Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-18
URGE PLAYGROUND FUNDsI
COMMITTEE HEARS PLEAS
FOR RECREATION PROGRAM
Heads OF Many Associations TEL Coun-
ciiDien City should Appropriate
S3t 900 to Cpusc.

Representatives OF practically every.
civic association and club in Richmond
appeared before the Council Finance
Committee at the City Hall last night
TO urge that the $4,000 included by
Mayor George Ainslie in his budget for
expenditure on Fairgrounds here re ap.
proved by the committee
Headed by w. Mck Judkins. secrc-
tary OF tho Richmond Community
Recreation Association. more than "A
dozen sr.ake-s were introduced to the
committee and made q plea for better
Fairgrounds.
Among the speakers were Il ~
White. president of the Central Trades
and Labor Council; c. z. Cado,, pres
.dent OF the Community Recreation AS
sociaticn; Ralph p. Harrison. president
of the kiwanis Club; Morton Waller
Mrs. ". y. Burrows.
Judge j. Iioge Kicks. OF the Juvenile
and an Domestic Relations Court. Rev.
tashe Snac ri the dnne
Of Hoy Scouts, and Rev. Il. NJ Davis,
Solored. also added their requests for
approval OF the appropriation.
Patroiman Makes Talk.
But OF al the speeches made. Pa
irolnAau William i. Jones, representing
;he Church Hill Civic Association. APP
reared to make the deepest Impression
on the committee.
committee OF Inc troubles which nc, rs
iiatrolman. had experienced with
children because they had no place 10
play, stating they were driven into the
/ for them TO go.
H. told o: the struggles IN Church
( Hiil TO Keep UP "a small playground for
the benefit ot the children BY popular
\ N L.,
playground thus furnished had done.
+. No; only the children, but their par
enis were benefited by tho Fairgrounds,
he told the committee. and referred Ia
4 series 81 paseball games which had
f! been inaugurutcd last Year among the
, youngsters o. tho East End AZ which
5000
Tells of Work In Ohio.
Father HanniEan told the committee
of tho way Cincinnati takes care q: rs
children. and said that there are real
people in Cincinnati" and that they
on Sunday
c. p. Cadet told the committee tina;
the biggest asset that the city had was
its citizens. He pointed out that the
children OF today are the citizens G. TO.
morrow and said that money spent ii
Fairgrounds was an investment in cit.
!zenshiD.
Judge Kicks presented figures to the
.
her OF cities are spending as high AZ
30 cents per capita yearly on play,
grounds for children. ana stated tina
figures show that If the city appro
pirates the entire $4,000 asked for i
will mean less than 20 cents Pc
capita
Mr.. Judkins stated that the none,
that tho city was 20 put up for play
grounds would, as far as possible b.
matched dollar for dollar by citizens
out OF their pockets.
hoy scouts Devise Means.
Mr. Buchrocdcr told thc committc
men that tho Richmond Council Of 30,
Scouts had found it necessary to hay,
a playground for the Boy Scouts her
and that they had supplied the nee,
successfully through tho purchase Of 4:
. camp in Chesterfield County.
Mr.. White, OF the Central Trades an.
Labor Council. advised tho committc
} that tho $4,000 approved by the Mayo
: for Fairgrounds could not be spent |!
Il wiser way.
After hearing the speakers opinion
: on the playground appropriation, tn
committee went into executive session
Members OF the committee stated tina
no decision would be made public O.
the Fairgrounds matter until the bud
Sct Is iinillE approved.