Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-26
COUNTY PLAYF|ELD
CHILDREN TO GIVE
PUBLIC EXHIBITION
Youngsters viii Appear in Pro-
gram of Sports Tomorrow in
Branch Brook Park.

Children who use the Essex county
park Fairgrounds will give on exhibit
ton of drills, dances and other play
ground work in Branch Brook Park
tomorrow afternoon.
At two o'clock the children will be-
gin to assemble at the Sussex avenue
division of the park. They will be
stationed by Fairgrounds on the west
side of the field carrying pennants
bearing the names of their play
grounds.
At two-thirty the playground par
ade, iffaugurated by Supervisor David
1. Kelly last year, will begin. 1t will
be composed of more than 1000 chill
dren of all nationalities.
The parade will be headed by
Branch Brook girls, four of whom
will carry a miniature playground or
a light float. This will be reproduce
ton of the Branch Brook playground.
The Branch Brook boys will be led
by the midget baseball team. The
Junior baseball team will follow and
the rear will be brought up by fifty
boys who are in the dumb bell drill.
The playground directors are Misses
Gertrude Brewer and Florence john
son, and Andrew f. Dempsey, Ray
mond b. Ward and Paul D. Adams.
West Side Playground girls will
represent the four seasons on the
playground by paper costumes of the
appropriate colors and the apparatus
used in the games OF the various sea-
sons. The instructors from this park
are Misses Eliza Brown, Mabel Downs
and Kathryn Schroth and George
Stanford, Abraham Reich and George
Gilhooly
Secret Feature.
At the head of the Orange Park
group will be feature which has been
kept a secret from even the children
of that park. 1t is the work of MI.
Cuddy, of Orange, who Is very much
interested in the children and the
park. Following that will be the
Queen of the Forest, in full costume,
with her twenty-four attendants, and
Puck. Next will come the girls who
are to dance. The boys will be led
by a squad of Boy Scouts. The
directors are Misses Leila Shurts and
Agatha Gillen and Edward McGuirk
and Claire Matthews.
East Side girls will dramatize
"Hansel and Gretel." The boys OF
| this playground will be led by a uni
| formed baseball team. The instructors
in charge are Misses Julia Smith and
Ruth Stevens and Edward Carlin,
Ernest Benatre and Sidney Seidler.
| The girls of Riverbank will draw a
Japanese princess in jinricksha, the
motor power being supplied by a boy
dressed as a ricksha man, and at
| tended by ten girls dressed as Jap
anese ladies-in- waiting. Misses Anna
Donahue and Mary Smith and John
| C. Howe, Joseph Quigley and James
| Donahue have been in charge of the
| children this season.
The Irvington Park Playground
will be led by a float representing
their pond and the Shamrock w
with the three American cup defend
ers. Uncle Sam and the Goddess OF
Liberty will follow. attended by
twelve girls wearing red, white and
blue sashes. Miss May L. Denninger
Miss Frances Birkhahn and Herbert
Widman are the playground direc-
tors.
Watsessing's Fairyland.
J Watsessing girls will represent
Fairyland. The boys will furnish q
cadet company Miss Estelle Field
Miss Elsie Forbes, Alfred Chandler
and Harold Carroll have charge OF
this playground.
Glenfield Playground will be last
and the girls are to have circus pa
rade. The rear will be guarded by
the Glenfield Rife Corps, which has
been drilled by Director Walter e
Tracy. The other directors are
Louisa Huff, Emily Flick, William
David, Abraham Metzger and Charlie:
Boughton.
There win be n recitation to the
flag. and when the children are as.
sembled for the drill they will salute
the Stars and Stripes and sing The
Star-Spangled Banner" The flag
! wand and dumbbell drill will be LEI
} by Misses Leila Shurts. Eliza Brown
and George Stanford and Pau
Adams.
There will be the usual relay race,
and dashes for both boys and girls
and dances.