Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-08-22
PLAY CENTRES ARE
WELL PATRONZED
THROUGHOUT CITY
Twenty Grounds Attract Hun
dreds of Children and
Grownups.
BAND CONCERTS POPULAR

Tho summer activities of the play
g-,o,,nds in the city are many and varied
During the recent extremely hot weather
many Of the Fairgrounds were 50 crowded
With pcoplc seeking relief from the heat,
that II was impossible for the regular
classes and games to bc conducted by
the workers IN charge while the grounds
which were not shaded were ent rely
deserted on the hottest days Onder
normal weather conditions. however
all the Fairgrounds are well patronlzcd,
and are doing excellent work among the
children of the city. ,,,.,
This week n new playground at ruth
and Scott Streets was opened, and another
was 10 have started at Twelfth and Markc
hut owing to protests from people Nv
ing in that vicinity the street ana :, Wer
Dcpartm tmcnt was forced to forbid ITS
establishment There are now tW1ptN
Fairgrounds financed by the Council oi
Defence Most of these ccntcrs Tor the
children Of the city are open from nine
in the morning until nmc Mt night
HAND coNCSRTs
Rand concerts have been held at the
various Fairgrounds twice week NJ
summer on Monday and Thursday
nights the next one tonight will hc at
The Browrtown Baseball Diamond at
Eighth avenue and Duncan street At
this ground the attendance oi children
has been 50 great all summer that the
equipment has had To bc doubted TO
accommodate the children Next week
Their. will be four concerts at play
grounds that will hc announced later
Several OF the Fairgrounds have ball
teams, and many interesting games are
4 l..
Browutown Playground plays the Con-
rad street team This latter team has
already cleared hundred and twenty
i've dollars for thc Rcd Cross this year.
Captain hall and vollev hall have been
the spccialtlcs at all tho play ccntcrs.
and teams representing many Of the
grounds will compete III the near future
III these games \ class Of girls at
Landith IS busy preparing m exhibition
of cat:st henics. under the direction OF j.
Rousseau Of Delaware College, who IS
drilling them III setting UP exercises tor
presentation at the County Falr
PATRIOTIC PAGEANT
\ portable stage IS now under process
of construction. and on this stage a
patriotic pageant VIII hc presented at
Nirkwood Park on Friday night \
five act Interpretation Of the story of
the Sleeping Beauty will be gwen next
Thursday at the Conrad Street play
ground Both Of these productions will
be repeated at the Far Sleeping Beauty
on Tuesday evening, and the Pageant
on Thursday
An open space at the Fair has also
heen reserved for the Fairgrounds, and
groups of children from the different
grounds will give demonstrations Of the
work done under the direction Of tho
playground workers Apparatus such
as is used at the grounds viii nc set UP,
and at such times as the demonstrations
are not under way, slides and swings and
other games may be used by children
visitors TO the fair
The work OF the Fairgrounds has
been greatly extended this summer.
and has been most successful 1t has
been at times bit difficult 10 install
the necessary apparatus, but under the
very able direction of Miss Jennie O.
Weaver and her group OF assistants many
obstacles have been overcome. and the
work has met with enormous success