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Show CITY AND SCHOOLS ARE TO BUY I Practical assurance that largo playground for children will bo established estab-lished in the southern part of tho city; surrounding tho "Washington school grounds and forming a sightly park in conjunction -with the school property, was given Monday evening when the city commission and the Ogden school board conferred at the city hall. Although Al-though the scuool directors, wero not in formal session, they individually approved of a plan by which tho city corporation will purchaso part of the property necessary, tho school district will purchase tho other portion and the two will jointly furnish tho equipment. equip-ment. Development of tho playground and park system of Ogden has been the desire of Mayor Browning, Commissioner Commis-sioner Jones and Commissioner Fly-gare, Fly-gare, as well as members of the school board. Over two years ago when Mayor T. Samuel Browning was commissioner com-missioner of public parks, ho directed investigations as to tho feasibility of having children's playgrounds in various var-ious parts of the city and outlined in a general way plans for securing and equipping them. Commissioner Jones, as superintendent of parks, has taken up the same campaign and, with the development at Liberty park, at Glen-wood Glen-wood and now in tho southern part of the city, there will be n considerable chain of recreation places for tho little folks and tho older people ,too. At South Washington. The plans practically arranged for tho development of tho south Washington Wash-ington avenue playgrounds include tho purchaso of two tracts of ground, the school board to acquire for ?G000 a pieco of property just south -of the school, facing on Washington avenue, whilo tho city will buy a tract for $3200, Including land both south and west of tho school. Immediate grading, together with the taking down of tho fences, will place the property in condition for use. Tho installation of equipment is to be made'at tho joint expense of the city and school district. Included in tho paraphernalia will be swings, horizontal bars, giant stride, teeter boards, chutes, rings and sliding bars, while sand boxes will probably be i placed for tho smaller children. I . In order to carry out tho plans jointly, a committee will be named, Including In-cluding members of the school board and the city commission. This commute com-mute will arrange for tho land purchases, pur-chases, the necessary equipment, the grading and ground improvement and also for tho proper supervision of the grounds. The placing of the now playgrounds in tho south part of the city gives ade-quato ade-quato division as to general lo'cation, for the initial playgrounds in tho city, for Glenwood park can be considered as being in the northern section, Liberty Lib-erty park in tho contor and the new playgrounds in tho southern part. With tho other parks used considerably for general recreation places, for both old and young, Ogden will have one of the most complete chains of such improvements im-provements in tho west. The playgrounds play-grounds in each Instance will bo large, giving moro than the usual room allotted al-lotted in cities for tho recreation and fresh -air centers at wiuch children gather. |