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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1918—Part 1.    3

WAR SPIRIT GRIPS ALL WHEN PARADE OF 35,000 PASSES

Silent but Determined Community, in Great Demonstration for Liberty Loan, Backs Men in Trenches.

Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in Line on Avenue Keep Minds of Spectators on Those Engaged n Desperate Struggle.

    A silent but determined community stood along Pennsylvania avenue yesterday afternoon and watched more than 35,000 persons march by in a demonstration to celebrate what Washington has already done to further the loan and to arouse the city to buy more bonds.
    Although the parade was arranged as an event of gayety over the progress of the loan, the presence of an unexpected number of soldiers, sailors and marines seemed to keep before the minds of the thousands of spectators the thought that miles away in France other boys in khaki were grappling in a death struggle with the Huns.
    And, while they did not applaud, it was evident every time a division in uniform went by that the thousands on the side lines were thinking of their loved ones in the service and how much a liberty bond might do to help them hold the enemy.

      Realize Grim Business of War.

    When the 492 Washington boys who have just been drafted marched by, without uniforms or discipline, there were spasmodic outbursts of applause, but no loud "hoorays." The majority seemed to realize that the grim business of war calls for a feeling deeper in the heart than vociferous applause. 
    The drafted boys were led by District Commissioners Brownlow and Gardined, and came immediately after a delegation of members of the Senate, House of Representatives and District Supreme Court. The Senate had adjourned at 1:30 o'clock, and was well represented, but only a few members of the House were in line, as the lower body remained in session.
    The parade was led by Grand Marshal, Melvin C. Hazen, a section of the Marine Band and the members of the District liberty loan committee, consisting of John Poole, chairman, and Eugene E. Alles, B. F. Saul, Corcoran Thom, Eugene E. Thompson and Charles P. Light. Members of the various subcommittees on speaking and other phases of the loan work also marched in the first division. The clerical force of the White House brought up the rear of the first division.

      Army Officers Detailed Here.

    Approximately a thousand officers of the Army detailed at the War Department here presented an imposing spectacle as they filed up the avenue. The yeomen, yeowomen, sailors and marines also formed an attractive section of the third division, with Secretary of the Navy Daniels marching at their head. 
    The second division was made up of several thousand employees of the State and Treasury departments, including war risk insurance and the bureau of engraving and printing.
    Line after line of men and women in the plain garb of everyday citizens, but with liberty bond buttons on their coats, filed by for more than an hour in the plain garb of everyday citizens, but with liberty bond buttons on their coats, filed by for more than an hour in the fourth and fifth divisions, which included nearly all the government carried at its head a banner showing how much it has subscribed to the third loan.

      Messages for the Kaiser.

    If any of the kaiser's pet spies were lurking in the crowds that lined the avenue they will have a lot of nice things to tell their war lord about himself the next time they write home for arranged primarily to boost the sale of liberty bonds it developed into a kaiser-knocking contest.
    From beginning to end the serious impression left by men in uniform was offset by scores of humorous banners telling how the people of Washington feel toward Kaiser Bill.
    "Helmit Kiaser" was the banner which a man carried at the head of the government printing office contingent, and under the banner was an old German helmet carried on a stick. 
    "Five thousand Indians are hunting the Huns" was the banner which hung from the side of a float representing the Redmen's part in the war. Beneath this banner was another which read: "Twelve million Indian dollars are fighting for liberty."
    One woman form one fo the goverment departments walked alone with a banner, "The kaiser shall not take Paris." As she passed the President's reviewing stand she swung the slogan around for him to read and he nodded to indicate he agreed with her.

      Bureau of Mines Float. 

    One of the most timely floats in the parade was that of the bureau of mines, which showed a group of American soldiers lying in an improvised trench on a big truck with the uncanny gas masks now used in battle on their faces.
    A grotesque column of farmers led by a cow and each carrying a goose, a rooster or some other farm product represented the Home for the Aged in the District building's division, and brought laughter from the spectators, to make a house-to-house canvass to sell bonds.
    The section also included the Girl Scouts of the District and 200 young women of the National Service Schoo, in khaki.

