Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04
LABOR DAY GAyE7|ES
Big Union Celebration at Ben
ming Race Track.
TENNIS MATCH SCHEDULED
Crack Norfolk Players to Meet
Chevy Chase Club Team.
FAIRGROUNDS SEEK VISITORS
Sports on River and Afield-Gov-
eminent Departments and Stores
to Close-Large Exodus.

In honor of labor. Washington will as
sumo gay garb and observe holiday hours
tomorrow
The government departments. banks and
nearly all business houses will declare
holiday. Employers. as well as employees,
will spend the day at leisure.
A big celebration has been planned by
organized labor. which will include races.
both horse and motor, at the Benning
race track, athletic events and base
ball game. Many thousand members Of
the unions and their families will take
advantage of the outing.
Amateur base ball teams will cross
bats on many ball fields around the city
and in the suburbs.
Some Stores Open for Few Hours.
number of stores. including markets
and department stores, will remain open
for a few hours in the morning. All the
large stores will be closed before noon.
There was a general exodus from the
city yesterday afternoon Of men and
their families who wished to get away
for the two-day holiday. Many went
to nearby resorts in Maryland and Nir-
ginia, and others to the seashore. The
trains for Atlantic City and other re-
filed.
The Washington Stock Exchange is
closed until Tuesday. Many brokers
and bankers left Washington to snatch
a brief recreation
Tennis Match at Chevy Chase Club.
An event Of much interest will be the
intercfty tennis match between Norfolk
and Washington, which will be played
tomorrow afternoon on the courts of
the Chevy Chase Club. Norfolk has a
strong team this season.
Winston, the crack Norfolk player, will
head the team from Virginia. Conrad
Doyle. washington's best player, will
be the first on the local team.
Doyle and Winston have met several
times before and each has won victories.
Doyle. however. won the southern cham
pionship over winston at Atlanta. Ga,
earlier in the present season. Undoubt-
eddy the match will bring out some good
tennis.
Norfolk comes here from Baltimore.
where the team played yesterday. Each
city will be represented by eight men.
The Norfolk men will be entertained at
dinner after the match by the Washing
ton players.
II is expected that many club members
who remain in Washington over Labor
day will entertain at dinner at Chevy
Chase Club tomorrow evening, which
adds to the general gayety.
Fun on the River.
Many river parties have been planned
and a large number of the big feet of
canoes which are kept in the various
lighthouses along the river will be in
use. At the Washington Canoe Club.
where several hundred little craft are
stored. preparations for all-day trips will
be made today. At the Potomac Boat
Club and the Analostan Boat Club the
oarsmen are planning to spend a good
part of the day on the water.
large number Of enthusiastic sports
to get out their guns, have either already
started on trips down the river and into
the marshes. looking for reedbirds and
snipe, or will make an early start tomor-
row morning The season Is still closed
for some game birds. This has not kept
the hunters at home.
Other sportsmen will spend the day on
the river fishing. Some of them will go
far down toward Quantico and tide
water. Others will try their luck up
stream. above Great Falls.
The Congressional Library building will
be open to visitors tomorrow from 2
O'Clock in the afternoon until 10 O'Clock
at night. By direction of the librarian,
the divisions of the library composing
the Sunday and holiday service will be
open during those hours. The other di-
visions. including the copyright Office
will be closed during the entire day.
Fairgrounds to Be Open.
Realizing that many children will have
no special program for Labor day those
in charge of the Fairgrounds are expect
ing large crowds. Picnic parties are in
vited TO all grounds, especially to Rose
dale and Georgetown, where there are
special facilities for all-day parties
The officials hope that many contribu-
tors and parents will take advantage of
the opportunity to visit the Fairgrounds
The Fairgrounds open tomorrow are
Rosedale, 18th and Kreamer streets
northeast: Neighborhood House, 46s n
street southwest: Mount Pleasant. l4th
and Columbia road: Garfield Park, Sd
and South Carolina avenue southeast:
New York avenue, LIST and New York
avenue northwest: Georgetown, between
33d and 34th and @ streets and Volta
place; Cardozo. I'd and I streets south
west; Howard. 5th and w streets north
west
James f. West. secretary of the Play
RrClnd ASSCcldtlOH, says tHdl tHe TtCOFu
of attendance for the first week at the
Mount Pleasant playground is far ahead
of any other in the city. Although the
playground has not been completed the
attendance Of little children has been
large.
On clear days during the first week the
morning attendance has been as high as
40 by actual count at one time and 3S5 I'm
the afternoon. Already efforts are being
made 10 secure additional space. as the
grounds will be uncomfortably crowded
when school children all return from
their vacations.
II Is hoped to obtain the vacant lot
nearby, where small boys may play base
ball. volley and basket ball. This will
leave the grove proper entirely for little
children and their nurses and for the use
of simple apparatus for little children.
The Mount Pleasant grounds will be
equipped with twelve seven-foot swings.
twelve nine-foot swings. six baby ham,
mocks. four lawn swings. a rocking boat.
merry-go-round. FIVE tether poles. a giant
stride. two dozen park benches. two un-
usually large sand boxes. four see-saws
and croquet sets, and numerous other
games, such as checkers and dominoes.