III. Mandatory local commissions for all cities, subject to supervision and a measure of control by state central commission: (Police, fire and public utilities; council may extend to other branches.) 133,859 Miscellaneous: Maryland: Baltimore 508,957 Charter provisions for public schools. Special law for police department. NOTE.-Public school systems:-Generally, where there are civil service laws, the teaching forces of the public schools are excepted from the operation of the law and rules. In New York City, by charter provision the teaching staff is selected through competitive examination. In Boston, the teaching force of the public school system is also selected through competition. EDITOR'S NOTE.-At the request of the National Municipal League, Mr. Goodwin has prepared a model civil service law for cities, which will be printed in the Appendix of the Proceedings. For the exact page see Index. in Colorado Municipalities. By MISS MARY WINSOR, HAVERFORD, PA., President Pennsylvania Limited Suffrage League.1 1 This report is based on fifty letters received from Colorado Springs, Grand Junction, Denver and other towns in Colorado, in reply to the questions in the circular given hereafter. The time given us by the National Municipal League in which to conduct this investigation was quite short, and we were unable to get our circulars and letters ready until July, and were therefore unable to send out as many as we wished. As we were limited to several hundred for Colorado, we took care to send them to representative men and women, prominent in city and state, who could speak not merely for themselves, but for others; who, in many cases, held official positions and represented clubs or organizations. In order that the replies we shall quote here may not seem anonymous and that the reader may see that those we interviewed are entitled to speak with authority, we submit the following names as being among those to whom we sent out circulars and letters: Governor John F. Shafroth, Mrs. Harry Landon Hollister, President Colorado State Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Sprigg Shackleford, District President of the "Western Slope" of the Federation; Mrs. J. K. Gravett, First Vice-President of the Federation; Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, ex-President of the Federation and County Superintendent of Schools for Denver; Miss Ellis Meredith, Election Commissioner; Mrs. Stanley Casper, President of the State Board of Charities and Corrections; State Senator A. V. Boker; Mrs. Alma V. Lafferty (the woman member of the House of Representatives); Mr. Thomas V. Howell, Chairman House Committee on Corporations; Mr. C. E. Chadsey, Superintendent School District in our city of Denver; the Rev. John M. Houghton, Rector of St. Mark's church, Denver; Mrs. E. A. Wixson, of the Colorado Congress of Mothers; Mr. Omar E. Garwood, Deputy District-Attorney of Denver; Mr. R. W. Chisholm, of Colorado Springs. The Colorado State Federation of Women's Clubs numbers over six thousand women, and we thought the opinions of the officers and members of the Federation would be very valuable, as the Federation has been active in obtaining good laws. It was Mr. Woodruff's wish that we should obtain facts and a record of what has been done, either for good or evil, through woman suffrage. He also wanted to know how |