Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-09
CITY BEAUTIFYING
MEETING PLANNED
Conference to Discuss Municipal
Development to Be Held
November IA
DELEGATES URGED TO ATTEND
Architects and Promoters Invit-
ed to Aid in Work for
Civic Betterment

| The first city planning conference
| for the southwest will be held in the
| Bethlehem institution, 61S New High
street, convening Monday, November
| IA, at 10 o'clock. All cities and towns
are asked to send delegates, including
also all individuals interested in de-
veloping a city beautiful and city
practical.
Architects, promoters, landscape
architects and all experts in city plan
ming who have ideas or plans for the
! building of inexpensive homes for the
poor, or for the laying out of garden
villages or Industrial sites, residential
districts or any other part of city
planning, are asked to communicate
with the Rev. Dana w. Bartlett at
the Bethlehem institution, in order
that the latest and best thoughts may
be brought out at the conference.
A provisional program of the con-
ference follows:
Monday, November IA, 10 a. Nor
ganization and election of officers.
Address, "City Planning: Its History
and It's Future" Dana w. Bartlett.
Discussion.
Monday, November IA, 2 p. mad
! dress, Mayor George Alexander. .Ad-
dress, Housing Commissions" DR.
Titan Coffey. Paper Municipal
Housing a Possibility" dllustrated).
Miss Florence H. Mills. Discussion
Mrs. Rundell, Friday Morning club.
Paper, Inexpensive Sanitary Houses" ;"
Thomas Fellows. Exhibit of q model
concrete house.
Monday, November IA, 1880 p. M
Address, "Shall We Plan for a Dis
| tinctive Type Of Architecture in the
| Southwest" A. B. Benton. Discus
| sion. Address, Los Angeles in the
Making" John w. Mitchell. Discus
sion.
Tuesday, November Is, 10 a. M
Address, planning a City from the
Standpoint of a Landscape Architect,
w. D. Cook. Discussion-Led by Mrs.
Walter Lewis Burn. Address, THE
Arroyo Seco Park" Mrs. A. S. Lobin-
ger Civic association. Address,
Fairgrounds" Mrs. Willoughby Rod
man. Fairgrounds illustrated, Charles
B. Raitt.
Tuesday, November Is, 2 p. m.-Ad-
dress, metropolitan Park System" j.
B. Lippincott. Discussion-Led by
DR.. w. A. Lamb. Address, Planning
for Music and Art in the Greater
City" Charles F. Edison. Address,
Trees of a City" Ernest Braunton.
visit to recreation center Holly and
st. James streets
Tuesday, November Is, 7:30 p. M
Illustrated address, "Beautifying the
Harbor," Miss Florence H. Mills,
Civic association. Address, "Harbor
Suggestions" Captain Hansen. Dis
cussion Means of Communication
and Transportation by T. B.
| Comstock.
Wednesday, November 16. 10 a. M
Illustrated address, Congestion
Through Immigration" Dana w.
Bartlett. Address, Relation of I'm
provement Associations to City Plan
ming" Garner Curran. Suggestions
from Improvement associations. Ad-
dress, 1.-The Work of the Public Lii
brary in Civic Campaigns" Purd B.
Wright.
Wednesday, November 16. 2 p. M
Discussion industrial Districts"
"Radial Roads and Boulevards." "Ad-
equate Income to Meet the Cost of
City Planning"
Wednesday, November 16, 7:3O p. m.
-"Changes Necessary in Laws and
Ordinances to Provide for Excess
Condemnation, etc" f. o. Edgerton.
Discussion, "The Use of Electricity
in the Greater City"
Mayors of cities commissions and
all organizations interested in the pub
lie welfare are urged to appoint dele
gates TO this conference and to send
the names to Dana w. Bartlett, 618
New High street. Los Angeles