Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-03
CITY TO TURN OUT FOR
C|TY-PLANN|NC EXHIBIT
Wakes to Find $4,000 Printed Invi-
tations Hung to Front-Door
Knobs. .. ..-
OPENS TO-DAY AT 10 O'CLOCK
Exhibition Will Remain Open Daily
Until 10 O'Clock at Night-Direc-
tor Lathrop VIII Speak to Engi-
neers and Architects.

| Fifteen thousand citizens awoke yes
terday morning to find attached to tho
knobs OF their front doors little paper
Tugs carrying n printed invitation ask
Ing every member OF the family to in
spect tho ctty-pianning exhibit which
goes on display Mt 10 o'clock this morn
Ing at s21 East Main Street. for n fve-
day period. The tags were attached by
Boy Scouts late the preceding night.
Seldom before In the history OF the
city hns there been such concerted
enort to secure generous attendance
upon nm exhibition of public character
Practically every commercial and pro-
fessional organization in the city has
Joined in tho general publicity cam
paign. with the result that tho exhibit
room promises to DO n rnIlying center
for the next fvc days.
SCHooI. CHILDREN TAKE
INVITATIONS TO PARENTS
Between $4,000 md 90. 900 school chill
dren. embracing the little tots barely
able to guide n stubby pencil across the
page, and the advanced pupils In tho
high schools. Will to-day copy n short
note OF invitation drafted by Mayor
Ainslie. and carry the messages home to
the Invitation to attend tho exhibit to
| every home In the city.
With every bill sent out on tho first
OF the month by the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company went n
little slip advertising tho city-planning
exhibit. Public Service News, the Vir-
ginia Railway and Power Compnny's
street car newspaper. will this week
carry n special insert, informing tho
thousands who use the cars daily that
they will be welcomed at the exhibit.
Behind this comprehensive publicity
plan Is the effort Of the municipal adj
ministration. through the Mayor and
or the American City Bureau, OF New
York. which is staging the exhibit, to
bring the city-planning philosophy
homo to every citizen or citizen-to-b
in the knowledge that the germ OF
scientific Bodybuilding once implanted
Will grow to full stature OF Its own
accord and exert its influence for good
In countless ways.
OPINIONS WILL DE
WITHOUT FORMALrTY
The exhibit will be thrown open for
inspection at 10 o'clock this morning
and will remain open until 10 O'Clock
Ing hours will be observed daily during
the life of the exhibition. The opening
Will be entirely without Formally.
visitors to the exhibit will derive
tho greatest benefit from their inspec-
ton IL they will view the panels in
proper sequence" said Director John
L. Lathrop yesterday. The panels are
numbered from l to 1874, and are ar
ranged in sequential order.
TN order to obtain the best Idea of
what city-planninE means. tho visitor
should begin ut Panel No. 1 and pro-
coed from that in regular order to
Panel No. 164. Tho exhibit Is COM
parable to a book on city planning, in
which each chapter bears Significant
relation to the chapter that follows
Instead of reading book In which the
pages are five by eight inches, the visi-
tor to tho exhibit will read and inspect
II goes without saying that inspecting
the panels In tho proper order is es-
sential to their best understanding"
WILL MAKE TALKS
BEFORE CIVIC BODIES
In connection with the exhibit Dircc
tor Lathrop will make n number of
talks this week before commercial and
civic organizations in various sections
of the city. Tho first of these will be
tonight, when the city's architects and
engineers will meet ut the Business
Mems Club at o'clock in the evening
for the purpose of talking city-plnn-
ming with Mr. Lathrop. Supper will be
served and the talks will be informal
Tho Rotary Club. that repressible
orgn nization of Richmond boosters, will
descend upon the Explaining exhibit
In n body at $3.50 o'clock tomorrow
night. On Friday evening ut S:15
o'clock Mr.. Lathrop will address n
mass-meeting Mt Ginter Park Other
civic and professional organizations are
perfecting plans for similar meetings