Evening star., 1909-04-11
"MEMoRIEs OF INAUGURATION"

upon what a treat he's going to dish out
to 'em when he mooches up and down
the parading avenue:
Then Easter Sunday swoops along IKE
one OF those man-eating lions that-so
were told-pick folks right out of pas
senger trains at the Nairobi station.
Easter Sunday romps along with ram
and hail, and snow. and sleet, ana fog,
and Ms. ss sYssbns sUus sns and dpaassr shen
more OF the hitherto-mentioned meteor
ologieal tngredients.
And we all sit indoors and grind our
teeth because we can't fare forth and
finery ana our bedizenings; and oh it's a
sad, sad hash all around, generally, this
Easter Sunday thing.
It hardly ever fails to be a hash on
the Atlantic City Boardwalk. There have
down here. That Is. the natives tell you
so, But you generally miss the perfect
ones When the perfect Atlantic City
Easter Sunday rolls along you're IN MUS
catine, Iowa, or Waycross. Ga, or some
place like that.
But, it's going to be different tomorrow.
Yep, we feel IL. We've engaged the roller
chair for four hours for tomorrow-and
paid for It in advance. with no rebate
clause In case Of punk weather-and SO
we've just naturally got to feel that ITS
going to be a fine Easter Sunday this
time
The week previous to last Easter Sun
day down here was SO glorious that
tourists from Europe who found tnem-
selves on the Boardwalk during that
period declared. with enthusiasm. that,
for springful and springish climate and
all that. why Atlantic City had Nice. and
Villefranche, and Monaco, and Aix-le-
Bains and such-like vaunted places look
Ing like settlements anchored in the latt-
tude OF Spitzbergen.
Then Easter Sunday dropped along
xh,,w1 hxy Vuau NJ oarly
morning prelude. promptly and 'energett-
cally followed by a rataplan OF nail that
sounded like musketry az the stones beat
on the roofs. followed again by snow In
large, lmpish, sodden, soggy. clingfng
flakes. this followed by torrential rain
storm that soon degenerated into one OF
those dendish, hopeless drizzles. and then
the sun came out and grfnned derisively
upon human hopes for about a minute
whereupon there was some rain and
things. da capo. fortissimo and repeat
backward
But, shucks. shucks. it's going to be
different tomorrow. Let's see-four hours
Of roller chairing, all paid for In advance
and no chance for a slip-back in case OF
--oh, yes. it's going to be fine Easter
Sunday tomorrow, because
(Rigbt here comes the interposition oi
some grisly recollections Of how a lot o.
moneys for places from which to see the
inauguration parade. and Of how. in 9
way Of speaking. they didn't see nuthin'
and OF how they didn't get any Of the
hard. large moneys back: either; SO tha1
hereof now Is engaged In going through
q mental trepidation number)
Anyhow, the women are engaged to0aJ
In burning propitiatory incense at the
shrine Of Boreas and they're making Of
ferings unto old Jupiter Pluvius-
Oh, well. at the outset Of this thing
had hunch that wouldn't possibly b
able to spin through with 1t withou,
roping In that Jupiter Pluvius fellow
and 30 now it's done and there's no help.
Ing 1t.
The local weather man has locked him
self up and declines to commit himself
as to whether the weather is going t1
permit the Boardwalk parade to be
success or hash tomorrow. The loca
weather man has been through hear
of Easter Sundays down this way. which
means that he hasn't always stuck the
pin through the right part of the pro
gram In demonstrating and pickint
Easter Sunday weather. Maybe he's
thinking about the sad stuff that cam.
the way of his chief In Washington after
prediction. Anyhow. he declines to b.
interviewed. and he's right, he's right!
1r so be as how the weather holds
! though. there will be doings on tn,
Appian Way of the Sea-doings In tn
miilinerical and costumerish line-snch a
Atlantic City hasn't witnessed before
Fully one-haIf again as many folks ar,
here TO see and participate 'in the pro
ceedings as ever visited the place befor,
on an Easter occasion. and the Boardwall
for three days has been difficult to navi
gate for the crowds.
Already we see on the Boardwalls-tha
is. on the heads Of lovely young being
on the Boardwalk-hats such as neve
were on land or. sea. This writer wouls