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Show A SUTiLlilEjOPESING.. Siberian Winter Discards His Fnn and Comes Forth iu a Bright Linua Duster A LOVELY DAY FOB OUTDOORS. A Chapter of Incidents That Began With Sunrise and Continued Until Sunset. Spring came forth yesterday morning like an opening bud and as tho day advanced ad-vanced tho thoroughfares presented a spectacle of splendid animation. Tho follies of fashion asserted themselves in brighter colors and lighter textures. The young man with a propensity for posing on the popular corner also went into his last season's wardrobe and sallied forth within plaided trowsers. Those who felt that they could stand tho tariff without too much of a levy on the egg for a rainy day, sought tho livery liv-ery stables, aud at 2 o'clock the boulevards boule-vards were thronged with a moving, trotting aud galloping mass. It goes , without saying it of Zion's God-fearing flocks that the places of diviua worship were early the scenes of a largo attendance, attend-ance, while to tho Sabbath schools, tho outpouring was cipially large. In keeping keep-ing with this spectacle were the closed doors of the gin mills while the patrolman, patrol-man, lest soma violation should take place without liis knowledge, kept his wary eye on back doors and rear entrances. en-trances. Without those resorts were the browsing herds of bums who had como forth to snilT the elixirs of the blazing sun. In localities the sidewalks were almost choked with them, but the format for-mat opeuing of spring by the weather clerk is entitled to some liberties. So there were no arrests at least for vagrancy. At the suburban resort that is beyond the range of the municipal howitzer that has directed its yawning barrel at the Sunday saloon, the worm of tho still was in all its glory. Many nought the warm spring', where they took the waters "straiiriit" and thanked kind nature for her lavishnients. Others pushed on further and took it only "on the side." Many went to Beck's Hot springs and sought the seething waters for the vitality that was in thcm,.Man-agor thcm,.Man-agor Pratt having entertained nearly 200 bathers between the rise and fall of Phiebus. In parenthesis it may be mentioned that the option on these valuable springs expires on April 1, ami the owner has determined on of improvements that will place them among the leading at tractions for tho pleasure-seeker an well as invalids. With all these opportunities for tho wayfarer to relax his energies, fancy can experience no difficulty in grasping grasp-ing an idea of tho life and bustle that was visible on thoroughfare and boule-varde. boule-varde. For the first time since winter began to shake its Siberian locks the open car made its appearance on the street car lines and thousands of people who could not afford the expense of more pretentious diversion resorted to them, landing at Liberty park or some one of the suburban retreats. There were hundreds of people yesterday yes-terday who wanted to go to the fort, hundreds did go, and perhaps two or three hundred more would have gone if the street car facilities had been more adequate to the demands of the traffic. The sun was bright, the air balmy and exhileratiug, aud the fascinations of beholding enchanting scenery anil beautiful silhouettes from one of the most, advantageous positions contigious to the city, were enhanced by the fact that when once the point was reached the ear could be ravished by the linest selections from the musical masters, interpreted in-terpreted by the finished musicians composing the post band. Every car w hich started from the corner of Second South and Main was crowded uutil walking would have been a luxury in comparison, and one conductor iu-fornied iu-fornied the reporter that he had collected collect-ed 1 10 fares on a round trip. Passengers Passen-gers waited on the corner of Tenth East and Fourth South for an hour at a time waiting for a car, which, when it appeared, was instantly taken possession posses-sion of by thp crowd in a most undig-nilied undig-nilied scramble. Twelve people were counted on the top af one of the cars, and the front aud rear platforms plat-forms were so crowded that the motor man could scarcely work the brake or the conductor manipulate man-ipulate his soul-soothing musical instrument. instru-ment. Those who were successful in getting to tho fort were in no way disappointed, dis-appointed, the vista of mountain, lake and valley were sublimely grand, the music was something bewitching and beautiful and lingered in the heart like a delicious memory. Women with bright faces and in new and bewildering bewilder-ing creations of the milliner's art, promenaded about the walks of the en- j campment with gentlemen in English top coats and ice cream pants. The attractions compensated fur the difficulties diffi-culties in getting there, and altogether it was au afternoon of delights. |