Evening star., 1927-11-01
HALLOWEEN HERE
IS SAFE AND SANE
so Arrested in Celebration.
Downtown Thronged.
Dances Held.

The Capital today glanced joyfully
back at the citys 1927 celebration of
halloween last night, with it's thou
sands of revelers, its wealth of color
and noise. and pronounced the fete
huge success. A few details remain
ed over today to liquidate the fun,
some missing gates to be replaced or
round. some court cases as the result
of over celebrating, missing autos to
be located, and the sweeping up of quite
an amount of confetti and storing
away of colorful trappings for an
other twelvemonth.
Police officials characterized the
whole affair a rather quiet one and eS-
timated that so were arrested as an
outgrowth of the celebration.
Downtown Washington was a gala
scene, with multi-colored costumes
like 1.-The hues of Summers rainbow
or the meadow flowers of May" Pi.
rates, matadors. sailors. ladies in old
fashioned dresses. boys in girls cloth
ing and girls in boys. masked and
grotesque figures jostled along in the
merry throngs. Automobiles supplied
their quota, laden with merrymakers
dressed in outlandish garb, and above
the din arose the continuous honk of
auto horns
Many Parties Held.
While the colorful procession was in
full swing, private and public parties
held sway in various parts of the city
All the traditional trappingS were
brought into play again-the witches
the CATS the skeletons, the owls, the
carved pumpkins and the emblems
of harveSttide.
The City Club ballroom, as "Spooky
Hollow" had it's haunted house, pi
rates den and decorations in keeping
with the occasion. The University
Club had its Halloween party and the
Pythian Temple was the scene of a
benefit dance, with a cabaret on one
floor. AT the Washington Hotel, the
third annual dance of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Jewish Consumptive
Relief Society was given. The Fill
pino Club gave a masquerade ball
L'Aiglon.
Three hundred attended the mas
querade ball of the Fellowcraft Clul
OF Federal Lodge. F. A. A. NJ, No. l
held at the Willard Hotel. A costume
contest resulted in prizes being
awarded to Mrs. Louise Snyder, for the
most original costume: Warren K
Cain, for the most comical; Murray
Kleiner and Miss Thelma Donaldson
as the most artistic couple. Emil A
Loehl, chairman Of the committee or
arrangements, was assisted by Waltel
r. HeVett, president of the club
Charles T. Scott, F. w. Harrison
Writ b. Furr and Lois A. Hendrick.
Washington Council, No. %, Masonic
University Craftsmen Council of En-.
gineers, at Eighth and F streets north
east, held dance.
20 Autos Disappear.
Revelers were blamed for the dis
appearance from parking spaces last
night of a number of automobiles |
Sixteen cars were reported taken after |
sundown, four others having been !
taken during the G~y. Police reports |
this morning showed that three of the |
20 cars had been recovered.
Twenty policemen were detailed last 4
night as an extra force attached to |
No. 1 precinct, under orders of Maj. |
Edwin B. Hesse. superintendent of |
police. Police officials saw little more |
than usual in the number of arrests |
for the "a hours ending at 81
o'clock this morning, and attributed |
but 60 arrests to the holiday spirit.
Police records show these arrests |
during the past "a hours, for various |
charges. ranging from overtime park
ing 10 drunkenness and disorderly con-
dua.. No. T=preeinct, IS; No. 2. 43:: /
No, g.. 80; No. 4, 43: No. 5, 13; No. 6. |
10, 4: No. II. 6; No. II. 16: No. 13. |
8: No. IA, 4. and the harbor precinct, 3. |
Edgar C. Snyder. grand chancellor |
of the Knights of Pythias. and |
United States marshal, had charge |
of arrangements for the knights |
Halloween dance held in the Pythian |
Temple, 1912 Ninth street. which |
was attended by 1000 persons. Wal |
ter johnson. Clifford K. Bergman
cartoonist of The Evening Star. and |
Mrs. Minnigerode Andrews acted as
judges at the costume barn dance. |
The crowd gave the pitching ace an
ovation as he appeared on the plat
form.
Prizes were won by Miss Helen
Brown and Andrew Cronk, dressed as
ma arionettes; Mrs. Frank Crown and
John Prescott. as "hayseeds, and
Bernadette and Adelaide Ferry, as
bride and groom.