Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-08
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GIRLS IN THE CAMP
New Organization Along Lines
of Boy Scouts.
STARTS IN THIS CITY
Announcement Of Plans Made by Su-
pervisor Martin Of Fairgrounds
Association.

1.-THE Camp Fire Girls is the name OF
a new national organization, which is to
be launched in Washington Friday.
March Is, in connection with the two
day institute of local playground and
Boy Scout workers, to be held. at the
New Willard.
Announcement that plans have been
completed for bringing the new order
into existence, which is to be an organi-
zatioR similar to that of the Boy Scouts.
was made today by Edgar 8. Martin,
supervisor Of the Washington Play
grounds. Association. DR.. Luther Halsey
Gulick. head Of the department 81 child
hygiene Of the Russell Sage Foundation,
is back Of the undertaking. Incorporation
is to be had under the laws Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
Headquarters in New York.
Although the organization is to be
started in Washington, its headquarters
win be in New York An effort will be
distinction Of possessing the parent chap
ter. 1t is said to be probable that the
| first president Of the national body will
be Mrs. Luther Halsey sGulick.
Details Of the object sought in the or
ganizatfon OF the Camp Fire Girls are not
given out, although 1t Is said that q con-
stitutton and bylaws already have been
prepared and that everything is in. readi-
ness for commencing an active campaign
for membership. Girls between the ages
Of ten and twenty will be eligible to be-
long to the order, 1t is announced.
The organization OF the Camp Fire
Girls Is but one Of a number OF impor-
tant matters which are to be discussed
at next weeks institute, which will be-
gin Thursday night agd continue through
Saturday afternoon.
Several distinguished speakers will adj
dress the institute. among them being
DR.. Gulick, Lee F. Hammer Of New York,
also Of the Russell Sage Foundation: Mrs
Charles H. Israel OF New York, repre-
senting the Fairgrounds and Recreation
Association Of America, and Mrs. James
J. Storrow OF Boston.
Maj. Charles Lynch of the American
Red Cross will address the institute rel
alive to the Red Cross congress, which
Is to be held in Washington May to II.
1t is probable that arrangements will be
made for q demonstration by Boy Scouts
In connection with the congress.
Plans for Fairgrounds.
Local playground workers who attend
the institute will have their time occu-
pied principally in arranging plans for a
playground exhibit, which will be dis
played next September, when the inter-
national congress on hygiene and demog-
raphy meets in Washington. According
to announcement today, this exhibit will
be the largest OF it's kind ever arranged
In the capital, and months will be con-
stunned in its preparation, with the object
Of making it one Of the interesting fea-
lures Of the hygiene congress display.
The spring opening OF Washington.s
Fairgrounds may occur the latter part of
the present week or the first Of next, ac-
cord1ng to statement by Supervisor
Martin today. The opening depends en-
tirely on the weather conditions, and. IL
the grounds are sufficiently dried by Sat
urday the children's recreation parks may
be thrown open that day.