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a warfare is being waged against uncovered loads of dressing 

 being hauled through the streets. The league has a committee 

 who are working to secure playgrounds for children and young 

 people and in the future we hope for a public gymnasium and 

 free baths. Next season a larger appropriation for parks will 

 be asked for from the city fathers as we desire to see plants and 

 shrubs growing in abundance where now there is a lack. The 

 river banks are a source of annoyance to every one who longs 

 for a city beautiful and in time we hope for great improvement 

 in that quarter as we hope for improvements all along the way 

 too numerous to mention. 



I wish to thank you heartily for the evening devoted to civic 

 improvement at your Auburn meeting. Your display of fruits 

 and flowers was wonderfully fine, you must have reason to be 

 glad at the success of your meeting, and I wish that each meet- 

 ing in the future may give you greater satisfaction than any 

 in the past. 



STORAGE HOUSE SPECIFICATIONS. 



(See Illustration of House on Page 40.) 



Through the courtesy of the Orange Judd Company of New 

 York, we are able to publish this and the following illustration 

 from Professor Waugh's "Fruit Harvesting, Storing, Market- 

 ing." The illustration shows the apple storage house of Mr. 

 T. L. Kenney of South Hero, Vt., and the description is from 

 Prof. Waugh's book above mentioned. It was built in 1888. 

 It is 30x40 feet. The main story is 8 feet 4 inches high in the 

 clear ; the basement is 7 feet 4 inches high, and the loft, or second 

 story, is 7 feet high. The large room on the main floor is used 

 primarily as a sorting and packing room, but can also be used 

 for storage when the basement is filled. It will hold 1,000 bar- 

 rels, piling the barrels three tiers high, which is as convenient as 

 any way. The basement is the main storage room. The apples 

 are let down to this from the main floor by an elevator. This 

 basement also has an outside door at the end opposite the one 

 shown in the prospective. Barrels may thus be unloaded or 

 loaded without being carried through the main floor. This 



