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significance. I carried more of the burden of the Committee on Safety which was also declining because its work was nearly done. With a very loose organizations, we continued to do what was necessary in order to promote legislation and to see that it was properly enforced.

Soon after the beginning of 1918 I was asked by the Women's City Club, then a rather vigorous new organization, to undertake to be the leader of a project that they were developing of making the members of their club become expert in various types and forms of city government and various problems of city government, with the expectation that they would be an effective lobby, an effective citizen's body. The Women's City Club was a completely separate organization from the City Club of New York. They formed their own organization and operated in their own way. It had been formed some years earlier and had had a rather limited life while it was building up its membership. Now it had a fine club house on the corner of Park Avenue in the thirties. It had a good many members. It was always discussing public affairs, and having lectures on various problems.

It had discovered that its members, although full of good will and right ideas about city and state government, had almost no knowledge at all of how a city was conducted and haw the decisions were made about what would be done by