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everything but the two great national 
games. Our schools need apparatuses 
for outdoor pla}- and exercise which 
might be embraced by the general name 
of playground features. 
The proper planting of trees, shrubs, 
vines and hardy perennials for the 
adornment of the home grounds extends 
the habitation beyond the mere walls of 
the house, and makes for the inhabitants 
a beautiful, large and grand living room 
outdoors, and a pleasant sight for the 
passerby. It is within the reach of every 
farmer to have a beautiful green lawn 
with a fringe of shrubs and a few trees 
to give shade and coolness during the 
hot summer days. He can also have a 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
summer house, pergola, tables and 
benches ; however rudely built, they are 
of great comfort, and their enjoyment 
much more than pays for the little cost 
and trouble of building them. Better 
situated owners of more land can have 
a lake for lillies and water fowl, an 
inclosure for deer, pheasants, etc. All 
these things add to the comfort and 
beauty of the home, and have a ten- 
dency to forestall the discontent with 
farm life of the growing sons and 
daughters of the Twentieth Century 
farmer. Give the home and its sur- 
roundings a touch of beauty and refine- 
ment, set apart a little portion, of land 
for play and recreation, and you will 
AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION 
The fifth annual convention of the 
American Civic Association was held 
November 15 and 16 at the Hotel Sin- 
ton, Cincinnati, O., in conjunction with 
the meeting of the National Municipal 
League. President J. Horace McFar- 
land delivered his annual address on 
“The Intimate Side of Conservation.” It 
will be printed in an early issue of 
Park and Cemetery. * 
On Tuesday the sessions were de- 
voted to the subject of “City Plan- 
ning.” 
The proceedings were opened by John 
Nolen of Cambridge, Mass., with a pa- 
per on “City Planning and the Civic 
Spirit.” The subject was illustrated with 
stereopticon views. Mr. Nolen said in 
part : 
“The influence of comprehensive city 
planning upon the civic spirit is very direct 
and profound. In fact, it is the main end 
of reforrh, the tangible result of all our ef- 
forts. Often in a rather empty fashion we 
carry on a municipal campaign for ‘good 
government.' 
“Therefore, if we would aw^aken love of 
our city we must make our city lovely and 
lovable. But this better city must first 
take shape in the mind and heart. Corot, 
the great French landscape painter, was in . 
the habit of wandering ip the fields in the 
early morning and then withdrawing to his 
studio. “I dream of the morning landscape 
I have seen,’ he writes, ‘I dream my pic- 
ture, and presently I shall paint my dream.’ 
So L’ Enfant first dreamed of a plan for 
Washington, the business men of Cleveland 
of a different Cleveland, the Commercial 
Club of Chicago of a new Chicago, the peo- 
ple of Boston of a better Boston. So the 
conception of a made-over Madison first 
broke upon a single, strong, clear-sighted 
leader, the rousing of the entire popula- 
tion in La Crosse originated in the fore- 
sight of a handful of public-spirited men, 
and the vision of an awakened Harrisburg 
first appeared as a vision to a few conse- 
crated men and women ; for women, let it 
be said, are quicker to see defects than men 
and less patient with them.” 
Geo. E. Kessler, of Kansas City, Mo., 
who prepared the plan for the Cincin- 
nati greater park system, gave an inter- 
esting description of the scheme for the 
beautification of the city. The second 
city planning session was held in the 
afternoon, with W. W. Hannan, presi- 
dent of the National Association of Real 
Estate Exchanges, presiding. A paper 
prepared by Wm. E. Harmon, of New 
York, was read by Secretary Watrous. 
