Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1907 — The Largest Playsground. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Playsground.

Jersey City has authorized a landscape artist to transform a level plot of sixtynine aeres west of the city and bordering on the Hackensack river into a mammoth playfield for the benefit of the boys and girls of the city. This will be the largest playground in the world, as it is six times as large as the Stadium at Athens anil half as large again as the Prospect Park (Brooklyn) playground. The Jersey City field will be surrounded by a drive 100 feet wide for the use of horsemen and automobiles. Near the river will be an immense swimming pool and recreation piers. Baseball fields, golf links, tennis courts and cricket grounds will be laid out on the central portion, and there will be a great fieldhouse where all players may make ready for the games. In the winter time there will be an immense skating rink free to all.