A. Marsters, Samuel H. Ordway, George Haven Putnam, Albert de Roode, Nelson S. Spencer, Robert G. Valentine and Everett P. Wheeler.

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF NEW YORK: Mrs. Stephen

Loines.

PENNSYLVANIA: B. W. Beesley, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Burnham, Jr., Miss Mary A. Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Cope, Jr., Neville B. Craig, Lewis Emery, Jr., Wm. H. Futrell, Robert D. Jenks, Dr. and Mrs. Louis J. Lautenbach, James MacAlister, Caleb J. Milne, Henry C. Niles, Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Richardson, Professor L. S. Rowe, William Henry Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

WISCONSIN John A. Butler.

In response to invitations issued by the League to municipal reform organizations, and to other bodies interested in the reform of the civil service, delegates were present from a number of such organizations, as follows:

ARUNDELL GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB: Mrs. Charles J. Bonaparte, Mrs. B. W. Corkran, Mrs. John T. King.

BALTIMORE REFORM LEAGUE: John P. Ammidon, B. N. Baker, Charles J. Bonaparte, Olin Bryan, A. R. Cathcart, William B. Graves, Dr. Richard F. Grundy, Thomas W. Jenkins, William Reynolds, Day Allen Willey.

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CAMBRIDGE, MD., WOMAN'S CLUB: Mrs. T. S. Patti

CITY CLUB OF NEW YORK: Joseph P. Cotton, Jr., A. S. Frissell, R. W. Gilder, Elliot H. Goodwin, George Haven Putnam, Nelson S. Spencer, Everett P. Wheeler.

CIVIC CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA: Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley, Mrs. Charles Richardson, Mrs. Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

THE COMMERCIAL CLUB, ST. PAUL, MINN.: Hon. Henry A. Castle.

DETROIT MUNICIPAL LEAGUE: Hon. Alfred Lucking, Arthur D. Maguire.

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JACKSONVILLE, FLA., BOARD OF TRADE: D. G. Am

LAWRENCE HOUSE, BALTIMORE: Miss Jeanne Cassard, Miss Alice E. Robbins.

LEND-A-HAND CLUB OF EARLEIGH HEIGHTS-ON-SEVERN: Mrs. H. B. Gantt, Mrs. Tilghman B. Marden, Mrs. S. C. Pennington, Miss M. W. F. Speers.

LOS ANGELES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Hon. James McLachlan.

MASSACHUSETTS REFORM CLUB: Richard Henry Dana, Samuel Y. Nash, W. W. Vaughan.

MORRISTOWN SOCIETY FOR POLITICAL INQUIRY: Augustus L. Revere, Norman Fox, D. D.

MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY, BALTIMORE: Walter W. Abell, John E. Semmes, W. W. Spence, Jr., De Courcy W. Thom.

MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, PHILADELPHIA: George Burnham, Jr., Dr. Louis J. Lautenbach, Charles Richardson, Clinton Rogers Woodruff.

NEW YORK STATE FEDERATION OF WOMEN's Clubs: Mrs. Stephen Loines.

THE NORTH CAPITOL AND ECKINGTON CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION: Abram R. Serven.

REFORM CLUB, NEW YORK: Hon. Everett P. Wheeler. INVITED GUESTS: Hon John C. Black, Hon. Theodore Burton, Hon. W. M. Collier, Hon. A. W. Cooley, John T. Doyle, James T. Dubois, Frank M. Kiggins, Rev. D. J. O'Connell, Hon. Henry L. West.

GUESTS OF DELEGATES: Lloyd G. Corkran, Mrs. A. W. Cooley, Mrs. John T. Doyle, Mrs. J. M. Gitterman, Mrs. Richard F. Grundy, Miss L. P. Huston, Mrs. Carrie E. Kent, Mrs. Louis J. Lautenbach, Mrs. H. J. Milligan, Mrs. James E. Nesmith, Mrs. S. H. Ordway, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, Miss M. R. Richardson, Miss Lucy A. Stephenson, Mr. E. K. Summerwell, Mrs. Day Allen Willey.

