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 MUNICIPAL PLAYGROUNDS IN CHICAGO

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in the transfer of the boys from the narrow alley to the more attractive, if not spacious, playground.

The Walsh School, Twentieth street, near Halsted, furnished

BARBER STREET — WASHBURNE SCHOOL IN DISTANCE

a good double yard, rectangular on one side and triangular on the other, thus enabling the younger and older children easily to be separated. The attendant at this playground was a skilled turner, and won the affection and admiration of the boys by the feats he taught them on the buck. Although the Turn-