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PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME OF THE ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE A. P, & O, A. A, 
The fifth annual convention of the American Park 
and Outdoor Art Association will be held at Milwau- 
kee, Wis., Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 
26, 27 and 28, 1901. Headquarters will be at Hotel 
Pfister. 
The opening session of Wednesday morning will 
be occupied with President Holden’s address to the 
association which will set forth the mission of the as- 
sociation and its needs. Reports will be read by the 
Secretary, W. H. Manning, Boston, Mass., and the 
Treasurer, O. C. Simonds, Chicago, 111 ., and the chair- 
men of the committees on park census, on methods 
of checking the abuses of public advertising, on offer- 
ing prizes for the design of Home, School and Fac- 
tory grounds, on park accounts and advisory to the 
Pan-American Exposition. 
On Thursday morning the report of the committee 
to draw up amendments to the constitution and by- 
laws will be submitted for action, and the annual elec- 
tion of officers will take place, besides other business 
of like nature. 
The following papers and addresses will be given, 
with opportunity for their discussion : President L. 
E. Holden, “Outdoor Art in English Public 
Grounds;” Mrs. Basil Holmes, Honorable Secretarv 
of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association of 
London, Eng., “The Open Space Movement in Eng- 
land August Rebhan of the Milwaukee Park Com- 
mission, “Milwaukee Parks;’’ illustrated by stereop- 
ticon; John M. Olin of Madison, Wis., “State Laws 
Governing Parks and Public Reservations;’’ J. G. W. 
Coles of Cleveland, O., president of the park com- 
mission, “The Cleveland Park System,” and the re- 
port of the chairman of the committee of local im- 
provements, Mrs. Frances Copley Seavy of Chicago, 
which will take the form of an illustrated address on 
‘A’'illage Improvements in the United States and 
Other Countries.” Other papers will be announced 
in the completed programme. 
There will also be a special meeting of the Wo- 
men’s Auxiliary of the Association. 
PRACTICAL WORK BY THE CHICAGO WOMEN'S 
AUXILIARY. 
.\t a meeting of the Chicago Women’'; Auxiliary 
of the A. P. and O. A. A. held this month at the 
home of its president, Mrs. Herman J. Hall, it was 
decided to give $25 toward the “Ewing Block’’ im- 
provements, which are to be done according to plans 
furnished by Mr. Warren H. Manning. It was also 
decided to expend not less than $25 for shrubs, plants 
and vines to be used in planting the grounds of the 
John B. Drake schoolhouse, Chicago. To secure 
the funds for these projects, every member present 
pledged herself to raise not less than $5, and to in- 
sure immediate action Mrs. Henry B. Lytton and 
Mrs. Hall advanced $25 each. Committees were ap- 
pointed to co-operate with the Ewing Street Improve- 
ment Club, to look after the schoolhouse grounds, 
and to call upon the Grounds and Buildings Com- 
mittee of the Chicago Board of Education to ask per- 
mission to do the proposed planting, as well as for 
its co-operation to the extent of reserving and pre- 
paring a strip of ground for the reception of the 
plants. Mrs. McCrea, landscape gardener, was made 
chairman of the two latter committees. The request 
has since been granted and the co-operation of the 
board is assured. Permanent material will be used 
as the basis of this planting, supplemented by annual 
vines and plants to secure immediate effects, which 
it is hoped will be so good that the board will deem 
it advisable to plant all schoolhouse grounds here- 
after. 
MONUMENT TO GERMAN SOLDIERS WHO FELL AT ST. PRIVAT. 
A GERMAN SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, 
Recently a monument in memory of German 
soldiers who fell at St. Privat during the Franco- 
Prussian War, was unveiled near the scene of that 
memorable battle. The monument is the work of 
Han Weddo Von Gluemer, a Berlinese sculptor who 
has already done much in the way of monumental 
ornamentation of the scenes of the Franco-German 
conflict. 
