The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-23
THE YOUNGSTERS DAY.
Returning Students Help in Making
 Family Reunions.

Returning Students Help In Making
 Family Reunions.
 When a set of tired but happy mer- chants and exhausted clerks sink to sleep tonight the greatest Christmas trade season that Montgomery has ever known will ave ended. The town has probably never had such another Christmas trade. The merchant who bought largest for his Christmas busi- ness was the merchant who bought wisest.
 Anot Ter enormous crowd filled the streets yesterday. Tho college boys and the college girls have gotten home for Christmas and therefore the streets of the city look brighter and happier. For they who enjoy the season most and feel most the intoxication of 1t are those of college age and those who are eveu younger than the college age. The streets were filled with these last night. A battalion of them formed into a horn corps stormed the streets of the business district. The crowd, and it was a considerable one, was half of boys and half of girls and every unit of it had a horn. And for the time be- ing the noise of the cars and the roar of the drays and coal wagons was drowned out by the great volume of noise that half a hundred horns can make, when blown in unison.
 After marching up and down the downtown sidewalks. the horn blowers moved on the residential district and gave numberless concerts" In every section of the city impromptu march, ing clubs, large or small, and armed with horns, made Christmas din. The older folks tolerated it. It hasn't been long since most of them, the older folks. were either blowing horns or do- ing things that had no more sense to them on Christmas day. And after all A. H,.,, I the school girl or the college girl have the right to show how much they enjoy being alive and to show how. fine a thing they think Christmas is, although some of the ways they take to show it are. to say the least, queer. The time comes quick enough when they have the bills to pay, the time when they will have to worry over so much money going out and SO little coming in.
 All in all yesterday was the young ster's day of the Christmas season. He and she formed perhaps the larger part of the city's crowd of yesterday And many Of them were boys and girls home from college to be petted by the family during the holidays.
 It was another great day for the rail- roads. There wasn't a passenger car that rolled into the depot but what 1t was crowded to the door with passen- gers. They were buyers from nearby towns most or the passengers, and they went t. swell the crowds on the streets, fin which the Montgomery citi- zen saw so many strange faces. And others in the incoming passenger cars were sons and daughters. brothers and sisters coming home to the family in the best city in the United States to spend Christmas. These family re- unions for the Christmas holidays have already begun and their number is aug mented with the coming of every train.
 The clerks in the retail stores are worked hard enough, but they are not worked so hard as the postoffice clerks and the express company peo- pie. The postal service and the ex- press service have both been practi- cally swamped. There is no such rush in the postof1ce and at the express office as the Christmas rush At the stamp window and at the registry or the postoftice yesterday a crowd was constantly standing about There wasn't an hour in the day but what these two windows looked ike a cash ier's window durinEsa rnn on the bank. The clerks welrhed enough packages