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provements in their stations and grounds or planning 
to do so. The Illinois Central is making plans for a 
systematic improvement of all station grounds on the 
nine thousand miles of its system. The Santa Fe, the 
Denver and Rio Grande, the Erie, the Norfolk & 
Western, Southern Pacific, were all mentioned as roads 
that have been building new and artistic stations, a 
number of which were shown in the stereopticon illus- 
trations. The Northwestern Road has improved one 
hundred stations during the past year; the St. Paul is 
planting two hundred station grounds a year ; the 
Pennsylvania, one of the first to adopt an improve- 
ment policy, has offered prizes for the best kept sec- 
tions, doubled the appropriation for the work, and has 
made much improvement in sodding the sides of cuts 
and embankments ; the New’ York Central Lines are 
making many extensive improvements in railroad ter- 
minals. 
Good Roads and Rural Improvement was next taken 
up. O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, briefly summarized 
the rural improvement problem as comprising the 
building of good roads, country houses, and the edu- 
cation to appropriate the beauties of nature. He intro- 
duced D. Ward King, of Maitland, Mo., who spoke on 
the improvement of country roads which has been car- 
ried on in Missouri, Iowa and Kansas. He said that 
the majority of country roads were dirt roads and 
could not be macadamized owing to the expense and 
inability to secure the stone. For the improvement of 
earth roads he described a simple device of his own in- 
vention which has been successfully used in those 
states. It is knowm as the “split-log drag” and con- 
sists of two slabs fastened together and dragged over 
the road. On dirt roads this is said to have given 
a very satisfactory and durable surface. 
At the Friday evening session papers w’ere read by 
C. C. Reyburn of Dayton, Ohio, on “Welfare Work 
from the Employee’s Standpoint,” and on Carnegie li- 
braries as Civic Centres by Theodore W. Koch, Libra- 
rian of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, 
Michigan, who gave a good appreciation of the archi- 
tectural beauties of some of the Carnegie libraries. 
Mr. Reyburn is president of the Men’s Welfare Work 
League of the National Cash Register Company and 
told of the well known and successful work of that 
company in the improving of its factor}^ grounds. 
On the conclusion of these addresses the Convention 
was closed by a reception tendered to the delegates by 
the Chamber of Commerce. 
Those registered at the convention and the organi- 
zations represented were as follows : 
. J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. ; Clinton Rogers 
Woodruf¥, Philadelphia; Andrew Wright Crawford, secre- 
tary City Park Association, Philadelphia; J. H. Griffith and 
wife. New York ; Mrs. S. R. Clark, ' City Federation of 
Women’s Clubs, Columbus, O. ; Mrs. A. P. Morris, Olla 
Podrida Club. Columbus, O. ; Bessie D. Stoddard, Evelyn L. 
Stoddard, Los Angeles. Cal.; IMrs. W. H. Crosby, Woman’s 
Club, Racine, Wis. ; Mrs. Edw. L. Upton, Waukegan, III; 
Dick J. Crosby, Washington, D. C. ; Charles R. Skinner, presi- 
dent Municipal Improvement League, Watertown, N. Y. ; 
L. E. Holden, Cleveland, O. ; Elizabeth C. Nye, Cape Cod 
Library Club, Barnstable, Mass.; Chas. M. Loring, Park 
Commission, Minneapolis ; l^Irs. Chas. IM. Loring, first vice- 
president Minneapolis Improvement League; Frederick W. 
Kelsey, Essex County Park Commission, Orange, N. J. ; 
Graham R. Taylor, Chicago Commons; C. C. Reyburn, Day- 
ton, O. ; Mayo Fesler, secretary Civic Improvement League, 
St. Louis; Mrs. C. B. Woodward, Woman’s Club, Ft. Wayne, 
Ind. ; Mrs. M. F. Johnston, Richmond Art Association, Rich- 
mond, Ind. ; Henry Arthrop, Ashtabula, O. ; Mrs. H. W. 
