Evening star., 1937-01-20

the east portico The outdoor ceremony which
has continued ever since, was q compromise
between the House and Senate over the appor-
tionment Of seats, which had caused 50 much
scandal at Madisons Inauguration.
The White House. burned by the British, had
not been completely restored.
Monroe had to commute for q time between
his Government job in Washington and his
home, Oak Hail. in Loudoun County Va He
used to quit early on Saturday and ride out
on horseback returning early Monday.
The day John Quincy Adams was inaugurated
a secretary of the British Legation appeared on
Pennsylvania avenue riding velocipede which
had been sent him from London.
That same day q man in the crowd watching
the procession up the Avenue dipped q splinter
Of wood tipped with birthstone into chemical
preparation which he carried in little metal
box. The splinter sprang into flame and the
man lit his pipe with it.
What was the world coming to, the old folks
asked. as they watched the President-elect ride
by escorted by q cavalcade Of District citizens
led by Daniel Carroll of Duddington?
John Quincy Adams saddled his horse early
the morning of March 4. 1929 and started
long ride up the Potomac.
He had moved out OF the White House the
day before He was afraid of q scene il he
came face to face with the man who was to
succeed him President that day.
1t had been whispering campaign" Sup
porters Of Adams had spread scandalous reports
of the private life of Andrew Jackson and his
wife. Their marriage had been somewhat
irregular, but for years they had been devoted
couple
Rachel" and they cut her to the heart. She
had been reared on a rude frontier. She had
no culture or breeding. She liked to sit by the
fireplace so they say, and smoke her pipe.
Now they were declaring that she was no fit
person to preside over the White House. They
her hllS han bar
account
The people rallied to Old Hickory. When
she heard that he had been elected she bought
herself a white satin dress to wear at his in
auguraton. They buried her in the same dress
a few weeks later. She had caught the measles
and her resistance had been so lowered by
worry over the "whisperings" that she could
not throw of the infection.
Andrew Jackson came to Washington hold
ing Adams largely responsible for the death of
his wife, He was in the frame Of mind to cane
his predecessor. So John Quincy moved out
to the seclusion of the estate Of his friend,
Comdr. Porter. on Kalorama Heights.
The city was crowded with admirers of jack
son, carrying hickory canes and wearing hickory
leaves in their button holes But there were
no arrangements for an inaugural parade.
The single military organization in WASH
ington a light infantry company, commanded
by Col Seaton of the National Intelligencer,
was Whig in sympathy and refused to march.
little group of Revolutionary War officers
organized themselves into an escort for their
old comrade and walked beside his open car
riage under the double of popars Thomas
Jefferson had planted on Pennsylvania avenue.
II never saw such a crowd" wrote Daniel
Webster. persons have come 500 miles to see
Gen. Jackson, and they really seem to think
the country has been rescued from some dread
full danger"
Jackson wore two pairs of ee-rmmed spec