Easter Parade Weather Hits Fifth Avenue Hats
The Easter parade along Fifth Avenue was marred by threatening clouds and showers. Socialites and crowds filled St Patrick’s Cathedral and nearby churches, with Mrs Vanderbilt and Mrs Ogden Golet among attendees. Millinery featured extreme brims and tall crowns, notably the Merry Widow style, while winds scattered quills and feathers. Rockefeller attended the Fifth Avenue Baptist service, praising Dr Aked’s sermon on resurrection.
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Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick's Cathedral
St. Thomas’s Church
St. Thomas's Church
Ogden Goelét
Lady Herbert
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Richard ‘. Wilson
Vanderbilt
Atlantic City
Upper Seventh Avenue
Riverside Drive
Crowds Fill Old Trinity Church for Easter Service
Worshippers packed every church in town as Old Trinity overflowed with Spring flowers and special music. Notable attendees included Senator Kean of New Jersey Col William Jay Edmund D Randolph and Rev J Newett Steele. Dr Morgan Dix preached on Easter and the reality of Christianity.
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Old Trinity
Senator Kean
New Jersey
Col
William Jay
William Barclay Parsons
Edmund D. Randolph
J. Newett Steele
Morgan Dix
Easter parade on ship by New York teachers
The City of Columbus carried seventy New York school teachers to Savannah for a Georgia study on prohibition law during the Paster holidays. They spent three days in Savannah and staged an on board Easter parade after missing the Fifth Avenue event. Religious services were held aboard as rain sent the procession to the saloon.
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Savannah
City of Columbus
New York
Georgia
Fifth Avenue
Night Workers Service Held At St Andrew’s Church
Early morning service for night workers at St Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church City Hall Place and Duane Street began at 2 30 with a throng filling the church. Solemn high mass was celebrated by Rev Luke J Evers. Mme Salma Kronold directed the Catholic Oratorio Society and sang Ave Maria Ave Verum and The Holy City.
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St. Andrew’s
City Hall Place
Duane Street
Luke J. Evers
Mme. Salma Kronold
Catholic Oratorio Society
Holy City
Defends Poor Mother at Easter Service
The Rev Oliver Barnhill pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Stapleton Richmond sharply rebuked an unsigned letter sent to a church member. He said the recipient, a mother in hardship, brings her two children to Sunday services and should not be shamed for doing so. He urged the writer, if a church member, to stop criticizing.
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Oliver Barnhill
First Presbyterian Church
Stapleton
Richmond
Barnhill
Easter Parade Brightens Grand Street Amid Hats and Umbrellas
Rainy Easter day stirs commerce and color in Grand Street as hats, gloves, belts, and shawls draw shoppers. Vendors tout 19 to 49 cent millinery while crowds admire flamboyant outfits and a Sicilian in a standout pink bonnet. Police supervise games of chance as children roam with umbrellas awaiting Passover return.
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Grand Street
Centre Street
Elizabeth Street
Hundres
Ludlow Street
Wirth Avenue
Worth
Long Beach Developments Draw Masses After Easter
A train of four sections carried over 5,000 sightseers to Long Beach yesterday for Easter services and a tour of ongoing improvements. A large casino nears completion, thirty cottages rise, land is reclaimed, a new hotel foundation is laid, and a concrete bathing pavilion costing 100000 is started. Overall spend exceeds 2,000,000 on the development efforts.
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Long Beach
Twenty-secona Regiment
Atlantic City Easter Parade Shines With Colorful Pageant
Atlantic City on April 19 featured the Easter parade along the five mile promenade. Hotels cottages and private homes opened early. Women wore remarkable costumes and hats while men sported bright light suits and golf cap combinations in rainbow hues. The sun’s clouds tempered glare for a comfortable display.
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Atlantic City
N. J
75 000 Attend Coney Island Despite Wind
About 75,000 people visited Coney Island as northwest wind blew through the area. Surface lines ran open cars, some large autos used for trips to the Island, Steeplechase Park incomplete, Lima Park and Dreamland not yet open for inspection. Twenty five extra policemen patrolled. Capt. Thomas Kelly closed all saloons on the Island at 1 AM.
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Coney Island
Steeplechase Park
Lima Park
Dreamland
Thomas Kelly
West Eighth Street
Easter Dining Dazzle Across New York Hotels
Broadway and Fifth Avenue hotels hosted lavish Easter dinners drawing crowds and overbookings. Notables like Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Baron Rosen attended, while Knickerbocker showcased live chicks and a white rabbit in a sugar Easter egg pursued through corridors.
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Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel Knickerbocker
Plaza
Hotel Aster
Hotel St. Regis
Fred Sterry
Nahan Franko
Aza
Knickerbocker
A. L. Low
Brer
Rabbit
Mandeville Hall
R. H. Parmelee
HF ‘Allen
Eea Dewsherey
William Mitchell
A.M. Hardix
W. Boli Aremom
F.C. Lockwood
Ae Rutter
W. Barnes
F. F. Lincoln
L. t.Palnerich
Adele Ritchie James
Sham
French
W. F. Ryan
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Lota Robinson
Baltimore
Beverly Robinson
Madeleine ‘Knowlton
Thomas
B. Clarke, Jr
Mr. Clarke
Arthur Iselin
Iselin
Townsend Burden
Rita Riverside
Hilda Harlem
Broadway
Times Square
St. “Regis
C. R. Stetson
E.A. Evans
C. H. Wel
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Archbishop Surrey
Mgrs
iLayelle
Murphy
Father Connelly
Dunwoodie
Mgr
Hayes
McMackin
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Dr. Parkhurst
John D. Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
C. F. Aked
Calvary
Baptist Church
MacArthur
Christian Church
Christ
Hughes
Peepiee
Sena
Agnew- Hart
Senate
Albany
Felix Adler
Ethical Culture Society
Carnegie Hall
Foster
Church of St. Nicholas
J. Campbell
Mr. Rockefeller
Night Workers’ Service
Mme. Kronold
East Side
Cos
Tiatron Osvillian
Fidridge
Alk
Aes
Saks & Company
34Th St
Coney
Taurants
Hotel Astor
Hotel
St. Regis
Baron Rosen
Baron Schippenbach
James Wrecard
Fiarriot Daly
Mme. Radski
Frits
James McCreary & Co
23Rd Street
34Th Street
St. Gall
Mr. Campanini
Hardman
Cleafonte Campanini
Messrs
Hardman, Peck & CO
Fifth Ave
Hardin
Hardman, Peck & Company
Brooklyn
Fulton St
Aitken, Son & CO
Broadway and
Eighteenth Street
N.Y
Cal
Kobe
Rey Broadway
Nineteenth Street
New Yorkk
Vossel
the Oriental Store
A. A. Vantine & Co
18Th St
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