The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-06
INAUGURAL ARMY
10000 STRONG IS
FEATUREOFP PROGRAM
Great Line of Varicol-
Ored Marchers Hon.
ors Wilson.
SEEN BY
BY THRONGs
Parade Halts While Taf
Takes Formal Leave of
the White House..

ing with measured tread 10 the Dlafe
of a brigade of bands, marched in re-
view today from the Capitol t the
White House, Il magnificent tribute
of welcome to the administration OF
Woodrow Wilson.
Historic Pennsylvania n
the path of other armies OF peace and
war, was like Il valley between hills
in a glory OF color-with the simpli-
city OF natures green and white DOM
mating the color scheme along the
line of march, while the dazzle OF
uniforms, the flash of guns, sabers,
gold lace and grass buttons, and the
confused roar of bands, bugles, lum-
boring artillery and tramping thous-
ands. added %vividness n stirring ac-
tivity to the brilliant scene. High on
either side of the avenue, its build
ings, and reviewing stands were pack
ed With humanity, rising from the
solid masses along the curbs, to the
dense through in balconies, windows
and store tops. And through this val
ley OF humanity and color Il martial
host undulated and rolled along WITH
the steady sweep of a great river.
Pageant is Climax.
The street pageant was the Climax
to the Inauguration Ceremonies at the
Capitol, adding the outward spec
tacular features to the formal ever
cises which had Just taken place at
the Senate chamber and the east
front of the Capitol. Since early in
the morning the ranks of the march
ers had been lying in FESTIVE division
waiting for the word TO advance.
While President Wilson was sole
mnly repeating his oath of office, to
the slow measures set by the Chief
Justice. the troops at parade rest
We're coming to attention and .ong
lines We're strengthening into col
umns.
With the last word of swearing in
the new president, the commands
rang out and were echoed along the
lines; there was a rattle of arms, a
~clattcr of hoofs, and the great parade
was in motion behind the carriages
of President Wilson and Nice-Prcsi-
dent Marshall. And then with the
steady Tramp, tramp, tramp of
marching feet, the stream of color
wound down from Capitol hill and
breasted it's way toward the White
House, to which the presidential
party had driven briskly ahead to
lake pldceS lOF IHe REVIEW.
Officers in Charge.
The chief officers and divisions of
the parade We're as follows:
Grand Marshal-Major General
Leonard Wood.
First Division, Regular Army,
Navy and Marine Corps-Major Gen
eral w. w. Wotherspoon, command
ing.
Second Division, State Militia
Brigadier General Albert l.. Miles,
commanding.
Third Division. Veterans, and Pat
riotic Organizations-General James
E.Stuart, of Chicago, commanding.
Fourth Division, Civil Organiza-
tions-Robert n. Harper, command
ing.
AS the procession took up the
march, the noted Essex Troop of New
Jersey swung in behind the carriage
in which President Wilson M form
er President Taft rode. Then came
Nice-President Marshall's carriage
and behind that the Black Horse
Troop of Culver Military Academy,
prancing and bowling to the lively
music. A roar of welcome opened up
before this whole party as it started
and swept along behind it.
Then came Major General Wood.
Chief of Staff OF the Army, and
Grand Marshal of the procession,
heading the military bodies, hand-
somely mounted and with the snowy
uniform of his high rank. Then the
army contingent, headed by the West
Point cadets; long straight lines of
gray lacing the avenue, each line
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chests high. plumes aflutter, rifle
barrels g~listening. An ovation greet
ed them.
j., T%ramping close behind came the
First Battalion of Army Engineers,
the 18th L. S. Infantry and Band
from Fort Mcpherson, Ca, and a
regiment of coast artillery from FIT
Monroe. The crack Seventeenth, in
full marching order, a solid column
of full-dress service blue, swinging
easily to the lively music of their
band, made a splendid appearance.
The "Mliddies' Also.
Commanding no less interest than
the West Point cadets came the mid
shipmen from Annapolis. In their re-
gulation short %navy-blue jackets and
tan leggins, the young sailors were
received with waves of cheers.
But now the assembled thousands
sent up a new roar. A regiment OF
blue jackets turns into the avenue
They tramp along briskly, with the
rolling quick-step of men who are not
strangers to the sea. a squadron of
tachment of the Signal Corps brought
the fifteenth cavalry. a-battalion of
!, the Third Field Artillery. and a de-
up the rear of the division OF regul-
airs.
Then marched the second division,
made up of militia. Delaware's troops
:, led, headed by the governor and his
staff. New Jersey-President Wilson's
own state-sent its entire militia es-
Enlistment, including it's battalion
oil naval reserves. In line came the
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