The morning journal-courier., 1908-03-26
WOMAN CIVIC CLUB
George D. Seymour Tells Mem bers of City Beautiful
 Plans.
AT ANNUAL MEETING
Forecast of Preliminary Report of Architects-Working for New
 PostOffice.

The annual meeting of the Women's Civic club was held yesterday after noon at Center church chapel and about 100 members attended. Reports of the president, secretary and treasurer were received and the election of officers, which was to have taken place was postponed until the April meeting. the date of which will be announced later. Miss Alice M. Bacon, the president, presided.
 The guest of the club for the after noon was George Dudley Seymour, the leader in the movement to improve the physical condition of the city of New Haven and who was instrumental in moving former Mayor Studley to ap- point a committee of prominent citi- zens to see what steps coud be taken to bring his ideas into realization. Mir Seymour began by regretting that the reports of the architects engaged by the committee were not yet made He had hoped to comment upon them. The architects as will be remembered are Cass Gilbert. president of the American Institute of Architects and Frederick Law Olmsted, jr., the well-known land scape gardener. Mr. Seymour then went on to say:
 The Preliminary Report.
 "As to the preliminary report of the architects, l may say in a general way. that MT. Gilbert is prepared to recom- mend an improved approach from the new Union station to the Green. This, if adopted, will provide striking site for hotel and other buildings of a semi-public character, such as apart ment houses and stores, to say nothing of greatly enhancing the appearance of the city as approached from the station. The great hotels of the world are being more and more located so as to be easy of access to Union Railway stations. A great hotel cannot depend for it's support upon permanent guests 1t must attract large transient trade MT. Gilbert thinks that his plan might be carried out at an expense so mod crate that 1t would be fully justified by the results secured. MT. Olmsted will show us how existing parks may be connected, and urge the acquisition O. areas now procurable at moderate prices for conversion later on, as re. quired, into playgrounds for little chil- dren; nelghborhood parks for neigh. borhood use. We also need tracts fol public -playgrounds for the young men who work In shops, stores and offices. As the city grows we shal more and more need parks for oul working population-parks for building up again the physical strength so free. ly expended day by day in factory ant store for enrichment of the city. Tt Improve the health of the laborer is tc increase his efficiency. Everything tha makes for health and morals in a com, munity is good economies. Fine schools fine parks, these attract and retain high class of citizens.
 2 After examining our parks Mir. Olm sted said he was at loss to under stand how our commissioners were abl, with such a small annual outlay fol parks, to do so much in the way of i'm provements and up-keep. He feels tha we need more small parks in tn, crowded portions of the city. and W, need some more land here and there il the outskirts of the city, not only t, extend our park acreage as whole