Evening star., 1924-09-28
PARKS OF CAPITAL
TO Be DISCUSSED
American Civic Association
and Park Organizations
to Meet Here.

The American Civic Association
will hold its annual meeting in Wash
ington, beginning October :. The ses-
sions of the organization will be held
Jointly with the American Institute
of Park Executives and the American
Park Society.
4 general conference on parks will
be held at these joint sessions. AT
the joint meeting on the evening OF
October I, the parks and propose
parkwayS of Washington will be dis
cussed and the aims and purposes OF
the rewly formed Capital Park Com
mission taken up.
1t is held particularly fortunate
that the park conference occurs this
year. because of the act of Congress,
passed just before adjournment. which
created the Capital Park Commission
with the duty of extending the park
system of the National Capital and
the privilege of cooperating with the
States of Maryland and Virginia to
coordinate the three park systems
where they touch one another
Take Up ID. &. Parks.
The joint meeting October : will
be held in the Willard Hotel and will
the Capital. Theodore Wi-th. presi-
dent of the American Institute of
Park Executives. will make the in
PRODUCTION. Frederic A. Delano.
chairman of the American Civic AS
sociation's committee of 100 on the
federal city, will preside. The speak
ers will be Col. c. o. Sheriff., officer
in charge of public buildings and
grounds; Maj. James Francis Bell,
Engineer Commissioner of the Dis
trict; Charles Moore. chairman of the
National Commission of Fine Arts;
Fred c. Coldren, vice chairman of the
committee of 100 on the Federal city
and chairman of the committee on
parks of the Washington Board of
Trade: Frederick Law OlmSted, who
served eight years as a member
of the National Commission of Fine
Arts and who was a member of the
Mcmillan Park Commission in 1901;
Sid J. Hare of Kansas City, William
F. Guide and others.
Not only will the activities in the
parks of Washington be discussed.
but the aims and purposes of the
Capital Park Commission will be pre-
sented.
TAX Up Fairgrounds.
Wednesday there will be a session
on Fairgrounds and recreation at the
Willard Hotel: there will be an out
door lunch served at Arlington EX-
pertinent Station, and a trip in the
afternoon through the parks and pub
lie grounds In the evening there
will be National park and forest
session.
Thursday morning, three round
tables are announced on Park Com
missions VS.. Park Departments y
What Are Proper Park Jses?" and
minimum Essentials for Park Re-
ports An interesting conference
will be held Thursday at the City
Club, when parks and land values and
parks and human values will be dis
cussed. The convention will close
with the annual meeting of members
In the evening at the home of the
secretary, 1920 Sixteenth street.
Officers of Association
The officers of the American
Civic Association are ]. Horace Nc
Farland of Harrisburg, Pa, presi-
dent; ]. c. Nichols of Kansas City
first vice president; Harlean James
secretary, and Clinton Rogers Wood
ruff of Philadelphia, treasurer.
Members of the board expected to be
present are Mrs. Edward w. Biddle
of Philadelphia; John Nolen of Cam
bridge, Mass; DR.. Albert Shaw, edi-
tor of the Review of Reviews, New
York; Thomas Adams, famous town
planner, of London and New York
who is acting as general director OF
plans and surveys for the regional
plan of New York and it's environs
Harold A. Caparn, Landscape archi-
tect of New York; DR.. Carolina Bart
lett Craney, whose committee won the
hrst prize for Kalamazoo, Mich. in
the better homes contest for 1924: Mr
Delano, Miss H. NJ. Dermitt, secretary
of the Civic League of Allegheny
county, Pa; William c. Gregg of
Hackensack. n. j., who has been serv-
ing as a member of the commission
appointed by Secretary of the In
terror Work to select a suitable
area for a national park in the
Southern Appalachian Mountains;
Electus D. Litchfield, architect OF
the war town of Yorkship Village
near Camden, N. j.; Irving E. Ma
comber president of the regional
planning commission of Toledo; Fred.
erclk Law Olmsted, jr., well known
landscape architect and town planner
Mrs. Albert Lee Thurman of Wash
lngton, former secretary of the
American Civic Association. and Rich
ard b. Watrous of Providence. secre.
tary of the association nearly 10 years
The American Civic Association has
lent it's aid in securing a Capita
Park Commission from the outset OF
the movement, but when the Wash.
ington committee of 100 on the Fed
eral City was organized in April, 1923
the committee selected as it's first
serious piece of business the passage
of the bill sponsored by Mr.. Coldrer
to secure the creation of the park
commission with authorization o.
adequate appropriations. Now that
the bill has become law, the asso.
citation and the Washington commit
tee stand ready to Cooperate in every
possible way with the Capital Parf
Commission, it is explained.