Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

ClalS Oh the IIlT6e AS anu pUAICCiucA
stationed at the five information booths,
located at strategic points in the city,
were busy dispensing parking informa-
ton, answering queries to directions
and giving advice as to traffic rules and
special police ordinances In effect dur
ing the inaugural emergencies to the
laSt-minute arrivals. The association
maintains an attendant and uniform
ed policeman to help out-of-town visi-
tors at the following points: Wiscon-
sin avenue and the District line, Georgia
avenue and the District line; Rhode
Island avenue and the District line,
Bladensburg road and the District line
and the south end Of the Highway
Bridge.
Clerks at the associations headquar-
tiers in the Mills Building at Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue worked
in double shifts until midnight last
night and will maintain q similar force
the city, and to give information re-
garding the condition of roads and the
best route to use when returning.
OficialS Of the association declared
today that there will be ample park
ing space south of B street from the
Potomac River west to Fourteenth street
east.
The lively tempo set by Avenue
crowds yesterday afternoon offered a
gay spectacle.
Such an onlooker, however, had need
of agility at crossings, certain brisk
ness In pacing the public walks, and
forbearance when tempted to loiter-
for he was forced into gear with the
multitude, and swept up and down the
Avenue, with small regard for personal
tastes or inclination.
This singular lack of self determine
NOTWITHSTANDING abreast and bumper to
bumper-that traversed the thorough
fare in endless columns.
Through them the pedestrians, ap-
parently inviting mutilation at every
venture. wove and darted like some err
ratio school of minnows.
The traffic police, however, we're In
close touch with the situation.
The brisk wind that whipped down
the Avenue bore heavy surcharge OF
motor vapor--everywhere q din OF
sirens, while the unified hum of the
motors was echoed from blue sky
where airplanes laden with sightseers
cut cleaning arcs against the sun.
Flags Vivid Along Avenue.
Down the length of the Avenue flags
were up and out, vivid stars and stripes
whipping the breeze. These showed
from every facade and from the tips Of
the white way colonnade that ranged
the thoroughfare.
Up on Capitol Hill the guards had
brisk work with visiting citizens. They
crowded into the Capitol rotunda
stormed congressional galleries and
looked down into the august chambers
Of the House and Senate, where the
legislators, weary at the close of the
session, disposed Of final technicalities
and strove to maintain their Sabbath.
day Quorums.
But the sidewalk crowd, however
many contingents 1t may T. I'VE sent It
| national shrines. to museums and arr
galleries, never thinned throughout thu
day. In fact, this assemblage only
| reached q grand concentration long
after dusk had fallen.
Here and there the eye was captured
by some bizarre sight. Now it was the
sinister, truculent attitude Of a mar
propped against a poolroom front, sur
veying the passing throng through in
scrutable eyes. On every corner
souvenir hawkers, strident-voiced. hard
faced, attired in an uproar of fancy
vests and Suitings, hawked their wares,
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hand.
An occasional Indian strobe stolidly
by, obviously no whit impressed with
the paleface Capital. a gaudy blanket
drawn about his shoulders, eyes fixed on
swinging on their arms.
Kansans in Town.
Six-inch sunflowers, symbol of
Kansans, bloomed on innumerable
lapels.
The West rubbed elbows with the
South and East-with spatted ana
sophisticated New Workers, malacca
canes and girl friends in squirrel coats
swinging on their arms
The Library of Congress. always an
attraction for Washington visitors, was
crowded throughout the time it re-
manned open yesterday, from until
10 pm.
Most of the visitors did not come
to read, but contented themselves with
seeing the various exhibitions of books
and prints and looking down at the
reading room from the galleries. Many
of them went into the newspaper read
ing rooms and called for their home
town papers.
The Library will remain open for
visitors from am. to 10 pm. today.
and the reading rooms will be open for