^^^^^-^ COPTRIGHT, 1902, BY THE FLORAL PUBLISHING COMPANY 



HOME AND FLOWERS 



Vol. XIII 



XOYEMBEE, 1902 



No. 1 



NATION-WIDE CIVIC BETTEIiMENr ^ 



RAPID PROGRESS SHOWN BY LEAGUE CONVENTION 



[The American League for Civic Improvement desires to announce that the papers and 

 addresses presented at the convention will be published in full in an early issue of CiviG 

 Progress. See also editorial on another page of this issue of Home and Flowers.] 



^''T^HIS is a sublime movement, and it 

 I is bound to succeed."^ In these 

 words Archbishop Ireland charac- 

 terized the agitation for cleaner, better 

 cities and a higher, nobler civic life, in his 

 address to the delegates at the third an- 

 nual convention of The American League 

 for Civic Improvement, held at St. Paul, 

 Minnesota, September 27l:th to 26 th. 

 These words also aptly indicate the en- 

 thusiasm and conviction which marked 

 the proceedings of the convention as a 

 body and the delegates as individuals. All 

 sections of the country were represented. 

 Such widely separated cities as Portland, 

 Oregon, Dallas, Texas, Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts, and Princeton, Xew Jersey, had 

 representatives present. 



The convention went to St. Paul on the 

 invitation of Mrs. Conde Hamlin, ex- 

 president of the Woman's Civic League of 

 that city, and right royally did the League 

 and its fraternal associate. The Commer- 

 cial Club, fulfill the duties of hosts. The 

 convention held most of its sessions in the 

 handsome and elegantly equipped rooms 

 of the Commercial Club, which even ex- 

 tended the privilege of temporary member- 

 ship to the delegates. The Civic League 

 spared no pains to make the stay of the 

 visitors pleasant, and the cities of St. Paul 

 and Minneapolis opened up their hearts 

 and homes in a way that is rarely experi- 

 enced at conventions. 



The American League for Civic Im- 

 provement, which the local press charac- 

 terized as made up of "people who care," 

 assembled in the rooms of the Commercial 



Club at 10:30 on Wednesday, September 

 21:th, for its annual business meeting. 

 Prof. Charles Zueblin, of Chicago, the 

 president, was in the chair, and Mr. 

 Charles Mulford Eobinson, the recording 

 secretary, at the desk. 



On motion oi Mr. D. J. Thomas, of 

 Springfield, Ohio, the chair appointed the 

 following committees: Finance: Hon. C. 

 M. Loring, Minnesota ; Mrs. Louis Marion 

 McCall, Missouri ; 0. ^IcG. Howard, Illi- 

 nois; E. 0. Eoutzahn, Ohio; Mrs. C. H. 

 McXider, Iowa ; dominations : D. J. 

 Thomas, Ohio; Mrs. W. E. D. Scott, ^sTew 

 Jersey; Miss Mary E. J. Colter, Minne- 

 sota ; Dr. Ida C. Bender, 'New York ; Earle 

 Layman, Missouri; Location of Head- 

 quarters: Dwiglit H. Perkins, Illinois; 

 Mrs. Conde Hamlin, Minnesota; Charles 

 Eamsdell, Wisconsin; Miss Edith L. 

 Miles, Oregon; Mrs. ^^Tellie M. Eichard- 

 son, Nebraska ; Eesolutions : Albert Kel- 

 sey, Pennsylvania; Miss M. Eleanor Tar- 

 rant, Kentucky; Mrs. Florence Kelley, 

 Xew York; Mrs. Martin Sherman, Wis- 

 consin; Louis E. A^an Xorman, Ohio; 

 Changes in Constitution and By-Laws: 

 Frank Chapin Bray, Illinois; Thomas E. 

 Hill, Minnesota; Judge W. W. Slabaugh, 

 Nebraska ; Mrs. Jarvis White, Wisconsin ; 

 Mrs. E. P. Turner, Texas. 



The appointment of committees was fol- 

 lowed by the presentation of reports from 

 affiliated societies. Mr. Charles Mulford 

 Eobinson spoke for the American Park 

 and Outdoor Art Association, declaring 

 that it was the hope of this association 

 that some plan of affiliation wdth the 



