The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-05
UNSHNE ENDS STORM PERIL TO EASTER PARADE TINE
BIG OUTPOURNG OF WOMEN AND MEN TO JOIN FES7AL THRONG
Fifth Avenue. Cleared of
snow. Full of NOtables
and Novelties.
BIZARRE SHOES LEAD
FASHIONS WONDERS

The truly big fact about Yesterdays
Easter celebration was the delayed
Aprn fool Joke :he Weather Man played
10 Il Friday was a keen, brigh, day.
saturday brought bowling blizzard,
which rocked as II II was here 20 stay
, yAile And Saturday nigir some thing
like 100000 women land goodness
knows how many mem g,oomed and
sroaned and gfowled. making them
sslyes misera BILE because the chances
sseuied to he "A thousand 10 one that
they wouldn't he able 70 show their
rev buds ,o somebody's admiring eyes.
And then came Easter sunday morning.
as earning morning as any New
yorker from Pie; Stuyvesart to John
yurroy Mitchell ever saw ard the ami
ability OF the town jumped up as the
mercury leaps on an August afternoon.
The peoples custom OF getting out in
the streets and showing of their best
,lothes has come TO be such an !nstl-
tuition that the city government takes
tognizance Of II. Upon many streets
here vas slush and even deep snow.
But Principal street Cleaner Fetherston
got up early to see to IL that Fifth
avenue. Broadway. Harlem's Broadway
--l25th street.-the East Sides Broad
uay-tirard strickland few other
main thoroughfares. where folks were
ant to get out and preen their new
fine feathers, we've as dry and clean
IS one could reasonably expect. At
daylight the Fifth avenue buses, rigged
I'D with snoc ploughs, were wnllc ping
the snow left and right. and very
soon af,erward bat;alions Of street
-
removing the grimy slush.
Crowded as Churches Empty.
Just before noon, therefore. when
the churches dismissed their congre-
cations. the avenue was more crowded
perhaps than ever before. The church.
goers, who in the old days really
'parsded' and so gave the name TO
what is now merely slghtse ing. style
showing throng. spent little time on tie
avenue. The CT, wd was very largely
made up OF folks from upown. from
the jersey cities, from Long Island and
from persons visiting In New York.
from canada and the middle West.
One grasped that when me saw
ClLs' - O. people staring at the
Library. az Helen Gould Sheparl's
.om AZ t,i:h avenue and Forty-sev-
sn,h street; at he Vanderbilt mans on
and . dozen ether mes OF buildings
% vel KIN VII TO the New Yorker.
TIE biggest crowd was from noon
until about f. NJ In the middle of
the afternoon and from then on until
Ggh,'il the avenue was well filled. SO
vas Broadway. especially upper Bread
way Nom 10th street down to Seventy
sHcrl Take Il anyway ylu like. for
wea;h.r or ilossy hab!,!ments or crowds.
Yesterday was about TIE most enjoy
eJ.e Easter that IA knickcroocker has
lad Tor many years.
siro'lnS NJ Fifth avenue at high
noon ard rejecting what a f!vver. after
ai, saturday nights blizzard was, ores
taCuErs +u'ued. somehow. to Sous-l.ieu-
;sar' Paul Poirct-that great Po!re;
tov lighting for his coun. ~ In FlaH-
leTs trench. And as the human tor
-en;s flowed north AID south ong the
lean swept avenue and ones eyes
dropped al urcorsc! ously 10 the side
walk .cvci one could not nelp but think
row fortunate PAU is