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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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has elected an in-dependent municipal-ownership ticket headed byWilliam H. Moore as candidate for mayor.Organized labor took a prominent part, and co-operated with a local municipal - ownershipleague. Seattle has already a municipal electric-lighting plant, and the fight in the recent cam-paign was on street-railway questions. Therewill soon be submitted to the voters a propo-sition regarding the municipal construction orownership of the transit lines of the city. „ , . , In London, the metropolitan govern- Municipal « / in ■ Street Cars ment of the world s greatest city isin London. ^^^^ j^ ^^^ h^^nA^ of the ablest andmost progressive body of men who have ever had.control of its destinies. The new chairman ofthe London County Council is Mr. Evan Spicer,who has for many years been a leading mem-ber of the body. Early last month this LondonCouncil took possession of about two hundredmiles of street-railway lines in the northern part of 528 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REVIEWS.
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Mli. EVAN SPICEU. (Chairman of the London County Council.) tlie metropolis, terminating tlie extended leasethat had been granted to a private company someyears ago. Some $25,000,000 is to be expendedin connection with the change from horses to theelectric trolley system. The London Councilalready owns and operates another hundred milesof street railways, and in the? near future it willgreatly extend the trolley network. Meanwhile,the rapid introduction of motor omnibuses ismaking a great change in London transportation.Tlie County Council is so successful and popularthat some thirty-five of its members,—about one-third of the total number,—have been elected toParliament and sit as members of the new Lib-eral House of (yommons. The strength j\ g the uew Britisli ministry gets into of Labor i , . „ . , • i , the British the swing 01 its work With tlie pres-Parhament. ^^^ Parliament it becomes more andmore evident that it was really a Liberal revo-lution that defeated Mr. Balfour

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