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His reception was tumultuous Wilson and Taft went into the president's room and Marshall to the vice president's room to await the beginning of the ceermonies of inauguration.' Taft plunged in to the reading and signing of a pile of bills. The galleries of the senate were packed long before the". hour -for President Wilson to take the oath of office. Members of congress jammed the floor of .the chamber. Mrs. .Wilson arid her three daughters occupied a point of- vantage in the gallery. Diplomats filled the gallery re served for them, the brilliant cos tumes of the foreign ambassadors making a brilliant splash of color. Pressure qf , business in ,the house and senate delayqd the inr auguration. The 'hands of the clock" were turned back until they stood at 11:55, when Vice President-elect Marshall entered. It was actually 12:34. President Taft and Mr. Wilson followed in a few minutes. Vice President Marshall's re sponses to the oath of office were inaudible .save to those seated "backof hinii His voice- was firm, however, when he called the seri ate together. s President .'Wilson's relatives were seated behind him when he took the oath. At 2:05, the show of. the day, the attraction which had drajvn hundreds of thousands of visitors, "began, with the return of Presi dent Wilson arid ex-President Taft to the White -House. Tro.ops of artillery cavalry and infantry from the regular army, the governors of fourteen states, followed by militia regiments and civic 'bodies from all over the country acted s an escort for the president. It was one of the most spec tacular inaugural parades ever seen in Washington. Mavor .Harrison or t.hicap-o. with his H.-H.Democrttic or ganization, was given precedence over the Bobby Burke faction, and followed, immediately after Gov. Dilnne and his staff The Burkes were peeved, but the pull of Rep. Sabath with the inaug ural committee was too strong for them to overcome. Sabath is a Harrison follower. THE $41,000 MYSTERY : Mrs. Mabel Mills, the San An tonio, Tex., vjonian who loses $41,000 and then doesn't want it recovered, is believed still to be in Chicago. i Mrs.- Mills made her getaway' from the EvansJ:on hospital yes5 terday afternoon, after having promised the.Evanston police she would not leave that institution. She left in a taxi. "Riif Oiief nf PnliVp Shaffer of Eyanston says he is satisfied the woman is still on- the north side . of Chicago, staying with friends, and that he is not through with . the mysterious , adventuers of Mrs Mills and her $41,000 cold cash? ' Private in the Mexican ranks get from 17 to 22 cents per day. wheripaid.