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affair. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, chairman
and her Committee on the Inaugural Ball. one
OF the largest of the committees working with
Admiral Grayson'S central committee. put in
long hours of planning to have the affair 60
off without hitch and to raise the maximum
amount of money for the charities which were
the benefciaries of the affair. Within a few
days after she was appointed to the chairman
ship of the Inaugural Ball Committee, Mrs.
Dougherty had established separate headquar-
ters in the Hill Building. at Seventeenth and
I streets, and the entire ticket sale. details OF
seating the Governors and their stats, and the
thousand and one other matters in connection
with such an affair were worked out separately
from the work of the other busy committees
about the inaugural headquarters in the Wash
ington Building.
To Ray Baker. former director of the Mint.
went another big task, and he chose the largest
of the subcommittee under the General In
augural Committee to help him. He established
Offices next to Admiral Graysons, in the WASH
ington Building. and Immediately named more
than 200 prominent Washingtonians to help
him with the immense task of attending to the
reception of the Governors and other distin-
guished guests invited to the Capital for the
inaugural. This always has been one Of the
greatest jobs In connection with the induction
of a President, for the Governors must be
treated with the consideration that their rank
demands, and all must be treated alike. Trans
perform liaison duty between each Governor and
the grand marshal Of the parade, iaison be-
tween each Governor and the President-elect
liaison between the governor and the officials
of the ball. and so on, endlessly, SO that no
minute Of the waking time of each Governor
be spent in idle boredom. and no aide be left
out of the proceedings in which his own par
ticular executive was taking part.
/EEKS of study were necessary to work
wv out some Of the details of the official
inaugural program. j. Fred Essary chairman
of the Official Program Committee. had the
50-odd members Of his committee doing yeo-
man service digging up the historical data cons
tanned in the official program issued for this
years inaugural All available records were
studied. and each inaugural, from that flrst
inaugural here, when Thomas Jefferson mounts
ed his horse after breakfast, rode through mud
to the Capitol, was sworn In, and on his return
trip attracted quite an inaugural following.
nearly 100 people, as he went back home again,
President Of the United States, was gone into
thoroughly for traditions precedents and any
cOlorful features that might provide good read
ing for the purchasers Of inaugural programs
and for the guidance Of the committee - q
whole
Mr. Essary employed such experts on WASH
ingtonia as David Rankin Barbee, George Roth
well Brown, Ernest G. Walker, Miss Eleanor
Connally and j. r. HNdebrand to aid him in
compiling this work, and turn out a program
that will be q model for all other such publi-
cations The history Of the inaugural balls tho
Presidents who have occupied the White House.
the inaugural entertainments, the historical
landmarks of the city. and the women who
have been the first ladies of the land were
studied and dealt with at length. and tho
inaugural visitor was given q guide to the
metropolitan Washington by aerial Photographic,
maps and other data.
To Daniel c. Roper, former Commissioner oa
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