New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-15

OF this number not Que pnblic-house is reported to
have been found open. OF the 2,209 places found
omen last wear. $50 wore fruit and confectionery
bons 277 groceries and provisions. GlO milk shops.
ia or,engrocers 10 druggists, and only % toDdc-
conlsts. The others were as follows; BARRIERS IL
eating-houses 20 fruit stores. 4 news-rooIns q
pic-houses ID hrshers (butchers), p; stalionefS'
%; coal-dealers. .; bakers, 3; baths, under
takers o cab offices, total, LOB. 1hese i"cts
form strange contrast to the wholesale SaOoath-
breaking OF such cities as Chicago. where the open
theatres variety shows. concert-halls and saloons
make a saturnaan feast-day of SUNDAY; aud yet
Glasgow, ike Its sister city OF the west mas over
ha f a million inhabitants.
A. the good-naturcd Chief Constable Of Glasgow
ra of thrsn Exhibits Of the sunday raldson
class Of shops which seem almost necessary to the
coufor, of the poorer classes in the city, my mind
reverted TO the accounts Of the more rict sup
eryison Of the sire less than acen'ury ago. From
! II o'clock on Saturday night, in Glasgow, when
the sabbath began, to ~ O'Clock on sunday night,
when # finished all the gates of the city were
| closed and no one was allowed to pass in or on.
save on very special necessity. In the daytime, rs
| we read in "Rob Roy."" scarchers" were appointed
TO take note Of al .rsons dlng on the highway or
drinking in tavens, or even in their own houses.
during kirk hours. A man who shaved himself r.
barber who dressed his wig on the sabbath rsked
being led up before the KIRK Session. The sale OF
milk was even forbid len on Sundays. The Glas-
cow people of those days would almost stone man
for wnistling a call to his own log Oh sunday. and
they cast a scornful look ON the unrightro = who
sought for fresh air in the fields, meadows or coun-
try lanes II is SAID his las ed until 1920. Indeed
| as late as 1876 a man was taken mp and actually
convicted and fined for singing Willie brewed
IN la atr on ha IoT1 dnV
II Is said he pleaded that he sang the words 10
of Moody and Sankey's hymn-tunes, but that did
not save him.
Robert Chambers describes Glasgow. in the latter
half of the sixt enth century, as mere little
town. with the distinction Of possessing univer-
sty, and Of carrying on a small coasting trade.
The townsmen, and indeed tOwnswomen also,
were a choleric race given to cry loudly 20 strike
6ercely and. moreover, to be as ready with the
sword or pistol with fist and tongue. Shots were
fred "promiscuousy in a crowded market-place or
barroom Glasgow tailCrs carried swords on their
thighs like gen lemen, and angry Glasgow wives
had words on their tongues not at all like those
used by ladies. The manufacturing enterprise
| of the people had dawned even at
| thi, early date and Scottish mobiles became
traders and manufacturers. In 1858 Yiscount Tar
bat was chief partner in a little manufactory IN
| the city. which paid very good dividends. Though
not free from the many semi barbaIitles character
istIc of the times the population were "canny" aud
enterprising They were patriotic too for when
the town-surgcon. III speaking of the city itself as
"the huugne tOune of Glasgow" this 'odious and
grit offence" was punished by applying tho
unhappy doctors pension for the year to 1.-THE
common works of the tonne" In 1902
about one-thrd of the city was destroyed
by fire. After this the Council sent man OF prac-
teal experience" to Edinburgh " TO ysitie the en-
gyne THAR for slockening of tyre" A fre-engine
was finally bought, and is thus
quantity described in the proceedings
Of The council "An ingyne for caslyng of water
land that is in tyre"
Though the modern Glasgowians arc all
free traders their ancestors exhibited ten
der regard for infant industries, aud some
of the early attempts to encourage maDufac-
lures are worth mentioning. One of the first sub
sides was the sum of 2. 900 marks Gill Is. 2-3dl
TO a couple OF enterprispg citizens for the work
ing Of their coal-pits III the GOrbals for thirteen
years" The bakers having failed to make sulli-
Gent bread for the inhabitants" the council agreed
to import 1.-TWO honest baxters from Edinburgh"
who were to come TO Glasgow the Undertaking
that they bake as good wheat bread as was baked
in the metropolis The first printer Of the town
having died. for some time Glasgow without one
of this craft. In this, in nearly all other
things the Council seems TO have been equal to the
emergency. printer therefore sent for from
Edinburgh, and as a salary the town agreed to pay
him yearly during his lifetime the sum OF 100
marks le5 lis. ll9d.) In add ion TO this, money
was allowed him for transporting his apparatus