Evening star., 1909-04-12
OVER At ATLANTIC CITY
EASTER SUNDAY PARADE WAS
A GAY ONE.
Big Bonnets and Hats Get Their
Need Of Praise-Coming
Events
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star
ATLANTIC CITY, April II. 1909.
The great spring festival of the church
and the attractions of the horse show
| brought over $4,000 people to Atlantic
City.
! To be truthful. Easter Sunday was cele-
brated in both Christian and other ways.
The church people were in the majority.
however. If the crowd descending the
church steps was criterion. There were,
| Of course, many worldly minded people
who did not go to church, but fingered
| in smoking rooms or exchanges to discuss
the brilliant close OF the horse show the
night before, until time for the return of
| the Easter parade up the Boardwalk from
the churches. 1t Is safe to say that every
style of costume that you have seen pic
tured in the fashion papers was represent
ed. and, in addition. all those styles in
hats upon WHICH the conservative-minded
man has murmured anathema he finds
heere, but SO transformed by the fluff of
pretty hair and. fresh young faces be-
meath them that he forgves their gro
tesque shape on the spot.
The roller-chair procession seems to be
growing greater every year. Long lines
of chairs, glass-inclosed and open, trun-
die silently by. laden with joyous young
girls. jovial men and ~dignified dowagers.
How the old ladies do dress down here!
They are twice as gorgeous as the young
er ones In the music rooms of the hotels
they wear white Satins and high heels
and glittering diamond combs in their
high puffed white locks.
The Boardwalk parade seems endless.
Sitting on the Marlborough osplanade, or
Casino, watching it for while, the view
has a dizzying effect upon one. First,
there is the stream of people going up
the walk. then the stream of people go
ing down on the far side of the Board
walk, then the horseback riders on the
| beach. going up the beach, and beyond
all that the great steady ceaseless roll
of the oceans waves coming toward one.
With an attendance that exceeded by
1.OOO in the afternoon and Zoo in the
evening the corresponding sessions of the
previous day, the second day of the At
lantic City horse show proved remarka-
bly, successful and made he managers of
the show feel jubilant.
| Close to 5000 attended last night. So
ciety was out in force, and some OF the
toilets displayed to good advantage in
he prettily decorated boxes were mag
nificent.
Gov. Pennel of Delawarel who is Wis
iting DIR. Emery Marvel. greeted friends
in the boxes. and attracted as much in
terest as Admiral Mordecai I. Endicott
brother of Judge Allen B. Endicott Of
Atlantic City, and one time member of
the Panama canal commission.
Reginald Vanderbilt surprised the
show with his unexpected attendance on
Thursday evening. and was also an in
terested spectator at the following ses-
sions. Vanderbilt contented himself with
walking around close to the ringSide
chatting with owners of the stock and
other ''horse folk He wore no overcoat
and commented on the balmy weather. !,
The ''grown-ups are not the only ones
let me tell you, who are looking forward
to events of the later season: all along the
Boardwalk are signs for preparation for
the vast number of Washington young
sters. Devoted parents will have thrills
of various kinds at seeing their precious
progeny transform themselves into "hu-
man cannon balls" allowing themselves
to be violently projected from the fear
some new contrivance now being built on
the Steeplechase pier.