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quire an additional expenditure of only $ 3 , 000,000 
more than the buildings would cost on any other site. 
Boston is the classic example of a finished park system 
and in its Blue Hills reservation has the largest single 
park in America. Hartford has an excellent young 
park system, very intelligently handled and well cared 
for and with ample area for the population, having 
one acre to every 68 people. Philadelphia, which had 
the largest park in Fairmount, and was formerly first 
in park area, had rested for thirty-eight years and has 
now fallen to fourteenth in park area per capita. The 
magnificent terminal stations in New York and Wash- 
ington were illustrated and briefly described. 
Second Thursday, October 5th. 
The Thursday morning session opened with a read- 
ing of the Treasurer’s report, which showed receipts 
for the year of $5,573, which is $ 2,400 more than the 
combined receipts of both of the organizations be- 
fore consolidation. 
Warren H. Manning’s address on Outdoor Art, 
which was on the program for Friday, was presented 
at this session. “Outdoor Art,” said Mr. Manning, 
“is the fine art of preserving outdoor pictures. More 
people and more generations of people may gain a 
mental, moral and physical uplift from the living pic- 
ture of a really beautiful landscape with its never- 
ending change with the procession of the seasons, than 
from any landscape upon canvas.” He placed em- 
phasis upon the fact that those who would enduringly 
improve their town must do more than to encour- 
age the planting of trees and cleaning yards. These 
are important details and they all help to educate pub- 
lic sentiment in the right way, but far seeing business 
and professional men, the men who desire to do big 
things, realize the importance and value of a com- 
prehensive plan of the town that will include in a pub- 
lic reservation system the land of little value, but of 
great beauty, and will put in the work that counts. 
“The Public Library as a Factor in Civic Improve- 
ment,” was the subject of a paper prepared by Fred- 
erick M. Crunden of St. Louis, vice president of the 
department of libraries and librarian of the St. Louis 
public library. 
“The public library is an important factor in civic 
improvement,” said Mr. Crunden. “The building 
worthy to house it is an impressive illustration of 
civic art ; it is also the highest embodiment of civic 
spirit, because it represents not the repressive side of 
government, but the educative, the beneficent, the 
philanthropic function of community life. It edu- 
cates the mind and the taste, the manners and the 
morals of the child ; and through the lives and teach- 
ings of sages and heroes, it forms the ideals of the 
coming citizen.” 
President McFarland called attention to the encroach- 
ments of the power companies on Niagara Falls, which 
threatened to completely destroy that great natural 
wonder and moved the adoption of the following res- 
olution, which was passed and immediately telegraph- 
ed to President Roosevelt and Earl Grey, Governor- 
General of Canada : 
■‘Whereas, the wanton destruction for commercial interests 
of Niagara Falls is imminent, as the result of action taken 
by the New York legislature, as it seems to us in contraven- 
tion of the legal rights of the people of the United States 
and in violation of the highest welfare of the people of the 
entire continent. 
“Be it therefore resolved that, in the name of a common 
heritage and a common obligation, the American Civic Asso- 
ciation respectfully and most earnestly urges the president 
of the United States and the governor general of Canada to 
appoint a joint commission to consider and report upon imme- 
diate measures to avert the impending disaster and preserve 
this great cataract in all its beauty and grandeur to the 
latest generation.” 
The meeting was then turned over to the Women’s 
Outdoor Art League for its annual business meeting. 
The report of the Treasurer, Mrs. William Howard 
Crosby, of Racine, Wis., showed receipts of $ 404 ; and 
the report of the Secretary, Mrs. Roy H. Beebe of 
Qiicago, told of the organization and progress of the 
work and recorded one hundred new members. The 
report of the Nominating Committee was next heard. 
Mrs. Charles F. Millspaugh, of Chicago, had declined 
to serve for another term and was instrumental in se- 
curing the adoption of a new by-law limiting the term 
of office to two years. The following list of officers 
was unanimously elected : President, Mrs. Edward 
L. Upton, Waukegan, 111. ; First Vice-President, Mrs. 
Sylvester Baxter, Malden, Mass. ; Second Vice-Presi- 
dent, Mrs. Frances Copley Seavey, Chicago; Secre- 
tary, Mrs. Roy H. Beebe, Chicago; Treasurer, Mrs. 
D. O. Hibbard, Racine, Wis. ; Directors, Mrs. J. E. 
Coles, Los Angeles, Mrs. Edwin F. Moulton, Cleve- 
land, Mrs. A. W. Sanborn, Ashland, Wis., Mrs. Eliza- 
beth Bullard, Mrs. C. H. McNiden, Iowa, and Mrs. 
Charles P. Weaver, Louisville, Ky. 
Reports from the following branches were then pre- 
sented showing some very successful work during the 
year : Ashland, Wis., Mrs. A. W. Sanborn, Presi- 
dent; Chicago, 111., Mrs. Wm. Erederick Grower, 
President; Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Willoughly Rod- 
man, President ; Milwaukee, Wis., Miss Grace A. 
Young, President ; Pekin, 111., Mrs. Anna Schipper, 
President; Waukegan, 111., Mrs. N. J. Roberts, Presi- 
dent. The organization of new branches at Racine and 
Kenosha, Wis., was reported, and a new branch was 
organized at Cleveland during the session. 
Thursday afternoon the party was taken in tally- 
hos and carriages for a drive through the Park Sys- 
tem of the East End. The drive led out Euclid Ave- 
nue, the handsomest residence street in Cleveland, to 
Shaker Heights where some remarkable hill and lake 
scenery has been preserved in all its beauty and en- 
hanced by intelligent landscape and engineering treat- 
