Connecticut western news., 1913-03-06

cross belts furnishing a liveI1er pacB ground than did the future admirals They stood at "Order arms"
 When MT Taft. president for his last few minutes. appeared at the head of the line with Mir Wilson, the plaza crowd, distant as 1t was, glimpsed him the minute he stepped from the rotnn da door. It set up a cheer, not well concerted cheer, but sincere and vocif arous
 Down the few steps that led from the capitol pnrtico to the stand the proces | sion came Az the president stepped into the little inclosure the crowd cheered again. %Gruff voices rapped ont commands. The middjes and the cadets jerlsed their rifles to Present arms. =. the sahers Of the Rlack Horse troop dashed Tn the light md Chief Justice White. hsreheaded. stepped in front of MT Wilson Meanwhile the members of the senate and house committees had seated themselves in other chairs
 Tt took long time to seat all those who followed the president The sn preme court justices sat immediately behind at the left. the diplomatic corps at the right. the senators and repre- sentatives took places fnrtber to the rear
 Mrs. Wilson and her three daughters with the ladies Of the new cabinet and Mrs Marshall. were near the immedi , ate party of the president
 Wilson Takes the Oath.
 In a few minutes the crowd had settled itself, Then uprose the chief justice, who whispered something tc President Wilson. The latter quickly divested himself of his overcoat and removed the shining black tile Ar ] usher relieved him of them. Clerk McKenna of the supreme court then advanced toward the president. bearing on open Bible upon a cushion of crimson velvet. The president laid his hands upon the page. Chief Justice White did likewise. Then in a voice 1 that few could hear in the broad open space. although it rang out clear and strong the chief justice recited the presidential oath. As he finished the new president repeated with fervor the concluding words, "So help me God.' He bent reverently and kissed the open book. e Then, turning his pack upon the gath. pring in the stands and facing the efn- bryo soldiers and the vast throng in the distant seats of the plaza and the capitol park, President Wilson began his inaugural address. l l Listen to Address.
 He held his manuscript in his un gloved right hand. The police and sol rliers, who had held the great crowds back, relaxed the rigidity of their lines, and the crowd swarmed for ward, nearer and nearer to the stand. Mounted policemen and the soldiers kept them at a reasonable distance from the president, preventing the de molfshment of the fine lines of the ca det formation.
 Go Back to White House. | As President Wilson uttered the last words of his inaugural address the big crowd on the stand arose and spread in every direction, hastening toward the score or more of reviewing stands which lined Pennsylvania avenue
 President Wilson was now the host of former President Taft. In resuming
 his carriage for the return journey to the White House. which will be for the
 next four years his home, President
 Wilson seated himself at the right of the former president On the forward seat of the conveyance sat Senator Ba-
 
 an ex-senator from Massachusetts
 Vice President Marshall was accompa.