Evening star., 1937-01-17
PARADES OF PAST

the highest regard, your ooeolent
servants"
The letter was signed by Daniel
Webster, Secretary Of State; Thomas
Ewing, Secretary Of the Treasury;
John Bell, Secretary Of War; John j.
Crittenden, Attorney General, and
Francis Granger, Postmaster General.
The second letter read as follows:
District of Columbia,
"City and county of washington, IS:
IT, William Cranch, chief judge OF
the Circuit Court Of the District OF
Columbia, certify that the above
named John Tyler appeared before
me this day and, although he deems
himself qualified to perform the duties
and exercise the powers and Office Of
President of the United States with
out any other oath than that which
he has taken as Vice President, yet,
as doubts may arise and for greater
caution, took and subscribed the FORE
going oath before me. w. Cranch,
April 6, 1841."
Three days afterward Mr.. Tyler's
inaugural address was published.
Writing Of the Inauguration Of
James K. Polk, March 4, 1845, an early
reporter informs us: 1.-TWO inaugural
balls were held in the evening, one at
Carrlsi's saloon, the tickets selling at
$40. This was the swell affair, for at
the other, at the National Theater on
Louisiana avenue, between Fifth and
Sixth streets, the tickets were 50. 1t
was attended by an immense crowd
but was a rather badly managed
affair"
/ A BRAHAM LINCOLN rode in an
open carriage down Pennsylvania
avenue to his first Inauguration, pre-
ceded by company Of Infantry, with
double flies of District Cavalry on
either side and military organizations
bringing up the rear. Rif1emen in
squads were placed on roofs of GER
tain buildings along the line Of march,
with orders to watch opposite win
doWs and fire on any one attempting
to fire on the President. The street
crossings Of the avenues. the brow Of
Capitol Hill and the steps of the
Capitol were all similarly protected,
for violence had been threatened.
But the ceremonies were concluded,
to the last gesture of the Presidents
kissing the "a little girls dressed in
white, who represented the "a States,
without mishap or tragedy on this
occasion. Derricks and a network Of
steel ropes, being used in construc-
ton of the new dome Of the Capitol,
lowered behind him as he concluded
his address with these prophetic
words: THE mystic chords of men,
ory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave to every heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union.
when again touched, as surely they
will be, by the better angels of our
nature"
At the ball celebrating the second
Inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant, 1873,
ladies had to wear their wraps, the
temporary building in Judiciary Square
having no heating equipment. The
! ice cream was frozen solid, champagne
and punch were forsaken for hot cof-
| fee and the few remaining gentlemen
dancing in overcoats and hats, were
frozen out, with their ladies, before
| midnight.
On the way to the Inauguration
of Benjamin Harrison, March 4, 1889,
the retiring President, Grover Cleve-
land, leaned from the carriage to re-
quest one Of his secretaries, Fair
childs, lend us your umbrella" for
the rain had begun to come down in
torrents. As he accepted it. he smiled
and said, 1--WE are honest folks; we will
bring it back"
In how many years from 1887 shall
our descendants read, "At his second
Inauguration President Roosevelt wore
a suit of American manufacture and
smiled broadly at the throngs lining
the Avenue. holding his hat aloft in
his right hand as he passed?"