The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-22
PAINT Is APPLIED.
Inauguration Stand Ready for
Wilson When 1t Dries.
Moving Pictures viii Be Made
of Inaugural Scene.

Washington, Feb. ga coat OF
white paint applied to the square
reading desk from when Woourow
Wilson will deliver his inaugural ad-
d,asS March a constituted one of the
real finishing touches to the great
Temporary structure that has gone UP
on the east front of the capitol In
preparation for Inauguration.
Across a stretch of aspnat pave
ment carpenters are working ON the
rampart-like stand from which the
battery of cameras and motion PIC
ture machines will be trained upon
the inaugural scene but the managers
of affairs at the capital promise that
u~aaI- before the day of action prac-
4icaIIv every detail of the arrange
ments at the capitol will nave peeh
completed.
Demands from photographers for
space on the camera stand nave re-
suited in the extension of the struc-
tnre Provision is now made for at
least fifty cameras. These VIII De
trained upon the square center plat
form rising a few feet above the out
side edge of the immense S,0OO seat
stand which stretches back IN q gentle
rise to the doors of the capitol
ON every availa BILE corner of the
capital and from the top of house and
senate wings of the building supple
mentary stands have been reared
looking upon the main structure and
ployes and others who cannot be &C
commodated on the main structure
All Is Ready Early.
Days and nights of labor by the
Joint congressional committee, OF
which Senator Crane is chairman and
by E. l.. Cornelius, sergeant-at-arms
of the senate; Elliott Woods, superin-
tendent of the capitol, and army Of
ficers representing the general IN
augural committee have resulted in
the arrangement of most of the details
for the event still eleven days away
Under the reviewing stand at
which President Wilson will stand to
address the crowd after he takes the
oath of office is a concealed gate that
will swing open to allow him to des-
cend to his carriage for the return
TO the White House without passing
through the crowd on the stands.
President Taft and President-elect
Wilson will pass into the capitol up
the broad steps of the senate wing
and will go after the ceremonies in
the senate through the central door
of the capitol to the inaugural stand.
Old Friends Of Doors.
The entire arrangement of the
capitol grounds will be policed on in
auguration day by the regular Wash
ington police. The capitol police will
be withdrawn into the capitol build
ing for protective purposes. The doors
of the capitol, to which admission may
be had by special card only, are to be
turned over, however, to strange
doorkeepers, so that old friendship
and official prestige may have nothing
to do with breaking down in the strict
rules of the day. --------
Sergeant-at-arms Cornelius is fol-
lowing the same method in handling
the senate gallery for the ceremonies
attendant to the inauguration of Vice
President-elect Marshall.
In front of the inaugural platform
f1anked on one side by the midship-
men from Annapolis and on the
other by the cadets from West Point
will be Major General Leonard Wood
and his staff, guarding the space be-
tween Wilson and the camera ram
part. AS he begins his inaugural ad-
dress these guards will draw in to-
ward the stand, SO that the crowd be-
hind may come within range of the
presidents voice.