The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-04-10

queen of this years affair, sur rounded by her court Of comedies. all done up in the traditional hand -me down long nighties of spring beauties, embark on a flower bedecked barge to cross the cherry tree bordered Tidal Basin, just southwest of the Washington monument.
 Arrived safely at the other side its about 8 half mile across = they debark and the queen re- ceives @ crown from the hands of this years queen-making politico, Senator John H. Overton of Alex andria, La. If it's cold, the love- lies will wear fur coats, and if the cherry blossoms are not out, that's just their hard luck.
 QUEEN PERCHES
 FOR PICTURES
 The toughest part of Queen Nancy's job is that for the past three weeks she has had to make periodic visits to the Tidal Basin to see how the buds were coming along. Then, regardless Of what the thermometer and wind meter have said, Nancy has had to strip off her fur coat, perch gracefully on a low branch of cherry tree 50 the photographers could take pictures of limbs - the cherry trees and Nancy,s.
 The coronation ceremony Is re- peated Sunday, April l3, but from then on the attraction Is entirely cherry blossoms. From the day the trees start showing their stuff, for 10 days or two weeks the best advice anyone can be given Is to come to Washington only if you have made all arrangements as to where you'll lay your head at night, unless you wish to come in @ trailer or bring a pup tent.
 As If the cherry blossoms and the defense effort weren't enough, the Daughters of the American Revolution will descend on the town, 5000 to 5000 strong at the least. Add to that the convention of the American Society of News. paper Editors and the annual meeting of the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology. Then consider that it's Easter week, and that on this Easter Sun- day the first service is being held by the presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church at the new altar in the National Ca- thedral.
 Adding to the crowding will be conventions of the Red Gross and United States Chamber of Com merce, not to mention the 10000 children, parents and rursemaids who usually attend the egg rolling on the White House lawn the Mon. day after Easter. n.s ,'
 Easter week, too, brings an an- nual flood of excursions and pil- grimages of high school young. Stres on vacation. Special trains from as far west as Ohio and as far north as Boston park in the yards at Washington's Union sta- ton and serve as headquarters for tours of frmo 800 to 800 each. The capital Is actually planning for throngs bigger than it had for the inauguration in January and the visit of tho British king and queen two years ago.
 HOTELS
 PACKED
 Hotels have long been booked up, solid. The Washington Board of Trades Greater National Capital Committee has brought out and brought up to date its inauguration list of 200 rooms for rent. The Y. M. c. A. has Q registry of 1000 rooms, and the American Automo- bile Association has Q list of 600.
 The tourist and guide business has gone up, too, and there is no haggling about prices. Business men coming to make deals with the government, finding they can't get to see theiiN man, kill time by riding the rubberneck wagons. There are eight differ ent tours to be made, each of which will take 0 morning or an afternoon, or if you are Q glutton at this sightseeing, you can crowd them all in Q couple of days.
 While the White House, Capitol, tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Bureau of Printing and Engraving, where they print money and stamps, are still the big attrac- tions, new tour that has become known as the schoolmarm's special has recently been giving the old at fractions @ run for popularity. It takes in the Supreme Court, the Folger Shakespearean library, the Archives building, the new Mellon National Gallery of Art and, for a kicker, the G-man show in the Fed eral Bureau of Investigation.
 As for the cherry blossoms, you can get an eyeful from car or @ tourists bus, but the traffic jams are thick and you see more by hiking. It's two miles around the tidal basin, but as construction of the new Thomas Jefferson Memo rial has made a half mile of this rather unattractive for this year, the walk can be shortened unless you want to take in the two miles of newer double blossom trees be- yond the tourist camp in East Po- tomac park.
 The big mystery of this years festival Is whether or not the new Japanese ambassador, Admiral Nomura, can be lured out for the show. The late Ambassador Saito's family used to come out in kimo- nos for pictures, but that was cut out. There may be. international significance, therefore. in what the admiral does about this situa-