Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-04-03
PIEDMONT PARK
1872 APAC|TY
|SQUADRUPLED
effectiveness Of the Recreation
Centers Increased so Per Cent,
Declares Manager Carey,

As the result of extensive improve
roents which have just been complet-
a Dan Carey, manager of Atlsnta's
r,,l, system. said to-day the attrac-
,ivenesz of Piedmont Park, the popu-
,.r recreation center, has been IN
.reosed fully 30 per cent, aud that
~. mark will be able to handle four
.:,,e. rbe number of people that tool,
heir recreation there last year
The most important of the improve
,r.nts that have been made under MI.
Carev's direction follow:
The entire interior arrangement OF
the hate house has been changed. Inc
old individual rooms have been torn
ont and a system of lockers, in three
,,,.;sors with man in charge of
Zach division. has been installed.
The bath houses this year can care
,or 444 men instead of 100, as for
merry.
The women's portion of the bath
rouse has been boarded up and will
he entirely private. A matron VIII De
~ charge. Thirty women can be.
cared for at one time.
cement walk has been laid en-
trerv around the swimming pool.
T5e runway from the bank of the.
cool to the springboards has been torn
down and a four-foot walk built on
the outside of the pool, dividing the
aoan water from the shallow. In the
enter of this walk is platform four
fee, above the water with three
springboards.
Two resting platforms have been
erected in the center of the lake.
one thousand square feet of the
lake bottom has been covered with an
inch Of sand.
The swimming pool proper has 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 he constructed If
needed
The boat landing has been moved to
the head Of the lake. and the boating
viii be done there. Steps twelve feet
wide now lead to an ornamental plat
form at the waters edge, and the.
l5aza between has been paved with,
s-inch red heNagon tile, With stone
posts on each side.
hedge Of California privet has
been planted along the Piedmont Ave
nue. front. from the Driving club to
me Eleventh Street entrance.
Roads. built Of macadsm with ce-
nent cutters and concealed catch
basins every 100 feet, have been built
from tile Fourteenth Street entrance
10 the Twelfth Street entrance, and
from the Twelfth street entrance toI
the 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 NIL in the old Machinery
Han hole. Two new baseball dia-
monds will be opened on the site.
The Tenth Street frontage Of the
park from Myrtle Street 10 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
2. Galloway.
These improvements" Mr.. Carey
said, make Piedmont Park one Of
tae best and most complete recreation
centsrs in the South, and Atisntans
will And il far more convenient and
attractive than it was last year.
With the additional facilities, vel
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 will be running full
blast"