Evening star., 1925-08-18

1 pitched In to prepare lunch. RABIES
were arranged in line and the lunch :
con took on cafeteria angle. Ihe
| first table was loaded down with
! sandwiches. which Miss Nina White.
secretary to Mrs. Rhodes; Miss
Maude Parker, director of girls activ-
! tiles. and Frederick r. Neely, news
department, The Star handed out.
| The next table was loaded with
the ice-cold pop distributed by Dick
! Tennyson. director of boys activi-
| ties; Henry c. Hanford. executive OF
| The Star; Robert Perkins staff pho
| tographer, and w. w MILAN of the
advertising department of The Star.
! The third table was piled high with
| pears, which Miss Thelma Smith. di-
rector of Virginia Avenue Play
grounds: Miss EliZabe Mahon, di-
rector of Bloomingdale. Fairgrounds,
and Fred Mertens, jr.. manager of the
park. distributed. Four hard work
| ing colored employees of The Star
fished out the pop bottles from the
them for the children
Plenty Goodies Served.
! After they had passed around sew
eral times for lunch and had been
| loaded down with from . to 10
sandwiches apiece-as many as were
Wanted-the ice cream and cake ia bic
was opened up farther down. All
hands turned in that direction and
kept meeting the demand until there
wasn't anybody To be found who
would take brick of cream and a
big slice of the cake.
! The children returned to the amuse-
ment features and the Army Band
and supervisors adjourned to the din
ing room, where chicken dinners were
served by authority of The Star. With
rev minutes to spare, the play
! ground delegation called the children
to the athletic grounds and staged six
! races, three for girls and three for
/ boys. The winners of the girls events
We're Sophie kritt, Jewish Foster
Home, to 10 year old class, prize.
string of pearls Ruth Anderson. St.
JOINS Episcopal Orphanage, 3 TO 10
| year old class, prize. beaded bracelet
| with 1ewefed clasp. and Ellen Dolan
! st Nincent's Orphan Asylum. II to
Ia year old class. prize, dorine box.
Results of the boys contests were
Jack Payne. IA years old. prize. regu-
iatlon tielder's glove; Halover Thoma
! son. u years old. prize, America n
League base ball, and Charles Paris.
! II years old "Ty Cobb" model base
! ball bat. All the boys were from St.
| JoSeph's Male Orphan Asylum
| AS the last race was finished the
! boat whistled at the dock and a mad
scramble was made in that direction.
! Promptly at $3.50 o'clock it started for
! Mount Vernon and. after taking
aboard passengers there. began the
| return journey. Tired and happy the
| children planned on getting their first
rest of the day when out walked sew
! eral members of the committee with
boxes of lollypops under their arms.
Then began the annual 'lOllypop
! rush" which didn't cease until the
boat landed at the wharf As the
! steamer came to halt the band
| played Aud Lang Syne." the last of
long days program.
Lined up in the street were FIVE
! special street cars of the Washington
Railway and Electric Co. which had
| brought the girls from st. Vincent s
! Orphan Asylum to the wharf from
| Fourth and Charming streets north
/ east: the boys from st. Josephs Male
! Orphan Asylum, from Ninth and Fl
! streets, and the Industrial Home
! School. from Wisconsin avenue. The
! Royal Blue Line bus. donated by F.
| w. Niles. manager of the line. was
| waiting to. return the children from
| st. Johns Episcopal Orphanage to
! n =
! The Red Star Line. which had fur.
| niShed five buSses by special ar
! rangement with The Star, also was
| there and ]. l.. Armour director of
| operations, was personally on the
| ground to see that the children were
| properly directed to their respective
busses. He had been sent there by
| p. 5. Ballou, manager of the line,
| and who had come to the assistance
1 Of ha in Ha
| transportation problem.
These busses took the following in
stitutions to their homes: Baptist
| Home for Children, in Summer quar-
| ters for Boys, 3 miles beyond
| Bethesda. Md; Baptist Home Girls
| to the permanent house at 904 New.
/ ton street northeast: Washington
| Home for Children, 1715 Fifteenth
| street; Washington City Orphan
| Asylum. 1879 Fourteenth street, and
| Jewish Foster Home. 3213 O street.
| The Rotary Club bus, contributed
| for the occasion. carried home the
same crowd it had brought to the
wharf in the morning-the Swartzell
| Methodist Home for Children, at POI
| Rittenhouse street, and the Children s
| Emergency Home. Central Union Mis-
| sion. 624 Louisiana avenue The
| Gospel Mission was transported To
and from the wharf by its own bus
The boat landed at els and 10 min.
| uteS later there wasn't a child TO be
seen along the waterfront. There
was no waiting or congestion for the
children-they stepped from the deck
| to their husses and street cars and
! although tired from the days excite.
ment. were still noisy and happy as
| they were whisked through the CITY
| to their homes.