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swimming and boating centers, winter sports places, outdoor and indoor 

 theatres, dance platforms or halls, gymnasiums, community centers, picnic 

 places, golf courses, camps, etc., and all the varied activities connected 

 therewith, but also the zoo, aquarium, botanical garden, conservatory, 

 branch library, museum, art gallery and refectory. All these varied types 

 of organized services require specially trained leaders and assistants and a 

 more or less definite organization and supervision of the activities. 



In no park department are all these services requiring organization and 

 supervision grouped into a single division or department. The zoo and 

 aquarium, the botanical garden and conservatory, the art gallery, the 

 museum, the refectory are almost invariably in the larger systems con- 

 ducted as independent divisions, and most of them may be wholly inde- 

 pendent of the park governing authority. (See Chapters on "Zoological Gar- 

 dens and Aquariums" for a detailed presentation of their organization and 

 management.) In some instances golf, band concerts and numerous dra- 

 matic activities are organized and conducted as independent of the regularly 

 organized recreation division. 



The Recreation Program. 



As commonly understood, a recreation division or department of a 

 park department may include under its supervision and jurisdiction such 

 facilities as children's playgrounds, athletic fields and other games and 

 sports places, swimming and boating centers, winter sports centers, dance 

 platforms, outdoor and indoor theatres, including moving pictures, gym- 

 nasiums, community or recreation centers, golf courses and camps. 



PLATE No. 269. PLAY DAY IN ONE OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY'S PARKS 



