Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1917-03-07
GRAND PROCESSION
At INAUGURATION Of
WOODROW WILSON
KHAKI, BRONZED GUARDSMEN
JUST HOME FROM BORDER
GUARD LINE.

FREQUENT ANU Milo. WIlSUM
RIDE IN AN OPEN CARRIAGE
Long Line of Military Organizations
Guardsmen, Sailors, Cadets, veter-
ans, Governors, Women and Civil
ians Maks Up the Inaugural Parade.
Washington.-The mighty process
sion which marked President Wilson's
second Inauguration marched with
wlnd-whipped flags over Pennsylvania
avenue from the Capitol to the White
House between open lines of khaki,
guardsmen from New York,
home from service on the border. 1t
was the first time since the Inaugural
ton of Lincoln in 1861 that troops had
guarded the line of march.
Despite the wind and lowering
clouds, which early in the day dark
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tinuation of the downpour, almost
every foot of vantage space along the
mlIe-long way was occupied, and the
great reviewing stands, windows, bal
comics and housetops held thousands
more.
The crowd waited patiently behind
the stout steel cables stretching from
the White House to the Capitol, hun.
dreds OF early corners being in posi-,
ton at Z O'Clock, four hours before
the President and his party left the
White House. Ten hours later. when
the last of the marchers was nearing
the reviewing stand, the line still
held.
Presidential Party.
President Wilson and his escort,
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 ianked by secret
service men. The Vice President fol
lowed in another carriage, with his
smart looking escort of cadets from
Culver Military Academy. mounted on
black horses.
AS the procession left the Court Of
Honor, opposite the White House, the
cavalry formed a hollow square, with
the Presidents carriage in the CEN
ter, 1t "a shortly after l o'clock
when the inaugural parade started up
the avenue, the PresiderI,and his es.
cort leading. = .
Meantime the SUN Fad come out,
drying the sand sprinkled over the
way. The line moved slowly between
two New York regiments the
Twelfth and the Sixty-ninth-stand-
ing at attention. They were the WISH
BILE evidence of elaborate steps taken
to insure the Presidents safety.
With bands blaring many tunes and
flags whipping, the parade got under
way-a long line of brilliant color.
First came the West Point cadets.
overcoated. a marching mass of gray
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ments were as Of one man. They
were followed by the Annapolis ca
diets, 1900 strong, wearing their deep
blue overcoatS.
Military Organizations.
Then came the long line of military
organizations, guardsmen, sailors.
coast artillerymen and cadet schools
which formed the first and second
divisions. under command of Major
General Tasker H. Bliss and Brig.
Gen. Williams A. Mann. AS the head
of the line reached the Court of Hon
OF the marchers stopped and remain
ed at attention for 20 minutes while
the President prepared to take the
place in the reviewing stand.
A bugle gave the signal, and the
long line moved again. The inaugu-
raj parade was on, with the Presi-
dent standing where Presidents long
have stood on Inauguration day to re-
view the marchers. For nearly four
hours they filed past-sailors, soldiers,
guardsmen. cadets, veterans, Cover
nors and their stats, thousands of
civilians in civic and political organi-
cations, Indians here and there, a line
of women, and hundreds of brass
bands.
The crowds in the reviewing stand
and on the streets were chilled by
the wind. The paraders marched
stoutly in the face of it. In sudden
gusts, it picked up the sand and
blinded them, swept their colors from
their grasp and Sent their hats high
in the air.
At times, whole organizations had
to halt while a particularly severe
guest sent it's force, musicians had
to empty the sand from their instru-
ments in the midst of playing and
c~olor-bearers by the hundred had to
furl their colors. But the crowd was
more orderly thar usual, and the pa
raiders took it all in good part.
1t was after 5 o'clock when the
parade ended. Pennsylvania avenue
no longer looked it's customary splck
and span cleanliness. Instead. it re-
sembled a dusty road. with the wind
whirling the dust and the litter of
torn papers into the spirals.