Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 11, 1905, Page 2

RRR: Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS, - Economy is a virtue, but its practice ought not to be reflected in laundry bills. New York uses 1,388,000 quarts of milk a day. No statistics about other beverages available. Now a Philadelphia expose is threat- ened by Mayor Weaver. Can it be that the Quaker City is stirring in its sleep? The published statement that the milk trust is thinking of watering its stock makes the New York Herald simply cachinate. A writer in the Chicago Record- Herald gives a formula for beautifying the tr locks. This is Chicagoese for washing the hair. If you don’t believe that a woman can keep a secret, ask her her age.— New York Herald. But don’t look at her. The cable says the duel between Count Czaykowski and M. Villette “was well attended.” It was quite a social function, in fact. The kaiser will permit army officers to drink to his health in water, feel- ing, no doubt, that the custom is not likely to become dangerously preva- lent. It is not true that activity in build- ing American railroads is sc the trip without South ‘aulters may make h to Buenos Ayres woman typewriter is still g the keys, However, she was ied before she entered the busi- nd was not a real typewriter, after all. The society for psychical research wants $100,000 to find the way to the hereafte This might be encouraged if we had discovered any royal road to the here. The Emperor of Japan has written another poem, which consists of six s. He gets $3,000,000 a year, and undoubtedly the highest salaried poet on earth. who claim that onions as a rpen the intellect will point ride to the assertion that Mrs. icted to the tear-com- hostess who enter- ests with a “moving pic- tation of a surgical op- eration evidently expected to make them happy by contrast. Even fox will admit that the friends who are opposed to putting a on his skin hope to preserve t th may get a chance to jown as a sport. The man who has bought his on the installment plan is not always sure that C . right when he spoke of the p on of books as a peren- nial source of solace and joy. Susan B. Anthony is 85 years old and admits it. Alice Roosevelt is 21 and makes no secret of the fact. But between Susan and Alice are many women who would rather not tell. King Edward read his address at the opening of parliament. He got along very nicely, as the man who wrote it was careful not to put in any words the king could got pronounce. A court of law has decided that if a wife exceeds a liberal allowance for dress her husband cannot be held for her bills. Now will some court of law kindly decide what is a liberal allow- ance? A Chicago woman sued for $50,000 for breach of promise, and got 50 cents. It should have been 30 cents, to have adequately represented her mental condition when she heard the verdict. : A negro woman 73 years of age has graduated from a New Haven, Conn., school. She has one big advantage. Nobody will be likely to make flippant references to her as a “sweet girl graduate.” A dispatch from Carson City, Nev., says that of fifty-five children whose births were recorded there last year only one was a boy—but it doesn’t say that there were only fifty-five births last year in Carson City. The attempt to discipline automo bile owners by fining the chauffeurs has not proved the success that was hoped for. Being arrested merely comes to be regarded as a part of the chauffeur’s regular duty. A well meaning person declares that the use of tobacco shortens life greatly and also that the habit, once formed in youth, is invariably kept up to extreme old age. This good reform- er seems to operate under a blanket franchise. An unknown young man 25 years of age has won $5,000 in a prize story contest. It would be well worth the price of all of Carnegie’s millions to have a ten-year lease on the feelings which are that young mame at the present time. < HOSTS CAEER “HEAD OF NATION MOST BRILLIANT AND IMPOSING INAUGURATION IN NATION'S HISTORY. WASHINGTON A_ FAIRYLAND DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GRANDLY ENTERTAINS 200,000 VIS- ITORS. PARADE WAS MOST IMPOSING INAUGURAL BALL AND ILLUMINA- TIONS FEATURES OF NIGHT PROGRAM. Washington, March 7. — The most brilliant and imposing inauguration which the citizens of Washington have ever prepared has passed into history. Theodore Roosevelt did not ride to the capitol, hitch his horse to a shade tree, enter the building and take the oath of office booted and spurred. The traditiona] Jeffersonian simplicity was replaced by a pageant which has not been surpassed in the annals of the na- tion. It was the first national inaugural ROOSEVELT INAUGURATED. Head, escort to its president. The scene by day