Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-06
SWEEP ALONG IN
TEMpEST.SWEP1
|. INAUGURAL Line
Ten. Mile Procession Passes for
Hours Through Streets of.
7 Capital Before Stand
of President.
FLAGS. LAsHED IN STORM
Soldiers March for First Times
Since Lincoln Entered the
White House.
oNLooKERs BRAVE GALE

/ Washington, March 5.-Thc mighty
4 procession which marked President
Wilson's second Inauguration today
marched with wind-whipped flags
over Pennsylvania from the capitol TO
the White House between open lines
of khaki-ciad, bronzed guardsmen
| from New York, home from service
on the border. 1t was the. first time
since the Inauguration of Lincoln in
] 1901 when the nation faced the crisis
of civil war, that troops had guarded
the line of march.
A raw wind from the northwest set
every standard Swapping wildly and
dSove i'll whirling >gusts the sand
placed along the way to afford a firm
fotting on drenched streets. But de-
spite the wind and lowering clouds,
(which early in the day darkened the
city with threats of a continuation of
the downpour of yesterday and last
night, almost every foot of vantage
(space along the mile-long way was
occupied and the great reviewing
stnds, windows, balconies and house
tops held thousands more.
Ride in Open Carriage.
The crowd waited patiently behind
the stout steel cables stretched from
the White House to the capitol, hun
dreds of early-comers being in posi-
ton at 7 O 7 o'clock, four hours be-
fore the president and his party left
the White House for the>capitol Ten
hours later, when the last of the
marcters was nearing the reviewing
stand, the line still held. ra@ ;
President Wilson and his escott,
Squadron B. of the Second cavalry,
left the White House at II o'clock,
the president and Mrs. Wilson riding
in an open carriage drawn by four
horses, preceded by mounted police
and cavalry and hanked by secret
service men. The vice president fol-
lowed in another carriage, with his
smart-lookng escort of cadets from
Culver Military academy mounted on
black horses. a4I
Forms Hollow Square. ..4...-
AS the procession left the Court of
Honor, opposite the White House,
the cavalry formed hollow square,
with the presidents carriage in the
center. The program at the capitol,
where the president and vice bresi-
. dent took the oath and delivered their
inaugural addresses, occupied little
more than an hour, and it was shortly
after o'clock when the inaugural
parade stated up the avenue, the
president and his escort leading.
Meantime the sun had come out, dry
ing the sand sprinkleq over the way,
and-Wth the sun he'd COME a chilling
!. wind
Thesline moved, slowly between two
New York regiments-the Twelfth
and SixtyAinth-standing at atten-
ttion.. The two long, thin lines of
guardsmen were almost the only visi-
Bile evidences of >minutely paihstak-
ing and, elaborate steps taken to in
sure the presidents safety.
1 p. West Pointers First.
With bands baring military tunes
and flags whipping, the parade got
lpder way-a long line of brilliant
color. First came the West Point
cadets, overcoated, a marching mass
of gray and white, whose clocklike
movements were as of one man.
They were followed by the Annapolis
cadets, LOO strong, wearing their
deep blue overcoats.
Then came the long line of mill
tary organizations, guardsmen, sail.
ors, coast artillerymen 4and cadet
schools, which formed the first and
second divisions. AS the head of the
line reached the court >of honor the
marchers stopped and remained at
attention fok twenty minutes while
the president prepared to take his
place in the reviewing stand.
A bugle gave the signal and the
long line moved again. The inaugural
parade was on, with the president
standing where presidents long have
stood on Inauguration day to review
the rarchers.
March Nearly Four Hours.
For nearly four hours the3 filed
pastTsailors, soldiers, gpardsmen, ca.
dets, veterans, governors and their
Nstaffs, thousands of civilians in civic
and political organizations, Indians
here and there line OF women, and
hundreds Of brass bands.
The crowds in the reviewing stands
and on the streets we're chilled by
the, winds. The, paraders marched
stoutly in the face OF it. In sudden
gusts it picked up the sand and blind.
ed them, swept their colors from their
grasp and sent their hats high in the
air. At times, whole organization
had to halt while a particularly Sc.
we're guest spent its force, musicians
had to empty the sand from their in.
struments in the midst Of playing and
color bearers by the hundreds had to
furl their colors. But the crowd was
more orderly than usual and the
paraders took it all in good part.
Veterans Cheered. T.
1t was o'clock when the parade
ended. Pennsylvania avenue nc
longer looked Its customary spic and
span cleanliness. Instead it resembled
a dusty road with the wind whirline
the dust and the litter of thousands