CONTENTS List of Delegates... First Session: December 11-Minutes... Annual Report of Council... Reports from Women's Auxiliaries : New York Auxiliary.. Reports from Local Associations : Buffalo Association.... Connecticut Association. Maryland Association.. Massachusetts Association... New York Association.. Second Session: December 11-Minutes.. Reports from Local Associations: Chicago and Illinois Associations.. Denver Association.. Indiana Association. Maryland Auxiliary. New Jersey Association. Pennsylvania Association. Wisconsin Association.... Third Session: December 11-Minutes... Address by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin... Address by President Charles W. Eliot, President of the League..... Address by President A. Lawrence Lowell.. Fourth Session: December 12-Minutes... Election of Officers... PAGE Treasurer's Report.. Resolutions of the League. Preliminary Report of the Special Committee on Removals..... Report of the Committee on Reform in the The Growing Functions of the State and How Fifth Session: December 12-Minutes... 53, 56 53, 68 53, 100 54, 114 54, 91 54 -54, 119 The City Manager Plan-Its Contribution to The Choice of Municipal Experts Through Com- Officers... - 55, 127 55, 139 55, 149 - 55, 155 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE. DECEMBER II AND 12, 1913. PURSUANT to a call duly issued, the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Boston, Mass., the 11th and 12th of December, 1913. The following delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations and Auxiliaries were in attendance during the several sessions: BUFFALO: Henry W. Sprague, Ansley Wilcox. CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS: Samuel Dauchy. CONNECTICUT : William A. Aiken, John C. Brins made, Charles G. Morris. INDIANA: Joseph J. Daniels. MARYLAND: Charles J. Bonaparte. MARYLAND AUXILIARY: Mrs. E. Linden Mellus. MASSACHUSETTS: Arthur H. Brooks, Richard H. Dana, Charles W. Eliot, Howard R. Guild, Theodore Hoague, Archibald M. Howe, G. Harvey Hull, William V. Kellen, James J. Myers, Samuel Y. Nash, Grenville H. Norcross, William Simes, Morrill Wyman, Jr. MASSACHUSETTS AUXILIARY: Mrs. Richard C. Cabot, Mrs. Helen G. Gillman, Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Miss Marian C. Nichols, Miss Elizabeth C. Putnam, Miss Helen L. Reed, Mrs. A. S. Parker Weeks. NEW JERSEY: Frederick N. Willson. NEW YORK: Robt. W. Belcher, Roscoe C. E. Brown, Elliot H. Goodwin, Henry W. Hardon, George T. Keyes, William G. Low, Harry S. Ludlow, Harry W. Marsh, Samuel H. Ordway, Nelson S. Spencer, Hamilton B. Tompkins, Everett P. Wheeler. NEW YORK AUXILIARY: Mrs. Everett P. Wheeler. PENNSYLVANIA: Albert Smith Faught, R. Francis Wood, Clinton Rogers Woodruff. In response to invitations issued by the League to municipal reform associations and other bodies interested in the reform of the civil service, delegates were present from such organizations as follows: BUFFALO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE : Ansley Wilcox. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Elliot H. Goodwin. COOK COUNTY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Robert Catherwood. MASSACHUSETTS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Elmer L. Curtis, Garrett H. Droppers, J. J. O'Reilly. PHILADELPHIA CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: H. Van Dusen. Lewis PORTO RICAN CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Edmund Enright. RUSKIN CLUB OF BOSTON: Miss Lilla E. Kelley. THE NATIONAL SHORT BALLOT ORGANIZATION: S. Gilbertson. H. UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION: Hermon W. Craven, John T. Doyle, Charles M. Galloway, Edmund C. Stebbins. |