Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
|NDUCT|ONPAGEANT
DETAILS ARRANGED
Time Rain viii Start Only
Uncertain Factor in
Ceremonies.
Continued From First Page

tainment was merely intended to give
the visitors to the Capital something to
busy themselves while awaiting the
great day tomorrow
Two of the central figures in the
inaugural were concerned intimately in
the final legislative jam of the Seven
ueth Congress. Vice President Dawes
found the closing hours of his four
year term as President Of the Senate
little less strenuous than those of his
first few days as presiding officer, when
he attempted to reform the Senate
rules-a fight that he kept up to the
end OF his term. Vice President-elect
Charles Curtis-still the Senator from
Kansas and Republican floor leader
chose to stay out the tenure Of his SEN
atorlai leadership and remained in the
upper legislative halls with his COL
leagues as the Seventeen Congress
drew toward It's end.
The inaugural picture at the Capitol
u complete. All arrangements have been
concluded by the congressional Joint
committee headed by Senator George
II. Moses and Representative Bertram
H. Smell. The stage here awaits the
chief actors in the drama. and a set
program of formal procedure has been
drawn up for their entrance and exit
President Coolidge Is to follow the
precedent set by President Roosevelt in
1909 and proceed directly from the
Capitol to the Union Station without
taking part In the parade of honor to
the new President. Mr.. Hoover will
leave the Capitol Immediately after he
concludes his inaugural address. and
move down Pennsylvania avenue in an
automobile to the White House, where
. buffet lunch will be served to a dis
ttnguished group of friends and official
guests Of the new Executive Hurried
last-minute changes In the parade pro-
gram were made to conform to Mr..
Hoover's wishes as the original intention
had been to have the Hoover party
lead the parade down Pennsylvania
avenue, with the cortege stopping at
Twelfth street while the luncheon was
served at the White House. It Is now
clear that Mr.. Hoover and his party
VIII motor to the White House without
waiting for the parade, lunch at the Ex-
ecutive Mansion, and proceed to the
omcial stand to await the parade, which
WIN be moving into line meanwhile on
the streets east of the Capitol.
AS near as can be ascertained, the
parade Will not start its movement be-
1ore o'clock. Confusion as to the time
OF starting comes about because of the
impossibility to forecast the length of
the ceremonies at the Capitol. Mr..
Hoover's address will take approximate
" three-quarters of an hour to deliver,
and prior to the induction ceremonies
the Vice President must take the oath
OF ofilce, the proclamation of an ex-
traordinary session of the Senate must
De read and more than 80 Senators
must subscribe to the oath Of ONCE All
these matters will take considerable
time, and the exact time of start of the
parade cannot be accurately forecast.
Leaves Home at 1880.
MIR. Hoover will leave his s street
home at 1850 o'clock. proceed to the
White House and 60 with Mr.. Coolidge
and the oficial party UP Pennsylvania
avenue to the Capitol They will be
preceded by an escort of policemen and
Cavalry from Fort Myer.
Final police arrangements have been
made, with Pennsylvania avenue desig-
mated as strictly out of bounds for
private automobiles and for street cars
after 10 o'clock. The metropolitan
police force has been augmented by
hundreds Of special officers brought
here from cities as far distant as New
Orleans. and everything possible has
been done to protect the public. While
scores Of churches In the Capital will
hold special services today, the high
spot of the entertainment committees
schedule for the day will be reached
tonight at the Rialto Theater, when a
perturbation of Washington concert
will be given. S. L. Rothafel, the
famous Roxy Of the radio, will act
as master Of ceremonies while solos will
be furnished by Miss Eleanor Painter,
grand opera soprano. With her will
appear the Republican Glee Club of
Columbus. Ohio; the Hamilton Glee
Club of Chicago and the Media Grotto
Chanters of Topeka, Kans
The climax of the program will be
Charles Colfax Longs lecture, The
Enchanted City From Dawn to Dusk"
The program will open at 8:l5 o'clock
and will be repeated tomorrow night.
Doubt still existed today as to the
aerial exhibit planned for tomorrow.
Boiling Field officials looked out upon
q flying field, characterized by the AS
sistant SECRETARY of War several
months aah as entirely inadequate,
covered today with mud and water and
unsafe for planes unless clear weather
dries IL rapidly before tomorrow noon.
An aerial show scheduled by the Army
afternoon was Cancelled because of the
condition of the field
Among the governors and State dele
cations arriving in Washington yester-
day were Gov. and Mrs. Norman S.
Case OF Rhode Island and an oficial
party The governor and Mrs. Case
were TO be received this afternoon by
President and Mrs. Coolidge