Salt Lake Telegram | 1952-01-01 | Page 12 | Thousands Watch Colorful Mummers Parade

Thousands Watch Colorful Mummers Parade PHILADELPHIA Jan 1 Wl M- M Thousands turned out under gloomy gloom skies and unseasonably warm New Years Year's Day weather Tuesday for the annual Mummers l parade A thick fog hung over the long line of marchers as they started the annual up Broad Street at am a.m. M S T But the fog soon lifted and though clouds still threatened to rain on the gala decked gala decked the show went on The Mummers in their multicolored multicolored multicolored multi multi- colored costumes topped with Sequins sequins sequins se se- quins spangles and p plumes l 1 u m e c s strutted and danced and even tumbled their way over the thc eightmile eightmile eight eight- mile course Thousands of New Years Year's Day celebrants lined the sidewalks and watched from tall buildings One string band alone has spent to outfit its mem mem-i bers a far cry from the shabbily dressed groups of or men from South Philadelphia who started the traditional festival about a century ago Those groups w wa walked a l I k ked e d the streets in ragged clothes on 01 New I Years Year's Eve f firing ring blank carI cartridges cartridges car car- I from pistols and begging food and drink The custom earned them the name of Shooters Shooters Shoot I ers and md gave birth to the dazzling dazzling daz I New Years Year's Day spectacle of modern day Philadelphia