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Show IN READINESS FOR INAUGURATION FESTIVITIES PENNSYLVANIA AVE. RESEMBLES RESPLENDENT HALL. It Is Festooned With Arches of Light and Gay Crowds Throng the Brilliant Avenue. ' Washington, March 2. Pennsyl- vania avenue last night was as bright- ly lighted as the "Great White Way." ; aud the happy throngs which laughed ; thctr way along It for hours, revelling j in the brightness and gaiety, pro- claimed the approach of the day when j a new president will rule over tbe j country. The avenue was festooned with arches of light, jvhlch gave it I the appearance of r vast hall a milo j and a quarter In length and about 125 j feet In width. Accommodations for fully firty thousand thou-sand people have been provided for I upon tho stands which have beeij j erected from a point just above the j White House, along Pennsylvania ave- nue, to the capltol. The management , are perturbed over the possible con- i tingency of ladles appearing with ( "Merry Widow" hats, and the "sug- , gestion" has gone out that women , should wear small hats or scarfs, so . ; as not to obstruct the view of those behind them. For the convenience of the thous- ands of slghl-seers,.the various places of historic Interest In and about tho city have been marked by suitable tablets. "Inauguration day, no prediction, but fair the day before," is the weather card today. 1 When the first of the thousands of today's anivala reached here, they were greeted with a drizzling driz-zling rain. Official prediction will be issued tonight, and meantime there ; is nothing in tho reports to Indicate that tho day will not be a fair one. Acceptances of Invitations have been , received from the governors of the tallowing tal-lowing states, who will participate . in the inaugural reception: Braxton B. Comer, Alabama; Geo. L. Lllley, Connecticut; Simeon 8. Pennewiil, Delaware; Janiea XL Brady, Idaho; B. F. Carroll. Iowa; Charles S. Deneen, lllloola: Augustus B. Will- , boh, Kentucky; J. T. Saunders, Louisiana; Lou-isiana; A. L. Crothers, Maryland; B. S Draper, Massachusetts B. 8. Noel. ; Mississippi; II. S. Hanley, Missouri; H. B. Quinby, Now Hampshire; J. Franklin Fort. New Jersey; Charles E. Hughes, New York; Judson Harmon. Har-mon. Ohio; Edwin S. Stuart. Pennsylvania; Pennsyl-vania; A. J. Pothlcr, -Rhode Island; G. H. Prouty, Vermont, and George Currie, Now Mexico |