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brought Robert y. Harper, chairman
OF the local arrangements committee
and the remaining members of the
congressional committee.
Steel cables strung along the line
OF march held multitude from crowd
ing into the avenue Reviewing stands
were we'll filled for the wait OF some
two hours before the presidential
party would return al the head of the
inaugural procession.
At the capitol the crowd already
was packed about the inaugural stand.
The broad plaza with standing room
for thousands filled rapidly and out
over the park spaces and avenues
which converge there another crowd
had to content itself with looking on
the ceremonies from a distance, quite
out of reach of President Wilson's
voice.
When the official party arrived at
the capitol, the president with Mrs.
Wilson went TO the presidents room
near the senate chamber and the vice
president and Mrs. Marshall went to
the vice-president's room to await the
beginning of the ceremonies in the
senate chamber.
Galleries Filled.
Galleries had been filling long be-
fore this hour. Invited guests of the
president. president, speaker and
justices of the supreme court of the
United States supplied with coveted
cards OF admission. were assigned to
the east side. The gallery ordinarily
reserved for the diplomatic corps was
given over TO members of their tamil
les as the diplomats themselves were
assigned to places on the floor. Guests
of senators were assigned 10 the
Inortheast gallery and guests OF Repre-
sentatives had seats in the three west
ones.
The party in the galleries was little
less distinguished than the party on
the floor II was composed OF American
women scarcely less known than their
husbands taking part in the ceremony
below, men and other women in the
forefront of the social life OF the ma
ton, families of foreign diplomats.
who with memories OF the resplend-
ent cereT onies of the coronations of
monarchs on other continents were
about to see the comparatively simple
inaugural OF an American president.
Flood Of Light.
A food of light. softened by the
tinted glasses in the lofty ceiling was
diffused throughout the beautiful audi
torium. which has FEW rivals among
the dignified impressive, even dram
attic, and yet simple ceremony about
to be enacted on the floor.
While the senate was assembling
for its special session, the first of the
Sixty-Fifth congress. the diplomatic
corps was arriving and assembling in
the marbleroom. to be escorted into
the chamber Gorgeous in the colors
and gold of their court uniforms, the
corps entered headed by its dean, the
ambassador of France. Jules ]. JUS.
serand. One figure which had been
familiar at other inaugural ceremon-
les was missing. 1t was that of the
German ambassador. Count Johann H.
Won Bernstorff. with whose country
the United States has severed diplo-
mallc l6ldllOuS. uc UluSl OlploiAoeS
entered by precedence in order of
the time they have been accredited to
this country. the ambassadors coming
first and the ministers last. They
were shown to seats reserved for
them near the center aisle and i'm
mediately behind the space reserved
for the presidents cabinet.
Then came the chief justice and the
associate justices of the supreme
court. in the sombre black silk gowns
of Office. moving in body with slow
dignity to the places reserved for
them in large chairs placed in the
front row facing the vice.president
and at his right.
Immediately afterward, the retiring
members of the house of representa-
tiyes and the members-elect were an
nounced. They had been forming
meanwhile in two lines down the long
corridor reaching toward the house
wing of the capitol The house, un-
Ike the senate. was not in session.
Some retiring members had departed