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ing pleasant scenery for the hundreds of superannuated work- 
ing men and the vast throngs of transient and unemployed. 
This park also provides a recreation-place during the even- 
ing for innumerable families who spend the day in toil. 
While this park meets with all tlie requirements from an 
aesthetic and recreative point of view for the adult population, 
there is no playground provided in the entire district for the 
small children. The great need of a playground to take the 
children from the gutters as their wading-pool, and the streets 
as their playground, prompts me to recommend to your hon- 
orable board the acquisition of the property bounded by Wash- 
ington Park on the south, Elm Street on the west, Fourteenth 
Street on the north, and Race Street on the east. This will 
provide ample space for children's playgrounds, shelter and 
public comfort features within a radius of a mile. 
The generous spirit of the Trustees of the Cincinnati Fall 
Festival Association in providing some $265.00 more money 
than was first deposited with the Board of Public Service to 
defray the expenses of placing in good condition that portion 
of the park used by them, shows the same splendid patriotic 
and civic spirit that h^s prompted them to sacrifice time and 
money to bring about such enterprises as the Fall Festivals 
have been. 
The walks in this park were resurfaced with Kentucky 
rock asphalt as far as funds would permit, and it is hoped 
to finish this work next season. This material makes a splen- 
did park walk, as it is easily applied and finishes up in a smooth, 
firm surface. 
Enjoying the 'MorninCx Air — Washington Park 
