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Board of Park Commissioners 
end of Avondale, ostensibly to connect Eden Park with Avon Field, 
actually to enhance values of city property from which taxes are 
derived; to relieve congestion of traffic by inviting the swift, from the 
slow moving on city streets, and to create desirable building lots. 
The parkway will consist of good, smooth roads, bordered by wide 
grass, sidewalk and tree spaces, interspersed with gardens, pools, 
playgrounds, tennis and game courts, groves and shrubberies. For 
convenient reference the parkway is divided into six sections, in two 
of which one road is complete. Three sections are under construction. 
Section 6 has been the most difficult and slowest of acquisition, 
and for that reason, up to the present, no constructive work has been 
undertaken. 
This parkway, 2^/4 miles in length, when complete will add greatly 
to the beauty of the city, as well as facilitate travel between the 
suburbs served. Its embellishment will be started in 1915. 
Mt. Echo Park. 
Mt. Echo Park has not received its deserved attendance, chiefly 
on account of its difficult access. A new entrance started in 1912 will 
be completed in the early part of 1915. By careful engineering a 
short, winding, easily graded road, held up by a fine piece of native 
stone masonry, has connected Elberon Avenue with the park at its 
highest point. 
The grading has been completed, the wall finished and after the 
winter's settling of the filled ground, the whole will be in condition 
to receive the road surface. 
This will bring the park within five minutes' walk from the Elberon 
cars, creating a large public use. 
Playgrounds. 
Seventeen of our 22 playgrounds were in operation during 1914. 
The attendance has come up annually, until this year it exceeds a 
million. The grounds are placed throughout the more populous dis- 
tricts of the compact city, the most easterly being at Turkey Ridge, 
the most westerly in the West End, the most northerly in Walnut Hills. 
Inwood Playground was the first modern plant. The response to 
its inauguration was so gratifying that the Board has created and 
equipped playgrounds as rapidly as feasible. 
The carpenters' strike of the past summer so delayed the buildings 
on four of the new playgrounds that tents and other temporary shelters 
were used. The houses, we are glad to state, are now complete and 
ready for the approaching season. 
The supervision and direction of the playgrounds ^as satisfactory. 
The assistance given by the local organizations, chiefly the Mothers' 
Clubs, was a live element in the success of the season. 
