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1913 Inaugural Parade  



WILSON TAKES OFFICE TO-DAY AS 28TH PRESIDENT;
Slips Quietly Into the Capital While Suffragists Are Parading.
Special to The New York Times
March 4, 1913, Tuesday
Page 1, 3545 words

The Culver Troop consists of sixty boy troopers from the military academy at Culver, Ind., each mounted on a shining coal-black horse, with tan saddle and gray saddle blanket bearing the Culver monogram in yellow leather. These, with about 200 infantry cadets of the same academy,

also found of this day in Garner of Texas - A Personal History by Bascom N. Timmons pg. 70 wrote: ...The Vice-President had as his escort the Black Horse Cavalry from Culver, Indiana, each of the sixty troopers on coal-black horse with a tan saddle and gray blanket, bearing the Culvermonogram in yellow leather. The Culver uniforms were pearl gray with broad white cross belts and rope trimmings...

After the inaugural ceremony in 1913, Woodrow Wilson and former President Taft took their places in an open landau and, to the blare of trumpets, moved off, followed by Vice President Thomas Marshall's carriage. A guard of honor from the crack Essex Troop of Newark, New Jersey, rode beside the Presidential carriage while the mounted cadets from the Culver Military Academy of Indiana smartly brought up the rear of the six carriage procession.

and the again in 1917 for President Wilson 2nd Inaugural parade. Thus began the seed for tradition for the troop. Since then the Black Horse Troop, boasting the Academies' very best horsemen and horses, have journeyed to back Washington, D.C. to participate in the Presidential Inaugural Parade.






    AWAIT INAUGURAL IN SOLEMN MOOD; Crowd at Capital Is Small, and Talk, in Level Tones, Is All of War. WILL TAKE THE OATH TODAY President to be Sworn Amid Official Labors by Chief Justice White. Special to The New York Times. (); March 04, 1917, Section , Page 1, Column , words
      WASHINGTON, March 3.--Tomorrow at noon the President, sitting in his official room at the Capitol and signing bills, will drop his work long enough to rise and raise his hand and say "I do" to Chief Justice White, who will have interrupted him to administer the oath....

      Air of Strained Expectancy.

    Other articles headed were:
      AWAIT INAUGURAL IN SOLEMN MOOD - Gleeful Partisans Absent.

      PARADE SMALLER THAN USUAL President to Retake the Oath at East Front of Capitol.

      WOMEN KEEN TO MARCH. Between 1,000 and 2,000 Expected in the Inaugural Parade.

      SUFFRAGE CORDON TODAY. - Will Encircle White House in Federal Amendment Demonstration.

      NEW YORKERS ARRIVE. - Gov. Whitman Heads Empire State Delegation for Inauguration.







    Special to The New York Times.
    March 4, 1917, Sunday
    Page 1, 3 4118 words

    WASHINGTON, March 3.--Tomorrow at noon the President, sitting in his official room at the Capitol and signing bills, will drop his work long enough to rise and raise his hand and say "I do" to Chief Justice White, who will have interrupted him to administer the oath...

    ...Vice President Marshall will be escorted by the Black Horse Troop of Culver Military Academy, from his home state of Indiana...





    MARSHALLS GIVE A BALL.; Culver Cadets Entertained by Vice President and His Wife.
    Special to The New York Times.
    March 6, 1917, Tuesday
    Page 13, 241 words
    Washington, March 5. - There was a real inaugural ball in Washington tonight, with cards of invitation, instead of tickets of admission. The hosts were the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall. The scene was the ballroom of the New Willard. The guests of honor were the 500 cadets from the Culver Military Academy in Indiana, whose Black Horse Troop acted as escort to the Vice Presindent in the inaugural parade today, was it did four years ago.

    To meet these young vistors Mrs. Marshall invited several hundred girls including the youthful maidens of the entire official circle and a score or so from private schhols in Washington, as well as numerous out of town visitors. She also oinvited some older friends; but it was a young people's party.

    The superintendent of the academy and Mrs. Gignilliatt, who accompanied the cadets to Washington, assisted the host and hostess in receiving. Mrs. Marshall wore a very rich gown of orchid tulle and gold lace with a train of cloth of gold. Mrs. Gignilliat wore white tulle over cloth of silver with silver lace