The evening world., 1912-04-08
EASTER SHOW
FINISHED Off WITH
REAL CIRCUS THING
Least Brilliant and Most Self
Exhibiting Sunday Fifth
Avenue Has Ever Seen.
BEAUTY ON HORSEBACK.
Oh, But UP in Harlem There
Were Enhancing Sights TO
Behold! What?
BEAUTY ON HORSEBACK.

''h ~ -
gone from New York. Forty years ago.
when there were real pinn!er skirts.
Or o. least crinollne. there was an cx-
cusc for saying tina; Easter styles as
ahovn IN Broadway and Fifth avenue In
Now York set the styles for = nation.
II y >, no longer. The people who
trampeL YEARLY w and down the side
walks O. rf:h avenue Yesterday were
those wh1 . styles ase made for them
not those who maze styles. II there be
any such Their fee. we're core and
their faces strained. they could far
more easily h. We Afforded tlxicabs than
tht.r loyalty t. tho Discarded. silly ira
dillon that H. fashion and style %
New York are To DO found on bhe
Sidewalks eof F..h avenue before and
sfter church hour, on Faster Day.
Along shout 'd~-sftcrnoon VIXEN q
dust storm and q furry Of rain which
had later become s,mething like q cloud
6urst hit the city. a circus-riding young
lady. a girl OF sixteen years. delicate
~ . musk rose and openly Indignant at
the task thrus; upon her. surrounded
by . saudy escort o. a score Of boobs
and Tin soldiers In hussar unlforms.
cantcred Up Firth avenue to r%lf,y-nint.,
street n down Madison avenue. And
thus ended the least brilliant. the most
self-exhibiting Easter Sunday that New
foek has ever seen. Perhaps II may
nee In tho opinion Of those who have
been observers Of Eakter parade for
many years. be q bad lesson. There
were,a few people who knew New York
- II was . score Of years ago that
said events had followed themselves 10
what politicians and pisywriKhts call
y logical conclusion"
There are three streets where the curl.
q and observant New Yorker haa
learned to hunt for his impressions Of
the Gay: Fifth venue from Washing
to- Square Arch 70 the park entrance.
Riverside Drive for its entire length and
Seventh avenue from the park to Ono
Hundred and Twenty-nfth street.
gAoreR PARADE NO LoNuCR
o9ro THE FASHIONS.
~ for Fifth avenue. II vas Q pathetic
DEMONSTRATION that the Easter parade
wAieh was supposed to illustrate tho
fashions for the coming rear II gono.
Thore were thousands OF women and
the male Of their species at large upon
~ sidewalks. There were aigret.es
watch looked ~ though they had been
ootored On the scale OF q sunset across
H. Id OF the Grand Canyon of the
ooserado. There were hobSied skirts
0A1s like trouser legs with long widths
- cloth between them. Thsrs we're
sAess which looked like . nut sundas
- . Grand Junction. Nsb.. strictly
~seapsrancs drug store.
I'VE sincere observer saw youne
women swinging along with the rat OF
. sovboy wearing bearskin chaps. with
Strange Leo aprons like those adapted
~ cornerstone laying gentlemen. Some
wore them behind and some In front,
- the CHANGING Developments Of fashion
~ may soms day bc dscreed that Il ID
- longer proper for men 10 wear trous.
- when nat day the type OF
0kirt which b women who went out te
oAow themselves In the streets Of New
Hesk yesterday will have to chang,
0o4els. And whom the yellow duststorr
an1 he rain came up later In the after
Mem. we'll. there was nothing In tn,
gUvoiasions Of the skin tight costume,
- ne circus riders who ended the day,
oaeestainment which could Guido them
AtetgNg Dt0 THE MANSON CAB
COME FRONT
u y1Ah avenue and ON Ravsrsid
0v1ve. TOO. wal . queer inversion 4
- - 800 49, r~&u-~ - 49, -.--
-
oesbody knows from where the oil
't1o-whssisY came. But Il 10 true tina
lAoeo were more two-whesiers thal
Aaxs IN the main up-snd-down street
~ the Riverside Drive yesterday fror
,@oen until shs yshow-and-wst dust .!
- began.
khe emily sanblaisos Of the old Easte
YagAAs - Il has long since ceased to b
= reality we're The crowds which all ia
beng cloggsd Fifth avenue in front q
eho Cathsdral-And before the stori
Stastsd many OF the other sacred cd
nceo-watching quietly dressed wome
(tAe substitutss Tor the models OF for
- fsshion Of other days) slip frol
automobiles into church entrance
Nov and then somebody called q nam,
Il more than one case the observe
knsw that the person named was
least . thousand mixes from New Yorl
Hut what difference did Il make?
not Easter transformed into the grei
saob feast OF the Year,
But the great glory u color and
extrems dress patterns was That pc,
oock t~horoughfare from the park
One Hundred and Twsnty-nfth stre,
In Seventh avenue. Toe rustic
changesble silks nlled the ears like Il
whistiing u the winds through Il
pines In . Maine night. No Hawaiis
chorus going up staKe from the foo
llghxs RI switched so fsst and 30 wild
nv hats bodied like rows OF seagul
following . Canarss fishing boat.
~ . dtsplay OF bssutiied beauty.
eaoSty for beauty. . swelling. undula
~ Hght and left curv3ng OF beauttf,
snlla&iens.
ogvgNTH AVENUE TAKES tn
PRIZE.
y there 70 suu an Easter parade
NV ysrk 1T Il ~ admitted that So
~ syesse etpu oes ARdrsa n
1900