The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-06-04
BIC CROWD
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TODAY
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that IN the banked stands
and along the sidewalks.
There is something new
In street scenes every min.
ute, at this writing. Each
temple wants to Guido the
one ahead of it in sound
and brilliance. And, strange
to relate, each seems doing
it to the watcher along The
Avenue. just when one fig.
ures the last word in in
spring march and dazzling
costume has been said, the
next group goes stronger.
Serenades Are Countless.
There's no special march route
today. The temples and their
musical contingents are proceed
ing up Pennsylvania avenue as far
IS the White House where Noble
Warren G. Harding is receiving
countless serenades, and q good
many of them stop en- route in
the lobby Of the Munsey building,
playing and singing friendly greet
ings to The Washington Times
and The Washington Herald.
Sing Loud Of Iowa.
Decked in lemon-yeIlow blouses
and stockings and black trousers,
the Syria Temple Patrol, hailing
from the Smoky City, deployed in
the lobby and broke loose with every
thing they had-which was consider.
able. Some OF them got further in
than that. The tlIneful glee club Of
Za-Ga-Zig Temple. Des Moines, Iowa,
reached the city room of the two
newspapers on the twelfth floor and
caused the walls to ring with varied
selections They got a great hand
from reporters and copy readers.
Even the city editor smiled, an al
most unprecedented thing,
The temple bands wound their way
to headquarters in the Homer build
ing, and there the serenading pro-
Washington poured along the pave
ments, a Washington with the hand
Of greeting out and welcome,
A4OOAC1 CNCA OIA AbS 4HSs
In Garden Of Allah.
The visiting temples marched for
the first time between the mighty
pillars Of the Garden Of Allah, Penn
syivania avenue from Fifteenth TO
Seventeenth street. They cheered as
they entered this stretch. And if
Washington was dazzled with their
eoloFful habiliments, their own eyes
were filled with the miles of flaunt-
ing green, red and yellow festooned
from lofty office building and story
high store, mixed with thousands OF
American flags. PICTURESQUE was
the surrender Of the Capital.
Never, even at inauguration time,
have Washington's hotels been so
thronged as today. The Hobbies are
full with Shriners making acquain-
The hands Of Maine and Texas.
meeting in fraternal clasp.
When, through open June win
dows, new strains float in, pro-
claiming the approach of yet an
other band, there is a concerted
movement toward the portals and
the cheers of the mobiles mingle
with applause of the plain citizenry.
Were the triumphs of Egyptian
and Roman conquerors any more
enthusiastically acclaimed, the
merry bedlam must have shaken
down the walls of Cairo, the pillars
OF the Eternal City!
Washington won't hold 'em,"
professional pessimists declared Of
the tremendous invasion weeks ago.
But Washington is holding, 'em and
absorbing 'em. The spirits the
thing. It's welcome, and thrice
welcome" and az long as all hands
are in a good humor a town can't
be too full. A circus is pretty we'll
crowded, but no one would have 1t
any other way, would they?
Like jeweled waves beneath an
overtone of stirring music the co.
horts move up The Avenue while the
sun advances to meridian and
starts its westward decline. They
come in blue and gold, red and vel
low, silver and purple capped with
the inevitable fez. ordinarily in
Turkey red, but varied in a good