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to color, deaf to music, and almost dumb to senti- 
ment. But your average fellow-citizens are not so. 
Nine out of ten in your schools, your workshops, your 
holiday crowds, can still see and hear, and their heart- 
strings chord true to every touch of feeling. The 
masses of no city have ever failed to appreciate a great 
temple, a dignified statue, an efifective historic paint- 
ing, a stirring drama or a strain of lofty music.” 
Another paper by J. Horace McFarland, of the Har- 
risburg League for Civic Inrprovement, on “The For- 
ward Movement in Harrisburg,” was read by Clinton 
Rogers Woodruff. It was in part as follows ; 
“It was Miss Mira Loyd Dock who gave impetus 
to the final awakening of the spirit of true civic prog- 
ress at Harrisburg, and by her talk before the board of 
trade Dec. 20, 1900, upon ‘The City Beautiful,’ There 
is one special feature in Harrisburg’s advance which 
caused the Philadelphia Press to denominate the 
movement broadly as ‘the Harrisburg plan’ and to 
commend it for imitation to even Philadelphia itself. 
There were scattered suggestions as to what should be 
done here and there, but none were pressed after Mr. 
J. \k W. Revnders, a noted bridge engineer, resident in 
that city, suggested that a fund of $5,000 be raised 
with which to obtain expert advice and well considered 
plans for the work. There seemed to be a wonderful 
unanimity of agreement that it was the proper thing to 
do; in but ten days the sum was subscribed. 
“To me the most remarkable feature of this forward 
movement was that it was being pushed by ultra-con- 
servative citizens. 
“Then another $5,000 was cheerfully contributed to 
prosecute a campaign of education. We were able 
to convince our city council — no better, and no worse 
than the average equivalent body — that there should 
be appointed three citizens of unquestioned probity and 
ability, all of them distinctly non-partisan and out of 
active politics, as the board of public works, to expend 
three-fourths of the loan.” 
Sylvester Baxter addressed the convention on the 
“Relation of Parks to City Plan.” He said the parks 
of the city should be laid out on a general plan, with 
large parks, public squares for music stands, etc., and 
playgrounds. The matter of distribution of public 
space in a city is a very important one, one which 
should have careful consideration. He reviewed the 
park work in the leading cities of the country, and 
described at length the park systems of the City of 
Notes of the 
Mr. Manning, Sr., who has contributed so largely to Ameri- 
can Landscape Art and Horticulture generally — both indi- 
vidually and through his worthy progenitors — attended every 
meeting of the American Pomological Society for 40 years 
and was a personal friend of Col. Marshall P. Wilder. 
An attractive feature of the convention was the exhibition 
in Exhibition Hall. This included a series of plans of elec- 
troliers submitted for the Municipal Art Society competition. 
Boston, crediting Charles Eliot with having devised 
the plans for the utilization of shallow water fronts 
for parks and drives. 
Mr. Olmsted advocated the artistic improvement of 
railway terminals in large cities, stating the first im- 
pression a stranger has of a city was usually a last- 
ing one. 
Mr. Baxter, in reply to a question, said that the 
Metropolitan System of Parks contained 10,392 acres, 
Boston system 1,721 acres, Lynn 2,060 acres, Cam- 
bridge 500 acres. A total including small openings of 
between 16,000 and 17,000 acres. 
A vote of thanks was given the Massachusetts Hor- 
ticultural Society and other societies and corporations 
who had contributed to the success of the convention. 
In the absence of Charles Mulford Robinson, of 
Rochester, his paper on “What Is Municipal Art” was 
•read by Albert Kelsey, of Philadelphia, Pa. A vote 
of thanks was tendered to Mr. Edward J. Parker, the 
retiring President, and the convention of 1902 closed. 
Friday, August 8th, Sight Seeing Day, 
In the forenoon a small party, chiefly ladies, went by 
trolley cars to the battle field of Lexington, where they 
were met by the Rev. Carlton A. Staples, president 
of the Lexington Historical Society, and shown the 
various places of historical interest and the very re- 
markable elm tree near the old Hancock House. Other 
parties went to the Arnold Arboretum, and the nur- 
series in the vicinity of the city. 
In the afternoon the delegates accepted the hospi- 
tality of the Park Commission and visited Middlesex 
Fells. The party were conducted by Mr. de las Casas, 
president of the Park Commission, by train to West 
Medford, where they took two large barges and were 
driven through the Fells to Bear Hill, where they 
alighted and went up on the obser^atory to view the 
wonderful results of the planning of Mr. Olmsted and 
work of Mr. de las Casas, Baxter and other officers 
and members of the commission. The party then went 
to the headquarters of the Reservation and enjoyed a 
simple dairy lunch, finally returning to Boston by the 
way of Malden. 
The Women’s Auxiliary were the guests of the 
Country Club and Mrs. Mary Morton Kehew, the new 
secretary, during the afternoon, tea being served in 
the club house, preceded and followed by drives 
through Brookline, Newton, etc. 
Convention. 
The electrolier is to be erected in an “Isle of safety” at Fifth 
avenue and Twenty-third street, New York City. Maps of 
the Metropolitan parks of Boston, remarkable photographs, 
19x42 inches (not enlargements), of views taken in the parks 
of Hartford, Conn. ; a fine exhibition of photographs by George 
R. King and others, and an exhibition of photographs and 
drawings of school gardens collected by the Department of 
Agriculture for this convention. 
