that Mr. Leavitt's sole reliance was upon independent sentiment in the district, and such exertion as Good Government Club A could make at short notice to induce voters to go to the polls and give expression by means of the individual paster.

During the year that followed the club steadily increased in members and influence, in spite of the drain upon its membership caused by the withdrawal of many of its most prominent members who had become founders and officers of new clubs. In the club itself interest was stimulated by frequent meetings to consider municipal questions, and active educational work was carried on by the various committees.

The club took an active part in the confederation of the clubs, and sent four delegates to the council, one of whom, W. Harris Roome, was chosen vicepresident. At the convention of the Good Government Clubs held in June. 1894, to consider nominations for the ensuing municipal election, W. Harris Roome, at this time president of Club A, was chosen presiding officer and chairman of the Executive Committee.

Many members of Club A sacrificed time and pleasure during the summer in preparing for the coming struggle in the fall. Mr. Gustav H. Schwab, a trustee of the club, was chiefly instrumental in the formation of the Committee of Seventy, which also included, among others, the following members of Club A: J. Harsen Rhoades, W. Harris Roome, Wm. J. Schieffelin; A. C. Bernheim, Chairman of the Press Committee; Joseph Larocque, Chairman of the Committee of Seventy, and Seth Low.

In October conferences were held with the various Anti-Tammany organizations in the Twenty-first Assembly District, to secure the nominations for the Assembly and the Board of Aldermen, men pledged to the support of Good Government principles. The outcome of these conferences was the nomination of Howard Payson Wilds for Assemblyman and Benjamin E. Hall for Alderman by Club A, by party nomination. These candidates also received the nomination of all the Anti-Tammany organizations in the district with the exception of the New York State Democracy party. The ticket of the Committee of Seventy having been nominated by the convention of the Good Government. Clubs, received the enthusiastic and effective support of the club.

Profiting by the experience of the preceding year, a Campaign Committee was appointed at a very early date, with De Forest Grant as chairman, and James R. Burnet as secretary.

Systematic methods were employed in each election district to reach all qualified voters, and every effort made to secure a full registration. An enormous registration was the result. A special sub-committee under Fred. P. Delafield had charge of all election districts west of Sixth avenue, a Tammany stronghold, and these districts were nightly visited by representatives of the club, who spoke to informal gatherings from a cart, and campaign literature was distributed.

Several appeals to register and vote for the club's candidates were sent throughout the district, and a thorough house-to-house canvass was carried on a few days before the election.

A captain with several lieutenants had direction of each election district, and was held responsible by the Campaign Committee for the results attained. On election day, representatives of the club, armed with a badge and Good

Government party certificates, acted as watchers at every polling-place in the district, from the opening of the polls to the closing of the count.

So effective was the work that not a single violation of the law was reported. In addition to the Twenty-first Assembly District, Club A took charge of the Sixteenth Assembly District, and supplied the polling places with watchers. The result of the election of 1894, remarkable as it was throughout the city, in no district showed to better advantage the result of systematic effort in support of the Good Government principles than in the Twenty-first Assembly District.

Never before has such a political organization, composed entirely of voluntary workers actuated by patriotic principles, existed in this city. It certainly shows what a few honest men can do, if they will only stand shoulder to shoulder against the common enemy.

For several years past the local office-holders have been Tammany men, and the above overwhelming majorities show the result of the political revolution brought about by the influence of the club in the Twenty-first Assembly District. Shortly after election the club gave a large banquet to its victorious candidates; over 200 members attended, together with many invited guests. Among the speakers were Messrs. Wheeler H. Peckham, John W. Goff, Seth Low and others.

The club has not relaxed its efforts to secure the enforcement of its principles, and to that end holds bi-weekly meetings for the discussion of municipal problems, and has various committees actively at work, namely:

Legislation Committee-Charles H. Strong, Chairman.
Street Cleaning Committee-Franklin A. Wilcox, Chairman.
District Improvement Committee-Samuel J. Rose, Chairman.
Campaign Committee-F. W. Longfellow, Chairman.
House Committee-James Goldmark, Chairman.
Meetings Committee-Leopold B. Pollak, Chairman.
Membership Committee-Carl Schurz Petrasch, Chairman.
Library Committee-Thomas E. Satterthwaite, Chairman.
Audit Committee-Wm. J. Schieffelin, Chairman.

The club at present numbers over 700 members, and occupies a handsomely furnished Club-house, on the corner of Fifty-eighth street and Lexington avenue, with parlors, reading-rooms, billiard-room and library.

The present officers of the club are: De Forest Grant, President; Almon Goodwin, Vice-President; W. F. Crockett, Second Vice-President; Talbot Olyphant, Treasurer; Wm. M. Bennett, Secretary.

HE fathers of this now powerful club were the Rev. John P. Peters, rector of St. Michael's P. E. Church, and Henry R. Kunhardt, Jr., members of The City Club, who in the winter of 1892-'93, carried "big B" up town to the neighborhood of West One Hundredth street and thereabouts planted it, after much hard preliminary work. The club was organized temporarily in April, 1893, and in November of that year effected a permanent organization, with the following trustees: Walter Allen, Geo. H. Baker, John A. Beall, S. P. Carmichael, John C. Coleman, Edwin C. Dusenbury, Henry R. Elliot, Arthur H. Ely, Theo. I. Haubner, Hy. R. Kunhardt, Jr., Sam'l J. Luckings, L. C. Mygatt, John H. C. Nevius, F. D. Owen, John P. Peters, T. McClure Peters, Eugene H. Porter, Walter Stabler, and Jas. K. Warnock. In November, 1892, Tammany had carried the Twenty-third District by over 1,100 majority, with Mr. W. B. Ellison for Assembly. In 1893 that gentleman was "turned down" by Mr. Croker, being too respectable for Tammany's purposes. This was Club B's opportunity and rallying point. Disgusted Democrats and decent Republicans united in nominating Judson Lawson, a member of Club B, and after a thorough canvass and a hustling campaign, elected him by 1,732 votes over his Tammany opponent. He and Mr. Sheffield, nominated by Club D, were the first to break Tammany's monopoly of the thirty assemblymen from New York City.

In 1894 Club B renominated Mr. Lawson, who was elected by 4,311 majority, being the largest majority given any member of Assembly from New York City. This district also gave Strong and Goff the largest majorities (over 5,300) of any district in the city, to which Club B contributed in no small degree by its energetic and courageous work.

At the time of its appointment four members of the Committee of Seventy were members of this Club; now seven of the committee are enrolled among its members. The membership is now over 600, a sturdy and independent body of men, who manned the polls in their own and other districts in a most complete and thorough manner.