REPORT OF CONFERENCES ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK In place of the regular spring meeting of the Academy of Political Science, it was determined to hold in the spring of 1915 a series of lectureconferences on the government of the city of New York. The addresses contained in this volume were delivered at a series of such conferences held at Columbia University during the month of April, under the auspices of the Academy of Political Science, the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, the Institute of Arts and Sciences of Columbia University, and a citizens' committee. Joseph H. Choate Robert Adamson Mrs. A. A. Anderson David W. Armstrong, jr. Leo Arnstein Robert Low Bacon Dr. Addison W. Baird Irving T. Bush Thomas W. Churchill Miss Kate Holladay Claghorn John Bates Clark John T. Fetherston Raymond B. Fosdick Thomas C. Hall Henry B. Hammond John Hays Hammond Mrs. Joshua A. Hatfield Timothy Healy Hector M. Hitchings Samson Lachman Richard W. Lawrence David Layton Adolph Lewisohn Sam A. Lewisohn Samuel McCune Lindsay Rev. M. J. MacLeod V. Everit Macy Milo R. Maltbie Rev. William T. Manning William A. Marble William H. Matthews William H. Maxwell Wesley C. Mitchell William Fellowes Morgan John J. Murphy Henry Raymond Mussey Dr. Henry S. Oppenheimer Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst Elihu Root, jr. Mortimer L. Schiff Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler Rev. William Pierson Merrill Albert Shaw Edwin G. Merrill Munroe Smith Nelson S. Spencer Mrs. Charles B. Squier J. E. Sterrett Francis Lynde Stetson Henry R. Towne John I. Waterbury Mrs. Nelson P. Wheeler Gaylord S. White E. Stagg Whitin Rev. James Morris Whiton George W. Wickersham Delos F. Wilcox W. G. Willcox Mornay Williams Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Henry F. Wolff Howard B. Woolston The program was as follows: April 7. R. Fulton Cutting, Presiding The Office of Mayor Hon. John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York Dr. F. A. Cleveland, Director, Bureau of Municipal Research April 9. Albert Shaw, Vice-President, Academy of Political Science, Presiding Public Health and Sanitation Dr. S. S. Goldwater, Commissioner, Department of Health ment Dr. George O'Hanlon, General Medical Superintendent, Homer Folks, Secretary, State Charities Aid Association Hon. Arthur Woods, Commissioner, Department of Police April 14. William A. Marble, President, Merchants' Association of Charities and Correction April 16. Dr. Katharine B. Davis, Commissioner of Correction Hon. John A. Kingsbury, Commissioner of Charities Prof. Edward T. Devine, Director, New York School of Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, President, The Academy of Parks and Recreation April 19. Hon. Cabot Ward, President, Park Board Dr. C. Ward Crampton, Director of Physical Education, Department of Education Mr. Howard Bradstreet, Madison House Mr. W. B. Van Ingen Frank A. Vanderlip, President, National City Bank, Presiding Financial Administration, Budget and Tax Rate Hon. William A. Prendergast, Comptroller Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Co. Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, Columbia University April 21. Thomas W. Lamont, Vice President, Academy of Political Science, Presiding Highways, Street Cleaning and Public Works Hon. Douglas Mathewson, President, Borough of The Bronx Hon. Marcus M. Marks, President, Borough of Man- April 23. Adolph Lewisohn, Chairman, National Committee on Prison Labor, Presiding The Administrative Organization of the Courts Judge William McAdoo, Chief Magistrate Judge William L. Ransom, City Court George W. Alger, Esq. April 26. Nicholas Murray Butler, President, Columbia University, Presiding The City Charter Hon. George McAneny, President, Board of Aldermen Thomas I. Parkinson, Esq., Legislative Drafting Bureau, Richard S. Childs, Secretary, Short Ballot Organization April 28. Edwin R. A. Seligman, McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, Presiding Transportation, Port and Terminal Facilities Hon. John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York Richard C. Harrison, First Deputy Commissioner of Docks Hon. Edward M. Bassett, Former Member of the Public April 30. Sidney Edward Mezes, President of The College of the City of New York, Presiding Education Thomas W. Churchill, President Board of Education Clarence E. Meleney, Associate Superintendent of Schools The address of Dr. Cleveland, which is necessarily omitted from this volume, will be published in full by the Bureau of Municipal Research. (741) |