Evening star., 1923-06-10
CH|LDREN'S CAMPS
| IN D. c. OPEN SOON
Funds Are Needed to Provide
Summer Outing: Camp Good
Will on New Site.


Camp Good VIII and Camp Pleas
ant. the open-air camps for mothers
and children conducted under the
direction of the Associated Charities
and summer outings committee. Will
open the. latter part of this month.
Camp Good. VIII. will open on June
81 and Camp Pleasant, for colored
mothers and children, will open
June 26. ..-
The summer outings committee this
week will send out its annual appeal
for funds. This appeal will make
note of the fact that the committe
IS under unusual expense because of
the necessity to remove Camp Good
VIII from the site which il has oc-
cupied from 1904 TO t922. in Rock
Creek Park, this site being teeded
for the new public golf course re-
Gently opened there. The removal has
necessitated the rebuilding of the
camp on a new site on the western
edge of Rock Creek Park. The camp
enti ance is at the corner of Daniel
road and New road. which has re-
Gently been opened from Beach drive
through TO Daniel road.
The estimated cost of the camp
buildings with the equipment follows;
Already financed: Dining room and
kttchcn. gift OF kiwanis Club, $2.50O;
baby pavilion and dispensary. gift OF
kiwanis Club, $2.5O0; recreation
shelter. sf,o3S: water service. $4,000
and sewer service. $975
To be financed (estimated): Head
quarters building. S3.612; electric
light and power service, 81 ,080: cleo
tric equipment for buildings and
grounds. $500: general plumbing
equipment, $1,000; lavatory buildings
ttwo). Sl,S00; preparing grounds and
roadway, $500. and miscellaneous es-
timated, $1,000
The total cost is estimated at S19.-
OPS. OF this total $4,000 is already
provided for, largely due 10 the gift
Of the kiwaniS Club of two of the
new buildings.
In its appeal the summer outings
committee. offers an opportunity &c
those, who are accustomed to support
the work TO make an additional con-
tribution this year toward the CON
Struction account.
The committee announces that IS;
names tent for the season. Sew.
eraf organizations already have Sent
in contributions for this purpose
Among these are the group of chill
dren at Cleveland Park, who. with
their parents. have been accustomed
for many years to give a lawn fett
for the benefit OF the camp. The
lawn fete this year netted S62, I
sum more than sufficient to name {
tent. Other tents named thus far ar
as follows "kiEnear class of young
Group Of ladies in a sewing circle.
SI4 Pays for Two Weeks.
Fourteen dollars will provide fo1
an anaemic child or & tired mother
for two weeks. and half that sum viii
provide d. weeks good board fol
either.
Last year SIS mothers and children
were received at Camp Good WILL in.
Guiding seventy-eiSht who stayed
more than the given period OF two
weeks, especially anaemic or under.
for colored mothers and children, en-
tertained SOB, including eighteen re-
admissions, making total outings oi
Ills. the largest in the history OF
the committee.
John JOY Edison is the chairman
and John H. Clapp is vice chairman
of the committee. Harry q. Meen
has succeeded the late Thomas Brad
ley as treasurer. The committee'<
House. t022 18th street northwest.
Other members are: Byron. s
Adams. Edward, Beetham, Ira E
Bennett. Thomas Bones. Miss Ida NJ
Brownrigg. Aaron BryIaw-ski, Mrs
Or. Coursen b. Conklin, Prof. George
". Cook, William S. Corby, DR.
Charles B. Crawford. Judge William
H: De Lacy. William ]. Fay, DR.
~ HlldIl y. ro"IcT' JOiIn -. pdrldnu
Mrs. Laura b. Glenn, Charles c.
Glover, jr., J. Blake Gordon, Lee Il
Grabill, Morris Hacker. Arthur B
Heaton, Walter Stilson Hutchins
Coleman Jennings. DR.. Louise Tay.
ler-Jones, Mrs. Adolph Kahn, DR.
George NJ kober, Henry Lansburgh
Judge ]. Wilmer Latimer. A: Ltsner
DR.; Joseph a: Murphy Mrs. ]. p. s
Neigh, Newbold Noyes. DR.. Ella
Oppenheimer. Andrew Parker. Leor
j.. Perry, Mrs. L. q. b. Pierce. Z. T
Emmett J. scott. Thomas ". Sidweli
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis A. Simon, Johr
II. Small, Sd: Maj. Daniel sullivan
Eliot II. Thomson, Mrs. Walter S
Cnord, DR.. Joseph s. Wall. DR.. w
a. Warfield. George S. Wilson, l.. II
Windsor and John c. Wineman.