Lockport, New York, central heating
plant, 180

Lombroso, Cesare, 124, 125
London, 36, 101; congestion in, 138;
street lighting, 173; 1e-planning
streets, 223; building regulations,

225

Los Angeles, California, 40, 41; con-
gestion in, 138; assessments for
street lighting, 184; reduction plant,
205

Louisiana, 177, 269
Louisville, Kentucky, 144
Lowell, Massachusetts, civic audito-
rium, 50

MacAdam, and road building, 253
Magistrate, 410, 416, 422
Magna Charta, 349

Mail, sorting table, 277. See Postal
service

Maine, 35, 428

Manufacturing, relation to housing
conditions, 143; before eighteenth
century, 294; after invention of
machines, 295–296

Marconi, inventor of the wireless tele-
graph, 278
Marine Corps, 115

Markets, 27, 28; municipal retail, 32-
34; terminal wholesale, 35-36;
supervision, 40; and transportation,
261-263

Martin, George H., quoted, 329
Massachusetts, sanitary survey, 19;
municipal markets, 33; laws regu-
lating public utilities, 182; laws
regulating factories, 296; laws regu-
lating immigration, 312; first com-
pulsory education law, 330; men-
tioned, 336, 373, 418
Matches a cause of fire, 96, 97
Mayor, how chosen, 386-387; powers
and duties, 387-389
Mayor-council type of government,
386-391; objections to, 391-392
Meat, inspection of, 40, 42
Memphis, Tennessee, curb market,
33; commission government in,

379

Mental defectives, 65-66

Mercier, Dr. Charles, quoted, 125
Message, President's, 404
Michigan, 294, 340
Milk, inspection of, 40

Municipal lodging house, 69
Municipal ownership.

ment ownership

Murdock, William, 172
Museums, 244, 337-338
Muzzling ordinance, 13

See Govern-

National Child Labor Committee, 21,
315, 316

National Committee on Prisons and
Prison Labor, 131

National Community Centre Associa-
tion, 288

National Conference on City Plan-
ning, 232

National Education Association, 341
National Guard, 113

National Housing Association, 146
National Safety Council, 315
Naturalization, 313-314; Bureau of,
315; and political rights, 427-428
Navy, 115

Neighborhood parks, Chicago, 49, 51
Nevada, 113

Newark, New Jersey, 279

New England, suffrage limited to
church members, 286; township
government, 370

New Hampshire, 294, 418

New Hampton Reformatory, 128-129
New Jersey, 40, 54, 178; port regula-
tion in, 269; mentioned, 274, 354,
373, 418

New Mexico, 113

New Orleans, Louisiana, 156

Newspapers, 281–284

New York City, 13, 16, 17, 18, 21, 29;
cost of handling food, 30; recreation,
49, 56; orphanages, 70; police or-
ganization, 109-110; reformatory,
128-129; east side housing condi-
tions, 142; Tenement House Depart-
ment, 147; water supply, 154, 156-
158, 164; wastes disposal, 188, 197,
202, 207, 208; street plan, 220–221;
building restrictions, 223-224; civic
centre, 227; city plan commission,
231; boulevards, 237; transporta-
tion, 256, 258, 262; budget, 250;
public library, 337; Board of Esti-
mate and Apportionment, 355
New York State, municipal markets,
33; Department of Farms and
Markets, 41; fire wardens, 94; state
troopers, 111-112; mentioned, 182,
269, 274, 294, 312, 354, 373, 418
Niagara Falls, 112, 144, 177
Night prowlers, 80

Night watch, 101

Noise, 246-247

North Carolina, 373

North Dakota, 177, 258
Oakland, California, 40, 50

Obstructions mar city beauty, 244–245
Occupations, "blind alley," 293; dan-
gerous, 300-302
Ohio, 40, 251, 340

Omaha, Nebraska, 206-207, 356
Oregon, 35, 36

Orphaned, 69-70

Overhead wires, 244
Parcel post, 275

Pardon, by governor, 401; by Presi-
dent, 405

Paris, school for blind, 67; mentioned,
101; street lighting, 172; height of
buildings, 225

Parks, public, 51-54; national, 54–55;
administration, 55-58; must be in
city plan, 227-229; as beauty spots,
241-243

Parliament, British, 304, 411

Parole boards, 127, 131. See Proba-
tion system

Parties, political, 429, 430
Pasadena, California, 183
Pasteurization, 40

Patrolman, 104

Paving, 252-254, 255

Pennsylvania, 36, 96; state police, 113;
individual treatment of prisoners,
123; discovery of petroleum in, 172;
electricity generating plants located
near mines, 179; hours of children
in industry, 294; laws regulating
factories, 296

Pensions, widows', 69, 305, 354
Periodicals, 284-285
Petrified forest, 55

Philadelphia, 19; Fairmount Park, 53;
first hospital in United States, 64;
first city to own water supply sys-
tem, 156; street lighting, 174; sewer
assessments, 207; street plan, 220;
rear alleys, 223; city hall shut in
by high buildings, 226; boulevards,
237; "city of homes," 240; Wash-
ington Monument, 243; cable cars,
255; compelled by state to build
city hall, 377

