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AND FLOWERS 



O. McG. HOWARD, 

 Recording Secretary. 



J. HORACE McFARLAND, 

 President. 



Dr. EDWARD J. JAMES, 

 First Vice-President. 



Prof. CHARLES ZUEBLIN, 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



Mrs. LOUIS MARION McCALL, 

 Second Vice-President. 



E. G. ROUTZAHN. 



Field Secretary. 



A GROUP OF THE NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS OF THE LEAGUE 



of the city drawn wp on parade to receive 

 them. Leaving the baths the delegates 

 were taken, b}" courtesy of the street rail- 

 way company, to the famous Indian 

 Mounds and Como Park of St. Paul, and 

 then to the lakes and parks of Minneap- 

 olis. After lunch at the splendid West 

 Hotel, as guests of the Minneapolis Park 

 Board, the convention was given the free- 

 dom of the city by the v^^.jot, through the 

 Hon. C. M. Loring and Prof. Folwell. At 

 the afternoon session, in the parlors of the 

 hotel. Miss M. Eleanor Tarrant, at the 

 head of the Public Recreation section of 

 the League, described the public play- 



ground movement of Louisville, Kentucky. 

 ^\e hope to describe this playground work 

 in full in an early issue. Mrs. W. E. D. 

 Scott, of Princeton, Xew Jersey, related 

 her experience in pioneer work in the Pub- 

 lic Education Association of Xew York. 



The closing session of the convention, 

 was held in the Commercial Club rooms, 

 at St. Paul. Addresses were made by 

 Dwight Heald Perkins, of Chicago, on 

 "The Architectural Future of Chicago,'^ 

 and J. Horace McFarland, vice E. G-. 

 Eoutzahn, on "The Improvement of Har- 

 risburg.'' Prof. Charles Zueblin also lec- 

 tured on "Washington Old and Xew/^ 



