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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Partial Program of the A. P. (Si O. A. A. Convention 
The seventh annual meeting of the American Park 
and Outdoor Art Association will be held at Buffalo, 
N. Y., July 7, 8 and 9. The final programme will be 
issued shortly before the meeting, but the plans already 
made justify a very large attendance. The convention 
headquarters will be at the Lenox Hotel, North St. and 
Delaware Ave., Buffalo. 
First Day, Tuesday , July 7th. 
Business meeting in the morning, for the reports of 
officers, committees, etc., in the beautiful building of 
the Buffalo Historical Society, in Delaware Park. It 
was the permanent structure erected by the state of 
New York for the Pan-American Exposition. 
Luncheon at the Park Lake Boat House, as the 
guests of the Buffalo Park Commission, and in the att- 
ernoon a drive through the parks of Buffalo. 
In the evening at the Twentieth Century Club a 
public meeting, for which eery interesting addresses 
are being arranged. The programme will include the 
formal address of President Woodruff and of Mrs. 
Herman J. Hall, the President of the Auxiliary, an 
address by Mrs. Frances Copley Seavey, of Chicago, 
on "The Possibilities of the Home Grounds,” and one 
by Professor L. H. Bailey, editor of “Country Life in 
America,” on “The Forward Movement in Outdoor 
Art.” 
Second Day, Wednesday, July 8th. 
The day will be spent at Niagara Falls. Special trol- 
ley cars will convey the visitors, without charge, to the 
Falls — an hour’s ride through an interesting and beau- 
tiful country, following -the Niagara River. The party 
will pass through the power district and will be taken 
direct to the convention hall in the vast building of the 
Natural Food Company. Here an address is prom- 
ised bv the Hon. Andrew H. Green, the President of 
the Board of Commissioners of the State Reservation 
and the “Father of Greater New York,” on the crea- 
tion and administrative side of this most famous of 
state parks. There will be an address also by Hon. John 
W. Langmuir, Chairman of the Commissioners of 
Queen Victoria Park, the reservation of the Canadian 
government on the opposite side of the river, and one 
by Thomas V. Welch, the Superintendent of the New 
York State reservation, on the peculiar landscape prob- 
lems of the site. 
After luncheon the party will be driven around the 
international reservations on both sides of the river. 
Trolley cars will then be taken for “the Gorge Trip.” 
This follows the river, going down stream from the 
falls, on top of the high bank of the Canadian side and 
climbing the Queenstown Heights with their superb 
views ; thence across the river to Lewiston, on the New 
York State side; and then up stream, at the water’s 
edge, in the gorge, passing the whirlpool rapids. 
In the evening at the Lenox Hotel there will be held 
in Buffalo a special School Garden meeting. For this 
elaborate arrangements are being made, in pursuance 
of the resolution passed at the last convention, under 
which a committee on school gardens, representative of 
every state in the union, was to be appointed. The pro- 
gram includes an address by Prof. W. J. Spillman, 
agrostologist of the Department of Agriculture in 
Washington, and a stereopticon exhibition of school 
garden work. H. D. Hemenway, Director of the 
School of Horticulture, Hartford, Conn., will preside. 
Third Day, Thursday, July 9th. 
In the morning a joint meeting for the election of 
association and auxiliary officers and other business. 
A paper will be read by Volney Rogers of Youngs- 
town, Ohio, on “Outdoor Life in Cities.” In the aft- 
ernoon at the Twentieth Century Club there will be a 
meeting to which the women of Buffalo will be espe- 
cially invited, devoted to reports from the many local 
branches of the auxiliary. Brief addresses will follow 
by Mrs. Martin W. Sherman, of Milwaukee, Mrs. E. 
B. Smith, of Chicago, Mrs. Frank A. Wade of Buf- 
falo, and Miss M. Eleanor Tarrant of Louisville. In 
the evening the Twentieth Century Club will give a 
reception to the members of the convention, in their 
beautiful clubhouse on Delaware Ave. 
An exhibition committee, under the chairmanship 
of Mr. Bryant Fleming, of Boston, is making arrange- 
ments for an interesting and valuable display of plans, 
drawings, and photographs, illustrative of outdoor 
art, as a feature of the convention. No feature of the 
entertainment as planned will cost the visitors anything. 
Special rates are promised at the hotel in Buffalo ; and, 
irrespective of the convention and the numbers who at- 
tend it, excursion tickets can be purchased to Niagara 
Falls and Buffalo on any road. Finally, the American 
League for Civic Improvement has planned to hold its 
convention at Chautauqua — only a two hours’ ride 
from Buffalo — the week following the American Park 
and Outdoor Art Association meeting, so that delegates 
to the latter may attend both conventions. 
Attention is called also to the following - points in 
the programme : ( 1 ) There are no parallel sessions, 
so that it will not be necessary for a visitor to miss 
any paper or address through the impossibility of be- 
ing in two places at once. (2) It is homogeneous, with 
the emphasis properly laid upon the work of the asso- 
ciation itself. (3) The special school garden interest 
is recognized by the special session devoted to that sub- 
ject. (4) The special park interest in our membership 
will find the day at Niagara, both in the addresses and 
in the sight-seeing, of direct value and suggestiveness. 
(5) The auxiliary has the distinct consideration and 
emphasis which, as shown in our last convention, it 
richly deserves. 
For any particulars regarding the convention ad- 
dress Charles Mulforcl Robinson. Secretary, 65 South 
Washington St., Rochester, N. Y. 
