Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-03
Convention to Meet in This
City Next Week.
WIDE SIGNIFICANCE
MANY DISTINGUISHED PUBL
CISTS EXPECTED.
Elaborate Plans Of District officers for
Entertainment Of Guests-0b-
jects Of the League.

John Joy Edison and F. L. Siddons, presi-
dent and secretary. respectively, Of the
Civil Service Reform Association Of the Dis.
trfct of Columbia, and other officers OF the
organization in the District, hold the opin-
ion that the twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton of the National Civil Service Reform
League. to be held here Thursday and Fri
day. December and next. will be one OF
the largest and most significant ever held
by this body, and may in these respects sur
pass all the conventions that have gone be.
fore. The meeting will be under the au-
spices Of the local association. which is
making elaborate plans for the entertain
ment of the distinguished delegates ex.
pected to be present.
The national league is composed OF mer
who stand high in the communities in which
they live and has a record of past work &C
complished of which 1t is justly proud. L
was organized twenty-five years ago, 1t!
first president being George William Cur
tbs. who was succeeded by Carl Schurz o.
New York. who occupied the office unit
three years ago, when Daniel c. Gilman o.
Maryland the present chief executive Of
flcer, was elected. The original object o.
the organization was to secure the enact
ment of a civil service reform law, which
it did in the law Of 1883 at present on the
statute books. Since attaining this sue
cess, the members of the league have beer
close observers of the working of the Law
and have been effective in securing it:
proper enforcement. Various fruitful in
vestigatfOns have been instituted at thei
suggestion.
In addition to the national law, the league
has been laboring to have civil service re
form measures passed by all the states ant
municipalities of the country and in grea
degree has succeeded, though it's work /:
far from finished in this direction.
Civil Service Reform in District.
1t has always advocated the extension Of
the present federal law to the government
Of the District of Columbia, and in this has
the earnest support Of the Commissioners
Another object in these days is to secure q
civil service law for the United States con.
sular service, which will put premium or
training for this important work and tend
to develop body of men especially fitted
for 1t. 1t Is said that commercial men and
boards of trade in practically every city in
the land are heartily in favor of this plan
of the league, and are lending 1t their sup
port.
All members of the civil service reform
associations in every portion of the coun-
try have been invited to attend the coming
convention, as well as members Of organi.
cations having similar objects. Under the
terms of the constitution of the body
Officers shall be elected for the ensuing
year and other appropriate business may
be transacted"
Program Of Convention.
The general program follows:
Thursday, December $3.50 am., meet
ing of the council at the New Willard
Hotel; 1890 pm, luncheon to the members
of the council-at the New Willard Hotel
$50 p. m, first session of the league, public
meeting at the New Willard Hotel; pm.
reception to delegates and ladies accom-
papying them, rendered by Mr. and Mrs
John w. Foster at 1923 18th street north
west; pm, second session of the league
public meeting at the New Willard Hotel.
Friday, December $3.50 am, third SEES
sion of the league. public meeting at the
New Willard Hotel; 1870 pm, luncheon tt
delegates and ladies accompanying them
2:30 pm, fourth session of the league. pub
lie meeting at the New Willard Hotel; SN
pm, reception (to be followed by a COLA
tom to delegates and ladies accompanying
them, rendered by the Civil Service Reform
Association of the District of Columbia
The headquarters of the league will be al
the New Willard Hotel, Pennsylvania ave.
nue., 14th and f streets.
The reception Friday evening will be thu
social feature of the convention. The fol
lowing persons compose the COMMITTEES
which will receive the guests: Commission
ers Henry B. F. Mcfarland and Henri,
Litchfield West Engineer COMMISSIONS
Col John Biddle, Gems. George ii. Harrie
and Ellis Spear, James T. Dubois, John w
Foster, Wayne MacVeagh, simon WolI
Rev Drs Teunis S. Hamlin and D. j. Stat
ford, Charles w. Needham, LID; Rev
Wallace Radcliffe, and Messrs. Charles ]
Bell, William V. Cox, Charles e. roster
Charles c. Glover. William Bruce King
John B. Larner, Francis E. Leupp Clar
ence F. Norment. Theodore w Noyes. Rob
ert L. O'Brien, Cuno H. Rudolph, Thoma!
w. Smith, John T. Wilkins and s. Walte
Woodward.
The National officers.
The officers of the national league are
Daniel C. Gilman, president; Elliot II
Goodwin, secretary; A. s. Frissel, treas
urer; Albert de Roode. assistant secretary
Henry G. Chapman. editor of Good Gov
eminent. Council-Charles J. Bonaparte
chairman; Arthur H. Brooks, Moorf1elt
Storey. w. w. Vaughan, Richard Henry
Dana, Morrill, Wyman, jr.. William A
Aiken. Henry w. Farnam, Charles c. Bur
bingham, Silas w. Burt, Edward Cary
Charles Collins, Richard Watson Glider
Henry w. Harden, William g. Low, George
McAneny, Samuel H. Ordway. Wtll1an
Everett P. Wheeler, Henry A. Richmond
Ansley Wilcox, Robert d. jerks, Charles
Richardson, Herbert Welsh, r. francs
Wood, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, II. Barton
Jacobs, DR.. H. ~. fteik, JoHIl Joy E1uooi
r. l.. Siddons, Charles B. Wildly, William
e. Cushing, Harry ]. Millgan. Lucius B
Swift. William Dudley Foulke, John A. But
Ter. John F. Lee, William b. Moulton an6
Henry Van kleeck
The officers of the Civil Service Reform
Association of the District are: President
John Joy Edison; vice presidents, Theodore
w. Noyes, Henry B. F. Macfarland and 9
Walter Woodward; secretary, F. Z. Sid
dons; assistant secretary, Charles w. Stet
son; treasurer, William Bruce King. Elk
ecutive committee. the officers. and vii.
liam Dudley Foulke. William Shines, Ell:
Spear, Henry Haywood Classic, Francis E
Leupp and Charles w. Needham.
Among the distinguished delegates ex
pected to be present at the convention be-
sides the officers. are George Burnham, jr.
of Pennsylvania. treasurer of the Nationa
Municipal Reform League: r. Bayard Cut
ting of New York. a prominent reformer
Richard Henry Dana of Cambridge, Mass.
a noted lawyer and son-in-law of Long
fellow; Prof. Henry w. Farnham of Yale
r. w. Glider. editor of Century," Secre-
tary e. A. Hitchcock of the Department OF