Excerpt from Second Annual Message of Charles F. Warwick Mayor of the City of Philadelphia: With Annual Reports of the Director of the Department of Public Safety and Chief of the Electrical Bureau for the Year Ending December 31, 1896 The work of this Bureau is being carefully supervised, and it is a matter of gratification to know that the com plaints of all kinds were less than during the year 1895 or, in other words, they fell off about one-half from the number made the previous vear. It is the purpose of the authorities to insist upon a strict compliance with the specifications, and to enforce a rigid obedience to the terms of all contracts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.