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Show A WKI-L OOVKKNKD CITV. It would bo well for every citizen who is interested in the municipal government govern-ment of Salt Lake, to read an article is the March number of the Century magazine, mag-azine, on the city goTornmont of Glasgow, Glas-gow, Scotland. Glasgow is a seaport town, has a bad climate and a donse working population, living in tenement houses. It is calculated that in some localities as many as 1000 persons live within an area of one acre. The city proper covers an area of only Gill acres. The density of population exceeds ex-ceeds that of London. The entire en-tire population is at present in round numbers 800,000. It is one of the greatest great-est manufacturing cities in the world. The city is divided into sixteen wards, each represented by threecouncilmen so arranged that while the tortn of office extends to throe years one from each ward goes out each year. These coun-cilmen coun-cilmen are chosen from among the beet citizens of the place with but little regard re-gard to party afliliations. Many of them are kept in ollice, having no salary, for successive terms. Probably no municipal munici-pal government stands higher for ability, honestv and practical knowledge of its dutios than that of the city of Glasgow. This council controls every department of city government, selects the heads of thoso departments and makes all appointments. ap-pointments. The water, gas, market and slaughter-house, parks, libraries, gallorios, city improvements, police, sanitary san-itary and hospital matters are all lodged in the responsible hands of this body of citizens. Under their ablo management, manage-ment, the city, once the abode of caro-loss caro-loss and filthy tenemont lodgers, and the haunt of typhus and othor loathsome loath-some "diseases, has become a model for other cities far more favorably situatod. The dtreoU of the city are cloaned every day and tho piivnto courts of some the more thickly Bottled portions, two and threo.times a day. Think of that, doni-jflns doni-jflns of alloys and courts in the center of Salt Lake! Streot paving, water and gas supply, street railways, sewer construction, con-struction, tho health department, depart-ment, everything connoctod with the city, and for which the council is rertponsible, aro provided with able, experienced ex-perienced and sciontiHc chiefs, solectod, not on account of political services, but strictly ond only with roforence to their superior fitness for tho work. Tho city owns and manages its water and gas and leases its city railway system. All these aro sources of growing revenue, and whero largo indcbtodnosB was originally incurrod, equally lorge sinking funds are accumulating to meet it, Publio streets and private stairways in all the large tonoment houses nre lightod, and gas is furnished from the city works at sixty-six sixty-six cents por thousand foet. Think of that, Salt Lnke gas-burners. Glasgow has not given away its valuable valua-ble franchises as American cities havs, but has kept tho control in her own hands, under bases in some cnees. In 181)1, hor tramways will como from tho lessees hands clear of debt and an aggregate ag-gregate rental of noarly $100,000 paid into the city treasury with a lurgo not revenuo thereafter to the city. We boast of ..American superiority in mnnv things, but tho municipal government govern-ment of our citios as a wholo, is a dis-I dis-I grace to a civilized nation. |