Evening star., 1909-06-17
NEWRECORDEXPECTED
Sale of Buttons Likely to
Eclipse Sale of Tags.
INTEREST GROWING DAILY
Preparing for Great Activity in the
Schools.
INSTRUCTIONS TO PRINCIPALS
Prospects Point to a Large Amount
Being Raised for the Play
grounds Association.
Are you good chaperon ,"

| Are you a good chaperon?"
If you are and If you want TO turn
your talents in that direction to good
account meet Mrs. Justina r. Hill
| chairman of the committee on chaperons
| of the Button day committee at the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce
1902 F street northwest at II o'clock
tomorrow morning. At that hour all the
women in Washington who are inter
ested in Fairgrounds for children will
be welcomed by Mrs. Hill. who. with
the members of her committee, will ex-
plain to the chaperons what their work
Monday will be- There are still few
vacancies on the list of chaperons that
| Mrs. Hill is anxious to have filled at
| tOmorrow's meeting.
| Interest in Button day continues to
! increase more and more as the event
| ful day draws nearer, and the commit
tee is confident that all records for
charities Of this kind will be broken
when the receipts are counted.
Sale Of Buttons in the Schools.
The board of education has completed
preparations for the sale of buttons In
the schools, and today a letter was sent
to the supervising principals Of the
public schools containing information
regarding the sale of buttons. Every
| school is to receive 1000 ten-cent buttons
and 200 twenty-five-cent buttons, which
will be delivered this afternoon, together
with 100 badges for schoolboys who desire
| to sell buttons on the street. The boy
| volunteers will be excused from school a
1 o'clock Monday afternoon. With regard
| to the return of the unsold buttons the
| letter says:
Send all unsold buttons. full state
ment of the entire number sold and sum
equal to ) cents for each butto[ sold to
Mr.. Otto Luebkert, treasurer. at Button
| day headquarters, GIT 18th street north
west. Send all money received over the
above amount of : cents for each button
| to Mr.. H. o. Hine. treasurer of the school
playground fund. Franklin School,
| To the division returning the highest
amount of money prize consisting of
| playground equipment of $50 in value will
be given: to the building returning the
| highest amount an equipment of S5 in
value; to the building in each division re-
| turning the highest amount, equipment
| equal to s. in value.
The principals to whom buttons are be-
| ing sent are DIR. w. S. Montgomery. Sim
mons School; Miss NJ. P. Shadd, Garnet
School; j. c. Naile. Sumner School: DIR.
| f. G. kimball. Wallach School: H. NJ.
Hendley, Ludlow School: Isaac Fair
brother Jefferson School: B. 7. Jan
ney, Curtis School: B. w. Muech. Den
nison School; E. L. Thurston, Ross
and S. NJ. Ely. Gales School.
The following principals of the high
schools have 800 black buttons for dis
tribution: Mr.. Jackson, NJ Street High
School: E. NJ. Wilson, Central High
School: George F. Meyers, Mckinley
High School; w. S. Small. Western High
School: Miss E. c. Westcott, Western
/ I'll,
High School
| The committee on stores, which has
been meeting regularly. has agreed that
each member shall be responsible for
buttoning at least six of the local stores
Orders Received for Buttons.
Receipt of the following orders for but
tons were announced by the committee
today:
| w. Conradis, 10 black.
| Hirsch Shoe, 10 black; % green.
| Roe Pharmacy, 90 black.
| Robert Berberich's Sons, % black.
! Robert Berberich's Sons. 100 black.
| Harry kaufman Stores, 10 black.
| Bronaugh's, 80 black.
| r. II. EtZ, 10 black.
| Cassidy Candy Store, "a black.
| Welsbach Company. 10 black.
William F. Matteson, "a black, 3 red.
| Franklin & Co. 10 black. l red.
National Electrical Supply Company, 80
| black. l red.
| The Washington Times, 100 black.
| The Post, 1OO black.
| The Star, 100 black.
| Saks & Co, 10 black.
| Judd & Detweiler, so black, blue.
| kneessi Sons, 10 black.
! julius Garfinkle, III black.
julius Gartinkle, 100 black, 80 green,
% blue, 20 red. ) silver, l gold
| Ballantyne q Sons, 10 black
| F. w. Woolworth & Co, o. black.
| Lewis S. kann, % black.
w. w. Gates. 10 black, i green, . blue,
l red.
Melvin Behrends. 40 black 8 green.
| Klein Hearst, j black, > green. l red.
| DR.. William Tindall, 20 black, 70 green,
| 10 blue, 10 red.
| Dulin & Martin 60 black, red.
| Columbia National Bank, % black.
| 1. Grosner, 20 black.
| s. kann. Sons IL Co., 800 black
Law Reporter Printing Company, 80
! black.