The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-01
MERRY OBSERVANCE
OF ALL HAtlOWs Ell
Richmond Enjoys One OF Most Unique
and Charming Carnival
Nights.
LIKENED TO JAG"
WITHOUT DISORDER
Everybody Carries Spirit of Merriment
and Good Cheer and No Untoward
Incidents Occur.

Incidents Occur.
Saints aud sinners oommingled on
Broad street last night to help usher
in the morn OF All Saints day. The
sinners were Just Pickwickian sinners,
while the saints hadn't yet begun to
spTout their wings.
Never in the history of Richmond
has there been a more quiet and order
ly jag" The plain clothes man who
mixed in with the jolly crowd ehuckiea
and tweeted as heartily as the old
codgers and the dear old ladies lined
up along the promenades. The scene
was strange but charming one. Au-
tomobiles, loaded TO the dashboards
with happy humanity in the shape of
grayhaired elders and mites of tots
Tired the southside of Broad street
from hurphy's hotel to Masonic tenn
pie SO closely that once inside the line
IL was next to Impossible for one to
get outside The wrong side of Broad
street was deserted.
From every direction floated sylphs
fairies, gnomes. columbines, harle-
quins, clowns, and every conceivable
carnival spirit. Charlie Chaplin was
/ there in various make-ups The swell
Monument avenue beau strutted side
by side with the gangster. The Sew
enteenth-street lad rubbed elbows
with the merry wight from the North
side.
! Hello. Bill" shouted fellow
made up as Topsey
! He must be a Alick," commented
| a Charlie Chaplin.
| She amt him, he's a her. cor
rected a clown with a blue nose and
/ red ears.
! And ii was fact. as could be told
| in moment by glance at the feet
! That was the way the fly cops and the
/ policemen distinguished the bows from
the girls. For be it known that the
| Richmond girl is noted for the small
size Of her feet
There was no ill-tempered display
of roughness, nor was there single
! rude action apparent al any time. The
| police had no call to call down the
youngsters. EVERYTHING went along
Ike moving picture. and almost as
as qultely, except at times there were
/ roars of merriment as some ex OPP
| tionally ludlcrous group passed along
/ Few friends recognized each other In
their giddy make-ups Some of the
men wore masks, some did not, and
some didn't have to. as a policeman
remarked.
Many of the girls ran to swagger
suits. with canes and iauut headEear.
one girl posed as Buster Brown, Her
feet were not so small. aud she had
a gay crowd Of merrymakers at her
heels all along the Boulevard Her
! companion. a fellow made up as a
prizefghter. saw that she got by all
! riRft. re was an I@IH9CSssafy adj
junct. and might have been excess
baggage for ali that, for not one IN
that vast crowd Of rishtsesrs and
/ joyhnders would have permitted any
! one to have said anything unkind to
4 that girl. She grinned all along the
line, aud shook her pretty head quite
saucily at Captain George Pollock,
who stood amid n gay crowd at Muir
j phys enjoying the carnival
The scene resembled largely that oi
Christmas eve, except 1t was shy the
nofce incidental to that great festival.
! There was scarcely any noise last
night. That was the strange and the
! peculiar part of the whole affair.
That's what made il all seem a nov
Ing picture or delightful dream.
Mayor Ainslie and Judge Richard
son enjoyed the antics Of youthful
! Richmond for a long time, and it is
quite possible these two grim officials
] will beam more kindly dnwn ,npon
humanity today when they get to
tI1GlF oitlGUS III tiIE BdutA Oiu lily IAdil.
Justice Maurice will spin over with
bubbling bon mots in police court to-
day, and it Will be a pleasure to .ap-
pear before him even though fhH pen
atty may be fiye-spot for traffic vio-
latfon.
Even the policemen viii feel like
turning all prisoners loose today, after
such a splendid celebration of Hal
lowe'en.'
Many fortunes We're told last night.
Many mirrors We're broken, and many
handsful of flowers We're spilled over
the left shoulder toward the moon
beams. while young folks by the hun
dred walked backward down the cellar
steps with looking glass in their
hands TO get q glimpse of their flu
turt better half.
Did you ever dip for apples? Did
/ YOU ever try to bite an apple floating
around In a pan of water with youg
hands tied behind you?
/ But most of those on Broad street
last night We're peaches"