PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Convention of American ParK and Outdoor Art Association 
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The coming convention of the American Park and 
Outdoor Art Association, to be held in Boston August 
5, 6 and 7, will be the most notable in the history of 
the organization. This meeting is to be held under the 
auspices of all the leading societies in Boston whose 
work is along similar lines to that of the Outdoor Art 
Association, and they will join with the Association in 
inviting representatives of all the the various national 
associations with like aims to attend and discuss the 
advisability of a joint meeting at some future date, 
and the appointment of a general secretary who shall 
be the connecting link between these associations and a 
clearing house for various ideas presented. 
There will be special sessions for park commission- 
ers, of whom several hundred are expected, and of 
those interested in the school garden movement. The 
latter sessions are in charge of the Department of Agri- 
culture, and promise to draw a very large attendance 
from all parts of the United States. The railroads have 
granted the rate of a fare and a third for the round 
trip, and reduced rates at the hotels will be obtainable. 
A feature of the convention will be a congress of rep- 
resentatives of all the national societies working in one 
way or another for city improvement. In this and 
many other particulars the gathering promises to be 
the most remarkable ever held in the United States on 
this subject, and it is sure of having a record attend- 
ance. 
The headquarters of the convention will be at the 
Brunswick Hotel, corner Boylston and Clarendon 
streets, overlooking Copley Square, and the business 
sessions will be held in the new Horticultural Hall, cor- 
ner of Massachusetts and Huntington avenues. 
In addition to a regular program of surpassing in- 
terest, the entertainment committee has prepared a long 
list of attractive and inexpensive excursions that may 
be taken in and about Boston, with members of the com- 
mittee as guides. These trips are to be taken between 
sessions of the convention and include visits to the fol- 
lowing places of interest; The Museum of Fine Arts, 
by invitation of the Board of Trustees; the Public 
Library; drive through the Boston parks for visiting 
representatives of Park Commissioners by courtesy of 
the Boston Park Commissioners ; a trip to Cambridge 
by electric cars passing the Charles river improve- 
ments, and closing with a visit to Harvard University 
on invitation of President Eliot ; visit to Revere Beach, 
the great public bathing beach under control of the 
Metropolitan Park Commission. Friday, August 8, 
has been designated as Excursion Day, and special 
features have been planned, including the Paul Re- 
vere trip to Concord and Lexington, the Fells Res- 
ervation trip and excursions by steamer or electric cars 
along the Charles river. 
A feature of great interest will be the exhibitions 
pertaining to the work of the convention. At Horti- 
cultural Hall will be shown maps and photographs of 
parks and landscape designs, photographs and draw- 
ings of school gardens, collected by the Department of 
Agriculture ; designs for artistic billboards, and an ex- 
hibition of the current literature of outdoor art and 
civic improvement. At the Boston Public Library 
there will be in honor of the convention an exhibition 
of photographs of famous parks and gardens of the 
world, and especial attention is also called to the “Cod- 
man collection” of books on landscape architecture. In 
the public gardens a special exhibition of tropical and 
sub-tropical plants, of coniferae and hollies has been 
arranged. In the rooms of the Appalachian Mountain 
Club, Tremont building, will be shown photographs 
of mountain scenery, including national reservations, 
and views in the parks about Boston. The library of 
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society in Horticul- 
tural Hall, embracing what is probably the best collec- 
tion of works on forestry, horticulture, landscape de- 
sign and kindred subjects in the United States, will 
also be open to visitors. 
The official program is as follows ; 
FIRST DAY, TUESDAY, AUG. 5. 
Morning, 10:30 o’clock: Joint business meeting, 
the Association and Auxiliary. Address by the presi- 
dent and report from the secretary and treasurer of 
each, the Association and the Auxiliary. Reports from 
committees. 
Afternoon, 3 o’clock : Address on “Popular LTil- 
ization of Public Reservations,” Dr. Charles W. Eliot, 
president of Harvard University. Address on “The 
Influence of Beautiful Surroundings on Children,” 
Rev. J. N. Hallock, D. D., of New York, editor of 
“The Christian Work.” Informal reception at hall. 
Evening, 8 o’clock : Address on “State Forest Res- 
ervations,” Miss Mira Loyd Dock, Harrisburg, Pa., 
member of Pennsylvania Forestry Commission. Ad- 
dress on “School Garden Movement,” Dick J. Crosby, 
Department of Agriculture at Washington. Address 
on “Water an Effective Factor in Municipal Art,” Al- 
bert Kelsey, chairman committee of experts. Art Fed- 
eration of Philadelphia. 
SECOND DAY, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6. 
Morning, 10:30 o’clock: “Experience Meeting,” 
consisting of brief addresses outlining the work of the 
various national associations engaged in civic improve- 
ment effort. Among those represented are : The Amer- 
ican Society of Municipal Improvements, by Edwin A. 
Fisher, president; American League for Civic Im- 
provement, by a member of the executive committee ; 
American Institute of Architects, by Frank Miles Day, 
vice-president ; Architectural League of America, by 
