Evening star., 1909-06-16
COMMITTEES FOR BUTTON DAY
CHAIRMAN MOSES ANNOUNCES
NAMES OF AIDS.
Hotels Falling Into Line-Benefit
Performance at Belasco
Theater.
Have you see Mr.. Otto Luebkert >"

Have you see Mr. Otto Iuebkert.
II you have you know the answer. If
you have not you'd better get around to
the headquarters of the Button day
committee and have word with him
He is the man who gives out the Il am
for Fairgrounds buttons. and if you
want your store. your hotel, Your office
or yourself on the map in Washington
next Monday il is necessary for YOU to
fix up a little deal with Mr.. Luebkert. He
is in all day long.
And everything is still booming at the
Button day headquarters. Orders are
coming in every minute. Today the hotels
got into the game The Arlington or
dered 100 black buttons. which are ~
cents each; 80 green buttons. which are
% cents each. and % blue buttons, which
are 80 cents each. The National ordered
10 red buttons at 81 each; the Normandie,
80 black buttons, % green buttons and
10 blue buttons; the New Varnum. 1UO
blacks. 10 greens and 10 blues, while Con-
gress Hall sent for 30 blacks, ~ green's
and 10 blues. In the Raleigh and the
New Willard Button day special COM
mittees of chaperons and volunteers will
sell buttons.
Donation From Success"
What promises tc be extremely profit
able to the fund is the offer of Preston
which is being presented at the Belasco
during this week to give half Of the pro-
ceeds OF the performances Saturday aft
fund. 4 number Of prominent society
women have taken an active interest in
Mr.. Gibson's plan to help the committee
and will assist in various ways. Two
committees have been appointed to sell
seats and boxes. The first committee is
composed of Mrs Dickinson. wife of the
Secretary OF War, who is chairman; Mrs.
White. wife of Justice White, of the Su-
preme Court; Mrs. MacVeagh wife of the
Secretary of the Treasury: Mrs. Barney
composed of younger women. includes
Mrs. Murray Cobb, chairman: Miss
Cockerill, Miss Terry, Miss Foraker and
Miss Halford. They will begin selling
tickets this afternoon.
The merchants continue their active and
energetic support of the movement and
there have been many new orders for
buttons. More than that, every merchant
who is backing the Button day scheme
is including in his advertisement in the
daily newspapers a fac simfle of the but
ton. SO that readers may know who is
who. The fac simile of the button in an
advertisement is a sort of good conduct
badge that the merchants who are work
ing for Fairgrounds have adopted for
themselves.
This method of promoting the play
grounds movement is declared to be as
unique as it is public spirited
New Committees Appoined.
The following new committees were an
nounced today by Arthur c. Moses, chair
man Of the button committee:
General committee on buttoninG stores:
Julius Garfinkle, chairman: w. w. Nor
man, 10Th and F. streets northwest; Wash
ington Topham, 1919 F. street northwest; ;
Thomas w. Smith, 1st and Indiana ave-
nue; John G. Weinberg, 716 18th street
southeast: william Muehleisen. 6l9 9TH
street northwest; II. Clay Browning, BIG
Pennsylvania avenue; Isaac Cans, 1th
and Pennsylvania avenue, tSaks & Co..;
I. G. Goldenberg. 7th and X streets. 1sa-
dore Kaufman, Sth and I streets south
east; Frank Pitzer, 9TH and East Capitol
streets, druggist; Christian j. Gockler. 7th
and X streets, hardware; Joseph +. Birch,
jr., 1414 14th street northwest. grocer;
John H. Magruder. Connecticut avenue
corner X street: George o. Watson, cash
ier National Metropolitan Bank: +. Baker
Weaver. 12OS Wisconsin avenue, hard
ware: William A. II. Church. sth and c
streets southwest, lumber; George G. AL
S. Wescott. 1907 Pennsylvania avenue;
Subcommittee on automobile dealers
and garages T. b. Spence, chairman:
Mr.. Yerwood, 1915 New York avenue;
w. 4. Long, 1918 new 1Ork avenue. Ia.
D. Moore, 829 14th street. A. l.. Cline,
o3i 14th street: Claude Miller. no., 14th
street; Rudolph Jose. ed and P streets:
r. A. Kolck. Dupont Garage Company,
2020 NJ street: H. Cornell Wilson. 1909
18th street: r. w. Powers. 1926 Con-
necticut avenue; Alvin Muehleisen. 1928
Connecticut avenue; John Thomas. 1928
l. street; Belmont garage, I'LL 14th
street: A. P. Warner. 1904 New Hamp-
shire avenue; j. A. Flynn, S15 B street:
Georges Franc. 1919 l. street; Fl. b..
Coblentz. $40 Florida avenue: Napoleon
Hill, 1928 14th street: George Reed, Cen
trail Garage Company. 1910 New York
avenue: l.. p. Dorsett. 18th and
streets.
Committee at Union station on Button
day:
Morning-Mrs. Z. r. Gascf, chairman.
For chaperons, Mrs. Walker Martin
and Mrs w J. Ethel; aids. Miss Stella
c. Cullen, Miss Lucy Ashby, Miss Bessie
Birch, Miss Louise Birch. Miss Bessie
Steinle. Miss Mary Grace. Miss Margaret
Nalle. Mrs. Vernon Bailey and Miss Mil
Afternoon-Mrs W. D. Hoover. Mrs.
Sanford Taylor, Mrs. Claude zapoone;
aids, Miss s. K. Hall, Miss Emily
Haines. Miss Hebe Haines. Miss Adele
Taylor. Miss Jean Crawford, Miss Mar
garette Zappone and Miss Evelyn Shirghy