Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-30
o Correspondence Of Tie Desert Ne By Frank G. Carpenter

tne street cars, gas works, electric
lights and tramways.
Ihere are five towns In England
when turned into their tax funds $780,
VOO last year as the profit Of their mu-
nlclpal undertakings, and the extent of
such undertakings Is steadily increas-
ing. have told you how the Manches-
Ter corporation borrowed 5000 900 to
loan to the Manchester Ship Canal COM
pahy, and how Liverpool is making
pFoilt out of It's Investment Of more
than $lOOO0O,O0O In docks.
HOMES FOR THE WORKING PEG
PIE
Many Of the city corporations are
now erecting homes for their working
people They are buying up the slums
ana tearing down the buildings which
stand upon them in order to put M
sanitary tenements, which they rent
at low rates, At the same time they
are widening the streets and going into
what might be called land office and
real estate business. The London coun-
~ council spent a million and quar-
ter dollars to wipe out the slums Of
Bethnal Green II being estimated that
II cost the city 1880 for every family
mat avs there turned out before a
cent was spent on the new buildings
for them. London now has a special
housing department connected with
the city government, which has charge
of such matters. II has 10000 people
In It's tcnements IN the city and it is
erecting cottage settlements on the
outskirts. Six thousand people are to
be housed In such cottages at Norbury,
and 1900 at Tottenham. When the
Tottenham Improvements are COM
pleted there will be a good-sized town
there made up entirely Of municipal
cottages
HOMES AT FIFTY CENTS A WEEK
AND UPWARDS.
The tenoments which have been put
within these cities have a large num-
Der in one building They are, as It
were, fats Of two or more rooms,
rented at different prices according to
the number OF rooms The Cheapest
two-roomed fats are 10 be found in
Dublin, where they rent for so cents a
week; similar quarters in Glasgow cost
so cents a week; IA Liverpool IS cents,
and in London, little more than 81
per week, The rents are supposed to
be on a basis that viii pay the run
ming expenses and furnish q sinking
fund which will recoup the city for the
cost Of the buildings within from 30 to
100 years.
This city Of Birmingham, where / am
now writing, has been noted for such
experiments. II has erected one set of
buildings at cost OF 10000 which
have lodgings for 100 families There
are shops on the ground floor, with
tenements above them. The first OF
these structuTs was finished In Sep
tember 1890, and was at once rented
To respectable people at a dollar and
twenty-five cents per fiat per week.
Since then cheaper Hat buildings have
been erected, some Of the rents being so
low as seyenty-hye cents per week.
A CITY WHICH MANAGES ITS
OWN BUSINESS.
Birmingham is noted for the number
Of things which the city owns. II
brides itself on being a business city
run by business men on business prin-
ciples Ii makes It's own gas. provides
It's own water supply and has public !
museums, art schools and galleries. 1t
has extensive parks, cricket fields and |
other pleasure grounds II has |
sewage farm OF 1900 acres, which |
cost 100000, II has public swimming |
and Turkish baths. and laundries for
the poor, where they can have hot wa
ter and hot irons for two or three cents |
an hour.
II has magnificent city buildings. The |
council house or the municipal build |
Ing is one Of the finest structures Of |
England. II is great pile built in
the renaissance style IN the heart Of
the city, with a dome rising from its
center The main entrance is at the
front, and the building is ornamcnted J.
with sculpture and mosaic showing the
arts and industries OF Birmingham
with a central group representing Brit
ANNA reviewing its manufactures.