The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-07-05

into the North sea.
Both sides OF the river have been
completely built upon throughout the
city, but the greater amount of the
wharfage Q is acquired by the con-
struction Of enormous basins; these
basins running everywhere, together
with the great number of canals which
interline the whole city, bring the
wharfage of the port into the heart of
the city itself at every part of it's area.
The wharfage is obtained by the
steamers berthing longitudinal1y
alongside of the long quays which are
built substantially of stone. brick or
concrete on piles.
The Hamburg-American line has by
far the most elaborate and complete
system of docks, all built by the state,
including quay walls, sheds and
carnes, of which there are many, pay
ing in rent about $325,00o a year.
Boston has been invested by law
with full authority to minimize the
lodging house evil. The law gives to.
the board of health the right to limit
the number of persons permitted to
dwell in any building or in any part
or parts thereof, and 1t provides penal
ties for violation of any Of the reguIa-
tons that may be formulated, to which
tenants, ~lessees, owners or whoever
Ia be responsible for these unwar-
ranted situations shall be liable. The,
addition of 8 5000 tenement houses to-
$500 previously denominated by
the health department will call for a
much larger force of inspectors.
With announcement OF zoo, 900 sub
scribers to an official endowment
fund for the institution, the Cleveland
School of Art has been celebrating it's
thirtieth anniversary. announcement
also was made Of plans for an organi-
cation to be called Friends of Art in
Cleveland, which it's founders expect
will attain a membership Of $4,000. It's
object will be to further the interests
Of art and city beauty.
Chicago will be ablaze with electric
lights. and its streets will be the most
brilliantly lighted in America when the
reached by the engineering committee
the sanitary trustees. No opposi-
ton lis expected. The committee vot-
ed in favor of granting the request OF
the city council to enter into a con-
tract to install $4,000 new flaming arc
lamps. or their equivalent in Tungsten
laps now in use. With the 10000.
lamps. and to rehabilitate 5000 arc
lamps installed under a similar con-
tract, which will be completed this
year, there will be $4,000 new electric
arc lamps in service.
The thrifty little English city of
has just balanced its
books for the year.
From the municipal gas works the
city has made a profit this year Of
s72,5 500. or nearly s23,000 more than
it made last year. The citizens of Not
tingham pay taxes, but the profits
from the municipal enterprises are APP
piled in large measure to the reduction
of those taxes. It is proposed this
year to apply to the relief OF the
rates. as follows:
From the municipal a
works OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4,000
From the municipal tram
ways $4,000
From the municipal electric
ity department ...... 5000
Which is n reason why stmunici-
pal socialism" has no terrors for the
British middle classes.
Cook county, ILL.,. lis the possessor of
a chemical laboratory for the distinct
purpose Of making blood tests. It lis
the first county in the United States
to establish a laboratory for this pur-
pose The principal work of the lab
oratory will consist in making tests
of the blood OF persons arrested in the
morals court who are suffering with
contagious diseases.
1T is. the aim of Coroner Hoffman to
use the laboratory In seeking the.
cause for mysterious deaths in the
county, particularly in instances where
death is thought to have resulted from.
~ptornaine and other forms OF poison
ing.
Two packing plants at an aggregate
cost OF S 100000 have been located at
Oklahoma City. The city Itself is now
soliciting funds successfully for the
organization Of a company to drill for
oil or gas not for individual profit but
for the benefit of the future develop
ment of the new oil fields OF the state.