Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-04-03

WIFI ulc WIllIc f1OuSc kIUuIluS
closed TO Easter egg rollers for the
first time in years, followers of that
very American sport this year will
be forced to turn to other fields,
come Easter Monday morning.
Focal point of Washington's par
ticipation in the annual custom is
expected TO be the Geological Park,
which some egg-rolling experts
claim cannot be beat when it comes
to proper terrain for starting of
an egg.
DR.. William H. Mann, director of
the Zoo, said today that arrange
ments had been completed to take
care of $4,000 or more egg rollers on
Monday. Wen have everything out
here except a brass band" he an
nounced.
Preparations also were being made
, by the Community Center and Play
ground Department to accommodate
additional thousands of young peo-
pie and their parents in the Dis
tricts many Fairgrounds.
Bars Autos Monday.
The Zoo grounds will be closed
to all vehicle traffic beginning Mon
day morning and the place turned
over to the Easter crowds, DR.. Mann
said. Boy Scouts to take care of
lost children and nurses to render
| first aid will be provided through
the day.
Unlike the White House grounds,
where adults were admitted only
when accompanied by child. the
Zoo will be opened to all corners, DR..
Mann said.
All animal buildings will be closed
for the day, he reported, because
of the high incidence of egg-yolk
damage to their interiors. Animals
usually on display in outside cages
will be on view that day, however.
Favorite spot in the Zoo for egg
rolling again is expected to be Lion
House Hill. But there is plenty of
rolling ground everywhere Dr..
Mann said.
Gates Open at 1880 AM.
There are five entrances to the
Zoo, the director reminded-at Con-
necticut avenue, at Harvard street
a. Adams Mill road, the Rock Greek
entrance and the Potomac Park en-
trance. Gates will open at 7:30 am
and close at pm.
More than $4,000 parents and chill
dren visited the Zoo on Easter Mon
day last year-the White House
grounds were open then,-and DR..
Mann estimated there would be
anything over $4,000" this year.
The west lawn of the Capitol
grounds will be open this year as
usual to youthful egg rollers. At
tendance in the past has ranged
from $500 to 5000 and probably will
be much larger this year, because
the White House grounds will not
be open. Extra guards will be de-
tailed to help handle the crowd and
provide for the safety of the chill
dren.
Thirty-nine city Fairgrounds and
Community Chest groups will offer
egg rolling facilities and play stats
in the decentralization of the annual
event.
Eggs Promise Prizes.
AnacoStia Park offers an egg hunt
program sponsored by the Follow Me
Post of the American Legion, in
which the searchers will peer
through the foxholes of Langdon
Park into sheIlproof eggs. On the
surface of these eggs will be in
scribed the names Of neighborhood
merchants and business houses who
are giving prizes to the successful
children.
In place of the usual trip to the
White House, $50 kindergarten and
day school children from Barney
Neighborhood House and Friend
ship House settlements will gather
tomorrow at 2 pm. in a joint egg
rolling frolic in the gardens of
Friendship House at GIG D street Sc.
Small children from Southwest
House will do their egg rolling at
the Zoo Easter Monday morning.
From Georgetown Children's House,
1924 N street NV, youths of all
ages will make the pilgrimage to
Montrose Park at Thirty-first and
r streets for the annual egg rolling.
Fifth 8 and 9-year-old girls from
Barney Neighborhood House will
attend an Easter party rendered
them Monday at $3.50 pm. by the
sociology class at National Park
Seminary. They will entertain their
hostesses with an operetta in the
Sylvan Theater on the campus and
then stay as dinner guests of the
students.
Boys Clubs Have Program.
Easter week will find the three
branches of the Boys Club of WASH
ington operating on vacation sched-
ule opening at 10 am. and closing
at . pm. Egg hunts are scheduled
Monday at IL am. at Eastern
Branch. and Tuesday, April 7, at