was magnificent; by night, under the committee’s scheme of illumina- tion, the tremendous cPowds wandered in fairyland. The president’s reviewing stand, in front of the White House, was the cen- ter of the court of history, which ex- tended two blocks from Fifteenth street. Along each side of the avenue were noted historical figures in great numbers from the St. Louis exposition. This triumphal pathway, along which the kings of the earth might have deemed it an honor to be conducted, was cleared and closed to cars and vehicles at an early hour. The police management was perfect. It was a Royal Highway upon which the president early en- tered and proceeded to the capitol to sign such bills as congress might pass in its closing hours. Gen. Chaffee had provided a well or- dered and perfect cavalry escort which could have rapidly passed over the line and made possible the prompt reopening of the streets to the car lines and the public in order that the residents of the suburbs and the great- er portion of the city might reach the centers of interest with the least de- lay. But the Grand Army, as is its habit, insisting on acting with this es- cort, and the president, sharing the universal appreciation of its past deeds, yielded, and his rate of progress to the capitol was reduced to the pa- thetic pace of men who were fast ap- proaching the scriptural limit of life. But the delay had its compensations. Many thousands had opportunity to see and greet the president as his cortege slowly passed along the two miles from the White House to Capitol hill. For three ‘hours this national temple was the Each cial life or official death was an- nounced and saluted by the senate rising. Roosevelt Takes Oath. All this prolonged form, with its solemn progress and weighty dignity, was preliminary to the ceremonies outside, and the march at once began to the immense platform where the president was to deliver his inaugural and take the oath of office. Here the great pageant for the ben- efit of the public began to unfold itself, and the people were on hand to see. For the day, a long winter had given way and the never more welcome sun blessed the occasion. Surrounding the plaza in front of the president’s plat- form.were the forming lines of the main parade, while from the adjacent streets everywhere projected tne heads of columns, military and civic, waiting to fall in their places in line. With the appearance of the presi- dent from the ‘senate chamber the shouting began, swelling into a roar like Niagara, rising to cyclonic effects and continuing while the senate and members of the house, the cabinet, the supreme court, the heads of the army and navy, ambassadors and ministers, representatives of every branch of the government and a great company of guests filed out of the senate doors and filled the immense platform. The Crowning Ceremony. At length all was ready for the crowning ceremony. The sea of hu- manity was stilled. The president ad- vanced to take the oath of office. With his hand upon the Bible, held by the chief justice, he reverently repeated the oath, kissed the book at the end, and Theodore Roosevelt became pres- ident by the votes of the people, fol- lowing the unbroken line of soldier presidents which his party has in- stalled since the close of the Civil war. He then delivered his inaugural, which surprised his hearers by its brevity. As the ceremony closed he PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. VICE PRESIDENT FAIRBANKS. since the Civil war. The South sent up its warriors and its state officials. Men who fought each other for years under different flags; men who fought together in the war with Spain under one flag; executive officers of the states who upheld the Stars and Bars and those who stood for the flag of the Union marched together in re- view before their common president, a soldier of the republic. With these, to illustrate Our New Nationality, came marching representatives from the Philippines and Porto Rico, lands where the sunset fading from the flag in the far Pacific is the sunrise on its folds along the Atlantic horizon. Throughout the week Washington was the Jerusalem of the nation to which its tribes were crowding from all its borders. Saturday fully 200,000 visitors gazed with wonder and un- bounded enthusiasm at the district’s handiwork for honoring its president in all its multitudinous forms and large proportions. The whole city was a garden blos- soming with flags. For a week ever- advancing waves of color had been sweeping through all its streets. Not only was the line of march artistically decorated to a degree never before at- tained, but no street in the city was without its national colors. Acting under a suggestion from the inaugural committee the board