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PARKS 



Picnicking. 



The provision of picnic facilities represents one of the greatest services 

 of park departments along social lines. Here organizations can do much 

 to increase the enjoyment of large groups such as employees of an industrial 

 plant, Sunday schools and other groups who may wish to have a more 

 formal form of activities. To meet this need picnic kits may be provided, 

 containing necessary equipment for carrying out a program. The practice 

 is also being followed of providing a leader to direct the program. The kit 

 may be a bag of brown canvas three and one-half feet high and eighteen 

 inches in diameter, with a draw string at the top and containing the follow- 

 ing supplies: 2 sets of indoor baseball; 2 twelve-inch and 2 fourteen-inch 

 outside seam baseballs; 12 picnic balls; I volley ball and net; I tug-of-war 

 rope, one and one-half or two inches, twenty-five feet long; 2 or more sets 

 of horseshoes and iron pins, three-fourths inch iron; 20 burlap sacks for sack 

 races; 20 skate straps for three-legged races; 2 basket balls; 2 dozen ice 



PLATE No. 280. MOVING PICTURE BOOTH 



Type of moving picture booth used in conducting the extensive moving picture program carried on in the 

 parks and playgrounds by the Dallas, Texas, Park and Recreation Department. Booths cost from $87.50 to $100 

 erected. 



