Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03

automobiles parked downtown. One
machine was blown east on Pennsyl-
vania avenue from Fifteenth to Four
tenth street and brought up against
the street car loading platform on the
southwest corner. The identity of the
owner was not learned.
Crowds leaving a theater near F and
Fourteenth streets last night saw the
wind peel the fabric top from a sedan
parked at the curb and drape it over the
rear end of the car.
The broad streets of the National
Capital gave the gale a clean sweep at
shade trees ranging the thoroughfares,
and 65 were uprooted, while many
others were stripped of limbs and
branches. The Street Cleaning Depart
ment was busy today clearing away the
debris.
Street Cars Blocked.
The Police Department was swamped
with calls for help from various sections
of the city, where automobiles and troll
ley cars with early theater crowds were
tied up by fallen trees and debris. A
tree across the car tracks at First street
and Virginia avenue delayed traffic for
several hours. Buses were pressed into
service from Peace Monument, past the
Union Station, to Eighth and F streets
northeast.
Traffic was hampered in the 1900
block OF r street when tree was
thrown across the street. In the 100
block of Twentieth street a tree fell
across a parked automobile, while an
other parked car was damaged in the
100 block of r street when a telephone
pole fell across it.
A number of trees were blown against
houses and across lawns, obstructing
private entrances, but wreaking only
slight damage, according to Police and
Fire Department reports.
In many cases traffic was delayed
while details of police and firemen
chopped trees from across the streets.
At 10 o'clock last night an order was
issued to municipal vehicles to use care
in crossing street intersections, due to
the danger of falling trees and flying
debris.
Full crews of linemen were out last
night and this morning repairing dam
aged light-Wire systems.
Fifty phones were put out of commits
sion in the Cleveland Park section, the
only local area to be thus affected, 1t
was reported.
Although the Fire Department sent
engine companies to several localities
to chop away trees, no cases of live
wires being down were reported. No.
Truck Company chopped away two
trees, one near 1705 Twentieth street
| and another in front of COL Fifteenth
street. Other trees at Sill Second street
northeast and 205 C street were cleared
away by Engine Company No. l.
Trees Down in Northwest.
In the northwest section of the city
| trees were reported down by the vari-
Gus police precincts as follows
At Chain Bridge road, in the 300
block, two trees were uprooted, while
four others were reported down at
TWenty-siXth and F. streets. Others
were reported at Virginia avenue and G
street, Twenty-fourth and G., Nine
tenth and E, Eighteenth and c, Eight
zenith and Virginia avenue, Seventeenth
near G, Nineteenth and E, 3706 Four
tenth, Ogden and Oak streets, Thir7
tenth and Spring road, Howard and
Reservoir roads, 3400 Fourteenth street,
Klingle and Adams streets, three trees
at Rock Greek Ford road near Ne
braska avenue; two trees each at New
Jersey avenue and F street, 700 Sixth
street and Third and C streets; one tree
at Second and d, 400 Third street,
First and G, Third and Pennsylvania