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2,828.75, making a grand total of 3,540.9 acres. The large outlying reserva- 

 tions are not shown on this map. 



This system is especially admirable from the viewpoint of the volume 

 of service that it renders to the people. There are 38 equipped playgrounds, 

 which means that practically every section of the city is provided with a 

 place for the children to play; there are 17 swimming-wading pools and one 

 exceedingly large swimming center; 30 baseball diamonds; 45 tennis courts; 

 23 centers for outdoor moving pictures; and 4 golf courses, one junior and 

 three adult courses. Two large outlying reservations are not shown on this 

 map. These combined comprise 3,100 acres and provide excellent oppor- 

 tunity for camping, picnicking, boating, fishing. 



Houston has made remarkable progress in the extension and develop- 

 ment of its park and recreation system within recent years. The above plan 

 is noteworthy in the extensive provisions for neighborhood playfield-park 

 areas, in the redemption and preservation of the stream courses, in the 

 system of parkways and in a ground system of cross city and encircling 

 drives of which the parkways form an integral part. Additional large parks 

 are to be added but are not shown on the map. 



Equally progressive is the policy of the School Board whereby, for all 

 senior and junior high schools and for many of the grade schools as well, 

 areas have been and are being acquired of sufficient size not only to provide 

 very amply for the play and organized games needs of the children as stu- 

 dents, but also to serve as neighborhood playfields in the general park and 

 recreation system. 



Group Fill. Cities Having a Population of from 250,000 to 500,000. 



There were 13 such cities in 1920 with a total population of 4,540,838, 

 or 4.3 per cent of the population of the entire country. In 1910 this per- 

 centage was the same, or 4.3. The 13 cities in this group were reported 

 to have a total of 37,516.25 acres of park properties of various types, or an 

 average of 2,885.63 acres per community. Over ten thousand of this total 

 acreage, however, was in the Denver Mountain Park System. 



The cities in the order of their gross park acreage, beginning with the 

 city having the largest acreage and continuing in order to the city having 

 the lowest, are as follows: (i) Denver; (2) Minneapolis; (3) Washington; 

 (4) Kansas City, Mo.; (5) Cincinnati, Ohio; (6) Indianapolis, Ind.; (7) 

 Portland, Ore.; (8) Seattle, Wash.; (9) New Orleans, La.; (10) Rochester, 

 N. Y.; (11) Milwaukee, Wis.; (12) Jersey City, N. J.; (13) Newark, N. J. 

 This arrangement does not credit Jersey City and Newark with the county 

 park properties within their boundaries. 



The same group of cities arranged in the order of their population 

 (1920), beginning with the largest and continuing in order to the smallest, 



