The evening times., 1898-10-24
MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Meeting of the American Society on
Wednesday.


Wednesday.
Everything is iiSreadiness for the fifth
annual convention of the American
Society of Municipal Improvements, which
will be held in the Arlington Hotel in this
city beginning Wednesday of this week.
The coming convention has elected con-
siderable interest among the municipal
officials of Washington, who take pride
in pointing to their city as being in many
respects one of the most modern in the
matter of improvements, and certainly
the most beautiful of the worlds capi-
tails, and there is to them an additional
interest in welcoming the guests of the
convention to place which they are sure
to find of much interest in more ways
than one.
The convention will be opened Wednes-
day morning with an address by Hon.
John B. Wight, president of the Board of
District Commissioners. He will be fol-
lowed by a paper by Capt Lansing II
Beach, u. S. A, the Engineer Commits
sioner of the District, upon the "Utiliza-
tion of Sewage in Vienna The paper
will be a translation of the report made
on the same topic by the commission
government to make a thorough and ex-
haustive study of the question.
Commissioners Wight and Beach will
not be the only members of the local
municipal government to address the con-
vention. w. P. Richards assistant engi-
neer of the engineer department will read
a paper on the subject of Tree Planting
in Washington" In no other city of the
world has such attention been devoted by
planting trees. In delivering his paper
for the consideration of the experts of
other cities, Engineer Richards will make
special reference~to the different kinds of
trees in the different streets and thir reIa-
tive qualities for shading purposes, so
that the subject may be considered prac-
tally, rather than theoretically
Mr.. Richards will also read a paper on
the Street Extension Plan of the Citv
of -rhington,' which will be not only
of local, but of national interest as II is
expected that he will give in detail all
the features of that plan of street extern
sion which will characterize the capital
in the future.
d. E. McComb, superintendent of the
sewers of the District will read a paper
on the proposed plan for sewage disposal.
Thursday morning will be occupied in
visiting the various public buildings of
iHe CITY, ana IN the afternoon the report
of the committee on street paving will be
read by Nelson P. Lewis, civil engineer,
of Brooklyn.
The following papers will be read: 1.-THE
Proper Regulation of Curbing and
Streets" by Horace Andrews, civil en-
gineer, of Albany; 1.-The Cost of the Re-
pairs of the Asphalt Streets of Buffalo"
by E. B. Guthrie, late chief engineer of
the board of public works of Buffalo, and
now the chief engineer of the grade
crossing commission
thursdays exercises will close with the
election of officers and the reading of the
reports of the officers of the society.
AT the Friday session Harold P. Brown.
the electrical engineer of the city of
New York, will deliver an address on
"Electrolysis Tests of the City of Day
ton, Ohio and also paper on Electro
lysis in Davenport, Iowa. by the city
electrician of that place. The committee
on municipal data, of which Civil En-
gineer Charles B. Brown is chairman. is
preparing report of special interest. in