      School Children in Line.
 
    Last, but not least, came 2,000 school children, each the proud possessor of a liberty bond button. Headed by their superintendent, Ernest L. Thurston, the kiddies prance along, regardless of marching formation, shouting and waving flags as they passed. For them it was the thrill that comes once in a lifetime and they were making the most of it.
    Rev. Randolph H. McKim, pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, rode on horseback at the head of a large delegation of his congregation, which has been conducting a campaign for the sale of liberty bands.
    Washington's business establishments were well represented in the closing section of the parade, one of the most represented in the closing section of the parade, one of the most representative contingents being that of the Columbia Planograph Company. Among the larger stores whose employees paraded were Woodward & Bro., M. Philipsborn & Co,. King's Palace, S. Kann, Sons & Co. and Palais Royal. Other firms represented were Goodrich Rubber Company, United States Tire Company, American Ice Company, Semmes Motor Company, Harris & Ewing, Old Dutch Market Company and the Washington Terminal Company. 
    William F. Guide headed a large delegation of florists. The Federal National Bank employees also marched in a body. The cadets and girl students of the high schools marched behind Supt. Thurston in the school section.
    Charles J. Columbus, who acted as executive secretary of the parade for the liberty loan committee, said today the event surpassed his expectation in every respect.

      Assembling of Units.

    Precision like clockwork marked the assembling of the scores of units making up the monster parade. The delegations began gathering in the side soon after 12 o'clock, and by the time for the head of the parade to move they were all in their designated place.
    The marching delegations were "parked" in the streets north of the Avenue as far west as 6th street and north to F street, also occupying the east and west streets in this area.
    As the signal came to march, each delegation wheeled out of its station and swung into line.  No interruption of the parade occurred because of delay of a body of marchers to be ready for its signal, the dozens of aids and marshals working like Trojans and keeping the units falling into line like machinery.

So far as could be seen, not an instance of disorder occurred at or near the Peace Monument, where the parade started, or on any of the side streets where the marching units waited their signals.  The space along the line of march was quiet, and apparently the big force of extra policemen, besides regular police and Boy Scouts, was not needed.

Serious Spirit Noticeable.
The serious spirit of the paraders and onlookers as well was one of the noticable features of the parade.  The appearance of a band, of a float, a body of attractively uniformed man or woman marchers, or some feature or other, elicited a burst of handclapping and cheers, but the applause was not of the boisterous kind so often shown during parades.  The marching thousands  and the other thousands along the streets seemed to realize that this was not an occasion for merriment, not a spectacle gotten up for the amusement of the crowd, but one with a really serious meaning, and everybody behaved accordingly.

Thousands of the marchers were strangers to every part of the District except that in which they lived and the upper end  of teh "down town district," so that the police and Boy Scouts had many calls to direct persons to the streets on which their respective organizations were to form.  Each Officer and the greater number of the Boy Scouts were provided with an official list of divisions, their make-up and place of formation.

Selected Draft Men.
The selected draft men, with the heads or members of their draft boards marching at their head, arrived at their forming point almost an hour before 2 o'clock, the starting time.  There were eleven platoons, each having one of their number as leader.

J. H. Parsons of the Hudson Hotel headed the 1st Platoon.  Other leaders were: Second, Fred A. Keyser of 908 4th street northwest; 3d, C. L. Sincox of 821 1/2 4 1/2 street southwest; 4th, W. H. Groverman of 1216 Euclid street northwest; 6th, Carl Gubisch of 1112 6th street northeast; 7th, Harry Francis Magruder of 1230 30th street northwest; 8th, Frank Hosmer of 607 Massachusetts avenue northwest; 9th, Benjamin Loeffler of 3068 Mount Pleasant street northwest; 10th, James W. Dudley of 204 Carroll street, Takoma Park; 11th, E. R. Steele of 3006 South Dakota avenue northeast.

