Evening star., 1934-05-05
BLOSSOM QUEEN
IS DERBY GUEST
Mrs. Whitney Quits Gay
Scene at Winchester to
See Kentucky Classic.
Special Dispa,ch 70 The Star.


WINCHESTER Va, MAY 5.-While
festive crowds danced in halt a dozen
halls and streets still were ringing
with the laughter and merriment Of
other thrOngs. Mrs. John Hay Whit
ney laid aside her regal robes. crown
and Sceptre as Queen Shenandoah
XII Of the annual Shenandoah Ap-
pie Blossom Festival and sped early
today by train to see her famous
Llangol.cn Farm horses compete for
honors in the Kentucky Derby classic
at Churchill Downs.
As she left the residence Of Mrs
Richard Evelyn Byrd. her official
hostess and personal friend. the lovely
wife Of the noted American turfman
and poloist expressed a feeling of re-
gret that the Kentucky engagement
came so close upon the conclusion of
the brilliant and colorful two-d day
celebration. for she would have de-
sired to tarry a while longer
Riding along the gayly decorated
streets on her royal float of immacu-
late WhiteneSs yesterday afternoon, as
bright sunlight occasionally peered
through clouds. she would often catch
sight of children paying her homage,
and would turn to wave them an
acknowledgment. She was accorded
a continuous ovation
The crowds were estimated by po-
lice and festival authorities at 0,000
Petals Trail Five Miles Long.
The afternoons parade called The
Trail of the Pink Petals" strung out
over a length of five miles. 1t was
so large that half of one division
was lost sight of in the formation.
and was found half an hour later
waiting on a side street by assistant
marShals
There were more than so gorgeous
floats representing numerous educa-
tional, civic and industrial organiZa-
tions. The prettiest girls of Win
chester were chosen for posts of
honor on the floats. They wore Spring
gowns of green, pink and white, the
festival coIors.
Scattered through five grand divi-
sions were around 35 bands and fife,
drum and bugle corps of American
Legion and Veterans of Foreign
Wars posts from cities and towns in
Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland.
Pennsylvania and the District of
Columbia.
CARRIED in full dress uniforms off
bright and f1aShy colors, they won
repeated applause and cheers from
crowds Swarming sidewalks and
streets. while hundreds occupied
seats on fat porch roofs and even
peered from the tops of buildings.
Style and vehicles whose appear
ance in the parade carried minds of
old-timers back to Colonial and Recon-
struction days in Northern Virginia
we're featured in one long division,
entitled History Passes in Review" !"
1t showed Alexander SpOttSwood and
his Knights of the Golden Horseshoe
coming into the Shenandoah Valley
from east of the Blue Ridge, Lord
Fairfax at "Greenway Court" Gems.
Lee and Jackson in the field, groups
of first settlers, a tribe of Shawnee
Indians at Shawnee Spring, and bellies
and beaus of 40 years ago coming TO
Winchester in carriages and buggies
to attend Confederate Memorial day
exercises.
Parade Prize Winners.
Parade prizes we're awarded to the
following:
Artistic f1oats-S10O, Handley High
School. Winchester; $50, Winchester
Lions Club; cup, Bank of Winchester;
cup, Winchester Elks' Lodge.
Commercial f1oats-Sl50, Hershey
Ice Cream Co., Winchester; cup, Vir-
ginia Apple Storage, Winchester; cup,
Winchester Cold Storage Co., VIM
chester; cup, Twin City Oil Co.. Win
chester
Grand prize for American Legion
or Veterans of Foreign Wars posts,
$3.50 cash and $3.50 educational schol-
arship-Huntingd Post, No. "a,
American Legion, Huntingdon, Pa.
American Legion Drum and Bugle
Corps-$l25. Fairmont Post. No. IT,
Fairmont, w. Va: SIS. Francis Scott
Key Post, Frederick, Md: $50. Murry-
Appleman Post, No. lat, Roaring
Springs, Pa.
Veterans of Foreign Wars-$125.
Henry Hart Post. No. 1411, Cumber-
land, Md: SIS, Blue Ridge Post, No.
484, Roanoke, Va; $50, Rion- Bowman
Post, No. 632, Harrisonburg, Va.
Non-military drum and bugle
corps-Cup, Hose Company No. 5,
Chambersburg, Pa.
Military schoolS-Cup, Massanutten
Military Academy, Woodstock, Va;
cup, Alexandria High School Cadets,
Alexandria, Va.
Boy Scouts drum and bugle corps
Cup, Washington County Council,
Hagerstown, Md. d