Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-03
For School Children Of
Newark and
Vicinity.
FREE SEASON PASSES
FOR OLYMPIC PARK
Complete Details Are An
n0unced in This Issue of
the Evening STAR.

Az announced in the Evening STAR
last Saturday. the school children of
Newark and surrounding towns are
to be given free season passes to
Olympic Park. The boys and girls are
to be the guests of this paper, and in
addition to being admitted to the big
pleasure resort at Irvington, absolute
ly free. will be provided with special
tickets to hear the various operas and
musical comedies given by the Aborn
Opera Company. The opera tickets
will admit the Evening STARS guests
each Wednesday and Saturday after-
noon.
Playground Movement Popular.
Never before In the history OF play
grounds. private and public. has there
been SO much interest In this all-lm-
portant subject as during the past
year.
The Evening STAR wants to help
in the great cause of Fairgrounds,
more especially here In Newark BY
the Evening STARS plan to send the
schoo, children to Olympic Park, abb
solutely free. this mammoth play
ground. with It's many acres of whole
some anusements, will be brought to
the very doors of the Newark homes,
and In less than twenty minutes from
the time the children leave the hot,
stuffy sections of the thickly popu-
lated districts they will be In the
midst of veritable fairyland of play
grounds. with large, spacious picnic
groves, toboggAn slides. merry-go-
round, roller coaster, children's swings,
pony and donkey carts. wild animal
menagerte, vaudeville performances
and every conceivable attraction that
to the little ones. who are too often
denied the pleasures that are right
fully theirs.
All Children Eligible.
There are to be no restrictions in the
Evening STARS free season passes to
Olympic Park. Every school boy and
girl who lives In Newark, or In any
of the towns where this paper circu-
lates. will be permitted to share In the
distribution of the Olympic Park tick
cts. The only exaction will be concern
ing the ages of pupils. Boys and girls
who will be provided with the tickets
must be between the ages of ten and
eighteen years, and must be attendants
at either public or parochial schools.
Children who are under ten years of
age will be allowed to go to the park
as guests of the Evening STAR pro-
vided they are accompanied by their
parents or guardians. This provision
is made in order to protect the little
ones from getting lost, and to properly
protect boys and girls who are not old
enough to look out for themselves.
How to Get Season Tickets.
Beginning Wednesday, July 5. spe-
cial school children's coupon will be
printed in the Evening STAR every day
up 70 and including Saturday. July is.
There will be ten coupons in all. Save
these coupons each day until the last
one Is published. When you have the
complete set of ten coupons, bring them
to the office of the Evening STAR, and
receive, absolutely free, q season ticke.
to Olympic Park, good for every day
in the week, excepting park holidays
and Sundays. from Wednesday, July 10,
until the close of the park season in
September, from 10 o'clock in the morn
ing until o'clock in the evening. The
Evening STAR tickets will not be good
after 8 o'clock, and must be shown to
the officer at the main entrance each
time the holder enters the grounds
Under no circumstances are these tick
cts transferable.
Tickets Good for Opera House.
BY a special arrangement with Mil
ton and Sergeant Aborn. director of
the popular Aborn Opera Company at
Olympic Park, the Evening STAR sea-
son tickets will admit their holders to
the afternoon performances on either
Wednesday or Saturday. The first
opera to be seen by the school children
will probably be Grace Van Studdi-
ford's former success, 1.-THE Golden
Butterfly" which has never been seen
in Newark at summer prices. This an
nouncement Is not definite, as the rep
ertoire at Olympic Park is subject to
change, but in all probability this opera
will be presented for the week begin
ming Monday. July II. For the bene-
fit of the hildren who hold the Evening
STAR season passes the Messrs- -Aborn
have agreed to publish exclusively in
the Evening STAR a short story of
each opera to be seen by the school
children. In this way every pupil will
be able to follow the various perform
ances accurately and be able to profit
by the advance stories.
Watch for the Evening STAR Wed
nesday. July S, when the first coupon
will appear Be sure 'our newsdealer
understands that you are to receive the
Evening STAR, so you will get all of
the ten coupons.