The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-01-20
FAMOUS INAUCURATIONS OF PAST YEARS
Dramatic
BY ALEXANDER II. GEORGE
ZAP Feature Service Writer,

WASHINGTON. Jan. 21.-When
Franklin d. Roosevelt rides down
Pennsylvania avenue to the capitol
today for his second Inauguration.
he Will be going over ground hal
lowed in the history of the nation.
For almost century and half
inaugural professions and the day
by-day flow eff humanity on "the
avenue" have mirrored the march
of the republic from jefferson to
Lincoln, to Grant, to Roosevelt, to
Wilson, to Hoover, and to the Sec
ond Roosevelt Washington was in
Quoted into the Presidency in New
York and in Philadelphia while
John Adams also was niedgurated
in the Quaker City.
Street CT DigRiiaries
Potentates and princes as well as
Presidents and national heroes like
Admiral Dewey and Charles A.
Lindbergh have passed down the
avenue in the pageant of America 5
progress. Statesmen of the young
republic in short breeches and silk
stockings walked in its dust and
mud; so too did the great of Con-
gress like Webster, Clay and Cal
houn and frontiersmen of the
Daniel Boone and Kit Carson eras
The avenue has echoed to the
tramp of soldiers of the revolution
Of the Mexican, Civil, Spanish and
World wars. The rebel yell, the
whoop of Indians, the yip-yip of
cowboys, and the cheers Of youths
who were to sleep forever in Elan
ders fields have reverberated from
the old buildings that flank Ameri-
cas- No. l thoroughfare.
Three Of the most colorful in
augurations We're those of Andrew
Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and Theo-
dore Roosevelt, all military men
Jackson's Inauguration was the oc-
casion for much whoopee by the
people, some in finery and some il;
rags" who idolized the gentle bar
barian from frontier Tennessee.
They Rioted For Jackson
When Old Hickory took the oath
Of office. exactly 100 years before
Herbert Hoover did, crowds came
in wagons and carts from 500 miles
to get a glimpse of their hero. The
Sovereign people" staged a dem
onstranon at the White House 50
wild that the doughty old warrior
himself fled to avoid injury in the
surge Of admirers to his side.
1.-THE rabble fell on the refresh
ments, jostling walters as they APP
peared at. the doors and breaking
china" said critical eyewitness
"They stood in muddy boots on da-
undiscovered chars windows were
used for exits IL The suffocatinq
masses, women tainted and men
were seen with bloody noses"
Vets Turned Out For Grant
Grant rode in an inaugural pro-
cession which was hailed as the
greatest military display the capt.
tai had ever witnessed. Many ia
nous civil war regiments, a bat
talon of Mexican war veterans and
80 soldiers of the war of 1912 were
in the procession. The old warriors
Of 1872 rode in a lavishly decor
ated omnibus drawn y six white
horses.
Grant himself disappointed many
by failing to wear his generals uni
form. He wore severely plain black
suit. rode in an open carriage
through lanes of wildly cheering
people. At the capitol his little
daughter Nellie slipped away from
her mother and held her fathers
hand during the last few minutes
Of his inaugural address.
Few conquering heroes ever re-
ceived a greater ovation than Theo-
dore Roosevelt at his Inauguration
on March 4, 1905. 1t was day of the
pageantry and the lively display he
SO greatly enjoyed.
In the procession were old and
Young war veterans, cowpunchers
indian braves, governors. generals
college students, merchants and Ia
borers. Filipinos and Porto Ricans,