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PARK A A D C EM ET ER Y. 
PLAYGROUND ASSOCIATION MEETS IN CHICAGO 
The Playground Association of 
America held its first annual conven- 
tion in Chicago June 20, 21 and 22. 
Delegates, many of them appointed 
by the mayor of the city from which 
they came, were present from almost 
every important city of the country. 
Altogether there were sixty delegates 
and forty members of the national 
council of the association. In holding 
its first convention in Chicago the 
association recognized this city as 
the leader in the work of providing 
recreation spots and playground 
parks. 
The delegates were treated to an 
object lesson in playgrounds in the 
famous new public service parks of 
the South Park System, and had their 
eyes opened to the value of these by 
a "Carnival of Play” arranged for 
their benefit in these grounds by the 
South Park Commissioners. 
"The work in Chicago,” said Presi- 
dent Luther H. Gulick, of New York, 
in his address, “is unparalleled in 
equipment, in range, and in scope.” 
Mr. Gulick’s address was on “Play 
and Democracy.” As authority is the 
keynote of the home and the school, 
so liberty and the development of self- 
control in accord with the dictates 
of public juvenile opinion is the in- 
fluence of the public playground,” he 
said. “Play as a Training for Cit'zen- 
ship” was the subject of an address 
by Joseph Lee, vice-president of the 
Massachusetts Civic League. He 
traced the influence of the boy's 
“gang” in developing the spirit of 
loyalty and the judicial and legisla- 
tive faculties. 
Miss Jane Addams spoke on “Pub- 
lic Recreation and Social Morality.” 
“Recreation,” she said, “is the best 
possible antidote for vice. Much of 
vice is only the natural love of pleas- 
ure gone wrong.” 
Others who made brief speeches 
were Prof. Graham Taylor and Fred- 
erick Greeley, president of the Play- 
ground Association of Chicago. 
In the afternoon of the first day the 
delegates visited Armour Square, 
Thirty-third and Shields avenue, 
which, they said, was far ahead of 
anything in this countri", 
“Boston may have a more varied 
layout,” said one, “but this surpasses 
it in general adequacy.’’ 
The subject, “Relation of Play to 
Juvenile Delinquency,” was taken by 
]\Irs. Tunis Bergen, of Brooklyn. 
Francis H. Taber, superintendent of 
the Boys’ Club, in New York, was 
unable to be present, but his paper 
on “Sportsmanship in Games,” was 
read by George F, Ehler, of Cleve- 
land. “Social Value of Playgrounds 
in Crowded Districts” was the sub- 
ject handled by Lawrence Veiller, di- 
rector of the Department of Social 
Conditions of the Charity Organiza- 
tion Society of New York. He was 
followed with a paper on “How to 
Secure a Playground.” 
Dr. W. E. Evans, Chicago’s com- 
missioner of health, spoke for Mayor 
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PLEDGE PRESENTED TO MAYOR OF 
CHICAGO, BY SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS 
Busse, conveying the sympathetic in- 
terest of the city in the convention. 
At the meeting of the national coun- 
cil of the association officers were 
elected as follows: 
Honorary president, Theodore 
Roosevelt; honorary vice-president, 
Jacob Riis; president. Dr. Luther 
Gulick, New York; first vice-presi- 
dent, Henry B. F. Macfarland, Wash- 
ington, D. C.; second vice-president. 
Jane Addams, Chicago; third vice- 
president, Joseph Lee, Boston, Mass.; 
treasurer, Charles L. Hutchinson, 
Chicago; secretary, Henry S. Curtis, 
Washington D. C. 
* * * 
Chicago had a “Clean City” day in 
May which resulted in renovating 
many vacant lots and backyards, and 
the destruction of much miscellaneous 
litter. Mayor Busse issued a procla- 
mation and put 1,500 extra men and 
300 teams to work on the streets to 
do the heavy work. Schools were dis- 
missed two hours early and the school 
children and improvement workers 
lent valuable aid. At one school the 
principal announced that each pupil 
was expected to pick up at least ten 
pieces of paper and clean up his 
backyard and the adjoining section 
of alley. An interesting souvenir of 
the day is reproduced herewith in 
the form of a set of resolutions adopt- 
ed and signed by the infant class of 
St. Paul’s Sunday School and framed 
and presented to the mayor, who an- 
nounced his intention- of hanging 
them up in his office. Commissioner 
of Public Works Hanberg has since 
posted in prominent locations 100,000 
“Keep the City Clean” signs, one of 
which is reproduced herewith. The 
signs are of tin with white letters 
on a blue background. Printed notices 
have also been distributed to the ward 
superintendents to be served on vio- 
lators of the clean city ordinances as 
official warning that prosecution will 
follow a second violation. 
* * * 
Wymore, Neb., a town of some 
3,000 inhabitants, is certainly in the 
front rank of “improvement” towns. 
Mr. A. D. McCandless, one of the 
active enthusiasts, informs us that 
they have over 70 acres in eight parks, 
besides two triangular corners. They 
have about twenty acres of young 
trees in the various parks, which are 
being kept in high cultivation, and 
the city employed an expert this last 
spring to go through the parks and 
trim. Adjoining the city limits is a 
tract of seventeen acres of native 
timber which the city was unable to 
buy, so a “Benedict” society was or- 
ganized and secured a lease on it for 
the life of the owner, thus holding it 
until the city can 'buy it in. Surely 
this is practical activity in improve- 
ment work and shows most pointedly 
what can be done by well controlled 
enthusiasm. ' 
