Show BIG DAY Is the anniversary of establishment of federal government in washington president judges senators congressmen governors and others join in celebrating the anniversary when president and mrs adams drove from philadelphia to washington washington dec 12 national capital Is in gala attire today in celebration ot the looth anniversary of the seat 0 federal government at washington business public and private is suspended while the president and als cabinet the senate and the house of representatives the federal judiciary the governors ot many states and in the great concourse 0 citizens and visitors joined in the elaborate festivities ot the day perhaps never again will this generation witness euitt a significant gathering of the heads ot states one hundred years ago the transfer of the scat of government was made from philadelphia to washington and the site previously selected by president washington was taken possession of by the various branches of government president and mrs adams driving over from philadelphia the senate and house holding their sessions here for the first time for months washington has been preparing tor a fitting ot this interesting historical went and the celebration today Is designed to bring out the development which a century has brought forth both in the capital and in the nation from an early hour today tho streets were filled with an eager and expectant throng pennsylvania avenue was a blaze 0 color from end to end the business houses being hung with bunting flags and patriotic devices the great public buildings added their share to tho brilliancy of the spectacle from the front of the treasury radiated an enormous sunburst of red white and blue further on the war state and navy departments and the department of justice were resplendent in the national natio aal colors at the other end of pennsylvania avenue the massive front of the capitol was hung with long streamers and from the dome fluttered a myriad of flags while the front of the department was covered with the national colors the pro of the day began with a loa at 10 by president mckenley and members of his cabinet to the governors of the states and territories at the executive mansion this was followed by the unveiling in the east front of the model of the proposed enlarged executive mansion which is to be a lasting memorial of celebration the other events of the day were a parade from the white house to the capitol participated in by the president and other dignitaries and visiting and district militia joint exercises by the senate and house in the hall of the house of representatives tonight a reception will be tendered to the governors at the corcoran gallery of art the exercises began at 1030 with a reception at the executive mansion by the president to the governors of states and territories their ladles and the members of their staffs at just 1030 the president descended the west stairway with secretary hay at his sade immediately following were the other members of the cabinet two by two the only absentee being attorney general graggs AB the president and party entered the west corridor the marine band orchestra in dress uniform struck up hall to the chief governor roosevelt of new york who had been spending an hour with the president in the library on the second floor came down a few minutes later and joined the other governors in the red room gov shaw of iowa closed the speech making at the white house with an address on the development of tho state during the nineteenth century destiny or mans wisdom call it which you will he said has placed both asia and the islands of the sea under american tuition and has made the flag of freedom the harbinger of better things to eight thousand millions of people the natural distribution point tor whose more than twenty five hundred millions of commerce Is under the sovereignty of the united states to be a citizen of the united states commissioned to instruct a strange and ancient people in things new and in ways righteous and in acts i honorable and to be answerable to the world and to god for results should inspire not pride but humility and should demand of the least and of all the exercise of greatest wisdom |