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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Qvic Improvement 
Annual Convention of American Civic Association, Cleveland, O. 
The annual convention in Cleveland of the Amer- 
ican Civic Association, October 4-6, promises to be 
a noteworthy event in the history of civic betterment 
movement. AJ large attendance is anticipated and 
an enthusiastic meeting is assured. The program is 
now being completed and arrangements are making for 
many features of great interest. The best speakers and 
writers on civic topics will participate and the records 
of the convention will add much to the permanent 
literature of the civic renaissance. 
The program is as follows ; 
The first session of the convention will he held Wednes- 
day, October 4th, at 10 a. m., in the rooms of the Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce. The addresses of welcome will be 
followed by “The Chamber of Commerce as a Factor in Civic 
Improvement’’ by a prominent member of the Cleveland 
Chamber of Commerce. Next will follow “One Year’s Work, 
an Annual Review,” by Clinton Rogers Woodruff, of Phila- 
delphia, first vice-president, and the report of the association’s 
treasurer, William B. Howland, of New York. Then will 
come the report of the Nominating Committee and the elec- 
tion of officers. 
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock there will be a joint 
meeting of the Children’s Garden, Public Recreation, School 
Extension and Social Settlements departments of the associa- 
tion to discuss “Improvement Work Among Children.” Dick 
J. Crosby, of the United States Department of Agriculture 
and vice-president of the association, will preside. 
Wednesday evening, at 8 o’clock, there will be addresses as 
follows ; “Cleveland’s Contributions to Civic Advancement,” 
by L. E. Holden, of Cleveland, president of the “Plain Dealer” 
Publishing Company; “Recent Municipal Improvements” (il- 
lustrated), by Prank Miles Day, of Philadelphia, member of 
the Excutive Committee of the American Institute of Archi- 
tects. 
Thursday morning, at 9:30 o’clock, with President McFar- 
land in the chair, the program will include the following feat- 
ures : “The Municipal Museum of Chicago,” by Mrs. Lenora 
Austin Hamlin, of Chicago, vice-president Social Settlement 
Department and chairman of the Exhibition Committee of the 
Chicago Museum ; “The Public Library as a Factor in Civic 
Improvement,” by Frederick M. Crunden, of St. Louis, vice- 
president of Libraries and librarian of the St. Louis Public 
Library; “Libraries as Civic Centers,” illustrated address, by 
Theodore W. Kock, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, librarian of the 
University of Michigan, and “Symposium on Ways and 
Means,” limited to five minutes’ addresses. j 
Thursday afternon, in the rooms of the Chamber of Com- 
merce, there will be department meetings. The Woman’s : 
Outdoor Art League Department, with Mrs. Charles F. Mills- ! 
paugh, of Chicago, presiding, will hear the report of its Treas- 
urer, Mrs. William Howard Crosby, of Racine, Wis., and of j 
its secretary, Mrs. Roy H. Beebe of Chicago. Then will fol- ' 
low the election of officers and reports from branches. ; 
The Thursday evening session, at 8 o’clock, in the Hall of j 
the Chamber of Commerce, will be devoted to “First Steps 1 
in Improvement Work,” an illustrated address, by J. Horace | 
McFarland, president of the association, and “The Improve- ' 
ment of Washington,” by Charles Moore, of Detroit, formerly 
secretary of the U. S. Senate Committee on the District of 1 
Columbia. ' 
Friday morning, at 10 o’clock, the following addresses will ' 
be delivered: “Women as a Factor in Civic Improvement,’ 
by Mrs. Charles F. Millspaugh, of Chicago, president W. 0 ! 
A. L. Department; “The Improvement of the Home,” by Mrs.' ! 
Gabrielle Stewart Mullinger, of New York, secretary of the ‘ 
Municipal Art Society of New York; “What an Individual 
Did in One Community,” by Mrs. Sylvia C. Baylis, Belleville, 
Ontario; “Outdoor Art,” by Warren H. Manning, of Boston. I 
vice-president of the Outdoor Art Department; “The Arts | 
and Crafts as Factors in Civic Improvement,” by Mrs. M. F. 1 
Johnston, of Richmond, Ind., vice-president of the Arts and ' 
Crafts Department. 
Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock the Park and City Making 
Departments, with Vice-President G. A. Parker, of Hartford, 
presiding, will hear the following papers: “City Land Values | 
and Parks,” by G. A. Parker, of Hartford, Conn. ; “City Plans t 
and Outer Park Systems,” by Andrew Wright Crawford, of | 
Philadephia, secretary of the City Park Association of Phila- 
delphia. At the same hour the Railroad and Rural Improve- 
ment Department, with Vice-President Mrs. Annetta E. Me- j 
Crea, of Chicago, presiding, will hear addresses oh “The j 
Good Roads Movement and Rural Improvement,” by D. 
Ward King, of Maitland, Mo.; on “Railroad Improvement,” 
by Charles F. Ackiss, of the Boston & Albany Railroad, and 
on topics to be selected by Prof. Thomas H. McBride, of 
Iowa City, Iowa; Charles W. Garfield, of Grand Rapids, and j 
Ossian C. Simonds, of Chicago. | 
Friday evening, at 8:30 o’clock, the exercises of the conven- 
tion will be concluded by a formal reception tendered to the 
delegates and visitors by the Chamber of Commerce. 
