Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
Wishes to Make Decorations
on Line of March as UNI
form as Possible.
DEMAND KEEN FOR SEATS
IN LAFAYETTE SQUARE
Gold Medals Worth $3.50 Each to
Be Presented to Incoming
Executives.


the route of the parade and in down.
town Washington to be uniform in
character, w. G. Miller; chairman Of
the parade committee of the inaugural
committee, today asked the merchants
of the Capital to use only the standard
sized flags of the size used by the Amer
lean Legion during the coming Hoover
inaugural. The committee wishes the
flag display along Pennsylvania avenue
to be uniform and therefore requests
that standard flags and standard fix
lures be used. At the same time ner-
chants were cautioned that itinerant
vendors from outside of Washington
have been soliciting merchants to pur-
chase flags of various sizes on wooden
standards. Inasmuch as some business
houses many months ago installed
standard sized iron standards on their
property frontage, the decorations COM
mittee suggests that these standards and
regulation flags be used to avoid poly
glot decorative scheme.
Seats in the covered stands on La
fayette Square are in great demand, the
committee announced today, appiica-
lions for reservations being received in
such numbers that the committee can
not fill all. Reservations are being
made at Room 800, Transportation
Building, and must be accompanied by
cash or check Prices for other seats
are So, 81 and IS. The Lafayette
Square stand is in the court Of honor,
directly opposite the official stand, in
which the official party will be seated to
review the parade. They are being sold
for $3.50 per seat.
$3.50 Medals to BE Presented.
Gold medals, to cost $3.50 each, will
be presented to the incoming President
and the new Vice President as an off,
cial token of greeting from the inaug-
ural committee. The presentation viii
be made by the official visitation group
of the committee, which will meet the
new Executives following the induction
at the Capitol and escort them to the
White House. In bas-relief on one side
of the medals will be representations
of Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Curtis and on
the other side the date and occasion.
Replicas of these medallions viii be
cast in bronze by the United States
Mint and will be sold by the inaugural
committee at $3.50 apiece. julius Gar
finckel is chairman of the committee In
charge of the medals. The medals to
be sold publicly will be the most elab-
crate of any mementoeS sponsored by
the committee, and will be the only
items sold aside from the souvenir pro-
grams which will bring so cents copy.
Fearing that purchasers OF grand
stand seats might withhold making their
purchases because of the possibility OF
q
the committee announced today that
special efforts are being put forth to
avoid such a contingency, and that no
seats will be sold whose holders might
find their view ohscured by trees or
foliage.
A tentative program of public enter
tainment for the inaugural period made
public by the inaugural committee, dis
closes three full days of entertainment.
mostly of a governmental nature. On
March 2, the Saturday preceding the
inaugural, the Navy Yard will be thrown
open to visitors, while on this day the
Army and Navy will stage an air circus
over the city and there will be riding
circus at Fort Myer.
Special Services March 8.
Special services are to be held in all
the churches in Washington on March
8. The afternoon of March there will
be pilgrimage to the Tomb OF the IN
known Soldier, with concert scheduled
for the evening, together with an IL
Illustrated talk by Charles Colfax Long
on Washington, at the Rialto Theater.
The inaugural ceremonies and the
parade will occupy most Of the day on
March 4, to be followed by the in
augural charity ball in the evening. An
other concert and lecture will be held at
the Rialto in the evening, and fireworks
Washington Navy Yard will be thrown
open to visitors on March S, and op-
portunity will be given to visit the
revenue cutters in the harbor, while in
the afternoon flights will be made by
Army and Navy flyers and by CONNER
cial pilots.
Governors of % States have reserved
space in the inaugural parade. accord
ing to Chairman Stephan of the parade
committee. Many Of the State execu-
tives will come to Washington with
escorts CARRIED in gay uniforms. The
Governor of Alabama will be accom-
panied by two companies Of foot sol-
diers from the State National Guard and
a band of So pieces. From Delaware.
New Jersey and Virginia, artillerymen
will come with their governors. Gov. +!
Byrd of Virginia will be accompanied
by $50 members OF the Richmond Blues, |
the Richmond Howitzers and the Rich |
mond Grays, and a fife and drum corps. |
In the second division of the parade, |
the committee announced, Is additional |
military and civic units have already |
been assigned positions. Among them Is !!
a delegation from the San Diego Army |
and Navy Academy Of Pacific Beach,
Calf, and one from Coe College, at |