Rowley, Freeport, 111.; Miss H. L. Hatch, Civic Committee, 
Twentieth Century Club, Detroit; Lester C. Griffith, Chau- 
tauqua Village Improvement Association, Chautauqua, N. Y. ; 
Rev. R. S. Kellerman, Civic Improvement Club, Bradford, 
Pa.; Mrs. Agnes M. Pound, Civic Improvement Club, Ashta- 
bula, O. ; Mrs. Bertha Counzelman, William J. Counzelman^ 
Pekin, 111.; Mrs. Edwin F. Moulton, Mrs. James M. Bryer, 
Cleveland ; W. J. Van Patten, president Park Commision, 
Burlington, Vt. ; Mrs. H. T. Raj-ner, Mrs. C. B. Tozier, Cleve- 
land; Frank Miles Day, American Institute of Architects, 
Philadelphia ; W. W. Gillette, Richmond Civic League, Rich- 
mond, Va. ; William C. Langdon, Juvenile City League, New 
York ; Frederick M. Crunden, Civic Improvement League of 
St. Louis; Miss Grace A. Young, Mrs. Charles Catlin, R. B. 
Watrous, secretary Citizens’ Business League, Milwaukee, : 
Wis.; Mrs. A. E. McCrea, Chicago; H. C. Irish, Civic Im- 
provement League of St. Louis; Louise Klein Miller, 
Geo. A. Bellamy, Cleveland ; J. H. Sullivan, secretary Detroit 
Florists’ Club, Detroit; J. C. Vaughan, Society of American ; 
Florists, Chicago; Harlan P. Kelsey, president Appalachian , 
Mountain Club, Boston, Mass. ; J. L. Hanchette, Sioux City 
Improvement Association, Sioux City, la. ; E. W. Haines, 
Cleveland Home Gardening Association, Cleveland, O. ; Philip - 
Breitmeyer, Detroit; W. C. Sturges, A. D. Sturges, Oberlin, 
0. ; Mabel V. Arnold, Associated Charities, Cleveland, O. ; , 
Mrs. J. D. Foster, president Cleveland Federation of Woman’s 
Clubs, Cleveland; Mrs. H. W. Carr, Chicago; Mrs. V. E. : 
Adams, C. E. Kendal, Cleveland; James Jackson, Louise W. 
Stegman, Susan M. Hotchkiss, Associated Charities, Cleve- ' 
land; Louise Graham, Cleveland; Warren H. Manning, Bos- 
ton, Mass. ; Hannah Bosworth, Cleveland ; Mrs. Louise 
Shields, Maysville, O. ; E. A. Stevens, Cleveland ; John A. 
Montgomery, Chamber of Commerce, Decatur, 111.; E. C. 
Davis, Cleveland; O. H. Sample, Park and Cemetery, Chi- ‘ 
cago; O. C. Simonds, Chicago; E. L. Shuey, Dayton, O. ; 
George A. Parker, Hartford, Conn. ; Howard Strong, Cham- ] 
ber of Commerce, Cleveland; W. H. Brett, Public Library, 
Cleveland; Miss E. Comstock, Miss A. Viall, Associated: 
Charities, Cleveland ; R. Brinkerhoff, M. B. Bushnell, Mans- 
field, O. ; Mrs. Wm. W. Rowe, Andrew Auten, Cleveland; 
Miss Annette P. Ward, Woman’s Institute, N. Y. ; Mr. and 
Mrs. H. J. Bohn, Morgan Park, 111.; Mrs. O. J. Hodge, Mrs. 
Ella G. Wilson, S. Louise Patterson, Mrs. Edward Campbell, 
Cleveland; Mrs. Lyman C. Prentiss, Elyria, O. ; D. Ward' 
King, Maitland, Mo. ; Miss Anna Canfield, Grand Rapids, ' 
Mich. ; William A. Joyce, Buffalo ; Volney Rogers, Park : 
Commissioner, Youngstown, O. ; Bryant R. Fleming, Society 
for Beautifying Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y. ; Henry A. Barker, i 
secretary Metropolitan Park Commission, Providence, R. 1. 
PLANS FOR BEAUTIFYING SYRACUSE. 
Charles Mulford Robinson, of Rochester, New York, j 
former Secretar}- of the Affierican Civic Association 
and author of “Modern Civic Art” and “The Improve- 
ment of Towns and Cities,” has been engaged as a, 
“civic adviser” to the City of Syracuse to suggest! 
plans for the improvement and beautifying of thatj 
city. Mr. Robinson will make a thorough study of' 
Syracuse and will prepare a series of ten articles deal-; 
ing with different phases of the city, which will be' 
published in the Syracuse Herald. Much interest hasj 
been awakened in the improvement of the qity and it| 
is believed that a civic improvement association, built| 
on broad lines, will soon be formed. 
