Evening star., 1924-07-31
TOURIST JURORS
LIKE WASHINGTON
Auto Visitors Praise Capital
City and Offer Impressions
in Reporters Survey.

Trees and parks are generally the
first thing about Washington to i'm
press tourists arriving in the city.
Second in line comes the condition
of some of the streets. particularly
Wisconsin avenue and lower Four
teenth street. Next, Impressions go
scattering away to types of build
ings and front lawns, slow-moving
pedestrians and the layout Of the
city, including l-wonder-which-w way
is-north.
These observations are the direct
result of 80 minutes of thorough in
vestigation of the impressions of II
picked tourist jurors. selected from
the ranks of tourists to tell: What
do you think of Washington" The
survey was made from among those
parked on Pennsylvania avenue in
front of the White House few days
ago.
There is a perpetual population of
motorists lined UP at the curb in
front of 1900 Pennsylvania avenue
From o'clock in the morning until
laet afternoon there are seldom less
than a dozen cars there.
On the day of the survey, Ohio and
Pennsylvania led in contributions to
the crowd. There werc two cars from
different parts of the Buckeye State
and three from the Keystone. One
was a North Carolina machine, an
other was from Indiana, still another
was from upper Maryland. Then
there was machine from Michigan:
one New Yorker, Florida car, ad-
Nertising every thing in that state
with pennants, and vehicle from
far-off Kansas.
These constituted the jury.
The diffident reporter in this gath
erlng of automobiles started to make
the rounds.
JealOusly of state Names.
1ndiana's quota consisted Of man,
evidently father and chauffeur, a
grandmother, a wife and young girl.
The answer substantially was: This
is a nice city alright. l suppose lots
of money is spent in keeping the
streets clean. But l don't like In
diana avenue much. especially since
Rhode Island avenue, named after a
little, tiny state, is so much bigger
ana more attractive. (They had
gone down Indiana avenue en- route
70 the Capitol. and had chanced on
Rhode Island avenue from the Balti-
more pike. They must have ridden
the whole length OF it from Mount
Rainier to 18th Street)
Two youngsters from Ohio tin
can-touring, were next in line. A boy
with red hair said: Il don't know.
| haven't seen much of the town yet
That park where the tourist camp is
sure has got everything you can
want-golf links, swimming place
tennis courts. base ball fields and
such. 1t must be a pretty good sort
of place to live. Are there any
Senators and Representatives in town
now"
Inspired by Indiana's remarks about
Indiana avenue. this pair was asked
how they liked Ohio avenue Tn
luckily for this story. they had not
yet found it.
A retired broker or copper magnate
from Michigan sat regally at the
wheel of Il $4,000 automobile, while
his family wandered about taking
snapshots He looked austere, but
wasn't.
ROaSts for Streets.
1T seems to me- said he that ap-
preaching thoroughfares to the city
could be put in much better condition.
We wanted to come through George
town, and that avenue leading down
to it is not an avenue at all It's a
cobblestoned road and narrow as
all get-out. Why isn't it asphalted
Why. back in lansing
AT any rate. though, he said he be-
iieved Washington to be one of the
most beautiful cities he ever was in,
and-well, even Paris can't touch