Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-04
TOURISTS TO VISIT
CITY DAY
Excursions Also Scheduled
for Local Citizens Who
Seek Recreation.

While Labor day tomorrow will be
enjoyed by thousands of Washing
tonians on the highways, the water
ways and at nearby Summer resorts.
indications point to an influx of tour
lists and convention delegates and to
a record breaking parade and base
ball game under auspices of the
Metropolitan Police and Firemen's Re-
lief Association.
The holiday. which originated about
45 years ago, and now generally brings
to American people a day of rest and
entertainment, will have as it's princi-
pal feature here in Washington the
parade of firemen from Washington,
Maryland and Virginia, starting at
1915 from Peace Monument, and the
base ball game and field day at Crit
fifth Stadium. opening at o'clock.
Excursions on the principal lines of
transportation out of the city already
have taken Their quota of merry
makers and it was estimated that
thousa nds more were planning to get
out in the open by motor car, bus and
boat. But the city will not be deserted,
as conventions are about to OPEN and
hotels report many reservations from
tourists who have planned to make
the Natiopal Capital and its sights,
their cXcuTSlOI fpUuSZNOuS.
At Rejecting Pool.
One of the picturesque features of
the holiday here will he the last dis
play of the season by the beautiful
rainbow fountain at the Lincoln
Memorial Rejecting Pool on Seven
teenth street. The fountain will play
from to o'clock today and tomor-
row. before being shut off for the
season.
Train and street car service will be
augmented for the holiday Ten
trains will leave the District line for
a. In, and at 1890. 8. sis, 6, s, 9 and
10 pm. The Washington & Old
Dominion Railway is preparing to
handle the usual holiday crowds to
Great Falls, while the Washington
Railway & Electric Co. expects to
haul many hundreds over it's line to
Glen Echo.
Several hundred left Washington
yesterday afternoon on an excursion
to Danville, Va, to return late to-
morrow, while others took advantage
of special rates offered on trains to
Richmond. Some are planning to
leave by regularly scheduled trains
over the various railroads, which are
prepared to handle the usual holiday
crowds.
Two hundred and fifty left on the
Southland of the Norfolk & WASH
lnSton Steamboat Co. for a special
trip to Virginia Beach, to return
Tuesday. The Washington Colonial
Beach Steamboat Co. is expecting to
handle crowds of about 1000 going
to Colonial Beach to remain until
late Labor day or early Tuesday.
Hotels reported yesterday that
many reservations have been made
and they expect several thousand
sightseers to register today and to-
morrow.
Army-Navy Union Meeting.
The thirty ninth annual convention
of the Army and Navy Union opens
tomorrow. bringing huge group of
delegates, who, after business ses-
sions in the auditorium of the In
terror Department Building, tomor-
row morning and afternoon, will at
tend a special performance at a local
theater tomorrow night.
The Alpha Sigma Lamba F'rater-
nifty, in convention here, will give a
banquet and dance in the Washington
Hotel tomorrow night.
Requests to have the city gayly
decorated for the holiday were sent
to merchants by the Central Labor
Union. The union arranged no special
program for it's members, announcing
that they could best enjoy themselves
in their own way on their own
holiday.
Labor day, which is observed as
legal holiday in the District of Column
bia, all the States, Porto Rico, Hawaii
and Alaska, was inaugurated by the
Knights of Labor in 1882, when a
parade was staged in New York. In
1884 the knights of Labor passed
resolution offered by a member,
George X. Lloyd, that all parades of
labor should be held on that day.
Various labor organizations started
the movement to have the day
recognized officially as a legal holiday
and the first law to that effect was
passed in Colorado, March Is, 1887.
New York. New Jersey and Massa-
chusetts soon adopted similar laws,
and gradually the day became
national holiday