Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-02-19
CONFERENCE OVER
HOUSING PROBLEM
Levy Court Accepts Invitation of
Chamber of Commerce
to Attend.

Clarence {. killen, secretary OF the
| Wilmington Chamber of Commerce. and
| 1. T.. Grubb, assistant engineer of New
Castle county, today called the attention
OF the Levy Court to an important con-
ference to be held at the Bellevue-Strat-
| ford Hotel, Philadelphia. February -
and %, and after a few explanatory re-
marks by Park Superintendent Mack the
| court accepted an invitation to attend
Mr.. kIlien sent the court letter
saving:
The conference on February p will
| be IN charge OF the National Housing
Association and will he devoted TO the sub
| Iect War Housing This conference Is 10
be entirely informal, and no one will be
| permitted to read a paper; instead there
Will he live discussions by such men as
Otto NJ Eidlitz, chairman of the housing
committee of the Council of National
Defence; Philip Hise, chairman of the
subcommittee of housing of the labor
committee of the advisory commission
of the Council of National Defence,
John NOlen, city planner, Owen Brainard,
architectural engineer; Grosvenor After
bury, architect, chairman of the war
housing committee of the National Hous-
ing Association; j. Rodgers Flannery.
chairman of the housing committee OF
the United States Shipping Board; C. IL
Whitaker, editor of the journal of the
American Institute of Architects, and
Frederick L. Ackerman, architect, au-
thority on English war housing enter
prises
THE program of February 26 will
be under the direction of the National
Conference on City Planning The even
ing's topic will be What Comprehensive
Plan Should be Provided for the Areas
Adjacent to the Delaware River Between
Philadelphia and Wilmington? This
topic is to be discussed with special
reference to the problems of circulation.
location OF industries, housing, recreation
and control OF Improvements by zoning
''lt certainly suggests itself to us that
all public officials and citizens vitally
concerned in proper industrial expansion of
much profit from the two-day CON
ference"
Mr.. Grubb also sent a letter. saying:
"I beg to call to the attention of your
honorable body the very important CON
ference to be held on the evening of
February 26 at the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel, Philadelphia AT which tune IA paper
will be presented by Mr. Webster of the
Philadelphia Department of Public Works
on the subject of What Comprehensive
Plan Should be Provided for the Areas
Adjacent to the Delaware River Between
Philadelphia and Wilmington
This conference should he of especial
Importance to us at this time, when so
much industrial activity is going on in
the section of the river front immediately
adjacent to Wilmington With this in
dustrial activity realty developments are
locating everywhere with no connection
with each other and no logical system
This condition is the same not only along
our river front to the north of Whining
ton, but in all directions from the citv |
Ii has seemed to me that some compre-
hensive plan of development should ,
regulate these activities, SO that when the
time comes for extending the city bound
aries the new section will be logically !
connected.
Il feel that as many as possible should |
attend the meeting at the Bellevue STRAIT
ford Hotel on the evening of the 26th, as it
SO vitally affects our immediate COM
munity"