Omaha daily bee., 1902-09-07

GERS of the council receive from 1900 to
SIC, 900 per year. The clerk, engineer and
architect each get SIC, 900; the assessor,
$500, and the head of the street car de-
partment, $1,000.
Toe officers of the city corporation are
still better paid. The recorder has 100000
per annum, the town clerk ST., 500, or just
as much as we pay Minister Choate, and
the controller and remembrancer $1,000
each. In addition there are other salaries
ranging from $11, 900 down.
Perhaps the best paid mayor Of the whole
world is the lord mayor of London. He has
a salary Of $500 o a year and his house
rent is free. He lives in the Mansion House
across the way from the bank of London,
within a short distance Of the Tower and
London bridge. l have met hin at his
palace during my stay, and he has room
and to spare.
The lord mayor does not control, how
ever, any part of the metropolis except
that known as the city or the part that
forms the chief commercial and money
making center. 1t lies east of the temple
and embraces the port, the docks, the Gus
tom house, the bank, the exchange and the
hundreds Of great wholesale establishments,
banks and other corporations which make
London the financial center Of the world.
This is the city proper, and it is a city
Of the day. 1t has a population Of 300, 900
and through 1t every day more than a mil
lion go in and out while it is light, but at
night it is almost as deserted as a city
Of the dead. Its thousands Of capitalists
and clerks then leave it and /. is handed
Ger to the watchmen and policemen, the
lord mayor, in fact, being about the only
nFnminanf gillian tn Fannain oil nfohN
through.
Big Docks.
l have spent much lime about the docks
watching the great steamer load and I'M
load goods for and from America and all
parts OF the world. l don't know where one
can get a better idea OF the immensely Of
this city. You might live about Hyde Park
for years and hardly know London was a
port. Still London is the greatest port Of
the word. 1t surpasses Liverpool and all
the others. The whole river Thames from
here to the sea is its harbor, SO that the
port is really sixty-nine miles long, and it
ranges in width with the width Of the
river.
Standing on London bridge you see a
forest OF masts, not only in the river IT.
SELL but rising high above the great whole
~ huSbuISS DOIueTluS IL. Tle docks
are mighty basins cut out OF the lands along
the bank, enormous watts Of water covering
acres surrounded by warehouses. st. Cath
crimes docks have an area of twenty-three
acres, the London docks and MiIlwall docks
each cover 100 acres, while the Surrey
docks and the West Indian docks have each
$50 acres.
Even larger than these are the ROYAL
Victoria and Albert docks, which are almost
three miles in length, and have an area Of
900 acres, and those of Tilbury, further
down the Thames, which are quite as large
II you could put a big farm under water.
and allow mighty warehouses to rise nm
along the borders n through the fields
and add hundreds Of steamers loading and
unloading at them, you might have some
IDEA OF these docks. They are profitable
institutions, and the London county council
is planning to bring them under the control
OF the city. They now belong to private
companies, but the city proposes to buy out
the present owners and to manage the docks
oy a public board, under the direction Of
Parliament. This will probably be done at
some time in the future.
Water from Wales.
Another thing which the county council
Is planning is the bringing of water for
LONDON clear across England from the
welsh lakes, At present London IL suD-