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given jointly by Mr. J. H. Patterson and Mr. E. L. 
Shuey, Dayton, O. Mr. Shuey explained the pro- 
gress of the improvement of factories and factory 
homes so far as it had been developed in certain 
places in England and x\merica, showing a large 
number of views of Port Sunlight, near Liverpool, 
England, Dayton, O., and sundry other localities. 
Mr. Patterson followed specially devoting himself 
to Dayton, and expressing his decided opinion that 
the obnoxious defacement of many prominent lo- 
calities, parks and elsewhere, by the advertising bill 
board, which was emphasized in a running com- 
ment by Prof. Geo. Kriehn, who is taking a promi- 
nent part in the campaign in favor of Municipal 
Art. Nothing could more emphatically call atten- 
tion to the abomination of the bill board nuisance 
in our cities than such an illustrated comment, and 
this served to introduce the elaborate and compre- 
ROSE HII.I, CEMETERY, CHICAGO.— VIEW OF WEST TAKE. 
such improvements and aids given to the working 
classes by employers amply repaid both the capital 
invested and the labor involved. The lecture was 
largely attended and in reply to many questions 
from the audience, a large amount of instructive 
suggestion was brought out. 
Wednesday, June 6, Morning Session. 
The session opened at 10 A.M. by the reading 
of a paper by the secretary, prepared by Mrs. Cyrus 
H. McCormick of Chicago, on “Landscape Gar- 
dens,” extracts from which will be given in an early 
issue. 
This was followed by a stereopticon display of 
hensive report of the committee on “Advertising 
Bill Boards’’ which was read by Mr. John C. Olm- 
sted. The report admitted that the evil to be re- 
pressed is “merely the unreasonable extension and 
abuse of a perfectly proper practice incident to 
modern business methods,” and is confined to a 
discussion of a means of relief. An easily corrected 
abuse is the indiscriminate painting and placarding 
of advertisements chiefly upon rocks, trees, fences, 
etc., without regard to property rights, in which 
the law gives ample protection. There appears to 
be some confusion regarding the question of such 
rights in connection with public highways, practice 
