Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-10-26 | Page 10 | Dallas Gives Party to 150,000 Texas Children

DALLAS GIVES PARTY TO 15G.CC9 TEXAS CHILDREN t . H i .. ... -SifXA. . m : . 1, I '- &x. ' Uj,0:: W ! f Km I. l 1 ,fl Mayor Woxcn craft (left) nnd ii n Fishier (right with some or the 150,000 cliildrcn attended Uie rem statr l air on Children's Uu. Bj W V PERGDSOS i 1. Staff 4 Orrespondi nt, DALIiAS; Tex.. Oct. 25. Imagine family of 150.000 youngsters even for one clay Well. Frank Wo;:enrraft. youthful mavor of Dnlla.-J. and Uan 1 Fisher, publicity director of ihe Inter-rurban Inter-rurban lines In Noriit Texas, played daddy to that many little folk at the recent Children s day at the Texas state fair. Tiny tots came from all over the state. Trainloads, truckluads and busloads bus-loads poured in at the fair ground. Wopencraft popped the idea to fair officials of-ficials and Plshar sent tickets to chooLs, and homes everywhere in re.Vli Manv children in nearby towns played play-ed hookey to get In on the big time Si thoij-Jind tickets were sent to Port Worth anl 40P0 of them were used i me biy wrote Fisher: "My teacher won't give me a holiday but I'm rom-mg rom-mg anyway Send me a ticket '- Fisher nt six tickets so the lad wouldn't get a lickln" all alone. Woieneraft and FLsher r.ar.i.lcd the ground all day long, talking and play-inr: play-inr: with the little folk. It was a won-ierful won-ierful gathering and a thrillim,' sight 100 acres of ground Just seething, with youthful humanity. oo