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TAG DAY FOR ^ PLAYGROUNDS 
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TO HELP THE 
The Philadelphia Playgrounds Asso- 
ciation hit upon a novel and ingenious 
method of raising funds for play- 
grounds, and -the municipal “Tag Day"" 
inaugurated there, has hecome an institu- 
tion. Other cities have taken it up with 
equal success and others are to follow. 
The Philalelphia association was seek-- 
ing a means of arousing popular interest 
when somebody suggested a municipal 
game of tag. The idea made an instant 
hit. Eight hundred thousand tags were 
printed and distributed throughout the 
city. An army of youngsters was let 
loose to sell these — -“Tag, You’re It. Do 
Something for the Poor Children. Buy 
a Tag.” Was the form of salutation, 
and the response was so hearty that 
fifteen thousand dollars was realized in 
the day devoted to the game. Rich men 
paid as much as $10 per tag, daughters 
of the fashionable elect’ sold tags in the 
public squares and the poor contributed 
liberally of their pennies. 
Washington, D. C., took up the idea 
and June 13 was “Tag Day” at the capi- 
tal. The plan was elaborated; not only 
were individuals tagged, but committees 
of ladies in a dozen automobiles scoured 
the city, tagging residences, stores and 
delivery wagons. The response was as 
hearty as in Philadelphia, and over 
$7,000 was raised. Commissioner H. B. 
F. Macfarland aptly epitomized the 
spirit of the day thus : “If you’re tagged 
you’re it ; if you’re not you’re nit.” 
At New Bedford, Mass., “Tag Day” 
was a huge success, and the children’s 
playground committee and the Country 
Week Society cleared over $2,500. Be- 
tween 700 and 800 children and young 
women were the taggers, and the city 
was aflutter with the little red tags. 
About 50,000 tags were used during the 
day, so that the average amount given 
was 5 cents. 
The second annual play festival of the 
Playground Association of Chicago held 
in Ogden Park June 20, was a pictur- 
esque and remarkable all-day exhibition 
in which 1,500 men, women and children 
participated. A great crowd attended 
and enthusiasm was unlimited. 
The morning exercises opened with 
circle games by 100 kindergarten chil- 
dren and 50 kindergarten teachers 
demonstrated these games. This was 
followed by the Sicilian dance by eight 
pretty little Italian girls from the Chi- 
cago Commons, folk games by 60 boys 
and girls from the Moseley school, drills 
and dances of children of different na- 
tionalities connected with the Hedges 
school, and games by 50 girls from the 
“Little Neighbors’ Club.” In the after- 
PHIL.\DEI.PHIA PI^AYGROUND TAG. 
noon there was fancy gymnastic dancing 
and drills by young girls. T. A. 
Gross, superintendent of the park play- 
grounds, and his assistants put 200 small 
boys and girls through their paces in as- 
sembling and marches, the demonstra- 
tion of apparatus e.xercises and games. 
Sixteen young women of Pilsen Sokol, 
or Bohemian Gymnastic Society, under 
the leadership of Prof. Anton Haller, 
performed calisthenics and fancy steps. 
Thirty-six girls from the Sokol Tabor 
sang, and danced, and gave ring ex- 
ercises, and were much applauded for 
their efforts. The “Children of the 
Republic,” a society organized by the 
Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, gave a flag drill under the guid- 
ance of Mrs. E. E. Smith. 
The second of the works from the 
hand of the late Augustus Saint-Gau- 
dens to be unveiled since his death was 
the Marcus A. Hanna memorial dedi- 
cated with interesting public exercises 
in Wade Park, Cleveland, Ohio. 
While it will doubtless not be ac- 
corded a place as one of the greatest 
of Saint-Gaudens’ works, as a type of 
the simple, seated portrait figure, it 
shows what may be accomplished as 
a work of art from sculpturally com- 
mon-place and unheroic material. 
Sitting erect and firm in his chair, 
draped with his coat, the Senator is 
shown in his working mood as the great- 
er number of his friends will remem- 
ber him. 
The composition of chair, drapery and 
figure is well closed all around, avoid- 
Perhaps the crowning event of the 
afternoon was given by 150 children 
under the leadership of M-iss Frances 
Ross, instructor at Hamilton Park. The 
youngsters were from the various south 
park gymnasiums. It was marching and 
general drill work and dancing of the 
Flighland Fling and was carried through 
without a flaw. 
Jewish women connected with the 
Henry Booth house, dressed in Russian 
costumes, showed what the Russian 
dances were like. 
Eighty-five boys and girls from the 
Libby school gave wand and dumbbell 
drills, women from the University of 
Chicago settlement played field hockey, 
and 200 young athletes from the south 
park playgrounds raced. 
The Norwegian mountain dance by 
forty women of the women’s gymnasium 
of Ogden Park opened the evening pro- 
gram. Bohemian turners under Prof. J. 
F. Pokorny showed their exercises, 
thirty women from the Hamilton Park 
women’s gymnasium gave the Irish 
Patinetta dance, and a group of Bohe- 
mian girls from the Gads Hill center 
gave their national dance in graceful 
fashion. 
Other numbers on the evening pro- 
gram were : Chicago Turnbezirk in 
wand drills, club swinging, and appar- 
atus work; Hamilton Park gymnasium 
women in the Dutch dance ; Lithuanian 
women in their national dances ; Swe- 
dish dances by couples connected with 
the Philocores Society ; Finnish men 
and women in their national dances; and 
other exercises by boy.s and girls who 
got their training at the park gymna- 
siums. 
ing any ungainly holes and black 
shadows. The pedestal is of Stony 
Creek, Connecticut, granite, a favorite 
stone with sculptors on account of its 
admirable harmony with bronze, and is 
decorated with appropriate carvings and 
lettering, which with the well-known 
Saint-Gaudens skill in low relief, have 
been managed so as to re-enforce and 
harmonize with the mass and planes of 
the pedestal. 
Henry Bacon, of New York, was the 
architect associated in the designing of 
the pedestal, and after Saint-Gaudens’ 
death superintended its final erection, 
which was done by Joseph Carabclli, 
of Cleveland. The bronze was cast by 
the Henry-Bonnard Co., of New York. 
The total cost of the work was about 
$68,000. 
SAINT GAUDENS’ HANNA STATUE 
