One Germanic alderman exploded wrathfully: "Vot does vimmens know about poys' play ?--No!" And that settled it.
The committee went to the Board of Education once more, this time with better success.

They received permission to open and conduct, during the long vacation, one playground in a large schoolyard.

For two summers the women maintained that playground, holding their faith against the opposition of the janitors, the jeers of the newspapers, and the constant hostility of tax-payers, who protested against the "ruin of school property." After two years the Board of Education took over the work.

The mayor became personally interested, and the Common Council gracefully surrendered.

They have plenty of playgrounds in Detroit now, the latest development being winter sports.
If the Germanic alderman who protested that "vimmins" did not know anything about boys' play was in office at the time, one wonders what his emotions were when the playgrounds committee first appeared before the Council and asked to have vacant lots flooded to give children skating ponds in winter.