The school children had the time of their lives and they made a very favorable impression along the line of march.

[[newsprint photograph]] [[caption]] ALL WALKS OF LIFE REPRESENTED IN WASHINGTON'S BIG LIBERTY PARADE [[/caption]] 
[[newsprint photograph]] [[caption]] Upper- President Wilson reviewing the marchers from an automobile in front of the White House and the airplane driven by Miss Ruth Law doing stunts overhead.  Lower- Commissioners Browslow and Gardiner at the head of District of Columbia selected men. [[/caption]]

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terday afternoon and sold many liberty bonds.
Following the exhibition of flying Miss Law descended and took her place in an official liberty loan wagon.  Every bond bought at the wagon on the Ellipse yesterday afternoon had the personal superintendence of Miss Law.  She signed every pledge card or receipt.

Seated way out on the front of her plane, which is not built in the usual way by any manner of means, Miss Law seemed to defy wind as space as she soared above the Ellipse and for fifteen minutes showed the big crowd what she could do in the aviation line.

"Stunts" Amaze the Crowd.
The crowd, swelled by the thousands of marchers from the parade who made the Ellipse the ending point of the big rally, looked in amazement as the aviatrix looped, nose dived and performed the other "stunts" which have become more or less commonplace recently to Washingtonians through the activities of the French, English and Italian flyers here.

But it is doubtful if any of the aviators have put up a prettier exhibition than that of Miss Law yesterday, those familiar with the various flights staged here stated.

The wind began to gather head shortly after 2 o'clock and by 3 o'clock had gained considerable velocity, but this did not seem to feaze Miss Law in the least. It was 3:10 o'clock when the machine was "let go," after warming up.

The crowd, which completely surrounded the space in the center of the Ellipse, which was roped off, gasped when the plane rose straight up in the air after a run of about 100 yards.  

What seemed to attract the attention of those who watched was the position of the aviatrix, who sits directly in the front of her plane, "on the ragged edge of nothing," as one spectator was heard to put it.  Entire absence of any "boat" in which the aviator sits is noticeable in Miss Law's Machine, even to the most uninitiated.  The propeller of the plane is in the rear, whereas most of the other machines seen here have had their propellers in front.  

Flying low, Miss Law sailed over the Memorial Continental Hall and returned to the Ellispe directly between two trees over the heads of the crowd.  She 


Taking It From Babies.
Every ounce of wheat products in excess of six pounds a month that you eat, Mr. American Citizen, is that much literally taken from the mouths of starving women and children of France.  The armed allies may go without wheat, but these innocents will actually die unless we give them of ours in generous proportion.- D. C. Food Administrator

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like those of a foot ball game  with cheer leaders, several groups whistled as they passed, others sang patriotic airs, and one little girl halted the line while she stood in front of his car and sang "Over There."  When she finished the President bowed and raised his hat.

Mingled with these spontaneous demonstrations were the formal salutes of soldiers, sailors and marines.  Most of all the President seemed pleased at the demonstrations of the Washington school children, groups of whom waved, cheered, saluted and occasionally some stopped to look at him.  He waved his hat in response to these salutations.

Taft Passes Reviewing Point.
While the President was watching the parade former President Taft walked through the space roped off for the presidential party, on his way to his new office at the Department of Labor.

During gaps in the parade line the President watched the aerial evolutions of Ruth Law and the big Caproni airplane.  Both swooped low over the White House grounds, and Miss Law flew so low at one time that she could be seen waving, apparently at the presidential party.

Bands seemed scarce in the early part of the parade, so Maj. Pullman, at the suggestion of Secretary Tumulty, started forth to hunt up the Marine Band, which was the first band in the line.  He could not find it, but got another, the band of the 304th Engineers, and it took its stand in front of the White House.  A little later another section of the Marine Band came along at the

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garet Snowden, seven years old, and James Gamaliel, 3d, five years old; his father , James G. Boss; a sister, Mrs. Walter Fawcett of Spencerville, Md., and three brothers, Thomas B. Boss, Benson B. Boss, and Edward C. Boss.

