194 KANSAS UNIVERSITY QUARTERLY. 



Purroy, H. D. "English and American Fire Services." Forum, 



November, 1886, vol. 5, pp. 299-307. 

 Shaw, Albert. "Municipal Lodging Houses." Charities Review, 



No. I. 

 Smith, Irwin F. "Influence of Sewerage and Water Supply on the 

 Death-Rate in Cities." 



A paper read at a Sanitary Convention in Ypsilanti, Mich., July 1, 

 1885, and reprinted from a Supplement to the Annual Report of the 

 Michigan State Board of Health for the year 1885. Numerous refer- 

 ences in the notes. 

 Sterne, Simon. "The Greathead Underground Electric Railway." 



Forum, August, 189 1, vol. 11, p. 683, 

 Thompson, Clifford. "Waste by Fire." Forum, September, 1886, 



vol. 2, pp. 27-39. 

 Warner, Amos G. "The New Municipal Lodging-House in Wash- 

 ington. " (Charities Review, March, 1893. 



7. PARTICULAR CITIES. 



The municipal reports of American cities form the original material 

 for a study of their government. Many of the papers already cited, 

 especially the Johns Hopkins Studies, relate to particular cities, but 

 have been given above because of their more or less general applica- 

 tion. New York is taken as a type of our large cities and a few notes 

 are added upon other cities. 



a. New York. 



For a brief account of the system of Government, see the article on 

 "New Ycrk," by E. L. Godkin in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th 

 ed., vol. 17. Dr. J. F. Jameson's "Origin and Development of the 

 Municipal Government of New York City," Magazine of American 

 History, May and September, 1882, gives a sketch of municipal gov- 

 ernment down to 182 1. A portion of each volume of the Manual of 

 the Corporation (28 v., 1841-71), after that for 1846, is devoted to a 

 history of the city. The volume for 1868 contains a reprint of old 

 charters. The fact that James Parton in October, 1869, North Amer- 

 ican Review, vol. 103, p. 413, attributed the growing evils in the gov- 

 ernment of the city to the abolition of household suffrage, is interest- 

 ing in connection with the recommendation of the Commission of 

 1877. See also in the North American Review, "The Judiciary of 

 New York," July, 1867, vol. 105, p. 148, and Charles Nordhoff's 

 " Misgovernment of New York," October, 1871, vol. 113, p. 321. An 

 account of the Tweed ring may also be found in the North American 

 Review, in a series of articles by C. F. Wingate, entitled "An Episode 



