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The Riverside Improvement Soci- 
ety, Riverside, R. I., is arranging for 
a series of lectures to be given at the 
monthly meetings of the society on 
topics pertaining to village improve- 
ment. 
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The Mystic League of Village Im- 
provement, Mystic, Conn., has done 
very successful work in keeping the 
streets clean by means of a regular 
monthly removal of rubbish. The so- 
ciety has about two hundred mem- 
bers. 
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There is a widespread movement 
for the establihing of public play- 
grounds in Portland, Ore., which has 
the backing of the Multnomah Club, 
the park board, and the Initiative One 
Hundred, besides many prominent 
citizens and city officials. 
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The Chicago Branch of the Wom- 
an’s Outdoor League of the Ameri- 
can Civic Association is to erect a 
series of drinking fountains in vari- 
ous parts of that city. They will be 
of concrete, simple in construction 
and artistic in design. 
The Fairlawn Improvement Soci- 
ety, Pawtucket, R. L, is circulating a 
petition for the grading of Fairlawn 
avenue and is also making arrange- 
ments for the celebration of its fifth 
anniversary by a dinner which will 
be given on March 29th. 
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Kelsey & Guild, landscape archi- 
tects of Boston, are making a report 
for the Municipal League of Green- 
ville, S. C., on the beautifying and im- 
proving of Greenville. It will be on 
the same thorough lines as their for- 
mer report for Columbia, S. C. They 
are also preparing a report on the 
city trees of Salem, Mass. 
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The Outdoor Art League of Ash- 
land, Wish., in its annual report out- 
lined some of the work for this year. 
Detailed recommendations are made 
for the improvement of the beautiful 
little Cheuquameton Park, which it is 
suggested might be made both a wa- 
ter gateway to the city and a civic 
center, flanked by the city’s public 
buildings. The League urgently rec- 
ommends the purchase of this park. 
The Civic League of Bozeman, 
Mont., is pushing a plan for a city 
park in Bogart's Grove. Plans were 
made for holding a sweet pea carni- 
val about the middle of August. The 
one held last year was a conspicuous 
success and people are to be asked to 
plant sweet peas in greater quantities 
than before. 
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The Springfield Improvement As- 
sociation, Springfield, Mass., is en- 
deavoring to have the height of 
buildings regulated by law and favors 
a limit of one hundred feet for struc- 
tures in that city. The association 
will also take up the work of improv- 
ing the tenements in that city. 
AT NIAGARA 
I stood on your brink, O wonder, and 
gazed at the grandeur chere, 
I pondered the days primeval,- when clear 
on the wood-spiced air, 
Your voice was a roar transcending the 
murmur we hear to-day 
Since avarice set you working with strength 
you should use in play. 
I thought of the day — not distant, if wis- 
dom we do not learn — 
When your sound will be lost forever in 
the roar of the wheels you turn. 
And there on your verge, O marvel, 1 
noted the rising mist 
That endlessly sought the heavens — O 
heavens, bow down and list! 
The white of the spindrift wavered above 
like an endless wraith. 
Or like the ghosts of doubting that flit o’er 
the world of faith. 
Remote be the day that looms when, 
cupidity’s victory won. 
Your spray will be wholly hidden with 
the dust .of the mills you run. 
Strickland W. GilUlan 
in Chicago Daily News. 
The Belfast, Me., Improvement So- 
ciety has recently expended about $500 
in building driveways in the new city 
park and early this spring will plant a 
large number of trees and shrubs, build 
an ornamental entrance, a rustic house 
for a natural spring and make other im- 
provements. The park will be furnished 
with rustic seats already purchased by 
the society. The present board of offi- 
cers are : President, Mrs. Charles Brad- 
bury; vice-presidents, Mrs. C. A. Pils- 
bury, Mrs. H. H. Johnson, Mrs. F. M. 
Woods; secretary and auditor, Mrs. 
Geo. E. Brackett ; treasurer. Miss Sue 
M. Partridge; attorney, John R. Dun- 
ton ; collector, Mrs. Harry Clark. 
The Madison Horticultural Society 
of Madison, Wis., has made extensive 
and thorough plans for beautifying of 
grounds and competitive planting in 
celebration of the first “Home Com- 
ing” to be held in that city this sum- 
mer. Some representative collections 
of plants particularly suited to beau- 
tifying home grounds have been pre- 
pared and will be furnished to all 
who become members of the society 
and signify a desire to do the plant- 
ing. Later in the season the daily 
papers are to print a series of articles 
prepared by experts, telling how to 
prepare the ground, how to plant and 
how to care for the plants. There 
will also be a series of illustrated 
articles, showing the improvement 
possible by intelligent planting. The 
society has gone about the work in a 
very systematic manner, and the 
plans should go far towards securing 
a better and more beautiful Madison. 
E. T. Mische, superintendent of 
parks, is secretary of the society. 
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The mayor of Denver, Colo., has 
established a very successful annual 
“cleaning up” day for that city, and 
the following are some of his perti- 
nent suggestions for its observance: 
If your store front, residence or 
fence is dingy, order it painted. 
If your awning is old, torn or faded, 
get a new one. 
If your sidewalk, gate or fence 
needs repairing, fix it. 
If your advertising sign is old or 
faded, take it down or paint it. 
Resolve never to throw paper in 
the streets. 
Take all dandelions out of your 
lawn — they will spoil its beauty. 
Destroy the young weeds that are 
starting on your property and on your 
neighbor’s property. 
Burn all the rubbish possible — allow 
no one to throw it on streets, alleys 
or vacant lots. 
Promise not to spit on the side- 
walk. 
Organize a block improvement so- 
ciety, and allow no weeds to grow 
on sidewalk area or vacant property 
in your block. 
Ask your milkmen, grocerymen and 
expressmen to have their wagons 
painted. 
Irrespective of the size of your 
house, make your lawn the finest. 
Illuminate the front of your store 
in the business section. 
Every effort put forth or dollar 
spent to improve our city’s appear- 
ance will be returned twofold. 
