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Afternoon Session. 
Two parallel sessions were held. The one de- 
voted to school gardens was under the charge of the 
Department of Agriculture. H. D. Henienway, di- 
rector of the School of Horticulture of Hartford, 
Conn., officiated as chairman. Addresses were made 
as follows : 
“The School Garden as a Phase of Industrial 
Work,” by W. A. Baldwin, principal of the State Nor- 
mal School at Hyannis, Mass. 
“Boston Sand Gardens,” by Ellen M. Tower, of 
Lexington, Mass. 
“School Gardens at the Hartford School of Horti- 
culture,” by Chairman Hemenway, which will be 
found in full on another page. 
“The National Cash Register Boys’ Gardens,” illus- 
trated by stereopticon views of the gardens, by George 
A. Townsend, Jr., of Dayton, O. 
“Some Neglected Millions,” by George Henry 
Knight, of New York City. 
“How We Reach Eighteen Thousand School Chil- 
dren in New York,” by J. W. Spencer, supervisor of 
the Bureau of Nature Study, of Cornell University. 
“Nature Study for Children,” by George T. Powell, 
director of the School of Horticulture, of Briar Cliff 
Manor, N. Y. 
Chairman W. B. de las Casas, President of the Met- 
ropolitan Park Commission, presided over the second 
session, which was in charge of the park commission- 
ers. Papers were read as follows : 
“Parks and Landscape Gardening,” by Bryan Lath- 
rop, of Chicago, to be published in full in our next 
issue; “Politics and Parks,” by James Jensen, of 
Chicago; “Park Administration,” by Calvin C. Laney, 
of Rochester, N. Y. ; “Park Accounts,” by J. A. 
Ridgeway, of Minneapolis, chairman of the com- 
mittee on park accounts; “Park Building in the 
West,” by S. A. Foster, of Des Moines, la.; “Park 
Construction,” including drainage, rock work, plant- 
ing, roads, water and “Park Engineering,” were prac- 
tically discussed by the convention. 
Before the sessions were concluded it was an- 
nounced that the cars were in waiting to conduct the 
party to Revere Beach, and at once there was a scram- 
ble for seats. At the Bath House guides furnished 
by the Metropolitan Park Commission met the party 
and conducted it through the house. 
Evening Session. 
The evening session was opened by vice-president 
John C. Olmsted. The opening address was made 
by President-elect Clinton Rogers Woodruff, on 
“Public Beauty and Good City Government.” It was 
an eloquent appeal for more public beauty and better 
city government. 
The chairman, Mr. Olmsted, spoke of valuable pam- 
phlets that related to the subject. Mr. Loring, of 
Minneapolis, told of work in the West in the utiliza- 
tion of school houses and grounds for recreation and 
play grounds. He said he was in favor of many small 
parks with play grounds, rather than large parks re- 
mote from centers of population. 
A paper contributed by Hon. John De Witt Warner, 
president of the Art Commission of the City of New 
York and of the Municipal Art Society, was, in his 
absence, read by Mr. Kelsey. It was in part as fol- 
lows : 
“Only today, and in the business administration of 
modern cities, is the City Beautiful becoming realized. 
And however much our sense of beautv mav have 
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aided, the good results have been mainly had through 
appreciation of our people that, from practical reasons, 
a beautiful city is the most business-like one ; that is 
to say, the best fitted for the real purpose of a city. 
Public art is the most fertile art. Once inspire the 
people of a State or city with ideals of dignity and 
beauty, each in his way and time will develop them. 
“Outdoor art appeals to the masses who best appre- 
ciate art, upon whom the future of art depends. In 
our courts, in our exchanges, in our legislatures, at 
work in our laboratories, we find distinguished and 
worthy gentlemen, most of whom have so cultivated 
their minds away from their senses that they are blind 
