Waterfests Delight Kids

From The Indianapolis Star, Saturday, August 9, 1924: About 5,000 youngsters got a break from the relentless heat yesterday afternoon when the thirty-one Indianapolis fire stations rigged up hoses and held neighborhood sprinkling parties. A steady stream of youthful humanity poured in the direction of the sprinklers, and firefighters and a few oldsters could not resist the urge to duck under a nozzle and join the kids as they waded, splashed, and splattered in the spray. The sprinkling parties were arranged for the benefit of children who are unable to go to municipal swimming pools, either because they are too young or because they live too far away. The lack of swimming facilities in Indianapolis has been shown as thousands have thronged to the West Twenty-sixth Street White River beach and to the Douglass, Willard and Ringgold Park municipal pools.