Evening star., 1925-07-16
CAMP GOOD WILL
HAS 147 CHILDREN
Second Party Adds 106, Repre-
senting Southwest and
Georgetown.

Out of the crowded and overheated
city into the woodsy shade and quiet
of Camp Good Will. over a hundred
with their babes were taken yester-
day as guests of the Summer outings
committee of the Associated Charities.
Just los, to be exact, and these, with
the 81 guests of the first party per
mitted to remain because of their
special need, brings the total registra-
ton Of this camp up to 147.
The overflow was taken by several
private machines volunteered by
George NJ. Yeatman, president. and
Richard E. Harris. secretary, of the
Southwest Washington Citizens Asso-
citation. A bicycle policeman detailed
by Col. Sheriff. met the cavalCade at
the Sixteenth street entrance to Rock
Creek Park and escorted them to
Camp Good Will.
Similar scenes Of joyous anticipa-
tions were enacted at the Curtis
School in Georgetown, where the
mothers and children from that sec
ton were assembled and examined
The inspections were made there by
the following doctors and nurses: DR..
Harry A. Ong, DR.. f. C. Wilson,
DR.. J. A. Murphy, Miss Eula B. Flynn,
Miss Mary Gordon and Miss Kath-
crime Armstrong. Nearly all of those
invited passed the tests and one little
boy brought along his chum. who had
not been invited, begging to have my
friend" included in the vacation.
These youngsters came from two
sections of the city, the Southwest
and Georgetown. In the former sec
ton they began to gather early in the
day in front of the Greenleaf School.
where their preliminary inspections
We're made by the following doctors
and nurses: DR.. G.. H. Heitmuller. DR..
John r. Dull, DR.. J. S. Arnold, Miss
Bertha NJ. Ohr, Miss Marjorie Wood
zell, Miss Elizabeth Dillon and Mrs.
Grace Heinecks.
Army Trucks 0vercrowded.
When the examinations were fin
ished four big Army trucks. which
had been engaged by Mrs. Julia a
Bannigan, chairman of the welfare
committee of the Southwest Wash.
ington Citizens Association. through
Lieut.. Col. Henry Gibbons of the bar
racks, drove UP and the children with
their luggage were loaded in.
Privately Conveyed.
This party was taken to the camp
by private automobiles of the follow
ing volunteers of the Georgetown dis
trict: Mrs n. K. Hewitt, Mrs Robert
Hinckley, Mrs. John H. Hanna, Mrs.
E. A. Stuart, Mrs. H. B. Polkinhorn.
Mrs. Richard Fl. Bagby, Mrs. Lau.
renee Du Bose and Miss Sarah Cha
pin. Rev. John S. Moses, rector of
St. Johns Church; Miss Ruth Leary
and Miss Marie J. Bradshaw were
active in helping these little folks and
the mothers off on their vacation. Ed
ward Shippen and Lawrence Reeves.
former Boy Scouts, assisted with the
luggage.
Another party Of 102 children and
mothers was taken on Tuesday from
the northeast section of the citv to
Camp Pleasant, at Blue Plains. With
the 80 other guests of that camp per
mitted to remain because of special
need, this made the total registration
there 1874, or a total for both camps
of 2S1 for the next two-week period.
The damage done by the heavy storm
of Monday night, when several tents
were blown down at Camp Pleasant
and the electric light wires were
broken. had been repaired. so that the
party found a royal welcome.
The children of this party were ex-
amined by the following doctors: DR..
Charles A. Tignor, Dr. Albert Ridge
ley, DR.. j. Hayden Johnson, DIR. H.
W. Freeman and DIR. j. F. Dyer Vol
unteer help was given by Mrs. Sadie
Murphy and Mrs. George w. Cabi-
ness. The party was conveyed to
Camp Pleasant in trucks loaned ,by
Wise Bros. and George NJ. Oyster and
by the Rotary Club bus