Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-04
INAUGURATION PLANS HAVE
BEEN THOROUGHLY COMPLETED
Fair Weather Today Only Thing Needed to Make Induc-
tlOn Of Woodrow Wilson Into Office Splendid
Success Simplicity the Key note Of Demonstration

Washington, D. c., March 3-BanCs
were playing, soldiers were marching
from Incoming trains, and thousands
of visitors in holiday attire were pa
rading the capitals streets under a
brilliant sun and cloudless sky todav,
awaiting the arrival of Woodrow Wit
son, who is to become president of
the United States tomorrow.
So heavy was the traffic on all
railroads conyerging into the capital
that many trains were late, delaying
the arrival of thousands of visitors
and participants in the inaugural pa
rade, but whether conditions augured
well against any serious congestion
and by tomorrow morning every or
gandzation of military and civic
bodies that is to join the inaugural
| pe5Gdl Will nave dIIlNGus
The arrival of the new presidehs
and his family, attended by $50 stu
dents from Princeton University AMI
the Essex troop of New Jersey, was
the magnetic event of the day. The
Wilson party was scheduled to reach
the union station at 3:45 O'Clock this
afternoon. Thomas Nelson Page,
chairman of the reception committee,
planned to meet the president-eleet
and his family when they alighted
from their special train.
The Princeton students were ready
to form a lane from the train shed
to the presidents room in the unioa
station, and between the walls OF
Princetonians Mr.. Wilson and his
family were to pass to meet the mem.
bers of the official committee. The re-
ception, was brief after which with
out military escort, the Wilson were
driven to their hotel, where the COM
mittee left them
At o'clock Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
were escorted by Colonel Spencer s
Crosby, President Taft's aide, to the
white house, where President and Mrs.
Taft received the Wilson's in the blue
room.
The members of the Wilson recep-
ton committee are:
Thomas Nelson Page, chairman;
Theodore W. Noyes, vice chairman;
H. Prescott Galley, secretary; senp-
tor Chas. A. Culberson, Thomas p.
Martin, Lee S. Overman, James A.
O'Gorman, Hoke Smith, John R.
Thornton and John Sharp Williams.
, tlepI pIcSeHIdIlFeb "A. >, BuFleSOl
Henry d. Clayton, Henry D. Flood, f..
S. Henry, O. NJ. James, VIM. A. JONES'
Gordon Lee, A. M. Palmer Swaggtr
Sherley, J. L. Slayden, Edward w.
Townsend, DR.. Wallace Radcliffe, Ira
A. Bennett, Chas. j. Bell, Adds r..
Brown, VIM. v. Coe, Henry E. Davis.
Edward H. Dropp, Admiral George
Dewey Joseph JOY Edison, Chas. C.
Glover, the Right Rev. A. Harding,
Justice A. B. Miles, John A. McInhen-
uey, George x. McLanahan, r. Ross
Perry, Cuno H. Rudolph, Arthur Peter,
the Rev. VIM. T. Russell, Edward ]
Stellwagen, Col. e. S. Williams and
Fred A. Walker
Among the delegations arriving
during the day were those from Illi-
nois, headed by Gov Edward F. Dunno
and his staff; Delaware, Gov. Miller;
Pennsylvania, Gov. Tener; New Jer-
sey, George Fielder; North Carolina
Gov. Chaig; Alabama, Gov O'Neal,
and large delegations from Maine,
! Michigan and Minnesota Other mil
itary which reached the city wer9
) the Maryland National Guard, Fifth
Massachusetts regiments and scores OF
{ smaller military bodies. Among the
, Georgia troops here is the Americas
: Light Infantry, commanded by Cap
tain James A. Fort.
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall