Power to Establish Hack-Stands A city may establish public hack-stands in streets, but cannot authorize interference with ingress to and egress from the premises abutting, upon the place where such stands are established. (New York Court of Appeals, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Company vs. City of New York, 105 Northeastern Reporter 803.) * * Recovery by City Against The fact that the contract for the construction of a municipal sewer makes the engineer's decision final as to amounts due the contractor for work done does not prevent the city from recovering from the contractor the amount of overcharges paid upon estimates fraudulently made by the engineer. (138 Pacific Reporter 618.) * * A Valid Health Regulation The Wisconsin law, which requires the owners of apartment, tenement and lodging houses to furnish suitably covered receptacles for garbage, ashes and rubbish, is a valid health regulation. (Wisconsin Supreme Court, Koeffler vs. State, 147 Northwestern Reporter 639.) City Liable for Polluting Stream A city is liable in damages to an owner of land along or near a river occasioned by the city's pollution of the stream by discharging sewage therein, according to the extent to which the value of his property has been thereby impaired. (North Caroline Supreme Court, Rhodes vs. City of Durham, 81 Southeastern Reporter 938.) Right to Tax Telegraph Companies A municipal ordinance levying an occupation tax on a telegraph company is valid if it is not excessive, considering the amount of interstate business done through the local office. (Georgia Supreme Court, Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. vs. City of Cordele, 82 Southeastern Reporter 26.) An attractive business section It is a well known fact that where there is plenty of light, Make your business section a busy section; bring Call the business men together and put up to them the proposition of a well-lighted city; show them. how a "white way" is a real business asset and a good investment. Install Ornamental Luminous Arc Lamps as hun- These lamps give a beautiful, white light and the as well as night. Bulletin No. 4955 gives details of this most modern method of street lighting. Send for your copy today. General Electric Company Largest Electrical Manufacturers in the World General Office: Schenectady, N. Y. Sales Offices in all large cities ON THE CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 8-10.-BURLINGTON, IOWA. League of Iowa Municipalities. Secretary, Frank G. Pierce, Marshalltown, Iowa. SEPTEMBER 8-10.-BALTIMORE, MD. National Association of Port Authorities. Secretary, William Joshua Barney, 29 Broadway, New York City. SEPTEMBER 9-11.-GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. The International Association for the Prevention of Smoke. Secretary, John Krause, Cleveland, Ohio. SEPTEMBER 9-11.-BUFFALO, N. Y. National Paving Brick Manufacturers' Association. Annual Meeting. Secretary, Will P. Blair, Locomotive Engineers' Building, Cleveland, Ohio. SEPTEMBER 9-11.-BOSTON, MASS. The New England Water Works Association. Annual Convention. Secretary, Willard Kent, Narragansett Pier, R. I. SEPTEMBER 12-15.-DETROIT, MICH. Association of American Portland Cement Manufacturers. Secretary, Percy H. Wilson, Land Title Building, Philadelphia, Pa. SEPTEMBER 15-18.-ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. International Association of Municipal Electricians. Secretary, Clarence George, City Electrician, Houston, Tex. SEPTEMBER 21-25.-CLEVELAND, OHIO. Illuminating Engineering Society. Annual Convention. Headquarters Hollenden Hotel. Secretary, Jacob D. Israel, 29 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City. SEPTEMBER 28-30.-CINCINNATI, OHIO. American Association of Commercial Executives. Joint meeting with Central Association of Commercial Secretaries. Secretary, E. H. Naylor, Springfield, Mass. OCTOBER 3-8.-ST. PAUL, MINN. OCTOBER 7-9.-LAWRENCE, KAN. League of Kansas Municipalities. Secretary, C. H. Talbot, Lawrence, Kan. OCTOBER 20-22.— -WASHINGTON, D. C. American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. Secretary, Henry Winthrop Ballantine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. OCTOBER 20-23.-NEW ORLEANS, LA. International Association of Fire Engineers. Headquarters, Hotel Grunewald. Secretary, James McFall, Roanoke, Va. OCTOBER 21-22.-MANKATO, MINN. League of Minnesota Municipalities. Annual Meeting. Secretary, Prof. Richard R. Price, Minneapolis, Minn. OCTOBER 21-23.-MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. National Housing Association. Secretary, Lawrence Veiller, 105 East Twentysecond Street, New York City. OCTOBER 23-25.-GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. Secretary, C. A. Prosser, 105 East Twenty-second Street, New York City. NOVEMBER 9-14.-ATLANTA, GA. American Highway Association. Business Manager, Charles P. Light, Colorado Building, Washington, D. C. NOVEMBER 10-15.-MUSKOGEE, Okla. Southern Commercial Congress. Executive officers: Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, President, Jacksonville, Fla.; Dr. Clarence J. Owens, Managing Director, Riverdale, Md. NOVEMBER 12-14.-BOSTON, MASS. American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. Executive Secretary, Miss Gertrude B. Knipp, 1211 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Md. NOVEMBER 12-14.-PHILADELPHIA, PA. Conference of American Mayors for the Discussion of Utility Problems. Acting Director, Clyde L. King, Room 216, City Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. NOVEMBER 17-21.