The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-03-05
PATRIOTIC DEMONSTRATION
MARKS WILSON'S INAUGURATION

Ministers to the United States.
Former Preaids=ats
Former Vice-Presidents.
The Vice-President and Secretary
! of the Senate.
Senators and former Senators.
| The Speaker and Clerk of the
House.
Retiring Representatives, Represen-
| tatives-elect and officers of the House.
Members of the cabinet.
Governors of States and Territories
The Ranking Admiral of the Navy
and his aide.
The Chief of Staff of the Army and
his aide.
Officers Of the Army and Navy
who, by name, have received thanks
of Congress.
All other persons who have, been
admitted to the Senate floor followed
| by those who had been admitted to
! the galleries.
| AS the inaugural party, passed out
| from the great dome and into the
open air to the spot where practically
all Presidents since Monroe have been
| inaugurated, it was as if the curtain
had been raised for the climax Of the
drama.
| fetal and unofficial, invited and unin-
vited, President Wilson took his place
at the left of the Chief Justice and at
the right of the arrangements COM
mittee. Places for former Presidents
and presidents, associate justices
of the Supreme Court, the vice-presi-
dent, Secretary of the Senate, Sena-
tors and former Senators were ranged
along on the right, retiring members
Of the house and members-elect were
next to and behind the Senate.
To the right of the President were
seated the members Of the diplomatic
corps, governors of states and terri
tories, members Of the cabinet, army
and navy officials were at the left.
While the party was assembling
the units of the inaugural procession
! were forming on all sides Of the cap
itol and the music of marching bands
as the organizations took places wait
ing to swing into line behind the Pres
ident when he started back to the
White House, gave the only appear
ance of a military air in the whole
proceeding.
The assembling of the Presidential
| party, it's departure and the demon
STATIONS of the crowd were the only
spectacular features of the outdoor
ceremony. The actual ceremony itself
is simplicity and solemnity.
When a President takes the inaug-
ural oath, the Chief Justice, bible in
hand, steps forward; the man who is
about to take the office stands be-
side him with raised hand Slowly
and solemnly the Chief Justice repeats
the oath prescribed by the Constitu-
ton:
II do solemnly swear that I will
faithfully execute the office of Presi-
dent of the United States, and will to
the best of my ability preserve, pro-
tect and defend the constitution of the
! United States" Solemnly the oath Is
repeated after the Chief Justice and
| the ceremony is oyer, but for the de-
| livery of&the Presidents inaugural adj
dress.
When that was concluded, the Sem
ate returned to it's chamber, and the
President returned to the White
| House at the head of the inaugural
procession. Mrs. Wilson, following a
precedent set by Mrs Taft, rode with
her husband, after Having created a
precedent herself by riding to the Cap
itoT with him earlier in the day.
| AS the President led the procession
up Pennsylvania avenue, and the units
of the inaugural parade, civic and mill
| tary, swung in behind him, new
demonstration began which continued
until the procession halted in front
| of the White House. There the Pres
1 ident and his party took places in the
official stand to view the remainder
| Of the column.