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

- the result of extensive improve
-,sr+s which have just been complet-
nan Carey. manager of Atlanta's
,,, system. said to-day the attrac-
.,rspass of Piedmont Park, the popu-
,.- recreation center, has been IN
.-s.sed fully so per cent, and that
The mark viii be able to handle four
.., .ne number of people that took
,betr recreation there last year.
The most important of the improve
-,.r+s that have been made under MT
co-sv,s direction follow:
Tho entire interior arrangement OF
.s. bs., house has been changed. The
,,d individual rooms have been torn
80, and system of lockers, in three
line with a man in charge of
Zach division. has been installed.
Tho hath houses this year can care
.,r aa4 men instead of 100. as for
merry
The women's portion Of the bath
,ouse has been boarded up and viii
So entirely private. \ matron VIII be
in charge. Thirty women can DC
jared for at one time.
cament walk has been laid en-
.ire.v around the swimming pool.
Tho runway from the bank of the
roo1 to the springboards has been torn
down and four-foot walk built on
.,, outside of the pool, dividing the
doe, water from the shallow. In the
..n,or. NJ this walk is a platform -four
feet above the water, with three
springboards. 49,,
Two resting platforms have been
sree,od in the center Of the lake.
one thousand square feet OF the
,.,.. bottom has been covered with an
inch OF sand
TIE swimming pool proper has heen
mastered with an inch of concrete,
Five hundred gallons OF fresh wa
fer 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
will be done there. Steps twelve feet
wide now lead to an ornamental plat
form at the waters edge, and the
plaza between has been paved with
s-inch red hexagon tile, with stone
posts on each side.
A hedge Of California privet has
been planted along the Piedmont Ave-
nue. front. from the Driving Club to
The Eleventh Street entrance.
Roads. built Of macadam with ce-
ment cutters and concealed catch
basins every 100 feet, have been built
from the Fourteenth Street entrance
70 the Twelfth Street entrance, and
from The Twelfth Street entrance to
Tile rest house at the head of the lake
Work is now being done by the Driv-
ing 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 fill in the old Machinery
Han hole. Two new baseball dia-
moa6s win by opened on the site.
THO Tenth street frontage OF the
usrE from Myrtle Street to Jackson
Street is being graded Thirty thou
sand square yards of dirt have already
been taken out.
Fifty silver-leaved Lindeus. import
Cd 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
+, Galloway.
These Improvements" Mr.. Carey
said, make Piedmont Park one Of
the best and most complete recreation
centers in the South and Atlantans
7il find it far more convenient and
attractive than it was last year.
With the additional facilities. We
anticipate and are prepared to handle
larger crowds this summer than ever
before. By May Is the swimming
pools. the children's Fairgrounds. the
baseball grounds and the other at
fractions probably viii be running full
blast"