As the necessary limits of time do not permit personal communication
with the public officers of the United States and of the several States
enumerated in the foregoing order, they are respectfully requested to
accept the invitation to take part in the exercises conveyed through the
publication hereof, and to send notice of their intention to be present
to the Secretary of War at the War Department in Washington.
Organizations and civic societies desiring to take part are requested
to send similar notice at the earliest time practicable to the chief
marshal of the civic procession, Gen. Henry V. Boynton, Wyatt Building,
Washington, D.C.
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State_.
ELIHU ROOT,
_Secretary of War_.
JOHN D. LONG,
_Secretary of the Navy_.
HENRY B.F. MACFARLAND,
_President of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia_.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
The procession then started at slow march up Pennsylvania avenue
toward the White House. It moved in the following order:
Four mounted police outriders.
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