THIEVES  REAP HARVEST DURING LIBERTY PARADE
Henry Hayes Reports Loss of Stock Shares Worth $400 - Other Robberies Reported.

Duplicate key workers yesterday afternoon took advantage of the absence of the occupants of several apartments during the Liberty day parade and committed robberies.  Henry Hayes, apartment 201, 1840 Mintwood place, was the heaviest loser.  He told the police he was robbed of shares of stock of four mercantile establishments valued at $400.

An unidentified colored man is suspected of having robbed the apartments of Mrs. William L. Marshall and Roy F. Lassly, 1721 21st street, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.  Mrs. Marshall told the police she was robbed of jewelry valued at $47, while jewelry valued at $28 was stolen from the Lassly apartment.

Edward Clark, occupant of an apartment at 5 3d street northeast, reported his apartment was robbed of silverware valued at $20 and $5 in cash.  A colored woman was seen leaving the apartment, he said he was informed.

W. R. Cummins, 3024 1/2 R street, reported the theft of a lady's gold watch and chain, worth $30.

Edward S. Dawson, 3126 16th street, reported $11.35 was taken from his residence. 

Burglars last night visited the place of business of S. N. Meyer, 1331 F street.  They gained entrance by climbing the fire escape and opening a second story rear window.  The store was ransacked, the police were told.

Hillman Allen, 1456 T street reported

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AIRPLANES ENTERTAIN LIBERTY DAY THRONG
Observers of Parade Get Thrills That Thrill - One World Record Established.
With three planes cutting capers in the air at one time, observers of the huge liberty loan parade yesterday afternoon had a surfeit of thrills.  Chief interest centered in Ruth Law, the aviatrix specially licensed by the War Department to make flights anywhere in the United States, and who has not yet given up hope of obtaining a commission to shoot up Hun lines from a fighting plane.

Thousands of spectators who watched the evolutions of a small, one-seated machine, however, were not aware of the fact that it had just established what is said to be a new world's record for a non-stop speed run, having flown from Hampton roads to this city, 145 miles airline, in one hour flat.

Woman Among Passengers.

Neither did the spectators know that one of the passengers in the big Caproni machine was a woman, the wife of a member of the diplomatic corps here, or that the huge Italian plane was carrying seven people in its evolutions over the downtown section.

The small plane, which attracted comparatively little attention as it rose from Potomac Park flying field, until it began to cut short loops and execute spinning nose dives and the falling leaf, was driven by Sergt. Gianfelice Gino of Italian Flying Corps.  Sergt. Gino left the flying field at Hampton roads at 12:30 o'clock yesterday and made his landing at Potomac Park at exactly 1:30 o'clock, one hour later.  During the trip of 145 miles the engine of the machine, a small and extremely fast plane of the Spa. type, never missed.  The machine is capable of a speed of 150 to 160 miles an hour and is one of the quick and easily handled planes used in fast scouting and combat work.

Will Make Flights Here.
Sergt. Gino is to remain here for two weeks, and is to make a number of flights, according to announcement by the Italian embassy.

The woman who occupied a seat in the huge triple-engine Caproni plane was Mme. Domicio da Gama, wife of the Brazilian ambassador.  She was accompanied by Capt. John Greenleaf, U. S. A., who had been a luncheon guest of Mme. de Gama earlier in the afternoon. 

The Caproni, driven by Capt. Resnati of the Italian Flying Corps, circled over the city and along the line of the parade, showering liberty loan literature on the people below.  At one time in the flight the monster Italian plane was so low that it skimmed not far over the roofs of the Woodward and Southern buildings and the deep bass drone of the three propellers, two of them tractors and the other a pusher, made a roar sufficiently loud to drown out the street noises.

