Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-06
OFFICE LISTS SHOW
FEW CLERKS TARDY
Most Government Employees
Report for Duty on Time
This Morning.
MANY IGNORE THE CARS
IN TRIBUTE TO STRIKERS
Suburbanites Come Afoot From Long
Distances. One Having Record
of Ten-Mile Walk.

ashington was a city OF
pedestrians this morning. Slight
" paraphrasing. the words OF the
poet, thousands OF government
clerks and Others walked who
never walked before, while others
who usually walked just walked
the more. From all directions
came the hosts on foot-doWn
18th street, down 9TH, 9th and
nth streets. along New York
avenue. down Connecticut ave.
nue.. from both directions along
PENNSYLVANIA avenue they ram
bled. they rambled." converglng
toward the buildings in which
are housed the various govern
ment departments employing
large numbers OF men audwomen.
II was the greatest morning for
walking Washington has ever known
since street cars were first operated IN
the National Capital. Even the cars
that ran on the various lines weren't
heavily patronized. Union members
and .sympathizers turned up their noses
as the cars came along, and just walked
right OIL
That is. the people who weren't for
tunate enough to have friends VINO
owned autos, or those who didn't care
to make the downward trip in taxis,
horse-drawn cabs of ancient vintage
motor trucks or other similar means OF
travel.
Procession Starts Early.
Beginning long before the usual hour
of getting to work, the stream OF
pedestrians started, first as trickle
Of sure-enough early birds and later
swelling into a regular river of walk
ers. OF course, there were some VINO
didn't walk. Lots of people came in
machines of various kinds; some rode
down in delivery vans and wagons.
The main fact is that most OF wash
ington's regularly employed popuia-.
ton got to work just the same as II
there were no street car strike, and com
paratively few of them patronized the
street cars
Thousands of government clerks and
others living in the suburbs and in the
towns adjacent to the District OF
wondering just how they were going
to get to work today. They climbed
out of bed this morning to md the
cars on suburban lines operating about
the same as usual, with nothing more
than delays such as might be oc-
casioned by an accident on the line.
sRowstorm or some such unavoidable
occurrence.
Both Companies Maintain Service.
Before $50 o'clock this morning the
Washington Railway and Electric
Company claimed they had nearly
their full quota of cars operating on
all of their suburban lines. and by the
time the suburbanite government
clerks were on their way TO the city
conditions were almost normal Prac-
ticany the usual number of cars was
being operated on schedule on the
lines between Berwyn. College Park,
Hyattsville. Mount Rainier and the city.
officials of the company said On the
Cabin John line the cars were run
ming about on regular time and serv-
ice was maintained on the Rockville
line from $40 o'clock through the
rush hours.
The Capital Traction Company'c
Chevy Chase line was in operation al
most usual this morning. and few
residents of the extreme northwest
section, including Cleveland Park and
suburbs farther out. were compelled to
walk. Steam roads between Washing
ton and suburban points carried unusu-
ally large crowds this morning Several
OF the trains from Kensington and
other points on the Baltimore and
Ohio. as well as on that company's lines
between here and Baltimore. were
crowded. as were trains on the Penn
syivania railroad between Washing
ton and Baltimore.
Hundreds of clerks and office en-
rloyes came to work in automobiles
owned by friends or acquaintances
Other hundreds. or thousands, enrolled
temporarily as wanderlusters, making
the trip to work on foot from Mount
Pleasant. Columbia Heights. George
town and other outlying parts of the
c4ty. Interference of the street car
strike with the normal process of get
ting to work in the morning, however,
was far less marked than might have
been tc!pated. while it was dis
tiuctly noticeable that few of the "a re-
on either line were badly crowded even
during the height of the rush period
This was TO be noted especially dur
Ing the period between SIS and s:45
O'Clock, at which time all city-bound
cars are usually crowded to the ex-
trerne limit of their capacity.
Not Many Clerks Late.
That a government clerk does not
seize opportunity and excuse to dodge
work was fairly we'll evidenced this
morning by the fact that the list of late
arrivals carried hardly any more names
than is usual on any morning
In tho Treasury Department, exclu-