In the summer of 1899, three years after the first experiment, Pittsburg children had nine playgrounds and Allegheny children had three, all gifts of the women.

By another year the committee was handling thousands of dollars and managing an enterprise of considerable magnitude.

Also their work was attracting the admiration of other club women, who asked for an opportunity to co-operate.

In 1900 practically all the clubs of the two cities united, and formed a joint committee of the Women's Clubs of Pittsburg and vicinity to take charge of playgrounds.
[Illustration: CARPENTER SHOP, VACATION SCHOOL, PITTSBURGH.

Established by club women and for years supported by them.] All this time the work was entirely in the hands of the club women, who bought the apparatus, organized the games, employed the trained supervisors, and supplied from their own membership the volunteer workers, without whom the enterprise would have been a failure from the start.