March Orders for Inaugural Parade Formation Declared
Grand Marshal announces prompt assembly of about 3500 troops in a close column east of the Capitol on March 4. Units must form at 1 pm with cadenced to 120 steps per minute, while intersections stay open until division nears the reviewing stand.
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Chaffee
Fhrat Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Washington
Jonn A Johnson
New York
William P Duvall
Chaffer
Vardaman
Pr Dent Roosevelt
de Glar
Hich
Ingh
Ray
L . C Lamar
General Land Office
Tan Owens
Pennstinania Avenue
Untes
Ther
WEF Roberts
Fifteenth Street
Inaugural Committee Plans and Preparations
Details of the inaugural decorations feature green and gold lights and an ivory arcade as bands arches and a towering octagonal amphitheater host a seventy member band a twelve piece orchestra and a 50 voice chorus with a presidential box on the west end. The lighting plan uses frosted and tinted globes for a dignified effect while rehearsals and arrangements for lodging and public comfort are outlined with 700 troop quarters and assigned subcommittee chairs named.
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Pension Offic
Marshall
Committee
Congress
Who
Corcoran Thom
Richards & Burgess
J. B. Shoemaker
Corcoran
M. J. Weller
H. K. Simpson
Evan H Tucker
Weller
Senate
Permits for Railroads to Expand Terminal Facilities
The Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company received temporary permits from the Commissioners to modify its Washington terminal facilities for the inauguration crowds. A new track on Sixth Street and additional tracks near Missouri Avenue will be laid, with platforms over roadways for passenger safety. Additional permits authorize a temporary stairway on the Virginia Avenue bridge, a ticket office at Ninth Street and Maryland Avenue, and a telegraph office at Eleventh and B Streets southwest.
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Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad Company
Washington
Sixth Street
B Street
Missouri Avenue
Virginia Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge
Ninth Street
Maryland Avenue
Eleventh
B Streets
Illinois Visitors Entertained by State Association
The Illinois Republican Association last night formed an entertainment committee to arrange events for visiting Illinois residents during inauguration week. The committee is chaired by L. B. Stine and includes I. KR. Hitt and several others. Col G. C. Rankin of the Illinois Republican Editorial Association pledged assistance and personal help.
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State Association
Illinois Republican Association
Riggs Trouse
L. B. Stine
O. J. Ricketts
KR. Hitt
Old Boys Club declines march for Roosevelt inauguration
At a Riggs House meeting the Old Boys Fre mont and Lincoln Republican Club unanimously resolved that while they celebrate Theodore Roosevelt’s 1905 inauguration they cannot join the procession due to weather and health risks. The next meeting may discuss incorporating the club and securing rooms to establish a permanent organization.
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Fremont
Lincoln Republican Club
Riggs House
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Smoke law cases loom in District Court jury demand
Inspector Wollard of the health department testified in two smoke law cases before Judge Scott. One information names H. Duehay of the Rochambeau on Connecticut avenue near H street NW, who pleads not guilty and seeks a jury trial. The other case involves Charles W. Holmes of George Washington University, who admits the charge may be correct but cites a sick fireman and a new worker. a 20 fine was imposed and paid.
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Duehay
Rochambeau
Wollard
Health Department
Scott
H. Duehay
Connecticut Avenue
H Street
Sen
Charles W. Holmes
George Washington University
Smoke law modification urged by Business Men's Association
The Business Men's Association board met with President James F. Oyster and others. The smoke law committee was tasked to secure changes, favoring vestibule attachments to street cars, with the secretary to notify street railway officers. Membership rapidly grows, adding G. V. Buck, W. L. Buck, N Stein, L. S. Depue, S. J Masters, and many others including Louis P. Krey and Isaac Goldenberg.
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Business Men’s Association
Business Men's Association
James F. Oyster
W. P. Gude
Washington
G. V. Buck
W .L. Buck
N Stein
L. S. Depue
S. J Masters
W H H. Walker
S. W. Carrisen
Harold Davis
J. W. Lynn
Alban Price
Louis P. Krey
A. ¥. Gray
N. J. Ward
Richard Hendrickson
W. Hoge, Jr
J. B. Abell
H. C. Coburn
W. Charles Heltmueller
W. J. Hitler
E. 5. Rap
Alumni Banquet Unites Penn Alumni in Washington DC
University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society of the District of Columbia held a banquet at Rauscher's with Vice Provost Edgar Smith and Prof. De Schweinitz as honored guests. J Hubley Ashton acted as toastmaster and was elected president in Morrell’s absence. officers and honorary memberships were announced among a long list of participants and speakers.
