Evening star., 1917-09-05

There were no drum majors in the pa
rade-but those near Peace monument
saw diminutive colored boy, not more
than seven years old. doing a combina-
ton or cake walk and drum major an
tics just out of pure vitality and be
cause he couldn't make his feet behaye
when the band played. Maj. Gen. Joseph
L. Kuhn, grand marshal of the parade,
who is division commander of Camp
Meade at Admiral Nd where are the
National Army men. in whose honor yes
terdays demonstration was held, was
the particular object of admiration for
this urchin.
The tableau float depicting the his
tory OF civilization. with Uncle Sam
placing Columbia on the throne of
world-liberty. and all the other nations
grouped about. won admiration. Among
those who appeared in the various roles
Were: Columbia. Miss Jean Downs: at
tendant to Columbia. Hilda Fuller:
Uncle Sam, George Ackerman. jr.: Jus
tice. Frances Richards: Victory, Mary
smith Hall; France. Catherine t'airall:
ieen Mahoney; Russia. Tyler Norman:
Canada, Mary Beth Jackson: Greece,
Nancy Eason: Scotland. Marie Schait-
mann; Ireland, Elsie Witthuhn: Japan.
Bertha Mack: Spain. Pearl HardeSty
Belgian widow, Eleanor H. Jester; Bel
gian children. Jack Jester and Mildred
Fairall; Portugal. Marie Martin: Aus
tralia. Dorothy Burch: Holland. Jo-
sephine Fuller. Other young women on
the float in costume were: Anna
Broechin. Elizabeth Duerst. Helen Carr
Violet Reese. Rita p Rafferty, Inez
Lewis, Freda Braugh. Lillian Burch
Mary Mannix. 1nez a Harvey. Lillian
Otto and Mabel L. Tip
Roles in history We're impersonated
by John Bull w. E. Palmer; United
States marine, A. r. Popkins: West
Pointer, \. c. WEIGH; United States
sailors, NJ. X, Johnston and J. Milton
/ ID ter ytyiy -,tt-
c. Rudolph: French officer, l. G..
Quesada: English cavalry officer.
b. g. Herdenreich; Scotch soldier, j =
Bowling: British army officer. John J.
, Hobson. jr.; Roman soldier, ]. II Craw-
ford. Others participating were John
Wagner. J. T. l.. Wright. Charles Il,
| Beall, L. A White and H. T. Riley.
The best Girl Scout in America
walked with the Virginia avenue
| playground group-Miss Eleanor Put
zki-who recently received a gold
eaglet from Mrs. Woodrow Wilson She
| is an assistant instructor at the play
ground.
Aiding the District police and the
home guard in preserving order and
acting as a safety guard along the line
were 1of Baltimore policemen. 1t was
| the good fortune of one policeman from
! the Monumental city. with a poetic SOU
| as well as d poetic name one Il Terny-
son. to serve beuty in 6istress. One of ,hs
prcttiest girls on the big foat drained
| her white huckskin slipper, Cinderalla
| fashion. and Patrolman Tennyson .raI.
lantly rescued it for her and brushed
the dirt off with his coat sleeve But
there the romance had to end, for the
shoe belonged TO n blush;ng bride, Mrs
! Nancy Eason, wife of n trooper from
| Fort Mycr.
President Wilson showed that he
| knows how to halt as well as narct
/ during the course of the parade yes.
| terday
Just before the head of the parad,
| got to 18th street Il cavalryman cam,
riding by. He was going along fine.
| ly when all Of a sudden his handsome
| charger got excited because of III,
band, 'or something, and started tc
prance around Seemingly, the prarc.
| ing stced deliberately took himself anf
! his rider squarely in front of the guild.
er Of the nations destiuies
/ President Wilson threw in the clutch
I as it were. and slowed down hea,,ti.
| fully. without a lost motion. ANY ot
! the soldiers who followed hin, miaht
/ have been proud of tire President.
| foot work. as he slowed up to allow
{ the rearing horse time to rcar his 6,f
! 1t was but a few feet of short mac.
| ing before the cavalrynan had hi,
| mount under control. Then the Presi.
/ dent with his flag waving over hi.
shoulder, stepped out again as before
There was just one cat in the parad,
I yesterday.
! How or why that lean gray cat left
its favorite alley to take a look "A,
what was going on in Pennavlyanit
avenue would be a hard one for anv.
body to answer.
| 1t was during one of the lulls in tn,
marching when the ca r. sidled throuu,
the lines at the south side of pennsvl
| vania avenue at lith street out o,
the car tracks it came then to th,
north side of the street in an endeayo
! to get through. All the poor felin.
could see was people. and yet more peo
pie. Home was never like this.
| He or she made break for th
crowd, but drew back when a hurdre,
children called kitty. kitty, kitty,
Eyeing with suspicion the friendl,
hands of children extended by tn
score. the cat kept on down the street
beating back on the parade
Children who sat on the curb all alon,
the street, as childEen always do Will
parades are going by, whistled to III
cat. called to the cat. pleaded to tn
cat and some even threw things at tn
cat But 1T was no use.
IL AS it walled man reached over tn