The New York herald., 1921-03-28
brilliant ThrOng of Churchgoers
In Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue
Buoyancy Of Spirit and
Sprightliness of Manner
Dominate Crowd.


section OF New York were swelling the
uplifting notes OF Gloria in Exceisis to
ward the close OF yesterdays forenoon
services the sun broke through a cloud
mist that had shrouded the city and
flooded with burst of golden sunshine
the gayest Easter Day parade Fifth
avenue has known In recent years.
1T was not a record making crowd AZ
to numbers that Joined In Manhattan's
1921 Easter Sunday church walk, but
there was a 5uoyancy Of spirit and a
sprightliness of manner about the crowd
that ambled along the sidewalks OF New
York's famous thoroughfare that even
the fifty extra policemen who had been
assigned to give sort of official dignity
| to the Easter parade did not fail 10
note
Nobody seems to be worried about
nothin' to-day" observed a policeman
with five bars on his coat sleeve as he
watched the 5000 persons who had at
tended mass in st. Patricks Cathedral
There are three chapters to the Easter
| Sunday parade In Fifth avenue. The
\ first Is the professional made up chiefly
Of persons hurrying to the II o'clock
services. The second Is the interlude OF
waiting with thousands ambling to kin
time until the third and real chapter.
1 the after service walk. opens at half
past IL and continues two hours.
Every church Of every denomination
had its capacity congregation for the
TIE Deum and holy communion at IL
/ o'clock. Tho Gothic walls OF st. Pat
rick's held the largest number or wor-
shippers. with a congregation OF 5000.
The other congregations In order of size
In the churches OF the upper Fifth
avenue district were those in ST.
Thomas's. St Bartholomew, the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian and the Collegiate
| Church OF st. Nicholas. with its tradi-
tions and actual reminders of New
| York's Easter Sundays OF three centuries
ago.
| 5000 at st. Thomas's.
The Rev. DIR. Stires, rector of St
Thomas's. preached to nearly 1000 per-
sons. He could have preached to 1000
more had there been room for them in
the church at the avenue and Fifty-third
street. A thousand persons blocked the
front door hoping for admittance and
500 more waited patiently at the side en-
trance. Pew holders were accordingly
forced to use the rear entrance. When
q fraction of the waiting crowds could
be admitted Messrs. Frederick Harrison
| Baldwin. Franklin A. Piummer. Alexan-
der NJ Haden. George f. Fahys and the
other ushers had to combine diplomacy
with physical effort in finding vacant
seatings.
Messrs Charles Steele. William II.
Truesdale Charles II. Stout William
Fahnestock. Samuel w. Fairchild and
Messrs. Fahys and Hadden were among
the representatives of the wardens and
vestrymen at the service. Others who
attended were Mrs. Edwin II. Weather
bee, Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock,
one time United States Senator William
Andrews Clark, Mrs. Charles Potter
King, his daughter: DIR. and Mrs. Lewis
Rutherfurd Morris. son-in-law and
daughter OF the former Senator; Mr..
and Mrs. Whtewright Watson. Mrs.
Frederick r. Frelinghuysen. Mr.. and
! Mrs Rodney Williams. Mrs. Jose Ay-
mar. Mr. James w. Gerard. Mrs. Price
Post Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Jr Miss Louise Sands, Mr.. and Mrs.
George r. Read, Mrs. Edward n. Brei-
tung Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Milbank. DR..
and Mrs. Clarence NJ. Williams. Mr.. and
Mrs F.. Hayward Ferry. Mrs. Charles @.
Ayres. Major-Gen. Charles +. Roe. Mrs.
Edward J. Bcrwind. who was accom-
panied by Miss Julia Berwind and Miss
| Margaret Dunlap OF Philadelphia; Mrs.
! Hamilton Nick. Twombly. Miss Ruth
Vanderbilt Twombly, Mr.. and Mrs. Ira
Barrows, Mr.. and Mrs Edwin Main Post,
Jr. {: Mrs. William Lowe Rice. the Misses
| Rice Mr.. and Mrs. William de Forest
Manlce Mrs. Jay Gould and her small
daughter. Miss Dorothy Gordon King.
Miss Katherine Porter. Mrs. Thomas H.
Howard, Mr.. Thomas III. Howard. her
| son. and DIR. and Mrs. Charles II. Peck.
! At st. bartholomew.
\ In ST. Bartholomew Church at Park
avenue and Fifty-first street service
OF exceptional beauty was given. The
choir sang Dvorak's TIE Deum Iauua-
mus, Hyde's Kyrie Eleison and Gloria
Tibi, and Gounods Sanctus. The Offer
tory anthem was from The Messiah
Mrs. Vanderbilt. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
White and Mr.. and Mrs. William y.
Osgood Field were members of the large
Vanderbilt clan to attend the service
in ST. Bartholomew's. In that congrega-
ton also were Miss Polly Blaine Dam
rosch. Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Wing, Mr..
and Mrs L. Stuart Wing. Wilber A.
Bloodgood, Miss Rosalic Bloodgood. Mr..
and Mrs. John Clinton Gray, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Blackstone Taylor. Mr.. and
Mrs James Blackstone Taylor. Jr, Mrs.
Edwin Gould and Mr.. Frank NJ. Gould.
her son: Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gray
Guswold. Miss Lucy Frelinghuysen. Mr..
and Mrs. Newbold Morris, Miss Katha-
rine Emmett,
A Fifth avenue Easter Sunday parade
knows no dogmas. no color line nor yet
any set color scheme. When the recess
sionals had been sung at the services
the avenue became ga!ly cosmopolitan.
: Men of note In business life. women
who make modern fashionable society
what Il is In New York ambled tno one
could or wanted to hurry up and down
the east and west sidewalks and be-
came part of an interesting and inter-
ested human mass that included squads
of professional models, demonstrating
the latest fad In abbreviated feminine at
tire and scores OF pot hated and cuia-
way coated young men, each with gar
dcnia IN his right lapel. For two hours
they strolled leisurely. studying each
ether curlously and looking squarely into
each others eyes. But 1t was a modish
crowd. Easter Sunday crowds always
ore, and the fifty extra policemen had
nothing to do but look smart and absorb
the sights Tho traffic police earned
a days wage.
Four sons and one grandson OF tho
late Yuan Shih Kai. who was president
of the Chinese Republic. were among the
paraders. They are the Messrs. William
Alexander. Henry and Thomas Yuan.
sons Of the late Chinese President and
Charles Yuan, n grandson. They come
from Huan, are students at Middlebury
College. Middlcbury. VT. and arc In
the city for the Easter holidays.