Bisbee daily review., 1910-03-27
BISBEE

ductive garden Thus. will be taught d love of nature and . knowledge of her ways
 Just now the water question is the biggest problem. For without water. plants will not grow and flowers will not bloom. It is hoped that the wa ter company vii be able to help out. In some measure. on this question. But. as yet. no arrangements have been made.
 The swings and teeters, with which the playground will be furnished, will be made movable, so they can be put aside and the place rented for lawn fetes and church soeials, as a means of keeping up the grounds. There is a great desire on the part of the ladies to earn the mony. for the most part and not to tax the business people who are already over taxed. On the other hand, it is most gratifying to find such general eagerness to do something for the play ground cause.
 Among the first volunteers was Miss Kate Riley, who conducts the private school. Miss Riley has kindly of fered to give a play. for the beauti- flying of the playground.
 4 number of prominent young men of Bisbee have volunteered to put on some sort of a show-perhaps a minstrel-the proceeds of which will go to the children's playground.
 The High school football boys have generously said they will go to the mountains and get all the trees needed for planting the grounds.
 The Agriculture Department at Washington. D. C.. will furnish abund- ant seed for al the Horticultural work.
 This week at the meeting of the Woman's club. Mrs. Jennie Elliott. who is a charter member of the club. started a playground fund by contri- outing five dollars to the enterprise
 So that work will be started right away
 neat little fence will be put up around the lot. and. if MT. Higgins sees fit, a retaining wall will be built along the front, which will form a background for traiing vines and con vert the place into "a thing of beauty and joy forever"
 The playground will be named "Hig- gins Park" in honor of it's first ben efactor. This name will be placed above the entrance.
 The club women hope to have the play ground open every afternoon, all day on Sundays and all holidays And if the city places an arc-light near enough for the children to play by its light, they will be allowed to come in the evenings and spend the time they now spend in petty street squabbles and fist fights
 To give some idea of what a play ground means to children and to pre- sent a picture of merry chaps. happy in the right place and in the right way, take this quotation from the Los Angeles Times in referring to their playgrounds:
 AO peep AlAAO D+4E tiG NAfE5t NNHtCA0 of delight some Saturday afternoon. is to behold the salvation of the fu- ture in these citizens-in-the-makin The baseball diamond is alive with ambitious kids eager to make the team: or the football gridiron in sea son is the center of feverish activity. Here are courts for volley ball and straining. shouting youngsters, there are hand ball courts and tennis courts. and boys and grls alike striving for basket ball honors. Children are in full pursuit of happiness on the great iron pipe swings. on teeters. seesaws, Maypoles. and the little people are measuring the shining hours in the sand boxes. and with building blocks under the shade Of the trees. There are many young gardeners lowering over small patches of earth, like Mary, Mary. quite contrary to see