PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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SIMPLE TYPE OF BOX SWING. 
and very neat in appearance, for about 
$100. A frame with a canvas top is also 
very satisfactory. 
Children of all ages enjoy old fashioned 
swings, teeter boards, hammocks, box- 
swings, etc., and if these are found in 
generous numbers on a playground it is 
always well patronized. 
Very substantial swings may be con- 
structed by using two-inch iron pipe for 
the frames in the way that is about to 
be described. Five 16-foot lengths of two- 
inch pipe, four street tees and two plugs 
are needed for each swing. A street tee 
is a T-shaped piece of pipe used to couple 
a pipe to another at right angles. Two 
lengths of pipe, threaded at one end, are 
coupled by means of street tees to each 
end of another length of pipe, threaded 
at each end, in such a manner as to re- 
semble the figure V, and the points of the 
V are then set four feet in the ground 
in concrete. The two plugs are screwed 
into the ends of the pipe used as the 
top of the frame, and tend, by expanding 
these ends a little, to hold the street tees 
in place. The swing ropes are then tied 
around the top of the frame, or, what is 
much better, looped to two hooks which 
have been bolted through the cross pipe 
which forms the top of the frame. 
A low frame about two and a half feet 
above the ground, but prepared in ex- 
actly the same manner as the frame for 
the swings, may be used for teeter boards, 
which may be fastened to the cross bar 
by U-shaped bolts bolted around the cross 
bar and through the boards. Any good 
dressed planks ten feet long, two inches 
thick and ten inches wide may be used 
for teeter boards. 
A box swing is a large box suspended 
between or from four uprights, and of 
any dimension desired. A good size for 
box swings is six feet by four feet by two 
feet in depth. These may be made of 
dressed hemlock lumber and should be 
provided with two pieces of scantling, two 
inches by four inches, with inch and a half 
notches in either end. nailed across the 
bottom of the swing box near the ends 
and projecting out at least three inches 
beyond its sides to prevent the children 
from pinching their fingers' between the 
sides of the box and the ropes or chains 
by which it is suspended. These ropes or 
chains are attached to cross pieces fitted 
into the tops of eight-inch cedar posts 
set three feet in the ground and project- 
ing seven feet above it. Box swings of 
this description are perfectly safe, pro- 
vided the cross pieces and ropes or chains 
by which they swing are strong and well 
secured in place. The little children pile 
into a box swing and enjoy it more than 
anything on the grounds. 
A very good “children’s slide” may be 
constructed by the use of two-inch plank 
nailed together so as to form a trough 
two feet in width, six inches in depth 
and of any desired length. This trough 
may be given any desired pitch and should 
be nailed with thirty-penny nails to' two 
supports, one at and under the head and 
one half way between the head and the 
foot. The inside of the trough should be 
planed and then thoroughly sand-papered. 
If desirable, a sheet of galvanized iron 
may be used to cover the bottom of the 
trough and its edges secured firmly under 
the sides. The ends of this metal strip 
may be turned under the ends of the 
bottom boards and nailed firmly. 
Parallel bars, horizontal bars, etc., may 
all be made from two-inch iron pipe, 
street tees and elbows. Sand boxes are 
too simple of construction to require a 
detailed description here, but, generally 
speaking, two-inch planks and two-inch 
pipes are the materials from which suf- 
ficient playground apparatus may be made 
to keep hundreds of children happy all 
summer long. 
Drinking water may be readily provided 
bv connecting half-inch pipe with the near- 
est water main and coupling onto the end 
of it a simple faucet with a detachable 
key. 
EFFICIENT TYPE OF PARK MERRY-GO-ROUND 
Anyone who has ever been to a picnic 
ground or vacant lot equipped with a 
merry-go-round knows the immense popu- 
larity of this amusement device with the 
little ones. The public merry-go-round, 
however, with its expensive machinery and 
maintenance cost, and its not always fa- 
vorable associations, make it rather imprac- 
tical for parks, playgrounds and public in- 
stitutions, so that it became necessary to 
devise a simpler, less expensive and more 
easily operated type of merry-go-round. 
One of the most practical and efficient 
types of park merry-go-rounds' is the 
“Health” Merry-Go-Round, illustrated here, 
that has been widely used in parks and 
playgrounds. This machine is simple, 
strong and harmless, and requires no at- 
tendant or operating power, and no up- 
keep expense except for oiling, and a little 
general attention. The child is the motive 
power, and derives even more enjoyment 
from the fact that he is operating the ma- 
chine himself. 
The children work it in much the same 
manner as they operate one of the little 
handle and pedal-motion toy automobiles. 
The movement of the child has been de- 
scribed as “combining all the valuable mo- 
tions of boat rowing, running, walking, 