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University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society of
District of Columbia
Rauscher’s
Edgar Smith
de Schweinitsz
J Hubby Ashton
Edward Morrell
Ashton
Smith
Charles C. Harrison
de Schweinig
Weir Mitchell
Robert A. Marmion
U. S.N
Pennsylvania
Cecil Clay
Milton Rosenau
Charles H. Lincoln
George Washington
A. L. Stavely
James G McKay
Percy Ash
M R. Rodgers
Morton G. Lloyd
Arthur D. Weakley
Charles W. Richardson
Hagar ¥. Smith
Philadelphia
de Lchweinitz
J. Hubley Ashton
Milton J. Rosenau
J. R. Hayes
H. ©. Yarrow
F. Fremont Smith
George A. Curriden
M.G. Motter
J B Hills
Thomas A Claytor
L. J. Battle
Morris Hacker
James G. McKay
F. P. Vals
A. D. Weasley
AB. Crane
M. Lloyd
C. Cather
W. G Farwell
M. B. Rodgers
Carl Harrington
James J. Overa
M. H. Davin
Fred
N. Trausem
H. E Barnes
J. C Simpson
President's Carriage Crash Near White House Injures Driver
An automobile cut in on a presidential carriage near Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue causing the team to bolt onto the sidewalk. The driver Julius Wheeler suffered a severe bruise while the horse hit the iron fence sustained a gash. The carriage remained unoccupied except for the driver. a veterinary surgeon treated the injured horse.
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White House
Seventeenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Julius Wheeler
Jean Reid
Whitelaw Reid
Desperate encounter with two highwaymen at Armes residence
Henry Everett, caretaker at Maj. G. A. Armes's Grant Place home, reported to Tannahytown police that two men came to the gate claiming the major sent for his horse and buggy. After a failed surrender demand they returned, assaulted him, and fired shots from behind trees. Everett was unharmed and the robbers fled.
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Tannahytown
Henry Everett
Maj
G. A. Armes
Grant Place
Connecticut Avenue
Everett
Maj. Armes
Verett
Sunday Services at Lafayette Opera House Featured Speaker
W W Prescott editor of the Review and Herald and Luther Warren will speak Sunday evening at the Lafayette Opera House on the subject The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan. See advertisement in another column.
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Lafayette Opera House
W. W. Prescctt
Review and Herald
Luther Warren
Christ
Saton
Shaffer Hanged for Wife Murder in D C
Augustus L. Shaffer, convicted wife murderer, was hanged at the jail on the eastern PotomacBranch. The execution, watched by witnesses including Father Maguire, occurred at 12 06 PM after Shaffer read his death warrant. He faced the gallows with calm, smiling as the noose sufficed, and his body was lowered, embalmed, and placed in Mount Olivet Cemetery vault. The crime occurred August 22, 1903, at Fourth Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW.
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Augustus L. Shaffer
Mount Olivet
Shaffer
Joseph Maguire
Jesus
Mary
Joseph
Father Maguire
Potomac
Harris
Shatffer
Warden Harris
Alf
Augustus Bhaffer
Mount Olvet
Benjamin Hill
John Burley
Haffer
Katharine Ivey Shaffer
Fourth Street
Massachusetts Avenue
William
Kate
Noted Washington Slaying Faces High Court Appeal
The Sixth precinct wagon carried the dead woman and her slayer to the station house where the city morgue stood. Shaffer confessed to the killing and claimed temporary insanity as his only defense. He was sentenced to hang, respited to February 10, and the case advanced from lower court to the Court of Appeals, then the Supreme Court, and finally to President Roosevelt, with the lower court judgment upheld.
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Shaffer
Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Hayes Will Contest Opens Over Will's Validity
The probate trial of James Hayes's will began before Justice Gould with a jury. Hayes left the entire estate to Cardinal Gibbons to fund an industrial school for boys in DC, subject to a $600 annual annuity to Mary Furlong. Catherine T. Hayes contends undue influence and lack of testamentary capacity. The case may run through next week.
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James Hayes
Gould
Hayes
District of Columbia
Cardinal Gibbons
Mary Furlong
Catherine T. Hayes
Rassa F. Downing
Miss Hayes
Galley and Tucker
Smith Thompson, Jr
J. Nate McGil
Weather Weather Conditions and Debating Society News
A long weather bulletin describes a wide disturbance in central western Utah and a high pressure area from British Columbia to the Carolinas. Snow is forecast for the Mississippi Valley to the Rocky Mountain region, with rain in the Gulf and South Atlantic States. Temperature trends show cooling in the Northern Rocky Mountains and a modest warmup then cooling later. Separately, the Columbian Debating Society at George Washington University debated whipping posts for wife-beaters, the affirmative winning, with plans for an intersociety contest on March 3.
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Dept. of Agriculture, Weather Bureau
Washington
Utah
Rocky
Rocky Mountain
Missouri Valley
Western Plains
Ik Ia
Lake Region
Ohin Valley
Mississippi Valley
Tennensee
Gulf Blazes
Texas
Atlantic Coast
New England
Culf
South Atlantic
Plateau
Gulf Coast
Lake Michigan
Harepaan
Grand Banke
Columbian Debating Society
George Washington University
C. A. Miller
Missouri
Herbert W. Meyers
Maryland
Fred H. Rhodes
Virginia
Charles A. Morris
Titah
Alvin L. Newmyer
District of Columbia
L. A. McGee
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Hood
Erick
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Pennsylvania Alumni Society
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