The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-08
GRAND PROCESSION
At INAUGURATION Of
WOODROW WILSON
xAAKI. 1RONZED GUARDSMEN,
JUST HOME FROM BORDER
GUARD LINE,
PRESIDENT AND MRS. WILSON
RIDE IN AN OPEN CARRIAGE
Long Line of Military Organizations
Guardsmen, Sailors, Cadets, Veter-
ans, Governors, Women and Civil
jans Maks Up the Inaugural Parade.

ans, Governors, Women and Civil
ians Maks Up the Inaugural Parade.
Washington.-The mighty process
sion which marked President Wilson's
second Inauguration marched with
wind-whipped flags over PENNSYLVANIA
avenue from the Capitol to the White
House between open lines of khaki,
bronzed guardsmen from New York,
home from service on the border. It
was the first time since the Inaugural
ton of Lincoln in 1861 that troops had
guarded the line of march.
Despite the wind and lowering
clouds, which early in the day dark
ened the city with threats of a con-
tinuation of the dOwnpOur, almost
every foot of vantage space along the
mile-long way was occupied, and the
great reviewing stands, windows, bal
comics and housetops held thousands
more.
The crowd waited patiently behind
the stout steel cables stretching from
the White House to the Capitol, hun
dreds of early corners being in posi-
tiOn at o'clock, four hours before
the President and his party left the
White House. Ten hours later. when
the last of the marchers was nearing
the reviewing stand, the line still
held.
Presidential Party.
President Wilson and his escort,
Squadron B of the Second Cavalry,
left the White House at II o'clock,
the President and Mrs. Wilson riding
in an open carriage drawn by four
horses, preceded by mounted police
and cavalry and flanked by secret
service men. The Vice President fol-
lowed in another carriage, with his
smart-looking escort of cadets from
Culver Military Academy, mounted on
black horses.
AS the procession left the Court Of
Honor, opposite the White House, the
cavalry formed a hollow square, with
the Presidents carriage in the cen
ter. 1t was shortly after 1 o'clock
when the inaugural parade started up
the avenue, the President and his es-
cort leading.
h0duLluu0 lu0 sun udu COWC Oui,
drying the sand sprinkled over the
way. The line moved slowly between
two New York regiments - the
Twelfth and the Sixty-ninth- stand
ing at attention. They were the visi-
BILE evidence Of elaborate steps taken
to insure the Presidents safety.
With bands blaring many tunes and
foo Txyhin
way-a long line of brilliant color.
First came the West Point cadets,
oVercoated, marching mass of gray
and white whose clock-like move
ments we're as of one man. They
were followed by the Annapolis ca
diets, 1900 strong, wearing their deep
blue overcoats.
Military Organizations.
Then came the long line of military
organizations, guardsmen, sailors,
coast artillerymen and cadet schools
which formed the first and second
divisions, under command of Major
General Tasker H. Bliss and Brig.
Gen. Williams A. Mann. AS the head
of the line reached the Court of Hon.
OF the marchers stopped and remain
ed at attention for 20 minutes while
the President prepared to take the
place in the reviewing stand.
bugle gave the signal, and the
long line moved again. The 1naugu-
raj parade was on, with the PreSl-
dent standing where Presidents long |
have stood on Inauguration day to re-
view the marchers. For nearly -FOUR |
hours they filed past-sai1Ors, soldiers
guardsmen, cadets, veterans, Cover
nors and their stats, thousands OF |
civilians in civic and political organl-
cations, Indians here and there, line
Of women, and hundreds OF brass
bands.
The crowds in the reviewing stand
and on the streets were, chilled by
the wind The paraders marched
stoutly in the face of it. In sudden
gusts, it picked up the sand ana
blinded them, swept their colors from
their grasp and sent their hats high
in the air.
At times, whole organizations had
10 halt while a particularly severe
guest sent it's force, musicians nao
10 empty the sand from their instru-
hents in the midst of playing ana
color-bearers by the hundred had 10
lurl their colors. But the crowd was
more orderly than usual, and the pa
raiders took it all in good part.
1t was after o'clock when tha3l
parade ended. Pennsylvania avenue
10 longer looked it's customary sp1ck
ana span cleanliness. Instead, it re-
Sembled dusty road, with the wind
"nlrling the dust and the litter OF
'"rn papers into the spirals.