The Washington herald., 1917-02-04
INAUGURAL Ceremonies
RECALL PAST HISTORY
President Will Follow Precedent Set
by James Monroe.
WILL TAKE OATH ON MARCH S
Capitol Plaza for Public Instead of
Military Bodies.

| Members of the inaugural Committee re-
marked yesterday that the second in
auguration of President Wilson and Vice
President Marshall will be in striking
similarity to the second inauguration of
President Monroe and Vice President
Tompkins, whose terms extended from
l1S17 to 1896.
They were inaugurated for the second
time on Monday. March s. 1921, the fourth
falling on Sunday. as will March Of
this year.
In determining to hold the inaugural
ceremonies on Monday, President Monroe
acted upon the decision of Chief Justice
Marshall, thus establishing a precedent
which afterward guided Gen. Zachary
, Taylor. whose Inauguration as President
was held Monday, March 5, 1919, and
Rutherford b. Hayes, who was inaug-
urated Monday, March 5. 1877. but who.
las matter of precaution," subscribed
TO the oath OF office in the Red ParlOr OF
the White House. Saturday evening,
March 3.
VIII Take Oath Monday.
| When the hands of the big clock in the
Senate chamber point to the hour of u
O'clock noon, Monday, March 5. the ac-
| tual ceremonies OF inducting President
Wilson and Vice President Marshall into
office for the second successive term will
begin.
The plaza fronting the Capitol platform
will be given up to the public instead OF
being occupied largely by the military as
at previous inaugurations. announcement
was made yesterday.
Mrs. James H Boggs, chairman OF the
woman's division of the Inaugural Com
mittee, has returned to Washington after
spending a week at the bedside of her
daughter, who is i'll at her Virginia home.
Mrs. Boggs is taking up vigorously the
tangled ends OF arrangements for par
ticipation IN the wOman's section of the
parade.
| Women Plan Dances.
| Beginning with Friday, a dance will be
given at the headquarters in the oxford
Hotel once a week. nominal fee will
be charged the dancers and this will be
used to defray the expense OF maintain
| ing the quarters.
Letters and kilograms received yester-
day by Col. Robert n. Harper tell of the
plans of various organizations throughout
| the country to get into Washington a
day or two before the inaugural cere-
monies in order to give their members an
opportunity to see the sights OF the city.
Massachusetts. Ohio. Pennsylvania
Maryland. Virginia and New Jersey will
parade.
DR.. Philip s. Roy, chairman Of the
medical committee, announced yesterday
| that R. p. Jones, manager of the Ford
Automobile Company, at Pennsylvania
avenue and Four-and-a-half street, has
offered a portion OF the Ford Building
for the use Of the medical committee on
Inauguration Day. A temporary emer-
gency hospital will be established there,
where full attention will be given to any
patient brought in on that day. DR.. Roy
will station an ambulance IN the Ford
Building, which will be ready for calls
at all times. Other temporary medical
relief stations will be established at
Ninth street and the Avenue, at Thir-
| teenth street and the Avenue. at Seven
teenth street and the Avenue, and pos
sibly at Fifteenth street and New York
| avenue. The emergency hospital in the
Ford Building and the temporary medi-
cal stations will be equipped by the regu-
| lar army hospital service.