| Show SENSATiON IN SKIRTS French Beauties in a Walking Walk-ing Contest MATCH WAS EVENT OF PARIS I Gardoiis of the Tuillerios Scano V of the Start Girls in Varied Costumes Walk Through Solid Cordons of Humanity Hu-manity for Prizes Paris Oct i3It Is a long time since any event has caused such a sensation sen-sation ns the walking competition just held here by the dressmakers working girls V The place of the rendezvous was the Gardens of the TuillerJcs Here they began to arrive two hours before 10 oclock the time fixed for the start The scene Inside the gardens was most picturesque There were hundreds of girls of every kind Their ages were from II to 10 and their costumes were as varied as the wearers There were KJOO starters and many of them took the matter quite seriously After their numbers were arranged the warning for the start was given and the heavy gates of the garden swung on their hinges By this tune the crowd of sightseers was something enormous there was not a vacant Inch of space on the place while up the Avenue des Champs Ely sees as far as the eye could reach nothing noth-ing could be seen but serried lines of spectators In the Place dc la Concord were a couple I cou-ple of companies of the Republican Guards supplemented by a score of mounted men and a large force of police po-lice With difficulty a space was cleared for the 1GOO midenettes who faced the starter start-er A crack of the pistol and the walk to Nanterre had begun Owing to tho crowd there only remained a narrow lane up the center of the Champs Ely sees and the starting line at once revolved re-volved itself Into a procession Those who had the luck to take the lead In the scramble for places at the start naturally natur-ally were able to keep I it without difficulty diffi-culty while those who had to fall In behind had bat little hope of forcing their way to the front With the marchers started a procession proces-sion of automobiles cabs and cycles numbered by the thousand The level ground to Ncullly bridge was negotiated nego-tiated without much difficulty but out in the country several hills confronted the walkers and four or five miles from Nanterre the finishing point nearly halftime half-time contestants had dropped Those who remained began to look the worse for wear |
