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The Civic Improvement Society of New Bruns- 
wick was organized in 1895 and has done good 
work in the way of street cleaning, tree planting 
and in arousing public interest. A novel feature of its 
methods consists of prizes given for the two best 
essays written by High School pupils on the “Be.st 
Way to Make New Brunswick an Ideal City.” 
Plainfield and Boonton are both credited with 
successful efforts to interest children in improve- 
ment work. In the former a play ground has been 
established for their benefit and an appropriation for 
a city park secured, while in Boonton prizes were 
given for the best gardens grown by members of the 
The Jersey City Woman’s Club, being the young- 
to have succeeded in impressing the city street 
sweepers and cartmen with the notion that “everv 
woman is a street inspector and always on duty,” 
and with telling results. 
Princeton, N. J., has an efficient Village Improve- 
ment Society which has offered four prizes of $10 
each, one in each of the four divisions of the city, to 
the householders who keep the tidiest and prettiest 
yards; and has placed waste paper receptacles at 
street intersections as well as bulletin boards let- 
tered “V. I. S.,” on which announcements, posters, 
etc., are placed instead of on trees, fences and build- 
Evergrecu 
Boundary 
Plantation. 
(iraceland 
Cemetery, 
Chicago. 
Children’s Auxiliary. At the latter place a public 
library is maintained by the association, a foot 
bridge has been built over the railway tracks and 
electric lights secured for the city. 
The Perth Amboy organization has secured the 
passage of street-cleaning ordinances, maintains a 
lecture course on town improvement, organized a 
Children’s Aid Society, and given a public drinking 
fountain. The women of this society have interested 
themselves in municipal improvement since 1896. 
The Woman’s Civic Federation of Elizabeth has a 
membership of several hundred and has shown 
great wisdom in securing an “Advisory Board” com- 
posed of sixteen men. A free kindergarten, an or- 
ganized charity, a society for the Prevention of Cru- 
elty to Children, and a work room where the poor 
may earn rather than beg needed help, are among 
the chief features of work already accomplished by 
this active association. 
The Town Improvement Association of Rahway 
has been interested in the “good roads” movement 
since 1897. It has laid out several parks and pro- 
vided open air concerts during the summer months. 
est organization mentioned in the account, is saift 
ings, as is the general and unsightly custom. 
East Orange, N. J., also has an active improve- 
ment association. 
The Village Improvement Society of East End, 
Va., serves the purpose of a social and literary club 
during the months when out-of-door work is unsea- 
sonable. Programs consisting of vocal and instru- 
mental music, readings and recitations occupy the 
latter part of evenings devoted to the business and 
pleasure of the club. 
The Village Improvement Society of East Berk- 
shire, Vt., has built gravel walks and maintains elec- 
tric lights in the village ; that of Glen Cove, L. I., in 
one season collected and disbursed $950.79 for street 
sprinkling. 
The Improvement Association of Idaho Falls,, 
Idaho, has found it necessary to reinforce its street 
rubbish boxes with iron bands and to beg the pub- 
lic through the public press not to deposit lava rock 
in them. This organization is interested in securing 
a park for the town. 
F. C. S. 
