Identifier: reportofboardofm00mass_19 (find matches)
Title: Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners (1913)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission.
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Contributing Library: State Library of Massachusetts
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November 11. Harvard class races, single sculls. The policing of the Basin, particularly of the Dam, is con-siderable of a problem, as is shown by the fact that a total of493 arrests or complaints were made during the year for offencescommitted on the Basin. Of this number, 440 were arrests fordrunkenness, and were made principally on the highway onthe Dam. There were also 23 dead bodies recovered from thewater, and 38 persons rescued from drowning. A constantpatrol of the waters of the Basin in motor boats is necessaryduring the time of open water, while during the period of skat-ing it is necessary to exercise the utmost vigilance in order toconfine the public to the limits of safe ice. Charles River Upper Division (Speedway and Riverside Sectionsand Alewife Brook Parkway) : John L. Gilman, Superintendent.Speedway. — The circular track has been regraded and re-surfaced with loam. The lower half of the straight-away trackhas been abandoned and seeded down to grass. This will some-
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1914.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 48. 29 what diminish the cost of maintenance without seriously im-pairing the facilities for racing. A playground, authorizedhy chapter 297 of the Acts of 1913, has been constructed on thesoutherly bank of Charles River, near Moody Street, andequipped with swings, teeter-boards, a sand box and a fountain.This playground has been largely patronized by children.Thirty-one persons were rescued from the river during the year, Nantasket Beach Division (Nantasket Beach Reservation) : ElmerE. Bickford, Superintendent. The bath-house was opened June 16 and closed September 7;64,500 bathers patronized the bath-house, of whom 34,443 weremales and 30,057 females. The receipts were $14,210.50. Theincrease in bathers was nearly 50 per cent, over the patronageof last year. Sixty-nine accident cases were treated in theemergency room of the bath-house. On June 29 the emergencybathing quarters, under the piazza of the bath-house, were putinto commission and opened thirtee

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