The tickets of admission within the walls of the Imperial City were limited. Foreigners had to obtain letters of introduction from their Legations before they could procure the necessary permit. Even well-known correspondents were not known without a letter, or without 'a request from their Legations on their behalf. At each gate camera and binocular cases were minutely examined, and many keen eyes scrutinized frock coats for any suspicious bulges in the viol of pockets. Who asks why?
Some time after the hour signed for the beginning of the review a clatter of hoofs, blare of a band, a sight of white plumes and red dashing along from the west announced the coming of the President. He was not in the stately carriage bedight with gilt and with four little lions perched on the corners of the roof which bore him last year. He: came on a charger, the better that ho might be kept from view by his black helmeted, red plumed bodyguard, who packed closely about him. "At the entrance of the For-hidden City Gate he entered a chair and was carried by bearers wearing Chinese-made Derby hats to the top of the gate. There he: stood to receive the salutes of the passing troops.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.