National Municipal and Civic Organizations.

NATIONAL MUNICIPAL LEAGUE.

President-Charles J. Bonaparte, Baltimore, Md. First Vice-President-Charles Richardson, Philadelphia. Second Vice-President-Thomas N. Strong, Portland, Ore. Third Vice-President-Hon. Hem y L. McCune, Kansas City, Missouri; Fourth Vice-President-Walter L. Fisher, Chicago, Ill, Fifth_VicePresident-Hon. James Phinney Baxter, Portland, Me. Secretary-Clinton Rogers Woodruff, 121 South Broad Street, Philadelphia. Treasurer-George Burnham, Jr., Philadelphia. Erecutive Connmittee Chairinan, Horace E. Deming, New York; Albert Bushnell Hart, Cambridge, Mass., Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Boston; Charles S. De Forest, New Haven, Ct.; Dudley Tibbets, Troy; George Haven Putnam, New York; Charles W. McCandless, New York; Charles H. Ingersoll, New York; William G. Low, New York; Frederick Almy, Buffalo; Hon. Thomas M. Osborne, Auburn; Clarence L. Harper, Philadelphia; Thomas Raeburn White, Philadelphia; J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa., Hon. George W. Guthrie, Pittsburgh; Oliver McClintock, Pittsburgh; Prof. Harry A. Garfield, Princeton, N. J.; W. P. Bancroft, Wilmington, Del.; Charles Morris Howard, Baltimore; H. B. F. Maciarland, Washington; Elliott Hunt Pendleton, Cincinnati; Hon. L. E. Holden, Cleveland; Morton D. Hull, Chicago; J. L. Hudson, Detroit; John A. Butler, Milwankee; David P. Jones, Minneapolis: Dwight F. Davis, St. Louis; Frank N. Hartwell, Louisville; Percy N. Booth, Louisville; E, C. Kontz, Atlanta; James H. Causey, Denver; Frank J. Symmes, Berkeley, Charles D. Willard, Los Angeles; Erastus Brainerd, Seattle; Harvey S. Chase, Boston, and the officers. The League is composed of associations formed in cities of the United States, and having as an object the improvement of municipal government. It has no connection with State or national parties or issues, and confines itself strictly to municipal affairs. Any association belonging to the League may withdraw at any time.

LEAQUE OF AMERICAN MUNICIPALITIES.

President-J. Barry Mahool, Baltimore, Md.; First Vice-President-Silas Cook, East St. Louis, Ill. ; Second Vice-President-Horace Wilson, Wilmington, Del,; Third Vice-President-Emerson Coatsworth, Toronto, Out,; Fourth Vice-President-Henry M. Beardsley, Kansas City, Mo. Secretary-TreasurerJohn MacVicar, Des Moines. Trustees-Win. J. Hosey, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; W, H, Arnett, Kokomo, Ind.; E. F. Brush, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Hugo Grosser, Chicago; George T. Gaston, Detroit; W. H. Joyner, Atlanta, Henry Hudson, Hudson, N. Y.

The objects of the League of American Municipalities are as follows- The general improvement and facilitation of every branch of municipal administration by the following means: First-The perpetuation of the organization as an agency for the co-operation of American cities in the practical study of all questions pertaining to municipal administration. Second-The holding of annual conventions for the discussion of contemporaneous municipal affairs. Third-The establishment and maintenance of a central bureau of information for the collection, compilation, and dissemination of statistics, reports, and all kinds of information relative to municipal government. The membership of the League includes nearly all of the important cities in this country and Canada,

NATIONAL GOOD ROADS ASSOCIATION.

President-W. H. Moore, St. Louis, Mo. Secretary-Artbur E. Jackson, Damariscotta. Me., with vice presidents representing each State and Territory. This Association was organized by delegates from thirty-eight States in national convention at Chicago, November 21, 1900, and an extensive campaign for good roads all over the Union is in progress.

AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

Président J. Horace McFarland, Harrisburg, Pa. First Vice President and Secretary Charles Clinton Rogers, North American Building, Philadelphia. Vice-Presidents-George B. Leighton, Monadnock, N. H.; Robert Watchorn, New York; L. É. Holden, Cleveland; Fielding J. Stilson, Los Angeles. Beiartment Vice-Presidents-Arts and Crafts, Mrs M. F. Johnston, Richmond, Ind.; Children's Gardens, Miss Mary M. Butler, Yonkers, NY.; City Making, Frederick I.. Ford, Hart ford. Ct. Factory Betterment, Mrs. George F. French, Portland, Me.; Libraries, Miss Mary E. Ahern, Chicago: Outdoor Art, Warren H. Manning, Boston; Public Recreation, Charles W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Press, R. B. Watrous, Milwaukee; Parks and Public Reservations, Henry A. Barker, Providence; Public Nuisances, Harlan P. Kelsey, Salem, Mass, Railroad Improvement, Mrs. A. E. McCrea, Chicago; Rural Improvements, D, Ward King, Maitland, Mo.; School Extension, O. J. Kern, Rockford, IL; Social Settlements, Graham Romeyn Taylor, Chicago: Woman's Outdoor Art League, Mrs. Agnes McGiffert Pound, Ashtabula, Ohio. Treasurer-William B. Howland, New York.

The American Civic Association was formed by merger of the American League for Civic Improvement and the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, June 10, 1904. The Association seeks to combine and make efficient the country-wide effort for civie betterment. It has led in the effort to prevent the destruction of Niagara Falls for power purposes; it advocates rational forest treatment; It is inaugurating a campaign for the restraint and reduction of objectionable outdoor advertising as a defacement of nature, and it urges community beauty. It fosters parks, playgrounds, and outdoor recreation; it arouses communities, and leads them toward betterment. A lantern-slide service is maintained, and many bulletins are issued.

SOCIETY OF BUILDING COMMISSIONERS AND INSPECTORS. President-G. U. Heimburger, Commissioner of Buildings, St. Louis. Secretary-F. W. Fitzpatrick, 4200 Fourteenth Street Road, Washington, D. C. The International Society of State and Municipal Building Commissioners and Inspectors is organized by the building inspectors of the cities of the United States and Canada to promote "the improvement of building methods; the revision and perfecting of building ordinances and securing their more thorough enforcement; the lessening of our appalling fire losses; mutual assistance, the interchange of ideas, and the binding in closer union of the building bureaus of the several cities with the view of ultimate uniformity of building laws."

INTERNATIONAL REFORM BUREAU.

International Reform Bureau, 206 Pennsylvania Avenue, S. E., Washington, D. C. PresidentRev. J. G. Butler, D. D. Superintendent and Treasurer-Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts. Devoted to the repression of intemperance, Impurity, Sabbath-breaking, gambling, and kindred evils, by lectures, letters, legislation, and literature. The Bureau has drawn twelve laws that have passed Congress.

Baltimore..

Boston.

Buffalo

Chicago..

Milwaukee (q).

Democrats in italics; Republicans in Roman; others in SMALL CAPB.

Percentage of assessment upon actual valuation. Tax ou each $100 of assessed valuation for all purposes. Special Franchise $17,827,550. § Realty, (a) See New York City," next page. (b) City tax. (c) Bonded debt. (d) After April 1, 1908. five Commissioners will assume executive control of city affairs. (e) Funded debt. (ƒ) Assessed valuation of horses and cattle only. (a) Realty, about 78 per cent. (h) Does not include bonded debt of various park boards amounting to $10,635,000, nor of sanitary district amounting to $17,030,000. (g) Report of December 1, 1906,

94 120,000

1,146,050

Springfield, Mass.
Springfield, O..
St. Joseph, Mo..
St. Louis, Mo..
St. Paul, Minn..
Syracuse, N. Y.
Tacoma, Wash.
Taunton, Mass..
Toledo, O.

45,000 1,179,150

475,000 c)3,788 724 (e)429,866,609 60
2,899,350 48,000,000 65%
2,636,138 43,090.153 75
1,993,519 66.757,430-100
7,570,380 (€)155,765,086 50
30.998,768 25

21,240,000 65%
34,000,000 60

61% 750,000 18.828.178 (e)509,975,840 70
55% 225,000 7,009,671

93.559.831 (4)

15

322

125,000
101,500 c)3,823,000

7,923,525

50

30,967

2896

189,000

Topeka, Kan.

7

Trenton, N. J...

9

Troy, N. Y...

