The San Francisco call., 1905-06-20
DALRYMPLE ON PUBLIC OWNERSHIP.

w Chicago by Mr. Dsymp the Glasgow expert in public 3h
Glasgow lines summed up under three heads Fs-No LABOR
uon permitted the employees Second-No transfers
ao' given On any Gago" ne- l"r0o'ernea0 ooiey % '1
This information of gives different view of the
Glasgow system The fact that transfers are given explains HI
Dampcs that the street railroads III Cmcago'
owned by corporation the people more for their money an
the city roads OF Glasgow give We have no douD at an
operations San Francisco would show that the
people get much for their than Glasgow gives
The enthusiasm OF Mayor Dunno and the municipal
party Chicago Mr. Daympe has rapidly evaporaed he
Chicago Glasgow has only SIoeoooo invested IN street rail-
He says they strictly business proposition
and that early made it necessary to separate them en-
irey politics employees since then paid and worked
the private employ and are not PaPeed as sPeca
public officials permitted TO have patronage
railroads. get employment for anybody
repairs fund.- went for interest
and sinking fund and 100000 went into the surplus
Chicago Mr. Dalrympe finds municipal works. and
the report the engineer these works
r. m cent Of ali the water that is pumped and that in forty years
funded for repairs repacemen and
AS the influence of the public employees in Glasgow
perncous politics that the lord
posed dsrancse Them threat that have restrained
th what hope there that in Chicago other American
city such employees will be any less than the dators OF public
Admonished by he found Chicago Mr.. Da
rmple banquet speech declined recommend municipal
ownership of the street railroads Chicago sys
Glasgow of universal application There the
city employees the roads get five holidays Con
ductor paid from So s. week. working
day. The cleaners get from S. Is SO per
week. and they not permitted to slight their work Every car IS
washed and dnced every night Glasgow has 10000 inhab
of twenty miles The municipal
passengers The longest haul is fifteen miles
By giving transfers the the
greater than would appear by the schedule
OF fares
safe that the Glasgow system adopted in all
particulars and restrictions American city, the people would
revolt against less than six months 1t excellent
doubt for Glasgow but business administration would
be impossible here and its and methods would be toll
looks though Mayor Dunno made haul
getting Mr. Darymple 1t expected that he fanatic
the subject evangelist of municipal ownership under all
and everywhere He invited to investigate
but harangu and the Mayor disappointed because he has the
investigating and not the harangue habit.
Mayor Dunno spoke the Darymple banquet His speech
little better than sostc haangue that have surprised the
of the evening The Mayor said IF Chicago accompishe
she will accomplish what she has to do,
economic revolution in America 1t only the muncpa
of plants light plants and and telephone
cities but ownership of railroads. of
telegaphs telephones and express the United States
establishment Of parcels the abolition
strikes and oous connection with the of such
utilities"
That the Socialist programme of Everything
belongs everybody any public official has yet ventured The
Mayor said this with knowledge of his engineers report
of the pumped by Chagos municipal plant
wasted and that dollar been saved for betterment
forty yearsl If Chicago to be example
socialist revolution the country she would better begin by a
plying business policy administration If all the utilities
mentioned by the Mayor public ownership and admins
tered like the Chicago works. the country would be
lessly bankrupt in less than five years