The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1905-05-27
PLAN Bic RECEPTION
FOR BIC GLASGOW Man
James Dahymple, Europe's Lead
ing Public Ownership Man to
Be Americas Guest,
Enthusiastic Work Being Started
to Start Campaign For Pub
lie Ownership.

New York, May 25.-James Dalrym-
pie, general manager Of all the Glas-
cow street railway lines, which are
owned and operated by the municipal
lty, and perhaps the leading authority
on Municipal Ownership in the world,
is to arrive in New York today from
abroad
He was invited to come to this coun-
try by Mayor Dunne, Of Chicago, who
desired to have his opinion and advice
on the question of municipal ownership
No sooner was the result of the elec-
tion known than Mayor Dunno cabled
the Lord Provost of Glasgow, asking
that Mr.. Dalrymple be permitted to
come over and give Chicago the bene-
fit of his experience in the operation
of municipality owned street car lines.
Will Hold Public Reception.
The request was granted, and since
that time the Municipal Ownership
League has been in, communication
with the Glasgow expert and with
Mayor Dunno in Chicago, looking to a
public reception in this city, SO that
the practical results of municipal own
ership may be made known.
The league is receiving requests daily
from men in every line of business,
asking that they may be made men,
bers of the Reception committee, and
there is every indication that the re-
ception will be a notable one. 1t will
be held in the large ball room of some
big hotel uptown, to be decided later.
The interest displayed in this visit
of Glasgow's expert by business men
generally is the interest which every
citizen has in the question of NUM-
cipal ownership.
The people desire to meet and talk
with the man who is at the head of
a system which charges an average fare
Of less than two cents, pays its en-
ployes better wages than private cor
porations pay, gives them better treat
ment in the way of shorter hours holi-
days, and supplies free their uniforms,
makes for a steady improvement in
the service for the general public COM
fort and convenience, and while doing
all these things pays over into the
public treasury more than a million
and a quarter of dollars each year to-
ward reducing theataxes.
,ag..zzz9sssz Objects Here the Same. .-e.sze7ss
s hrinE 81 a.
the aim Of the Municipal League 81
Greater New York. It's purpose and
objects are becoming better known ev-
cry day, and throughout the greater
city the work Of practical organization
is going steadily forward.
Being purely non-partisan, it's prin-
ciples appeal to every citizen alike And
planned as it is to meet the needs of
every section Of the city localities suf-
fering from different abuses find the
principles Of the league exactly suited
to their needs.
The Borough Of the Bronx, in addi-
tion to the abuses suffered from the
companies, is in the grasp Of the
'Huckleberry" Railroad, which uses
the streets and abuses the public at
its own sweet will to make dividends
on an inflated valuation of its proper
ty.
The Borough of Queens suffers from
the extortion practised by private wa
ter companies so that residents there
pay four or five times as much for wa
ter as the taxpayer in Manhattan is re-
quired to pay. In Brooklyn the people
are not only confronted with the light
ing problem, but they are at the mercy
also of the oppressive and heartless
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company.
Staten Island, is no better off, for
besides being at the mercy of private
companies for its water supply, it has
had to face the ferry problem four
long years.
Richmond First in Movement.
The citizens of Richmond county first
agitated municipal ownership for all
the boroughs of Greater New York, and
obtained ferry to be owned and op-
Grated by the city. That proposition
got as far as the building of fleet
of very fine and elegant boats, but a
supine or wilfully neglectful admins
tration has failed to .dredge the slips
and otherwise prepare for operating the
ferry.
And while the boats are anchored
somewhere or other in Maryland wa
ters the old private company continues
to do business with the ferry to Staten
Island.
In Manhattan itself the people are
confronted not only with the lighting
scandal, but with the Subway deal,
whereby a valuable property built with
their own money is handed over to a
private corporation to have and to hold,
to use and to operate for the enrich
ment Of few men who never risked
a dollar in the enterprise.
All these things have created the de-
sire for municipal ownership in the
different boroyghs: The League was
formed for the purpose of crystallizing
this sentiment on purely non-partisan
lines. In every assembly district per-
manent organizations have already been
or are being formed. Meetings are
held every week in most of them. and
the speakers furnished by the League
are in constant demand to address
meetings all over the city.
WOULD REST ON SUNDAY.
FORT WORTH, Texas, May: 24.-At
today's meeting Of the general assem-