Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-28
FOR CAMP GOOD WILL
Summer Outing Committee
Making Arrangements.
OPENING NEXT WEDNESDAY
Twenty Tents to Constitute the Can
vas Settlement.
PLANS FOR LARGE PICNICS
Recreation Trips for colored Mothers
and Children to Tuxedo, Md.
Some of the Needs.
PLANS FOR LARGE PICNICS

Plans for the coming summer at Camp
Good VIII are receiving the finishing
touches. and the members of the summer
outing committee of the Associated Char
tiles are much pleased with the progress.
The camp will be located nearly one mile
west of Brightwood on a beautiful hill
in Rock Creek Park. Twenty tents will
be awaiting the mothers and children who
will make up the first party at the camp
next Wednesday,
Camp Coed Will has been a great boon
to the mothers of the Capital city. who
are unable to take their babies to the
country and away from the crowded
places in the warm weather. as well as to
the children who are old enough to par
take of the pleasures without the care of
a parent.
The summer outing committee. of which
John Joy Edison is chairman. announces
that Maud. the obstinate little donkey:
the cows. the rabbits and Billy. the horse.
which added so much to the pleasure OF
the children last year. will again be in
evidence at Camp Good Will.
Plans for Picnics.
The committee is also arranging to take
larger picnics to Chesapeake Beach this
year and to give invalids carfare for
to study the needs of those who suffer
from the heat during the summer.
Capt. Andrew Parker the treasurer OF
the committee. is working hard to make
success of the plans for the summer
citizens OF Washington are asked to aid
In providing the comforts of this refuge
from the heat of the tiny rooms of the
houses on the poorer streets and also to
contribute something to pay the way for
a mother and her baby to go to the camp
and aid In the work of nature in bring
Ing back health and strength.
In addition to preparations for Camp
Good Will the summer outing committee,
in conjunction with the colored auxiliary,
Is planning to conduct d camp for col
ored children at Tuxedo, Md This Camp
was organized for the first time last
summer and was a splendid picture, it
is said, of what the colored people of
the city can accomplish in the way of
es.an,lshin e, such sue camp: While it
children from the alleys, the place was
kept neat and the children were always
required TO be orderly and polite. The
camp will be located on the brow of a
HILL and will again be known as Camp
Pleasant.
For Colored Mothers.
Very few Of the mothers. it is said,
went to the camp last summer because
in almost every instance they were at
work and could not leave their places of
employment One or two mothers who
were in ill-health were taken there be-
cause they were unable to work. and it
was only through this opportunity they
could recuperate and subsequently take
care OF themselves.
The committee for the colored camp
is composed of Miss l. 1. RUSSELL chair
man: Miss NJ. f. Cromwell. Miss NJ. l..
Liggons. James T. Walker, Miss NJ. L.
Jordan. Miss Dora E. Smith, A. L. Craig.
q. T. Thomas, Thomas Walker, DIR. D. e.
Wiseman. Mrs. Bessie Claggett. Mrs.
Bell Harris. Mrs. Elizabeth Lacey, Mrs.
Edmund Smith, Miss Sadie Williams,
Miss Sadie Hail. Miss NJ e. Bend Miss
Elizabeth Martin, Mrs. Ida Richardson.
Miss Maria Hayson, Miss Elizabeth
Brown. Mrs. Mary Alice Parker. Mrs.
L. E. Grouse. Mrs. J. NJ. Wilson. Mrs.
William A. Harris and Messrs. Edwards
and S. Middleton.