The youngest of the architectural societies of the country is the
Cleveland Architectural Club. It was organized in November last with a
membership of fifteen, which number has been rapidly growing and bids
fair to grow much further. In this instance, as has been the case in
all the other large cities where similar clubs have been formed, it
is the better class of draughtsmen who have felt the need of an
organization that would bring them together socially, and give an
opportunity for organized study and mutual improvement; and it is a
most encouraging symptom of the generally diseased condition of the
public mind in relation to architecture that these clubs have become
so numerous in the last few years. Aside from the direct influence
upon its own membership, the manifestation of a progressive and
aggressive spirit cannot help provoking curiosity and discussion
outside, if it accomplishes nothing further. It is somewhat surprising
that with the unusually active interest which Cleveland has always
evinced in matters relating to art, such a movement has not been
started before. We shall have occasion before long to refer more in
detail to this new and flourishing society.

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The Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects announces
the second annual competition for a gold medal, to be open to members
of the Chicago Architectural Club who are not practicising architects
of over two years' standing. The problem is the design for a memorial
building for the study of botany, zoology, and mineralogy, and is to
be finished on April 29.