The New York herald., 1922-04-17
GRAND TIDE OF COLOR
Chauncey Depew Says Day
Was Most Remarkable
He Had Ever Seen.
FLAPPER NOT PROMINENT
Dressmakers' Scouts and Pro-
fcssional Clothes Horses
in Vast Crowds.

On the word of Chauncey M. Depew,
emerging from st. Thomas's with a
smile for all mankind, New York has
never joyed in a lovelicr Easter in the
long, long sweep Of his SS years, in an
Easter of such sunshine and blue sky,
such gorgeous flowers, such CHARM
ingly dressed women and such eager
and delighted crowds of churchgoers
and strollers.
And in all or well nigh all that met
the eye as the tide of color and beauty
flowed up and down Quality street, be-
tween st. Gaudens's stern hero at tie
park and the abandoned homes of
the Knickerbockers in Washington
Square, there was that which lifted
the heart like song and wine.
The Easter parade, picturesque in
stitution OF the days before Fifth ave-
nue in it's upper reaches was invaded
by trade, and then had fallen for years
into kind Of sightseeing Holiday for
prisoners Of hope and out of town
visitors, was revived in more than the
glory Of the days of Ward McAllister.
For upward of three hours. as the
majestic churches and the great Gothic
cathedral filled and gave their services
and cmptied, some hundreds. IL not
thousands, Of the men who guide
American business and make our art,
with women folk hardly less noted.
performed the traditional stroll. .."'
Crowds Like Sidewalks.
To observe them in Sind'of hungry
curiosity and to feast eyes on the
latest from Paris and from tLc Fifth
avenue shops that outdo Paris came
hundreds of thousands--or SO it seemed
to mass about church entrances and
to crowd the three miles Of sidewalk
along which the gorgeous professions
took their way.
All the avenue ran full with men and
women In the bravest and gayest they
had wrung from brains, brawn or good
luck. and at certain marvelously in
tcresting points In this bankful stream
were great. swirling pools Of humanity
--at st. Thomas's, at st. Patrick's
Cathedral. at the Collegiate Church OF
ST. Nicholas. at the Brick Presbyterian.
at the Park Plaza, In Madison Square
and in lower Fifth avenue In the region
OF the Church of the Ascension and the
First Presbyterian Church.
AS for the churches themselves. IN
Quality Street and elsewhere. for that
natter, they were never so thronged
and never. 70 pastors said, attend I'd by
persons In spirit more devout. Many
were required TO exact tickets OF ad-
mission even to attempt to accommodate
The people, but they failed by thousands
10 6nd room sufficient for all those that
would have treated their souls to the
beauty of Easter service.
Fifth Avenue Has No Monopoly.
Easter worship Is not confined to
Fifth Avenue any more than Easter
psradcs are. though the great glittcrng
thoroughfare that cuts Manhattan q
something East and something West
commands tho Imagination aud mag.
nctizes the largest throngs on Easter
day.
There were. OF course. o,erflowing
churches In other quarters OF the city,
and other streets--Grand. 125th and
1Slst among them--had their turnouts
Of the gayly dressed and flower deco
rated The period of sightseeing and
strolling was In church hours and a
little before and a little after but the
amethystine beauty of tho day and the
old, old notion OF seeing what others
we're wearing kept these and other main
thoroughfsres crowded from morning
until night.
IL was therefore particularly busy
day for the police in traffic work and
IN the prevention Of pocket picking and
In Fifth avenue the men on station were
supplemented by squads In motor cars
that cruiscd UP and down ready for any
alarm or accident.
4 In Corinthians II Is written. '.Tbc
fashion of this world passes away" and
Paul might have added to his friends
OF Corinth. "and returncth again." for
II tho Easter parade (whcn one cliini-
mates churchGoing and the business OF
ucrving the soul) revealed anything at
ell II revealed the rcpercussion OF long
past styles.
IhiS was the Easter or the remark
able sleeves. This must be written in
ali seriousness. for the eye OF dunn
founded man tspcskng OF the less inn
portant sex strictly) fell never upon
such sleeves.
sleeves Butte TO Laugh Tn.
N Is dccrced that tho rulers OF man
hifd shall this year wear huge. pictur-
csquc sleeves-sioeves ample enough to
conceal many laugs, at the foibies and
follies of the other sex--sleeves OF re-
lnarkable size and variety. looking. in
deed. as II they had been. built first and
as II the frocks had been added to them
as an after thought. They were like
the capacious elecvcs OF a mandarin. yet
Continued on Psge Five.
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