The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-04-14

leonneetion with the same Tor ont
deer play
You remember mentioned green
squares, red dashes and pins on the
map. 1t happened that where the
pins we're thlckest on the map, show
ing the most children. the red spots
were thickest, too. betraying the
boys. No wonder this attracted
much attention; for It was easy to
see that # red spots we're thickest,
where schools were thickest, the red
spots showed where boys were more
troublesome; the only sensible plan
was to put green spots into those
very regimes and drive red spots
out. In other words. the law enact
ned was the most reasonable thing in
the world, for 1t proposed to hitch
school houses and Fairgrounds to-l
gether for the benefit OF the chill
dren. The great City of New York
obeyed. l saw some OF these mag
nlficent Fairgrounds and have been
convinced that 1t is worth while tol
play.
The law 1 refer to, was passed in
1895. Between that time and 1902
New York City put up sixty-nine new
public school buildings; and each one
of the sixty-nine had its own play
ground. Six of the largest and finest
buildings were put into the most
crowded parts of the city. In these
places land is so valuable that a part
of the newest scheme for play
grounds is to put them on the roof
of the school houses.
! This lifts the children above the
dust of the street, giving them the
pures. air to breathe while they
frolic and exercise in their plays
upon the roof of the school building.
/ The roof playground on Hester
street, holds two thousand romping
children. This is almost enough to
make Clarksburg people very much
ashamed of the crowded conditions
) here, and such little opportunity for
the children to have real play such
as will give health and happiness to
childhood. Clarksburg and all other
, cities and towns in West Virginia
: may have all grounds and cites, nee
: essary for school purposes not in
Easements or upon roofs, but down
: on the face of mother earth. which
, is better than any other place for
: play. We need land enough now, to
= accommodate three thousand pupils
: and many more in the near future
OF Clarksburg. The citizens should
rot be content until they enable the
Coard of Education to provide for
these much needed school houses
, with sufficient Fairgrounds, for all
the boys and girls to have a place
called playground, New York City
has over eleven hundred acres of
ground in her different parks. Cen
trail Park and Riverside Park used
Up all but l57 acres of this land for
fairgrounds and parks which left
= very small acreage to be distribute
cd about in small patches here and
there. This gave 40 acres to a mil
lion and half people who lived in
the most crowded part Of the city.
/ New York is laying plans for mora
Fairgrounds or school-roof placesto
play. Other cities everywhere are
doing the same thing.
Boston, between 1898 and 1902,
bought up one hundred and fifty of
ter own worst tenements, also eigh-
ty stables. pulled them down, carried
than away and in many cases put
parks in their places Boston has
parks covering over 5000 acres about
the city. We notice the effect in the
removal of the old stable in front Of
the Central school. Many cities are
providing places at public expense
for free baths. Chicago has the hon
or of being the first city to furnish
free baths the year around.
America is leading the world in
giving free baths, parks and play
grounds for the purpose of turning