of education had requested its 50,000 school children to see that each one of their homes Displayed the Flag. It was a request responded to by an army of children. The committee on street decorations, street illumination and parks and reviewing stands worked together with artistic taste and transformed two and a half miles of the city’s noted avenue into a fitting highway for the nation in its countless representative bodies to march as an Vortex of Activity. Legislation was in the rapids. It was a mighty chaos to most onlookers. But the skilled officers of each house and those guiding the rush of closing work in the conferences where the last supply bills were being hammered into agreement, like the pilots in the rapids of the St. Lawrence, were speedily conducting their legislative craft to smooth waters. The five minutes remaining at the close of the genate’s session were given to inaugurating Charles W. Fair- banks, the new vice president. He ap- peared at the main entrance, escorted by the joint committee of arrange- ments, and as the senate and its guests arose he was escorted to a seat at the right of the presiding officer, where he delivered Brief Inaugural Remarks and repeated the oath of office after the presiding officer, Senator Frye. When the stroke of noon put an end to the session little was known beyond the fact that no important appropria- tion bill had failed. Then immediately began the open- ing and formal organization of the new session in the senate chamber. In this little box, whose galleries seat about 800—seats eagerly but vainly sought for by at least a hundred thou- sand people—the senate, after a dull roll call and duller reading of the president's proclamation assembling the body, began its work. Packed like sardines in the restrict- ed space of the little chamber were the official visitors, the president and cabinet in plain clothes; the ambas- sadors and ministers, gorgeous in gilt braid and decorations; the supreme court in deep black; the army and navy in silver and gold and swords; and last of all, the members of a dead house of representatives banked about the walls or crowded into cloak rooms. was again greeted by the roaring cheers of the immense throng. Accompanied by his escort and fol- lowed by troops and civilian paraders, he started for the White House. It was the most perfect column that ever marched in an inaugural parade, though its numbers were less. Every- where, as the column passed, the skill of Gen. Chaffee’s supervision, aided by his chief of staff, Gen. John A. John- ston, was apparent to every practiced eye. Nothing was left to chance. The regulars, the national guard and the civic guard division had their orders of formation for each unit of the col- umn and conformed to them. Parade Was Perfect. Never has there been so perfect a regular army column in any previous national pageant. Cavalry, infantry, artillery, engineers, marines, seamen and the Annapolis and West Point ca- dets, thrilled all beholders with this exponent of the perfection of our mil- itary arm. While the whole military column was a marvel and a delight, as indi- cated by the continuing tornado of cheers when it passed, there were ele- ments of special interest. The Ninth cavalry, that splendid old colored reg- iment, the heroes of many Indian bat- ales and known to fame at San Juan hill, received the attention they so well merited. The crowds went wild over the section of rough riders which participated with the president in the wildness of the rush and the joy of the victory at Santiago. . It is not strange that there were a _ soldier's tear in a soldier’s eye as he bowed to the salutes of his comrades-in-war. The scouts from the Philippines and the Porto Rican battalion excited intense interest and they will never forget their welcome. The brigade of cadet battalions from many states organized by Gen. Chaffee, attracted | universal attention and received un- bounded applause. Jackson’s Grandson Is There. Those from the South recalled that sad but most brilliant fighting at New- market when the cadets of the Vir- ginia military institute were called into the field under Stonewall Jackson. With the Georgia cadets now marched a grandson of Stonewall Jackson. As a whole it was a column that took fair rank with the perfection of West Point and Annapolis. The civic grand division of eight brigades in three divisions, made up of over fifty organizations, was in every respect better organized than ever before, and so, like the whole column, more _ interesting. Though strictly civilian, B. H. Warner, its committee organizer, had given it a semi-military character by appointing Gen. Howard and Gen. Joe Wheeler as leading military features. In all its parts it was an attractive