Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-03
PIEDMONT PARK
1872 CAP AC|TY
ISQUADRUPLED
Attrsctiveness of the Recreation
Centers Increased so Per Cent,
Declares Manager Carey

49,, rasuIt of extensive improve
rbich have Just been complet-
81 Dan Carey. manager of Atlanta $
-,-s+am. said to-day the attrac-
.....,sss Of Piedmont Park the popu-
r.crgarion center, has been in
.ad fully 80 per cent, and that
... mark will be able 10 handle four
the number of people that took
...., .e.rsation there last year.
49, NEST important of the improve
~ that have been made under Mr.
cares direction follow;
r-e entire interior arrangement OF
.-. bath house has been changed. The
.-5 individual rooms have been torn
on. and q system of lockers in three
,,,fsors with a man in charge Of.
.,, 5ivsion. has been installed.
The hath houses this year can care
,r A4 men instead of 100, as for
merly
r,s vcmen's portion of the bath
,orse has been boarded up and viii
he entirely private. A matron VIII De
+, rbarge Thirty women can be
Jared for at one time.
cement walk has been laid en-
,ro,y around the swimming pool
TIC runway from the bank OF the
,o,r n the sprinCboards has been torn
sour and a four-foot walk built on
.,o outside of the pool, dividing the
dee, water from the shallow. In the
.,,or NJ this walk is a platform four.
Zee, above the water, with three
sprrgboards.
Two resting platforms have oeeh
erected in the center Of the lake.
ore thousand square feet of the.
lake bottom has been covered with an
inch Of sand.
Tie swimming pool proper mas been
mastered with an inch Of concrete
Five hundred gallons of fresh wa
ter will be pumped into the swim
ming pool every day.
seven tennis courts have been con-
structed on the old Coliseum site.
seven more will be constructed II
needed
The boat landing has been moved to
The head of the lake. and the boating
wifi be done there. steps twelve feet
,f5s nov. lead to an ornamental plat
form al the waters edge, and the
n.azs between has been paved with
v..nrl red uexagon tile. with stone
POSTS on each side.
hedge of California prlNet has
neon planted along the Piedmont Ave
luo front. from the Driving Club 10
IN. Eleventh Street entrance.
Roads. built Of macadam with &C.
nsnt cutters and concealed catch
basins every $50 feet, have been built
from the Fourteenth Street entrance
10 the Twelfth Street entrance, and
from the Twelfth Street entrance 70
the rest house at the head Of the lake.
Work Is now being done by the Driv-
,nE club on a road to the bath house,
and around the edge Of the lake, TO
connect with the road at the Twelfth
Street entrance.
Ten thousand yards Of dirt have
been used to I'LL in the old Machinery
Hall hole. Two new baseball dia-
-. 4rv H.. -, gffo
The Tenth Street frontage of the
park from Myrtle Street to Jackson
Street is being graded. Thirty thou
sand square yards of dirt have already
been taken out.
Fifty silver leaved Lindens. import
ed from Berlin, have been set out
along the new road. These trees were
presented to the parks by a number of
Atlanta women, headed by Mrs. Frank
E Galloway.
These improvements" Mr.. Carey
said, make Piedmont Park one of
the best and most complete recreation
ce0ters in the South. and Atlsntans
will find IL far more convenient and
attractive than II was last year.
With the additional facilities. we
anticipate and arr prepared TO handle
arger crowds this summer than ever
'e'ors BY May Is the swimming
pools. the children's Fairgrounds. the
baseball grounds and the other at
fractions probably will be running full
blast"