THE

MEETINGS OF THE LEAGUE.

HE headquarters of the League during the period of the meeting were at the New Willard Hotel, corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fourteenth and F Streets. The proceedings at the several general sessions of the League, commencing the afternoon of December 8, were as follows:

FIRST SESSION.

NEW WILLARD HOTEL, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 8.

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HE League convened at 2.45 P. M., the President,

The minutes of the last annual meeting having been printed and distributed, the reading of the same was omitted.

The President introduced the Hon. Henry B. F. Macfarland, President of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia, who delivered an address of welcome. 1

Following this address, Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley of Philadelphia, read a report from the Civil Service Reform Committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs. 2

The report of the Women's Auxiliary to the Civil Service Reform Association of Maryland, was read by Mrs. Samuel D. Schmucker:

The Women's Auxiliary of the Maryland Civil Service Reform Association was formed in February, 1902. Its aim is "to co-operate with the Maryland Association

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in its efforts to secure the establishment of a system of appointment and promotion in the civil service-founded upon the principle that public office is a public trust, and that admission to the civil service should depend upon proven fitness-and to advocate all other appropriate measures for securing integrity, intelligence, efficiency, good order and due discipline in the civil service of the Commonwealth and Nation."

The Auxiliary numbers 230 members. Three only of our committees were able to carry on the work of the year, owing to the fire of February last-the Prize Committee, Schools Committee and Committee for the Distribution of Literature.

Prizes of money were offered to the children in the high schools in Maryland, during the present Spring, for the best essay on some subject relating to civil service reform. The subjects given were:

"The Relation of Civil Service Reform to Postmasters. How are the Postmasters in your own Town Appointed?" or "Civil Service Examinations, and What They Are."

The papers submitted were examined by a committee composed of Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte, Miss Julia Rogers and Miss Scudder.

Some two thousand pamphlets have been distributed during the year. The most encouraging result has been the request of Professor Thomas of the Woman's College, Baltimore, for three hundred copies for his class work.

It is the purpose of the Auxiliary to continue its efforts in reaching the teachers and scholars of the High Schools, as well as organized women-workers throughout the State.

It is hoped that interest is already sufficiently aroused to induce each organization during the present year to hold meetings as well as to have study classes for their own members, thereby educating public opinion on the subject of civil service reform, and through them forming new and efficient agencies for distributing educational literature on the subject.

In response to such appeals from the Auxiliary, invitations have been accepted by one-half of the State Federated Clubs of Maryland to send representatives to be present at the present National Meeting.

In conclusion, the Secretary can report an increasing interest and responsiveness of the general public of Maryland, in spite of the interruption to the organized work of the Auxiliary during the past year.

The report of the Women's Auxiliary to the Civil Service Reform Association of Massachusetts, was read by Miss Marian C. Nichols:

Our first word to-day must be of Mrs. Whitman, so far our only President, whose death last summer brought such manifold loss. We remember with gratitude her enthusiasm and wisdom, her patience and readiness to labor over every detail, her gentleness and courtesy; and we hold before us her inspiring example of faith and courage.

Since our last report to the National League we have added one new branch in Waltham, and have formed our Boston members into a separate Branch, so that now almost all our 1050 members come under the supervision of one of our eight Branches. Our State Executive Committee is thus relieved of much responsibility, and can devote more energy to work outside Massachusetts.

Our Branches continue to stimulate local interest in the merit system by enlarging their membership, holding meetings and working in the schools. Realizing that their own members as well as the school children should have a better and deeper understanding of the subject, several Branches have formed study classes. The Worcester Branch has published an excellent "Outline for the Study of Civil Service Reform" prepared by one of its members, Mrs. B. T. Rice. This outline, which gives definite suggestions for a dozen meetings, was first used with great success in a large class in Worcester and has since been adopted by several classes in Brookline, by the Lynn Branch, and by some outside clubs. In Brookline