The Prescott daily news., 1913-02-21
MARSHALL'S CAVALRY TROOP TO EQUAL WILSON'S IN PARADE
 OF INAUGURAL DAY.
BLACK HORSE FROM lNDlANf :
Elimination of the Grand Ball Reall. Blesslng-Plans Are Announced for the Elaborate illumination of the Capital City.
Ru GEORGE CLINTON.

augurating the chief executive or the United States, a vice-president-elect is to be escorted to the capitol by cavalry troop forming guard of hon. or in size and appearance the equal of that which acts as a mounted es- cort to the president-elect Thomas Riley Marshall, the next vice-presi- dent of this country, will be the pre- ccdent smasher, his escort consisting of black horse squadron from h. diana.
 Some of the members of the com mittee on inaugural ceremonies did not take altogether kindly to the plans of MT Marshall's friends to make sec ond place equal to first place, but Woodrow Wilson, hearing of the op- position, said his partner on the ticket and in office should be allowed any thing and everything In honors that his friends saw fit. and so 1t was that the parade managers withdrew all ob- 1ections to the appearance of the Hoosier black horse squadron which will do honor to Marshall of Indiana
 The vice-president-elect ordinarily rides from the White House to the capitol with the outgoing vice-presi- dent or the president pro tenn of the senate, as the case may be, in car riage following the one occupied by the presldent-elect, but with sufficient distance and enough people in be- tween the two to make it known that the escort of honor is for the chief and not for the subordinate. This year, however, there will be two es- corts of honor and a division of the acclaim of the people along the route. The mettled chargers which will pre- cede. flank and take up the rear of MT Marshalls carriage are the property of a private military school in the Hoosier state and they will be bestrd. den by husky cadets
 Omission of Ball Blessing.
 The members of the committee of ar. engagements for the Wilson and Mar. shall doings seem to have reconciled themselves to the loss of the inaugural ball and to the turning down of the grand public reception" plan. They are busy now letting the country know that the elimination of the inaugural ball Is very much of & blessing This might appear to be simply a matter of putting good face on a disappoint- ment, but while the loss of the ball may be a disappointment to the mem bers of the committee personally, they | are telling the truth when they say 1t is blessing
 Perry Belmont, who Is a member of the inaugural committee has said: "The fgures which l have compiled | aftev rging out the statistics since l liar IS inauguration in 1889 con- vinces me that an inaugural ball Is a vastly over-rated function. About 12,. l 000 persons attended the ball when 1 Harrison was inaugurated, and since that time the attendance has de creased steadily. At the Taft affair little more than S,900 people went | to the ball and of these only 300 bought supper tickets. The decrease | in attendance at the balls has gone hand In hand with an increase in the l size of the crowds which have come to Washington"
 | Parade Cavalry Affair.
 The evident intention Is to make the Wilson inaugural parade, to as great an extent as possible, a cavalry af fair" The Essex troops of New Jersey and the black squadron from Indiana will have places of honor, but | they dwindle away to the proportions | of cavalry corporafs guard when | compared to the overfowing ranks of the other mounted organizations which will follow the leader from the White House to capitol
 l There are to be 1000 mounted fox hunters in the parade drawn from the various hunt clubs of the coun. try, all of which the proponents of Democratic simplicity tell us in the typewriting of the press agents are exclusive organizations" Aristocracy I therefore. on horseback and wearing "red coats and shining silk hats will precede the boys of Tammany If it can and follow them if 1t must
 | The governors "colonels," or at any rate the Democratic governors col | onels, are to have a chance to ride The governors are coming and with them their staffs. The word is that several of the states chief magistrates have ordered their subordlnates to ap- pear in brand new uniforms" AS for the governors, they will ride frock- coated and silk-hatted.
 The inaugural committee promises that during the four days which cover the period of the visitation of