Arizona republican., 1909-04-28
OhE MAN RUNS
 A TAxlEss TOWN
COMMUNITY WITHOUT GOVERN MENT, CRAFT OR POLITICS.
Manager Fixes Front Gates and
 Glasses Off Predatory Dogs.

New York, April 21.-(Special Cor
 respondence of The Republican)- Figures collected by the charter com mittee which has been working out
 a new plan of government for this
 city show that several hundred munic-
 qualities, large and small, in different parts of the country are wrestling
 with this same problem of securing a more efficient and more economical
 method of running their civic affairs.
 Most of the changes that are being
 made are in the direction of concern
 trating power and responsibility in the hands of a small group of off
 cials and one Virginia city has even
 gone so far as to dispense with the
 entire list of usual officeholderS and has appointed a business manager who is paid a good salary for hand
 ling the affairs of the city exactly as he would run his own business with strict accountability. of course.
 There is one town close to New York. however, whose citizens are not concerned with this question of municipal administration. The req son is that it has no government at all--at least none in which the resi- dents have anything to say. Further more. it is a town without shops or saloons, and being strictly a resi- dential place has practically no in dustries except such as are neces- sary to the convenience of its inhab- itants.
 This remarkable town-if town it can be called without having any chartered existence as such-is Garden City, Long Island. only a few miles outside the limits of Greater New York. Though it has only a little more than a thousand inhabitants, it is famed as one of the most inter esting and attractive spots in the whole country. and is often held up as a model of what a residential To- cality should be. Certainly if the Jeffersonian doctrine that the peo pie who live in Garden City must be held to dwell in a veritable mu nicipal paradise. for they are never bothered with attendance at prima- ries, registration or voting, that is insofar as their local affairs are con- cerned. In state and national poli- tics they play the usual part of other
  that vex ordinary municipalities and 1 lead to exciting struggles at the polls are absent. There is no mayor board of aldermen or city council ! There is no police graft because the ! police force is privately paid and l managed. There is no liquor issue l because the only place where liquor | is permitted to be sold is in the | fe- no social evil because only those l approved by the management of the | place are allowed to reside in any ] part of it. Everything is done for | the citizens and nothing by them. | If they have any criticism or sug | gestions to make these may be of | fered over the telephone or by mail to | the business office from which all the ! affairs of the town are managed and | if complaints lodged in this way have | any foundation they are acted upon | without any delay or discussion.
 From it's very foundation the town has been unique among American communities. It was established by | Alexander T. Stewart, the first man to whom the long, abused title of merchant prince" was applied. Stew art intended it to provide homes for the thousands of employees of his great retail store and his other en- teririses. His idea was to have houses at varying rentals, all moder- ate, for every class of worker in his establishment from the heads of de- partments down to floor-walkers and humble counter jumpers. He laid out his town with the aid of the best landscape architects, allotted to each ! house yard space which anywhere else would have been regarded as enormous, planted trees and in many other ways made the locality attrac- tive. With his death, however, the | personal enthusiasm being gone. and | the business of the great merchant | passing into other hands, the town