Show GLASGOW HOARY WITH AGE GLASGOy Scottish Metropolis Was Founded 1800 Years Ago We hear n great deal In those rtaya In praise of Glasgow ns a truly model city ami of Its municipalizing In the Interest of tho citizens nearly every public franchise fran-chise mat Is all truVand Glasgow high ly I nl I1H nil I praise1 foestowed upon It I At I presiml however we would hrlolly remind our renders of Glasgow In tho olden time hundreds of years before It obtained Its present stale of perfectionanil of whjh we now rarely hear a word I is about LSOO years since Glasgow was founded by Kcntlgern or St Mmi > o hut t the city did not amount lo much until after the act of union between Scotland and Knglnnd about M years ago It 1 t waa thai net which enabled the morchanl adventurers ad-venturers of Glasgow to send mil their ships to Virginia and jUiirylaml hew for cargoes of tobacco loaf Thus tobacco manufacture was the first Important foreign for-eign by Glausow trade und enterprise home Industry established Very soon tIle city became the conter of tho iDbacco Iraflli Kor a long time thereafter there-after the tobacco lords of Glasgow their scarlet robes and on their own privileged privi-leged beat wero almost as strongly marked figures In history MS were lime merchants of Venice When the America Ameri-ca n colonies revolted and the United I Slates Republic was established Glasgow lust Its flourishing tobacco trade but some of the tobaceo lords who hold heavy stocks mudo enormous foi tunes by the rise in prices These fortunes formed the olndltol of larger enterprises elsewhere else-where and tho begettln of the numerous murnhant princes that soon character ized Glasgow I len driven from Virginia the adven II turers established trade with the West italics whO sugar succeeded tobacco as I suceectcl the staple of trade Then canin cotlori and next coal which was soon followed uy iron Meantime there had been n con tmnous development t trade with India I with China with South America with the United States and ultimately with Australia and New Zealand Till then tho Clyde had been little better than a stagnant ditch hut Glasgow by degrees formed 1 deep broad navigable wulor way Ind then ctimc commerce and Bhlj jSmlldlnffScottlshAiucrlcan 5 t |