. Electric railway journal . STREET TRAFFIC, UNION AND ARGYLE STREETS, GLASGO W. NOTE THE PREVAILING LOW BUILDINGS IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT 358 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. & for some small tenements and forty-eight single-roomapartments. These apartments are rented furnishedat 7 shillings ($) a week to people who have losttheir furnishings through fire or other causes. Thecity entered this field of housing to correct the abusesto which these unfortunates were subjected by rapa-cious landlords. Asked as to the willingness of the workers to livein suburban territory, Mr. Menzies po
. Electric railway journal . STREET TRAFFIC, UNION AND ARGYLE STREETS, GLASGO W. NOTE THE PREVAILING LOW BUILDINGS IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT 358 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 53, No. & for some small tenements and forty-eight single-roomapartments. These apartments are rented furnishedat 7 shillings ($) a week to people who have losttheir furnishings through fire or other causes. Thecity entered this field of housing to correct the abusesto which these unfortunates were subjected by rapa-cious landlords. Asked as to the willingness of the workers to livein suburban territory, Mr. Menzies pointed out thatthe citys houses at Cumbernauld Road, Kennyhill, were3 miles from the center of Glasgow. These were letonly to the poorest class ofpeople. Before the war, thetenant had to prove that hewas not earning more than 28shillings ($7) a week, and evenin these days of increasedwages the rooms are not opento anyone who earns more than£2 ($10) a week! Yet despitetheir low wages, many of the substantial than frame ho
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