The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-04
CLOSE OF SEASON
Auditorium Stage Turned Into
City Playground.
Final Pageant Put on With
Notable Success.

The auditorium stage was turned
into playground Friday evening and
hundreds of Topeka school children,
members of the Fairgrounds associa-
ton, appeared in the first annual
Fairgrounds pageant before a crowd
OF between six and seven hundred.
| The children went through their
stunts with we'll drilled precision I'M
der the dictatorship of w. P. Mclean.
Perhaps the biggest feature on the
program was the pageant depicting
the history of transportation, which
showed the pioner mode of travel in
prairie schooners and modern railway
travel. The end of the act was
marked by the miniature train, built
in the Santa Fee shops, which was run
across the stage under its own power.
Another feature was the Russian
music played by Mrs. Left and five of
her pupils. Other numbers on the
program included wall scaling by
teams composed of both girls and
boys; Friends of Mother Goose by
City park Fairgrounds; "Proserpina,' .
by Quincy; The Ten virgins" by
Washington Fairgrounds; 1.-The Pied
Piper" by Westlawn; historical
sketches by Potwin, and other acts.
The amount of money taken in by
the closing celebration of the play
grounds is not known and complete
returns will not be received for sew
eral days. However, it is estimated
that the amount will be close to 500.
Ills VIII 81 lOWdIQ covering the
deficit of $1,000 in the playground
finances.
The Prize Winners.
Following are the prize winners at
City park and at the auditorium:
Boys 10O-pound ladder climb
Larimer, Westlawn, first; w. Will
pigue, City park, second; H. Watch,
Chesney, third.
Boys 12O-pound ladder climb
Sharp, Washington, first; Samke, City
ia
Unlimited boys ladder climb-Ver-
non, Washington, first; F. Barrett,
City park, second; Cook, Chesney,
Apparatus work-Nob1e and Nom
him, Chesney, horizontal bars; Arm
strong and Short. Chesney, trapeze;
Noble, Chesney, trapeze and rings.
First aid, boys team-Chesney
first: East side, second. William
BOYD. East side, best bandage man;
FRANK Taylor, East side, best stretch
err man.
First aid, girls team-City park,
first; East side, second. Lamberta
Mcdonald, East side, best stretcher
bandage girl.
S5-pound boys wrestling match.
Zimmerman, Chesney, and H Hatch,
Polk. Time, 10 minutes.
12O-pound boys wrestling match
RodeI, City park.
Unlimited boys wrestling match
R. Wilson, Potwin.
100-pcund boys pole climb-H.
GARNER, Westlawn, first; n. Villipigue,
City park, second
120-pcund boys pole climb-Arm
strong, Chesney, first; Lortie, East
side, second; Samke, City park,
third
Unlimited boys pole climb-F. Bar
rett, City park, first; Short, Chesney,
second
s5-pound girls ladder climb-Eva
Barber, Washington, first; Margaret
F'rssbee, Chesney, second; Blanche
DwYer, City park, third.
i10pound girls ladder climb
Eliza beth McCafferty, Chesney, first;
Ina Grant, Washington. second; Ma
Del Levitt, Quincy, third.
35-pound boys ladder climb
third.
S5-pound boys travelling rings-No-
bic, Chesney, first; Lewis, City park,
McCarter, Chesney, third
Julia Thompson. Westlawn, first;
Juanita Armstrong, City park, second;
Vera Smith, Cnesney, third.
s5-pound boys pole climb-D. Cor
don, City park, first; McCarter, Ches
ney, second; Crowder, East side, third
Wall scaling contest-City park,
first; Westlawn, second; Polk, third;
East side, fourth.
wall SCannS contest ICT girls
Chesney, first: Washington. second;
East side, third.
Giant stride jump. S5-pound girls
F. Gault, Washington, first; B. McCaf- |
ferty, Chesney, second; Frances |
Weber, East side, third.
Giant stride jump, no pound girls |
Washington, first; Mcdonald, |
East side, second; Rotenberry, CEes- |
ney, third.
Giant stride jump, unlimited, girls |
Wright, Chesney first; S. Spradley. |
second.
The Fullerton cup for the most eff |
ficient playground was awarded to |
rhesney. The medal for the most eff |
ficient woman director was won by |
Miss Clara Johnson, Chesney. The |
medal for the most efficient man di- |
rector was given to Ralph Hope. East |
side.
The following prizes were awarded |
TO girls selling tags: Frances Pickett. |
first; Ruth Foster, second; Miss Suit, |
third, ard Helen GreSser, fourth.
"Do you find it expensive to run an |
auto?" mo. It's when the doesn't |
run that it's costly."-Detroit Free Press. |
Algeria in 1914 exported $3SS,316 |