JOSIAS CHRISTOPHER GAMBLE 41 



Commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club 

 for the past ten years. Having always resided 

 almost within the precincts of the town, he 

 has taken a constant and intimate interest in 

 all its concerns, not merely discharging public 

 duties, but also filling a social position, and 

 thus assisting to arrest the wretched de- 

 terioration which too often takes place in the 

 towns devoted to manufacturing industries, 

 especially when the processes are noxious, 

 polluting the atmosphere and destroying the 

 vegetation. 



The bane of such places is, that the 

 swarming population of the labouring classes 

 is left comparatively uncared for by its em- 

 ployers, who go to reside in more agreeable 

 neighbourhoods, or who are only members of 

 public companies, and who justifiy their gross 

 neglect of such duties by asserting that 

 boards of directors have no right to be the 

 dispenser of charity, and that their servants 

 must not give their time or attention to public 

 affairs. 



The lamentable consequence of this vicious 

 system is that such towns lack efficient local 

 government, and are not provided with those 

 institutions and social arrangements which arc 

 essential to health, morality, and civilisation. 



