Fourth. A space 500 by 150 feet in extent is to be fitted with simple gymnastic apparatus, and subject to use for more robust forms of exercise; but not games or feats likely to attract crowds in which it would be difficult to maintain order, and which would interfere with the comfort of women and children on the promenade.

Fifth. Two landings for boats are provided for, and it is intended that boats for hire should be offered at them.

Sixth. Two houses to contain water-closets, tool-rooms, and offices of administration are proposed, one at the entrance of the women's exercise-ground and near the southern boat-landing, the other near the gymnastic ground and the northern landing.

Seventh. A row of lights at the edge of the embankment, and another along the street, will satisfactorily light the entire ground. No gaspipes are to be laid in the planted parts.

The Embankment is about 2,200 feet long by 200 feet wide. and contains about 10 acres.

The men's gymnasium is situated at its northerly end and is surrounded by an iron fence. The Lavatory building is 20 feet by 50 feet on the ground, and is 2 stories in height. The lower story contains offices for the police and foreman, storerooms for tools, etc., and a room for the use of the boat-keeper. The upper story is divided into two rooms, one of which contains water-closets, urinals, and lavatories, and the other is the entrance to the gymnastic ground, and is provided with boxes for clothing.

The latter room is connected with the gymnastic ground by a bridge over the walk and running-track, with stairs from its outer end leading to the ground, to avoid interfering with the use of the track, and the only entrance to and exit from the gymnastic ground is through turnstiles at the entrance to the bridge.

The gymnastic ground is provided with apparatus consisting of two sheds, with 12 sets of chest-weights in each, including 6 high and low pulleys, 2 giant-strides, 8 sets of horizontal bars, 8 sets of parallel bars, 6 jumping-boxes, 7 boxes for quoit-pitching and shot-throwing (arranged as shown in the accompanying cut), 2 sets of jumping standards and ropes, 2 sets of sand-bags and attachments, 4 vaulting-poles, 3 shots, 2 heavy weights, 24 quoits, 20 pairs of dumb-bells, 10 sets of hurdles, and 2 large frames, each 160 feet long, to which are attached the following apparatus:

4 balance-swings.

8 breast-bars.

4 single swings.
2 double swings.
5 swinging-ropes.
1 rope ladder,

1 iron Jacob's ladder.

1 perpendicular ladder.
1 inclined ladder.

4 pairs of flying-rings.
4 single trapezes.
1 climbing-pole.
2 inclined poles.

2 perpendicular poles.

Around the outside of the ground there is a running and bicycle track 15 feet wide and one-fifth of a mile long. The apparatus was designed and furnished by D. A. Sargent, M.D., Professor of Physical Culture, of Harvard University.

There are two drinking-fountains within the enclosure. The men's gymnastic ground was opened to the public on August 27, 1889, in charge of Superintendent John Graham, and under the following regulations:

1. The Superintendent is responsible for the maintenance of order and decorum, and for the exercise of discretion and civility in all use to be made of the gymnasium. His authority corresponds with his responsibility. No one is to enter the gymnasium when forbidden by him; no one to remain in it when desired by him to leave. Report may be made to the Park Commissioners whenever the Superintendent is thought to have used his authority unjustly, but his authority is not to be resisted or impugned by visitors on the ground.

2. No one is to occupy the gymnasium except while making use of some of its apparatus for exercise or while waiting opportunity to do so, or for a reasonable breathing-time between exercises.

3. No part of the person usually clothed within doors, is to be exposed while in the gymnasium.

4. No person is to use any piece of the apparatus to the exclusion of another person beyond a reasonable time. In cases of dispute the Superintendent will decide what is a reasonable time.

5. No person is to engage in dangerous exercises. If the Superintendent judges any form of exercise by any person to be dangerous, it is to be so considered and refrained from by that person.

6. No part of the apparatus is to be put to other than its proper use, or to be used with excessive violence.

7. In any use of the track the right side of the person is to be kept toward the fence.

8. Shots, hammers, quoits, and poles, after any use of them, are to be placed by their users in the boxes and racks provided for them.

9. Persons not engaged in putting the shot or hammer are to avoid the ground assigned to those who are so engaged.

10. Wheelmen will have the right to use the track during the forenoon of each day; runners during the afternoon. But, with permission of the Superintendent, runners can use it when it is not wanted for wheeling in the forenoon, and wheelmen can use it when it is not wanted by runners in the afternoon.

The regulations above recited for the use of the Charlesbank Gymnasium are hereby made ordinances of the Department of Parks All offending against them will be subject to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, and will forfeit their right to the use of the ground for the season.

The gymnasium is kept open from April 1 to about the iniddle of December.

About 100,000 entries for use of the apparatus or grounds were made during the season of 1890, or an average of 447 each day, not including Sundays, upon which day the gymnasium is closed.

In May, 1891, the gymnasium was lighted by a number of arc electric lights, and was kept open until 9.30 P M. The number of visitors entering the men's gymnasium in 1891 was 169,219; the largest registered number passing the turnstile into the grounds for three single days being, May 3, 1,649; July 30, 1,480, and July 31, 1,572.

Besides the Superintendent there is a lodge-keeper, and the Park police can be called upon in cases of necessity. The behavior of those using the grounds has been excellent. No arrests for violating the Gymnasium Regulations or the Park Ordinances were made in 1891. This gymnasium has, we think, proved its usefulness, and under proper guidance it is easily managed.

The women's gymnasium and the playground for children are at the southerly end of the Embankment and are surrounded by shrubbery, which is intended to screen them from the public view. The gymnasium is temporarily enclosed by a high board fence, and dressing booths are placed along the fence on one side of the grounds.

Entrance to the grounds is only through the upper part of the women's lavatory building and within view of the attendant. This part of the building is devoted chiefly to those using the gymnasium and playground. The lower

story is used for a tool-room and quarters for the Park foreman and the boat-keeper. Adjoining, and in the rear of the building, are the sand courts for the younger children. The gymnastic apparatus, excepting the iron frame, was furnished and erected by Prof. D. A. Sargent, and consists of the following:

2 balance-swings and frames.

2 seesaws, with side-rails and guards.

2 seesaws, plain.

2 single swings.

2 pole ladders.

2 perpendicular ladders.

4 hanging-ropes, fastened at the bottom.

1 long inclined rope and attachments.

4 long inclined poles.

4 short inclined poles.

4 perpendicular ladders combined.

5 serpentine ladders united, with guard-rails.

2 perpendicular climbing-poles.

12 swinging-ropes.

1 horizontal rope ladder.

2 sets horizontal bars and stanchions, with height adjustable. 1 set of movable parallel bars.

1 set of high parallel bars.

1 set of vaulting-bars.

11 travelling rings and attachments.

2 single trapezes, with height made adjustable by pulley and chain attachments.

2 sets of flying-rings, with height made adjustable by pulley and chain attachments.

12 pairs of chest-weights to run in wooden boxes.

1 set of jumping standards and ropes.

2 giant-strides, ropes, handles, and fixtures.

24 ring quoits and pins.

12 jumping-ropes.

12 hoops.