Evening star., 1909-06-10
AID FOR FAIRGROUNDS
Washington Association Opens
Its Headquarters.
PLANS OF Committeeman
Campaign to Raise Funds Will Be
Inaugurated Soon.
BUTTON DAY ARRANGEMENTS
Base Ball Game Between Board of
Trade and Chamber Of Commerce
Teams Postponed.
|PLANS OF Committeeman
BUTTON DAY ARRANGEMENTS

Headquarters Of the Washington Play
ground Association were opened this
morning in the old Metropolitan Bank
building. 18th street opposite the Treas
ury Department, the building having been
| loaned by its owners. and the campaign
to raise big fund for the Fairgrounds
Of the city is on in earnest For more
than month the effort will be con-
| tinued. and the members of the associa-
ton are determined to raise sufficient
money to furnish adequate play facilities
for the children Of Washington.
In the rooms of the Chamber of Com
merce yesterday afternoon two commit
tees interested in the campaign work dis
| cussed plans. They were the button
day committee of the Playground AS
sociation and the joint committee on base
ball of the Chamber Of Commerce and
Board of Trade. of which Thomas c.
Noyes is chairman. Arthur c. Moses.
first vice president of the Playground As
sociation, outlined to the button commit
tee the general plan of the money! raising
campaign. which will begin next Monday
with the sale of buttons and end in July
| with an excursion to Marshall Hall.
Sale of Buttons.
Monday. June 81. will be municipal
button day. The buttons, which will
bear the likeness and signature Of
President Taft, with an inscription. Il
am for Fairgrounds" have been or
dered and will be distributed this week
to those who are to sell them. All
| the business houses and banks of the
| city have come to the front, as they
ing an active. practical interest in the
affair. Booths will be placed in the
stores and banks for the sale of but
TONS
Fifty thousand buttons have been or
| dered. The board of education has taken
2SO0O for use In the schools, and the
| remaining 22,OOO will be taken by the
| Playground Association. The latter will
| be sold on the streets by young wom-
en-. 600 of whom are expected to volun-
teer their services. They will work in
couples. each couple being accompanied
| by a chaperon, and will have designated
| territories in which to work.
Not to Be Annoyed.
| 1t was made clear by Mr.. Moses at
yesterdays meeting that only the best
business and residence sections of the
city would be included in this territory
and that women who wished to assist in
the work could rest assured that they
could undertake the task without the
slightest hesitancy. The city has been
ing purposes.
The buttons will range in price from
10 cents to $40 each. the value of each
being designated by the color of its
border.
The work will be in charge of a
general committee. of which Cuno H.
Rudolph was appointed chairman yes
terday afternoon. Assisting will be
number of subcommittee.
Committees and the Chairmen.
These committees and their chair
men. as announced by Mr.. Moses yes
tsrday, are as follows:
Chaperons, Mrs. Justina r. Hill;
women's clubs, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey;
lunchrooms. w. H. Henshaw; booths IN
stores, w. 0. Howenstein; delivery
wagons, Ross p Andrews; booths in
Office buildings, Charles A. Jones; Sen
ate, G. F. Snyder; government printing
seph Richardson; vice chairman, Arthur
Cowsill; telephone users, D. S. Porter;
Y. NJ. c. A., D. A. Davis: banks, E. 5.
Wolfe: hotels, Robert Callahan; insur-
ance companies and offices. Ralph w.
Lee: dentists, DIR. William L. Clark;
physicians, DIR. S. S. Adams; lawyers,
Fred Coldon, taxicabs and public con-
veyances. H. C. Wilson; Department of
Commerce and Labor, Theodore L.
sylvester L. Burch: Department of the
Interior. Clement S. ticker; Department
of the Navy, F. s. Curtis; Post Office
Department Richard P. Covert; De-
partment of Justice, Orin ]. Field; De-
partment of War, John c. Scofield;
Treasury Department, Walter w. Ltd
low; Department of State, Wilbur j.
Carr; Union station, Mrs. M. Landon
Reed; carriages, Oliver Prodigy; cleo
| tric vehicles. Mrs. j. NJ. Stoddard; au-
tomobile dealers and garages, 7. B.
Spence; automobile clubs, William H.
West; stores, A. G. Newmeyer; the
aters. Mrs Richard Gasch.
The committee is anxious to have those
who intend to offer their services, either
as chaperons or volunteers. to send in
their names as early as possible. The
sooner the list is completed the more
smoothly will run the plans of the COM
mittee for the big day, June q. Mrs. JUS
tina r. Hill is chairman Of the committee
on chaperons and all who wish to volun-
teer are requested to notify her at the
headquarters of the committee in the old
Metropolitan Bank building.
Performance in White House
Grounds.
The proposed performance in the White
House grounds by Miss Maude Adams
has not been finally arranged Miss
Adams has expressed her willingness to
assist the committee and suggested that
produce. She has cabled Charles Froh-
man in London asking II the machinery
incidental to the play can be used out Of
doors. If so. 1t will be shipped from
London. where 1t Is now in storage. for
this one performance.
Wishing to do all in her power to help
the Fairgrounds movement Mrs. Taft
promptly and gladly gave her consent to
the use Of the White House grounds
when the matter was suggested to her
No date has been set for the performance
and will not be until Mr.. Frohman is
heard from, but 1t will probably be given
during the last week in June
Base Ball Game Postponed.
At a meeting of the base ball committee
it was decided to postpone the date of
the game between the mines Of the Cham
Der of Commerce and the Board of Trade
from June % to June %. American
League Park is being held for the game