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cil, the Y. M. C. A., the Civic Club, or 
any of a dozen other organizations. 
An open air programme of national 
dances, folk games, sports and childrens’ 
games is to be held on June 20 in Og- 
den Park, Center avenue and Sixty- 
third street, Chicago, under the auspices 
of the Chicago Playground Association 
for the purposes of arousing interest in 
the work of creating playgrounds and 
small parks throughout the congested 
districts of the city. More than 1,000 
.performers will take part in the festival 
which begins in the morning with pro- 
cessions, dances and games illustrating 
the work done in the 300 kindergartens 
of the city. These will be followed by 
games and sports as taught in the park 
gymnasiums and the playgrounds. The 
afternoon performance will include con- 
tests and dances of the various nationali- 
ties. In the evening, on a large and bril- 
liantly lighted platform, national dances 
will be given by Bohemians, Poles, 
Lithuanians, Swedes and Italians. Last 
year the first annual convention of the 
National Playgrounds' Association was 
field in Chicago in recognition of the 
lead this city has taken in the estab- 
lishment of small parks and play- 
grounds. A similar exhibition was then 
held and aroused a widespread interest. 
The Playgrounds Association of Phil- 
adelphia recently held a “Tag Day” that 
netted $10,000 for the playground fund. 
Tags in the form of badges, were pinned 
•on persons whenever caught, and for 
Park pavilions and other structures 
for gardens, cemeteries and country 
places, especially such works as open 
this a penalty of a coin was exacted. 
Some of the tags realized as much as 
twenty dollars each, while others, of 
course, brought in a return of a nickel. 
Many thousands of persons became in- 
terested in the matter and a great num- 
ber gave up the entire day to being “it” 
and tagging others. People of influence 
and wealth entered into the spirit of the 
occasion with enthusiasm and paid large 
sums when they were “tagged.” 
At Newark, N. J., items aggregating 
$100,000 have been tentatively placed 
in the budget of the Playgrounds Com- 
mission. The commission will place be- 
fore the Finance Committee of the Com- 
mon Council the proposition for the 
establishment of a large playfield, to be 
under the jurisdiction of the commis- 
sion, open everj'’ day in the year, and 
accessible to all classes. Provision is 
also made in the budget for the con- 
struction of three recreation centers in 
congested districts. 
Sites for two public playgrounds have 
been selected by the Park Board of 
Kansas City, Mo., one in the North End 
and one in the South End. The South 
Side Playground, of which a plan is 
shown here, is at 39th street and Robert 
Gillham Road, on a plat of ground 300x 
(j() feet. The improved plans provide 
for a series of stone steps on a slope, 
facing the west and overlooking the 
athletic field. These steps will be cap- 
able of seating 500 persons. Under 
them dressing rooms for the use of 
colonnades, pergolas and peristyles, and 
shelter-houses, are often made of some 
form of concrete. Probably the most ex- 
athletes will be provided. The field is 
to consist of a 100-yard straight running 
course, a track with eight laps to the 
mile and grounds for other field sports. 
To the south of the field an outdoor 
gymnasium is to be built. 
Sites for three public playgrounds in 
New York City, one each in the 
boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and 
Richmond, have been recently donated 
by wealthy citizens. 
A fund of $4,000 for playgrounds has 
been raised in Scranton, Pa., and plans 
are being prepared. A “button cam- 
paign” is to be started to increase the 
fund. 
Mayor Frank K. Mott, of Oakland, 
Cal., has recommended to the city coun- 
cil that a playground commission be ap- 
pointed to superintend the establishment 
and maintenance of playgrounds for 
children in the park lands recently ac- 
quired by the city, and in whatever park 
lands may be acquired. 
The Playground Association of 
Springfield, Mass., has empowered its 
Board of Directors to take steps look- 
ing toward the purchase, either by priv- 
ate aid or by the city, of a tract of land 
as near as possible to the center of the 
city to be permanently dedicated as a 
playfield. 
Alameda, Cal., has voted at a recent 
election to purchase three tracts for pub- 
lic playgrounds at points serviceable to 
the west and east ends and the center 
of the city. 
NEW ORLEANS 
tensive use is made of this material in 
the South Park System of Chicago, 
where the large field houses in the dozen 
or more small parks are made of mono- 
lithic concrete that blends well with the 
landscape. In Washington Park in this 
system there is also a boat-house of 
“granite concrete,” a reddish combina- 
tion made by the park engineer. 
A very handsome structure of this 
class from an architectural standpoint, 
is the City Park Pavilion in New Or- 
leans, made of artificial stone and de- 
signed by Andry & Bendernagel, archi- 
tects, of that city. 
It takes the form of a peristyle of the 
Roman Doric order, placed in an im- 
posing site overlooking the lake from 
which landing can be made by flights of 
steps at either end. 
The structure is 50x160 feet in plan 
and was executed by P. Ghiloni, of Ghi- 
loni & Menconi, sculptors and archi- 
tectural decorators, of New Orleans. 
PAVILION IN CITY PARK, NEW ORLEANS. 
Andry & Bendernagel, Archs. 
NEW PAVILION IN CITY PARK, 
