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Inauguration Day has boon a quadrennial highlight for J. Herbert Dick, Vera Dick Howe, Ruth Dick and Ralph
Dick, employes of the city for a total of 158 years. Each of the sisters and brothers has a service citation.
They Really Loved a Parade
ON INAUGURATION DAYS back
when the century was young, they
really did love a parade.
It was not unusual for the public
spectacle of the inaugural to span a full
turn of the clock, from morning until
night, long-time residents recall.
“Everyone took a more personal part
then, says J. Herbert Dick, supervisor of
collections of the District Treasury,
who is in his 51st. year of working for the
city. “There was no television, of course.
People came downtown to see the
parade.”
Mr. Dick, his brother Ralph, and their
sisters. Miss Ruth E. Dick and Mrs. Vera
Dick Howe, who have been District em
ployes for a collective 158 years, were
enthusiastic parade-goers.
A family gathering around Inaugura
tion time is bound to call up reminis
cences of earlier presidential instal
lations.
“We used to look forward to it for
four years,” says Mrs. Howe, an investi
gator for the Enforcement Division of
the Finance Office, who has 21 years’
municipal service.
“We watched from Herbert’s office in
the District Building. It was the social
occasion of his department. The men
brought their families, and we would
bring sandwiches and phonograph rec
ords, and the kids would dance. Old and
young enjoyed it. It would get pitch dark,
and the parade would still be going up
the Avenue.”
The first inaugural parade Herbert
Dick saw was President McKinley’s in
1901. His father took the family in half
day shifts. The Avenue was lit with
carbon arc lights, he recalls.
“In 1905, I remember the soldiers
forming their parade units in Northeast
Washington. They used to form all the
way to Lincoln Park. We lived on Seventh
SUNDAY. THE STAR MAGAZINE. WASHINGTON. D C., JANUARY 15, 1»61
By HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer
street, and I remember the mounted
troops going around jumping our picket
fences.
“Back in those days, it was a big mili
tary parade. The various States sent
troops to represent them.
“That year was the first time I saw
an electric-light bulb. Theodore Roose
velt’s Inaugural Ball was held in the old
Pension Office Building. A neighbor of
ours was an electrician installing the
lights. Afterward, he brought some
bulbs home, and gave them to neighbor
hood kids as souvenirs.
“In 1909, when Taft was inaugurated.
Union Station had not long been cor.
pleted. They didn’t even have the road
ways around it, and there was no grill
work on the concourse.
“I went down on March 3 to watch the
soldiers come in. It was so crowded
with incoming soldiers you couldn’t
have fallen down. It was a beautiful
night I walked from where I lived at
Eighth and C streets. The next morning,
there was snow. Trains coming in for the
Inauguration were late, and things were
a mess. They cleared the parade route,
but I stood in snow to my knees watching
Theodore Roosevelt going down to the
station.”
In 1913, the Inauguration of Woodrow
Wilson followed on the heels of a stormy
suffragette parade. Mr. Dick, then a
purchasing clerk with the Sewer Depart
ment, recalls that the avenue had been
completely roped for the first time with
permanent stanchions and cables. An
unruly crowd at the suffragette parade
broke through the steel cables. The
equipment had to be repaired in time
for the Inaugural Parade the next day.
Weather was a bitter taskmaster in
the days when the parade route itself
was the only viewing ground.
“During President Wilson’s second
Inaugural Parade, there was a regular
blizzard blowing,” recalls Ralph Dick, a
44-year career man with the Department
of Highways and Traffic.
“Pennsylvania avenue had been
sanded and the wind was whipping the
sand along in a stinging, cutting spray.
The mules pulling some of the wagons
and carriages in the parade decided
they’d had enough. They turned out of
line at First street N.W. and went back
to the stables."
“I believe that was the first parade
women marched in,” says Mrs. Howe. “I
was a Girl Scout I carried a large flag up
the Avenue. I stood at Sixth and C
streets, right below Union Station, at
a firehouse, until 1 thought I would
freeze. I ran all the way home-to Eighth
and F streets-to get newspapers to stuff
in our uniforms.
Miss Dick, principal of Fillmore,
Jackson and Hyde Schools in George
town, with a 43-year span as an educator
here, recalls a bad Inauguration Day
which kept most of the family from go
ing to the parade. The streets outside the
house were solid with the Pennsylvania
parade units-they used to be a wonder
ful group of soldiers,” she says.
“Mother had baked a big ham. My
parents said we couldn’t eat with all
those men standing outside. They made
coffee and sandwiches and went out and
fed them. The men were standing there
from early morning until late at night.”
The parades gradually shortened. In
1957, the procession took less than
three and one-half hours to pass.
And starting about 1941, television
thinned the spectator lines.
Even the parade-loving Dicks have
deserted the procession route for the
television screen. But not without a bit
of nostalgia for the rugged and exciting
old days.