Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-13
INAUGURAL PARADE
LEADERS TO STUDY
Comfort, Precision and Safe
ty Notices Guide Commit
tee Making Plans.

Comfort precision and safety are the
guiding notices behind efforts of the
inaugural committee at work on plans
for WaShington's civic greeting to
President Hoover when he rides
down the Avenue toward the White
House after his induction into office
March 4.
Instead of rows on rows OF people
standing behind steel cables which will
be strung the length of Pennsylvania
avenue from the Capitol to the White
House, the inaugural committee plans
to provide comfortable seats for those
who wish to pay the nominal price.
Medical aid stations will be scattered
over the part of the city to be covered
by the parade. ready to move at an
instant's notice.
No Time Can BE Lost.
In view of the tWo-hour restriction
placed upon the length of the pro-
cession by the President-elect, it is plain
to the parade committee and to mem
berS of the general inaugural commit
tee that the units expected must move
into place with snap and march down
Pennsylvania avenue without loss of
time. So Gen. Anton Stephan, chair
man Of the parade committee, and his
aides, taking leaf from military usage
have decided on blackboard rehearsals
tSr the parade executives to start a
fortnight or so before the inaugural
SO those who will have anything TO do
with the formation and movement of
troops or disposition and movement of
units will be able to perform their tasks
with machinelike precision. Gen Ste
phan knows that to move a parade
between and 5 miles long at the
slow pace marching units force on
themselves, 1t must be handled like
movements of an Army and timed to
the minute.
On the safety end, the inaugural
committee is looking to the Washing
ton police force and its reinforcements
from the police of Baltimore and
the Marine Corps to prevent disturb
ances and halt activities of pick
pockets. Men who have in mind the
visages of crooks who have run afoul
Of the law will be scattered through
the throngs. ...-
Special Traffic Arrangements.
Special traffic arrangements are
among the safety factors to be pro-
vided by the committee, working with
the police department. All streets
running into Pennsylvania avenue from
the Peace Monument to Seventeenth
street will be closed within a block of
the Avenue as the hour for the passage
OF Mr. Hoover to the Capitol ap-
proaches. and only those vehicles which
can be shown to have urgent business
across the street will be allowed through
the lines.
For the two days prior to March 4
many Semi-official gatherings and OBJ
servances will be held. On the after
noon of inauguration day E. F. Cola
day. chairman of the committee on re-
ception to State governors, plans to hold
reception for State executives, which
the new President may attend, at one Of
the theaters in Washington. The
inaugural committee will not take off,
cial charge of the ceremonies until after
Herbert Hoover has subscribed to the
| oath of Office and has delivered his
| inaugural address at the Capitol, but it
plans several features prior to Inaugural
ton day.
Both Mr. Hoover and the Vice Presi-
dent-elect will be in the reviewing stand
| In front of the White House, the inau-
| gural committee announced last night.
| With the Embarrassing campaign for
the necessary finances we'll advanced,
! the Dudget committee met yesterday at
the Willard Hotel and appropriated
| $4,000 for expenses incident to the
celebration, alloting this amount in
smaller totals to the various committees.
The money came from the fund volun-
| tarily pledged. Those attending the
budget meeting were: Lieut.. Col U. S.
Grant. Sd, chairman of the inaugural
committee; E. Irving Glover and James
| A. Councillor the latter chairman of the
budget committee; Durant w. Springer,
chairman of the finance committee.