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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1905
Page
6
Committee chairs outline brief rehearsals for a President’s march through the hall with a five minute limit. Decorations enlist schoolchildren, a large fountain is drained, and meetings set for March 3 and 4 to finalize crowd control and procession routes at the Pension Building.
Visiting members of the command in the city for the inauguration will join the parade. A notable unit will be a fifty man company from Col. John Jacob Astor Camp of the Spanish War Veterans, drawn from Soldiers' Flame, all formerly regulars incapacitated by disease or wounds.
The joint Senate and House inaugural committee met to protest how House members were treated as guests during McKinley’s last inauguration. They recalled to invitees had no seating and planned advance arrangements this year. The panel intends to obtain seating capacity data from the sergeants at arms before finalizing the ceremony program.
Washington endures a crest of cold waves sweeping the nation from the West to the East. Forecasters predict Friday may bring slight warmth but Saturday could drop temperatures again to near record lows. Temperatures in the city hovered around 10 degrees above midnight and were expected to fall to about four at daylight with little thaw anticipated. Snow fell northward while eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey saw flurries. Ice and heavy river ice threaten Missouri, Ohio, and Mississippi basins. the Weather Bureau warns of potential risks though no immediate dam- ages are foreseen. Market lines grow desolate as supply routes freeze and fresh vegetables grow scarce with near impassable rural roads to Center Market.
In Franklin Suffolk, Feb 16, Company I of the Seventy‑first Regiment elected Captain Holland and First Lieutenant Vick to fill vacancies from Capt Harrison's resignation. Second Lieutenant Gay and Sergeant Vick were among the officers chosen as the unit voted to attend President Roosevelt's inauguration. Gay had been court‑martialed earlier but received relief from the verdict except the fine by Gov Montague.
Gov Higgins appoints Brig Gen Lauren W Pete bone of Buffalo and Job B Heges of New York City to act as aides on Maj Gen Adna R Chaffee staff, serving as grand marshal for the midwinter parade in Washington on March 4.
Judge Kimball finds Louis F. Shea in contempt after he appeared intoxicated in Police Court. He faces a $20 fine or sixty days in jail, with a prior jury trial demand on an assault charge against Mary Dorsey. Bond risked forfeiture if not produced. witness disappeared as ADA pressed the case.
Advertisement urges women to restore happiness through health finding a cure in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It cites a fifty year record and claims relief for Monthly Irregularities, Sick Headache, Sleeplessness, Nervous Tension, Backache, Indigestion, and Dyspepsia.
Princeton Harvard debate set for March 28 in Alexander Hall with the topic that the free elective system is the best form of undergraduate study. Harvard retains side choice as Princeton announces the definition and scope of the system for freshmen and beyond.
Washington War Department clerk Hiram McCollum, 21, a George Washington University medical student, died by morphine and chloroform in the Touraine Hotel. Police linked his death to a resignation letter sent from New York and a refashioned set of initials on belongings. Friends identified the body as McCollum. his parents were notified. A letter to classmate D Lee High accompanied the resignation.
McCollum, a popular Washington and New York social figure, wrote a note to Mr High chairing a banquet committee saying he would not return to Washington and that the letter should be his resignation from the class presidents. Reports suggest a romance and possible self harm, with ties to Lockport North Carolina and visits to the Post Office building area.
Lincoln Camp No 2 Sons of Veterans held their sixteenth annual banquet at Freunds to celebrate Abraham Lincolns birthday. Maj E R Campbell presided as toastmaster with speakers including Capt Henry Castle Edgar Allan Rev Dr Charles F Sontag W H Andrews Col W B Mabry Col Benjamin F Bingham and others. Col Bingham displayed a diary with a bullet hole and recalled Lincoln era events while the group outlined officers and committee members.
The final of three annual debates between George Washington University and the University of Virginia will occur in Charlottesville next Saturday. GWU holds two prior wins and expects a third, with jurors Alfred Williams Glenn Brown and Melville W. Miller. GWU sends C A Badger Herbert W. Woodward Jr George A Malcom and Fred B Rhodes as alternates. UVa fields J Salisbury Carroll G Walter Lee Bidgood and alternate Joseph E. Rowe. The topic: labor unions should incorporate to gain employer recognition. GWU proposed the subject. UVa defends the negative. About 160 GWU students will ride a special Chesapeake and Ohio car to attend.
An 1885 weather bulletin notes a surge of high pressure bringing a sharp temperature drop across the Lower Mississippi Valley Ohio Valley and eastern districts with 25 to 30 degree declines. Warmer spells are seen briefly in the Upper Missouri Valley before colder weather returns. Snow is forecast for the Lake region with rain in the Southwest. Local readings show midnight temperatures from 16 to 24 and a maximum of 28 with rainfall 4.00 and sun hours 53 percent of possible. A separate item reports four African American children burned to death in Kansas City Kansas after being left locked in a cabin by their mother who went shopping.
Des Moines reports extreme cold and snow halting rail traffic across the state causing fuel shortages and widespread suffering among the poor. Madison struggles with thirteen trains stuck between Madison and Montfort while a large rotary plow is deployed. Dunkirk travelers endure a 24 hour, 91 mile run as rail service falters. Wilkesbarre mines suspend output due to cold weather slowing freight movement.
The district host area held a reception at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Home on Sixth Street Northwest in honor of Susan B Anthony’s eighty fifth birthday. A telegram from the local group congratulated her as she attended related celebrations in New York. Rochester telegrams and gifts poured in from around the world while Anthony, in good health, noted the event and a letter to Mrs Alexander Kent declined another invitation.
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