Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . avings Fnnd and Aid Association, $90,900: William and Sherman Savings and Loan Association. $71,050. ILLUSTRATED M Si CITY OF THE LAKES. CHAPTER XII. Buffalo the Most Healthfcl of Thirtv-six Leading American Cities, as Shown bv The New YorkWorld.—How Her Climate Compares with That of Leading European Centres and World-famed Health Resorts.—The Cheapest Water Supply of Eleven Other Large AmericanCities, and the Lowest Tax-rate of the Sixty-five Most Important Cities and Towns in theFnion.—Every Possible Advantage Desired bv the Manufacturer, an
Illustrated Buffalo: the queen city of the lakes . avings Fnnd and Aid Association, $90,900: William and Sherman Savings and Loan Association. $71,050. ILLUSTRATED M Si CITY OF THE LAKES. CHAPTER XII. Buffalo the Most Healthfcl of Thirtv-six Leading American Cities, as Shown bv The New YorkWorld.—How Her Climate Compares with That of Leading European Centres and World-famed Health Resorts.—The Cheapest Water Supply of Eleven Other Large AmericanCities, and the Lowest Tax-rate of the Sixty-five Most Important Cities and Towns in theFnion.—Every Possible Advantage Desired bv the Manufacturer, and by the CapitalistSeeking a Place for Investment. Ye glittering towus, with wealth and spleudor crowned,Ye fields where summer spreads profusion lakes whose vessels catch the busy gale,Ye bending swains that the flowery vale—For me your tributary stores combine ;Creations heir, the world, the world is mine! Oold^imilh. Surely that city which, to furnish raw materials for her industries, takes tribute from every land under. the sun, may claim the world as hers. Civilization is focused upon that point at the foot of the great chain ofinland seas where Buffalo makes use of every art and invention of man to aid her thousand different industries;to give necessities, comforts, and luxuries to her hundreds of thousands of citizens, and entertainment to herdaily throngs of visitors. This city has a heritage in the Niagara River, if no vessels ever rode on its bosom, and no power is everderived from its fall or rapid current. The writer has made an inquiry of the water departments of twelve American cities, ranging in populatipnfrom ,000 to 450,000, viz.: St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh,Detroit, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Louisville, and Minneapolis, to determine the gross income of their water-works ILLUSTRATED HI plants, their operating expenses, income per capita, expense per capita, anJ net income per capita, to dctcnni
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