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park recreation centers for their uplift 
along educational lines. 
Special celebrations were held on 
all the national and legal holidays. 
Arbor Day, Flag Day, the Sane 
Fourth, Chicago Day, Hallowe’en, 
Thanksgiving and Christmas festivals, 
were among the many eventful days 
entertainment which are conducted at 
the assembly halls, are doing a great 
good in neutralizing the bad influences 
of the cheap dance halls and the nickel 
shows in these vicinities. By offer- 
ing clean and wholesome recreation, 
and social and educational environ- 
ments to the public, they are gradually 
of water. The large meadow which 
replaces it is by far the greater 
means of enjoyment and recreation to 
the greatest number of people visit- 
ing the park. The entire area im- 
proved comprises about twenty-two 
acres. 
The Karel Havlicek monument was 
celebrated m the small parks the past 
year. 
Very distinct progress was made in 
the gymnasium and clubs depart- 
ments. A West Park Athletic League 
was organized, with the Small West 
Parks as members, and through this, 
the West Parks were able to carry on 
their gymnastics and athletics in an 
organized and systematic way. The 
promotion of clean and wholesome 
amateur gymnastics and athletics is 
the chief object of the league. 
The small parks have co-operated 
not only with each other but with all 
civic and social organizations, both 
public and private, for the common 
good. The steady increase in the at- 
tendance at the activities in the small 
parks, and the wide use made of them, 
amply demonstrate their popularity 
and show the great need which ex- 
isted for them. The lecture courses, 
for instance, and the various forms of 
elevating the standard of the com- 
munity and directing its social desires 
in high and worthy channels. 
The small parks are rapidly attain- 
ing the ideal for which the small park 
stands, becoming real social and civic 
neighborhood centers, of invaluable 
good to the community in which they 
are located. It is, therefore, incum- 
bent upon the Park Board to create as 
many small parks as they possibly 
can. 
The Marshall boulevard entrance to 
Douglas Park is completed. This is a 
very distinctive entrance, constructed 
in semi-circular pergola style, with 
heavy concrete posts. It is surrounded 
by fountains, with heavy shrubbery 
plantation and large trees. In the 
work of improving that portion of 
this park south of Ogden avenue, the 
old lagoon was filled in. It was a 
very objectionable feature, as it was 
impossible to obtain good circulation 
placed in this park during the past 
year, opposite the floral display 
grounds. It was publicly accepted 
on behalf of the board, with appro- 
priate dedication exercises. Consider- 
able progress has been made in em- 
bellishing the west parks with statu- 
ary, the fitness of which is first passed 
upon by the Municipal Art League of 
Chicago, and this monument is but 
one of several that have been placed. 
The monument to Karel Havlicek was 
placed south of Ogden avenue. The 
figure of Havlicek is cast in bronze 
and is of heroic size upon a granite 
pedestal. It was presented by the 
Bohemian societies. The statue is the 
work of Josef Strachovsky. 
In Garfield Park, there was placed 
a bronze cast of the statue of “Lin- 
coln, the Railsplitter,” by Charles J. 
Mulligan, on a pedestal of Berlin 
Rhyolite. This statue stands just 
north of Madison street. 
