Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-05
.LATHR0P PLEASED WITH
INTEREST SHOWN HERE
BEAD Of City-Planning Exhibit Like.
Richmond Way of Taking
Notice.
PROF. FoGELsoNa HERE TO-DAY
Distinguished Landscape Architect to
Look In on Exhibit-Mrs. John e.
Lathrop to Speak to Equal Suf-
frage League.

The attendance has been most en-
couraging and the interest shown Is of
the highest class" said Director John
f. Lathrop. of the City Planning Elk
hibit, Mt the close OF fhe second day of
the exhibit in Richmond
Il cannot recall any place at which
there was such an intelligent and per-
scvering interest shown In the exhibit
as has been shown in Richmond so far.
have observed men come in and stay
three or four hours, making evidently a
most careful and detailed study And
have seen these same men come back
for further investigation. 1 have seen
this interest to n degree in other places.
or course, but never quite on so great
scale as in Richmond.
RICHMOND EXHIBIT DIVIDES
INTEREST WITH MIR. LATHROP,S
Richmond architects and engineers
nave installed, at the rear of the same
building. S21 East Main Street a Rich
Inond exhibit that is dividing interest
with the exhibition which MIR. Lathrop
brought to the city. This consists OF
drawings Of proposals and in some
cases Of completed projects This came
in for a full share Of attention YES
terday. Some Of the drawings shown
are the proposed new municipal build
ing, suggestions for approach to tho
Capitol building from Main Street, suE-
sested plan FOR combined union pas
serger terminals and bridge over the
James River. the First Market, West
, hampton College, First Regiment Ar
mory, general constructive plan for
improvements at Chimborazo Park, an
proaches to Capitol building. and i'm
provements of Capitol grounds, vari-
I GUS school buildings Of the CITY. pro-
! posed gateway to Ginter Park. design
Tor memorial gateway to Oakwood
Cemetery, proposed Chamberlayne
boulevard Parkway. from Brookland
Park Boulevard TO Broad Street. and
others.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
COMING FROM HARVARD
Professor Fogelsong, Of the School
| OF Landscape Architecture at Harvard
| University. will be In the city to-day
and will be one of the visitors at tho
! City Planning Exhibit, and doubtless
will meet many of the citizens of Rich
mond who drop in on tho exhibit Fro
lessor Fogelsong Is described by those
VINO Know him as a man of distin-
guished attachments in landscape ar
chitecture, and it Is thought to be es-
pecially fortunate that he should como
| just at the time when so much atten-
| ton Is being given in Richmond to the
subject Of city planning.
COUNCIL AND ALDERMANIC
BOARD ATTEND IN BODY
Thursday night at $40 o'clock the
Common Council and the Board of Al
dermen will assemble at the hall where
the exhibit is being shown, and will
hear an explanation OF the exhibit
which Director Lathrop will give for
| their benefit. Although this occasion
! was arranged especially for the two
branches of the city government 1t Is
not exclusively for them. and Mayor
Ainslie wishes 1t known that the pub
| lie Is invited to attend the exhibit on
Thursday evening the same as other
evenings during the remaining three
days stay OF the exhibit In this city
The official notice Of the visit OF the
Common Council and the Board Of AL
dermen. rs sent yesterday to the mem
bers OF those two bodies. follows
THE members of the Common Coun-
Gil and Board of Aldermen will visit
! the City Planning Exhibit. Sol East
Main Street, in body on Thursday,
| May @. Mt $40 o'clock. at which time
! Director John L. Lathrop will deliver n
special lecture on the exhibit.
"R. l.. PETERS,
president Common Council"
"WM. H. ADAMS,
president Board OF Aldermen"
MRS. JOHN Il. LATHRoP TO
ADDRESS THE SUFFRAGE LEAGUE