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explains that this is only his second be^: team
and that he has one hooligan, absent to-day,
who can bring the tears to your eyes, as the playing
of his second best team almost does with me.
We end up with universal hilarity and hand-
shakings with as many of the 4,000 as we can
reach from the platform.

Next day the Director of Recreation, partner
in good works with the Director of Music, takes
me in hand and proceeds to show me the work
of his life. Here are scores of acres (I forget
how many) of land once waste, which our
Director, expert in " cutting and filling" and
the balance thereof, has retrieved from the wilder-
ness and turned into the beautiful playing ground
we see before us, lustrous and palm shaded;
and yonder are scores of acres more still waste
—in a few years our man of fire and electricity
will have them, too! As we approach the place
—Lake Mirror Park is the fitting name of it—he
explains how a Recreation Engineer goes to
work. You give him fifty acres of waste land
—or any sort of land you like—you send him a
big bunch of serviceable unemployed to do the
digging and levelling, and by this time next
year, thanks to his cutting and filling *' tech-
nique," your fifty waste acres shall be a paradise.

And here we are at the " Old Folks* " part of it,
" See that bunch of old fellows playing baseball ?
Well, that's the Three Quarter Century Club of
St. Petersburg. Heard of the Century Club in