The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-17
SPRING DAY WAS
DULY OBSERVED
Egg Egg R olling in Capitol
Square a Success.
MUSIC BY THE BAND.
Governor Tyler, Captain Phillips and
Prot. lardella Praised.
THOUSANDS WERE MADE HAPPY
Nearly Nine Thousand Children Re
oeiyed Presents aud Four Thousand
Adults We're with Them-No
Unpleasant Incidents to Mar
the Pleasures OF the Day.
Side Scenes.
MUSIC BY THE BAND
THOUSANDS WERE MADE HAPPY

Not for many year had Capitol Square
presented the beautiful and inspiring
scene that it did yesterday afternoon,
when a new amusement institution was
dr.alEurated in great splendor.
Tina Ysks to Governor Tyler, Captain
Charles II. Phillips. Prof. Felix 1ardellsl
and Colonel John w. Richardson, the an
n,Ial festival of cgg-rolhng was success
fully inauEurated, and on each succeed
ing Easter Monday the Capitol Grounds
will be open to the public, and especially
TO the little ones, for an afternoon OF en-
joyment and freedom
Egg-rollsng on Easter-Monday is one
of the established features of the day in
Washington. and the White House
grounds and building are thrown open
to the public. The latter take advantage
of the opportunity of the thousands, ana
q gala time is had.
A feature of the celebration in wash
;ngton Is the concert of the Marine
Band. Here the feature was the concert
by the Blues Band, the most famous
band In the south, and a popular pro-
grsmme was carried out by this band
from the Capitol portico.
Long before the hour set for the be-
ginning of the concert. the young foiks
and old ones began TO gather IN the
square, and the tots were happy an Inc
freedom allowed them, and rolled about
and ran about on the velvety green 10
their hearts content and enjoyed them
selves with an abandon equalled only
by the squirrels.
MUCH CANDY AND EGGS.
Captain Phillips and his assistants. IN
GLIDING Judge Witt, Mayor Taylor, capt
Cunningham Mr.. r p Walford, Mr
Marx Gunst, Mr. George e. Davis and
others We're on hand at o'clock Win
hundreds of eggs and hundreds OF bass
o. candy for the little ones, VINO hao
nothing with which to celebrate
The custom IN other places is to open
the parks and furnish the music whlie
the children supply themselves with eggs
and lunches. just as though they were
going on a picnic.
In this; respect therefore. Richmond
went farther than any other city. ana
besides giving the freedom of the park
and the famous band, also gives eggs
and candy.
happy people, dressed in their holiday
attire, gather around the Capitol TO en-
JOY and applaud the music of the band
and to amuse themselves in other num-
erous ways.
SPLENDID MUSIC.
The band. under the direction Of Prof
Felix Iardella. deserves much credit for
their part in the entertainment. The
concert was one of the best ever heard
in Richmond, and embraced the follow
ing numbers
Part Id March. "Twenty-second
Regiment" Herbert; ~ Overture, Bar
ber of Seville" Rossini; go Il Soldiers
in the Park Monckton; b Bunch o
Blackberries.'' Holman; a. Hearts and
Flowers, Tobani.
Part U.-I0 Phoebe Thompson's Cake
Walk Fominsky: t6) southern Planta-
ton Medley, Conterno; O. Selection, .'Lu-
cia di Lammermoor,' Donizetti; (0
Waltz Artists Life Strauss; (D Star
SpacSied Banner and Dixie.
aFRlNG DAY CELEBRATION.
There was nothing 10 mar the pleasure
of the thousands VINO We're out 10 enjoy
themselves and 10 welcome the coming IN
OF sprung, and it has been suggested that
the festival be known hereafter as the
.1Spnng Day celebration.
The thousands of gay, bright spring
costumes lent a brilliancy to the occasion
that inspired the lovers of the beautiful,
and they wrapt themselves in admiration
OF the glories of the view, while the
happy laughter and antics Of the young
people made the hearts of the older ones
glad.
There We're many pretty little parties
in the Square. each one enjoying itself
in its own way. In one section a great
"grown-up boy with gray hair, but with
bright eyes and nimble legs, was enter
taininG crowd OF little boys and girls
with an egg hunt.
He took all the hats belonging to the
party and placed them in a row; then he
made the children arrange themselves in
a row some twenty feet away, with their
backs toward the hats While they stood
there the gay old deceiver put a number
of eggs under the hats, and at word
from Kim the party turned and made a
run for the hats. and three of the smallest
ones found the eggs, which they caught
up and ran off with. shouting in glee at
their luck, and importuning the old fell
low TO hide some more.
9 In other parts of the park lively young
sters were wrestling for the possession of
eggs. and others were rolling them down
the grassy slopes.
IN still another part a crowd of darkeys
stood al the bottom of the hill. while 4
Young white man threw soft-boiled and
raw eggs at them. which they endeavored
10 catch in their hats or otherwise. Some
times they would catch the eggs. but
frequently they would be struck sSquarely
In the face or some place else, and then
they presented comical sight.
MOTHER WAS ..LGsTED."
on to the north side of Che Capitol a
little girl, aoarcheaded and With tears In
her eyes, was besreching some one 10 find
her mother. who had been .iosted.'
Some ladies took her In charge and start
ed of to find the los, mother in that vast
crowd of pieasure-seekers.
Flftaen bnrly policemen were on hand
In various parts of the park for 'emer-
c.encies,.. but no emergencies arose. and
they declared that 1t was the most order
iy crowd of its size that had ever gotten
together
40 accidents 1narred the pleasure of
the afternoon. and when the band struck
up with Soldiers in the Park and the
rag-time music the acme OF pleasure was
reached for the young ones.
BESIDES the children and Rrown-up