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rows of apartments, airy and well lighted, which it now rents to laborers, and which, in time, will pay for themselves and will then be a great source of revenue.

The city had become filled with cheap lodging houses which were overcrowded and were filthy and prolific of both disease and crime. On sanitary and police grounds combined, the mu- nicipality built a number of airy and well-lighted lodging houses, some for men and some for women, where, for from six to nine cents, a per- son can get a bed in a small, separate room, with the use of a large sitting room and the privilege
 * .)f cooking his own food at the kitchen range.

The city has acquired all the docks and dock privileges and furnishes all the labor in mana- ging them. It also has the exclusive ownership of all the markets and slaughter-houses and de- rives a large income from them.

Instead of draining into the Clyde, large works have been established, in which the solid mat- ter is all taken out of the sewage and is pressed into cakes and loaded automatically on cars and then taken to the country, where it is used as manure on a farm belonging to the city, and where all the food for the city's horses is raised, while the liquid sewage is run through filtering beds and made clear and odorless.

IManchester has within its narrow limits only

a little over half a million people, but within a

radius of twenty miles from her city hall there

are o^'^i three million inhabitants. These have

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