Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
CAPITAL PREPARED
FOR CELEBRATION.
Churches Make Special Ar
engagements to Accommo-
date Record Throng.

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of numerous lilies and other flowers
about the rooms. In the evening a
company Of intimate friends will be
Fair Weather Predicted.
Fair and slightly cooler weather was
predicted for today by the Weather
Bureaus official forecaster with the in
dication of little change tomorrow when
the city's children will be out en- nlasse
for egg rolling on the White House Town,
at the Zoo and at several other places
throughout the District.
When washington awoke this morn
ing many of its thousands OF Easter
guests were in cramped circumstances.
Several days ago most OF the larger
hotels began turning travellers away
from their doors and yesterday zoo
were reported to have been turned away
at downtown hostelries.
AS a result the boys and girls who
flock to Washington every Easter from
the country'S high schools, preparatory
schools and seminaries, as well as hun
dreds of their elders, have been put TO
it to find meager accommodations In
crowded tourists homes and rooming
houses.
A compilation of information from
various transportation agencies places
the number of visitors at considerably
more than $4,000, although an accurate
estimate Is impossible since great num-
bers of tourists arrive by automobile
and shift for themselves without es-
tablishing contact with any agency at
which records are kept.
Service at Walter Reed.
Celebration of Easter was to begin
this morning at 7;30 o'clock with a
sunrise service in the garden amphithea-
ter at Walter Reed Hospital. The pro-
gram will be broadcast by the National
Broadcasting System and VIII De the
first time Army exercises have reached
every part of the country through the
air
Expectation of a huge crowd has
caused police officials to detail 10 extra
men to Capt. G. p. M. Lord, commander
Of the thirteenth precinct, In which
Walter Reed Is located, to handle the
throng.
A living cross, an annual feature of
this service, will be composed OF 500
Red Cross workers, Army nurses and
corps men, all In white. There win be
Q sacred concert by the Army Band: :,
The Easter sermon will be preached
by Col. Julian z. Yates, chief of chap
lains, United States Army, while DR..
George B. Dean, department OF evan
gelism, board Of missions, Methodist
Episcopal Church; DR.. S. B. Daugherty,
pastor of the United Brethren Church,
and Chaplain A. g. Oliver, United
States Army, viii assist in the service.
Services in three chapels and an over
fiow service In the open-air ampitheater
Of Washington Cathedral are planned
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shippers who will make Easter pilgrim
ages to Mount st. Alban.
Pilgrims To Be shown Crypt.
Twenty-four members of the cathe-
dral guild of ushers will be on duty
at the various services and the curator'S
ONCE at the entrance to Bethlehem
chapel will be open to facilitate the
welcoming of visitors.
Following the regular and special
services. members Of the clergy stan
pilgrims through the crypt chapels and
to other points Of interest within the
Cathedral Close.
The services will begin with celebra-
ton of holy communion In Bethlehem
Chapel at 1880 and $50 o'clock this
morning. Morning prayer without
music will be read in the Chapel of
st. Joseph of Arimathea at 10 o'clock.
At IL O'Clock a special Easter festival
Chapel and morning prayer and sermon
in the Chapel of the Resurrection and
the Chapel of st. Joseph Of Arimathea.
An additional overflow service Is
planned for the open-air ampitheather,
weather permitting.
At 4 O'Clock in the afternoon, Bishop
James e. Freeman will deliver the SER
mon at the festival evensong service in
Bethlehem Chapel, which will be broad
cast from station WRC. Overflow serv-
ices are planned for the two other crypt
chapels. Easter music will be by the
Washington Cathedral Choir of men
and boys under the direction Of Edgar
Priest. organist and choirmaster.
Services at Sylvan Theater.
The annual Easter eventide service
will be held in the Sylvan Theater in
the shadow of the Washington Monu-
sored by the National Community Bible
Readers League and Auxiliary Of
Regional Aides.
DR.. Augustus T. Murray, minister of
the Friends Meeting House, where
President Hoover worships, viii deliver
an address on The Book Of Books"
One thousand copies OF the Bible
scripture reading and 80 sets OF New
Testaments will be awarded to persons
having the best Bible-reading records
for the lenten season.
Col e. L. Mattice, deputy commits
sioner of Boy Scouts, Is master OF cere-
monies and DR.. e. N. G. Barnes, director
of music in the public schools, song
leader.
Special details Of police have been
b. If In
where crowds will be greatest. The
largest of these has been assigned to
Capt. Robert z. Doyle, commander OF
the eighth precinct, TO whom will fall
the task of controlling the thousands
who will see the New York Yankees and
the Washington ball club play at Amer
lean League Park. Nineteen extra men
have been attached TO his precinct.
Plan for Park Traffic.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made by first
and fourth precinct police and mem
bers of the United States Park Police
| force for the regulation Of traffic in Po-
tomac Park, where the visitors are sure
to flock for a glimpse OF the double
| cherry blossoms.
Special care also will be taken Of the
children who will attend the egg roll
ings tomorrow at the White House and
| LOOlORlC6l FdIk. 1Ikc IOIIIIcI bdoh Ad1lo
to the first and third precincts and the
latter to the tenth and fourteenth.
washington at Easter season and the
cherry blossoms attract other than cas-
ual visitors, a survey Of the marriage
license records reveals. Friday and
yesterday 81 licenses were issued and a
goodly part of these were TO young
couples from Virginia and North Caro-
lima towns.
! Miss Maude A. Rogers, marriage
license clerk, was busy throughout the
three hours that the bureau was open
! yesterday issuing licenses to applicants
who stood in line. Richmond furnished