BOWSER Safe Gasoline and Oil Storage Systems WAGON COMPANY TIFFIN, OHIO Fighting Fire Before It Starts Making things safe-fire prevention, is the cheapest and best method of fighting fire. Many of the fires that occur each year, could have been prevented by proper precaution. Storing Gasoline and Oil Safely decreases the fire hazard wherever these liquids are handled. Bowser Storage Systems store oils in leak and evaporation proof steel tanks, pump them out with approved self-measuring pumps make the oil storage safe from fire and explosion. vs. City of Woburn, 122 Northeastern Reporter, 268.) Safety of Sidewalks for Travel Holding that a pedestrian was not entitled to recover damages for injury sustained in stumbling over a curbing defining the limits of a driveway affording access to a cemetery over a sidewalk, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court said in the recent case of Daly vs. Trinity Church, 176 New York Supplement, 734: "The pedestrian is not entitled to an absolutely level and unobstructed passageway. The municipal authorities may erect hydrants, lamp posts, electric light poles, or authorize the erection of hitching posts, stepping-stones, or may, and of necessity must, elevate the sidewalk above the gutter and roadway. It is the duty of the pedestrian to exercise his right of passage along the sidewalk with regard to these lawful incumbrances or inequalities. If thru inattentian he suffers injury, it is his own fault or misfortune." Damage Caused by Municipal A city is not liable for flooding of private premises caused by insufficiency of drains provided by the municipality, where the flooding follows extraordinarily heavy rainfall. (Wisconsin Supreme Court, Andrus vs. City of Ashland, 172 Northwestern Reporter, 721.) Adverse Possession of Land The mere fact that an owner of unfenced land permitted pedestrian and vehicular traffic to pass over it for thirty years or more did not vest in the city a permanent right of way across the land for street pur(Louisiana Supreme Court, Reymond vs. City of Baton Rouge, 82 Southern Reporter, 75.) poses. On the Calendar of Conventions SEPTEMBER 15-17.-CLEVELAND, OHIO. American Society of Sanitary Engineering. Annual convention. Secretary, J. F. Doud, City Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio. SEPTEMBER 16-18.-NORTH VANCOUVER, B. C. Union of British Columbia Municipalities. Annual convention. Secretary, A. W. Gray, City Hall, New Westminster, B. C. SEPTEMBER 17-19.-MUSCATINE, IOWA. Annual con League of Iowa Municipalities. vention. Secretary, Frank G. Pierce, Marshalltown, Iowa. SEPTEMBER 22-23.-KANSAS CITY, MO. Missouri Association of Commercial Organiza. tion Secretaries. Annual convention. President, Harry W. Graham, Chamber of Commerce, Chillicothe, Mo. SEPTEMBER 23-24.-DANVILLE, VA. League of Virginia Municipalities. Annual convention. Secretary, L. C. Brinson, Portsmouth, Va. SEPTEMBER 23-24.-BELFAST, ME. Maine State Board of Trade. Annual meeting. Secretary, Edward M. Blanding, Bangor, Me. SEPTEMBER 23-26.-CHICAGO, ILL. International Association of Municipal Electricians. Annual convention. Secretary, Clarence R. George, Houston, Tex. SEPTEMBER 24-25.-ERIE, PA. American Water Works Association, Central SEPTEMBER 25-27.-SPOKANE, WASH. Secretary, Secre Washington Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries. Annual convention. tary, A. F. Marsh, Chehalis, Wash. R. E. Hieronymus, Community Adviser, Urbana, Ill. OCTOBER 8-10.-ATCHISON, KANS. League of Kansas Municipalities. Annual convention. Secretary, Albert A. Long, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. OCTOBER 15.-BOSTON, MASS. Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce. Annual meeting. Secretary, Edward G. Stacy, 6 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. OCTOBER 20-22.-WINNIPEG, MAN. National Educational Conference of Canada. First conference. Address, Professor W. F. Osborne, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man. OCTOBER 20-24.-NEW YORK CITY. Annual Prison American Prison Association. Congress. General Secretary, Joseph P. Byers, 3510 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. OCTOBER 20-25.--RIVERSIDE, CAL. Annual League of California Municipalities. convention. Executive Secretary, W. J. Locke, Pacific Building, San Francisco, Cal. OCTOBER 27-29.-INDIANAPOLIS, IND. National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries. Annual convention. Secretary, Willis Evans, Association of Commerce, Peoria, Ill. OCTOBER 27-30.-NEW ORLEANS, LA. American Public Health Association. Annual meeting. Secretary, A. W. Hedrich, 169 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Mass. OCTOBER 28-29.-EDMONTON, ALTA. Union of Alberta Municipalities. Annual convention. Secretary, J. D. Saunders, Camrose, Alta. OCTOBER 29-31.-PHILADELPHIA, PA. NOVEMBER 12-14.-NEW ORLEANS, LA. American Society of Municipal Improvements. Annual convention. Secretary, Charles Carroll Brown, 304 East Walnut Street, Bloomington, Ill. DECEMBER 26-30.-CLEVELAND, OHIO. National Municipal League. Annual convention. Secretary, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, North American Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Municipal and Civic Publications See also Department of News and Ideas for Commercial and Civic Organizations Fifth Yearbook of the City Managers' Association. HARRISON G. OTIS, Secretary, Tribune Building, New York. 1919. 