The Washington herald., 1907-03-18
SPRING WAKENS CITY
Balmy Weather Coaxes Thou
sands Ont Of Doors.
FIRST FLY BRINGS GLAD NEWS
Crowds Flock TO Parks, Circles, and
Squares - ThrOng to the Zoo and
LOAD street Cars Down to Running
BOards-Trees Begin 10 Bud and
Flower Beds show Color Tints.

The weather had every one going some
where yesterday. It was an ideal Wash
ington spring day. In addition Il was
81. Patricks Day and Sunday,
OF course. green skirts prevailed among
the women. and green scarfs among the
men were the fayorites, Thousands were
out. and the parks. the squares. and the
circles did land Office business. Many
Washingtonians went 20 the country to
the suburbs. or TO the Zoo. In fact the
whole population was on the move. The
news that spring has came" spread and
neither the aged, nor the young remained
indoors.
Connecticut avenue in the midafternoon
looked like the pathway 10 the main en-
trance OF a circus but for the fact that
the people were going both ways. For
some unknown reason, those going out
took the east sidewalk. and those going
the other way the west II was the larg-
= est "walklsts' parade OF the year.
Every bench in Dupont Circle was oc-
eupied about the middle of the after
noon, when the weather was the Balm
= lest Nest Of the occupants were nurses,
and every nurse had charge Of one or
a little tot tucked away among the
blankets and quilts. But it was hard
matter to keep the tots coVered-they
wanted 10 get out ana play and receive
the benefit Of the sun,
Thousands at Union Station,
Thousands visited the new Union Sta
ton. The Zoo had the largest crowd of
the year. Several additional animals
have been received lately, and they at
tracted much attention.
Pennsylvania avenue didn't look like
Pennsylvania avenue as it usually does
on a Sunday. There were too many peo-
pie there, all looking at the shop win
dows and at each other Although none
Of the summer resorts has been opened
the street car companies did an unusually
large business. carrying people all day
long from one end of the city TO the
other. all going no one knows where.
Throughout the city preparations for
spring and summer are in evidence.
= The immense fountain in front of the
White House which attracts so much at
tention from, the tourists during the sum
mer months as It plays with its hun
.S1reds of gallons of water every day is
! undergoing repairs preparatory TO turn
ing ON the water within a few weeks
Four men were a work in the basin last
week patching up the cracks in the
cement.
Rakfng White House Grounds.
The Executive Mansion grounds in gen
eraI are also being raked and made
ready for mother natures poisoning.
The flower beds are being put in shape.
and many other spring improvements
made. In fact, the gardener is the next
busiest man around the White House.
In many OF the flower beds in the Capt.
tol grounds flowers are already in bloom.
The crocuses that We're planted several
weeks ago are struggling, and with the
different shades OF flowers are bringing
about the resemblance Of flower beds.
The hyacinths are also coming up Even
-s3he trees ali over the city have begun to
show signs Of life. and the little leaves
have begun 10 unfold
And last but not least. iTrefutable evil
denCe that spring has really come was
q solitary lonesome, but, as usual, busy
fly. that came from no one knows where.
TO prove he is more entitled 20 be known
as the harbinger of spring than are some
OF his winged fellow-living creatures.
But anyway. the weather had every one
going somewhere yesterday.