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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION CONVENTION 
The joint convention of the Ameri- 
can Civic Association and the National 
Municipal League last year was so suc- 
cessful that the two bodies will meet 
together again this year at Pittsburg, 
November 17-20. The Pittsburg Cham- 
ber of Commerce is the leading organ- 
ization working for the success of the 
conference and has the active coopera- 
tion of all the kindred local bodies and 
civic organizations. Mayor George W. 
Guthrie is chairman of the committee 
on arrangements. 
“The Conservation of Natural Re- 
sources," with special reference to scen- 
ery and those questions in which the 
American Civic Association is inter- 
ested, will receive attention at the hands 
of President McFarland and Chief For- 
ester Gififord Pinchot. Secretary Root 
and Congressman Burton are expected. 
Billboards, the Smoke Nuisance, and 
the fight on flies and mosquitoes, will 
occupy the attention of the association, 
as also the subject of Local Improve- 
ment, which will receive consideration 
at the hands of such well-known ex- 
perts as Miss Mira Lloyd Dock and 
Mrs. C. B. Crane. School Extension 
and Rural Improvement, with O. J. 
Kern, L. H. Bailey, D. Ward King and 
Kenyon L. Butterfield as the expected 
participants, will occupy another ses- 
sion. 
There will be business sessions, and 
addresses on various miscellaneous top- 
ics of importance, including “Municipal 
Affairs and the Liquor Problem,’’ “City 
Planning” and “The Playground Move- 
ment,’’ the secretary’s annual review of 
municipal and civic events, a banquet, 
a round table conference of city clubs, 
receptions, and numerous opportunities 
for informal conferences and exchange 
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The Reading 
Room Society of 
St. Cloud, Minn., 
has had a busy and 
successful year. 
The improvement 
committee furnished and planted the 
flowers in the parks and at the library ; 
800 apple trees were distributed to the 
school children for planting ; $100 was 
given to the city library for repairs and 
the city council petitioned in regard to 
food and milk inspection. This year the 
club will study the history of early Min- 
nesota and the pioneers of the state. 
* * * 
The women of Birmingham, Ala., 
have been called on by Mayor George 
B. Ward to assist in carrying out his 
plans to beautify Birmingham. The 
mayor’s plan is to form little organiza- 
tions whose sole business it will be to 
look after the improvement of the block 
on which they live. The by-laws pre- 
pared for these block improvement so- 
cieties are both simple and effective. 
L'nder the heading of “Do It Now,’’ 
the mayor has caused to be circulated 
printed slips showing just how the end 
at which he aims is to be attained. 
* * 
Armed with picks and shovels and 
aided by a dozen teams, the citizens of 
Glen Park, a suburb of San Francisco, 
completed the filling in and grading of 
the Lippard street chasm, so that the 
road at this point would be rendered 
passable for heavy wagons and fire en- 
gines. The work was planned Su- 
pervised by the women of the Glen Park 
Outdoor Art League, many of whom 
labored all day side by side with the 
men. 
* * * 
Maj. Sylvester, superintendent of 
police in Washington, D. C., will make 
war on billboards and posters in the 
interest of a city beautiful. He will 
ask for legislation to enable him to re- 
strict this form of advertising more ef- 
fectually, and incidentally to prohibit 
ultra-sensational posters advertising 
“blood and thunder” shows. 
* * 
The Federated Improvement Associa- 
tions of Cincinnati, which includes ward 
improvement associations with a mem- 
bership of 1,500 had an annual outing 
at Chester Park and discussed far- 
reaching plans for beautifying that city. 
Harry Speelman is president of the fed- 
eration. 
* * * 
The Brightwood Park Citizens’ As- 
sociation, of Washington, D. C., has 
planted over sixty trees in that suburb 
during the past year. F. J. Metcalf is 
president of the association and E. J. 
Ayres, secretary. 
* * * 
H. M. Flexner, superintendent of 
wharves, Louisville, Ky., announces that 
he will enlarge and 
improve the small 
park at the wharf 
office, and the Out- 
door Art League 
has obtained his 
permission to set out trees along the 
viharf. 
* * * 
Improvement associations and other 
civic bodies of Dayton, O., are planning 
to unite into a federation. The follow- 
ing committee of three was appointed 
to effect an organization and draft a 
constitution ; E. IT. Kerr, of the South 
Park Improvement association; Frank 
Brewer, of the Huffman Hill and H. N. 
Routsong, of the Men’s club of the Ru- 
bicon. 
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A campaign has been inaugurated 
among the Native Sons of the Golden 
West, of California, to raise funds for 
the restoration and preservation of the 
plaza at Sonoma, scene of the raising of 
the Bear flag in 1846, as a landmark in 
California’s history. 
* * * 
The Lincoln Place Improvement 
League, of East St. Louis, 111., has been 
organized to improve Ihe district be- 
tween State street and Illinois avenue. 
J. M. Chamberlain is president and S. 
B. Knepper secretary. 
* * * 
The village of Holstein, la., has a 
postmaster who maintains at his own 
e.xpense a small park for the public in 
addition to his official duties. 
