The Washington times., 1922-10-16
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NEW ORLEANS
Delegation of 800 Men Is One
Of First Big Groups
at Meeting.
Times Staff Correspondent.

Times Staff Correspondent.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16-
Hurdling out of dusty pullman
cars into every available bathtub
in the St. Charles hotel and thence
into the public thoroughfarcs to
awaken drowsy old N'Y'swlirs
from its late-summer lethargy,
Washington's three hundred per-
sonally appointed delegates tore
Of their first important mission
by thus informing 100000 immi-
grants to the fourth annual
American Legion convention that
Washington had arrived"
Mardi Gras Spirit Ablaze.
Confiscating every form Of animal
and pet, from the lowly burro on
down through the billygoat. picanin-
ny and ground squirrel domain, the
District Of Columbia procession.
which found its way among hotel
corridors, into cafes and other places
of public premise, received a con-
tinuous round OF unstinted laudation
from visitors the country over.
Some even gasped at the antics
precipitated by the Washington en-
thusiasts. and many declared that
their advent to the convention was
the first gun in the human tide
which has veritably swept N'Y'aw-
Inns off its feet.
The Mardi Gras spirit II ablaze
in the ssreets and public gathering
places. Lungs and larynX of Com
mander Watson r. Miller's hench-
lN..N.
known form OF noise device TO i'm.
press upon this seething city of
former war wayfarers just how ac-
tive an organization the District OF
Columbia department OF the Ameri-
can Legion is.
Hurdy gurdies. caliopes, Clatter
sticks, bells. horns. and confetti
shattered the atmosphere with an as.
sortment OF nerve-taxing bedlam suf.
ficient to tear a normal person loose
from his senses. but the whole Cres.
cent city seems to be contagious with
the carnival spirit and each is out
doing the other in distraction OF one
form or another.
Astonished hotel managers throw
up their hands in hopeless surrender
as detachment OF Doughboys leads
braying donkey through its mosaic
lobby.
Traffic policemen trying in vain
to control automobile transportation
are brushed aside by some hilarious
Cob who takes impromptu command
OF the Go Go and Stop Stop" semi.
phore.
Ny'awlins is momentarily trans
formed into a petit Paris with its
street choruses chanting familiar
A. f. F. marching songs IAN We Do
Is Sign the Pay ROLF and "Hinkey
Dinkey Parlez Vous."
California cowboy delegation in
red silk shirts, sombreros and blue
bandana handkerchiefs plays tot
low your leader" among hotel palms
and in and out among the diners in
evening costume.
A hilarious itinerant in clown cos
tune from Cheyenne or somewhere
slides down spiral staircase on
marble bannister and knocks wit
nesses off their feet by massaging
rubber plants in the lobby with
chamois cloth.
Frisco Wants Next Meet.
These are only few of the ran
dom performances which are making
the present conclave something for
N'y'awlins to remember and serving
as a warning to San Francisco,
which is here bidding for the 1928
holocaust.
But N'y'awlins is just smiling and
brewing it's coffee blacker and black
er. II has undertaken the task of
absorbing all Of the enthusiasm these
legionnaires can exhude and roth-
ing Is going to shock their sense OF
fun.
Pat Dempsey and Dick Leimer,
caring for the training OF young
Granville GUIDE. who is to row q mile
and quarter against Walter
Hoover. Of Duluth, next Friday,
have their charge quartered at the
home Of the Pontchartrain Rowing
Club. They are the only District OF
Columbia visitors who are not quar-
tered at the St. Charles Hotel, the
quiet OF the lake front being more
desirable for Guides nerves than the
uptown excitement.
George Washington Post Band
will play dance music today and this
evening for the Women's Overseas
Club, which has opened a canteen at
Jackson square In the old French
quarter.
Vyeing with the outbursts Of Wash
ington's momentary maniacs In the
corridors of the st. Charles are simi,
lar disturbances from Alabama, Ari'
zona, Colorado, Connecticut. Della
ware. Illinois. Kansas, Kentucky,
Minnesota. New Jersey, North Caro-
lima, North Dakota, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota. Virginia, Vermont,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
Washington's reputation as a
fighting city has preceded the dele.
cation to the scene Of this year .