New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-04
PLANNING FAIRGROUNDS
Park Commission Will Spend Its
Money in Crowded Districts.
A TRUCK FARM FOR CHELSEA
Evening Experiments To Be
Made, Bridge Approaches Used
and More Help Employed.

With an appropriation of s350,00o now
available for the development of the parks
and Fairgrounds under his supervision
and an additional appropriation of $4,000
to secure the services of sixty or seventy
workers and assistants, Park Commits
sioner Slower will announce his play
ground plans in a few days.
Howard Bradstreet, assistant Superln-
tendent of Parks. has been at work with
Commissioner Slower on the Fairgrounds
plans ever since his appointment, some
weeks ago.
It is possible the appointment of the
sixty or seventy assistants will be COM
pleted by July IL. The Civil Service ex-
animation will take place this week
According to the plans of Commissioner
Slower, there eventually will be twenty
eight or thirty Fairgrounds. whereas at
present there are only twelve. All OF
these Fairgrounds will be under the SUI
pervison of Mr.. Bradstreet and the needs
of every locality will be studied before
definite programmes are adopted.
AS an experiment Commissioner Slower
will open at least three or four play
grounds during the evenings this sum-
mer, Mr.. Bradstreet said yesterday.
They will be kept open until 10 o'clock.
The names Of the parks where this expert
ment will be tried have not been made
public yet, but the ones most likely to be
opened are those which have baths, among
them Hamilton Fish and Seward.
If 1t works successfully this plan will
be followed In majority of the play
grounds, as Commissioner Slower says he
believes it will. if properly supervised,
help greatly to keep thousands of children
in the crowded sections of the city off the
streets and out Of danger.
None of the new Fairgrounds will re-
ceive more consideration than those under
the bridges on the East Side. OF these the
one under the greensboro Bridge will prob
ably be the largest Commissioner Slower
said some time ago that the greater part
of the s350,000 appropria ton would be used
for new recreation centres, and also that
the Greensboro Bridge approach offered
one of the finest sites in the city for great
athletic field and stadium This playground
will have separate sections for the younger
children.
At present there are lawn tennis courts
under the Williamsburg Bridge, and base
ball diamonds near the New York anchor
age of the Manhattan Bridge. These two
recreation sites will be greatly enlarged in
the future.
On the West Side Chelsea Park, which
was opened recently. will have an expert
mental truck farm. The farmers" will Sc
the children of a. public school within the
park grounds.
1T will be something like the other city
school gardens" said Commissioner Slower
in discussing this innovation for Chelsea
Park, land will be run under the super
vision of the teachers"
Mr.. Bradstreet SAID yesterday he had re-
ceived a letter containing SIS from plant
er in Jamaica, ito be devoted to the chill
dren of New York" The planter wrote
that he had raised the money by charging
the youngsters in his town penny apiece
for cocoanuts from his grove Just what
function the SIS will perform is a matter
which the Commissioner has yet to decide
but the planter has nevertheless been
thanked for the contribution.
Many applications for places In the ex-
ira Fairgrounds are now on file.