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Renew online by choosing the My Account option at: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/catalog/ CHICAGO CITY MANUAL 1915 CHICAGO BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND MUNICIPAL UBRARY 1915 OFFICIAL CITY HALL DIRECTORY Location of the Several City Departments, Bureaus and Offices in the City Hall FIRST FLOOR The Water Department The Fire Department Superintendent, Bureau of Water The Fire Marshal Assessor, Bureau of Water Hearing Room, Board of Local Im- Meter Division, Bureau of Water provements Shut-Off Division, Bureau of Water Department of the City Clerk Chief Clerk. Bureau of Water Office of the City Clerk of Office of the Cashier Department Office of the Chief Clerk to the City Cashier, Bureau of Water Clerk Water Inspector, Bureau of Water Permits, Bureau of Water Department of the City Collector Plats, Bureau of Water Office of the City Collector The Chief Clerk, Assistants and Cler- Office of the Deputy City Collector ical Force The Saloon Licensing Division SECOND FLOOR The Legislative Department The Rotunda The City Council Chamber The City Council Committee Rooms The Chief Clerk and Assistants Department of the City Treasurer Office of the City Treasurer The Cashier and Pay Roll Clerks The Assistant City Treasurer Private and Public Offices of the Divi- Board of Local Improvements sion of Streets, Engineers, Side- The President's Room walk Inspectors, Special Assessment The Secretary's Room Section The Bookkeeper's Room The Board's Law Department Board Members' Assembly Room THIRD FLOOR First Deputy Superintendent of Police Transportation Committee Rooms The Secretary Clerks Police Vehicle Department The Assistant Chief Clerk Election Commissioners The President's Room The Attorney The Chief Clerk Council Committee Rooms The Custodian of Police Department VAULTS FLOOR Vaults for all Departments The Compensation Bureau Municipal Court Clerk's Vault Cement Testing and Chemist's Labora- Department of Supplies tory of Board of Local Improve- Office of Purchasing Agent ments The Stationer The City Sealer The Chief Clerk The Gas Inspector 353(^56 — CHICAGO CITY MANUAL FOURTH FLOOR Public Works Department The Chief Accountant The Commissioner of Public Works The Deputy Commissioner of Public The Bond and Contract Clerk Works Bureau of Streets and Alleys City Engineer Division of Water Pipe Extension Bureau of City Maps and Plats The Sewers Division Bridges and Harbor Division FIFTH FLOOR The Mayor Police Departme..t Secretary to the Mayor The General Superintendent of Police The Secretary to the General Superin- Department of Finance tendent The City Comptroller The Assistant City Comptroller The Real Estate Agent The Chief Clerk The Auditing Clerk Office of the City Paymaster General Accountant Clerk Clerk, Municipal Pension Fund Department of Law Chief Clerk and Secretary to the Corpo- The Corporation Counsel ration Counsel . Assistants to the Corporation Counsel Special Assessment Attorneys SIXTH FLOOR DeDartmerit of Civil Service Department of Smoke Inspection Office of the President The Smoke Inspector Civil Service Commission's Rooms The Assistant Smoke Inspector The Chief Clerk and Examiner Department of Boiler and Steam Plant Department of Electricity Inspection The City Electrician Assistant City Electrician The Attorney to the Commission The Clerical Division Department of Public Service The City Attorney Fire Prevention Bureau Chief CTerk The Fire Alarm Telegraph The City Prosecuting Attorney The Chief Clerk Police Ambulance SEVENTH FLOOR The City Health Department Hospital and Ambulance Service Commissioner of Health The Assistant Commissioner The Secretary to the Commissioner Department of Buildings The Sanitary Bureau The Commissioner of Buildings The Deputy Commissioner The Vital Statistics Bureau The Secretary The Assistant Secretary The Laboratories Inspector Bureau of Food Inspection The Chief Fire Escape EIGHTH FLOOR Three Department of the Municipal Court Municipal Court Rooms One, Two, Municipal Court Clerk and Four Municipal Court Bailiffs NINTH FLOOR Six, Seven Department of the Municipal Court Municipal Court Rooms, Five. Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven and Twelve Continued . ^ ^ The General Offices of the Chief Jus- tice The Chief Clerk OFFICIAL CITY HALL DIEECTOEY TENTH FLOOR Small Parks and Playgrounds The Secretary of Police Department President of Commissions The Secretary Board of Examining Engineers Bureau of Statistics Board of Examining Plumbers Municipal Ileference Library Custodian of the Building Office of the Oil Inspector Bureau of Architecture Chief Janitor The City Architect Municipal Court Jurors' Assembly The Civil Service Examining Rooms Rooms Second Deputy Superintendent of Police Bureau of Police Records ELEVENTH FLOOR The Municipal Court Rooms, Thirteen. Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen. Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-one, Twenty-two. Twenty-three and Twenty-four. BASEMENT Office of the Standard of INIeasures Gas Inspector and Testing Room Water Pipe Inspectors Sewer and Flushing Gang Storage Vaults for the Water Departments, for the City Clerk, for the City Col- lector, for the Board of Local Improvements and for the City Electrician. Public Comfort Stations, with entrances from La Salle and Washington Streets, wni^ r I1^(UJjJ^^ CHICAGO CITY MANUAL 1915 PREPARED BY FRANCIS A. EASTMAN City Statistician CHICAGO— Erect, commanding, like a goddess born. With strength and beauty glowing in her face. And all her stately form attired in grace. She stands beside her lake to greet the morn. Behind her, rustling leaves of ycllotv corn That whisper richest comfort to the race; And 'neath her gaze, the waters' purple space A thousand flashing sails wnth light adorn. Still in her sight shine visions of the fair— Immortal Art illuming human ill. And far-eyed science blessing with her care; While through her soul, in purpose to fulfill And reach her highest hope beyond compare, Throbs deep and strong the strenuous cry: "I will!" —HORACE SPENCER FISKE. University of Chicago. CHICAGO: BUREAU OF STATISTICS 1915 CHICAGO CITY MANUAL TWO ANCIENT CITIES COMPARED. (Mommsen 's History of Eome.) "From a financial point of view, Carthage held in every respect the first place among the states of antiquity. At the time of the Peloponnesian war this Phoenician city was, according to Polybius, the wealthiest city in the world. It is impossible to form an idea of the mass of capital accumulated in this London of antiquity, but some notion at least may be gained of the public revenues from the fact, that, in spite of the costly system on which Carthage organized its wars and in spite of the careless and faithless administration of the state property, the contributions of its subjects and the customs-revenue completely covered the expenditure, so that no direct taxes were levied from the citizens; and further, that even after the second Punic war, when the power of the state was already broken, the current expenses and the payment to Rome of a yearly installment of $240,000 could be met, without levying any tax, merely by a somewhat stricter management of the finances, and fourteen vears after the peace, the state proffered immediate payment of the remaining instal- ments of $180,000. But it was not merely the sum total of its revenues that evinced the superiority of the financial administration of Carthage. The econom- ical principles of a later and more advanced epoch are found in Carthage alone of all the more considerable states of antiquity. Mention is made of foreign state-loans, and in the monetary system we find along with gold and silver mention of a token money having no intrinsic value—a species of currency not used elsewhere in antiquity. "Let us now compare the respective resources of Carthage and Rome. Both were agricultural and mercantile cities, and nothing more; art and science had substantially the same altogether subordinate and altogether practical character in both, except that in this respect Carthage had made greater progress than Rome. But in Carthage the moneyed interest preponderated over the landed, in Rome at this time the landed still preponderated over the moneyed; and, while the agriculturists of Carthage were universally large landlords, in the Eome of this period the great mass of the burgesses still tilled their fields in person. The majority of the population in Eome held property, and was there- fore conservative; the majority in Carthage held no property, and was therefore accessible to the gold of the rich as well as to the cry of the democrats for reform. In Carthage there already prevailed all that opulence which marks powerful commercial cities, while the manners and police of Rome still main- tained at least externally the severity and frugality of the olden times. When the ambassadors of Carthage returned from Rome, they told their colleagues that the relations of intimacy