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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ate committee on the Distiict, and Mr. Babcock,of Wisconsin, chairman of the House committee.Washington had at one time, for a few years,an elaborate and ambitious municipal govern-ment ; but in 1878 reversion was made to thesimpler and more effective plan of centralizingall authority in the hands of commissioners.At that time the board of metropolitan policeand the board of school trustees were abolished,
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HON. HENRY IJ. F. MACFARLAND. (Chairmun of tlic Board of Cominissioners. District of Co-lumbia, and of the citizens committee on tlie centen-nial celebration.) as was also the board of health and other sepa-rate boards and commissions. The affairs ofWashington are ably, honestly, and economicallycondu(;ted, and the various branches of publicwork are supervised by men of special trainingand fitness. The centennial celebration begins at 10 oclockon the morning of Wednesday, December 12,with a reception by the President of the UnitedStates to the governors of all the States, atwliich Colonel Bingham will explain briefly theenlargement of tlie Executive Mansion, Mr. Mac-failand will speak of the history.and develop-ment of the District, and ex-Governor Wolcott,of Massachusetts (it is expected), will make anaddress on tlu^ development of the nation. A 686 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl/IE(V OF REVIEWS.

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