Evening journal., 1900-03-28
FOR The PUBLIC GOOD.

Cardiff, Wales, win purchase the gas
works.
In China there are no municipal en-
terprises.
Manchester. England. has municipal
news stands.
London now furnishes meals to
school children.
Leeds viii spend some s560,OO0 to
house the poor.
Oldham, England, manufactures
carts and saddlery.
Hull, England, is building q muni-
cipal crematorium.
Helena, Mont, has voted for muni-
cipal water works.
Valparaiso, Chill. conducts a muni-
cipal music school.
Brantford, England, will erect "a
municipal dwellings.
In France there are $50 municipal
employment bureaus.
Springfield, No, will vote for mu-
nicipal lighting plant.
Dartmouth, England, gives a PEN
sion TO aged workmen.
Birkenhead, England, makes S10O 900
year on ferries.
Columbus, Ca, will take steps to
own an electric light plant.
Philadelphia spends $4,000 per year
on municipal concerts.
Logansport, Ind, has taken action
Tor municipal telephone.
Ihe municipal ferries at Rotterdam
bring in a rental of $4,000 a year.
Leadville, Colo, has voted for muni-
cipal ownership OF the water-works.
Stockport England, employs 72S per-
sons and pays S250,000 a year in wages.
Hastings, Neb., by a majority of 331,
has voted for an electric light plant.
The city of Paris appropriates $780,
OOO annually for municipal horse races.
The city Of Riga, Russia, receives a
gross revenue Of $4,000 a year from
ferries.
Tarnpool, Austria, has n municipal
bakery and sells bread at cost price
to citizens.
Berne, Switzerland, has municipal
slaughterhouse. water works, lighting
plants, etc.
Dresden, Germany, publishes a daily
aper, and all profits are spent on pub
lie parks.
Vienna operates municipal brick,
yards, and sells part of the product
to private parties.
Fourteen cities of over 5000 popula-
ton each, in France. own and conduct
pawn shops.
New York city supports the College
Of the City of New York, at a cost
of 100000 per year.
Vienna, Austria, will make a net
profit of S1,400,000 on her municipal gas
plant this year.
Leicester, England, let's 6s acres OF
land TO zoo persons who raise potatoes
and garden truck.
Leeds, England, has city ownership
OF slaughter house and meat market
costing 100000.
Hamburg. Germany, has the finest
municipal docks in the world. costing
nearly ssO,O0O,0OO.
Baltimore. Nd, has a committee in
vestigating the feasibility of a NUM-
cipal electric lighting plant.
kopernick and Weislock are two
German cities that own and conduct
the street railways at a profit.
SeVenty-six of the street lighting
plants in the cities OF Austria Hun
gary are under municipal ownership.
The Toronto city council has ordered
the union label to be placed on the
municipal tiremen's clothing.
New York city has expended $50 900.
600 on her docks. She has an income oi
over S3,OO0,00O per year.
New York city has municipal proper
~ valued at S575,OOO, 900. She is by
many times the largest employer Of la
bor
New York has an annual income OF
SSooOOO from ferry leases; New Orleans
receives $4,000 and st. Louis $1,000 a
year.
Paris has municipal nurseries and
greenhouses. Marseilles, Lyons and
several other French towns have fine
botanical gardens.
New York city publishes the Daily
| city Record at a cost of some S75,OOC
per year, and saves $780, 900 per yeai
on advertising
Liverpool owns six miles Of elevated
railway along the water front. It alsc
owns the docks which are leased to an
operating company
Zurich, Switzerland, owns and oper.
ates the street railways. Geneva also
owns and operates short street rail-
way with steam for motive power.
Rochdale, England. is building a
municipal abattoir at a cost Of $40 600
It win take the place Of 81 private and
unsanitary slaughter houses.