The Washington times., 1919-12-13
G0ODFEL[OWS RUSH
TO SPREAD CHEER
Scores Of Washington Men and
Women Join Christ
mas Club.
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grounds, which are ready to be used
as "toy exchanges" also that the
Fairgrounds office, room 2, District
Building, where toys or clothing can
be left and candy or nuts for the
stockings will be received. So the
men and women who direct and the
boys and girls who uSe the play
grounds are going to besGO6 Eel,
lows this year.
The Times will strictly adhere fo
its original, plan to act only as an
intermediary between the Good Fel-
lows and the poor little feller who
faces cheerless Christmas It will
turn over to the Fairgrounds certain
contributions which have been made
by persons who for various reasons
are unable to make personal visits
with their Christmas baskets.
How to Qualify.
The boys and girls on the District
Fairgrounds will gather names of
little boys and girls who Santa
Claus might miss, and they will be
turned over to the Good Fellows. II
you have discarded story books, toys
or clothing, take them to any of the
twenty-three Fairgrounds or the
Fairgrounds Department in the Dis
trict Building, and you will be a
fully qualified Good Fellow.
Here are the twenty-three play
grounds 'toy exchanges" to which
you can send toys or clothing or
candy or nuts or story books. or
anything. that agoes to make ub real
kids Christmas. nA
Bloomingdaie. FirA and sbs4ant
streets northwest; City, Seeehth and
O streets northwest { Garfield, Sec
[ond and F streets southeast; George
town, Thirty-third and Volta place
northwest: Gallinger, Twenty-first
and + streets northwest; Hoover,
Second and N streets southwest; |;
Happy Hollow, Eighteenth and Kalo-
rama road northwest; Mackin, v
street, between Fourteenth and FIJI
teenth; Mades, Eighth and L streets
northeast; Mitchell Park, Twenty
third and S streets northwest; Col
umbia Heights, Fourteenth and Park
road northwest: New York avenue,
First and New York avenue north
west; Park View, Warder and Otis
street northwest; Rosedale, Seven
teenth and Kramer streets northwest; /;
Shoots ALLEY, Third and Fourth
streets northeast; Terminal, Second
and G streets northwest; Virginia
avenue, Tenth and Virginia avenue
southeast; Wilcox, Eighteenth street,
near Columbia road; Cardoza. First
and l streets southwest: Howard,
Fifth and w streets northwest; Rose
Park, Twenty-Seventh street between
| n and 0 streets northwest; Willow
Tree, Third to Four and Half street,
B and c streets southwest; Logan,
Third and G streets northeast.
Trinidad Citizens Pledge Aid.
| Members of the Trinidad Citizens
association pledged themselves to
aid the Good Fellow movement at a
meeting in the Northeast Temple
last night President d. H. York
praised the Good Fellow movement
and the members are to hunt for
families who need aid.
| Meanwhile Good Fellows continued
to come in increasing numbers today
but the excess of Good Fellows tC
poor families will be wiped out Mon
day when lists of needy will be
ready. BY Tuesday it is expected
every Good Fellow will have family
assigned to him.
This case is reason why Good Eel.
lows are needed: There is a little
boy, eleven years old, in the South
west section whose mother has been
very i'll and who is unable to work
He has no one to buy him any toys
or otherwise provide him with Christ
mas cheer.
| And there is the case of the poor
woman in the northwest section,
whose house burned down the day
before Thanksgiving, and who, with
her six little children, faces another
cheerless day when the rest of the
world is in festivity, unless some
Goodfellow helps out. The children
are in need of clothes, especially as
everything in the house was destroy
ed by fire. They range in ages this
way-eleven, nine, seven, five, two
and-one-half. and six-and-one-half
months.
Another Needy Case.
In the northwest section there is
the case of the fifteen-year-old girl
who will be obliged to stop school
and go to work unless some Good
Fellow provides her with old clothes
and shoes. She has three small sis
ters and one little brother. They are
all in need Of clothes. Their father,
who is a poor man, lost his pock-
etbook recently in which all the
money he could scrape together
for Christmas expenditure was