Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-20
HoIIy-Laden Carts in Streets
Evidence Preparations for
Celebration.
FESTIVAL AT CAPITOL
TO BE GREAT FEATURE
Trained Chorus and Marine Band to
Furnish Music-Series of Tab
leaux to Be Presented.

| Washington is now in the full swing
load after CARLOAD of red -berried holly
being taken through the city streets
all day yesterday was the best visible
evidence of this, and as the nearby
| Virginia and Maryland counties sent
| these contributions toward the general
| celebration that is to take place, on
! every side were heard details of plans
to be carried out Friday.
| The celebration of Christmas in
( Washington this year, however, is to
| begin. as it did last year. on Christ
mas eve. The community Christmas
! festival is again 10 be a great feature
! of the occasion. Thousands of resi-
dents of the District. and of nearby
| Maryland and Virginia. are expected to
gather OH the steps of the Capitol. and
| III the great plaza at re east front
of the Capitol building, to take part in
the events, which will begin promptly
| at j O'Clock.
A great trained chorus, under the
| conpanied by the full Marine Band.
under the direction of Lieut. William
| H Santelmann. will furnish a musical
program of sacred and patriotic num-
to that played last year. which was
pronounced thrillingly beautiful by
| critics who heard it's strains wind in
and out of the Capitol porticos and
lamphiteater
Tableaux to Be Presented.
| A series of tableaux will also be pre-
scented under the direction of Mrs.
Clara d. Neigh. The program for the
occasion Is as follows: Marine Band.
| Creation Hymn" Beethoven; hymn,
20 Come. Emmanuel; hymn, 80 Lit
tie Town of Bethlehem: tableau,
Mary and Joseph on the Way to Beth
| lehem: hymn, "Oh, Come. All Ye
Faithful: tableau THE Wise Man and
the Shepherds; Marine Band, Can't
que de Noel; Adams (cornet solo) !;
hymn "1ark. the Herald Angels Sing !;
''Stille Nacht"; tableau. The Birth
of the Savior; hymn. "All Hail the
Power of Jesus Name" and Star
Spangled Banner"
In many of the churches of the city,
also. special services will be held
f., Christmas eve in celebration of 100
years of peace between Great Britain
and the United States. Many of these
| services will be held in accordance
with d request sent to every clergyman
in Washington by the committee of
one hundred for the celebration of 100
| years of peace. James Brown Scott,
chairman, and Henry b. f. Maclafldnu,
chairman of executive committee.
The treaty of peace between Great
Britain and the United States. follow
ing the war of 1872. was signed in
Client, Belgium, Christmas eve. De
! cember "a. 1914. and that fact and the
| present conditions in Great Britain, In
Belgium and on the other side of the
world generally. it is stated by the
committee, make it especially deslr-
able that Christmas eve in Washing
ton this year should be celebrated to a
large extent in the churches with serV-
ices OF prayer and thanks that the
| United States is not involved in the
great events abroad
MANY special church services have
also been arranged for Christmas day,
and other special celebrations, neigh
| borhood as well as home, are being
planned. The Gospel Mission. at IA
and PIG John Marshall place. intends
to give dinner to the army of poor
and unfortunate men. women and chill
dren of the city. and is appealing for
funds for the purpose through an
nounceri,ents sent out by Henry d. Cor
don. a lawyer, with offices in the Bond
building, who is the treasurer of the
fund.