Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-03
CAPITAL PREPARES
TO OBSERVE FOURTH
Many Celebration Programs
Are SIated-Thousands
to Leave City.
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1890 o'clock tomorrow morning in
Epiphany Church hall, followed by pa
triotic exercises at noon, Edward r
Colladay will deliver the address. The
families of members are invited to
attend these exercises. Mr.. Colladay
Is Republican national committeeman
for the District and former president
of the washington Board OF Trade and
Of the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions.
The Society of Natives of the Dis
trict Of Columbia has been invited by
its president, Fred A. Emery, to join
with the members Of the association in
celebrating the Fourth. Mr.. Emery also
expressed hope that members Of the
Columbia Historical Society would be
present at this meeting. A luncheon
will follow the ceremonies.
Citizens to Dedicate Park.
Three citizens associations are CO.
operating in plans to dedicate the Bur-
roughs Recreation Park at Twentieth
and Otis streets northeast at 1890
o'clock tomorrow morning. Lieut.. B.
r. Butler, u. S. A., assistant director of
the Office of Public Buildings and Parks,
will be the principal speaker. A boys
base ball game will be held at $50
O'Clock followed by civic parade
through the community at 0:30 o'clock.
Citizens of Takoma Park will hold
one of the outstanding community cele-
brations. The theme of the patriotic
pageant to be presented was written
and will be directed by Mrs. Margaret
Petty Dodge, chairman Of the Pageant
Parade Committee. In addition there
will be patriotic exercises, athletic games
and fireworks.
The program at Takon1a Park starts
at $50 o'clock in the morning from the
intersection of Carroll and Denwood
avenues, headed by the United States
Army Band, and the parade will disband
at the Takoma Park School grounds.
Patriotic exercises will be held at 1890
O'Clock, with DR.. Horace w. Whitaker
as chairman of the General Commit
tee, who will introduce Mayor Ben G..
Davis of Takoma Park, Nd, chairman
of the exercises. The address of the
day will be delivered by Rev. r. Paul
Shearer, pastor of the Takoma Park
Presbyterian Church.
Children to March.
Beginning at 1:15 o'clock at the
school grounds, the children Of the
community will march to the Whittier
Street Fairgrounds for their games and
field events. One Of the features will
be a modified marathon for The Eve
ming Star trophy. This will start at
Ohio avenue, the total distance of the
race being miles. The winner will
be given custody of the cup for one
year. At 4:30 O'Clock the Takoma
Tigers and the Silver Spring base ball
teams will play a double-header and
there also will be water battle be-
tween members of the Takoma Park
Volunteer Fire Department. The fire.
works will start at 8 o'clock in the
evening at the Takoma Park Municipal
Fairgrounds, Maple and Philadelphia
avenues.
At Wesley Heights, the general chair
man of the celebration, John H. Yates,
has promised many interesting diver
sions. The program will start with
the usual fiag-raising ceremony at the
club house at $50 o'clock, with Boy
Scouts assisting. Various athletic
events will follow on the campus of
American University. Immediately fol-
lowing these events, there will be
base ball game between teams made
up Of men living on Klingle street and
and men living on all streets south of
Klingle. The game will be played at
American University.
FIREWORKS 70 start AT 0.l9s
Finals Of the tennis tournament will
be played at 2:30 o'clock, and at
O'Clock the big treat for the children
will take place. This will be a chill
dren's costume parade starting from
CATHEDRAL avenue and Forty-fifth street.
The community fireworks display will
begin at 8:15 o'clock, followed by dane
ing from 10 o'clock to, ! am. For the
base ball game, j. O'Connor Roberts
will captain the North Side Sluggers"
and George S. CARL, jr., will captain
the South Side Tigers" The fire.
works will be provided again this year
by William C. Miller and Allison N
Miller. It was decided at the board
of governors meeting at Wesley Heights
to stage the Fourth of July celebration
without soliciting funds. Mrs. j.
O'Connor Roberts will serve as chair
man Of the Dance Committee and her
assistants are Mrs. j. Everett Lancaster
Mrs. John H. Yates Mrs. Stephen G.
Hopkins and Mrs. H. H. Jacobs. Prizes
will be awarded to winners in the
various athletic events and the tennis
tournament.
Petworth Program Opens at $3.50 AM.
The celebration at Petworth, under
the auspices of the PetWorth Citizens
Association starts at $50 am. with a
nag -raising program at Sherman Circle
and ends with band concert begin
ming at $50 o'clock in the evening by
the Elks Boys Brass Band. Charles /.
Stengle is chairman of the committee
There will be AZ boys in the band
ana they Will give an earlier concert
at $50 o'clock. From Gas am. to
pm. there will be a general athletic
program Tor the boys and girls of the
neighborhood and a horseshoe pitching
contest sponsored by the Petworth Cit
citation and The Evening Star medal
will be presented TO the winner.
AL . O'Clock at Job Barnard School
there Will be ball game between
Grant Circles and Sherman Circles.
Patriotic exercises will be held at 6
O'Clock and Brig. Gen. Henry T. Ansell
Will deliver the address. In the athletic
contests only Petworth people are al
lowed to win prizes in every event but
the last 1t is TO be a IO0-yard free
for-an dash. This race is open to any
resident of the District.
Prizes will be given Immediately after
the last race on the lot between the
Barnard playground and Fourth street
E Bailey will captain the Sherman
Circle ball team, while D. w. Moore will
lead the team from Grant Circle. This
game VIII pe prayed with an indoor ball
and no person now playing on any team
will be allowed to take part in the
game.
Boys Club to Celebrate.
The Boys Club of Washington will
hold its celebration at Camp Reeder
their Summer home on the Wiconnico
at Mount Victoria, Md The Rotary
Club of Washington has donated the
fireworks, refreshments and prizes for
the various competitions. There will
be swimming and various water con-
tests, base ball games, horseshoe pitch
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