Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
INAUGURAL GUESTS
LEAVING FOR HOME
Fireworks Display Scheduled
to Be Held Tonight, Start
ing at 8 O'clock.

Washington was slowly returning to
its normal post-inaugural condition to-
day.
Under the rays of a bright Winter
Sun. in decided contrast to the drab
weather of inaugural day and yester-
day, workmen were tearing down the
long stretch of sodden wooden stands
of the court of honor and on two sides
of the Treasury Building, hindered in
their work by thousands of soggy news
papers, which had served as temporary
covering from the rain Of the inaugu-
raj. The classic colonnades of the shell
tered pagoda-like structure in which
Herbert Hoover took the oath of office
on the east front of the Capitol, were
being taken down, and the white and
blue structure in which he sat Monday
afternoon to review the parade slowly
was vanishing from in front of the
White House. M.
Meanwhile the final groups of the
scores of thousands of visitors who saw
the inaugural and the parade down
Pennsylvania avenue turned toward the
Union Station and home, deploring the
weather which made March an un-
forgettable day, but satisfied with the
ouadrennial spectacle. Others departed
to their homes by automobiles, joining
the thousands who had travelled the
homeward path late Monday and yes
terday.
Gun to Signal Start.
The fireworks exhibit, which was
scheduled by the entertainment COM
mittee for Monday night and was post
poned for the past two nights because
of bad weather. will be held at O'Clock
tonight, the entertainment commlttee
of the general inaugural committee an
nounced. The exhibit, for which $4,000
has been spent, and which will include
pyrotechnic pictures of Herbert Hoover
and Charles Curtis, will be held on the
Monument grounds A warning gun
will be sounded at 1850 pm. to signal
the beginning of the exhibit.
While Lieut.. Col U. S. Grant, Sd,
chairman of the, inaugural committee,
preferred to wait longer before issuing
a formal statement on the inaugural
and the part Washington's citizens
nlayed in the spectacle, he called at
tention to the fact that the exhibit OF
Washington apast, present and future
is being held open in the Washington
Building today. tonight and tomorrow
This exhibit, inaugural committee off,
cials pointed out, is of general interest
to all residents of the city, and contains
a comprehensive display OF the program
of improvement of the Federal city. to-
eether with representations of Wash
ington as it had been in the past and
its growth to the present.
E. C.. Graham, chairman OF the en-
tertaiRment committee, told Col Grant
that more than $4,000 persons visited
The exhibit during the inaugural. The
committee is considering suggestions
that the collection of maps, drawings
models and other objects tl1terpretative
of the city made made into permanent
exhibit.
Finance Outlook Hopeful.
AS returns continued to come in from
sale of grandstand seats, souvenir pro-
grams and souvenir medals, the inaugu-
raj committee was more hopeful thai
the return to guarantors might approx
mate 100 per cent. Mrs. John Altar
Dougherty general chairman Of the in.
augural charity ball committee, expected
today to receive reports on sale o.
tickets from the debutante committee
headed by Miss Bina Day Deneen, anc
the store committee, headed by Mrs
Cabot Stevens. A final tabuiation o.
the amount received, Mrs. Doughert!
said, cannot be made until complete
returns are in from the tickets sem
out throughout the country. OF the
amount raised. $4,000 Is TO go to each
of the police and fire department funds
| for widows and orphans. The balancs
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