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Cleaning Up by tbe Denver Outdoor Art League. 
ENVER’S Outdoor Art 
League decided last spring 
that the vacant lots in 
conspicuous places must 
put on their holiday attire 
for the conventions and 
tourists that come to Colo- 
rado in the summer, and 
the pictures here, which 
appeared in the Denver 
Post, show some of the 
methods and results of the 
outdoor housecleaning. 
A generous sum was 
spent in clearing away 
the accumulations of dead 
weeds, tin cans and debris in the vacant lots on 
Capitol Hill. These lots were then plowed 
and seeded with wheat, and the resulting improve- 
ment is seen in one of the pictures, which shows 
a lot in the center of Denver’s residence district. It 
was taken two months after the one showing the lot in 
cultivation and the result is both useful and beautiful. 
We are not informed as to the use the league is to 
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SIGN ON IMPROVED LOT. 
MODEL GARDEN OF DENVER OUTDOOR ART LEAGUE. 
make of the grain after the harvest, but a variety of 
uses will suggest themselves, and the cleaned up va- 
cant lots will bring another kind of a harvest to the 
city. 
Lots that were merely cleaned up and not sown with 
wheat bear the neat little sign shown in our opening 
picture. This is rather a reminder than a warning or 
threat, and its injunction is seldom violated. The 
average citizen, young or old, of whatever class or 
creed is generally willing to assist in beautifying his 
NO. 2.— THE SAME LOT TWO MONTHS LATER. 
