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AUSTIN WEEKLY STATESMAN.
VOL. XXVL
AUSTIN TEXAS THURSDAY; MARCH 4 1897.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THE INAUGURATION OF MAJ. M'KINLEY.
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AS PRESIDENT WILLIAM M'KINLEY WILL APPEAR TAKING THE OATH OP THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE GIFT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
LIVE WIRE-DEAD MAN.
Paul Lefevre Killed af Galveston His
Father Badly Burned.
Galveston. Tex. Feb. 27. (Special.)
Eugene Lefevre and son Paul Lefevre
have a contract to move a small house
off the wharf company's property. The
bouse was moved up to the corner of
Strand and Twenty-first street where
two large electric wires were encounter-
ed which had to be cut or raised. This
morning Eugene Lefevre not knowing
the wires were alive attempted to lift
one of them over the top of the house.
Instantly the old man was paralyzed.
From parts of Eugene Lefevre's body
flew blue sparks of fire. His hands were
smoking and the smell of burning flesh
made the lookers-on turn sick.
Paul Lefevre the son pulled his father
off the wire but fell on the wire him-
self. His companions dragged him off the
wire and be was taken to the hospital.
He never regained consciousness. He
was soon pronounced dead. He was 23
years old and unmarried.- Great holes
were burned in the hands of Eugene Le-
ievre. -
. AN HONORABLE RELEASE.
Chicago. Feb. 27. Gcoree Schneider.
the former president of the national bank
of Illinois eftected h sett lenient. Kverv
thing as to him is closed up including
uis nuieiHeuness and ins release has I wen
approved as honorable and creditable.
TO INAUGURATE M'KINLEY.
Taylor." Tex. March 1. (Special.)
Hon. and Mrs. J. W. Parker of this city
left this morning for Washington City
D. G. to be present at the inauguration
of President McKinley. They will be
guests of Congressman and Mrs. Joseph
D. Suyer8 while there.
Another Great Year for the Grand Old MUTUAL
STATEMENT D EC. Slit 1886.
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO of New York
RICHARD A. M'C URDY PRESIDENT.
Assets
Liabilities
Surplus ' . '
Total Income ;
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1805".'. '
Insurance and Annuities in force
Net gala In 1895
.5221213721 33
. 194347157 58
. JUd.87Mi3 75
. $48597430 51
. $23126728 45
.$899074453 78
$61647645 31
STATEMENT OF THE TEXAS BUSINESS.
INSURANCE IN FORCE.
Mutual Life
N. Y. Life ..
Equitable . .
Dee. 31. 1894.
....$24581452
.... 26768971
... 22787877
Dec. 31 1895.
$28546932
24555317
20535948
GAIN
LOSS
Loss
NEW BUSINESS.
" 1894. 1895.
Mutual Life .$3433196 $8074 900
N. Y. Life 9330889 9SjNfm
Equitable . . . . . . . . . 2.274J13 1856.829
Paid to Policy-holders in Texas In 1895 .
iBiu to uie oiaie ior .taxes.
$3965480
. 2213654
. 2251929
MAKINGOFfl PRESID
GRAVE AND GAY EVENTS WHICH
ARE TO TAKE PLACE AT
WASHINGTON THIS WEEK.
GAIN $4641764
LOSS 2453.296
Loss 41798
. . . .$296203 80
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District Agent
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ueneru Agents ior Texas
UN ANTONIO.
SIMPLE CEREMOHY 6RAKD PAGEHSr
The Transition From. Filiate Life to Of-'
ficial Dignity and Vice Versa-Cleve- I
lanus Last othcial Act Plans for
the Inaugural Ball.
Washington Feb. 27. Shortly after 12
o'clock March 4 next; one man will have
reached the summit of his ambition and
another will step from the highest office
in the gift of (the American people to the
surging. oblivion of private life. The first
of these is William McKinley. The sec
ond is Grover Cleveland.
Once in every four years the pomp of
power finds stupendous illustration in
Washington. To the mind the transition
which takes place on that day is hiarvel-
ous in its importance. Yet it is accom-
plished in a manner which is simple
enough and when one comes to see it nil
there is nothing that shakes the nerves
unless it be the blare of the trumpets in
the inaugural procession or the gaudy
finery of the bedizened participants there-
in. Inauguration (1:1 is a 'curious mix-
ture of the programs of all the notable
holidays which the greatest republic in
the world observes ai.nually. It is a
hodgepodge out of which every one can
extract one thing that is familiar.
This is the day. when the statesman and
the drayman stand on a level just as
much as on election day fcr both of them
can if they will see a man resign the
presidency and become a citizen: ordinar-
ily in the patriotic sense of the 'word
They can see another man step from the
orchestra circle of the amphitheatre of
the republic npon 'be stage of state and
both may hear him speak' and gaze their
fill upon him in the full glare of the foot-
lightswhile the limelight of public opiu-
ion is turned full upon him.
