Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-02
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! FORCES ATT GRIPS
Pacifist Hordes Des n d
Upon Washington to
Poster Congress
NET BY THE P PATRIOTS
City Flies Old Glory in Face of
Apostles of Peace at Any
Price
MET BY THE P PATRIOTS
WASHINGTON. April Q.


'< met today shall declare war on Germany
Il the other is even more insistent that It shal
Nv not. Special train after special train swellet
the ranks Of both sides during the da,
u With hundreds of earnest partisans
't3 The, authorities are frankly apprehensivt
n over the situation. Elaborate police pre-
f cautions have been taken to prevent any
untoward incidents. No lettering or con.
ls gregating on the streets was allowed.
Keep moving Is the police edict.
The dozens Of regular guards and police
at the capitol have been augmented with
q scores Of plain clothes and uniformed Of
y 6cers. President Wilson will be guarded as
4 an executive never before has been watched
= over when he goes to the capitol to deliver
his history -making message.
Thousands of pacihsts. under the direc-
X ton Of the Emergency Peace Federation.
& were to meet this afternoon in convention
hall to demand that this nation remain
aloof in the world war. For almost a week
The peace workers have been marshaling
!. their forces into the capital for the big
! Gest demonstration possible.
Jt CAPITOL CRAwDED
'fS Adding TO the awkwardness Of the situa-
I tion is the fact that Washington Is now en-
tertaining thousands of tourists and visitors
drawn from all over the country Many
came to spend a holy week vacation others
In the vain hope that they may he lucky
enough to gain entrance to the congressional
galleries to witness the stirring events that
the week holds.
Both the pacifsts and the pilgrims of
a patriotism" as the pro-war advocates are
self-dubbed. laid plans for the next few
days, despite official frowns. The ban on
parades seriously hndered their program.
but they hope to make up for II in other
ways. Instead Of parading to the Capitol.
7, the thousands will proceed up Pennsylvania
avenue as ordinary pedestrians on the side
y walks.
IS The city Is ablaze with the national col
4 crs. From every building. public or private.
: the flag is flying. and the hundreds on the
y streets wore the tricolor on their lapels
Even the street cars are decorated fore and
aft with the red, white and blue
BLAZE OF CoLoRs
Not even at Inauguration time has the city
even at inauguration time has the city
been so befiagged IL is right now. For
days the newspapers have been urging all
to show their colors by way of encourage
.ment to the war Congress- today! The
response has been general all over the
city.
Mrs. Marshall Field. well up on the Six
/. teenth street hill, with the French embassy
on side and the Spanish on the other.
ts flying a big American flag over her
door. The Congressional Club, few blocks
down, has taken down the club pennant
and is flying only the stars and Stripes.
4 Mrs. Dewey. almost at the other end of
the broad thoroughfare, has had Old Glory
over her doorway for weeks. Mrs. Eugene l
Hale, widow of one Senator and mother
Of another, Is Haunting the flag from the
circular portico over the doorway, directly
/: opposite. Senator Wadsworth, of New
York, two blocks down. quite at the end
Of that broad Avenue of the Presidents"
In the house that was Jonn Hays. his wife's
girlhood home. alas. is not flying his. 1t
seems as IL the John Hay house ought
to be showing its colors now.
.& Just back of Mrs. Hale's, on X street,
Representative Thomas Dunn of New York,
has flag over his magnificent doorway.
"A block, away on Seventeenth street.
there are two over the Colonial entrance
Of Representative william b. McKinley's |
house-and by the same token two small
silk ones fiutter from the radiator of his |
motor. bit up Sixteenth street the Fred |
erick Delanos house Is showing its colors |
and down on III street. just above the Wads- |
worths unadorned mansion. Thomas Ewing, |
Commissioner of Patents, is showing his
FEW IN CABINET
NJ Some of these flags have been flying for |
weeks. but It has been rather noticeable |
that the higher Government officials have |
not responded to the SHOW -your-colors
slogan. kept the Lanes. who have
Haunted their fag bravely "ever since the
break" until high. wind few days ago
put the gearing out Of commission, not a
single member of the Cabinet has had a
nag out. Today the Lansings and the Hous-
tons are flying their colors. There is no
nag over the McAdoo house. however,
though street In their neighborhood is
fairly abloom with them, nor over the Red
felds's. though this is equally true of Massa-
chusetts avenue in the block they live in.
Almost opposite them is Senator, Lodge s.
and though he's been slow about II he has
Ms flag out today. Which is equally true of
his neighbors. General and Mrs. Crozier,
who, with their lions guarding their door |
have gone tagged until today. Secretary
Daniels and Secretary Wilson, in the same
block the Lanes, have not so far put
their coors out, Miss Agnes Hart Wilson
explained IT, so far they were concerned
BY saying that the trouble is their flag is
too big for the house, and covers 1t up so
completely that the porch is shrouded the
Rooms darkened and their front door more
or less blocked
n One notes that patriotism runs in families
---some families. For instance, there has
been a sp endd big flag floating from the
Pinchot residence since early in February
An equally fine one floats from Mrs Charles
Boughton Woods next coor (Mrs. Wood
was a Miss Emo. the late Mrs Pinchot's
sister). and around the corner on street
Their brother. William Phelps Emo. has had
two flags on his fine colonial mansion.
For long while the only one to keep Mr..
Eno company on that street was Montgom-
cry BlairS Up on New Hampshire avenue
Woodbury. Blair has been flying his flag
and down on Pennsylvania avenue Gist
Blair has Haunted his from the stately old
Blair mansion. which the family has occu-
pied for generations.
n Up near Woodbury. Blair's Perry Belmont
has a large nag floating over his porte
c0chere. A block or two down du Pont Cir
cie has been rather noticeably unadorned.
The Boardman house has, OF course, been
Moving its coiors for weeks Every one
1pows that Miss Boardman is strong for
ne rag. But she has been alone until the
F2istrict Red Cross was offered quarters in
Nc Herbert Wadsworth house. and put up
1eet the Red Cross flag and then the Stars
nd Stripes Today Mrs. William Hit has
~ out her colors; SO has Mrs. Stephen
kins. on X street, One thinks Of them
Sether. for they were old neighbors and
8therine Eikins Is now Mrs. William Hitt
;}1frs. Archibald Hopkins ehas her colors
Ut; and around the corner Connecticut ,
Ifonue the Alexander Graham Bells and
- Charles Bells both have theirs nying,
|1ite the Gilbert Grovenors, on Eighteenth
&f9o(. complied that family triangle Above .
= Circle uaesa chusetts avenue IL gay with |
-. The William Bailey Lamars have
y ~ E1gerd 3. McLeans have a big
4v&E one11>of and q small one over the 4
- - Heuess a., they are now .
|n8o 1nhn N MoIeah's houss on |