New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
FEAR EASTER SHOW ERS
PUaders May Not Haze Chance to
Display To-day.

1t scant encouragement which the weather
bureau gave out yesterday that Easter fnsry might
oe worn abroad without danger Of being spashed hy
April showers AS far the bureau could figure ii
out it will be to-day than It has been this
week, and it may be clear but that is doubtful.
This is the season OF local showers. and whether.
Miladi April will smile frown IS something that
the weather sharps cannot predict with much GER
tainty for than hours in advance.
Down along South street, where able bodied sea-
going coTns and UnGiluted rheumatfcs are consid-
cred the only real Simon Pure weather forecasters
the consensus of opinion that 1t was going to
be damp sort of Easter to-day: the chances
appear 10 be against any particularly brilliant pa
rade- There Will be all right, composed as IL
has been for several years OF those from the haunts
Of the rubber plant across the bridge or from Ho
boken who go to Fifth looking for the
parade losing sight of the fact that they the
parade
The letter carriers and postal clerks viii be glad
when Easter is over for the Easter NATL since the
huge growth OF the picture postcard draze has as
sumed Christmaslike proportions. For the last few
days the mailbags have been growing heavier every
hour with postcards bearing Easter greetings. and
extra trips the boxes have barely sufced TO keep
them from getting choked with the cards Every
out of town mail brought in thousands Of more
cards until the postofffces all the city were
nearly buried by them last night.
I'VE have never seen anything iSSe it, said Mr.
the city delivery department Everybody is send
ing souvenir postal cards these days and the ber-
aty of people in this line is increasing It 8
big undertaking to handle such mass Of mail
matter but expect to do IT without falling be-
hind"
All the carriers and clerks who could be spared
from the downtown stations were sent uptown yes
terday with as many extra could be put on
None OF the delivery men uptown had breathing
time yesterday, some of the letter carriers having
to use hand wagons TO carry all their stun.
The Easter lily is losing its popularity, florists
said Yesterday but the demand for volets has more
than made up the difference 20 the flower dealers
Several of them estimated that at least half a
million dollars had already been spent for flowers
for Easter and that good many more thousands
would be spent to-day. Potted plants in bloom
have come to be a recognized gift for Easter. and
thousands of Bouginvillas and little rose bushes
have been sold.
The steamship Trinidad got in late last evening
from Bermuda. bringing only ten boxes of lilies
six hundred in all. contrary to expectations These
like the thousand boxes which came on the Ber-
mudian last Tuesday, were consigned 10 A E
Outerbridge.
The small consignment the result OF the poor
demand for lilies this Easter. The last Of the
thousand boxes. each box containing sixty lilies
sold at 50 cents box last night one-thrd Of the
asking price and one-thrd OF the price obtained
for them earlier in the week
All the churches and religious associations will
observe Easter with their customary elaborate nu-
sicaI programmes. The musical programme al the
Pontihcal mass at 81. Patricks will include Sul-
vans Welcome. Happy Morning" the Gresortan
proper Of the mass Ungerer's ordinary of the mass
Kyrie Gloria, Rheinbergers CredO. Sanctus, Bene-
dictus and Agnus Del offertory. Terra Trernuit. -
by A Wittberger, and the postlude, Festursrsche,
by R Kleinmichel.
The programme at Trinity for the morning ser
vice consists OF the professional Jesus Christ Is
Risen To-day" Worgan; introit. Psalm cxvih Goss;
hymn, The Strife Is Over" Palestrtna ofertoTy,
St Matthew. xviii Martin and the recessional,
Jesus Lives Gauntlet
At St. James's Methodist Church there will be a
| chorus besides the regular quartet. The cantata
/ Easter Eve and Morning" will be sung at st.
/ PauTs Methodist Church in the evening.
Bishop Greer will be the morning preacher at
| All Saints in Henry street. and Bishop Potter
/ will be St. Pauls Chapel. at Columbia. in the
afternoon and at Christ Church in the evening. In
| all the other churches there will be special ser
| mons and the music Will be made a distinctive
feature of the services