NOVEMBER 16, 1S9D. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



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that he had conferred with Mr. French 

 of the Art Institute who would hold the 

 following days open for our next an- 

 nual meeting to be held in the Art 

 Institute: June 5th, 6th, 7th, 20th, 

 21st, and 22nd. 



A communication was also read 

 from R. H. Southgate, manager of the 

 Auditorium hotel, offering to provide 

 meeting rooms in the hotel free of 

 charge to the convention and making 

 a rate of from $1.50 to $4.00 per day. 

 It was voted by the council to hold 

 the meeting on the 5th, 6th and 7th of 



a committee of the association. He 

 thought a petition to merchants would 

 in some cases correct such disfigure- 

 ment of public places. He also be- 

 lieved that the disfigurement of bridg- 

 es could be prevented by petitioning 

 the board of county supervisors to 

 prevent this, as these bridges were 

 public property under the control of 

 the supervisors. 



Mr. R. H. Warder stated that the as- 

 sociation should aim to stimulate a 

 more active public sentiment in favor 

 of cleanliness and good order. The 



jury that was being done to small 

 parks by the removal of all shrubbery 

 on the ground that it was likely to 

 piove a shelter to evil-disposed per- 

 sons, this being the idea of the present 

 man in charge of the grounds who ap- 

 pears to have the power to do this 

 work without restraint. He thought 

 public attention should be called to 

 this and some provision made for the 

 protection of public parks. He said 

 that many of these parks were de- 

 signed by Mr. Downing and his work 

 was in many cases just approaching 





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The Modern Social Evolution. From the Chicago Times-Herald. 



June, and to make the Auditorium ho- 

 tel the headquarters of the associa- 

 tion. 



The. following suggestions were 

 brought up in the general discussion 

 which followed: 



Mr. E. J. Parker urged the import- 

 ance of securing a larger membership, 

 and called attention to the good work 

 which was being done by the .•arious 

 railroads, particularly the Boston & 

 Albany and the Pennsylvania R. R., 

 in the improvement of the surround- 

 ings of stations. He suggested that 

 a paper upon this subject would be de- 

 sirable, also a paper on "School 

 Grounds." He called attention to the 

 valuable time that was being lost by 

 the Chicago University in postponing 

 planting operations upon their 

 grounds. He also stated that he 

 thought the association should secure 

 an opinion and have a discussion upon 

 the question of the rights of telegraph 

 companies to cut trees on the roadside 

 in locating their poles and wires. He 

 stated that it was claimed in his town 

 that their franchise gave them this 

 right. The rights of the company and 

 of the abutters should be clearly de- 

 termined in such cases. He under- 

 stood that there had been a decision 

 in an Illinois court against the cutting 

 of trees by the telephone companies. 

 He spoke also of the rights which 

 the Minneapolis park commissioners 

 had to plant trees on side streets and 

 assess the cost on abutters. In his 

 own city he had made a proposition 

 to his local park association to buy 

 trees at wholesale and plant them at 

 cost. Mr. Parker spoke also of the im- 

 r%rtance of having more attention giv- 

 en to the surroundings of the national, 

 state, city and town public buildings. 

 He spoke also of the importance of 

 checking the abuse of public adver- 

 tisements which had been referred to 



average man at home should be in- 

 duced in some way to give more at- 

 tention to these matters, not only 

 about his home grounds but in the 

 city at large by acting through public 

 officers. 



Mr. Kriehm said that he woud like 

 very much to have a paper upon 

 "Small Parks" treated in the broadest 

 possible way in order to bring out 

 suggestions that would help make 

 such parks of the greatest use to the 

 greatest number. They should be con- 

 sidered in their relation to surround- 

 ing buildings, also in reference to the 

 proper location of statuary and other 

 objects of art. 



Mr. Lorch suggested that a collec- 

 tion of photographs be displayed at 

 the meeting of the association in 

 which would be indicated what was 

 bad and what was good in the treat- 

 ment of public and private grounds. 

 He thought also" that a petition show- 

 ing the ideal treatment of the sur- 

 roundings of a public building would 

 be of value and interest. 



Mr. Warren H. Manning suggested 

 that the surroundings of church build- 

 ings should also be considered in the 

 work of the association. 



Mr. O. C. Simonds thought it im- 

 portant that someone should consider 

 and. present before the meeting the 

 work that the association should aim 

 to accomplish during a series of years. 

 He also thought it would be desirable 

 to have a paper upon Mr. Stiles and 

 others who had done so much to pro- 

 tect public parks from the introduc- 

 tion of features no; in keeping with 

 their original purpo^s. A ijaper on 

 "The Preservation nd Protection of 

 Parks once formed" would V a yc.od 

 subject. 



Mr. Bryan Lathrop said that he had 

 been greatly impressed at a recent 

 visit to Washington with the great in- 



its full beauty and maturity. This 

 made the destruction seem all the 

 more serious. 



President Chas. M. Loring said that 

 he should encourage the organization 

 of neighborhood and village improve- 

 ment associations. He said that he 

 had been called upon to assist in the 

 formation of such societies and had 

 found in many cases great enthusiasm. 



Mr. Thos. H. Macbride suggested that 

 school and home grounds would be a 

 good general topic for discussion. 



Dr. P. M. Woodworth would have 

 more attention given to such matters 

 as laws relating to boulevards, the 

 moral effect, of parks on the communi- 

 ty, architecture and sculpture in parks, 

 and would have every department of 

 park administration heard at our 

 meeting. He spoke of the good work 

 that was being done at Dayton and 

 thought that Chicago was ripe for a 

 movement in this direction, as he be- 

 lieved that many large manufacturing 

 concerns would be glad to improve the 

 surroundings of their employes if they 

 were only approached in the right 

 manner. 



Mr. B. J. Parker thought that pa- 

 pers should generally he presented by 

 men who by reason of extensive travel 

 and research would be able to treat 

 the subject presented in the broadest 

 possible manner. 



Mr. Thos. H. Macbride suggested 

 that it might be advisable to have 

 some general subject treated in detail 

 at each session, or perhaps at each 

 meeting. 



Mr. John C. Olmsted agreed with 

 Mr. Macbride in this matter. 



President Loring stated that short, 

 pithy papers should be prepared rath- 

 er than long essays in which an at- 

 tempt was made to cover the subject 

 treated. The shorter papers were 

 more valuable because they brought 



