The Chattanooga News from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 18

18 THE CnATTANOOOA NEWS OIATTANOOfiA YENS SATURDAY JAMTAKY 1937 dential Dramatic Entrances and Exits Highlight Presi Inaugurations I I I i 4 jI'llr-'fl-M Spine-Tingling Ovationi Have Helped Enshrine the Avenue Now Awaiting FDRs Second In- duction Wednesday Weather Has Given 1 i i 3 1 "J- 'r mm- 7 i 'A- Lrr -tt it -4T'T n- Til i 7J teMSfWBht 4 im I I Many a Rough Setting By ALEXANDER R- GEORGE (A When Franklin Roosevelt tides down Pennayl-I vania Avenue to the C'apuoi next Wednesday for his second inaugu-1 ration he will be going over ground hallowed In the history of i the nation For almost a century and a half 1 Inaugural processions and the day-by-day flow of humanity on "the venue" have mirrored the march of the republic from Jefferson to Lincoln to Grant to Roosevelt to iPnl IT 'Mi 1 HI I -wA 'awwr 'f aLj I ill i'j'i Ml 11 HAROINO TAKES OFFICE LINCOLN BECOMES PRESIDENT OL HICKORY'S DEMONSTRATION Under eircumttnci md drimatie by the filtering axit of diteiM-riddsn Woodrow Wilion Warran Hirriinq (right) raised hn hand ebove the crowd at hit inauguration on March 4 1921 and waa aworn in by Chief Justice Edward White (left) Calvin Coohdge it at extreme right Accompanied by a heavy guard Abraham Lincoln alipped into Washington rife with rumort of attaaaination plott and took the oath of allegiance for the firtt time in 1861 in a crude wooden enclosure while the high hate of the day looked on When Andrew Jaokaon waa inaugurated in 1829 erowdt eame for hundreds of miles to too their and then created such a wild melee at the White Houat that that old warrior himself fled to avoid injury Thit it an ortiit'a conception of the icon from Century Magaxino eourteey of Appleton Century Company i IWPJWI)iilMMIWI)PWTWWWWWWIWWW Xf i 4 iiftiiffiMH '4 BVtAJb 111 i nt 1iiiiBijijicajMijM-JiiMliLjtiii jpavwsisiuji Biiasjw i III 'plf Mm Ml- I i a' v-i'f's "3 AI lit j' wwaww If Ate a 4 In 1 i 4" rf VH-V- TAFT WAS SNOWED IN Driven maid a nluard William Hoarrt Ta(t 'left took the oath of officf in the Sfnatf chamber in 1109 The capital wn hours by probably (he worst iniuguration day in itolated for history 4ii Vs ivnimri Mi in The-al In--' mniui'a-I'ni" It -a as a da Hid Ilic lively ii'l eiinw-d i ill 'lie ili i nil iti i ii-' iiiiii liel i i i lid al inved fl iti-atit (xlore ItiMiseselt lion on lan li I ol the )ij'cain i ill he so yi In the piine ininj' ar i ti i I ndian In a ii i ulh't'e vi 1 1 I -1 1 1 3t I Wilson to lloowr hwI to Mir ond Roonevelt V'i i mj' on inducted wilo Ihe picMilcin ill New Yf i i ir I in I'hilnli Iplna Vhile 1 1 1 AM mm il-ii wjik in-auguiaicl in 'In (juiker 'm Ktl i'i il lliciilliii iri Pol nil ii I iiti'l Hi' is i- i as I'ri'M'li iii iui'l ii ii'iuil In i in like Admit al I on I 'hai Iindbci t'Ji liir p' -ill il'i" ihi avenue in Ilic iii'iinl "I Ann' Jca'a priiKfcss si'iieMiim oi the youtlfj fifntl in I bi cedi'" and llk kill's walked in us mi 1 1 iuM ami la HARRISON DREW RAIN When Benjamin Harrison (left center with beard) wat inaugurated in 1339 it rained to hard the ceremony bad to be performed under umbrellas This is an artist's conception of the R'S Bia SHOW A eonque-ing hero in top form was Theodore Roosevelt when he mounted the rostrum March 4 1906 to deliver his inaugural after receiving a great ovation from a line of marehere who ranged from wild weat cowboys tc Hjrvrrd student occasion courtesy of Harper and Brothers RS FIRST INDLICTION Inn i i I- 1 1 1 1 i anil I'm i to Hm iii-- W'cm I 'diril i ailels and Antiap oli mid-Itipnien It "li'clililrd" TciIiIn liulil ilntf ei I It rn I liusiasm levieued Ihe pnade loi lluee and half limits Sump Inauguration parades like this one Franklin Roosevelt reviewed Ma-ch 4 1912 are the order of the (lay when a President begins hs term Swiiiying down Constitution Avenue the marcheri are about to enter Pennsylvania at the junction of the two historio streets 'Ghost House' Stirs With Goings-on As Strange As Its 160 Rooms and Stairs That Lead Nowhere dust and mud so n-o did Ihe lo eu Ihe lua family that he spaie'hlmaelf the 'were sodden gentlemen wrung Of Coimifaa like UVI-ier -J-v and lied pM in(( stand hands ilainr "(enul Hlue Helf and I lift II He a Ih I 'rune in the Old Tim T'liint'ht" "irlral nf the imi'icurnl ef rrmnnles llr fliirl the Piesidi nl Elect cliifpcd himds and HniiimB sn'ri: "Ooodbyr Mr PieMdent I know ynu are grl lo