The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-26

of any city in the world. The key to
It's prosperity Is that every common i'm
provement has been done by the cor
poration.
Take for instance, the poorer dwell
lngs. In 1874 a royal commission was
sent in reply to cry that the poorer
districts We're unhealthy overcrowded.
Ihe report of the commission was that
the death rate was over A in every
1000 of the population and that typhus
FEVER was as well known as the face
OF the oldest inhabitant. The corpora
ton took up the matter and to-day
GlasgOws model dwellings are the very
best of the kind. To build these, of
which there are now five, capable of
housing 1000 persons every night, the
foul rookeries, which are still the curse
from every point of view of nearly all
other large towns, were swept away
anyone man or woman, can get thor
oughiy clean bed for the sum of cents.
And, although over $3.50, 600 of the pub
lie money was spent on erecting these
houses. a good yearly return is paid on
1-nearly per cent. And the death
rate has been reduced to 1919
Instead Of the city being supplied
with those necessities of life, water and
gas. by private companies, the people.
through their own corporation, supply
themselves at the nominal rates If in
III
ond 81, as against II and Ga when for
merry supplied by companies. And it
may be added that not only is the
charge Tor water the very lowest of
any town. but the water itself is az
knoWiedged by experts to be the very
purest supplied to any city or village
Ley glasgow reaps from the water
ooa atone an annual profit of s210.-
o9V. Al the same time as Glasgow mr.
chased the common good pronertv tbo
t n.arhets We're also bought. And al
.nousn the fghtest tolls are levied :,
.i.a. the sellers are enabled to disnosa
VI lnelr goods to the inhabitants at less
price IMAM in any other town. the civ
saine 81 IN a yearly revenue of SIG. zoo
supply ohi The gas
working on the good results of +hai,
Iprmer enterprise in these eiirectinns
.nSS nave now taken over the e1ectri
eal nghtlng of the city at yaarIy
prort OF $1,000. With this money tha
coIporatlon has looked to procurino
p ',,t recreation parks. with the re-.
s san t ma n the matter of lungs Glas-
gov STANDS first in the world n has
some 700 acres allotted to this n,,rnosa
when works out at one acre Of nnhIin
srass-covered ground for every S0o of
the population. During the snrine ana
summer bands play in each of These
pai No anu there is no collection They
are paid by the corporation, which NUS
ASIDE $500 for this purpose.
IN one matter Glasgow stands alone
Al laundries are public propertv Nv
TINS means the inhabitants are ah,a ~
nave their clothes washed in the var ~
pest manner at the very lowest nrice
ana one can feel, when INDUCING in IN
extra clean shirt, that any profit made
on u goes to the public welfare.
Ihere is one great source of evi,
winch, up to the present, Glasgow has
not been able to cast off. Millions mon
millions of tons of coal are consumed
yearly and the black, suffocating
smoke hangs continually over the cit1
IKE death pail. But it is not elias.
COWS fault that it has not been re-
moved. The corporations are willing
to pay any one $4,000, 900 who will dash
| it away.
by running their own street RAILWAYS.
gas plants and water works and also
| belng owners of their own city thew
nave been able to build Glasgow al
practically no cost to themselves. And
not only this, BY improving their citv
they have saved every year an avers ge
| OF over 1,200 lives and scourging dis
| eases are known no more