Arizona republican., 1914-05-18
CROWDS VISIT
 RIVERSIDE
Great Interest Already Ex- cited In Resort On Banks of Salt River Indicate Success of Scheme. Shade and Swimming Pool

If the hosts of people who visited Riverside Park yesterday afternoon, while yet in its unfinished and very much disrumpled state, indicates place is finished and opened to the public, it is a certainty that this great project is success at the very outset.
 The water has not been let into either the swimming pool or the long pond as yet. the pretty brook which will bring joy to the kiddies' hearts is dry. The caliche roads are only outlined. and they are just beginning to spread the crushed granite that will floor the walks and a large part of the park. The big bathhouse is finished but not yet painted. The dining room and the dancing pavil- lion are only far enough ahead to give an indication of what they will be like and yet there was steady stream of people coming and going all day. During the afternoon be-
 
 visited the place and were amazed at it's magnitude.
 It was mighty hot in the sun yes terday, but in the shade of the big trees and under the palm shelters, il was cool and lovely, with breeze every minute that would have made any shore resort envious. One thing was well demonstrated, no matter now hot it may be elsewhere, there will always be cool spots at River side at any hour of the day.
 The interest taken in the place is remarkable it goes to show thar place of this type is needed. The calibre of the men behind the en. terprise is such that the people real iZe that it is to be run in manner that will make it available at al times as an ideal place for womeI and children. There will be nothing there to offend anyone and a grea deal to amuse and attract.
 The swimming pool, which will b' the great magnet, will be supplied with pumped water, which will flov through the big pond at the rate o eleven hundred gallons a minute, s' that it will always be clean, cool ant ing everything to make it not nl. the most attractive but the most san itary bathing place in the southwest It will be supplied with everything dear to the heart of the bather; higl dives and spring boards, floats swings, a toboggan slide and a sand. beach where one may lie in tn shade of the trees or under sun um brellas between dips; it will be a
 near to the joys of ocean bathing a | it is possible to get without ol' mother ocean herself.
 A big feature at Riverside will b I the band concerts every Thursday i Saturday and Sunday night and Sat | urday and Sunday afternoons. shell band stand is being built whic will give splendid accommodation ! for this kind f nusic and it vii Ib so constructed that while it wi not interfere with the music of tn orchestra for dancing, the band cal be heard in any part of the park. l The restaurant will be in the hand l of an excellent caterer and will un | occasionally give satismaction. l will not only be a delight to tn 1 eve. it will be joy to the epicur
 and a boon to the pocketbook. l Every effort is being made to pro vide the greatest comfort, and tn bost desirable attractions at the leas l expense to the patron. It is partic | ularly desired to make the place at 1 tractive to women and children. Riv ersde will be a resort for the whol 1 family: it will be place where man will be glad to have his wife his mother or his sister go, and dur 1 ing the day it will be found havel of rest and enjoyment for the moth CT with small children. There will b more there to amuse the kiddie without cost than anybody can real ize before the gates are formal. thrown open, incidentally it will no only be the kiddies that will int plenty of amusement there.
 The opening day will be Saturday May 30, Memorial Day, and ther' will Ee a long program of special at fractions, including all kinds o aquatic sports, band concerts, fire works, dancing, feature pictures ant many other things.
 The management announces tha the big pool will be filled with wate this week and that entrants for thu swimming races will be allowed tt
 practice there.
 Arrangements have been made fol adequate means of transportation tt the park, in addition to autos whicf will run at irregular intervals; biz auto busses will leave uptown every hour during the morning, every hal
 hour in the afternoon up to o'clocl and every fifteen minutes from o'clock on. It is only a five minute ride from Center and Adams streets and the fare will be five cents eacf waU