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This shelter is of sufficient size 
for the accommodation of a large 
number of people. The views are 
quite different from those from 
the cafe shelter, although the two 
are only a short distance apart. 
This octagonal shelter is. to be set 
well back in the trees, but the 
front will afford unobstructed 
views. By following the outline 
of the lookout from one end to 
the other, it will be noticed that 
the shape of the structure shows 
to the best advantage the various 
views, and in walking from one 
end to the other, one is constant- 
ly confronted by a different scene. 
The placing of the cafe in the 
depression west of the present 
lookout, makes it possible to se- 
cure a good basement, while the 
appearance of the building is that 
of a low one-story structure. In this basement will 
be located the kitchen, a store-room, a boiler-room, and 
coal bins, and gentlemen’s toilet room. The main floor 
of the cafe building will be occupied by a single large 
dining-room, 30 feet by 50 feet, very simple in 
effect. 
A drive is proposed from the main mountain road 
to the entrance of the cafe, but it is to be kept nar- 
row, and carriages are not to be allowed to use it as 
a stand, as the cab-stand will be provided on the oppo- 
site side of the road, where all carriages will be re- 
quired to wait. A few more trees will be planted, and 
masses of native shrubbery and climbers will be ar- 
ranged about the buildings, in such a manner as to con- 
ceal the basement walls, and to unite the whole pleas- 
ingly with the surroundings. 
The structure, it is estimated, will cost between $16,- 
000 and $20,000. 
American Civic Association in Chicago 
Chicago members of the American Civic Association 
tendered a reception to President J. Horace McFar- 
land, who visited that city December 1. In the aft- 
ernoon Mr. McFarland delivered a stereopticon lec- 
ture in Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute, on “Some 
Common Trees and Their Uncommon Flowers,” un- 
der the auspices of the Woman’s Outdoor Art 
League (formerly the Woman’s Auxiliary), which 
held its first meeting since the reorganization. 
Mr. McFarland, in this lecture and in his recent 
book, “Getting Acquainted with the Trees,” has con- 
stituted himself the apostle of the common trees, and 
pointed out many beauties that have been overlooked 
in our common friends of the forest. Some striking 
pictures of the flowers, leaves and seed pods of the 
maples revealed new charms in these trees. Few peo- 
ple know that the silver and Norway maples bloom 
at all, yet the rare and refined beauty of their flowers, 
and the decorative effect of seed pods and leaves were 
convincingly shown by Mr. McFarland. The deli- 
cate flowers of the sugar maple ; the distinctive and 
picturesque foliage of the mooswood or Pennsylvania 
maple ; the regularity in outline and complexity in de- 
tail of the elm ; the light and brightness of the birch 
in the forest ; the upright and dignified beech ; the 
mountain ash with its interesting clusters of brilliant 
red berries ; the conspicuous beauty of the dogwood’s 
flowers; the rugged, sturdy strength of the white oak; 
the distinctive form of the weeping willow ; the tall 
spire of green formed by the Carolina poplar ; the 
tropical richness of the bloom and fruit of the sumach ; 
the wealth of foliage of the Ailanthus ; the delicate 
white blossoms and snappy red fruit of the Siberian 
crab apple — were shown in many beautiful pictures. 
The box elder, the swamp white oak, the pin oak, the 
chestnut, the English oak, the shagbark hickory, the 
pussy willow, the white willow, the white poplar, the 
apple, the linden, the white pine, the sycamore, the 
locust, the tulip tree, and the witch hazel, were others 
that received praise for distinctive charms. Mr. Mc- 
Farland warmly urged the use of fruit trees for orna- 
mental purposes and deplored the smallness of spirit 
that kept them from the highways and home grounds 
solely because a little fruit might be stolen. 
At this meeting the Woman’s Outdoor Art League 
heard a number of encouraging reports of the practical 
