FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Chief engineer.-George S. Watson, 3928 Fourteenth Street.

Deputies.-Andrew J. Sullivan, 1506 Wisconsin Avenue; P. W. Nicholson, 5504 Thirteenth Street.

Battalion chief engineers.-James Keliher, 33 S Street; T. O'Connor, 912 Twentythird Street; P. R. Davis, 1361 Monroe Street; J. J. Hanlon, 1345 Florida Avenue; C. W. Gill, 1326 Euclid Street; C. A. Kreamer, 3110 N Street; J. Carrington, 353 I Street SW.; C. E. Schrom, 1314 Maryland Avenue NE.

Fire marshal.-L. V. Seib, 1303 Shepherd Street.

Chief clerk.-E. R. Pierce, The Linville.

Superintendent of machinery.-Thomas M. Robinson, 918 North Carolina Avenue SE.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

Health officer.-Dr. William C. Fowler, 2322 First Street.

Assistant health officer.-Dr. Lewis A. Newfield, The Chateau Thierry.

Chief clerk and deputy health officer.-Arthur G. Cole, 4121 Seventh Street.

Chief of bureau of preventable diseases.—

Chief sanitary inspector.-Charles R. Holman, 314 East Capitol Street.

Chief food inspector.-Dr. Reid R. Ashworth, 3228 Warder Street.

Chief of bureau of vital statistics.-Dr. Albert C. Patterson, The Chastleton.
Chemist. Dr. T. M. Price, 1811 Irving Street.

Serologist.-W. F. Landon, 713 Nineteenth Street.

Bacteriologist.-John E. Noble, 1204 Eighteenth Street.

Chief medical and sanitary inspector of schools.-Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, 1425 Chapin Street.

Poundmaster.-Walter R. Smith, Takoma Park, Md.

Major and superintendent.

METROPOLITAN POLICE.

Assistant superintendents.-Daniel Sullivan, 625 Princeton Street; Charles A. Evans, 39 Florida Avenue.

Chief, also property, clerk.-Edwin B. Hesse, 506 A Street SE.

Police surgeons.-Dr. W. H. R. Brandenburg, 1416 R Street; Dr. James J. Kilroy, 103 I Street; Dr. Daniel L. Borden, 2337 Ashmead Place; Dr. C. J. Murphy, 1 Thirteenth Street NE.

Harbor master.-Russell Dean, 2520 Raleigh Street SE.

Sanitary officer.-E. L. Phillips, 153 Kentucky Avenue SE.
Inspector of pharmacy.-R. A. Sanders, 39 Quincy Street.

Police headquarters.-Inspectors F. E. Cross, 319 Ninth Street SE.; W. H. Harrison,

3282 M Street.

Detective headquarters.-C. L. Grant, 62 Bryant Street.

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION.

Executive secretary.-Walter C. Allen, 1800 K Street.

General counsel.-Francis H. Stephens, 1714 Summit Place.

Accountant.-E. V. Fisher, 1607 Thirtieth Street SE.

Engineer.-R. G. Klotz, 1471 Irving Street.

Inspector of gas and meters.-Elmer G. Runyan, 1651 Harvard Street.
Chief clerk.-E. J. Milligan, Clinton, Md.

RENT COMMISSION.

Chairman.-A. Leftwich Sinclair, 1519 Lamont Street.

Mrs. Clara Sears Taylor, The Montana.

William F. Gude, 3800 New Hampshire Avenue.

Secretary.-D. C. Roper, jr., The Parkwood.

ORIGIN AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

The District of Columbia was established under the authority and direction of acts of Congress approved July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791, which were passed to give effect to a clause in the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, giving Congress the power—

"To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the accept

ance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.”

The seat of Government of the United States was first definitely named by the following clause in the act entitled "An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia," approved June 11, 1878, as follows: "That all territory which was ceded by the State of Maryland to the Congress of the United States, for the permanent seat of Government of the United States, shall continue to be designated as the District of Columbia" (20 Stat., 102), although it had been incidentally mentioned as such in several preceding statutes.

It embraces an area of 69.245 square miles, of which 60.01 square miles are land. The river boundary is high-water mark along the Virginia shore of the Potomac River.

The local government of the District of Columbia is a municipal corporation having jurisdiction over the territory which "was ceded by the State of Maryland to the Congress of the United States for the permanent seat of the Government of the United States." (20 Stat., 102.)

This government is administered by a board of three commissioners having in general equal powers and duties. (20 Stat., 103.)

