A CIVIC IMPROVEMEXT DEPARTMENT. 



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American League, and it was unanimously 

 decided that it should be entirely separate 

 and be known as The Canadian League of 

 Civic Art, and that it should endeavor to ex- 

 tend its influence from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. 



The committee appointed to draft a con- 

 stitution also nominated a list of officers, and 

 their report was adopted, the list being as 

 follows : 



Honorary President, tine Countess (if 

 Minto ; President, J. D. Hayden, Cobourg ; 

 First Vice-President, Major R. Y. Ellis, To- 

 ronto; Second Vice-President, R. Tasker 

 Steele, Hamilton ; Third Vice-President, W. 

 E. Smallfield, Renfrew ; Secretary-Treas- 

 urer, Major H. J. Snelgrove, Cobourg; Di- 

 rectors, Messrs. G. R. Pattullo, of Wood- 

 stock; J. P. Hynes, of Toronto; W. D. A. 

 Ross, of Chatham ; C. C. James, of Toronto ; 

 T. H. Race, of Mitchell ; G. A. Reid, of To- 

 ronto ; Dr. James Fletcher, of Ottawa ; L. 

 Woolverton, of Grimsby; Judge Klein, of 



Walkerton ; H. F. Duck, of Toronto ; R. W. 

 Rennie, of London; M. A. James, of Bow- 

 manville. 



In the evening Mr. E. G. Routzahn de- 

 livered a most interesting address descriptive 

 of a quickly moving series of pictures which 

 were thrown on a screen in the council room. 

 The first illustrations emphasized the com- 

 plexity of city problems, and how New York 

 and Chicago are working on plans much the 

 same as those suggested by the Civic Art 

 League and kindred societies of Toronto. 

 The speaker then showed some successful 

 attempts to improve houses and streets 

 both in villages and cities, the general 

 effect of a campaign for civic improvement, 

 the result of campaigns against billboards, 

 overhead wires, and against inactivity 

 among rural councillors. 



The lecturer was given the warm thanks 

 of the meeting. 



A CIVIC IMPEO YEMEN T DEPAETMENT 



A LETTER FROM 



T. H. RACE, 



SECRETARY OF MITCHELL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



WHY should we not proceed at 

 once to have a department in 

 our own monthly magazine 

 opened under this heading? The aim of 

 our Association is, more than ever before, 

 to extend its usefulness and popularity by 

 making it cover as much ground as possible 

 with the means we have at our disposal. 

 The Horticulturist is covering more ground 

 to-day, and covering it better than it ever 

 did, and is growing in popularity accord- 

 ingly. It has now over five thousand 

 monthly readers, and hundreds of them have 

 borne testimony to the improvements in its 



general character during the past year, and 

 to its increased value both to the fruit 

 grower and to the lover of flowers. Nearly 

 one-half of its pages for the past few 

 months have been devoted to gardening and 

 floriculture, and it has been the intention to 

 add a household and domestic science de- 

 partment just as soon as the means at hand 

 would admit of another enlargement. When 

 that enlargement comes, embracing a de- 

 partment devoted to fruit growing and the 

 fruit interests generally; another to horti- 

 culture and civic improvement ; a third to 

 household and domestic science, and a fourth 



