! March 5. the day after the toil!
| "A loud prowl.”
“Mr. Kditnr: I am one of the mun\
j sufferers that lost their hats and over
j coats at the never-to-hi fm gotten to
j auguratinn hail last night. It was
j really a selling affair, for never were
citizens sold more. Th--y were pack.-1
like so many thousand
apiece regardless of comfort and even
security of life. The management to
the gentlemen's room was purth-nlai
ly lijul. The fart is it was out rape
ous. as after 11:3ft o'clock no peath
man could pet his hat and coat. !
waited for two hours in line to pre
! sent my check. Before me was an
j old man. Horace Greeley. who waited
I even lonper for ids eelebratt'l white
! slouched hat. I admired his patience
j and regretted sincerely that he. when
| he had nearly reaeh**d the window,
was, like the rest of us. told that it
! was no lonper possible t" return any
articles, tvs everything Inside was v.p
side down. The poiie. *iu* a at the win
dow then commenced to call the *mm
hers of the paokapes nearest. That,
however, was like a lottery, for there
were more than 2.000 numbers, and
therefore about two-thirds of the
pentlemen who had confided theii
wardrobe to the management of th
hall had to expose themselves after
midnipht oil emerpinp from the oven
I heated rooms to the piercing o*dd
! winds. We saw Senators, members of
| Congress, penerals. captains, mem
j tiers of the press—in fact, everybody
| muttering deep ‘blessings' toward
I those to whom th-\v weiv Indebted
I for this lieautiful pieeo of arrange
{ ment. In almost every corner on the
carpet, even on the tiles of the pa
I sages, were half-fainting ladies, sit
I tinp, awaiting, with anguish depicted
j all over their faces, the return of their
j protectors, who were in the meat
| time on a wild goose chase after tl.eir
| hats and coats. Many laiiies aotnallv
fainted, and it was a most d di* "'*
I thing to get even downstair*
i was the crowding. We cannot nay to
i whom the blame attach- on.
