. Town and city. Street to do. The place cost New YorkCity a little over eighteen hundred thousand dollars. Itwas opened in 1903, and it was the first park in thecity to be planned as a playground supplied with gym-nasium apparatus. More than that, the apparatus is free PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND PUBLIC BATHS 67 for public use; and even Spartan children would haveenjoyed it. See how much they have: Swings, teeter balls, tennis, volley ball, croquet, rings, teeter lad-ders, trapeze rings, giant stride, tenpins, Indian dubs, jumping ropes,sand boxes, horizontal bars,parallel bars, chest bars, hori-
. Town and city. Street to do. The place cost New YorkCity a little over eighteen hundred thousand dollars. Itwas opened in 1903, and it was the first park in thecity to be planned as a playground supplied with gym-nasium apparatus. More than that, the apparatus is free PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND PUBLIC BATHS 67 for public use; and even Spartan children would haveenjoyed it. See how much they have: Swings, teeter balls, tennis, volley ball, croquet, rings, teeter lad-ders, trapeze rings, giant stride, tenpins, Indian dubs, jumping ropes,sand boxes, horizontal bars,parallel bars, chest bars, hori-zontal ladders, inclined lad-ders, trolling rings, flyingrings, bucks, horses, climb-ing ropes, climbing poles,inclined poles, basket-ballcourts, running track, also aset of standards for pole vaultand the high jump. All this apparatus isto be found at SewardPark; and there is the beautiful pavilion besides, withfree shower baths for dusty men and women and fortired boys and girls after their gymnastic A Corner of Seward ParkLined up for a swing CHAPTER IX FIRES In his book Out of Mulberry Street Mr. Riis describesthe work of one of the New York heroes who fight fire. There was the clanging of bells, the rush of engines,the blazing fire in a great building, and a small boy
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