Evening star., 1934-04-29
Commissioner Hazen Leads
as Parents and Spec
tatorS Applaud.
1858 DISTRICT YOUTHS
PARTICIPATE IN EVENT
Line Is Augmented by Lads From
Other Cities-Floats Teach
Safety Lesson.

The third annual parade Of school,
boy traftc patrols from Washington
and nearby States made a brilliant
showing on Pennsylvania avenue yes
| terday with its $3.50 costumed march,
ers, 28 juvenile Goats and bands.
Led by Commissioner Melvin c.
Hazen as grand marshal and the
Navy Band, the marching column
evoked a storm of applause as it filed
between lanes of parents and Spec
tators.
The parade required more than an
hour to pass Sixteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue, where the reviewing
stand was located.
In the stand were Commissioner
Hazen, DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superin-
tendent of schools; Representative
snyder OF Pennsylvania, Isaac Cans,
civic leader; Maj. Ernest NJ. Brown,
superintendent of police: Ernest N.
Smith, vice president of the American
Automobile Association, which spon-
sored the parade; Alva A. Moxley, su-
perntendent of Montgomery County
police, and many other notables.
1858 d. c. Marchers.
approximately 1000 visiting boy
patrolmen, together with a sprinkline
of girl patrol leaders, reinforced the
Washington contingent, which num-
bered 1858 marchers.
Thls count was made by Officers
W. E. Winfield and w. j. Lynn of
the Traffic Bureau
Much juvenile ingenuity went into
the design OF the numerous floats,
most of which were built on small
wagons and pulled by the marchers.
The Big, Bad Wolf and Three Little
Pigs was the motif Of two floats. The
loea was. who's afraid of the big, bad
tra1nc wolf, so long as boy patrol
man is on the job"
Marchers from the Henry School.
clad in yellow jackets, helmets and
Wnlte DUCK trousers, got a big hand
when they passed the reviewing stand
pulling two floats of original design.
On one of these floats a very small
Jay-Walker' with a very large black
eye was taking an ambulance" ride
to the hospital because he didn't obey
the traffic patrolman.
$zE March in Bandages.
This lesson was further illustrated
by two colored boy marchers, one of
whom llmped on a bandaged foot,
his head wrapped in surgical dress
ings, carrying banner which said:
i didn't stop" Beside him walked
happy youth holding aloft the in
Scription, Il did"
There were knights in tin armour, a
king safety" who rode on a paper
decked throne, queen safety" whose
throne was being guarded by two able
looking boy patrolmen, and numerous
other floats illustrating the stop,
look and listen" rule which children
must observe before crossing the
street.
Large delegations of boy patrolmen
were on hand from Virginia, Mary
land, North Carolina and Pennsyl-
vania, including crack drill teams from
Tabor, N. c.. and Pottstown, Pa.
Each school represented had a dis
tinctive costume. Blue shirts, coats
or sweaters with white duck pants and
sailor hats was the popular uniform,
although almost every color was repre-
sented.
Parents View Parade.
Thousands Of parents lined the
route. The largest group was as
sembled at Fifteenth street, where the
parade swung south off the Avenue.
Here dowagers and prosperous looking
grandparents occupied camp chairs
elbow-to-elbow with smiling colored
mothers and fathers.
The parents trained cameras on
their offspring, shouted greetings,
waved handkerchiefs as the column
swung by.
The disbanding point at the Ellipse
was scene of at least temporary con-
fusion as frantic mothers searched for
young marchers lost in the throng.
The white pants, white belt and
blue jacket which had distinguished
young Johnnie or Robert upon leav-
ing home that morning were dupli-
Gated a hundred times over. Park
policemen were pressed into service.
They tried to be helpful, but made
little headway. Many of the younger
boys being sought, it developed later,
had scored the need of an escort and
gone home unaSSisted.
The general committee in charge
of the parade consisted of Maj. Brown,
Selden M. Ely, representing the pub
lie schools. and Theodore F. Behler
of the American Automobile Asso-