Evening star., 1917-03-06
INCIDENTS OF INAUGURATION
ATTRACTING PASSING GLANCE
Chronicle of Happenings During the Parade
on Pennsylvania Avenue-Noted Organ
izations That Braved the Weather.

The first large delegation of women
in line yesterday was the Pennsylvania
WomenA Woodrow Wilson League.
Horsewoy,en, in addition to six who
appeared at the head of the. CIVIC
section. had been sprinkled through
the procession. but the Pennsylvania
women were the first of the large
marching delegations. They braved
the wind and showed no difficulty in
keeping up with the procession.
Several sheets of newspaper flying
down the Avenue in the gale yesterday
blew in the way of one of the horses
of the District Signal Corps Company.
The horse SHE'D. landed his rider. Pri-
vate Mattingly, on the car tracks and
dashed up the Avenue. The animal
was overtaken at I'd street by the
police. Mattingly. only slightly in
jured. resumed his place in the parade.
A large contingent of Girl Scouts
marched bravely along. their color
bearers struggling valiantly with
banner. The girls reinforced their
banner-bearers and fought the wind.
while Boy Scouts ran gallantly to the
rescue. But the girls. not eager for
any demonstration Of feminine inferi-
ority, spurned the proffered aid and
waved them away: The chop.fallen
covered control of their banner and
marched on amid the cheers of the
crowd.
itol and Treasury during the parade
got a real scare. At each building
there was crash, with shower of
splintered glass. At the Capitol 1t was
Office who had climbed to a vantage point
near the dome had fallen through
sky1ight At the Treasury an over
Jealous enthusiast put his foot through
a pane Of glass in one of the upper win
dows on the east side.
Charles Henning. a Honolulu mer-
chant. came 1000 miles to, see the
parade. This was the first time he at
tended an inaugural.
Color bearers and bass drummers were
the hardest worked participants in the
parade. There was close contest
among the drummers to see if they
could swing around as the wind hit
their drum without missing beat. The
color-bearers fought the breeze bravely.
One of the sturdiest of all was "Old
Infantry. D. c. N. G.. who has been in
the guard twenty-eight years. and who
is sixty-one years old. No flag was
held aloft more steadily.
Grand Army veterans, bearing with
difficulty through the strong wind a
banner inscribed &c. A R., Ready for
Any Duty received rousing cheers all
oil thn Al
of the veterans had been chosen to
bear the banner. the wind was too much
for the strength of three-score-and-ten,
and they were forced to carry 1t low
party had rushed to their assistance.
Thirteen was no hoodoo for Col
Charles w. Combs. veteran employe of
teenth time he has attended an inaugu-
ration.
Tammany men, silk-topped. while
waiting for the parade to start. kept
themselves from getting cold feet" by
dancing.
Interband courtesies in the form of
GUS musical bodies as they passed each
other in lining up for the parade.
The Columbus Democratic Glee Club
waiting to fall into the parade. Through
megaphones they dispensed their vocal
wares to congressman and their friends
in front of the House office building.
Several barrelfuls of hats were picked
up after the parade in the Capitol
grounds. The wind was no respecter of
persons and frisked the headgear from
cadets. girl scouts. society women ct
al. indiscriminately.
District guardsmen withstood a Cur
tain fire" of attack. They were be-
sieged all along the line by fair ad-
mirers. who threw at them oranges,
candy and-kisses.
One man who for more than a week had
been boasting that he had the best seat
on the Treasury stand facing directly
down the Avenue. just where all the
bands strike up their best music, is
grouchy today because the wind blew
all the music away
Considerable excitement. but fortu-
nately small damage was occasioned
during the parade at John Marshall
place and Pennsylvania avenue when
one of the members of the National
piece Of his equipment in the slot of
the street railway. causing a short
circuit and bringing white sheet of
flame up, which mounted several feet
III tHe dli. OTQeTS were given TO de-
ploy toward the Grub, and mounted po-
lice notified the detachments which were
next in line. The flame rapidly Travelled
eastward for several squares and was
finally subdued by Capital Traction en-
ployes who were detailed along the
route.
One hundred and fifty employees of
the street cleaning department were
put to work yesterday afternoon short
ly after the parade had passed and con-
tinued until 7:a0 clearing the Avenue
of the debris and papers which had ac-
cumulated largely because Of the half
gale which blew most of the day. At
6 o'clock this morning another hundred
and half were on the job, with the
result that the line Of march soon was
presentable and clean except for the
sand which was strewn yesterday
morning. The work of sweeping up
what the wind had not carried away
went on during the day.
The District prisoners at Occoquan
helped decorate the stand in front and
to the right of the District building.
The completed stand was thought by
local officials to look rather hare in
spite of. its bunting. SO a telephone
message was sent to Superintendent
Whitaker Sunday asking him to detail
a detachment of prisoners as lumber
Jacks" and have them cut and ship to