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CHILDREN TO GET
80 Stations Will Be Set Up
by Playground Su
pervisor.
Washington youngster* will spend
the next beat wave playing under
cooling showers right out on the street.
Miss Sibyl Baker, playground super
visor, announced that, beginning to
day, nearly 80 street shower stations
will be set up on 18 routes, with a
guard assigned to each route. The
guards will operate the street show
ers half an hour dally at each sta
tion on a regular schedule beginning
at the first hydrant on the route at
10 a.m. The streets will be closed
during the allotted periods.
The showers will be operated five
days a week during the Summer.
Miss Baker, who devised the sched
ule in co-operation with Police In
spector L. X. H Edwards, said:
"We feel that we have started a
program that will do a great deal
toward aiding the children here dur
ing the Summer heat. It could not
have been established, of course, with
out the co-operation of the police.”
Attached to Hydrants.
The showers will be attached to lire
hydrants near school and municipal
playgrounds.
It was also announced today that
the department s learn-to-swim cam
paign has been transferred from
Georgetown playground pool to Rose
dale pool, where classes will be con
ducted all week. The campaign will
be concluded next week at the How
ard playground.
Classes will be held daily from •
a.m. to 4 p.m., with adult instruction
from 7 to 9 a.m. and * to 6 p.m.
All children on playgrounds In the
vicinity of McKinley High pool will
attend classes there from 9.30 to 10:16
a.m. this week
Schedule of Operation.
The schedule of street shower oper
ation follows:
Route No. 1—Takorna Pool, Trues
dell. Ninth and Ingraham; Phillips,
Eighth and Madison; Barnard,
Fourth and Crittenden.
Route No. 2—McKinley Pool, Cor
coran, Olive at Twenty-seventh;
Henry Polk, Marion at P; McMillan,
Second at Bryant.
Route No. 3—Wheatley, Neal north
east: Benning, at school; Kenilworth,
Ord street northeast; Burroughs, New
ton street northeast; Noyes, Tenth
street northeast; Brookland, Lawrence
northeast.
Route No. 4—Twin Oaks, Taylor
near fourteenth; Johnson, Lament
street; Cooke. Mozart at Euclid;
Twelfth and Clifton; Bancroft, New
ton at Mount Pleasant.
Route No. 5—Hoover, Second at N
southwest: Rossell, Ninth southwest
between D and E; Jefferson School at
Sixth southwest; Police Boys' Club;
Seaton, I between Second and Third.
Route No. 6—Twelfth and Pennsyl
vania avenue, Twelfth street at E;
Wallaeh, Eighth southeast at C; Po
tomac, Ives southeast at Potomac;
Buchanan, D southeast between Thir
teenth and Fourteenth; Van Bures, W
southeast; Orr, Prout southeast at
Twenty-second; Congress Heights,
Sixth southeast at Alabama.
Route No. 7—Sherwood, Tenth
northeast at playground; Ludlow, G
northeast at Sixth; Hayes, Fifth
northeast at L; Klngsman, E northeast
at Fourteenth; Lincoln Park. Twelfth
northeast at B; Stanton Park.
Route No. 8—Stoddert. Calvert
northwest at Thirty-ninth place;
Mann, Newark at Forty-fifth north
west; Key, Hurst Terraoe; Fillmore,
Thirty-fourth northwest at Wiscon
ala avenue: Burletth, • north weat at
Thtrty-elfhth.
Route Ho. • — Lafayette, Olive
northweet at Broad Branch road:
Murch, Thirty-ilith north weat at
BUeott; Jamey. Albemarle north
weat; Mearit, Thirty-aeventh north
west at lllden; Eaton, Thirty-third
north v est at Macomb.
Route No. 16—Buineker Pool,
. . ... ■■■ --—" \
Monroe, Irvin* northwest between
Georgia and Sherman avenues; Gar
rison, Twelfth northwest; Cleveland,
ft northwest; Banneker, Third north
west; Ridge street, Ridge street north
west; Shaw, Marion northwest
Route Ho. 11—Francis Pool, Rose
Park, Twenty-sixth at O northwest;
Montgomery. Twenty-seventh north
west. at school; Briggs. Twenty-second
northwest at K: Stevens. Twenty
third northwest at L.
Route No. 12—Randall, Half south
west at H; Bowen, First southwest at
M: Barry Farms, Bummer road south
east at Nichols avenue; Garfield, at
school; Burrville, Hayes northeast;
Dean wood, at school.
Route No. IS—Logan. O northeast
at Third; Lore joy, Twelfth northeast j
at Duncan; Grununel, Central avenue j
port heart. Young, at school. Benmng
road northeast at Twenty-fourth;
Clagett. Clagett northeast, C south
east at Fourteenth.
In Lapland, (or six weeks the sun
does not rise stove the horizon at all.
and the only sign of it la a brief twi
light at midday.
DOUBLE CHRISTENING
Several Hundred Greek-Americana
Attend Event.
Several hundred Greek - Americans
saw the ehriatenlng at Louis and
EUen Condos, aon and daughter of
Mr. and Mr*. William Condos, at
Chtllum Park Manor yesterday.
Rev. Thomas Daniels, pastor of the
Greek Church of St. Constantine, of
ficiated and Louis Doyle performed
the double function of godfather and
director of athletic events at the out
ing Members of the staff of tha
i Greek Legation were present.
Kiddies Keep Cool Under City Sprays
Joe Ryan of the District Playground Department is shown here giving a group of children
a break in the heat wave as he showers them with one of the sprays supplied by the department.
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