Evening star., 1933-01-24
new CEREMONIAL
AVENUE ETOBE USED
| |FOR|NAUGURAT|0N
Portion of Constitution to Be
Included in Route of Two
Hour Parade.
PARTICIPANTS LIMITED
TO 10000 BY RULING
Plans Being Completed for Ball to
Be Held at Washington
Auditorium.

ulOnldl AVENUE OI the Will D6
officially used as such when the Nation
welcomes Franklin Delano Roosevelt to
the White House March 4, 1t was an
nounced today by the Inaugural Com
mittee.
The Parade Committee, headed by
Col. E. M. Watson announced that a
portion of the new avenue, that from
the east front of the Capitol to Third
street and Pennsylvania avenue, will be
used by the inaugural parade.
From Third street, according to the
line of March announced, the parade
will follow the usual course along Penn
Sylvania avenue, west to Fifteenth
street, north on Fifteenth street to
Pennsylvania avenue, and west on
Pennsylvania avenue again to Twentieth
street
1t has not been decided the commit
tee announced. at what points in the
vicinity of Pennsylvania avenue and
Twentieth street the various units Of
the parade will disband, but by taking
the parade farther along Pennsylvania
avenue than has been the custom in
former inaugural years the Inaugural
Committee will be enabled to erect an
additional reviewing stand In front Of
the State, War and Navy Building. and
will carry the parade beyond any point
at which street car or bus operation
might be disrupted on side streets.
Limited to About 10000.
The original plan to hold the length
of the parade to column that will pass
a given point in two hours will be ad-
hered to. This means the number of
persons participating will be limited
to about 10000
The plans now call for four divisions
of the parade with the first composed
of the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast
Guard. The second division will in
clude the Governors of the States, with
their staffs. The third division will
embrace the National Guard, the Or
ganized reserves, the Officers Reserve
Training Camp members and represen-
tatives of the Citizens Military Train
ing Camps
In the fourth and final division will
be the delegations of patriots, fraternal,
civic and political organizations.
The Parade Committee reports that
applications from almost every State
In the Union have been received. There
wishing to participate will have to be
limited severely to keep the parade
within the desired length.
Meanwhile the Parade Committee
will be kept busy for weeks allotting
space for the marchers, and will not
be able to announce the exact number
Of marchers to be allowed each group
until all requests for permission to enter
the parade have been studied.
The utilization Of Constitution ave-
nue. at the beginning of the parade
is expected to get it started much more
smoothly than in former years. This
mill oil Syo fa fnn fry uy1fn
have heretofore been made, getting from
B street around Peace Monument and
into Pennsylvania avenue. This plan also
inSures that street car traffic on First
street and in the vicinity of the Capt.
tol will be delayed a much shorter time
than in former years.
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chair
man Of the Inaugural Committee, has
approved the recommendations Of the
Parade Committee.
The Inaugural Ball Committee, head
ed by Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, yes
terday selected the Washington Audi
torium as the scene Of the great in
augural ball. which is to be the out
standing social event OF the inaugural
week end
1t will be the first official inaugural
ball since the Taft administration,
others since that time having only a
semi-oficial status. Members Of Mr..
Roosevelt's family have signified their
intention of attending the affair. al
though Mr.. Roosevelt is not expected
to be present.
The Auditorium was chosen because
Of its size. An effort was made to find
some Government building which might
accommodate the huge crowd that is
expected to attend, but the require
ments Of the ball have grown so since
the first of these affairs that, without
entailing great structural changes, no
Government building would be suitable
The Auditorium, it was announced,
permits of practically all the plans Of
the committee being carried out, in
cluding the erection of two great tiers
of boxes all around he lower floor of
the building, in the form of horseshoes
These tiers would be so constructed
that the upper tier would be we'll
above the lower one, and allow an un-
obstructed view Of the floor below.
balcony boxes already in The building.
It also is planned to erect another
set of boxes, eight on either side Of
the stage in the orchestra stalls.
VIII Honor Governors.
Elaborate plans have been made for
the reception of each gubernatorial
party attending the ball. A guard Of
honor of soldiers, sailors and Marines
will be formed from the entrance to the
hall .sading to the stage, at the time set
for the official opening, and the Gov
ernors and their STATS will march
through this guard of honor while one
Of the bands plays the national anthem
M ho
blem will be carried before each guber-
material group as it Is seated on the
stage.
When the distinguished guests have
been seated, the floor will be cleared,
and the platforms from which the two
bands will play during the prelimi.
naries will be consolidated, and they will
play together for the dancing.
It was announced definitely at
Annapolis today that the regiment Of
nidshipmen will not march in the in
augural parade, he expense of trans
portation and meals being considered
too great It also would necessitate
the pOstponement of an Army Navy
basket ball game scheduled for In
auguration day, oficials Of the Naval
Academy said.
Many members of the first class, it
was said, had offered to pay their own
expenses to Washington for the affair.
as a tribute to Mr.. Roosevelt, who
served during the World War as As
sistant Secretary of the Navy, but this
was frowned upon by academy officials.
The Inaugural Committee has es-
tablished oflces for the sale of tickets
to the erandstands on the ground floor
Of the Washington Building and is re-
ceiying reservations daily. Telephones,
District 4813 and 1914, have been in
stalled and all information on tickets
may be obtained by calling either
number