1,584.671 7,196,665 47,500 1,676,427 92,000 3,419,591 916 76,910 3,455,899

Utica, N. Y

94.602,829 100
42,940,976 60
21,842,382 100
78,000,000 60
12,478,110 25
70,064,468 100
51,250,172 100
36,947,930 100

Washington, D. C.

Williamsport, Pa..
Wilmington, Del.,
Worcester, Mass.

Yonkers, N, Y..

70,000
332,000 14,347,54% (e)277.306,494 66%
38,000 325,000
90,000 2,217,850

15,000,000 65 48,000,000 87 124,747,588 100

1.30 William E. Spratt..
2.17 Rolla Wells.
2.96 Robert A. Smith...
174 Alan C. Fobe.
3.61 George P. Wright..
1.86 Edgar L. Crossman. Jan. 1,1909
3.26 BRAND WHITLOCK. Dec. 31,1909
5.35 William Green...... Apr. 1909
1.50 Walter Madden........... Jan. 1,1910
1.69 Elias P. Mann....... Dec. 81,1908
9.79 Thomas Wheeler.... Dec. 31,1909
1.50 See foot of page.

3.00 Seth T. Foresman.... Apr. 1,1908 2.15 Horace Wilson... June 30,1909 1.60 James Logan.... .... Jan. 7,1909 72,6001 5,188,316 60,019,750 70 1.94 Nathan A. Warren..Dec. 31,1906

6.010,883

Democrats in itties; Repitolicans in Roman; others in SMALL CAPS. This is the percentage of assessment upon actual valuation. t Tax on each $100 of assessed valuation for all purposes. Population of New York City as follows: Manhattan, 2,232,828; Bronx, 308,256; Brooklyn, 1,448,095; Queens, 220,836; Richmond, 75,420. Area in square miles-Manhattan, 21.93; Bronx, 40.65; Brooklyn,77.62; Queens, 129 50; Richmond, 57.19. Taxable valuations--all boroughs -Realty, $6,240,480,602; personalty, $554,861,313. Manhattan and Bronx-Realty, $4,788,658,681; personalty, $446,741,299. Brooklyn-Realty, $181,221,910; personalty, $92,866,547. §Tax rate, Manhattan and Bronx, $1.48; Brooklyn, $1.53; Queens, $1.53; Richmond, $1.56. (a) Land 66%, personal, 50 per cent. (b) State and county, $1.00; school, .60; city, $1.40. (c) Bonded debt. (d) Municipal taxes, including schools. (e) For division of realty and personalty see preceding page. (h) Net funded debt September 30, 1907, $546,937,112. (i) Realty about 78 per cent. (g) Report of December 1, 1906.

COVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The municipal government of the District of Columbia is vested by act of Congress approved June 11, 1878, in three Commissioners, two of whom are appointed by the President from citizens of the District having had three years' residence therein immediately preceding that appointment, and confirmed by the Senate. The other Commissioner is detailed by the President of the United States from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, and must have lineal rank senior to Captain, or be a Captain who has served at least fifteen years in the Corps of Engineers of the Army. The Commissioners appoint the subordinate official service of said government, except the Board of Education which is appointed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The present Commissioners are H. B. F. Macfarland (Republican), President, whose term will expire May 5, 1909; Henry L. West (Democrat), whose term will expire February 1, 1909; Major John Biddle (non-partisan), Corps of Engineers, United States Army, detailed during the pleasure of the President of the United States, Secretary William Tindall. Offices of Commissioners, 464 Louisiana Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. Three separate local governments existed in the District of Columbia from its establishment until 1871, namely: the City of Washington, the Town of Georgetown, and the Levy Court. The latter had jurisdiction over the portion of the District of Columbia outside of the city and town mentioned. All three of these governments were abolished by an act of Corgress approved February 21, 1871, which provided a territorial form of government for the entire District of Columbia, with a Governor, Secretary, Board of Public Works, and Council, appointed by the President of the United States, and a House of Delegates and a delegate in Congress elected by the citizens of said district, This form of government was abolished June 20, 1874, and a temporary government by three Commissioners substituted. The latter form was succeeded by the present form July 1.1878. Con gress makes all laws for the District, but has Intrusted to the Commissioners authority to make palice, building, and plumbing regulations, and others of a municipal nature,

The United States Revenue Cutter Service.

