Middletown transcript., 1917-03-03
MUCH LESS POMP
At INAUGURAL
Ceremony Next Monday Will Be
Marked BY Simplicity.
TO TAKE OATH SUNDAY
Parade Will Be Two Hours Shorter
Than Usual, With Fewer Reeu-
lar and State Troops
In Line.

Washington.-The Inauguration next
Monday of Woodrow Wilson and
Thomas R. Marshall for their second
term as President and Vice-President
of the United States will be marked by
Democratic simplicity and will lack
much of the gorgeous display that has
surrounded these events in years
gone by.
The ceremony will be spread over
two days since March 4 falls on Sun
day. The President will take the oath
of Office Sunday in the White House,
and on Monday he will deliver his in
augural address in front of the Capt.
tol and afterward head the inaugural
parade down Pennsylvania avenue.
The ceremony of swearing in the
President will not be a public func-
ton and probably will be attended only
by high Government officials, members
of the Senate and the House and
number of specially invited guests.
The oath will be administered by
Chief Justice White, CT the Supreme
Court.
The President will deliver his in
augural address at noon Monday from
a stand erected in front of the Capitol.
Shortly before that hour Vice-Presi-
dent Marshall will take the oath in the
Senate chamber This part of the
ceremony will be as simple as condi-
tions will permit.
The lack of the usual pomp and gor-
geous display will be found in the in
augural parade and the social func-
tions The parade itself will be near
ly two hours shorter than usual, and
there will be no inaugural ball to en-
hance the social side of the cere-
monies. A much shorter parade is i'm
perative by the absence of thousands
of soldiers. The regular army is do
ing duty on the Mexican border, and
only regiment or 80 will march. The
National Guardsmen and Independent
military companies of various States,
which always gave much pomp to the
parade by their fancy dress uniforms,
will be absent, first, on account of their
long service on the border, and sec
ondly, because an order has been is
sued by General Scott putting the ban
on fancy dress uniforms of the militia
organizations.
There will be no long delay this year
in the parade moving in front of the
White House. The President has de-
cided to eat only a light luncheon after
arriving at the White House from the
Capitol. On former occasions more
than an hour was consumed at these
luncheons, and the parade had to rest
arms until the Executive had finished
stand. President Wilson plans to
spend only 10 minutes at luncheon.
There will be found in the marching
line the usual civic clubs, Democratic
organizations, cadet corps from West
Point, Annapolis, st. Johns, Virginia
Military Institute, Culver and other
military schools The withdrawal of
the elaborate woman's section by Mrs.
Boggs, of the Wilson League, on ac-
count Of her disagreement with In
augural Chairman Harper, will not re-
move women altogether from the par
ade. Another woman's section, organ
ized by Mrs. Stoner, will be in line.
Washington itself is preparing for a
big day. The whole downtown section
is putting on fancy dress of national
colors. Stands to hold thousands of
persons for reviewing the parade have
been erected and all the seats sold At
night brilliant display of fireworks
will be held.
Another unusual feature of this
years ceremonies is that it will be the
first prohibition Inauguration in the
history of the country. The Jones'
Works law, recently passed by Con-
gress to regulate saloons in Washing
ton, provides that no intoxicants shall
be sold on the day Presidents are in
Quoted into Office.