The Washington times., 1916-07-18
HUNDREDS BUY FANS
/. TO HELP SAVE BABIES
Scores Of Pretty Girls Are Busy
Selling Breezes in Washing
ton Today.
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there you know. Swim for nothing.
cent to go In and I'll bring 1t In to.
He got the fans and trudeed away.
Boys Start Raid.
Down on + street three colored boys
started to raid basket Of fans. Three
weil-dressed men started after the
boys, and one Ct them got a sound
spanking BY way OF souvenir. The
basket and fans were restored to the
r. Il. Pullman today Told Mrs. Seton
fans left at an excursion OF kaliipoiis
SSJrotto to Chesapeake Beach. August
But 1t now looks as IL there would
are selling fast. and of the rs. 900 fans
on hand but 800 now remain at head
quarters; Any that are returned from
he staticns today will be taken by
squadron of girls to Chevy Chase
Commissioners Newman and Brown
low and Major Raymond Pullman
net copy. for 1t was fans they bought.
Storm Metropolitan Club.
One young woman walked bravely and
the foot OF woman Is never allowed. and
the early morning clubmcn there Laughs
ingly bought. while an astounded at
tehdant fused and fumed. ITS against
the rules. miss. you'll have to go out"
on business ,nafs vs., men , were ROUNDED up frst
at Fourteenth and r. at Fifteenth and
T.. and at other busy corners the fans
sold thick and fast.
Cool breezes going like hot cakes.
step this way. gentlemen" quoth one
fair and breezy saleswoman In front Of
the w. B. and A. station.
Anyway were going TO find out the
meanest men In Washington said an.
other. There are not many Of him. Most
OF the men came across" Some said
tribute later.
Attack Women Shoppers.
After the business men and Govern.
ment employees were at work the girls
conferred their activities on the early
s,or. sh9ReePTs so at n the
x Lothrop's, IanshurEhs. Golden
bergs and other stores the saieswomen
caught the shoppers and they proved
nearly as seneIous as the men,
behind the counters were the first to
contribute.
1.-THE strange part is that the poorer
folk seldom turn Ms down" said one
rHIeSwOrnnn. u CucSS tney realize tNnt
everyone Is likely 10 need help son,c
time and they symnathize with the
Riddles who need tho vacation out at
the camps.
Headquarters Busy.
zone woman looked so shabblly
dressed that I hated to take the money
from her. But she clipped In a quar-
ter"
Headquarters 10 a busy place. The
telephone Jingles constantly with re-
quosts for instructions, and later In the
morning there wae q stream OF requests
for more fans.
But there wasno confusion. tn.
r Tsoshhinsry S Of nan Day ran IKE
Last evening all the fans were taken
out to the places where they were to
be sold Records were kept OF them
Tho girls who were to sell them were
were to go. and the hour: they were
20 stay on duty
This evening. they are to bring the
boxes. containing the funds collected
will be counted. box by box. There 1,
much rivalry to SEQ which girl will
turn in the box with the larges,
"Ihnt does not mean that the girl VINO
has the most money worked the hard
est" cautioned Mrs. Scfton. ''because
some places are harder to work than
others. On the busy corners the money
comes in without gerat efrort.
This Afternoon and this evening the
girls will collect In the lobby Of Keith $
incnter. ioniRt n group or them,
properly chaperoned. will go out 10
with the dancers and audience at the
concert.
Women Selling Fans.
The stations where fans were sold.
and the young women assigned to them
follow:
W.. B. and A. station. Mrs. J. q.
Fenwiek.
Woodward & Lothrop's. Miss D.
Dobyns. Miss N. Kane. Miss Katherine
Anderson.
Argyle Drug Store. Miss Edith Curry.
Miss Garnett Kondrup. Mrs. g. a.
kclchner.
Fourteenth and U. Miss Lillian SOM
NOR
Occidental Hotel. Miss Lorraine SOM
mers. Miss Eiseman. Miss Hi!lcs.
Keith's Thcater. Miss A. Alexander.
Miss. n. Luchs. Miss Adler and Miss
Munsey Trust Company. Fifteenth and
II street branch. Mrs. N. Mason. Mrs
commercini Eank. Miss q. Myers
Miss II. Fischer.
Flemmer's DruS Store. Mrs. c. II
Swcarlngor.
Goldonbcrg's. Mrs. Anita Levy. Mrs
Johanna Adler.
Union Station. Miss Freshman. Mis-:
Kohner. Miss Hancock.
Savoy Thcater. Mrs. Mcclure. Mist
y. Johnston. Miss sylvester.
| LansburChs, Miss Edith Maddox. Mis-:
Marie Garland.
Gnrfinkle's' Mrs. Fvnns Brown.
Reeves, Miss T. Eichberg. Miss d,
/ Young, Miss Kate.
| Riggs Rank. Miss Ada Glnssie, Mis-.
Horton, Miss Helen Hoffman.
| In addition to these, scores OF youns
women arc selling Eat large" on the
streets, and especially In trent OF thu
| Government department buildi ngs
Those mentioned are In charge of tn,
stations, but in many cases they have
enlisted the aid of others to hell
them.
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