New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-15
INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND.
BY ROBERT p. PORTER, MEMBER OF THE LATE
TARIFF COMMISSION.
Ill.
SOCIETY AND MANUFACTURES IN GLASGo".

fypoN A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE.l
' GLASGOW Scotland, Dec %.
Considering the half-haggard manner III
which tradition tells us Glasgow was
ushered into existence it has most uni
form and substantial appearance. Indeed ac-
accident surrounded the very birth OF It's founder
but, perhaps, the less said about that the better.
Certain 1t is, however, if the two Wild bniis Win
their CHASTITY burden had gone in the opposite drec-
tion the sanity Mungo would have followed 'ht Ill
But the strange oortege arrived safely on the site
now occupied by Glasgow Cathedral. and it must
nave been here near the stream in the dark ravlne'
that st. Mango built his hut. AT that
time in the forest on the site of the
eastern or manufacturing quarter OF the present
city. dwet q class who loved war and had an appe-
tite for human flesh 1t is said of th'm that they
cared much less for roasted sheep than for roasted
shepherd. If he were but young Shepherd or shep-
berdess was ali one to these proto-GlasgoVans VINO
were nice epicures and had their fayorte Slices III
the richest parts of their victims. WIN such qurer
neIqhbors il must have been an accident that inc
Young and tender saint was not called 10 adniin-
lister to their bodily instead Of their spiritual appe-
titles.
However. on religious grounds the inhabitants
prayed him TO remain, and a bishop was sent loi
from Ireland TO consecfete 81. Mungo 20 inc nov
office to which he had been elected. MS
spccess was immense. People who were dis
resucctful to hun met with 1earlu'
deaths; he sowed sand in the fields and ~aped good
and wholesome grain under his guidance VOL
and stag worked together at the plow, barns filled
with grain we're moved from one part OF the coun-
fry TO the other the King kicked bIm ana lmmodi-
ate,v the foot thus ingloriouSly applied was at
tackled by govt In time like all great men. ne be-
came nm pular. and then he departed for wales
Rrt IN. Glasgow people would not let him remain,
and the Saint was persuaded to retu H. and ale
ward transferred his cathedral TO Glasgow, where
be continued to pc form as extraordinary miracles
as he had done before. Perhaps to some OF THESE
,b neone of Gasgow are indebted for early lessons
In the honesty for whici they are noted. Under
tbe irauence or the pious s.. Mungo. the heads OF
stolen sheep becam. potrfed and fixed on the hands
~ the thief and the mi Is on the banks OF tine
Clvde wonld not grind stolen grain. These same
mills would not work during church
bours on Sundays and l noticed that
,bis -oodIv example has likewise been followed a.
tbis day for IN glasgow. unlike the English cities
those modern mills oi gin and destruction are not
oneped on sunday, as the Law is vigorously en-
forced. The dislike Tor Sunday trading is clearly
shovn in aome statistics which the Chief Constable
Captain M'Call gave me thi, morning. During the
last decode annually, at date unannounced in al
vance e. The shopkceprrs. the police have visited
and taken a census OF the shops and other places
of business fousd open wit I'm the Civ oil Glasgow
and doing business OF any time during the day
with the following almost uniform result: