Evening journal., 1916-07-06
K|DDIES ROnP on
CITY Fairgrounds
Happy Throngs Make Merry
Outdoors While Vacation
Season is on
EACH TEACHER A
TRAINED WORKER

Hundreds Of Wilmington children
are filled with JOY unbounded The
city Fairgrounds arc open and will
remain open each day from nov on
until faH All day yesterday the play
gr0uncs in various sections OF the
CITY were thrunged with q happy
bright-faced company OF youngsters,
who swarmed 10 these play centers
Immediately upon their opening yes
terday morning like bees around the
proverbial honey pot. Each play
ground has two teachers, a man for
the little boys and a woman for the
little girls Each teacher is a trained
worker. and the work consists IN tell
ing stories TO the children and teach
ing them the art of constructive play.
Judging from the hundreds of chill
dren that hocked 10 the Fairgrounds
yesterday these play centers will be
more than usually well attended this
year Each playground is equipped
with see-saws, swings, teeters slides,
sand piles and many other things
which bring JOY 10 the heart Of every
child The teachers see to IL that
each OF the children gets his turn
on the various amusements and adj
Just any differences which. as is the
case wherever childhood gathers, arise
every now and then There are in all
ten Fairgrounds i'm the city, and each
one yesterday was crowded. All the
games played and all the amusements
on the Fairgrounds serve to increase
the physical and mental growth Of
the children, who through healthy
and active play are kept out Of mis-
chief. The Fairgrounds are open
every day from o'clock until 5.15
o'clock
Following are the Fairgrounds and
the names Of those in charge for the
season:
Pine Miss Leila Lyman. Swarth-
more graduate: experience. four
Years. Wilmington Fairgrounds; Paul
Hamilton. Princeton. experience. one
year. Wilmington Fairgrounds.
Delamore - John Kantner, State
College: experience. director of ath-
letics. Portland. Mich; Miss Elsie
Richards. Training School for Teach
crs; experience. three years, VIII
mington Fairgrounds.
Conrad-Roy Delaplaine, Swarth-
more. University Of Pennsylvania; ex-
perience. Friends School. coach for
Swarthmore. Summer School, Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Miss M. Amelia
Werner. Swarthmore; experience four
years. Wilmington Fairgrounds.
Kirkwood Albert N. Baker, state
College, Miss Lydia Cloward. vii.
mington Training School for Teach.
era.
Chapel Hugh Bradley, Williamson
Training School; experience, three
years. wilmington Fairgrounds; Miss
Evangeline Barsky. GOucher College
experience. settlement work, Balti-
more Md.
fandlith - Arthur T. Groome.
Swarthmore experience. one year.
Wilmington Fairgrounds; Miss Jennie
Greenstein. Wilmington Training
School for Teachers; experience, four
years, Fairgrounds.
Walnut George T. Whitten teach
er Of manual training. Howard High
School. director of Walnut street
playground for five years.
Kentmere- Miss Eleanor White
head. Miss Wrights Training School
for Kindergartners; experience, Old
Swedes Kindergarten.
Scott-Mss Emma Deyinney. Miss
Wrights Training School for Kinder
eartners: experience, three years, Will
mington Fairgrounds.
West End-Miss Mary L. Bolster
Miss Hart's Training School for Kin
dereartcn. experience, West End Kin.
dergarten