THE RECREATION SERVICE DIVISION 



tern parades, model airplane con- 

 tests and a great variety of other 

 contests provide delightful hours. 



For adults there are many 

 forms of handcraft. One of the 

 most interesting of these is the 

 quilting club for women, organ- 

 ized in connection with the South 

 Park Commissioners of Chicago. 

 There are many social features 

 connected with a club of this kind 

 which make it doubly interesting. 



The activities which have 

 been mentioned by 



PLATE No. 282 



ARCHERY EQUIPMENT IS FOUND IN 

 MANY PARKS 



no means 



represent all the features of the recreation program. They are, however, 

 typical of many which are being developed. 



SWIMMING POOL AND GOLF ADMINISTRATION 



There are a number of facilities peculiarly the concern of park depart- 

 ments. Among these are swimming pools and municipal golf courses. 



Swimming pool administration. Successful swimming pool operation is 

 dependent, in the main, on three factors : The construction of the pool, the 

 operation of the purification devices, sanitation and the supervision of the 

 bathers. Problems of construction have been discussed in Chapter V, 

 of sanitation in Chapter XVI. This discussion will concern itself with a 



few of the problems of supervision 

 and administration, the handling 

 of clothing, the supervision of 

 bathers, and similar problems. 



Guards. There can be no gen- 

 eral rule which will determine the 

 number of life guards necessary at 

 any pool, since this necessarily de- 

 pends on the attendance and the 

 design of the pool. In a circular 

 pool with the deep section and div- 

 ing platform at the center, one 

 guard might successfully care for 

 three hundred or four hundred 

 PLATE No. 283 bathers, while in a rectangular 



WHAT is MORE FUN THAN WATER SPORTS? pool three or four men might be 