-BALTIMORE, Md. UNION METAL WITH AN ABSOLUTE SOMETHING NO CAST IRON MANUFACTURER HAS EVER DARED Design No. 1471-C Patented. Equipped With Holophane glass. Unit No. 08200 for N trogen-Filled Lamps. HERE IT IS: "We will replace, at any time within twenty years from the date of erection, any Union Metal pressed steel shaft that fails from any cause whatever (except by wilful, malicious damage) for the nominal sumofThree Dollars ($3.00) each net F. O. B. our factory, Canton, Ohio. The nominal charge of Three Dollars does not by any means reimburse us for the production of a new steel shaft, but this liberal guarantee is given to our purchasers as an expression of good faith and confidence in the quality of our pressed metal products, in the form of a twenty-year accident policy against damage to our shaft. This insurance guarantee is printed on an envelope, one of which is attached to every steel shaft when it leaves our factory. It becomes effective and binding upon us the day that we receive from our customer the enclosed card (addressed to us) giving the serial number of the standard and the date installed." Our new designs for "Type C" Mazda Lamps are prize winners. Send for Drawings and Photographs. SERVING TARREDJUTE Capital and Surplus $9,000,000 COLUMBIA Sixty TRUST Broadway COMPANY New York SAFETY IS THE FIRST REQUISITE IN THE ISSUE OF Municipal Bonds Conservative investors gladly pay more for bonds concerning the issue of which they feel secure. Why not issue your bonds in a manner to command the highest market prices? For Information address Municipal Department Program of Important Joint Convention of Commercial Executives THE AMERICAN CITY is asked by S. C. Mead, President of the American Association of Commercial Executives, to extend to all commercial secretaries in the United States and Canada an invitation to be present at the convention to be held at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, September 28-30. This will be a joint meeting of the American Association with the Central Association of Commercial Secretaries. The principal papers to be read and discussed will be: "What Constitutes an Efficient Organization?" By William George Bruce, President, Central Association of Commercial Secretaries. "How to Keep Association Members Interested." By James A. McKibbon, Secretary, Chamber of Com. merce, Boston, Mass. "Report of the Committee on Standardization." By Chairman Munson A. Havens, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland, Ohio. "Commercial Clubs and the Farming Element." By H. V. Eva, Secretary, Commercial Club, Duluth, Minn. "Commercial Organizations and Charities Endorse ment. By Howard Strong, Secretary, Civics and Commerce Association, Minneapolis, Minn. "Promotional Effort and the Public Press." By Adolph Boldt, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Houston, Tex. "The Significance of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America." By Elliot H. Goodwin, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Washington, D). C. "Factors in Securing Factories." By J. F. Carter, Industrial Commissioner, Board of Commerce, New Orleans, La. "Is the Employment of Membership Solicitors Practical?" By Byres H. Gitchell, Secretary, Board of Commerce, Detroit, Mich. "The Democracy of the Commercial Club." By Bruce Kennedy, General Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Montgomery, Ala. "Commercial Association Advertising." Committee report by Carl Dehoney, manager of Convention and Publicity Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Thorndike Deland, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Denver, Colo. "Commercial Organizations and Civic Affairs." By J. M. Guild, Secretary-Manager, Greater Dayton Association, Dayton, Ohio. "Conventions, Their Cost and Their Value." By L. H. Lewis, General Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis, Ind. "What Education Is Doing for Secretarial Efficiency." By Prof Stephen W. Gilman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. The Boards of Directors of both organizations have adopted a recommendation that the two bodies perfect actual consolidation at the Cincinnati meeting, in order that there may then be a unified commercial organization for the whole country. ++ National Conference on IN THE AMERICAN CITY for July reference was made to the preliminary plans then being made for a conference of American mayors for the discussion of public utility problems. Announcement is now made that the proposed conference will be held in Philadelphia, Nov. 12 to 14 next. The meeting has been called by Mayors Blankenburg of Philadelphia, Mitchel of New York, Harrison of Chicago, Baker of Cleveland, and Shroyer of Dayton. Many mayors throughout the United States have expressed their intention of attending. In order that an organization may be available to carry out such plans as may be determined upon at the November meeting, there has been formed the Utilities Bureau, with temporary quarters in Room 216, City Hall, Philadelphia, and, with Clyde L. King, Ph.D., as acting director. The Board of Trustees of the Bureau are Louis D. Brandeis, Frederick A. Cleveland, Felix Frankfurter, Samuel S. Fels, Charles F. Jenkins, Leo Stanton Rowe, Frederick W. Taylor, and Charles R. Van Hise. A Proposed National Conference of Mayors and City Commissioners for 1915 Mayors of many cities throughout the United States received last month from Mayor John Purroy Mitchel, of New York, a request for their opinion as to the advisability of holding a National Conference of Mayors and City Commissioners in San Francisco next summer. Should it be decided to hold such a conference it has been suggested that it continue for three or four days in from five to seven sessions. At the morning sessions topics of interest. to all municipalities would be presented by experts, followed by free discussion. For the evening sessions general meetings are suggested, with possibly a banquet on one right. * + American Association of At the annual Convention held in Newburgh and New York City on August 24 to 27 the following officers were elected to serve for the ensuing year: President-Gustav X. Amrhyn, New Haven, Conn. Secretary-Treasurer-R. W. Cotterill, Seattle, Wash. Vice-Presidents-John McLaren, San Francisco, Cal.; H. Merkel, New York City; C. W. Fohn, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Charles Haible, Newburgh, N. Y.; J. H. Prost, Chicago, Ill.; John Henderson, Montreal, Canada. San Francisco was selected as the place of meeting for the 1915 convention. |