Hut as a place of recreation, Potomac Park has just started. Congress has finally authorized the building of a huge amusement park, and work has already begun on the construction of fourteen baseball diamonds, thirty-two tennis courts, two golf courses with a half-mile driving track; two new swimming pools and facilities for boating and canning. There is also to be a big stadium, seating 50,000 people, which, it is thought, will prove a great stimulus to the public interest in athletic meets and competitive games. While there are several colleges here, only one indulges in athletic competition to any extent, and its seating capacity at a football game, for instance, is very limited.

Open-Air Concerts Frequent.
The stadium will also be used for open-air concerts, which are one of the most prominent features of the park system. Every day somewhere in the city there is a band concert, from May to October. On Saturday afternoons the Marine Band plays in the White House grounds, where the citizen population foregathers and beats operatic and popular music in other factions of the city, the Washington Barracks Band and the Cavalry Band hold free open-air concerts, so that the Washingtonian does not lack music. The Cavalry Band has now departed for Mexico, so that the band equipment this summer has been more limited, but, even so, not one clear day has gone by without a band concert somewhere. 