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

As the resultaof extensive improve
ments which have just been complet-
ed Dan Carey, manager of Atlanta's
mark system, said to-day the attrac-
rfveness of Piedmont Park, the popu-
lar recreation center, has been in
creased fully so per cent. and that
the park will be able to handle four
times the number of people that took
their recreation there last year.
The most important of the improve
ments that have been made under Mr..
Carey's direction follow:
The entire interior arrangement of
the bath house has been changed. The
old individual rooms have been torn
ont and a system of lockers, in three
divisions. with a man in charge of
each division. has been installed.
The bath houses this year can care
for 444 men instead of 100, as for
merly.
The wcmen's portion of the bath
house has been boarded up and will
he entirely private. a matron will be
in charge. Thirty women can be
cared for at one time.
A cement walk has been laid en-
tirely around the swimming pool.
The runway from the bank of the
nooI to the springboards has been torn
down and a four-foOt walk built on
the outside of the pool, dividing the
deem water from the shallow. In the
center of this walk is a platform four
feet 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 be constructed if
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 $50 feet, have been built
from the Fourteenth Street entrance.
10 the Twelfth Street entrance, and
from the Twelfth Street entrance to-
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 fill in the old Machinery
Hall hole. Two new baseball dia-
monds will be opened on the site.
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
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
E Galloway.
These improvements, Mr. Carey
said, make Piedmont Park one oil
the best and most complete recreation
csuters in the South. and Atlantans
win find it far more convenient and
attractive than it was last year
With the additional facilities. wei
anticipate and are prepared to handle
larger crowds this summer than ever
before. BY May 10 the swimming
pools. the children's Fairgrounds. the
baseball grounds and the other at
fractions probably will be running full
blast"