hr iiheved of your burden and WOI Til" jr Calhoun and li mil hi much of the Daniel flnotie ami Isil Carbon eras The avenue has ei lined lo the tramp ol soldiers of Ihe Revolution of the lenau Civil Span lsh and Wm Id ais The inhel i A hind of i 1 1 1 1 dashed lip Vrt II- Dhlniin win the fir-kt nf the I ''li I it 1 1 in Avenue i I np -a ri In dir SAN JOSE Calif (A Having spent years In the Winchester "ghost house" Custodian John Brown and his wife say they are experiencing phenomena they can't explain When they moved Into the weird JfiO-room structure in 1923 the Browns scoffed at the idea the spirit of its owner Mrs Sarah Pardee Winchester of the rifle-m a ufacturlng izV1f '2-" yell Ihe whoop ot Indians the ip 'inhrei silliuv then' hrov As wil-on walked fiilirrlnKly tn hla i chos- Willi Mie ease ol I and he rk'-tl In Srtmior Knox nf yip ol cowl- and he lieers of 1 PnsMunH -The Senator haa youths who i Im'ver I thirnvn me don but I am not RolnR L-n fhf I K''M IO He is rfetniR to Ihev SI ael miMl L' In I hr Si mile's rirteii I nt Us ml Ihe water out of llieir coat tails and maiiv a feminme hang es-peeidlv shingled for the inauguration was ruined Tail Had a Blizzard dram's second inauguration has t'ceii lated ihe coldest on record i he mercury falling lo 4 degrees above zero But Tall was greeted In wlial was piobahlv the worst inaiigui at ion day of all a whirling blizzard featured In flashes ol lightning as well as iun snow leet and a cutting vv ind 'Teh phone and telegraph lines weie down isolating the Capital Irom ihe rest of the world lor several hours News correspondents sent out sketchy accounts of the ceremony from a wireless tele- 1 Idmi-'s thai i in I is with their latiit- loos- ihit Ihe United Stnles enter the 1 1 1 it i V'l 1 la--nes anrl jjallnp-'d i League nf Nalmns rated I i oin tin flank Ann i ii a fare Thine nf ihi As Ihe ulninoliile sped hv the Iti ioi I ill-Is t-r liv II- fiwe in li in Indian i hiefs led liv Mie once House Mir lul While on lo his pil vale home in 8 Street Wilfn never Uliimed at the mansion whic'i hart hi-i his home during eight iilfihly V-T- t3 k'atlv awav He ii Ii di ended A pai he lot on lino cvilianeed reelinys with Mie "dc" lis'lilcd" It I as in lute a frnup nf I larvard st iidenls e-p md ma ti kiviiik the lon drawn- "ii llu wud 1 1 dramatic eara mlluii" 3 family would cause them any 1 Nor were they afraid of the floating faces and detached hands which a parlor maid declared materialized around Mrs Winchester Many mediums asked permission to hold DniniHtlc because nf ita extremely Krapit suiuon atop inc ivniain no- iminhlf homi'spim scttinn was the tel and by roundabout telegraph lust inaui-iuatlnn nl Calvin Coolldge mil lets lo the South who took the oath of oil ice at 'i 47 For the first time in seventy-six A llriJ "tj m-m -'wv-t -1 CM N'T nai ion ma mote than I i 3 ntl llis il pageants 'ended Ihe imiiiuural Ml 3'- A seances but the Brown turned them down and have been ''exhibiting the house merely asan architectural monstrosity Footstep In The nark But now after the 13th "There have been footsteps going through the house at night" says Brown "I get up and search and 1 can't find anvthinff It's hap '4 -ISltMlcUfff yji nai pened time arid again SHE KEPT ADDING TO IT A psychic so the ttory goes told Mrt Sarah Pardje Winehtttor the would novtr die If aho ktp building this about in San Jose Calif Thit weird conglomeration it tht result of 36 ytart eonttruo-tion which ended with her death and coat an estimated (3000000 4 aUKIII ill inns i-i lie i ol Audi rw Jilckson I i i ill' and The ndore Konsevell all miliMi men Jackson it in die occasion lor nun lumper ihe people "-nine in linen and -ome In rafis" who nlohed the 1 1 1 1 1 barhai iui ln-m linniier -1 1 1 They Itiolid fur uksim When dd 1 1 a ioi look the oat nf e' eiill lull eaiK heline Heiheit Homer did crowds came In HK'ins lid catis 1 1 tin 'ion miles In el a glimpse nl llieir hero he people" t'HKed a i' 1 1 il inn al the White House si wild that Mm doughty old wan mi' hiinsell tied tn avoid injury in the suie of ad miieis lo his sup- "The ahhle lell mi the i ell esli-menls josllniK waitets as Ihoy ap pea red at Ihe doois and hieakniK China" said a ctilual ej ew it ncss "They stood in muddy Pools on damask-covered (halts windows weie a-ed lor exits lor ilu sullo-ratinp masses women tainted and men were seen vnh lihuidv noses" Vela Turned Out fur tiini Grant rode in an maiiKtiial