The Washington times., 1923-08-08

were held above the heads Of the
crowd until the procession came in
sight, when even these were
lowered.
A number of the smaller stores In
the lower section of the avenue,
from Peace Monument to about
Four-and-a-half street, were open
for business this morning. In one
a shoe sale was in progress and IN
another marked down shirts were
displayed. There were no customers
and, just before the funeral pro-
cession passed, several Of them
hung out CLOSED" signs.
Several temporary lemonade
stands on the lower avenue did a
big business during the hour be-
fore the passage of the cortege.
Several old fashioned SNOWFALL
wagons were in evidence, and the
vendors were KEPT busy scraping at
huge chunks of ice and pouring on
the SNOW" thus produced sticky.
violently hued, flavoring fluid from
long necked bottles.
Two army ambulances, with an
alert medical corps sergeant in
charge Of EACH. were stationed at
Third street and the Avenue. De-
spite the heat and the great throngs
there, they. were not called upon
for duty.
The curb along Pennsylvania ave-
nue. in Washington's Chipatown
blossomed forth in color as groups
of women and girls sought shelter
from the blazing sun beneath gayly-
cclored paper parasols procured from
the Oriental baZaars clustered there.
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Vendors passed quietly through
the crowds on the lower Avenue
prior to the procession, hawking
fans, parasols, and celluloid buttons
of the late President mounted on
small bows of crepe.
1.-THE sympathizers, and I count
every man, woman and child in the
lines lining Pennsylvania avenue as
such, could be depended upon to
police themselves" declared Cap
tain Brown. IF it were not for
handling traffic the police would
not have been needed" Such was
the testimony of the police to the
spirit which prevailed the length of
Pennsylvania avenue when the
largest crowd that ever assembled
along the highway gathered.
From early this morning until
the funeral cortege began moving
- "a
spectators flowing into Pennsyl-
ton of the city. BY 9 o'clock the
sidewalks on both sides from the
Treasury building to the Capitol
was lined by spectators crowded in
six and eight deep. Every window
and balcony along the line con-
tanned its full quota, while the
roofs Of many of the buildings were
crowded.
What struck thousands Of specta-
tors was the deep silence which
prevailed. Even when the various
divisions Of the army, navy and
marine corps passed, it seemed as
though the men stepped with the
lightest possible tread for the
tramping of thousands of feet on
the asphalt surface was barely
audible beyond the first line of
spectators packing the curbings.
Rarely was a laugh heard and then
it was quickly suppressed. Men
and women and children wept, and
they were not ashamed to be seen
doing 50.
This demonstration Of grief sur
passes that marking the funeral Of
Queen Victoria in London" said a
man wearing the insignia of the
Spanish American war veterans. II
saw that and never expected to see
anything approaching it again. But
this surpasses it,
Thousands of automobiles, many
of them bearing Maryland license
tags, were crowded in along the
avenue wherever a point of vantage
could be gained. 1t was estimated
by the police that more than 10000
persons had come from Baltimore
by automobile.
Major Daniel Sullivan directed
police operations from Fourteenth
street, astride bay horse which
he has christened THE Old Master"
A notable feature of the police
control was that none of the white
gloved officers carried night
stick-a tribute to the anticipated
of the Washington peo-
pie.
Observance of tribute to the ma
tional emblem was strictly enforced
by policemen. They CURLY told
negligent citizens to bare their
heads when the flag passed. man
needed to be told only once.
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