places throughout the city — especially in congested sections — 
for children's play, and safeguarding the little ones from the 
dangers of the streets. Naturally, the public's appreciation of 
even the properties so far established has materially aided in 
the development for a demand for general park acquisition and 
improvement. These properties, however, have supplied the 
opportunity for play and the education of the young children 
and an understanding of how to play. Their use has illustrated 
that this particular element of the general park development 
is, after all, a distinctly educational one, and the practical use 
of these properties would be far more valuable could they be 
made a purely educational work created and managed entirely 
by the Department of Education, inasmuch as playgrounds — 
distinctly children's playgrounds — should be in close touch with 
the local schools and would therefore better and more directly 
serve the children of the school neighborhood. The next older 
children of the ages above 12 or 13 years require larger proper- 
ties — more room for action — and less distinctly the close per- 
sonal supervision. This character of recreation is supplied 
within the area of the larger parks, and in many instances, in 
distinctively athletic fields. Properties of the size, and located 
for convenient service, were provided in the general plan, and 
a considerable effort made toward their improvement. Many 
athletic fields should be provided in the larger parks, yet those 
of intermediate area can as well be given the character of local 
parks with their trees and lawns, which cannot be done on the 
small children's playgrounds. In the larger parks, embracing at 
least, in part, the atmosphere of the country, giving quiet restful- 
ness and recreation, Cincinnati is particularly fortunate in the pos- 
sibility of combining the comfort and pleasure of quiet recreation, 
with a beauty really unequalled in the magnificent scenery em- 
braced within the properties sought to be, and in part, acquired. 
The further very great advantage in these properties, most 
of them situated on dominant elevations, is the incorporation 
of the entire range of view far beyond the boundaries of these 
properties, as a part of the picture produced through the acquisi- 
tion of the larger parks permanently secured to the public, the 
viev/points characteristic of Cincinnati's wonderfully beautiful 
surroundings. In order to make pleasantly accessible to the 
community as a whole — regardless of place of residence — each 
of these greater properties, and many of the smaller ones, there 
was also recommended in the general plans a series of boule- 
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