Philippines, 245, 281
Piers, city-owned, 269
Pittsburgh, 19; Lawrence Park, 47,
48; Carnegie Institute, 337
Plain clothes men, 104

Planning. See City planning

Play, and health, 45-46. See Recrea-
tion

Playground and Recreation Associa-
tion of America, 58

Playgrounds, 47-50, 219, 228–229
Police, 101; training, 102-104; work,
104-107; signal system, 107; organ-
ization, 108-110; state, 111-113;
national, 113-115

Police magistrate, 416-417
Police power, city, 90, 223
Policewomen, 106
Porto Rico, 281

Ports, development, 267-268; admin-
istration, 268-269; community
ownership of docks and piers, 269;
controlled by federal government,

269

Portsmouth, Ohio, 144

Postal service, development, 274-276;
administration, 276-277
Postmaster-General, 276
Poverty, 61, 62

President, police authority, 114, 115;
and postal service, 276, 277; and
Railroad Labor Board, 266; and
Washington city government, 379;

cabinet, 404; compensation, 404;
powers and term of office, 404-405;
and federal judges, 421
Press. See Newspapers
Primary, 429-431

Prisons, old-time, 122, 123; modern,
123; reformatories, 126
Probate courts, 420

Probation system, 419. See Parole
boards

Profit sharing, 309–310
Prohibition, 320–321
Property tax, 350-352

Protective tariff. See Tariff

Public expenditures, 347-349, 357-362
Public Health Service, Bureau of, 18,
20, 21, 23, 42; investigation of
housing conditions in Cincinnati,
141-142; and water supply, 163;
study of sewage disposal, 207
Public school system, 329-335, 339-
341

Public service commissions, powers

and duties, 182, 184; created by
state governments, 258, 265; super-
vision over telegraph and telephone
service, 281

Pullman strike, 114, 115
Pure Food and Drugs Act, 41-42
Quarantine, 13-14

Radio, 278, 279.

See Wireless

Richmond, Virginia, profitable city-
owned gas plant, 183; first success-
fully operated electric street car
line, 256

Rio Janeiro, incinerating plant in civic
centre, 203

Roads, Roman, 252; medieval, 253;
macadam, 253; street paving, 253-
254; maintenance, 254-255

Rochester, New York, street lighting,
184; reduction plant, 205

Rome, fire fighting, 80; water supply,
155-156; roads, 252

Rubbish, cause of fire, 83, 96
Rural motor express, 263
Russell Sage Foundation, 341
Safety devices, 300

St. Louis, 144, 178, 232
St. Paul, 144, 237, 356
Salt Lake City, 174, 356
San Francisco, 40; water supply, 164;
street lighting, 174; garbage collec-
tion, 206-207; civic centre, 226;
mentioned, 243, 255, 258, 276, 280
Schools, health of children in, 6;
lunches, 28, 29; for mental defec-
tives, 66; for blind, 67; for deaf, 68;
for firemen, 89; for policemen, 102–
103; in reformatories, 125-129; as
community centres, 287; value to
community, 328-329; fundamental
principles, 329-330; origin of Amer-
ican system, 330–331; organization,
331-335; administration, 339-341
Screening, 197-198

Seattle, garbage collection and dis-
posal, 206-207; mentioned, 356
Sedimentation, 198

Senate, federal, confirmation of Presi-
dent's appointments, 276; organiza-
tion, 380; mentioned, 404
Sentence, indeterminate, 127; sus-
pended, 418

Separation of powers, 372
Septic tanks, 198-199
Settlement houses, 58

Sewage disposal, danger of crude sew-
age, 197; screening, 197-198; sedi-
mentation, 198; use of septic tanks,
198-199; activated-sludge plan, 199;
filtration, 200

Sewerage, colonial methods of wastes

disposal, 193-194; in small communi-
ties, 194; in cities, 195-196

Sheriff, 400, 410, 416

Sherman Anti-Trust Law, quoted, 320
Short ballot, 397
Sinking fund, 358
Sky-scrapers, 223, 225

Smith, President A. H., inventor of
new type of container freight car,
262

Smithsonian Institution, 337

Smoke consumers, 5; nuisance, 247-
248

Snow removal, 192-193
Social insurance, 302-304
South Carolina, 373
South Dakota, 113

Speaker, presiding officer in lower
house of legislature, 373
Specialization in industry, 46
Spencer, Herbert, 143, 331
Sprinkler systems, 84
Springfield, Illinois, 89, 228

Squeegee machine for street cleaning,

192

Standard of living, and immigration,

311

19;

Standard Oil Company, 320
Standards, Bureau of, 36-37
State, health administration,
supervision of food, 41; care of de-
pendents, 70; fire protection, 94–96;
police, 111-113; correction, 130;
control of public utilities, 182, 265;
regulation of industry, 314–315;
control of education, 339; income
and expenditures, 359-360; relation
to local government, 370; relation to
federal government, 371; constitu-
tion, 371-372; legislation, 372–376;
and municipal home rule, 376–377;
control of executive in cities, 400-
401; executive officials, 401-403;
judiciary, 416-420
State, Secretary of, 404
Stevens, Colonel, 256
Storm sewer, 195