procession which was hailed as the greatest military display the capital had ever witnessed Many famous Civil War i PutincnlK a battalion of Mexican War veterans and thirty soldiers of the War ol 1812 were in the procession The old warriors of 1812 rode in a lavishly decorated omnibus draw by lix white horses Grant himself disappointed 'many by failing to wear his general's uniform He wore a severely plain black suit rode in an open carriage through lanes of wildly cheering people At the Capitol hie little daughter Nellie slipped way from her mother and held her father's hand during the last fevr minutes of his inaugural address few conquering heroes ever re- oclo In the morning in ihe lamp htihtid sitting room nf the Vermont faini house where he wan born Oath (iiven by 1-iilluT railed Irom his sleep hv message lellmg hun nf the death President Harding in Han Francisco Cool Id gr had dressed quickly A trifle pale hut composed he walked down the old stairway of his boyhood days Into the silling room Mrs Coolidge wn ping following him Cnolldge's father administered the oilh The new President stood with it' lit hand upraised at one side of a lllllr lahle with Mrs Coolldge beside bun Across the table his lather lace beaming and voice trembling read Ihe few words nf the oath "to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" And Calvin Coohdge parsimonious r( speech added: "So help me God" ROUGH weather has ruined many Inauguration pageanttj Imperiled the health of several Presidents and probably contributed to the fatal Illness ol one Chief Executive William Henry Harrison the oldest man to be elevated to the Presidency dlrd of pneumonia said to have been superinduced In aome measure by the rigors of his inauguration Hatlesa and without an overcoat the 88-yertr-old warrior of Tippecanoe fame rode his white charger from the White House to the capital on a Wintry day and then stood bareheaded for more than an hour In a raw wind while he delivered his Inaugural Died After Month Returning to the While House President Harrison stood in a reception line all afternoon and polished off the day by attending three inauguration balls B'or the next few weeks he was deluged by office seekers Finally he contracted pneumonia and died exactly one month after his induction To the cheers of thousands who stood in pools of water under dripping red white and blue umbrellas Benjamin Harrison grandson of William Henry Harrison became President on one of the worst inauguration day Decorations vears a President took the nalh of office indoors the ceremony taking place in the Senate chamber Crippled rail transportation prevented thousands from comjng to Washington to witness the inauguration anrl there was a renewal of the movement to hold the quadrennial ceremonies on April Ml instead of March 4 "I knew it would be a cold day when I was made President of the 1 Tilted Slates" said the jocund Tail Kirt Telegraph Report It was reported that up to that time fourteen inauguration days had been unpleasant and thirteen pleasant There were no definite records on the weather of three others The first telegraphic news of an inauguration was sent by Prof Samuel Morse at the induction of President Polk in 1SIY A brief message from Washington to Baltimore was tapped out by Morse on a crude instrument installed on the inauguration platform the historic event being scarcely noticed by the crowd which attended the induction ceremony Thomas Jefferson went from Ms boarding house on New Jersey Avenue to the Capitol to take the oath of office as the first President to be inaugurated in Washington He returned to the boarding house after the ceremony was over "loath to take up residence in the half-finished Kxccutive Mansion a mile away In the swamp" Fillmore The Handsomest George Washington Park Custis grandson of Martha Washington and adopted son of President Washington attended every inauguration from Washington to Buchanan The latter was the first bachelor to be inaugurated President Millard Fillmore was said to have been the handsomest man ever inaugurated Martin Van Buren rode to the Capltol for hie induction to the Presidency in a phaeton built of wood from the famous frigat ConaUluUoak -a -m -m lUSjtiliui! iii wmmmmmmmmmmmm l3 Mu nliam Lincoln atne In a 1 1 1 1 if-1 1 1 ti fur Ins first inmigina-' urn ihe nation was on the InlnK "I i i ar Sev en Slates alt i adv had left lite I nion and a heav