The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-27
AUTO CARNIVAL
PLANS ARE MADE
Parade for Electrical Pros
perity Week Will Have
Many Entrants. r.
TO BE HELD TUESDAY
Celebration Commences on Monday.
TO BE HELD TUESDAY
Celebration Commences on Monday.
Retail Merchants to Cooperate.
Theaters to Aid.

Plans for the big automobile parade
| and carnival to be held Tuesday evening
| in conjunction with the Washington
Electrical Prosperity Week celebration.
commencing Monday, were discussed last
night at a meeting of the general COM
] mittee on arrangements at the Potomac
Electric Power Company. Fourteenth and
| b streets northwest. John c. McLaugh-
| lin presided.
parade, reported that already he had re-
ceived requests from 40 business houses
and others who desire to enter machines.
Among them are the Navy Yard, Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. Interior De-
! partment, Government Printing Office.
Dulin & Martin. Palais Royal, Holmes
| Bakery, wells-Fargo Express Company
| National Electrical Supply Company. ..
r. Evans & Brother. Bartram, Walker
Gordon, Kingan & Co. G. G. Cornwell
& Sons, Potomac Electric Power Com
pany, American Express Company.
Ioose-wiles, Chaplin & Sacks, Sanitary
Grocery Company. Seabridge, Berry K
Whitmore, Southern Building Supply
Company. Carroll Electric Company, and
Doubleday, Hill & Co.
Any one can enter. the only restriction
being that the automobile or truck be
electrically lighted.
u streets northwest at 7:45 o'clock and
will proceed down Sixteenth street to II.
thence west to Seventeenth street. and
back of the White House to Pennsylvania
avenue and on TO the Peace Monument.
where the parade will disband.
Merchants to Cooperate.
Three prizes will be awarded for the
three best decorated machines in line.
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Commissioners. P. T. Moran. president
OF the Chamber OF Commerce. and f. c.
Brandenburg. president OF the Board of
Trade. No vehicle will be allowed to
take more than one prize.
At the head OF the procession will be
the Naval Gun Factory Band, and IL Is
exr ected the electrical workers OF Wash
lnglon will be in line.
Charles c. Columbus. secretary of the
Retail Merchants Association. said last
night the association is cooperating with
the Electrical Week committee. and word
was received from the Mid-City Citizens
Association that II desires to take a
prominent part in the parade. Mr.. Col
umbus said that as the Retail Merchants
has already planned for a
Dress Up and Fix lip Week. commenc-
Ing Monday. the two celebrations could
be held jointly
OF ana
business men along Seventh. Ninth and
F streets and along Pennsylvania ave
nue. will be asked TO keep their bulldogs
lighted from top to bottom every night
during the week and already many have
promised to cooperate in this manner.
The following moving picture houses
have promised to use special slides dur
ing the week: Palace. Colonial. Plaza. |
Garden. Strand. Crandall's. Cosmos. VIr-
ginia Maryland. Keith's. Loew's Column
bia, Empress. Leader. Columbia Corpora |
ton, and the VI Street
Those present last niEht were J. g. Nc
Iaughlin. w. X. Handy. C. T. Mangan.
II. A. Brooks. and r. B. Swope. OF the
Potomac Electric Power Company; o. r.
Evans. of o. l.. Evans Bro; G. E.
Colbeck. OF the Capital Electric Com
pany; II. =. Foley. OF the Howard p.
Foley Company: Phillips Hill, president
of the Doubleday-Hill Electric Company;
John R Galloway. electrical contractor:
Harry D. Carroll. OF the Carroll Electric
Company; John J. Odenwald. and W. B.
WatZel.