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...recent growth, as is shown by the fact that from 1890 to 1904 debts from municipal service increased 100 per cent. Since earlier municipal ownership consisted largely of water-works in which few men were employed, it is difficult to tell just how municipal ownership has affected English politics. There are, no doubt, many in this country who believe that it should have a purifying effect. It may do this in one of two ways--it may arouse a greater interest in civic life, and it may remove the temptation of public service corporations from the path of the administrators...
...eight-oared shell, with a complete set of oars, was recently ordered from Sims & Sons, of Putney. London, England. The boat will be delivered early next summer, and will be built according to the English model and English rowing theories. It will have short outriggers, rowlocks without swivels, and seats arranged alternately on the port and starboard sides of the boat. The seat at each place will be near the side opposite the outrigger...
Major Leonard Darwin, of London, delivered the second of his series of four lectures on "Municipal Ownership" in Emerson Hall last night, on the subject, "English Municipal Statistics. The Probability of Profit-Making by Municipal Ownership. Municipal Management...
Major Leonard Darwin of London, son of the great naturalist and economist, will deliver the second of his series of lectures on "Municipal Ownership," in Emerson Hall, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of this lecture will be "English Municipal Statistics. The Probability of Profit Making by Municipal Ownership. Municipal Management." The lecture will be open to the public...
...LECTURES ON MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. II. "English Municipal Statistics. The Probability of Profit-Making by Municipal Ownership. Municipal Management." Major Leonard Darwin. Emerson Hall Lecture Room (first floor...