CONTENTS PAGE. Women's Auxiliary of Massachusetts. Women's Auxiliary of Maryland. Women's Auxiliary of New York. Mr. Elliot H. Goodwin... PAGE. Reading of Paper by Professor W. W. Willoughby.45, 148 Fourth Session: Reading of Papers by 45 December 11—Minutes... 47 47, 157 The Need for Greater Efforts and More Effective The Merit Principle in the Selection of the Higher Practical Methods of Promoting the Merit System -Samuel H. Ordway, of New York..... Twenty Years of Civil Service Reform-Hon. 75 82 94 108 115 122 139 Civil Service Reform in Maryland-Professor W. 148 Fourth-Class Postmasters and Rural Free De- 157 Some Phases of the Practical Workings of the The Relation of Political Parties to Civil Service .49, 172 180 190 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM LEAGUE DECEMBER 10 AND II, 1903. PURSUANT to a call, duly issued, the twenty-third annual meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League was held at Baltimore, Md., on the 10th and 11th of December, 1903. The delegates from Civil Service Reform Associations in attendance during the several sessions were the following: BUFFALO: Frederic Almy, Ansley Wilcox. CAMBRIDGE: Richard Henry Dana, Elliot H. Goodwin, Morrill Wyman, Jr. CINCINNATI: Joseph C. Butler. CONNECTICUT: Professor Henry W. Farnam. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: John Joy Edson, F. L. Siddons, Henry H. Glassie. INDIANA: Harry J. Milligan, William Dudley Foulke. MARYLAND: Daniel C. Gilman, Charles J. Bonaparte, Philemon H. Tuck, H. Barton Jacobs, John F. King, George A. Pope, G. Lane Taneyhill, Benjamin B. Owens, Thomas E. Carson, William Reynolds, Summerfield Baldwin, Fabian Franklin, Arthur P. Shanklin, H. O. Reik, Edgeworth Smith, Randolph Barton, Thomas S. Baer, Paul M. Burnett, E. N. Brush, S. T. Earle, H. M. Hurd, George Frame, Chas. D. Fisher, Richard D. Fisher, G. W. Gail, H. P. Goddard, J. M. Glenn, H. Irvine Keyser, William Keyser, J. M. Lawford, Joseph C Mullin, Theodore Marburg, Alfred S. Niles, Joseph Packard, John C. Rose, Ira Remsen, George W. Sadtler, Joseph S. Shefloe, Samuel Rauck, W. Burns Trundle, William Winchester. WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF MARYLAND: Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, Mrs. Summerfield Baldwin, Mrs. Murray Brush, Mrs. Benjamin W. Corkran, Mrs. J. Hough Cottmann, Mrs. Thomas Carey, Mrs. Cary, Mrs. Dulin, Mrs. Frame, Mrs. Reuben Foster, Mrs. Fowler, Miss Alice Gilman, Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. G. W. Gail, Mrs. Hull, Miss Hall, Miss Elizabeth W. Hall, Mrs. Thomas Hill, Mrs. Manson Smith, Mrs. Kilpatrick, Miss Frances Kerr, Mrs. Keyser, Mrs. Kerr, Mrs. Manning, Miss Katharine Minor, Miss Scudder, Mrs. James Thatcher, Miss Thatcher, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. John C. Rose, Mrs. H. O. Reik, Miss Steele, Miss Sadtler, Mrs. Van Sickle, Mrs. George Huntington Williams, Mrs. John R. Long, Mrs. Joseph T. Lawton, Mrs. Benjamin B. Owens, Miss Florence P. Sadtler, Mrs. Catherine L. Seth, Mrs. John J. King, Mrs. Samuel D. Schumacker, Miss Mary S. Hall, Mrs. Richard Gundry, Jr., Mrs. Edward C. Landell, Miss Flora Pollack, Mrs. Wm. M. Powell, Mrs. George French, Mrs. H. F. Going, Mrs. A. L. Sioussat, Mrs. Walter Bullock. MASSACHUSETTS: William W. Vaughan, Samuel Y. Nash, William Simes, Charles S. Thurston, Richard Henry Dana. AUXILIARY OF MASSACHUSETTS: WOMEN'S Miss Clara B. Adams, Mrs. A. D. Foster, Miss Elizabeth F. Foster, Miss Margaret Norton, Mrs. Ida J. Tapley, Miss N. O. Pevear, Miss Marian C. Nichols, Miss Mabel Cabot, Mrs. William W. Vaughan, Mrs. Caroline H. Dall. |