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the Chicago branch. This branch has now reached 
permanent prosperity, and its work is eagerly sought 
for, in some cases beyond its capacity to give. It has 
established two clean city clubs, conducted five Arbor 
Day celebrations, and distributed 3,850 packages of 
seed. It is conducting two settlement gardens and 
seven children’s gardens. Three new school grounds 
have been added to those under its care. The planting 
committee, of which Mrs. W. A. Peterson is chair- 
man, has planted several school grounds, with plans 
furnished by Mrs. Seavey. The children’s garden 
work is new, but has been so enthusiastically received 
that all the children who want to get gardens cannot 
be accommodated. The Board of Education has been 
educated by the members to the point of removing the 
brick pavements from sixty of the school yards. The 
railroad committee, under the leadership of Mrs. E. A. 
McCrea, has done good work, and the membership has 
more than doubled. It is now about 200. 
The report from Louisville, Ky., was presented by 
Mrs. George Wilson, in the absence of Mrs. Chas. P. 
Weaver, the vice-president of the branch. This active 
branch has planted trees and flowers about the Home 
for the Friendless and other charitable institutions, and 
maintains railroad, park, and factory committees. The 
latter committee has secured the planting and improve- 
ment of the grounds of the Kentucky Wagon Works, 
one of the largest factories in the city,' and the branch 
has cared for a number of school gardens and small 
parks. Prizes were offered for flower a«*l vegetable 
planting contests for both children and adults. 
Mrs. Grace A. Young, of the Milwaukee branch, re- 
ported that five schools had been added to the number 
on which planting is done, and gardens conducted at 
the Russian and the University Settlements, with an en- 
rollment of 50 and 60 children respectively. An ex- 
hibition of flowers and vegetables is to be held, and a 
public playground opened this summer. 
Mrs. Frank Johnson represented the New Orleans 
branch. School grounds were planted, and prizes 
awarded for the improvement of back yards, the plant- 
ing of window boxes, and other improvements. 
The work of the new branch at Waukegan, 111., was 
reported by Marian B. Upton. This branch is only two 
months old, but has started energetically to work. 
Some of its plans are to promote the work of complet- 
ing the Sheridan Road through Waukegan ; to estab- 
lish a public park ; and to secure the improvement of 
factory and railroad grounds. The officials of the 
Northwestern railroad and the factory owners have 
promised to improve their grounds. Shrubs and vines 
have been secured for planting around the school 
grounds. 
Mrs. Anna Skipper reported from another new 
branch at Pekin, 111. It has gained the co-operation 
of the park board and the churches, and secured the 
improvement of the high school grounds by the plant- 
ing of trees and vines. 
The report of Mrs. Lovell White, of the Outdoor 
Art League of California, for 1903 and 1904, showed 
great activity in the work. This branch has adopted 
as its motto : “The beautiful rests upon the foundation 
of the necessary.” It has secured the planting of ware- 
house grounds, and those of public buildings, espe- 
cially about the Mission Dolores, of which a photo- 
graph was shown, and has been very successful in 
having city ordinances pertaining to civic cleanliness 
enforced. It maintains an Ocean Beach committee 
and a Big Tree committee. 
In the afternoon those who wished visited the school 
gardens near the Palace of Agriculture, under tlx.' 
guidance of Mr. Dick J. Crosby. About 30 children 
work daily in these gardens, between 4 and 6 in the 
afternoon, and two hours before the appointed time 
some of them could 
be found at work. 
Each one has a bed 
10 by 20 feet, in 
which both flowers 
and vegetables 
were growing. 
The interesting 
municipal exhibits 
in the Twin Cities 
building and in the 
New York build- 
ing were also vis- 
ited, and much en- 
joyed by the dele- 
gates. A colored 
model of St. Paul 
and Minneapolis, 
placed upon a min- 
iature stage in the 
former building, 
was the center of 
attraction there. 
Many fine photographs of the parks of the two 
cities, and models and pictures of other municipal 
institutions were seen. In the New York build- 
ing, an immense topographical map, about 20 feet 
square, showed that city in realistic fashion. Models 
of the Brooklyn bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of 
Art, the plant for the disposal of the city’s garbage, 
and the apparatus of the street cleaning department, 
were shown and explained to the visitors. 
In the evening the officers and speakers of the two 
associations were the guests of the St. Louis Civic Im- 
provement League at dinner. 
Third Day, June //. 
The important business of this session was the re- 
port of the liquidating trustees of the two organiza- 
CERAMIC ARTS; LIBERAL ARTS 
BUILDING; ' C. Y. HARVEY 
SCULPTOR. 
