Evening star., 1909-03-03
LANE OF LIGA1 and LAUGHTER
MANY MERRYMAKERS THRoNo
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
Thousands Parade the Popular
Thoroughfare, Taking In the
Sights and Incidents.

poorly dressed man walked along
Pennsylvania avenue last night. lodging
the feathers OF merry widow hats with
his face and trying to push his way
through the throng of humanity. when
he came across a tall man wearing a red
badge with reception" on IT. Although
he did not know il. he was facing Louis
Wilson, District disbursing officer.
Say. Mr.. Reception he said 10 Mr..
Wilson. what is all this crowd? 10
there something special going on here?"
Mr.. Wilson recovered from the shock .
few minutes later and Informed the visi-
tor that Taft had been elected President
of the United States.
The stranger was right In thinking
that the nations best known thorough
fare showed last night that there was
something special doing. From the Peace
Monument TO the State. War and Navy
building there was lane Of light and a
procession OF closely packed humanity.
Although a person walking along the
sidewalk OF Pennsylvania avenue could
scarcely iind easy progress until some
one ahead of him moved forward, there
was no peevishness manifested any
where 1t was a crowd of light-hearted
and gay merrymakers and the broad
thoroughfare was a lane Of laughter.
Appeals to the Hungry.
AS the crowds surged past the intersec-
ton of Pennsylvania avenue and eth
street. they noticed the aroma OF hot
coffee and saw piles Of paper-wrapped
sandwiches on the counter OF a stand.
and the attention Of the crowd that
passed was arrested by the megaphone-
voiced cook in cap and apron.
Don't you ever, ever get hungry
Farther down the avenue the merry
makers discovered cross-eyed faker with
an imperial mustache and a Kentucky
coloners goatee. bunch of miniature
feather busters in his hand.
Tickle 'em up boys: a nickle tickle"
he shouted. And as the crowd turned tn
watch him he rubbed one of the feathers
under the left ear of a dignified woman
In the throng. With a shrek she struck
violently at her ear to knock off a sup
posed kissing bug. And as she turned her
eyes met those over the imperial and mus
tache and she heard:
Tickle 'em up. boys; cents tickle"
Her escort was soon trying the eXperi-
ment on others.
Crowd Lingers Late.
Two OF the visitors to the city walked
the entire length Of the lane of jollity and
light during the evening, and as they
gazed on the banner strung across G
street near its intersection with 18th
street. upon which is painted two pictures
marked Taft and Sherman" one Of them
remarked to the other:
I've been looking at all Of the pictures
along Pennsylvania avenue and ] would
like to know which one really looks like
Taft"
The brilliantly lighted avenue proved an
alluring attraction for the people who
gazed upon 1t and the crowds stayed late.
At one end of the avenue a huge throng
watched the playing of the waters over
the peace monument, first spray Of blue.
next Of white and then Of red. Many
suggested that 1t looked like a real live
volcano. At the other end Of the boule-
ward was a brilliant court Of honor, de-
clared by old residents Of the city as the
most respondent spectacle ever produced
to celebrate the Inauguration OF a chief
executive.