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other things besides the mercenary side of life. In the course of 

 time, employers would naturally give the preference to stokers who 

 could show certificates of having been trained by the body I 

 suggest, and, having secured a reliable body of men, could generate 

 a healthy emulation by offering bonuses to working staffs according to 

 the reduction of the annual coal bill. 



Having attended the annual congress of the Royal Sanitary 

 Institute at Glasgow in 1905, the Lord Provost, Sir John Ure 

 Primrose, was good enough to enlighten me upon the work he and 

 other enthusiasts were doing in Glasgow to reduce the smoke nuisance 

 and costs of working, and at the same time he assured me that his 

 researches had proved so successful that he was having his whole 

 installations and staff re-modelled, thus affording the public a 

 practical proof of what can be done in justifying a firm insistence 

 on the part of the authorities of his example being followed. 



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