Street cleaning, improvement over
medieval methods, 190; hand sweep-
ers, 191; machines, 191; cost in
Icities of the United States, 193
Street illumination, prevents crime
and accidents, 171; early methods,
172-173; modern methods, 173–
176; public control of privately
owned plants, 181; publicly owned

Street railways, horse cars, 255; cable
cars, 255; electric cars, 256–257
Streets, dust in, 189; cleaning, 190-

193; planning, 220-222; and civic
beauty, 238-239; construction and
maintenance, 252-255

Strikes, 114, 305-306, 309
Subways, 229, 256-257
Suffrage. See Ballot, vote
Summer play school, 334
Sumter, South Carolina, 397

Supreme Court of United States, 223,
230, 404; jurisdiction and organiza-
tion, 421

Suspended sentence, 418
Sweat shops, 8

Syracuse, New York, reduction plant,
205; air-service landing station, 230
Tariff, protective, 321, 362
Tax, fire insurance as, 79, 80
Taxes, origin, 349; state control over
city, 350; general property, 350;
personal property, 351; special, 352;
poll, 352; business, 352; general
license, 353; assessment and collec-
tion, 354-356; inheritance, corpora-
tion and income, 359, 361; direct
and indirect, 361-362; excise or in-
ternal revenue, 363, 402
Telegraph, fire alarm, 85-87; in Napo-
leon's time, 277; invention by Morse,
277; submarine cable, 278; printing,
278; wireless, 278-279; in police
work, 279-280; in fire fighting, 280
Telephone, police, 107-108; invented
by Bell, 278; radio, 279; service,
288

Tenement houses, 21, 141, 142, 144
Terminals, 262, 266

Texas, 35, 36, 40, 113, 337
Theodosian Code, 62
Town. See City

Town meeting, 286, 370

Traffic problem in cities, 105, 106, 110
Transportation, need, 229-230; and
congestion, 231; city problems, 254-
258; perpetual franchises, 258; gov-
ernment regulation and community
ownership, 258, 265–267; water, 267.
See Ports
Transportation Act of 1920, 266
Treason, 413-414

Treasurer, city, 359

Treasury Department, 115, 319, 320–
321, 403

Treaties, 371

Trees, 239-240

Troy, New York, 41

Trust funds, 354
Trusts, 320

Underground railroads. See Subways
Unemployment, 302

Union Station in Washington, D. C.,
238

United States, and public health, 13,
27, 42, 143; central electric light and
power stations, 181; good roads
movement, 254-255; regulation of
commerce, 265–266; accidents, 300;
social insurance, 303; naturalization,
313-314; travelling libraries, 337;
and General Education Board, 341;
budget, 363; size of cities, 380;
sovereignty, 426–427

United States courts, 420-421
United States Steel Corporation, profit
sharing by, 310

Utah, 341
Vaccination, 12
Ventilation, 6, 136, 141

Veto, governor's, 374-375; pocket,
377; President's, 404
Vice-President, presides over Senate,
405; election, 405; as successor to
the President, 405; salary, 405
Vienna, 190

Visiting nurse, 22

Vocational education, 332

Vote, 373, 382; requirements for use
of, 428

Voting machine, 430-431

Wardens, fire and forest, 94-96
Warrant, 103, 409, 410, 419
Washington, D. C., 34, 41, 219; street
plan of, 220; mentioned, 222, 223,

229, 238, 242, 255, 337; commission
government in, 379

Waste, of water supply, 166-167; of
gas and electricity, 184
Wastes, disposal, 188-190;

street

cleaning, 190-193; sewerage, 193–
200; refuse and garbage, 201-206;
administration, 206-208

Water, used in street cleaning, 191-
192. See Water supply

Water power, 177-179

Water supply, must be protected, 6,
7; source, 154; systems of the past,
155-156; construction of modern
systems, 156-161; purification, 161–
163; administration, 163–165; com-
munity ownership and operation,
165; in fire fighting, 165–166; duty
of citizens to conserve, 166-167
Water tower, 88

Water transportation, 267-270
Weights and measures, 36; standard
models, 37; Denver's free city scales,
37; mentioned, 43
Welfare administration in Minneap-
olis, 62

Welfare work, industrial, 305–307.
See Social care of dependents, 61-73
Wells, danger in use, 154, 155
Welsbach, inventor of gas mantle, 173
White Plains, New York, 158
Widows' pension laws, 69, 305
Wireless, 278, 279

Wisconsin, 182, 265, 340

Women, employment of, 297-298
Workmen's compensation law, 304-305
World War, cantonments, 123; short-
age of homes following, 144; Amer-
ican troops overseas, 299; and
naturalization laws, 314
Yellowstone Park, 54
Yosemite Park, 54, 57

Zoning of cities, 217-219, 223-225