spectacle, worthy of the notable occasion. The whole column, military and civic, un- der Gen. Chaffee and his staff, marched with a steadiness and celerity hitherto unattained. Dazzling Scenes of the Night. Turning from the pageant of the day, the doubled population of the city disposed itself for the three im- posing spectacles of the night, the promenade at the pension office, mis- named a ball; the fireworks on the White House lot, and the dazzling street decorations. The attencance at the ball was limited to the twelve of fifteen thousand which the building would hold. The street decorations were viewed by a solid marching col- umn filling the wide pavements of the avenue and the street itself and reaching for two miles and a half. No such brilliant scene of decoration and illumination was ever witnessed before in this country or any other, for here electric effects had their ori- gin and have their greatest develop- ment. The dome of the capitol stood white against the darkness, illumina- ted by searchlights from the top of the Washington monument, and the monument itself by the same method was made Visible for Many Miles. The fireworks exceeded all previous displays. There were no ordinary pieces. Rockets, with their dangerous sticks, were discarded. The set pieces were of large dimensions—such as a wheel more than a hundred feet in di- ameter, a presidential piece 200 feet in length and a national flag 300 feet long carried up a thousand feet by balloon and there developed in the sight of the city and beyond. The decorations of the ball room most successfully conformed to the de- termination that this inauguration should exceed all previous efforts. All was accomplished that could be effect- ed by extended masses of color, spreading about and over the immense room and its galleries, with Miles of Evergreen vines, carloads of cut flowers, flags in artistic combination, electric lights by the thousands, and electric pieces, large and small, with one of unrivaled proportions carrying 6,000 lights of varied colors woven into a most beau- tiful design. The instrumental music and the ed chorus of 500 voices filled the vast building to its remotest recesses with the perfection of musical attainment. In deference to the Sabbath all cer- emonies stopped at midnight, but it was well toward morning before the lights were turned down on the most brilliant spectacle that Washington had seen in its long line of notable oc- easions. Till long after midnight the gathered thousands walked, wonder- ing and enthusiastic, on Pennsylvania avenue, through long reaches of fairy- land. With the small hours the lights faded and the citizens rested from their months of labor. Grandly had the District of Columbia entertained the nation. GETS SEEDS FROM TURKEY. South Dakota Farmers to Test Barley From Smyrna. Sioux Falls, S. D., March 7.—Inter esting experiments: are to be made this season by farmers living north- west of here with barley seed which was shipped from Smyrna, Turkey. The seed was secured by a man inter- ested in the improvement of the crops raised in South Dakota, and he is con- fident that in both quality and yield it will surpass any grain of the kind ever raised in the state. If the experi- ment proves this to be the case sreat quantities of seed will be shipped from Smyrna to South Dakota next winter. BREAKS PLATE GLASS WINDOW. Rather Than Be Arrested Farmer Tries to Die. Slayton, Minn., March 7, — Rather than submit to arrest Henry Therens, a farmer, after breaking a plate glass window in a saloon at Iona, made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself with a shotgun. Having learned that officers had been sent to his home to arrest him Therens went to his barn and discharged the gun against his jaw. He is still alive and may re- cover. KERENS MAY WIN. Rumor That Missouri Democrats Will Vote for Him. Jefferson City, Mo., March 7.—Inter- est in the senatorial deadlock situa- tion is rapidly reaching an acute stage end last night the legislators in the city talked earnestly over the matter in the hotel lobbies. Everybody seems to be of the opinion that the crisis and turning point will be reached this week. Based on rumors current Jast night that the Democratic legislators may turn from Cockrell and vote for Kerens to break the deadlock the as- sertion is made the assertion is made that Kerens will be elected on Tues- day. HOCK IS INDICTED. Grand Jury Brings in Charge of Mur- der. Chicago, March 7. — Johann Hock, multi-bigamist, has been indicted by the grand jury on a charge of murder. The specific charge on which the in- dictment was found is that Hock mur- dered his last wife but one, Mrs. Marie Walcker-Hoock. PROFIT BIG ON BUILDING. On, Sioux City Office Structure’s Sale ‘ $45,000 Is