It is sometimes the case that the out-
going occupant of the White House con-
ceals the gnawing disappointment of bit-
ter defeat and Spartan like welcomes
the successor whom he has striven to cover
with the odium of a lost election. That
is a time which at least tries one man's
soul if it happens to be such a situation
as indicated. In the year 1897 however
there will be no reason for bitterness ex-
cept that which one man' of ' one party
might feel when yielding to the represen-
tative of the opposition. ' It is whispered
after the fashion of the stage that the
present occupants of the White House
will taking all things into consideration
feel none of the regret that the represen-
tative of his party mulit legitimately con-
fess to. So it will probably be that the
meeting of Mr. McKinley and President
Cleveland tor that v.'iil be tneir relation
when they first come together March 4
will be that of two men who have no bit-
terness to conceal who cherish none but
the kindest feelings toward one another.
All these things the people of Washing-
ton are talking about just now. They
are as well the topics of conversation of
thousands of strangers who are within our
gates. Washington 1 no longer anything
but cosmopolitan for a limiteu period.
The streets the private houses the hotels
all places are thronged with the represen-
totives of all sections. Once in four years
the city makes of itself a vast boarding-
house. It is not hospitnlity altogether.
It is merely the harvest time for the seed
time enme November 4. 189(1. This is
essentially a money-making place so far ps
the caterers to the public appetite are con-
cerned. Thereforo;vhen the time comes
when every attic is at a premium for the
air is not balmy the purveyor of rooms
and of eatables doubles and sometimes
trebles his scale of prices and seeks to
procure the wherewithal for a bank ac-
count that will tide him xtver the rough
places in the highway of experience dur-
ing the four years which must elapse lie-
fore another Inauguration day comes
around.
Adding to the throng of those who have
arrived simply to see the sights of the city
and the pageant of the day of days is n
throng a horde a mob of individuals
male and female who like a pack cf
beagles are in full cry for the official fox
that is. the dispenser of public patron-
age. Every . office has an applicant.
There are hundreds here hoping praying
and ready to -beg. for the shoes In which
the office holders of the Cleveland ad-
ministration are already shaking. There
are few indeed who do not believe that
success will ultimately be theirs. - The
fact of civil service escape.' their minds j
or else they shunt It to one side just as
If it were a disabled car which nobody
thought was any account. Old timers
here however are looking forward to
the burning days of August when the
galaxy of would-be officials will realize
vividly but sadly that many are called
but few are chosen.
The decorations this year promise bout
the same general ensemble as in the inau-
guration' days of the past. The people
of Washington believe in an individual
taste when it comes to matters of decora-
tion. There is no general idea of har-
mony maintained. Effect is entirely lost
sight' of. Jn fact Pennpylvanin avenue
with its tremendous area lined with build-
ings so low that there is practically no
sky line presents the appearance of the
Star Swindled Banner with bunting
recklessly distributed nnd in the most in-
congruous fashion. It reminds one of
nothing so much as a house which any
number of persons painted each a square
to suit their individual tastes. Some day
Washington may learn the wisdom of the
fact that in union there is artistic effect
as well as strength. .
There is one matter which overshadows
all else in the least local the weather.
Will it be like Gen. Grant's second inau-
guration when the coffee froze in the
cups or are we to have'Cleveland weath-
erV" The weather is an unfailing topic
of conversation always and generally of
the lightest sort. In this instance it is
of most serious import. Freezing weath-
er mud or slush rain or snow any but
the first means that the inauguration day
parade will resemble the bedraggled ap-
pearance of the peacick after nn encoun-
ter with the furmer's doR. The moth-
Havers though have it that Major Mc-
Kinley lias never been r. harbinger of
stormy 1 weather and that consequently
we may expect a smiling sky and genial
warmth on the day when he takes the
office to which so many aspire nnd so few
attain.
The bnll will be held Thursday night
and five inaugural grand concerts will Im
given in the ballroom on the following
Friday. The hrxt concert will be given
at 10:30 a. m. in honor of the United
Stntes army represented by Gea. Miles
and staff. The Republican Glee club of
Columbus O.. will sing a number of patri-
otic airs. At 2 p. In. a concert will lie
given in honor of the navy represented
bv Rear Admirals Walker and Ramsey
and at night the concert will be given m
honor of the Stntes of the Union repre-
sented by the governors of the States aud
their staffs.
The concert Saturday afternoon will be
in honor of congress rt presented by the
president of the senate and the speaker of
the house. The last concert; Saturday
night will be in honor of 'the United
States and will consist of music by the
Twenty-second regiment band and a chor-
us of 500 voices. Admission to each
concert wiU be 50 cents. -
The probabilities are that the paraile
will be large. Gen. Horace Porter of
New York. will act as grand marshal
and will hare as his chief of staff A. Noel
Blakeman of New York City; Col. H. C.
Corbin of the United States army as ad-
jutant general and Capt. John A.' John-
ston of the United States army as chief
of aides with Cant. William Edward
Horton of the D. C. N. G. as special aide
and military secretary. 1. "
The parade will be. organized In two
grand divisions one civicand the other
military. Gen. Grenvllle M. Dodge will
le chief marshal of the first grand divis-
ion to be composed of military organiza-
tions. He will have as hi chief of staff
Gen. Huidekoner of New York and Col.
Joseph P. Sanger of the United State
army adjutant general. .
The civic grand division will be com-
manded by B. H. Warner of Washing-
ton as chief marshal and will be uinde
up of civic clubs of all descriptions. The
parade will start from the east front of
the capitol and will murch west along
Pennsylvania avenue past the president's
reviewing stand in front of the White-
House to Washington Circle returning
on K street to Moua Vernon square
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