It treated of “The Influence of Play- 
grounds and Small Parks on Suburban 
Development.” Another illustrated pa- 
per was that of Harold A. Carpan, of 
New York, on “Water Fronts; Their 
Possibilities of Use and Beauty.” In a 
detailed and elaborate manner he showed 
what can be done for the aesthetic im- 
provement of such fronts. He said in 
part ; 
“This audience will naturally look more 
at the artistic side o( the water front; but 
if your water front is to be a work of art 
it is not enough for it to be merely beauti- 
ful. It is not enough for your architect to 
design a handsome facade for the docks 
or for a succession of them a mile long, or 
for a superb quay or embankment of ma- 
sonry. Your water front and what is be- . 
hind it, to be a work of art, must be also 
practical to the highest degree. Its feeding 
streets and railways, its avenues of in- 
gress and egress, and an the complex ma- 
chinery for handling men and merchandise 
must be organized, so that the stream of 
commerce may flow, increased by every one 
of its thousand tributaries, interrupted by 
none of them. Then will your fine and dig- 
nified facade, your noble scheme of archi- 
tecture and water rising from the water 
curbing and, utilizing it, be a true expres- 
sion of the ordered energy of the life that 
pulses behind it. Your water front, in fact, 
can only be completely beautiful in pro- 
portion as it is completely useful.” 
A valuable contribution to the ad- 
dresses of the day before the Civic As- 
sociation was that of Secretary Richard 
B. Watrous, who discussed at length 
“The Influence of Commercial Organiza- 
tions in Furthering the Adoption of 
City Plans.” 
At the evening joint session former 
Secretary of War Bonaparte presided. 
He first presented Congressman William 
S. Bennett, of New York. Mr. Ben- 
have destroyed the monotony of farm 
life, and the city will have far less at- 
tractions to the young folks. Instead 
your place will attract your city friends 
and a visit to it will be a great privilege 
to them. 
I would also suggest rural parks, 
owned and maintained by the county or 
township, provided with shelters, neces- 
sities and conveniences, for holding pic- 
nics, and other meetings, and gatherings 
for play and recreation. These parks 
and good roads will go far toward ele- 
vating the standard of environments of 
the farmer and will make country life 
more desirable, more comfortable and 
more beautiful. 
AT CINCINNATI 
nett talked on the “Effect of the Immi- 
grant on Municipal Politics.” Former 
President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard 
University, was given a most enthusias- 
tic welcome. Dr. Eliot discussed the 
subject of conservation in its broadest 
sense. 
James R. Garfield, member of the last 
Roosevelt cabinet, talked about “The 
Conservation of Public Lands,” a sub- 
ject with which he has had an intimate 
experience. 
At the next morning’s meeting the 
following officers were elected : J. Hor- 
ace McFarland, president, Harrisburg, 
Pa.; Clinton Rogers Woodruff, first vice 
president, Philadelphia, Pa. ; William B. 
Howland, treasurer. New York City; 
Richard B. Watrous, secretary, Harris- 
burg, Pa. 
Vice Presidents — Hon. James R. Gar- 
field, Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. John Wes- 
ley Hill, New York City; W. W. Han- 
nan, Detroit, Mich.; George W. Mars- 
ton, San Diego, Cal.; Mrs. Edward W. 
Biddle, Carlisle, Pa. 
Executive Committee — Dr. John 
Quincy Adams, New York City; Henry 
A. Barker, Providence, R. L; Miss Mary 
Marshall Butler, Yonkers, N. Y. ; Ken- 
yon L. Butterfield, Amherst, Mass.; 
Mrs. Caroline B. Crane, Kalamazoo, 
Mich. ; George Otis Draper, Hopedale, 
Mass.; Frederick L. Ford, Hartford, 
Conn.; Mrs. Melville F. Johnston, Rich- 
mond, Ind. ; Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, 
Mass.; Warren H. Manning, Boston, 
Mass.; Mrs. A. E. McCrea, Chicago, 
Ilk; Mrs. Edwin F. Moulton, Warren, 
Ohio; Graham Romeyn Taylor, Chi- 
cago, 111.; John Nolen, Cambridge, 
Mass.; Frank Chapin Bray, New York 
City; Brainerd H. Warner, Washington, 
D. C. ; J. L. Hudson, Detroit, Mich. ; 
George F. Mason, New York City. 