Cieared. Sioux City, Iowa, March 7. — A big real estate transaction took place here when the Iowa building, a six-story stone office building and the Elks'club building, were sold by F. M. Polletier and Judge Addison Oliver to T. S. and J. P. Martin for $175,000. tins are proprietors of the department The Mar- store here. They will make the Elks building an annex to the Iowa build- ing. Mr. Polletier and Judge Oliver owned the two buildings a little over a year and made $45,000 on the deal. Missoula, Mont., March 7. — Two persons are dead and six injured as the result of a collision of a freight train and the west-bound Twin Cities PARSIFAL IN ENGLISH. St, Paul and Minneapolis to Have an Operatic Treat. Henry W. Savage has succeeded in assembling a most distinguished com- pany of singers for his production in English of “Parsifal”, which will be heard three nights and matinee, March 20, 21, and 22 at the Metropolitan Opera House,’ Minneapolis and three nights and matinee,at the Metropoli- tan Opera House, St. Paul, March 23, 24 and 25. Mr. Savage has brought to America some singers who are likely henceforth to play a most important part in our musical seasons. Madama Kirby Lunn of the Royal Opera Covent Gar- den, the possessor of one of the most beautiful mezzo voices in the world. Madame Hanna Mara who has been the principal soprano at Breslau, one of the chief operatic centers in Ger- many, has made a most favorable im- pression on the critics in this country. Miss Florence Wickham, is one of our young American girls who has gained much fame abroad in a very short time.\ She has sung with success in Wiesbaden and Munich. FRANCIS MACLENNAN who sings the title role in Henry W. Savage’s production of “Parsifal” in English. For his men, he has such artists ap Alois Pennarini, principal tenor of the Hamburg opera; Francis Maclennan a young American who has sung with much success in England; Christian DeV principal tenor of the Royal Netherlands opera, Amsterdam; Jo- hannes B off, principal baritone of the Cologne opera; Franz Egenieff, a pupil of Victor Maurel and Lilli Leh- mann; Putnam Griswold, principa} basso at nkfort on the Main; Ot ley Crans a distinguished gl Lind, who has ith the Carl Ros: pany i ,» and two singers of great promise, Coombs and Robert These company the 1 given opera in ica or in En ton ; Home com- formances of their “Parsifal” 3 3 the reputations they brought to this country. GRAND OPERA IN MINNEAPOLIS. Heinrich Conried’s New York Metro- politan Company to Appear March 27 and 28 at the New Auditorium. ‘ Minneapolis will be the mecca of music lovers the latter part of this month. For the first time in four years, and for the second time in its his- tory, the Northwest is to enjoy a sea- son of grand opera from the Metropol- itan opera house, New York. Hein- rich Conried, successor of Maurice Grau in the operatic world, will bring to Minneapolis for three performances the entire Metropolitan Opera House company, including the complete orchestra of sixty musicians, the full chorus and ballet and all the special scenery and properties needed for the operas to be produced. The season will begin March 27 with "Mr. Conried’s famous production of “Parsifal.” Fremstad will sing Kundry and Burgstaller will appear in the title role. On the afternoon of the second day, March 28, “Les Huguenots” will be given, The cast for this opera is a most notable one, including Mmes. Nordica, Sembrich and Homer and Messrs. Scotti, Dippel and Journet. The season will close on the evening of March 28 with a grand double bill, introducing Italy’s greatest dramatic soprano, De Macchi, in “Cavalleria Rusticana,” and Caruso, the world- famed tenor, in “Pagliacci.” For two seasons Caruso has been the idol of Broadway audiences, having enshrined himself in the hearts of New Yorkers as no tenor has since Jean De Reszke won his fame. The sale of season tickets is now in progress at the store of the Metropoli- tan Music company, in Minneapolis, to whom all orders may be addressed. The sale for single performances will open March 13. The prices of season tickets are $5, $6.50, $8, $10, $13 and $15, and prices for single perform- ances, $1.50, $2. $9 *9. $3, $4 and $5. A Whist Player Held Twelve Trumps. A wonderful hand at whist was played at the St. Paul’s institute, Grimsby, last week. The cards were shuffled and dealt in the usual way, but when the play- ers looked at their hands they found that one of them (the dealer) had twelve spades, another eleven hearts, the third man twelve diamonds an@ the fourth eleven clubs. ~ Spades were trumps, and the lucky dealer simply threw in his hand and express on the Northern Pacific at Bear Mouth yesterday afternoon. claimed the twelve tricks.—London Cable to Chicago Inter Ocean.