Miss Law Adds "Something New."
Ruth Law in her specially built bi-plane of the pusher type, with the pilot's seat on a skeleton frame five feet in front of and below the motor, fulfilled her promises to give Washington people something new in the flying line.  Rising from the Ellipse, she cut several loops over the White House and State, War and Navy building, and over Pennsylvania avenue in front of the Executive Mansin [[Mansion]], in view of President Wilson. Then, flying toward the Capitol, she bombed the avenue with black and white liberty loan "bombs" reading on one side: "America's war chest or the kaiser's? Which?"

On the other side the black and white disks read: "You must put your money in the war chest or the next bomb dropped may be a German bomb.  You must fight or give until it hurts, to help save your country. Ruth Law."

Taken all in all the flights yesterday exceeded in interest any seen here yet, and Miss Law promised further exhibitions of her skill and daring for today and tomorrow.

Capt. Resnati, it was announced today, probably will leave the city tomorrow morning, flying the Caproni machine back to Mineola, L. I.

TO FEATURE COMMUNITY SING.
Pipe Organ Recital by William Stansfield Tomorrow Afternoon.

A pipe organ recital by William Stansfield, and numbers and accompaniments by the Washington College of Music Orchestra, will feature the fourth community sing to be given at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the auditorium of Central High School, under the auspices of the District of Columbia war camp community service.  

The singing is to be directed by Gilbert Wilson, camp song leader at the marine cantonment at Quantico, Va. Leaflets with the printed words of the songs have been provided as an aid to the singers.

Colbert county, Alabama, is far exceeding the allotment of the third liberty loan.  The amount assigned Colbert county was $135,000, and it is believed that the subscriptions will reach a million.

District National Bank. 1406 G Street.

JURY FINDS DEATH WAS DUE TO CARELESSNESS
Verdict Regarding Accident Which Was Fatal to Walter Everett.  Three Persons Injured.

"Due to carelessness on part of the deceased" was part of a verdict reached by a coroner's jury at an inquest held at the morgue yesterday in the case of Walter Everett, thirty-six years old, 1695 Gales street, who died as a result of a fracture of the skull received Tuesday morning when struck by a street car near Benning road and 17th street.

Witnesses testified that he appeared in front of the moving car so suddenly that the motorman was unable to prevent the accident.  Funeral services will be held at the Everett home Monday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, and interment will be in Glenwood.

Other Accidents Reported.
Mildred Kelly, five years old, last night about 7:30 o'clock was knocked down by an automobile while playing in the street near her home, 767 10th street southeast, and injured about the left leg.  She was taken to Casualty Hospital, where physicians said she was not seriously hurt.

John Treuclerble, sixty years old, 5203 Butler street, Pittsburgh, Pa., was knocked down by a Capital Traction car in front of Union station last night about 10:30 o'clock and slightly hurt about the head.  He was given first aid at Casualty Hospital. 

Harry Haley, thirteen years old, 724 10th street northeast, yesterday afternoon, was slightly hurt as a result of a collision between his bicycle and an automobile at 6th and H street northeast.  He was assisted to his home.

GERMAN CONQUESTS OPPOSED.
Vienna Paper Says Austrian Blood Will Not Be Shed for That Purpose.
LONDON, April 27. - "One thing is certain," says the Arbeiter Zeitung of Vienna, as quoted in an Evchange Telegraph dispatch from The Hague, "we are not going to allow Austrian blood to be shed, either now or later on, to retain German conquests."

This statement is made in a criticism of Germany's action in the direction of virtual annexation of the former Russian border states of Livonia and Esthonia.  The newspaper asks whether the treaty concluded with Russia at Brest-Litovsk is still valid, and adds: "Germany's action will have to be paid for with another was as soon as Russia is strong enough.  This, of course, is entirely Germany's business."

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD
Change of Terminals AT New York City
On and after Sunday, April 28, 1918, all Baltimore & Ohio passenger trains between Washington and New York will arrive at and depart from PENNSYLVANIA STATION 7th Avenue and 32d Street.

Connections to and from downtown New York will be made by the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad by tube connections to and from HUDSON TERMINALS,
Cortlandt and Church Sts.
Arrivals of trains at New York terminals will be practically the same as at present.  See ticket agents for details.

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