. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. JOHN HANCOCK SCHOOL PLAYGROUND, FARM ENTER STREET Well equipped and directed working people who live in cheap lodginghouses and who have no opportunities ofsocial entertainment and intercourse otherthan those offered by the street and thecheap dance halls. An experiment along this line, triedlast winter by a church in the West Endis both interesting and suggestive. Thechurch visitors noticed that there weremore young boys about the streets on Saturday night than at any
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. JOHN HANCOCK SCHOOL PLAYGROUND, FARM ENTER STREET Well equipped and directed working people who live in cheap lodginghouses and who have no opportunities ofsocial entertainment and intercourse otherthan those offered by the street and thecheap dance halls. An experiment along this line, triedlast winter by a church in the West Endis both interesting and suggestive. Thechurch visitors noticed that there weremore young boys about the streets on Saturday night than at any other they decided to keep open houseon Saturday evenings for the entertain-ment of such boys as wished to availthemselves of the opportunity. Thechurch parlors were open from 7 p. m. to9 p. m. and the boys were welcome toplay games, read, sing, or amuse them-selves in any reasonably quiet way. Atthe close of the evening light refreshments. BUNKER IIILL SCHOOL, ( IIARLESTOWNGood space, but poorly equipped 134 NEW BOSTON were served. The number in attendancewas, from the first, as large as could beaccommodated. Such an experiment asthis suggests other possibilities on thepart of both church and munici-pality. The larger parks of the city are un-rivalled in beauty and natural attrac-tions and are well patronized on Sundaysand holidays, especially the seashore re-sorts like Marine Park and Castle week days the attendance is muchsmaller. Some are poorly lighted andlacking in picnic facilities. One im-portant means of recreation that is al-most wholly neglected is dancing. This should be encouraged, especially forgirls, for whom there is less provisionmade in the public parks than for attempt has yet been made inthis city to utilize the roofs of school-houses or other public buildings, exceptin cases of the Washington School anda few engine house roofs which have beenfitted up for employees. While roofsm
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