Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-27

The playground idea and movement was acted out and made a living thing by half hundred dainty little girls folk dancing Sin white and laven- der Wednesday afternoon on Chelsea Parade. which with it's wide expanse of greensward and it's encircling elms lentItsen with admirable effect to the festive exercises which marked the second annual field day of the Norwich Playground association and the prac- tical close of another successful sum- mer of recreation and enjoyment and profit, too, for the children of the city. The weather did it's part for the gala occasion and all things worked for a fine exposition of what Miss Mary B. Mckay and her assistants have been doing with the little folks on the six Norwich playgrounds during the summer.
 Ended With Pretty Maypole Dance
 It was the dancing on the parade that gave a distinctive touch to the day. The boys were over on the Academy campus holding their track meet and having g. baseball game and both these events were highly inter esting. But their sisters were the ones who got the attention from a gathering of close to a thousand peo- pie who formed ring near the flag staff with it's fiuttering colors in the middle of the green to watch the girls carry out In6lr HfdySTOunQ IndICn, the rustic dance and the other numbers on an exceedingly pretty programme that ended with the charming May pole dance. Each little white-frocked girl, with alternate Sashes of laven- der and white over their shoulders, picked out their respective streamers and gayly danced around the pole, weaving them in and out with a smoothness that reflected careful training by Miss O'Connell, who de- signed the pole and assisted by Miss Mckay, had the girls in charge. The floral decorations for this interesting feature of the exercises were contri- buted by John Moore and Mrs. Eliza beth Geary Danihy was at the plano The other playground instructors who assisted were Misses Jennie Mahoney Nellie Barry and Katherine Casey The boy scouts did efficient work as uShers.
 The girls who took part in the ex- ercises were: Margaret Driscoll, Katie Hilderbrand. Mary McCune, Gertrude Bianchette, SlaSia Lenkiewizz, Mar garet Donavan. Grace Young, Ethe Boyd, Rachel Norwick, Freda Ret beovske. Alice Hoar, Lillian Besk, Carey, Mary Tracey, Mary Casey, Lena Norwick. Fanny Rosenberg, Etts Rosenberg, Deborah Graney, Saraf
 Boyd, Eva Bernardo. Bessie Werner Alice Golbowski Alice Fournier, Alice Guilbeault, Carrie Passconchie, Estel Kramer. Eron Gagnon, Edith Jennes Agnes Myesli. Sara Hyman, Sara Norwick, Helea Braumin, Adelaide
 Eyr, Grace Risley. Sarah Fineborg
 Bessie Bruckner. Alice Johnson, Anna
 Retknovske. Florence Pearson, Saral Markoff. Mary Keenan, Fife Redhead Grace Hannunl, Merriam Pedace, Dor l othy Boyd. Dora Shapiro, Mary Sha piro. Anna Alexander. Evelyn Caron Jennie Pedace. Bessie Markoff, Lu cille Enright, Ruth Whitehead, Doro | thy Haslam. Anna Enright, Mary Cyr Stella Guertin. Charlotte Dawbry. Cup to Baseball Champions.
 Following the folk dancing. the chll
 dren and their interested parents ant 1 friends, and these included the occu
 pants of a considerable number of au tomobiles who halted along Broadwa,
 and Washington street to see the eXer