Evening star., 1909-06-19
MANY WANT BUTTONS
Bicycle Squads Hustle With
Discs Today.
PLANS FOR MONDAYS SALE
Only Question Is Will the Supply
Hold Out.
PLAYGROUND FEELING GROWS
Leading Merchants Order Liberal
Quantities of Little Marks.
Chaperons and Volunteers.
LAYGRoUND FEELING GROWS

win there be enough playground hut
tons to go around?'
That is the only question that is worry
ing the Button day committee of the
Washington Fairgrounds Association
now. All the work OF preparation has
been accomplished. with the exception of
the mechanical part OF delivering the
buttons, and this will be concluded be-
fore tomorrow night.
Starting in early this morning. the obi
cycle squad" composed of seventy-five
boys, got busy delivering buttons. They
have been going all day at breakneck
speed on bicycles decorated with Button
day placards, and will continue their
work tomorrow.
Monday the bicycle squad will be on
duty at the headquarters in the old
Metropolitan Bank building. and chap
erons and volunteers selling buttons on
the street who run out of the little discs
will only have to call up the headquar-
ters. telephone Main 6616. at any hour
of the day Monday, and a member of the
bicycle squad will be sent out at once
with fresh supply. House tags may be
obtained in the same manner. All chap
erons and volunteers are requested to
bring with them satchels for carrying
buttons.
For the Government Employees.
It was announced today by Mrs. Hill,
chairman of the committee on chaperons,
that the school girls and their teacher
chaperons who are to look after the gov
ernment departments Monday must re-
port at headquarters promptly at s
O'Clock in the morning so they may have
plenty of time to station themselves at
the doors of the departments by $40
to catch the clerks coming In. No but
tons will be sold inside the departments.
Letters were received from S. kann,
Sons G. Co. today ordering 300 black but
tons, which will be presented to their en-
ployes, and a number of buttons of all
colors. to be sold in their store. Button
day, Kann's will sell a popular song, Il
Want Somebody to Play With" portion
Of the sales receipts going to the play
ground fund.
Woodward & Lothrop also wrote saying
they wanted $40 buttons for their en-
ployes and announcing their intention of
having on every floor of their store
desk for the sale of buttons.
For Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing.
The following employees of the bureau
of engraving and printing have been ap-
pointed on the subcommittee for that
bureau. of which Joseph E. Ralph. the
director, is chairman and w. J. Dow is
vice chairman: Misses Minerva Carr
131:; New York avenue northwest: Mary
V. Davis kenilworth, D. c.. and Martha
l.. Sweeney. 7O7 sth street northeast;
Mrs Eva A. Dant. sos I'd street north
west Mrs. Nellie r. G. Fisher, 541 4th
street southeast; Misses Blanche Hurley
300 Sd street northeast: Nellie j. Grant
1246 18th street northwest; JoSepha
Lange. fiat 30, the Roland, I'd street and
Maryland avenue northeast: Julia NJ
Burke. 307 M street northwest; Mary
Connolly. apartment Z. the Kingman
423 Massachusetts, avenue northwest. and
Nellie Theaker. apartment 5. the Park, 121
18th street northeast: Mrs. Irma d.
Palmer, apartment 50, the Stanhope~ New
Jersey avenue and II street northwest; &;
Miss Carrie F. Loomis, the Ardmore, o16
18th street northwest: Mrs. Mary J.
Speaks. 303 l. street southeast; Miss Mar
garet H Dement,, 1920 N street north
west Miss Emma D. McCauley, $40 Mary
land avenue northeast: Mrs. Mary E.
Wilson, 935 French street northwest; !;
Misses Mary f. Johansen, 612 B street
southwest; Blanche L. Van Deventer, 5S
T street northwest; Mary f.. Cook 4S5
Maryland avenue southwest; Florence
Hoffman. Chestnut avenue. Takoma
Park D. c.: Lucille F. Smith. 224 Indiana
avenue northwest. Mamie Z. Daniel. 225
B street northeast: Ella T. Murphy. "a r
street northeast; Kate V. Smoot, Do B
street northeast: Josephine G. Adams,
apartment AZ. the Stanton, 1cS G street
northeast; Grace A. Parkhurst, 1919 14th
street northwest. and R K. Stickney, 1865
Chaplin street northwest