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.

Strong, for Mayor,

Goff, for Recorder,

Wilds, for Assemblyman,

Hall, for Alderman,

6,774

6,388

5,608

5,751

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 resuit 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.