The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-05-02
TOTS GAYlY DANCE
AROUND MAYPO[E
Several Thousand Little Ones
Enjoy Frolie in the Chill
dren's Playground
Gala Day in Park for Small
Folk and Happy Time for
Many Elders

Several thousand children. about a
nursemaids. few fathers and scat
tering of grandfathers and grand
mothers were the chief participants IN
the merry joyous welcome given the
May day at the childrens Fairgrounds
in Golden Gate park yesterday morn
ing.
1t was a gala occasion for the lit
tie folk of San Francisco and happy
day for many OF their elders as well.
1t was romp, romp, romp from eafiies'
morning, and hundreds of the niue
merry makers ate their fill OF plcnlc
| lunches under the trees and continued
the uproarious fun until bodies ached
| and the long afternoon shadows
stretched across the broad playground.
DANCE AROUND MAYPOLE
Most attractive and colorful and
standing out above all else as the
feature of the day was the danclns
during the morning hours around the
| tall Maypole erected for the occasion,
| from the center of large, raised plat
form. Though the swings and the
slides and the baseball grounds were
never for a moment deserted. II was
around InIS Qanc1HS pldAAOA1h Nif1r ~
great throng gathered when the festlv-
| tiles began shortly after 10 o'clock.
Happy parties grouped themselves at
every vantage place, fond mothers
banked small lads and sweet faced lit
tie misses in a solid phalanx around
the edges Of the dancing stand, the
very youngest generation cooed and
gurgled and made big eyes from the
depths of their baby carriages. here
ne W
friends about him and revelled in the
ministra tons of baby hands and the
solicitation of childish voices, while
around it all stood the fringe of elders,
enjoying it just as much as the tiniest
toddlerS.
EXECUTE INTRICATE FIGURES
The platform was gay with flags and
ropes and streamers of red, white and
| blue bunting; while the ribbons used
| in the Maypole dance were also of the
national colors. A score of small
maids under the direction of Misses
Pearl and Hazel Allen were the
| dancers, and the music was furnished
| by the BOYS band from the Jewish
orphan asylum. To the tune of Yam
kee Doodle. dozen girls in rainbow
/ costumes and with wreaths of May
| flowers caught in their hair, skipped
| through the mazes of the Maypole
| dance, winding and unwinding the long
! streamers and executing the intricate
figures without fault
! 1.-The Maypole dancers were Grace AL
len, Eileen Horgan. Cecile Rogerson,
Kathleen Rogers, Florence Prenty,
Mary Sweeney, Belle Jackson. Dulcie
McGlynn, Alice Fleming. Irene O'Con-
nor, Charlotte Dietz and Rose Sweeney.
IN kits AND BONNETs
A Scotch dance in costume of kits
and bonnets was executed by Grace AL
| len, Eileen Horgan, Cecile Rogerson
and Dulcie McGlynn. with bagpipe
music by James ]. Cameron. There
| followed an Irish dance by all the lit
j tie members of the Juvenile Gaelic
| dancing club, under the direction of
] the Allen sisters, and an Irish Jig by
| Evelyn Powers and Kathleen Prenty,
(! the two tiniest dancers OF the lot, who
| were costumed from head to toe in
green.
The final dance the program was
i a clever cake walk by Thelma Herrera,
Belle Jackson Eileen Horgan and
! Grace Allen, two of them dressed as
boys and two as girls in exquisite silk
! costumes of blue and white. So vocif-
erous were the demands for an encore
| that an unannounced buck and wing
dance was performed by several of the
girls who had taken part in the other
/ dances.