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Show ALES OF OTHER IHAUGURATIONS Incidents That Marked the Day in Former Years. WASHINGTON'S 0ATH-TAKK1G Nsw York Scans of His Induction Story of Jefferson's Simplicity a -K Myth "Psopls's Day" Whsn Jackson Took Office. 6y E, W. PICKARO. Woodrow Wilson is the twenty-sev-tnth man to be Inaugurated president f the United States, but the twenty Sfth to be inaugurated In Washington. Seorge Washington took the oath of )fllce In New York and John Adams In Philadelphia. Moreover, the Father Fa-ther of Hig Country was not Inaugurated! Inaugu-rated! on March i. Arriving at Ellzabethtown Point N. J., on April 23, be entered a barge rowed by 12 pilots clad In wblte, md passed through the Kill von Kull Into New York harbor, which was full of all manner of craft gaily decorated and loaded with cheering crowds. The Spanish man of war Galveston broke out the colors of all nations, and fired a salute of 13 guns, to which the American frigate North Carolina re-i re-i ponded. Arrival at New Yo(V. As Washington stepped ashore at Murray's wharf the guns of the Battery Bat-tery roared out their salute and Gov. Oeorge Clinton and many membera of congress saluted the first president He was taken to the residence of Samuel Osgood, and for an entire week there was revelry throughout the city. Finally, on April 30. all was ready for the inauguration. Washington was escorted to Federal ball, then the capltol, which stood on the silo of the present sub-treasury at Wall and Itroad streets. The streets bad been filled since sunrise with waiting crowds, and the enthusiasm was Intense. In-tense. In the senate chamber Washington Wash-ington waa joined by Adams, Knox, Hamilton, von Steuben and a few others, oth-ers, and all of them appeared on ',he balcony. Robert R. Livingston, chancellor chan-cellor of New York, administered the oath and cried "Long live George Washington, president of the United States," whereupon there broke out a mighty tumult of cheering, bell-ring-lng and the noise of cannon. Returning Re-turning to the senate chamber, President Pres-ident Washington read bis inaugural address and the history of the United States under the constitution constitu-tion began. Myth About Jefferson. If you are a good Democrat no doubt you believe that Thomas J Person Per-son rode unattended to the capltol on horseback, tied bis horse to the fence, and was Inaugurated with less ceremony than would attend the taking tak-ing of office by a keeper of a dog pound. Such Is the old story, but It Is pure myth and Is first found In a book of travels In the United States written by John Davis, an Englishman. Eng-lishman. Davis asserted that be was in eye-witness of the simple ceremony which be described, but It has been proved that he was not In Washington Wash-ington at the time. The Inauguration of Jefferson, which marked the defeat of the Federalist party of Hamilton. Washington, adama and Jay, was the first to take place In Washington. The newly established es-tablished n local capital, then but a few months old. contained only 3,000 Inhabitants, many of them negroes; the houses were mostly buts and the itreeta muddy roads. The big event ss thus described In the Philadelphia aurora of March 11; 1101: "At an early hoar on Wednesday, March 4, the city of Washington p re-tented re-tented a spectacle of uncommon animation ani-mation occasioned by the addition to Its usual population of a large body if citizens from the adjacent districts. 1 discbarge from the company of K'aahlngtoa artillery ushered la the lay, and about one o'clock the Alex-utdrta Alex-utdrta company of riflemen with the Mifany of artillery paraded In front f the President's lodgings. At 13 'dock Thomas Jaffertoa. attended by i a number of his fellow cltlsens, among whom were many members of congress, con-gress, repaired to the capltol. His dress waa, as usual, that of a plain cltUen, without any distinctive badge of office. He entered the capltol under un-der a discharge from the artillery. Aa soon aa he withdrew a discharge from the artillery was made. The) remainder remain-der of the day was devoted to purposes pur-poses of festivity, and at night there was a pretty general illumination." ! Jackson Almost Mobbed. I When Andrew Jackson was elected In the fall of 1828 the people of the west and the radical elements of the south scored a triumph and be was hailed as a "man of the people." This character wal emphasised ou the day of his Inauguration the following March, for never befqre had such a huge motley throng gathered In Wash; Ingtoq. Jackson's wife had died not lalg before, and he asked that the ceremonies be made very simple, but the masses were too hilarious to beed tne request Tbe weather was pleasant pleas-ant and the east front of the capltol was used for the first time for the Inauguration, In-auguration, fa front of it sdrged 10,000 persons who were restrained only by a great Iron chain. Jackson rode to the capltol on a white horse and went through the ceremonies with dignity, and started back to the Whits House. Vhen began his troubles, tot the people broke loose with a vengeance. ven-geance. "The president was literally pursued by a motley concourse of people, riding, rid-ing, running, helter-skelter, striving who should first gain admittance lute the executive mansion, where It waa understood that refreshments would be distributed," wrote a contemporary. contempo-rary. Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith. In their mad rush the crowds smashed furniture and dishes and seised the food as if tbey were starving. Tba confusion became more and more air palling. At one moment the presl dent who had retreated until he was pressed against the wall of the apart ment could only be secured against serious danger by a number of gentlemen gen-tlemen linking arms and forming themselves Into a barrier. It waa then that the windows were) thrown open, and the living throng found an outlet It was the people's day, the people's president, and tba people would rule." Taken figuratively, that might not be so poor a description of the plight of presidents In these later days. Exposure Killed Harrison. For 13 years tha Democrat controlled con-trolled the destinies of the country, and then the Whigs elected William Henry Harrison, who wss Inaugurated March 4, 1841. Jiy this time transportation trans-portation was made easier by th building of railways and tbe crowd that flocked to Washington was Immense. Im-mense. It was much better behaved than that which "honored" Jackson, but It was hungry for offices. Cold, wintry blasts swept the streets of Washington that March day, and Harrison, already old and rather feeble, rode his white horse without cloak or overcoat and with bis hat off in sslute to tbe cheering crowds. The line of march was unprecedent. edly long, and so waa the inaugural address, and then the president led the procession back to the Wblte House. Tbe exposure wss too much for him and within one month ha was dead. Lincoln's First Insugurstlon. Immensely dramatic was the first Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln In 1861. From the day of his election threats against bis life were numerous, numer-ous, and detectives discovered and foiled an organised plot to assassinate him on his way to Washington. Tbe big bodies of troops thst had been employed at former- Inaugurations merely to add pomp to the occasion now were used for the protection of the president Aa he rode to the capltol In a carriage he waa preceded by a company of sappers and miners; a double file of cavalry rode on each side, and In the rear were Infantry and rlCemen. On bouse top and In windows all along Pennsylvania avenue ave-nue were posted riflemen. The day bad opened cloudy, chilly and dismal, but as the president stepped step-ped forward to take the oath from tha aged Chief Justice Taney the sun burst through the clouds and shone full on the bowed head of tha maa who waa to give up his Ufa for the country he love4. Lincoln himself noticed this "sunburst" and drew from It a happy augury. |