Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-17
PAPER FUNDS PUT IN
| RECREATION EQUIPMENT
MANY Schools Have Spent Allot-
i ments But Few Still
t Hold Cash.

/, Rows and girls of the washington
NubIic schools will find added attrae-
lions when they return to schooi TINS
faH. equipment for aeore "a ION schools
Uut Of the funds raised last ran anu
This spring by the children through tne
collectfon and sale of old newspapers
md magazines. The plan. suggested
Nv The star netted the schools nearly
$1,000, of which amount 81 400 went INTO
the fund for general school activities
Each school kept three-fourtns OF tne
amount of money 1t had raised through
the collections.
Some Of the schools. especiaily 'hose
raising the larger amounts nave NO
set disposed of their funds keeping
them until fully determined as to the
best way in which to utilize the money.
Schools using their funds covered wide
ranges, from purchasing talking ma
chimes and visual instruction appara1!u H
10 buying garden materials. base oaiis'
basket balls and other similar EQUIP
sment One school. the Force, Which
had a total of about 800 IN private
funds. of which amount ss5-eS vas
raised through the sale of old papers,
paid SIS as salary for teacher IN 'he
summer school.
Purchases made to date by the schools
Nollow: Arthur. tether balls; sanhe
ker, 1 tether ball, tether ball pole. 5
Seets of quoits and rackets; Birney'
n first baseman's mitt. bat and oaiis,
fBlow, / volley ball bladder and paes
6f cement for the installation OF GER
tain playground apparatus: Brent
&volley balls. volley ball net and COST
tof putting up volley ball posts; Bright,
tSvood talking machine records pan
land 1 bat; Brightwood Park. taikins
6nachine records; Carbery. 1 playground
nnlI, basket ball goals. set OF quoits.
= whistle, l balance beam. / tether
hall pole and records: Corcoran,
sEackets. set of quoits. base ball ana
u tennis balls; Cranch. paid for putting
&p Ginning bar; Emery. Z base oaiis.
sbats rackets. 1 pair of volley pail
Standards. vol1ey ball net and ! WIS
HE; Gales. 3 records: Garnet. taxing
macaine and IL records: Grant, base
Rails indoor base ball and bat: Hayes,
II rackets / tennis net. tennis balls,
~ basket balls. volley balls and IN.
oor base ball: Hilton. base balls. ~
Sonnis balls. tether ball, ! tennis net
- rackets and 1 balance beam: HUB
sSard, records: Jackson. talk
l1ng machine and stand for same
tLAngdon, rakes. hoes. trowe!s,
= 8 shade, 1 stop watch, IL tennis balls.
Il 8 bats, s playground balls. rackets
tana basket ball; Lenox. base balls
4 L0d1ow. basket balls, Morgan, made
sIYnxttal payment on talking machine:
Morse. mitt. / glove and base balls:
-fESrk View, 1 balancing beam.
iSaokets. IL tennis balls II playground
stHnl1s, bats. / mask. I stop watch. I
fHoeher ball pole basket ball, basket
al bladders and tennis net: Payne,
f3u1 set Of Quoits. rackets. tennis
m1ls and tether ball: Peabody, 1
1nsket ball. I net. ! basket ball blad-
-. I indoor base ball. / record and
No geraniums: Petworth, made partial
Doyment on ba1opticon and visual in
6txuction outfit: Phillips. made partial
2oyment on talking machine: Powell.
balance beams. I bladder. records
I'D stop watch: Seaton. playground
1nlls, bat and bladders: Taylor. s
6anyground balls: Towers. 1 balance
IAN: Wallach, pair supports for
whey ball net and I playground ball:
Sfobb( basket ball and pair OF goals:
VEST. tether balls and playground
IaaIs: wheatley. 6 records: and Wilson
1Gofmal. made partial payment on play
uxound slide.
schools with large amounts which
1--we made no purchases thus far are:
=. Cook. with $5o.45: II. d. Cooke.
O0z3: johnson, $15565: Ketcham,
Ule-90. and Stevens, $230.so.
The -, 40e OF the amount contributed
- the general fund became part Of .
toln1 amount Of 5000. raised through
various sources. which was dfsbursed
- great variety Of ways. including
4he purchase Of equipment for play
GTounds, repair work, salaries and
6urchase of trophies for athletics and
6naferial for Industrial work