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chased six additional playground sites. It has had one vacant 
property owned by the city transferred to its control; it is con- 
templated to rearrange three of the older parks for playground 
use, and one valuable site was most generously given for play- 
ground purposes by Mrs. Matilda H. Perin. All of these sites 
should be improved and completely equipped as playgrounds for 
the summer of 1912, which will give to Cincinnati a total of 
eighteen playgrounds (under the direction of your Board of 
Park Commissioners) that will excel most and compare with 
the best playgrounds in other cities of the country. 
Three large athletic fields were acquired — ^two by purchase 
and one through donation — which ofi^er, in addition to those al- 
ready established, at least twenty-three ball diamonds for the 
season of 1912. 
In all, ninety-two distinct lots, tracts or sites were acquired 
and deeded to the city for park purposes in the year of 1911. 
Consideration was given a considerable number of offerings in 
addition to those acquired. Arables w^re scheduled and the 
properties viewed. Also condemnation proceedings were com- 
menced on ten properties, possession being assured and only sub- 
ject to pending court proceedings. No property has been listed, 
area stated nor included in the park system except such property 
as has been deeded and transferred to the city. A summarized 
list of the properties so acquired during the year being as fol- 
lows : 
Donations. 
Acreage 
Ault Park (Linwood Heights) (given by Mr. and Mrs. L. A. 
Ault) 150. 
Property in Bloody Run Valley (given Ijy Mrs. Eugenia H. 
Bragg) 2.10 
Athletic Field in Camp Washington (guen by Mr. and Airs. 
C. P. Taft) 9.85 
Seven lots in Crawfish Bottoms (Turkey Ridge District) (gixen 
by Mr. Wm. Worthington) .47 
Playground site at Hull)ert and Freeman avenues (given l)y Mrs. 
Matilda FT. Perin) .596 
Triangle at Rose Hill avenue and Reading road (given by Mr. 
Albert Mitchell) 20 
A tract in Sayler Park (given by Mr. Milton Sayler) 2.85 
