Show td ble Slum less cit scottish metropolis providing municipally owned homes in suburbs for working class IS SECOND CITY OF BRIT though inland glasgow dominates the worlds shipbuilding industry pioneer in municipally owned public services washington aj D ci glasgow scotland whose offic lalli have announced they will wipe out one of the last of its slum districts and provide instead mun lei pull y owned homes in mo suburbs thus bids fair soon to become one of the few slum less great cities something of this scottish metropolis tro Iro polis polls which in many ways was Is one of the most interesting cities in ili the world la Is told in a bulletin just issued from froin the lie lV washington ashington D 0 lica headquarters of the national geographic society glasgow if 14 inland yet it dominates the alio worlds shipbuilding industry find and lins lias turned out more of the great ships that dally daily carry the pleasure tind business nien men tile malls and freights and the grim steel engines of than any ault water rival ihal says sas the alio bulletin and in spite of its ott off the sea location on a stream across which a century ago a child could made the tonnage of ships that now berth at its quays and locks docks la Is two thirds that of now york incidentally glasgow though its nemo inny not be quite its as familiar us aa other british towns Is surpassed in size in great britain only ity by london anti and with its more than a million inhabitants it Is barely ou outranked out ranked by only two other cities in the far flung empire calcutta and bombay it Is in easy reach of beronil becoming ng the second city under the flag made haade the tha sea come coma to it illow how glasgow relatively hely a small community on a shallow stream tini its as daring and more successful atran mahomet with ills his mountain made the sell een come com to it Is 13 one of tile the most fascinating cina ting of tho the romances of engineering for a louy time kuae freight for the elty vaa was brought in ships to a point 10 nilles miles down on the clyde clde estuary wid carried the alio rest of the way on pack horses and in carts later it 11 port wits established 30 19 nilles miles away hut but its iia t lie city grew tha need for a port nt at its door became more apparent uno alio situation seemed hopeless but bill in ili 1773 engineers lilt upon the sc of narrowing the channel and milking making it dig ali its bottom deeper tile the plan worked the pitifully monger meager 2 foot depth of those days had bad bt become 8 feet by by 1830 22 feet by 1000 and la Is now ag 20 feet to accommodate tile the huge modern ocean liners picks wielded by wading men started the loosening of the river bottom in ili aba old days daya then cattle harm awse drawn harrows in lato late years ceplo and tho the most modern of steam dredges lieve lauve helped keep the channel to its depth though glasgowe Glasgo ws waterway la Is where alie bus flowed for it liaa has been truly said that it la tin as as tho the suez canal except where there are commercial quays and locks docks practically every foot fo t of tho the clyde waterfront water from glasgow to the estuary Is now taken up with the worlds greatest and busiest shipyards Glas gaws famo fame lias has gone farthest perli perhaps aps because of the wonderful record of its city government and tho the soine somewhat what unusual municipal enterprise firl ses which it has ails conducted for its inhabitants its numerous municipal ly owne owned 1 and operated services might well have drawn the charge of bol ism had they not proved successful business venture ventur 01 long before that lerlia term was invented ther city took over its water works at nn an early late data and dev developed eloNd them it has haft operated its own gas works since and even cm rents rook mok stove to honhold ers era for a small fee the elty alty lias has not only lighted its streets from froin ly opera operator tea electric engineering gin gi stations but has also alo furnished current for industry and for lighting dwellings the street railways have been owned since 1 and operated since by the pity municipal wash houses there are a score core or more of city owned bath houses and wash houses where family washing may inny ile 18 done with modern facilities anti and since ISTO 1870 tile the city lias has conducted municipal iulg lodging houses lio uses there Is also a municipal rit family nilly homo home where children are arc assured good caris while their parents lire tit nt work in ili tho the provision of public markets libraries parks laid piny clity grounds tile the city was it pioneer A number of bands ue lire kept busy providing music inthe in the parks during tho the summer industrially it might bo be suld said that glasgow mado made the steam engine anti and tile the engine made glasgow i james watt wait ninde ills his great invention indention I 1 at glasgow university A few years after robert fulgona Ful tona Cle had biad mado made its first trip on the hudson tile the first in europe was wag operated on the clyde nt at glasgow coal and iron ore were developed near liy by blast furnaces and mach machine like shops came now glasgow having mado made her river built her ships equipped them with vw anade ln in glasgow machinery and bunkered them with glasgow coal sends them to t the ends of tile earth to reap profit for the old home town I 1 |