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only from two to five hundred dol- 
lars per year to spend, they have cov- 
ered the question of hitching posts, 
trees, care of village streets, the li- 
brar)', a sprinkling cart, planting of 
shrubbery at corners and on small 
vacant places; they have encouraged 
gardening by selling seeds at a cent 
a package to the children, and award- 
ing prizes in the fall, and so on, till 
with the “get together” movement 
described by Mr. Munfi, which has 
perhaps been more successfully car- 
ried out in Easthampton than in any 
other place, the village is an appre- 
ciable unit, both in civic spirit and in 
outward aspect. 
Following the round table Mr. 
Charles M. Gardner, lecturer of the 
State Grange, talked on the grange 
and town improvement. He said that 
the Massachusetts Grange, with its 
two hundred and twelve organiza- 
tions and twenty-two thousand mem- 
bers, believed in improvement and 
that it had now definitely taken up 
this work as a part of its yearly cam- 
paign. 
Mr. Bailey in his lecture objected 
to the word “campaign” in his sub- 
ject, saying that it is a movement 
and not a campaign, as it is not 
promoted by any one man or group 
of men for a definite end. As a 
movement he thinks that it indicates 
an awakening of the esthetic sense 
of the American people. In proof of 
this statement that it is a movement 
rather than a campaign Mr. Bailey 
produced a large bundle of pamphlets 
and magazine articles, which he had 
taken at random from his files, and 
by simply reading the titles he 
showed that the movement was a 
substantial one and that it had suc- 
cessfully invaded practically every 
form of organization in the country. 
In the early days improvement was 
for the individual, although the peo- 
ple as a whole perhaps enjoyed it, 
and many traces of these conditions 
are still to be found in monarchical 
countries. “British cities ruled from 
above are well built, well cared for, 
beautiful to look upon, but the ma- 
jority of their inhabitants live in 
tasteless homes. The poor are shab- 
by and without thought of beauty 
in form and color of their clothing, 
and the poorest are unspeakably 
filthy and besotted. American cities 
ruled from below are ugly, ill paved, 
unclean and disgracefully managed, 
but the majority of the inhabitants 
are well dressed and have homes in 
better taste than their foreign com- 
peers. The poor in our cities are 
cleaner and more tidy in dress, es- 
pecially the women and girls, and 
even the poorest have some thought 
for the appearance of their children. 
Civic beauty provided for the masses 
by their rulers means little and does 
little for the growth of the individual 
in esthetic righteousness. Civic beau- 
ty provided by the masses means 
much. It indicates a regenerated 
state esthetically in the individual cit- 
izen.” The movement in the United 
States indicates that the nation is 
coming of age. We have passed the 
Robinson Crusoe age of art, and 
through the Centennial Exhibition 
and more particularly the Columbian 
Exposition in Chicago, we have seen 
ourselves for the first time in the 
glass, and now there is a widespread 
movement for the development of 
more forest reservations, more parks, 
the formulation of better plans for 
civic art, the organization of more 
improvement societies, and the build- 
ing of more attractive libraries, 
schools, office buildings and civic edi- 
fices. E. T. Hartman. 
ANNUAL MEETING of AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION 
The program for the joint meeting 
of the American Civic Association 
and the National Municipal League, 
to be held at Providence, R. I., No- 
vember 19-22, promises to be a con- 
ference of great importance. The 
success of the American Civic Asso- 
ciation in arousing a genuine civic 
awakening throughout the country 
on the billboard question has been 
evident in the general press, and 
Frederick Law Olmsted, of Brook- 
line, Mass., a member of the commis- 
sion appointed by Secretary Taft to 
report on the improvement of un- 
sightly conditions at Niagara, will be 
one of the speakers at the “Niagara 
Evening” An outline of the program 
follows: 
Tuesday, November 19, 3 p. m. — 
Round Table Conference: “Definite 
Work for Small Communities,” F. A. 
Whiting, presiding. 
Tuesday Evening, 8 p. m. — Niag- 
ara Evening: Robert C. Ogden, pre- 
siding. 
The Work of the McKim Commis- 
sion appointed by Secretary Taft: 
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Brook- 
line, Mass. 
The Work of the Power Develop- 
ment Companies: Gen. Francis V. 
Greene, H. H. MacRae and A. L. 
Schoelkopf. 
The Work of the Commissions: 
Charles M. Dow, Jam.estown, New 
York, President Commissioners of 
the State Reservation at Niagara; 
Hon. John W. Langmuir, Toronto, 
President Queen Victoria Park. 
The Work of the American Civic 
Association : J. Horace McFarland. 
Wednesday Morning, November 20,- 
10 a. m. — Round Table Conference on 
“Municipal Adornment,” John Quin- 
cy Adams, presiding. Speakers: 
Joseph T. Richards on “The Rail- 
road as a Factor in Civic Improve- 
ment”; Frederick S. Lamb on “The 
Work of a Municipal Art Society.” 
Round Table Conference on “Parks 
and Public Reservations,” Henry A. 
Barker, Providence, presiding. Speak- 
ers: John C. Olmsted, George A. 
Parker, A. W. Crawford, W. B. de 
las Casas. 
Round Table Conference on “Bill- 
boards,” Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, 
Mass., presiding. Speakers: Rev. 
S. G. Wood, E. T. Hartman, R. W. 
Gilder, Henry Lewis Johnson. 
Wednesday Afternoon, 3 p. m. — ■ 
General Meeting; President McFar- 
land in the chair. The Civic Oppor- 
tunity of the Young Men’s Christian 
Association, Hon. Robert Watchorn; 
The Appalachian Reservation, Miss 
Mira Lloyd Dock and H. A. Smith; 
The Smoke Nuisance, John S. Stev- 
ens; The Drag Log and Good Roads, 
D. Ward King; Increasing Improve- 
ment Influences, Clinton Rogers 
Woodruff. 
Wednesday Evening — Reception. 
Thursday Morning, 10 a. m. — Joint 
session with National Municipal 
League: “Forces Molding the City 
of the Future,” George E. Kessler, 
President A. V. V. Raymond, Miss 
Caroline Hazard, President W. H. P. 
Faunce, Walter H. Page, Dr. Samuel 
M. Lindsay. 
Thursday Afternoon, 2:30 p. m. — 
Round Table Conference on “Work 
Among Children,” J. Horace McFar- 
land, presiding. Speakers: Miss Ma- 
ble Hill, Joseph Lee, Miss Mary 
Marshall Butler, C. S. DeForest. 
Thursday Evening, 7 p. m. — Dinner 
to delegates. 
Friday Morning, 9:30. — Annual 
meeting for reports of Secretary, 
Treasurer, Committees and election 
of officers; joint session with Nation- 
al Municipal League on “Municipal 
Health and Sanitation.” 
