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Show PLAYGROUNDS INCREASE VALUE IF REAL ESTATE Movement in Salt Lake to Be Presented for Consideration Considera-tion of Dealers. Relieving that tho Salt Lake Real Estate Es-tate association will lend its support to tho movement for public playgrounds from business as well as philanthropic reasons, several local citizens who aro interested in establishing playgrounds in Salt Lake arc planning to present their project to the Ileal Kstntc association asso-ciation for consideration in the near future. It is argued that tho establishment establish-ment of plaj'grotinds in the residence districts has a tendency to raiso real estate values and to increase materially tho demand for rental properly in tho vicinity of the playgrounds. "Tt is tho experience of all rental agents that tho woman who is hunting a house looks first at. the home and then at the surroundings for her children," said n prominent local real estate man yesterday, "Wo havo on our lists many desirable houses which would have been rented week's ago had it not, been that tho locations wore undesirable for a family of children, although all right for adults. The question is one in which our association will undoubtedly are asked to lake a hand in tho movement." move-ment." Denver was one of the first cities of tho west to take up tho playgrounds movement. "Under a railroad viaduct in Denver on a piceo of waste land surrounded by tumble-down shanties there used to stand a half -finished but ruinous "castle," which some rich man from the oast had started to build in the early days and had nbandoned, when tho railroad came his way. The neighborhood neigh-borhood swarmed with ' children, but they played in the streets. Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker, afterward president of the National Federation of Women's clubs, then executive head of tho Denver Den-ver Women's club, became interested. Somebody wroto to the owner for permission per-mission to turn it into a children's I recreation center. The permission came, and the women fell to. With their own money they had the grounds cleared and the house repaired, and with their own hands I hoy cleaned out the stately if ruinous rooms, and with furniture and decorations from their own houses they furnished and decorated deco-rated it. Then "they invited the chil-drou chil-drou and taught them how to play. That was ten years ago or more. Today To-day the women of Denver do not havo to conduct recreation centers. They have convinced the city of its responsibilities respon-sibilities in the mailer and 'playgrounds are a part of the park system. |