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ways been rushed through \'ellovvstone, 
with no encouragement whatever to spend 
vacation periods in the park. Neither have 
facilities for making long stays pleasant 
been provided, although S])lendid hotels 
with every modern convenience are oper- 
ated each season. Golf links, tennis courts, 
swimming pools and other equipment for 
outdoor pastime and e.xercise should be 
proxided h\- concessions, and the park 
should be extensively adxertised as a place 
to spend the summer instead of In e or six 
days of hurried sight-seeing under constant 
pressure to keep moxing. Trail trips into 
out-of-the-way parts of the park should 
he developed. When tourists have the op- 
portunity to enjoy Yellowstone National 
Park under different conditions than now 
they will want to return \ear after year. 
There is no national park better suited 
b\ nature for spending leisurelx x-acations. 
Glacier, therefore, was a very ]jopular 
Itark this past season, and its popularit.v 
was of the sort that endures and grows 
with the years. It is this sort of popu- 
larity that every park -'hould enjojv Others, 
Rocky Mountain, Mount Rainier and ^'ose- 
mite, particularly, enjox' a similar popular- 
ity hut it is not quite so genuine as Gla- 
ylinericaii Ci 
The .-\merican Cixic Association held its 
twelfth annual convention at Washington, 
December 13 to 15, and the testimony of 
those who attended it was unanimous that 
it was the best convention the association 
has ever held. There were a number of 
sessions of special importance, with ad- 
dresses having a direct bearing on live 
questions of the day with respect to the 
physical improvement of cities and rural 
districts. 
.■\ notable session was that of the first 
afternoon, at which Miss Margaret W'ood- 
row Wilson presided and which was de- 
voted to addresses on the subjects of the 
“Use of the School as a Community Cen- 
ter” and the ''Community Drama," which 
latter subject was introduced as a new ac- 
ti\it_\' of the association in a most effective 
way by Percy Mackaye, who in a brilliant 
arldress set forth the vision that a com- 
munity drama reveals, which was followed 
by an address of eipial value by John H. 
Gundlach, of St. Louis, who told in a prac- 
tical way just how St. Louis had proceeded 
in organizing and conducting its wonderful 
pageant of a few years ago. .\ strong 
committee of the association will be or- 
ganized to develop the pageant idea in the 
Lbiited States as it relates to cixdc educa- 
tion. 
.Another session of especial importance 
was that of the Committee on Country 
Planning, with its chairman. Professor 
Frank .-\. Waugh, of ,\mherst, presiding. 
This was the second session hehl under 
the auspices of this committee, the papers 
cier’s popularity seems to be. Of course, 
accommodations for the care of the tour- 
ist in Glacier Park have been the most 
potent factor in influencing this growth 
of popular sentiment. 
Previous to this season, hotel and cam]) 
accommodations were adequate in just two 
parks, Yellowstone and Glacier, and I 
have already explained that no effort has 
ever been made to encourage visitors to 
return year after year to Yellowstone. 
Glacier, then, at the beginning of this 
season had on the east side of the Conti- 
nental Divide the splendid new' Glacier 
Park Hotel and Many Glaciers Hotel, five 
inviting chalets, and several tepee camps, 
all owned and operated by the Glacier 
Park Hotel Co., under the efficient man- 
agei'ncnt of iMr. hloward A. Noble; and 
on the west side of the divide there were 
tw'o more chalets belonging to the east 
side system and Mr, John E. Lewis’ hotel 
on Lake McDonald, ideally situated, unique 
in sylvan architecture, and first-class in all 
its appointments. 
The appropriation of $110,000 for the 
protection and improvement of Glacier 
Park, which was contained in the last sun- 
dry cix'il bill, has enabled us to .greatly im- 
V i c 
and discussions relating this year more 
particularly to the develoi)ment and treat- 
ment of country roads. 
The national jxarks were given their 
usual important i)lace on the program in 
an evening session, at which President J. 
Horace McP'arland made his annual ad- 
dress, and in which a marked feature was 
an illustrated lecture by Mr. 1 herbert W. 
Gleason, of Boston, on the subject, “The 
Grand Canyon National Monument — It 
Should Be the Grand Canyon National 
Park." 
.A session which developed an unusual 
interest was that of Friday morning, de- 
voted to cit\’ i)lanning. In the absence of 
Mr. Lee J. Ninde, of h'ort Waxne, chair- 
man of the Committee on City Planning', 
Mr. Gef)rge B. Ford, of New York City, 
presided. The first part of the session w'as 
devoted to the consideration of a model 
form of municipal city iilan commission 
legislation, which was effectively presented 
by Mr. .-\ndrew' W’right Crawford, of 
Philadelphia, and which called forth very 
xaluable discussions. .An address which 
was introduced as an extra feature of this 
program and which attracted great inter- 
est was that by iMr. Henry Woodhouse, 
secretary of the Aero Club of .America, 
in which he introduced for the first time 
in any convention in this country, consid- 
ering city planning, the relation of the 
aeroplane traffic to the subject of city 
phanning. The second part of this session 
W'as devoted to the general subject of 
“Providing for the Housing of Industrial 
prove the roads on the east side of the 
park, particularly the road in the Black- 
feet Indian Reservation ' between Glacier 
Park Station and Divide Creek. Nearly 
$45,000 has been spent on this section 
during the past season. 
It has also made possible the construc- 
tion of several new trails. .Among these 
new trails are the Grinnell Glacier trail and 
the new trail between the Glacier Hotel 
and .Avalanche Creek. The latter trail 
will be extended to Granite Park next 
spring and, when completed, will be one 
of the most scenic trails in the park sys- 
tem. Shelter cabins of attractive design 
are also under construction at Triple Di- 
vide, Red Eagle Lake, Piegan Pass and 
Iceberg Lake, and next season will w'el- 
come the hiker and other trail travelers 
when storms overtake them or when they 
find it desirable to break their trips for 
other purposes. 
.An elaborate trail sign system is also 
being installed for the benefit of the hiker 
and independent tourist who chooses to 
ride over the trails without guide service. 
.A trail map of the jiark is in contempla- 
tion as a further aid to the lover of the 
trails. {Td Ik- (■iiiiciinicit.) 
Convent ion 
Populations," with the principal address by 
Dr. John Nolen, of Cambridge, on “A 
Good Home for Every Wage-Earner,” 
followed by a i)aper prepared by Mr. .Al- 
fred F. Muller, and read by Mr. Watrous, 
entitled “How Kenosha Will Spend Half 
a Million Dollars to Provide for Housing 
Its Industrial Population," and a paper by 
Mr. G. G. Wheat, of Woods Hole, Mass., 
on “Economic Phases of Industrial Hous- 
ing," So great was the interest manifested 
in these papers and so marked was the 
desire for general discussion that, as the 
hour approached for adjournment, a spon- 
taneous and unanimous request was pre- 
sented from the floor for a continuation 
of the session to he held in the afternoon, 
which was speedily arranged for, when the 
pajiers, that it had been feared could be 
read only by title, were read in full and 
discussed to great advanta,ge. 
The association was the recipient of cor- 
dial invitations to meet in various cities, 
but the iiivitations that came from St. 
Louis, personally presented by one of its 
leading citizens, and e.xtended from its 
leading ci\ic organizations and many in- 
dividuals, were so insistent that the asso- 
ciation departed from its usual practice 
of referring the invitations to the Execu- 
tive Board and voted in convention to meet 
in St. Louis in October, 1917. 
The report of the secretary for the year 
showed a fine and unusual growth in mem- 
bership and in interest in the activities of 
the .A'ssociation. On the recommendation 
of the secretary, the Constitution was 
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