March, 1913 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



XXV 



Chancellor Livingston immediately turned 

 toward the assembled throng and shouted 

 "Long live George Washington, President 

 of the United States." This acclamation 

 was regarded as savoring strongly of the 

 ceremonies of membership and as unsuited 

 to the simplicity of the inauguration of an 

 American president and although cheering 

 of course plays an important part in every 

 inaugural it has never been repeated in just 

 this form. The ceremonies of this inaugura- 

 tion ended with the inaugural ball, which 

 is described in the journals of the day as 

 a truly brilliant event and attended by the 

 social elect of Xew York and the neighbor- 

 ing cities. Washington danced a minuet 

 with Miss Van Zandt and the cotillion with 

 Mrs. James Van Brugh Livingston. The 

 ball-room was of course lighted by wax 

 in tapers and very beautiful must have been 

 the scene when their liglv shone upon the 

 silks and satins, the lace and powdered hair 

 of that picturesque age. 



The first inauguration of Washington 

 was the only function of this nature which 

 Xew York has ever witnessed, for before 

 his second inauguration the seat of the 

 Federal government had been removed to 

 Philadelphia, and the taking of the oath of 

 office occurred in Independence Hall. The 

 date as well as the place had been changed 

 and March 4th was the time, and this day 

 has been the time of all later inaugurations 

 excepting upon the three occasions when the 

 4th of March has fallen upon Sunday. 

 Upon two of these occasions James Monroe 

 and Zachary Taylor were inaugurated upon 

 March 5th'. and in 1877 Rutherford B. 

 Haves assumed office upon March 3d. 



John Adams describes his own inaugura- 

 tion as the second president as a most 

 lugubrious function and it must have been 

 depressing to the president-elect instead of 

 being a joyous occasion, the supreme mo- 

 ment of his life. The idol of the country 

 was about to retire from public life to find 

 upon the broad acres of his plantation home 

 the peace and tranquility he had so well 

 earned, and the formal turning over of the 

 presidency to another marked the beginning 

 of his farewell to the people and was affect- 

 ing indeed. 



In 1901 Thomas Jefferson assumed office 

 with the simplicity which is associated with 

 his name. He rode upon horseback up 

 Pennsylvania Avenue and tied his horse 

 outside the Capitol while he entered the 

 senate chamber to assume the burden of 

 the chief magistracy. Madison, when he 

 reached the capitol for his inaugural, was 

 clad wholly in homespun and his appearance 

 as he entered the senate chamber was de- 

 scribed by a wit of the day as being a 

 "walking argument in favor of native 

 wool." With his inauguration came the re- 

 vival of the inaugural ball which had not 

 been held since Washington's first admin- 

 istration, and this ball ushered in the 

 brilliant social rule of Dolly Madison which 

 lives in history as a reign of glory at the 

 White House/ 



Monroe was the first of the presidents 

 to take the oath out of doors since Wash- 

 ington's inaugural upon the portico of 

 Federal Hall in Xew York. Its being out 

 of doors was the result of a d'sagreement 

 between the Senate and the House of Rep- 

 resentatives as to the distribution of tickets 

 and ended by someone's suggesting that the 

 difficulty be solved by holding the inaugural 

 where there was room to accommodate 

 everybody. When the administration of 

 John Quincy Adams was followed by that 

 of Andrew Jackson, the country had entered 

 upon a new era. The days of old-fashioned 

 colonial stateliness had departed — the coun- 

 try had expanded and Jackson himself came 



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