EDITOR: CLYDE LYNDON KING

ASSISTANT EDITOR: T. W. VAN METRE

EDITOR BOOK DEPT.: ROSWELL C. MCCREA

EDITORIAL COUNCIL: J. C. BALLAGH, THOMAS CONWAY, JR., S. S. HUEBNER, CARL
KELSEY, CLYDE LYNDON KING, J. P. LICHTENBERGER, ROSWELL C.
MCCREA, SCOTT NEARING, E. M. PATTERSON, L. S. ROWE,
ELLERY C. STOWELL, T. W. VAN METRE,

Copyright, 1915, by

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

All rights reserved

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY

REMARKS AT RECEPTION OF THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEM-

BER 12...

Edward B. Smith, of Edward B. Smith Company, Philadelphia.

Edwin S. Stuart, formerly Governor of Pennsylvania.

Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor of Philadelphia.

H. C. Hocken, Mayor of Toronto.

PART I-PRACTICAL UTILITY PROBLEMS

First Session-Friday Morning, November 13.

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1

REMARKS OF PRESIDING OFFICER..

7

Rudolph Blankenburg, Mayor of Philadelphia.

FUNDAMENTAL PLANKS IN A PUBLIC UTILITY PROGRAM....

Delos F. Wilcox, Franchise Expert, New York City.

8

THE REGULATION OF MUNICIPAL UTILITIES..

20

Nathaniel T. Guernsey, General Counsel, American Telephone and

Telegraph Company, New York City.

PHILADELPHIA'S TRANSIT PROBLEM..

28

A. Merritt Taylor, Director, Department of City Transit, Phila-

delphia.

MUNICIPAL LIGHTING RATES..

33

Ray Palmer, Commissioner of Gas and Electricity, Chicago, Ill.

Andrew J. Gallagher, Delegate from San Francisco, California.

Telegram to the Assembly of Governors.

PART II-THE REGULATION OF UTILITIES

Second Session-Friday Afternoon, November 13.

REMARKS OF PRESIDING OFFICER: "THE REGULATION OF

PUBLIC UTILITIES".

Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago, Ill.

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54

SOME PRESENT-DAY ISSUES OF PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATION 62

Edward W. Bemis, Member of Advisory Board, Valuation Depart-

ment, Interstate Commerce Commission; Board of Supervising

Engineers, Chicago Traction, Chicago, and Director of Valuations

for the District of Columbia.

WHAT CERTAIN CITIES HAVE

STATE REGULATION...

ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT

72

Stiles P. Jones, Secretary, Voters League, Minneapolis, Minn.

A CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE CORPOR-

12

ATIONS..

83

Charles Day, of Day & Zimmermann, Philadelphia.

WHAT REGULATION MUST ACCOMPLISH IF IT IS TO BE PER-

MANENT... . . .

94

John M. Eshleman, President, Railroad Commission of California.

111

OPEN DISCUSSION.

Percival R. Moses, Electrical Engineer, New York City.

H. C. Hocken, Mayor of Toronto.

H. W. Ashley, of Rathbun, Jones Engineering Co., Toledo, Ohio.

D. W. Wilbur, Mayor of Poughkeepsie, New York.

Charles Day, of Day & Zimmermann, Philadelphia.

Halford Erickson, Member of Railroad Commission of Wisconsin.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONS BETWEEN LOCAL AND

STATE REGULATION.....

163

Milo R. Maltbie, Member of Public Service Commission for the

First District, New York.

THE CASE FOR HOME RULE..

170

Charles E. Merriam, Professor of Political Science, University of

Chicago; Alderman, Chicago.

STATE AND LOCAL REGULATION IN PENNSYLVANIA..

175

Ira W. Stratton, Mayor of Reading, Pa.

CONCLUDING REMARKS OF PRESIDING OFFICER..

John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York.

186

PART IV-MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP AND OPERATION

Fourth Session-Saturday Morning, November 14.

REMARKS OF PRESIDING OFFICER: "MUNICIPAL OWNER-

SHIP".....

188

Newton D. Baker, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio.

MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP-THE TESTIMONY OF FOREIGN EX-

PERIENCE..

194

Frederic C. Howe, Commissioner of Immigration, New York City.

PASADENA'S MUNICIPAL LIGHT AND POWER PLANT.

209

C. Wellington Koiner, Electrical Engineer and General Manager,

Municipal Lighting Works Department, Pasadena, California.

SOUTH NORWALK'S MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC WORKS.

Albert E. Winchester, South Norwalk, Connecticut.

228

THE HYDRO-ELECTRIC SYSTEM IN TORONTO..

H. C. Hocken, Mayor of Toronto.

246

SOME LIMITATIONS AND OBJECTIONS TO MUNICIPAL OWNER-

SHIP...

254

Clarke M. Rosecrantz, of General Counsel, The New York City

Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company.

OPEN DISCUSSION..

James M. Curley, Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts.

274

188

Oliver P. Newmann, President, Board of Commissioners, District of 86

Columbia.

Charles A. Prouty, Director, Bureau of Valuations, Interstate

Commerce Commission, Washington, D. C.

MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP AND OPERATION OF WATER-WORKS 279

M. N. Baker, Editor of Engineering News, New York City.

WHY I BELIEVE IN MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP..

Robert Crosser, United States Congressman from Ohio, Member of

Committee on the District of Columbia.

282

THE UTILITIES BUREAU..

293

Felix Frankfurter, Professor of Law, Harvard University.