PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE 
AMERICAN PARK AND OUT-DOOR ART ASSO- 
CIATION. 
The fourth annual meeting of the American 
Park and Out-Door Art Association convened at 
the Art Institute, Chicago, on Tuesday, June 5th. 
Previous to the opening session the headquarters of 
the association were installed at the Auditorium 
Annex, the temporary home of the visiting mem- 
bers, so conveniently located in connection with 
the Art institute, that a better combination for the 
besides the attendance of friends and visitors should 
be considered quite satisfactory, even though it did 
not meet enthusiastic anticipations. 
Tuesday, June 5. — Morning Session. 
The proceedings of the first session of the con- 
vention opened with the introduction by President 
Charles M. Coring, of Dr. Howard S. Taylor, who 
in the absence of the mayor of Chicago, Carter H. 
Harrison, prevented from attending by important 
business, welcomed the association in his behalf. 
Dr. Taylor referred to the conditions attending the 
VIEW IN WASHINGTON I'.\RK, CHICAGO. 
Mass planting, on site formerly occupied by formal gardening, consisting of perennials and flowering shrubs. 
successful conduct of so important a meeting could 
hardly be devised. The beautiful building of the 
Art Institute with its magnificent collections of art 
treasures, its Fullerton Memorial Hall in which the 
sessions were held, a room designed expressly for 
such purposes, having all the accesssories for the 
comfort, interest and aesthetic tastes of the partici- 
pants in the proceedings, offered a concert of con- 
ditions most appropriate for the convention of an 
association so closely allied to the highest manifes- 
tations of national artistic progress. 
There was a shade of disappointment apparent 
on the faces of those members more intimately con- 
nected with the program at the moderate attendance, 
but when it is remembered that the association is 
but four years old, and that its membership is scat- 
tered all over the country, a gathering of over 50 
creation of the City of Chicago and its development 
and the growing sentiment in favor of municipal im- 
provement and the provision of more small parks 
for the recreation and health of the masses. Among 
the statistics quoted was the fact that 58 milllions 
of dollars are spent annually in drink in Chicago, 
one-quarter of which would provide all the neces- 
sary parks for the increasing population. He paid 
a glowing tribute to the results already apparent of 
the work of the association and closed with a warm 
welcome on the part of the city cfficials. 
After briefly replying to Dr. Taylor, the presi- 
dent next introduced Mr. Wallace Heckman, presi- 
dent of the xVrt Association of Chicago. In the 
course of his remarks Mr. Heckman drew attention 
to the condition of the municipal art question in a 
number of cities, and its progress. He spoke of 
