The Washington herald., 1917-03-06

The old-fashioned mother. who brought
six children to the parade and let the
little ones take their chances in the push
Ing, crushing masses of humanity that
crowded against the ropes, was quite
in evidence yesterday.
At the Fifteenth street turn in the
avenue, the emergency signal went Just
inside the ropes and two scout vmas-
ters took out two little girls. One had
been crushed until she was nearly In
a swoon. the other had been trodden
upon In the rush to let an ambulance
through the ropes.
Despite the fact that both children were
quite I'll. the mother declined to leave
her place of vantage against the ropes
because, she said, she'd been there since
$50 yesterday morning and didn't want
to be crowded out of place.
The shoe-shine emporiums along the
downtown streets did q land office bust
ness from o'clock yesterday afternoon
until dark. There were rumors that
the Amalgamated Order Of Shoe. Hat and
Clothes Cleaners had been in league with
the man who ordered a fine surface of
sand and grit spread over PennsyIya-
MIA avenue during the early part of
the day.
The idea of the grit was to soak up
the moisture that had been falling for
two or three days. but as soon as they
put down the grit. the sun came out,
dried of everything and then, to make
matters worse, the wind arose with real
January gustiness. Parts Of the ave-
nue. resembled a border sandstor1n dur
ing the festivities.
The sand filtered down collars. into
coat pockets, behind ears. into eyes and
everywhere else it didn't belong One
bugler in the parade had to stop and
uncork. his bugle which was rapidly
filling up with a sand-dune inside. As
soon as the pageant began to draw to
a close, there was a general scramble
for clothes-brushes and the shine
parlors.
The lads who like their toddy OF a
morning got their first grim taste yes
terday of a dry" Washington In addi-
ton to the regular Sabbath drought, the
alcohol squad awoke yesterday morning
with most of the wet" reserve that was
carried over from Saturday. thoroughly
depleted
There was n mad race toward Bladens-
burg and other Maryland towns. where
oases were known to exist. Toward
Bladensburg, they most of the thirsty
ones poured by auto. by street car-any-
way they could get there.
It's a safe bet that the floating popula-
tiOn of Bladensburg was out of all bounds
yesterday and the money that flowed
across the bars was enough to make a
Washington wet-goods merchant weep
into his mustache.
The downtown hotels were packed with
the toy-seeking element of the younger
set all yesterday afternoon, after the
first novelty of the parade had worn it.
self OF.
Through the Ebbitt lobby. swarrned a
restless. dense crowd seeking friends, buy
ing luncheon and merely looking at each
other. The clerks toiled like fends to
stem the torrent of inquiries and the tele-
phone girls religion became a negligible
quantity early in the day.
At the Raleigh. the Shoreham, the Will
lard and other big downtown hotels, the
same performance was repeated.
A battery horse nearly gummed the
whole parade midway between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets yesterday after
noon. Either the District of Colum-
bia breeze or the music of the band
was too much for him and he began
to caper.
When a battery horse. in a team OF