Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-14
READ PAPER BEFORE
 PARISH HOUSE ASSOCIATION
Miss Louise C. Howe Describes What the City of the Future Will Be.

The regular December meeting of the Parish House association was held in the Osgood memorial on Friday aft ernoon and was conducted by the president, Mrs. Henry T. Arnold. Be- sides the usual reports, Mrs. William H. Allen told how the $8.25 contribut- ed at the tenth anniversary last month was expended In tinware for the United Workers three houses.
 The paper read by Mrs. George W. Lane at that same meeting giving the history of the parish house and which the association voted should be printe- ed. has been published in phamplet form and a copy Is given to each mem Der of the association as a gift from Mrs. Lane. The music on the after noons programme was furnished by Mrs. William A. Norton who gave two pretty groups of songs with piano ac- compartment by Mrs Charles H. Haskell Her first song, was A Re- solve by Tontenailles, with Wace's Moonlight as her encore number, and the second was Boyer's l Know a Hill. followed by Salters Japanese Cradle Song-all of which were pret- tily rendered. The paper for the aft ernoon was a well written one by Miss Louise c. Howe ,upon' The City T are beginning to realize that city in wolves more than just a few beauti- ful residences, a fine public library, a costly municipal building and a park or two in the residential section. It means also proper sanitary conditions, play grounds park systems, proper housing of the poor as well as the rich, street planning, wide boulevards and pla5ars that bring the grass and trees and flowers into the midst of the city,-all this surrounding beauti- ful spacious civic center, when digni- flied public buildings form the true heart of the city. This comparatively new idea that a city should be care fully planned as whole received it's inspiration from the beautiful White City of the Worlds Fair in Chicago twenty years go, Before that the cities were too busy growing to think of beauty Now they awake to the fact that they were ugly, congested and unsanitary. The architects and landscape artists told them the white city was not dream ,an impossible vision, and the idea of city planning grew It is the newest of the sciences, and possibly the greatest of them all, A new profession has arisen and these Sxperts are in demand from cities all S$sf the country to plan their i'm provements. Some of them are an al- most hopeless task. But we have one city that was planned by an expert from the beginning and that rivals even Paris and Berlin in loviness- the city of Washington. No one can improve upon the original plans made by Major L'Enfant and George Wash ingtcn. When these are all carried m No most beautiful city in the world. But Washington is the great exception. Chicago is spending much time and money in creating a glorified Chica- go and Boston is beginning to realize that, although Bunker Hill monument and Beacon street are all very well. something more is necessary. Seattle, Kansas City. Cleveland St. Louis, Mil waukee and Philadelphia have caught the spirit. Conferences have been held in various places and literature on the subject is appearing. Chambers of Commerce and Civic negotiations have taken up the idea of city regenera- tion.
 To live in beautiful surroundings is no longer an utopian dream. Cities are finding that it pays from the ma terial standpoint to make themselves as perfect as possible.
 In the city of the future there will be no room for sweat shops, crowded tenements, and all the horrors and ugliness of the slums, nor for graft and corruption. The American city IS destined to become generous, hu- mane, democratic and beautiful.
 Feiresalnents were served at the close. being ju charge of Mrs. Aden kteio as chairman, assisted by Mrs. Neville Bllcq. Mrs Robert Cochrane era u .ae c.r-icn TIn-..n