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Board of Park Commissioners 
WAYNE PLAYGROUND. 
This playground adjoins the Garfield School, and has been graded,^ 
2,241 cubic yards of material moved. Five hundred and twelve cubic 
yards of this was old hot-bed material, which was piled and will be 
used for top dressing lawns for planting and such other work in the 
various parks where rich soil may be required. 
A portion of this ground is still below the street level and should 
be filled at least to that level whenever material can be secured for 
that purpose. 
WILSON COMMON. 
During the year a strip of ground 12 feet in width was purchased 
from Mr. Gallagher, which now gives this property an entrance from 
Grand Avenue. This entrance will make the park available for a 
considerable population from the westerly side, which heretofore had 
to enter the park in a roundabout way. 
Water has been supplied and a drinking fountain installed. 
A temporary backstop has also been constructed on the small 
baseball field on this property. 
WOODWARD PARK. 
Owing to the construction of the parkway through the playgrounds 
at this park, it became necessary to remove the tennis courts and 
playground paraphernalia. These will be replaced in Section 2, as 
stated elsewhere in this report, or at some other place in the park. 
Stone steps and stepping stones were laid connecting the lower 
level of the park with the hill at a point near the junction of the park 
roadway and Rockdale Avenue. 
AVON FIELD 
(Blachly Farm). 
During the past year this property has been very greatly improved 
by the construction of a nine-hole golf course and the necessary clear- 
ing and cleaning up of the property in connection therewith. Plans 
have been made for the extension of this course to one of eighteen 
holes, which will be completed early in the coming year. 
The greater part of the nursery plantings which were started on 
this property have been removed. The remainder will be removed 
during the spring. 
Through the kindness of Mr. E. W. Edwards, of the Edwards 
Manufacturing Company, a small metal shelter building was donated 
for the use of the golf players. 
Water and a drinking fountain have been installed and temporary 
toilet facilities have been established. 
