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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
ciation has undertaken to discourage the defacement of Public 
streets and grounds by offensive “bill boards” advertising. 
Therefore be it, Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury 
of the United States be and he is hereby requested to have Para- 
graphs 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 of Section 13 of “Instructions to Superinten- 
dents of Public Buildings” amended so that all advertising 
and signs other than necessary legal notices be prohibited upon 
all fences and Enclosures upon or around government grounds 
or buildings. Adopted. 
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In connection with a letter from Dr. C. P. Ambler, Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, Appalachian National Park Association, 
asking the American Park and Out-door Art Association to en- 
dorse their action for the establishment of a Southern National 
Park somewhere in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the 
following resolution was carried. 
Resolved, That this association endorses all well consid- 
ered movements for the acquirement by the nation of state 
mountain or forest reservations that will be for the use and 
benefit of the people. 
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Resolution offered by E. L. Shuey of Dayjion, O. Adopted. 
Resolved, That the Council be requested, when preparing 
the program for the next meeting, to arrange in addition to the 
general topics a series of sectional conferences for the discussion 
of special subjects of interest. 
That this b.e done with a view to offering opportunity for 
the discussion of practical subjects of interest to the varied 
classes of members. 
The members of the association were the guests 
of the Lincoln Park Commissioners in the afternoon. 
Some 30 carriages preceded by mounted park po- 
lice passed over the finest drives of the north side 
district of Chicago, traversed Lincoln Park so as to 
observe its best points and halted at the conserva- 
tory where flowers and favors were presented to the 
guests. Mr. F. H. Gansbergen, president of the 
board, and other officials did the honors of the oc- 
casion. Reentering the carriages the drive was con- 
tinued and Graceland and Rose Hill cemeteries were 
visited the excursion finally terminating at the P. 
S. Peterson nurseries, where a delightful al fresco 
lunch was served and a very gratifying hour or more 
spent on the grounds with ths hospitable enter- 
tainers. 
The return was made at will, many of the guests 
however desiring to attend the joint session of the 
association with that of the Architectural League 
of America at the Art Institute. At this meeting 
which was presided over by Mr. W. M. R. French, 
who gave an entertaining opening address, the first 
paper disposed of was that of Mrs. Edwin D. Meade, 
of the Twentieth Century Club, Boston, on “Mu- 
nicipal Improvement,” which was read by Prof, 
James William Patterson of the Art Institute. The 
paper was illustrated by the stereopticon, and many 
incongruous conditions of city art and embellish- 
ment, with special references to the bill board nui- 
sance, were shown. Extracts from the paper are 
given elsewhere. 
Another paper of similar import, and which 
completed the evening’s programme was read by 
Mr. Albert Kelsey, puesident of the Architectural 
League of America, on “Municipal Development.” 
While Mrs. Meade condemned high buildings Mr. 
Kelsey considered that they represented a wonder- 
ful achievement of architecture and deserved due 
credit as being desirable as municipal buildings. 
The paper was copiously illustrated with lantern 
slides, by which many examples of foreign devel- 
opment were shown as well as American, and with 
a number of suggestive pictures showing how the 
diverse influences of art and commerce might be ar- 
ranged so as to present no detrimental features. 
This meeting closed the regular program of the 
convention. 
On Friday June 8, a number of members and 
friends took advantage of the opportunity provided 
by the local committee and enjoyed a trip through 
the Drainage canal to Lockport, where the great 
engineering works controlling the present outflow 
of the canal into the DesPlaines River, was in- 
spected with intense interest. Here the party sep- 
arated, the majority returning by train to Chicago, 
while a few were entertained by Mr. O. C. Simonds 
in a delightful drive through Mr. Higginbothams 
park at Joliet now in course of development, a fit- 
ting climax to a series of entertainments of a highly 
interesting and gratifying nature. 
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Among the members and delegates present were: 
F. W. Salway, R. H. Warder, Cincinnati, O., Thomas B. 
Meehan, Gennantown, Philadelphia; Prof. Wm. W. Folwell, 
Wyman Elliot, J. A. Ridgeway, Harry W. Jones, ^Charles M. 
Loring, president, Minneapolis, Minn.; *John C. Olmsted, 
Brookline, Mass.; * Warren H. Manning, Secretary, Boston, 
Mass.; Miss Edith A. Canning, Asst. Secretarjq Warren, Mass.; 
O. C. Simonds, Treasurer, Michael Barker, Willis N. Rudd, W. 
A. Peterson, R. J. Haight, Geo. Kriehn, W. M. R. French, J. 
C. Vaughan, A. D. Philpot, John W. Weston, George Beaumont, 
James Jensen, Curtis T. Fenn, Cassius C. Roberts, Edward G. 
Uihlein, Louis J. Sullivan, Mrs. A. E. McCrea, *George B. Bvron, 
A. C. Schrader, J. P'rank Foster, J. H. Van Vlissingen, S. M. 
Millard, Mrs. Herman J. Hall, Mrs. Frances Copley Seavey, 
Edwin A. Kanst, W. P. J. Kiser, W. Suddard, George E. 
Mason, Olof Benson, Chicago, 111.; Prof. Thos. H. Macbride, 
Iowa City, la.; Sidney A. Fo.ster, Des Moines, la.; ^Lewis 
Johnson, E. J. Baker, New Orleans, La. ; W. J. Stevens, Carthage, 
Mo.; E. J. Cornish, E. J. Ellison, Wm. R. Adams, Omaha, 
Neb.; M. P. Hurlbut, E. C. Van Leyen, R. J. Coryell, Detroit, 
Mich.; John H. Patterson, E. L. Shuey, W. A. Sinclair, 
Dayton, O.; G. A. Parker, Hartford, Conn.; '‘Dr. J. V. N. 
Standish, Galesburg, 111.; Edward J. Parker, Quincy, 111.; 
Joseph D. Fitts, Providence, R. L; Prof. L. R. Taft, H. P. Hed- 
rick, Lansing, Mich.; Lyman R. Love, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Miss 
Rebecca L. Richmond, Grand Rapids, Mich.: C. J. Malov, 
Rochester, N. Y.; Nelson Bogue, Batavia, N. A'.; Wm. Scott' 
Buffalo, N. Y.; Prof. Wallace WMod, New A’ork City; C}’rus Peck' 
Newark, N. J.; Miss D. E. Dew, Springfield, O.; Wm. Weber| 
August Rebhan, W. Starke, Milwaukee, Wis. ’ 
•Accompanied by wife. 
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In one of the corridors of the Art Institute 
quite an extensive display of photographs were 
arranged for exhibition. The collection included 
about ev&ry phase of landscape art, and was par- 
ticularly instructive in that good practice and tad 
practice were arrayed in such manner that each 
was accentuated, so that even to the casual observer 
there was no mistaking the good for the bad. The 
exhibit was rich in views frem abroad, w here formal 
gardening is so frequently to be seen. 
