CHAPTER VI.
_Some Great Days on the Avenue_ Some Great Days on the Avenue--Pictures and Pageants--When a Prince Came Visiting--A Regiment Departs--Honour to the Captains--Funeral Processions--Receptions--Dinners--The Orient and the Avenue--When Admiral Dewey Came Home--Greeting a Marshal of France--The Roar of the City and the Guns of the Marne.
In the stirring times in which we are living, it seems as if every day is a great day on the Avenue.

Take a single example: The morning broke dark and threatening.

Heavy clouds presaged showers.

But after an hour or two they passed from the heavens, and warmth and golden sunshine came.

In the course of various activities the writer made his way to points between the Battery and Fifty-ninth Street, and the means of travel employed included three journeys on top of Fifth Avenue buses.