THE STATE REVIEW. 



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MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP ABROAD. 



lu an addros read In-fore the Engineering So- 

 ciety of Columbia University recently by Arthur 

 mis, president of the National Electric Light 

 iation. the speaker made an analysis of 

 municipal ownership as it exists in foreign coun- 

 Apart from the familiar criticisms of the 

 rlier shown. Mr. Williams has gone 

 into the investment side of the proposition, and 

 shwn that the Glasgow tramways have earned 

 only 1.9 per cent upon the investment in them, 

 -.gh the money necessary for the investment 

 borrowed at about one and a half times 

 rate. He shows that in Freiburg, the Ger- 



ity which lias been held to be the most per- 

 , xample of foreign municipal management 



of public services, the only profitable enterprises 

 in which the city is engaged are the water sup- 

 ply and the municipal cemetery. The drinking 

 water and the graves of its citizens are the 

 sources from which the revenue is derived to 

 pay the deficits growing out of the operation of 



arious other municipal undertakings. 

 There are many sides to this municipal admin- 

 istration of public services. In Glasgow, for in- 

 stance, the low rate of fare for very short dis- 

 s has led to congestion of the population. 

 were in 1901 in that city 91,205 persons 

 . in families of from one to twelve in single 

 tenements, and 1!'4.'.'S9 persons living in 

 ies in two-room tenements. The results of 

 conditions were that more than 600 beds 

 provided in Glasgow's contagious 

 als. The single instance quoted 



- that the cheapening of public transporta- 



e to be regarded in con- 

 enterprises. 



\Villiains touches on a point which our 

 upon to a considerable ex- 

 die comparative honesty of Euro- 

 adminisl nd our own. From a 



upled with 

 .sentatives of 



who have been doing busi- 

 ed and Scotland we do not hesi- 

 n for man. and dollar for dol- 

 in the 



of the old countries than there 

 nparatively honest. 



Mr. Williams" the American pub- 

 utdy and presentation of 



'!! t will -it against these mu- 



1 vcnttire-s. Lucki" n to whom we 



in their dutv. 



BIGGEST POTATO MARKET. 



:itoe?_and patent grate bars have made 



iville famous throughout the world, but po- 



- were the town's greatest factor almost be- 



were grate K a correspondent 



t thriving Michigan city." C. H. Wells, the 



idustry. who is per- 



r qualified to estimate than any other 



''.at Greenville's market sends out 



- 00.000 worth of po- 



r. The maximum is a trifle more 



i million dollars, but SSOO.OOO is a consor- 



The C. H. Wells Compan. 



'0.000 per annum in potatoes. 



n Mr. Wells began buying and selling po- 



3 quarter of a cen- 



;he market was in its infancy. In fact, 



office buildings and potato 



that is now known the world over 



market had its inception 



t with the beginning of Mr. Wells' activity. 

 s him credit for the systema- 

 "ic buying, storing and shipping meth- 

 od the rapid advancement and improvement 

 ' the market that long ago placed it at the head 

 the country's p,. ioas. 



ft was C. IT. Wel! & Co. that experimented 

 th and perfected the modern method of ship- 

 _jg potatoes in refrigerator ca 



iie Xorth Greenville markets there are now 

 individual firms, each doing a rushing busi- 

 ess. There is storage facilities for almost 300,- 

 ^0 bushels of potatoes. 



i The Continental Starch Company factory, 

 two miles from the Xorth Greenville mar- 

 lilizes the potatoes found too small for mar- 



ket uses, and thus there is no waste in the Green- 

 ville potato market. 



LOG LIFTING PROFITABLE. 



The Manistee Navigation Co. has closed its sea- 

 son of log lifting. Six outfits have been at work 

 this year. Logs have also been taken out with 

 teams in some places where the stream is small. 

 i The total quantity of logs redeemed this year 

 | probably amount to about 10,000,000 feet. 



Next year the work will be started early and 

 ! the company will begin to deliver the logs to the 

 mills at Manistee. It has been determined to 

 give the logs a good opportunity to dry out thor- 

 oughly, and to this end the launching of them 

 I into the river will not begin until about June, and 

 i .then only those which have been on the skids 

 i about a full year will be put in. 



The largest quantity of logs are piled in the big 

 swamp a few miles above High Bridge. From 

 ; one point near the Old House, 2,000,000 feet of 

 decked logs can be seen. In fact, the banks are 

 i lined almost continuously in places with logs piled 

 twelve to fifteen feet high. In this swamp, which 

 is miles in extent, the channel has occupied va- 

 < rious routes in different years. Along all these 

 I channels and cut-offs the logs are thick under wa- 

 : ter and sometimes under mud. The swamp was 

 formed by the flooding of Pine river years ago. 

 This stream was used for getting out Canfield 

 i logs. Several dams were built. The water in 

 ! store behind the dams was released suddenly, prp- 

 ' ducing floods which swept down to the main 

 i river. The banks were also swept away, produc- 

 ' ing bars in the river, and ultimately changing its 

 i character all of the way to its mouth. Millions 

 of feet of logs became mired in the big swamp 

 below the mouth of Pine river. A man who has 

 been working tl - that a scow after work- 



ing one of the channels, can return and get just 

 as many logs the second time, and then not get 

 near all of them. Twenty years would not ex- 

 the possibilities of this section of the river, 

 in his opinion. 



The entire river is expected to yield 100,000,00 

 1 feet of logs. The Navigation company has taken 

 1 out this year about one-tenth of what it expects 

 .lire". The price to be received is $6 per 

 .aid feet for hemlock and $7 for pine. 



LARGEST GAS ENGINE. 



The Old> Ga~ Power Co. now has in 



n at its plant at Lansing one of 

 the largest single unit gas engines ever built 

 by the company. It is a single cylinder engine 

 developing 150 horse power, which, with an- 

 other of the saivle design and efficiency, is to 

 be shipped to St. Stephens. X. IV. where it will 

 ed in the municipal electric light and 

 r plant. 



The size and power of this engine marks a 

 great step in advance in the application of the 

 ;i}line for power purposes sixty-five to 

 seventy live horse power having until very re- 

 cently been about the practical limit for single 

 cylinder engines. 



"Some idea of the size of this engine may be 



I from the statement that it weighs 



nd pomi' floor 



.. eleven feet wide. 



The bore of the cylinder .is twenty-three and 



one-quarter inches and the stroke twenty-eight 



inches. The steel crank shaft is eleven inches 



in diameter. To insure absolute regularity of 



i and uniformity of speed requires a fly 



n diameter with a fourteen 



inch. face. The liy wheel alone weighs about 

 seven thousand pounds, cast in tw 



One other single castin. :iginr, 



-veighs eighteen thousand pounds. These 

 dimensions and weights are necessary to se- 

 cure freedom from vibration and the solidity 

 required to withstand the strains arising 

 from the enormous explosion pressure de- 



;.ed. 



One of the 'interesting features of the engine 

 is a centrifugal governor driven by sears from 

 the lay sh;.ft. It controls the pressure value 

 or power of the explosion in the cylinder by- 

 varying the lift of the intake valve .thus per- 

 mitting the engine to take in only an amount 

 of gas proportionate to its load. 



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Real Estate. 



GENTLEMAN'S country home of near 30 acres 

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FARM FOR SALE.-On account of old "age, 



rt or all of it, about 100 



.in cultivation, well located; three miles from 

 county miles from smaller town, 



with can: 'ry. railroad crossing one 



corner of farm: a young orchard; crops 

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