. Review of reviews and world's work. MR. STUYVESANT FISH. SIR FR.\NC1S MOWATT. (A prominent English delegate to the International RailwayCongress.) (President of the Illinois Central Railroad, who debatedtlie rate question with Secretary Taft before the Inter-national Railway Congress last month.) ThePubii - ^ some of our great population cen-Service ters, during the past two months, in-Corporations. ^^^^^^ which usually Centers in mat-ters of national policy has been transferred ina noticeable degree to questions of local welfare,in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, prob-lems of municipal
. Review of reviews and world's work. MR. STUYVESANT FISH. SIR FR.\NC1S MOWATT. (A prominent English delegate to the International RailwayCongress.) (President of the Illinois Central Railroad, who debatedtlie rate question with Secretary Taft before the Inter-national Railway Congress last month.) ThePubii - ^ some of our great population cen-Service ters, during the past two months, in-Corporations. ^^^^^^ which usually Centers in mat-ters of national policy has been transferred ina noticeable degree to questions of local welfare,in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, prob-lems of municipal ownership and municipal con-trol of public utilities continue to engage thepublic mind to an absorbing extent. The actionof the New York Legislature, while it stoppedshort of the demands made on it by public sen-timent in the metropolis, still resulted in severalsubstantial gains. The bill to secure 75-cent gasfor the people of New York failed of enactment,but an important step in that direction was takenm the creation of a gas comm
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