THE United States Revenue Custer Service is a military arm of the Government attached to and under the direction of the Treasury Department. The Service was organized in 1790 and constituted the original naval force of the country. There being at that time no Navy Department the Service was placed under the Treasury Department, where it has remained ever since. It is charged with the enforcement of the navigation and customs laws of the United States, the assistance of vessels in distress, the protection of the sealing industry in Alaska, the enforcement of the quarantine laws, and pumerous other duties appropriate to its class of vessels. Each Winter, by direction of the President, a number of the cutters patrol the coast for the special purpose of assisting vessels in distress. The Service co-operates with the Navy when directed by the President and has so co-operated in every war in which the United States has been engaged. The officers of the Service are commissioned by the President and hold rank by law with officers of the Army and Navy as follows: Captains with Majors in the Army and Lieutenant-Commanders in the Navy; First Lieutenants with Captains in the Army and Lieutenants in the Navy; Second Lieutenants with First Lieutenants in the Army and Lieutenants (Junior Grade) in the Navy; Third Lieutenants with Second Lieutenants in the Army and Ensigns in the Navy.

There are now in the Service 220 commissioned officers and cadets on the active list, and 1,250 petty officers and enlisted men. The officers are: 37 Captains, 87 First Lieutenants, 37 Second Lieutenants, 5 Third Lieutenants, 33 Cadets of the line, 34 Chief Engineers, 17 First Assistant Engineers, 11 Second Assistant Engineers, 6 Cadet Engineers, 2 Constructors, and 1 Surgeon.

Commissioned officers of the line are appointed from Cadet graduates of the School of Instruc tion at South Baltimore, Md. The Cadet course covers three years and embraces professional and academic subjects. Cadets are appointed after competitive examinations, conducted by boards of commissioned officers of the Revenue Cutter Service. Candidates must be not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-four years of age.

Appointments to the Engineer Corps are made after competitive examination, and successful candidates are appointed Cadet Engineers for a period of six months prior to being commissioned Second Assistant Engineers in the Service. Candidates for the Engineer Corps must be not less than twentyone nor more than twenty-six years of age.

The commandant of the Service is detailed from among the Captains by the Secretary of the Treasury. The present Chief of the Service is Captain Worth G. Ross, U. S. R. C. S. The Engineerin-Chief is Chief Engineer, C. A. McAllister, U. S. R. C. S.

LIST OF VESSELS OF THE REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

THE following vessels with their displacements are under construction: Androscoggin, 1,270; Snohomish, 795; Number 17, 1, 480; Acushnet, 769; Number 19, 153; Number 20, 960; Number 21, 960.

The Life-Saving Service.

THE ocean and lake coasts of the United States are picketed with the stations of the Life-Saving Service attached to the United States Treasury Department. Sumner I. Kimball is general superintendent, with headquarters at Washington, and there is a corps of inspectors, superintendents, station keepers, and crews, extending over the entire coast line, together with a Board on Life-Saving Appliances, composed of experts selected from the Revenue Marine Service, the Ariny, the Life-Saving Service, and civilians.

At the close of the last fiscal year the life-saving establishment embraced 278 stations, 200 being on the Atlantic Coast. 60 on the lakes, 17 on the Pacific Coast, and 1 at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. In the following table are the statistics of the service:

In addition to the foregoing there were 491 casualties to smaller craft, such as sailboats, row, boats, etc., on which there were 1,176 persons, of whom 1,153 were saved and 23 lost. The cost of the maintenance of the service during the year was $1,790,198.97.

* Date when admission took effect is given from U. S. Census reports. In many instances the act of admission by Congress was passed on a previous date.

NEW POSSESSIONS-A government for Porto Rico was established by the Fifty-sixth Congress, The Philippines are under a provisional civil government, Guam, and Tutulla, under Governors, and the Isthmian Canal Zone under a Commission, all appointed by the President.

State and Territorial Statistics.

Areas of the new possessions Philippines, 115.026 square miles; Porto Rico, 3, 435, Hawali, 6.449, Tutnila and islets, 77, Guam, 210, Panama Canal sirip, 474. Gross area includes water as well as land surface. These areas are those published by the United States Census Office in 1900. ↑ Breadth is from east to west Length is from north to south. 4 Breadth from Quoddy Head, in Maine, to Cape Flattery, in Washington, length from the 49th parallel to Brownsville, on the Rio Grande, This is exclusive of Alaska. The capital will eventually be removed to Juneau,