VOLUME V LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE FRONTISPIECE Proposed Plan for the New Chicago........ 1041 ... 1059 ... 1077 1091 ... 1109 1127 1145 ... 1167 Another View of the Great Chicago Plan...... . 1177 Sectional View, Grand Central Terminal, New York...... 1185 Municipal Docks at South Ferry, New York.......... 1195 New York State Capitol, Albany, New York.... 1221 State Capitol of Minnesota, St. Paul................ 1255 Memorial Building, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1273 The State Educational Building, Albany, N. Y..... New York State Reformatory, Elmira, N. Y............ 1309 ..... 1295 BIBLIOGRAPHY For those who wish to read more extensively the following works are especially recommended: Author William H. Allen.. M. N. Baker. Simeon E. Baldwin James Bryce. Thomas M. Cooley. Horace E. Deming. Walter F. Dodd. Title of Work . Civics and Health Municipal Engineering and Sanitation . Municipal Chemistry American Government and Politics Readings in American Government and Politics Commission Government in American Cities .The New City Government The American Commonwealth . Principles of Constitutional Law The Government of American Cities John F. Dillon.. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations The Revision and Amendment of State Constitutions Charles B. Elliott. James W. Garner. The Law of Municipal Corporations ....Municipal Administration Essays on Municipal Administration Civil Government in the United States Government in the United States .Municipal Government .Municipal Home Rule Municipal Problems Principles of Administrative Law in the United States Albert Bushnell Hart. William B. Munro. William B. Munro. Paul S. Reinsch. Paul S. Reinsch. Leo S. Rowe.. Actual Government The City the Hope of Democracy The British City City Government by Commission The Government of European Cities Charles Mulford Robinson. Albert Shaw. Adna F. Weber. Charles Zueblin .. The American City ...Great Cities in America The American Constitutional System American Municipal Problems Local Government PART III Municipal Government CHAPTER I THE AMERICAN CITY WE NOW come to the last and most important branch of local government in the United States, City Government. The systems of government described in the preceding volume were designed for rural and sparsely settled communities; Part III of the present volume deals with the infinitely more complicated and complex system which has been devised to meet the needs of urban communities. (1) Importance of City Government. A feature of the recent New York budget exhibit was the likeness of Father Knickerbocker, life size, gazing in wonderment upon some statistics relative to the city of which he is the personification. New York, the second largest city in the world, population 5,000,000. A city with more Jews than there ever were in Palestine; more Germans than in any city of Germany except Hamburg and Berlin; more Bohemians than |