Two of these commissioners, who must have been actual residents of the District for three years next before their appointment and have during that period claimed residence nowhere else, are appointed from civil life by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate of the United States for a term of three years each and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

The other commissioner is detailed from time to time by the President of the United States from the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, and shall not be required to perform any other duty. (Ib.) This commissioner shall be selected from among the captains or officers of higher grade having served at least 15 years in the Corps of Engineers of the Army of the United States. (26 Stat., 1113.)

Three officers of the same corps, junior to said commissioner, may be detailed to assist him by the President of the United States. (28 Stat., 246.)

The senior officer of the Corps of Engineers of the Army who shall for the time being be detailed to act as assistant (and in case of his absence from the District or disability, the junior officer so detailed) shall, in the event of the absence from the District or disability of the commissioner who shall for the time being be detailed from the Corps of Engineers, perform all the duties imposed by law upon said commissioner. (26 Stat., 1113.).

One of said commissioners shall be chosen president of the board of commissioners at their first meeting, and annually and whenever a vacancy shall occur. (20 Stat., 103.)

The commissioners are in a general way vested with jurisdiction covering all the ordinary features of municipal government and are also ex officio the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia. (37 Stat., 974.)

The expenditures of the District of Columbia are based upon estimates annually prepared by the commissioners and submitted by them to Congress through the Secretary of the Treasury. To the extent to which it shall approve of said estimates, Congress shall appropriate a proportion out of the Treasury of the United States. The remainder of the amount of such approved estimates shall be levied and assessed upon the taxable property and privileges in said District other than the property of the United States and of the District of Columbia. (Act approved.June 11, 1878; 20 Stat., 104.) At present the relative proportions are 40 per cent out of the Treasury of the United States and 60 per cent out of the revenues derived from taxation of private property and privileges. "All taxes collected shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and the same, as well as appropriations to be made by Congress as aforesaid, shall be disbursed for the expenses of said District, on itemized vouchers, which shall have been audited and approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia, certified by said commissioners, or a majority of them." (Ib., 105.)

Congress has by sundry statutes empowered the commissioners to make building regulations; plumbing regulations; to make and enforce all such reasonable and usual police regulations as they may deem necessary for the protection of lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the District, and other regulations of a municipal nature,

WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE.

(Corner Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street (adjoining Union Station). Phone, Main 7272.)

Postmaster.-Merritt O. Chance, 1426 Columbia Road.

Secretary to the postmaster.-William C. Gilbert, 4210 Seventh Street.
Bookkeeper.-Clarence W. Nohe, 1822 Monroe Street.

Examiners of stations.-Harry D. Sherwood, 3306 Fourteenth Street; Edgar
Church, 614 Maryland Avenue NE.

Assistant postmaster.-W. H. Haycock, Tunlaw Road and Jewett Street.

Postal cashier.-Franklin C. Burrows, 311 Takoma Avenue, Takoma Park, Md. Money-order cashier.-Philip Otterback, 1426 Columbia Road. Superintendent of mails.-Clarence E. Schooley, 604 E Street NE.

Assistant superintendents of mails. Frederick Sillers, 1349 Otis_Place; Sidney G. Bursley, 4910 Arkansas Avenue; Fred D. Riggles, 35 Rhode Island Avenue; George E. Smith, 534 Fourth Street NE.; Cloyd Tavenner, 1416 Thirty-third

Street.

Assistant superintendent of mails in charge of registry section.-E. A. Heilig, 1401 Girard Street.

Assistant superintendent of mails in charge of carriers.—John H. Muirhead, 68 R

Street.

Superintendent of motor vehicles.-Hiram B. Jones, 2122 Decatur Place.

Classified stations.

Superintendent.

Sewell T. Fort.
A. Lehr.

L. E. Barnard.
G. C. Bondurant.
C. F. Knockey.
Julian E. Tapp.
S. W. Trunnell.
C. R. Williams.
R. N. Harper.
H. W. Page..
H. F. Brown
C. R. Hurley.
H. E. Riley

C. Pennington..
W. S. Thompson.
J. H. Simmons.
J. W. Murphy.
G. L. Tait

W. M. Barclay.
H. T. McCuen.
W. P. Robey.
C. L. Maxwell.
M. D. Finch.
J. W. Cotter..
R. S. Ashford.
H. W. Klotz.
Arthur Turner.
H. W. Ransdell
E. W. Turner..

D. G. Miller...

NEWSPAPERS REPRESENTED.

(Phones: House Press Gallery, Main 1246; Senate Press Gallery, Main 99.)