The Washington times., 1895-04-16

been such egg rolling, high rolling and
for eleven years.
And it looked so from the west gate.
All the evidences were visible from the
high ground there of a bawling, scream
ing, sQuaIling success. The disappointment
OF last year possibly Increased the crowd
this year The chubby checked battalions
that rolled and hustled and Tustled through
the gates four lengths ahead Of the nurses
didn't seem to care whether the President
was ''agin' " music or rot.
Every boy and girl, more or less, had
wind instrument of some kind, from
| screaming balloon or a talking doll to
! natural organ, and when they let them
! loose, which was all the time, music just
| shattered the atmosphere. Anyhow, there
| were perhaps o thousand good things
| there, Just old enough to be pushed along
! by the nurses, who wouldn't have known
! the difference between brass band ana
| q leather collar around dogs neck. They
slept on their bottles and beneath the
| carriage shades, all through the babel
on the hill. Maybe the others We're disap-
| pointed, but they didn't say so.
GRASS WAS OUT O'SIGHT.
tits not a trope to say that the grass was
out of sight. 1t was simply covered with
mob Of campers from the fish pond to
the rear wall of the Executive Mansion.
It looked as if it were going to rain about
twenty times during the day, and the
| haste to get the last bit of enjoyment out
/ of it before the rain made the fun fast and
! furious.
At any given time within the six hours
of this al fresco festival everything in the
way OF games in vogue was in progress.
Roller skating, rope tripping, rope dancing,
| swinging baseball, football, balloon
blowing, balloon ascensions, TOUGHER, Lit
tie Salie Walker, egg-rolling child
| rolling, nurse rolling, mamma rolling, papa
| rolling, in fact, everything rolling up,
| rolling down, and let loose every now and
then like the uncoil of wire spring.
There were a half dozen or more photog'
raphers at work on the thing, but what
| they got must look very funny. They
| certainly got blaze of red.
Perhaps it was an accident, perhaps
it is the color in fashion, but three out OF
| every five of the children were dressed
| in red; red hats, red skirts, red waists,
red toques, red ribbons, red sashes, red
cheeks, red noses, red everything, Just as
! ii is in special editions of the Times. No
prettier scene could be imagined than was
there in the tender flesh yesterday, cover
ing the slopes, the plots, and the crests
of the mounds in the gardens.
IT WAS a DRAW GAME.
1t is an open q1 'stion whether the chill
dren roll the eggs or the eggs the children;
and you can't settle that question by ocular
observation. 1t was, yesterday, draw
game.
There were two special features of the
observance which We're not on the pro-
graInrne A colored boy jumped a rabbit
| away down below the fish pond and there
| h It1,, 4l,r,T a
odds about q, 900 to one. The talent won.
Another colored boy captured the rabbit
and he was the biggestman on thelot. He
was nearly torn to pieces with his prize.
The route that folio him to the west
gate would have gratfied the ambition of
Scipio Africanus, Junior
The children fought and screamed and
| kicked and got away from their nurses
| like stampede of wild colts aud fillies,
| all to follow this new Pied Piper of Hame-
lin. But he got away safely with his
prize.
In the race across the green several
dainty hats went afloat in the fish pond,
| and then there was a chorus of mingled
| laughter and wailing till they were fished
out This was not all that got into the fish
| pond-egg shells, chunks of banana,
and other things from which the nymphaea
| and her gold-finned sisters will have acute
gastritis and dyspepsia this morning.
Another grand event was the discovery
that the Cleveland chill dren were at one of
the windows in the tall pal ace of the modern
Caesars Then there was another rush in
| that direction, and there they We're, peeping
down on the multitude, Esther and Ruth,
and Marguerite Blssell, Master Uhl as
| knight attendant, and two nurses as super
| nuneraries.
Two of the girls amused the crowd by
butting their heads together, la Punch