Evening star., 1917-02-08
FAST COLORS ONLY
FOR INAUGURATION
Committee Seeks to Guard
Against the Disagreement
of Buildings.
LETTER SENT MERCHANTS


orations for the inauguration. Tho
plain in n letter which 1t has sent to
merchants who sell cloth for decora-
tive purposes and to professional deco
rators. Colors that are apt to run i'm
event of rain are not wanted, for the
committee wants to safeguard against
the Disagreement of buildings.
The letter of the committee says, in
part:
Suggestions by Committee.
'It is desired by the committee on
street decorations that materials with
fast colors be used in decorating
buildings. stands and homes during the
inaugural week
"In event of inclement weather. which
is apt to occur during the end of Feb
ruary and the first week of March. this
will prevent the washing down of colors
and destroying the appearance OF the
many decorative features.
AT a recent meeting of this COM
mittee it was unanimously approFea
and adopted that. in order to aid IN
the above accomplishment, letter De
addressed to you and others In kim
dred branches of the trade, asking
that no flags, bunting, streamers or
shields be sold to customers Tor deco
rative purposes unless the same haNe
fast and durable colors.
.If IL be found difficult to have on
hand for sale any OF the above, II ls
suggested that plain. unbleached cot
ton cloth be used for covering ths
stands, balconies or platforms, and that
laurel rope garlanded with flags ana
shields be used in this connection Red.
white and blue strands of cheesecloth;
II the colors are fast can be adopted
and draped over the cotton cloth 70
good effect Full size examples of the
mbination of decorating material
can be seen at our headquarters
Work is being rushed on the twenty :
| four floats which are to be a feature or
the part women are to play in the in
augural parade. The cost of building
these floats is being met by the wives
of representatives, and senator's. but
| they are not to ride on them.
Marshals of Divisions.
Mai. Gen. Hugh L. Scott. grand mar
shall of the inaugural parade. and his
adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Carroll A.
Devol. are going ahead with their
preparations for the event without re-
gard to the possibilities of war. y
general order has been issued. announc-
ing the personnel OF the grand mar
shars staff and the marshals of the
four grand divisions of which the line
will be composed. The division mar
shals are as follows:
First grand division military and
naval. regular service), marshal. Maj.
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss. L. S. A.
Second grand division militia and
cadet schools under arms). Brig. Gen.
William A. Mann, L. S. A.
Third grand division (veterans and
patriotic societies). Department Com
A Hnn
Fourth grand division (civic). George
r. Linkins.
Gen. Scott rendered command of the
veteran division to w. ]. Patterson of
Pittsburgh. commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic. but Mr..
Patterson replied that he would be un-
able to attend the inaugural ceremonies
and suggested the appointment of A. ].
Huntoon, department commander of
District of Columbia, as marshal of the
veteran division. That advice was fol-
lowed. Commander Patterson said also
that the G.. A. r. veterans preferred to
march the entire distance of the parade,
instead of entering the line at 14th
street and passing in review in the
court of honor. Consequently the plan
of having the old soldiers assemble at
I4th street has been abandoned and
they will be assigned a position near
the Capitol
The insignia of the principal officers
of the parade is prescribed by Grand
Marshal Scott as follows:
Chief Of staff and adjutant general.
red sash; grand marshars aids. white
sash; marshals of grand divisions, white
and red sash; commanders of brigades,
blue and white; all aids. except those
of grand marshal, blue sash.
Adjt. Gen. Devol says there will be
about 10000 men in the first two di-
visions, but that ii is not definitely
known at present how strong the other
two divisions will be, although 1t is
probable that the civic division Will be
as large as If not larger than the three
others combined.