175 pp. A number of brief reports from cities operating under some form of city-manager government, the proceedings of the annual meeting of the City Managers' Association held November 6-8, 1918, at Roanoke, Va., a summary of city manager data, a list of city-manager municipalities with a map showing their distribution thruout the United States, and photographs of members of the Association are the chief features of this volume. Full reports of all discussions and speeches at the annual meeting are included. A list of the lecture titles, with speakers, follows: The Model City Charter, by Clinton Rogers Woodruff; Proportional Representation, by C. G. Hoag; Establishing and Maintaining Commission-Manager Government, by Lucius E. Wilson; Progress, Problems and Pitfalls of the New Profession, by O. E. Carr; A Reconstruction Program for City Managers, by Richard S. Childs; City Planning After the War, by Myron H. West; and Duties and Problems of the City Manager, by Kenyon Riddle. Automatic Sprinkler Protection. GORHAM DANA, Manager, Underwriters Bureau of New England. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City. 1919. vii+ 443 pp. 349 figures. This book deals with all phases of automatic sprinkler protection, and is an excellent publication for municipal officials and fire engineers, as well as for chambers of commerce wishing to have valuable fire prevention literature in their libraries. Developing Executive Ability. ENOCH BURTON GOWIN, Assistant Professor of Commerce, New York University. The Ronald Press Company, New York. 1919. xxiv +486 pp. This book aims to train the busy executive in the vision and systematic methods necessary to success. A large number of definite helps, based on a thoro knowledge of business psychology and practice, are presented in readable, attractive style. Social Games and Group Dances. J. C. ELSOM, M. D., and BLANCHE M. TRIL- A collection of games and dances suitable for community and social use. How to Face Peace: A Handbook of Community Programs. GERTRUDE MATHEWS SHELBY, Henry Holt & Company, New York. 1919. viii+ 311 pp. The wealth of suggestions for community reconstruction programs contained within the covers of this book should be of much practical and inspirational value to communities and individuals desiring to find their places in the big, constructive work now before the nation. little and big" are described; and every community is urged to realize that well-defined plans and team-work form the key-note of success. Special chapters are devoted to the following problems: employment of returned To's soldiers, women and children in industry, recreation, health, housing, food conservation, gardening, Americanization, education, community organization, publicity and finance, and discussion of national aims. An appendix contains a program in outline of state, county and municipal reconstruction projects, prepared and published by the American City Bureau, also a bibliography of helpful literature on the subject. Wholesome Citizens and Spare Time. JOHN L. GILLIN, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin. Issued by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 2025 East Ninth Street, Cleveland, Ohio. 1918. 182 pp. One of the seven sections of the report of the Recreation Survey of Cleveland conducted in 1917 by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation. This section endeavors to show what part recreation has had in the development of wholesome citizens and what kinds of recreation have been influences in the lives of these citizens. Data collected concerning 160 "wholesome citizens" of Cleveland form the basis of the Committee's recommendations, which should be of interest to officials and others charged with responsibility for recreational activities. School Work and Spare Time. F. G. BONSER, Professor of Education, Columbia University. Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, address above. 1918. 176 pp. Another of the Cleveland Recreation Survey reports. In two parts: (1) What School Work Does and Might Do for Spare Time; and (2) What Spare-Time Activities Do and Might Do for School Work. Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and Its Social Treatment. JOANNA C. COLCORD, Superintendent of the An analysis of some of the cansal factors in the problem of the deserter and a discussion of recent changes in methods of social workers in handling this problem. A number of concrete illustrations are discussed, and some possible future steps, both legal and social, are suggested, It should be of especial value to officials in Departments of Charities, and Courts of Domestic Relations. Zoning and City Planning for Portland, Ore. CHARLES H. CHENEY. Bulletin No. I of the City Planning Commission, Portland, Ore. 1919. 55 pp. Illustrated by photographs and maps. A practical outline of the reasons for zoning the city of Portland and a summary of the results of the housing survey and the findings of the City Planning Commission up to June, 1919. The Six-Hour Day and Other Industrial LORD LEVERHULME. Henry Holt & Company, This collection of some of the more important addresses of Lord Leverhulme contains his comments on the six-hour day and co-partnership, and other addresses |