It talked playgrounds to the other clubs, until all the organizations of women were interested.

Within a year or two Detroit had a Council of Women, with a committee on playgrounds.

The committee went to the Common Council this time and asked permission to erect a pavilion and establish a playground on a piece of city land.
This was a great, bare, neglected spot, the site of an abandoned reservoir which had been of no use to anybody for twenty years.

The place had the advantage of being in a very forlorn neighborhood where many children swarmed.
The Common Council was mildly amused at the idea of putting public property to such an absurd, such an unheard-of use.

A few of the men were indignant.