Evening star., 1934-04-14
Crowd of 25O, 900 to Attend
Three-Day Blossom
Festival.
INFORMATION BOOTHS
PLACED ON HIGHWAYS
Maps Will Show Routes to Prin-
T. cipal Events-Emergency
Aid Cars Planned.

Elaborate preparations to receive
the throng of visitors expected to poul
into Washington next week were an.
nounced today by the District branch
of the American Automobile ASso-
citation.
The Cherry Blossom Festival, to be
celebrated Thursday. Friday and Sat-
urday, Is expected to be the magnet
which will swell the normal crowds
Of cherry blossom tourists to throng
Of 250,000 persons.
According to Ernest N. Smith
executive vice president, motorist:
coming here from all directions will
find highway information booth:
manned by expert travel counSelorS
who will furnish them with specially
prepared maps and other assistance
The booths will be placed on Wis
consin avenue. Georgia avenue and
Rhode Island avenue, at the District
line, and also at Bladensburg road
and New York avenue.
Maps to Be Distributed.
Maps, just off the press, will be
distributed to visitors The maps
show where the principal events OF
the festival will take place and make
it easy for visitors to find their way
around the city.
Arrangements have been made fol
the A. A. A. patrol cars to be placed
under the direction of Capt. P. T
Carroll of the park police. These
cars, equipped to render emergency
service, will be stationed in the vicin-
ity of the cherry blossoms and ready
to render immediate aid to motorists
in distress.
Two train bearers and crown
bearer, each 10 years old, have been
selected for the ceremony of the
coronation of Miss Eleanor Roosevelt
as queen of the Cherry Blossom Fes-
tival, one of the highlights of the
three-day festival.
Crown, Train Bearers.
The crown bearer is Betsy Baker
daughter Of Comdr. and Mrs. Scott
Baker. The train bearers are Eliza
beth Goring Bliss, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. E. Goring Bliss, and Grace
Colgate Rumbough, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Wright Rumbough
The coronation will take place in
Potomac Park, west of the roadway tc
Highway Bridge, at 2 pm. Thursday
The queen, accompanied by her Il
attendants, will ride in the parade on
specially prepared float, Mrs. John
Allen Daugherty of the Festival Com
mittee announced today.
The United States Army Band. con-
Quoted by Capt. William j. Stannard
will play the festival concert preced-
ing the presentation of Gilbert g. Sui.
1tvan's THE Mikado; or the Town o,
Titipu," at Sylvan Theater at 2 pm
Saturday. The concert will last hal
an hour. Should the weather be in
clement both the concert and the
opera Will be presented in the audi
torium of Central High School.
Tickets on Sale.
Tickets to this pair of events are
IS cents, and may be obtained from
the ticket Offices at 1419 G street, al
the Willard and Washington Hotels
Franklin School and the A. A. A
Offices in the Mills Building.
Cherry blossoms. Japanese lanterns
and other decorations of an Oriental
cast will lend character to the pres
entation of the operatta, which will be
played by the Estelle Wentworth
Group under the direction of Miss
Estelle Wentworth.
The Parade Committee has an
nounced that four prizes will be
awarded in connection with the fes-
ttval parade next Friday. The first
and second best floats will each wir
q prize, as will the best marching
unit and the best band.