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APRIL 27, 1905 JAGE 22 4SBHBSMBBSa &3 Nobrashoc Indopondont ! i if ' ii ANOTHER ACCOUNT ; The Chicago Tribune sent a member Of its staff to Glasgow to investigate municipal ownership there, and, though somewhat unwillingly, he is compelled to report that the street railway system is honestly, efficiently and from the financial as well as tho general point of view, successfully i operated. The correspondent gives ithe following important and interest ing particulars: "Glasgow, having taken possession ' .of all civic utilities, is now seeking from parliament power to own and operate interurban electric lines. Al ready the city government Is operat ing . the suburban traction lines un- , der a system of leases, and the ex periment, like the operation of the lines within the city limits has been entirely successful. ' "It requires only a brief stay in Glasgow, however, to convince a Chi cago man that what Glasgow has suc ceeded in doing in the way of suc- ' cessful operation of civic utilities can not safely be taken as an indication of what might be done in Chicago. Fares By No Means Small. - "In the . first place, Glasgow itself is a city closely and compactly built. It has, however, a tributary popula tion from two to ten times as great as the populations tributary to American cities of similar size. Again,, the mileage of street railway lines in Glasgow is comparatively small. Only sixty-four miles of streets all told are supplied with municipal traction lines. The wages paid to employes of the municipal lines are less than half those paid in Chicago. -.. "Glasgow, of course, has no such 'extreme distances' as Chicago, but on the long hauls the fares are by no means small. No transfers are given. It costs 6 cents to ride six miles. " On the other hand, one may ride a flis . tance inside of a mile for 1 cent. "Of course, this is cheap riding for , the man who lives downtown, but ob viously the system of graduated fares . never would do in a sprawling city like Chicago. "Neither Chicago nor any other large American city has anything to i learn of Glasgow so far as the actual operation of street railways is cori ' cerned. Glasgow did not adopt elec- tricity $ until - long after it . had been (exploited' in nearly every , city, large and small, in the United States, and Glasgow still clings to the overhead Stock Merchandise For Land Large general stock of merchandise now running in a good Minnesota town and doing good busineis which I will exchange for good - improved land and some cash. . ' . FRED F. CLAR.K; 426 Boton BIk.. Minneapolis, ...Minnesota. trolley system, even .In the busy, down town streets a system far behind the clean, safe underground trolleys of Washington and New York. The op erating system,- in fact, is neither novel nor up to date. Financially a Success. "In other respects the municipal traction lines of Glasgow are com pletely successful. Financially they are : operated at ;a profit. The cars are clean and fast. Traffic is hand led well. The conductors and motor men appear in neat uniforms and evi dently understand their business well. At least, they- are. the equals of street car employes in Chicago and Mil waukee. "Every passenger who rides Is pro vided with a seat. That is certain. The cars are "double deckers," aver aging twenty-four seats below and forty-two above. ' "The cars are so clean, the service so prompt, and the financial showing made by the traction lines so satis factory it is evident there can not be much 'graft' anywhere in the sys tem. The lines are honestly adminis tered, not only in the general man ager's office, but by the coductors. Whole Corporation Honest. "In fact, the administration of the business of the whole corporation of Glasgow seems honest to a degree not conceivable in the United States. robably this is the real secret of the success of municipal ownership in cities of Scotland and England, for the traction lines are relieved of the predatory instincts of stock jobbing private owners and unscrupulous po- itical office brokers. "Politics does not influence munici pal elections in British cities, espe cially in Scotland. The lord provost of Glasgow, Sir John Ure Primrose, is a figurehead, and, although he is the hardest worked man in the city, he has no salary, no patronage, no real power. When he accepted the j office he had to give up his prosper-! ous business as a baker and miller. He has fairly earned the baronetcy King Edward conferred upon him for his honest administration of the Glas gow traction lines. Why System Has Succeeded. "Yet, after all, this condition is not so much due to the personal integrity of the lord provost, for, although he is a good man and properly honored by the king, probably he is not much better than many another lord mayor, The real reason why the traction lines have been honestly administered seems to be because the people here have not yet discovered the possibili ties in the dishonest exploitation of municipal opportunities. "Transport the honesty of the Glas gow municipal system to Chicago and municipal ownership of the traction lines would be the only thing; but when some of the obvious differences in local government are considered, every reader of the Tribune might find it worth Chicago's while to make haste slowly in the direction of the municipal ownership of anything. Ho agent's f rofiU to pay. THIS IS THE LIMIT. Cl A K.t 0T BO-EfV Hot Water, VT Sclf-ragulatiog Incubator. Guaranteed to hatch avarr hatchabl mt. J 13 tot 60-chick brooder. 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