readiness for
tomorrow's Inauguration of President
Wilson, the first chief executive that
the Democratic party has given to the
nation in sixteen years. Delegations
of Democrats and thousands of other
visitors are pouring into the capital
and the streets and hotels are crowd |
ed with strangers. Streets and build !
ings are decorated until hardly any |
thing except flags and bunting is Wis
ible.
All the mass of plans, worked out in
detail by a small army of committees,
among whom the labors were divided,
are complete, and all that is now need
ed is propitious weather. In all the
leading features of the days cere-
monies the etiquette and precedents
established in previous years will be
followed The programme may be sum-
married as follows:
At 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning
members of the congressional commit
tee will wait upon Mr.. Wilson at the
Shoreham Hotel to escort him to the
White House. A similar party will
wait upon the e-President-elect,
who is also stopping at the Shoreham.
The incoming President and Vice-Pres-
ident will be greeted by President Taft
and in few minutes will begin the
trip to the Capitol.
Guards Of Honor. =
The President-elect will have as a
special guard of honor the Essex Coun-
ty Troop of Newark, N. j., and the
ce-President-elect will have simi-
lar escort consisting of the Culver
Black Horse Troop from Indiana.
President Taft, the President-elect and
Senators Crane of Massachusetts and
Bacon of Georgia will occupy the first
carriage. With the Vice-President-
elect will ride Senator Overman of
North Carolina and Representative
Rucker of Missouri.
On arriving at the Senate wing of
the Capitol the President and Presi-
dent-elect will go Immediately to the
Presidents room and the Vice-Presi
dent-elect to the Vice-President's room
COMMITTEES will then escort the Presi
dent and President and the Vice
President-elect. into the Senate cham
ber which will be filled with the mem
bers of both branches of Congress ant
the judges of the Supreme Court o.
q, the United States.
The oath of office as Vice-Presiden
will be administered to Mr.. Marshall
who will then deliver his inaugula
address and administer the oath o
office to the senators-elect. With thu
organization of the new Senate com
pleted all of the participants in th'
ceremonies will march to the platform
erected at the east front of the Cap
tol, where the big event of the day
the actual swearing in of Presiden
Wilson, will take place. The oath o
office will be administered by Chic
Justice White, President Wilson wi
4 then deliver his inaugural address. !
Luncheon At White House. =
When the inaugural address ha
been concluded the last cheer has die
away, President Wilson, Vice-Pres
dent Marshall and ex-President Tai
will proceed to the White House &c
luncheon. Meanwhile the inaugur'
4ion parade will be forming at the Ca
itol BY the time the luncheon at Tn
White House is completed it will b
time for the leading figures of the da
TO take their places on the reviewin
stand erected in front of the executiV
mansion.
From a spectacular point of view tt
parade will be the big feature oil u
day 1t will be viewed by several hu
dred thousand American citizens, or
many as can pack themselves aior
The line Of march, Mai. Gen. Leonal
wood, chief of stan Of the Unite