al ninspliei of an Viet hung ov or the 'apiuil II was said that llnee I oiirt lis of the cit v's mliahil a ill i ''aided ihe iucomiiig Chief Kei live a- an euoiuv Lincoln l-'-ici'il Humer Theie were rnmois plnta to a-si-sniatr the Presideni elect to seize W'aslnngion and to hlnvv up il- puhlie huildmgs I'm mule lo the Capital Lincoln was induced hv secret service opeialives lo i limge his Havel schedule in or-tier In aetl assassination He left I Ian i-hi 1 1 Ph secretly at night on a special train traveled Incog-into tin ouili hostile rtallinioi anil -Imped ouiollv inln Wasliinglou it 1 1 in ihe morning His (ari'iai'e surrounded liv sol diets -md with (lovrriiiiieni marksmen mi the roofs of houses training their guns 'on Pennsylvania Avenue ihe "great backwoodsman" rode from Willnrd's Hotel lo the Capitol lo svve4that he would preserv the I'nlon Wilson Exit an Onletil The inauguration of Warren Harding was made dramatic by the tragic exit horn the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson his health broken and his vision shattered of leading the Cnited Slates into a concert of the nations to preserve peace and democracy Murmurs of sympathy mingled with the cheera as the crowds caught altfht nf the dlaense-WRated and strife-weary ftRure of the war time President sitting beside the vigorous and ruddy Prtwldent-Elect In their ride to the capltol Descending the White House steps for the last time Wilson was as-slated by Secret Service men who placed hi feet on each step and then on the running board of the sutomo bile At the capital the President slRned aome bills and chatted with attempted gaiety Avoided Ceremonies Finally be yielded to entreaties of "Something keeps unlatching the door One day it happened three unlatched from the Inside when I was the only person in the house" "People think they hear voices In her old bedroom" says Mrs Brown "but we just hustle them along" Knows Of Xo Attraction Brown thinks of nothing that would attract human prowlers It Is true that obituaries stated Mrs Winchester's $20000000 fortune had shrunk at her death to $4000-000 but Brown does not believe any of the vanished money is hid-den on the estate "She handled her money by checks" he aaya The income from what was left went to eight nephews and nieces the residuary estate to the New Haven Hospital association" "Llanada as lrs Win-Chester called the place was under construction continuously for 36 years- Sought Eternal Life Her husband William Wirt Win-Chester son of the founder of the Winchester Arms Company died in Hartford in 1886 According to local tradition she was instructed by a Boston psychic immediately afterward to start building a spirit palace' and waa told that as long as she kept building she would remain alive i The -resulting operations which continued until she died in 1922 at the age of 85 are estimated by Brown to have cost her $3000000 The structure's 1H0 rooms eon-tain hundreds of doors windows and cabinets 47 fireplaces and 40 stairways Some features are strange in th extreme Stairs lead Into a blank wall Into a cupboard or a useless balcony A hall has four fireplaces side by side Three other fireplaces are built one above another on a single chimney There are five kitchens three elevators One staircase has 44 steps and makes 10 turns to attain an elevation of 10 feet Ornamental posts are Installed upside down Costly stained glass windows and doors with trick knobs open on to blank walls Much Work Torn Oat The motif 13 is repeated again and again in the paneling Neighbors who watched the work said several times as many rooms were built and destroyed as now survive A marquetry floor it tookvthree years to lay was ripped up the day after completion "The spirits ordered It" they explained A niece Margaret Marrlot was the only person to share the singular builder's company Mrs Winchester hid even from most of her 1 3 3VrA ''si i'-M'liisi-J-atiiyi iiiitit-tiaWWll Li14wtfcf'iifri MiTsJ iAl XvlVjfJeV -'-sv- STAIRS THAT REALLY WIND Cuatodian John Brown takea a look at the start -of a staircase in the Winoheater home' It haa 44 ttepi and inakea 10 turns to attain a height ef 10 a good example of tht queer pointltea way tho house waa built rvanfji and often wore veil 1 1908 President Theodore Roosevelt "Scarcely half dozen persons have seen her in as many years" said a news story appearing in who tried to call on her wat not even admitted to the ground! i.