Review of reviews and world's work . corporation and to the corporations of the variouscity guilds respectively. It will bring ground rentsand the unearned increment under tribute for thebenefit of six million Londoners, and it will comeinto the possession and control of great services ofsupply. It will transform the housing system, thetransportation system, the central street system, thepark system, the water system, and the illuminationsystem. The London which has lagged so far be-hind Paris, Berlin, and Vienna is awakening to aconsciousness of its incomparably greater wealth,resources, and
Review of reviews and world's work . corporation and to the corporations of the variouscity guilds respectively. It will bring ground rentsand the unearned increment under tribute for thebenefit of six million Londoners, and it will comeinto the possession and control of great services ofsupply. It will transform the housing system, thetransportation system, the central street system, thepark system, the water system, and the illuminationsystem. The London which has lagged so far be-hind Paris, Berlin, and Vienna is awakening to aconsciousness of its incomparably greater wealth,resources, and destiny, and it is now certain that thenext twenty j^ears are to witness vast urban de-velopments on the banks of the Thames, under theeje and hand of a new city government that willmake the abolition of the London fogs one of itsearliest undertakings. All this larilliant and magnificent outlook follow-ing upon the launching of the ship of the new Lon-don municipality, ought for New York to have great. SIR .JOHN LUBBOCK, Second Chairman of the Loudon Council. interest and great encouragement. There are noconceivable depths of municipal inefficiency and de-pravity that could altogether check and mar the de-velopment of a city in which the forces making forimperial greatness and progress are so stupendous asin New York. But bad nmnicipal government,frightful extravagance and shameful misappropria- 286 THE REl^IEW OF REVIEWS. tion in the use of municipal funds, ignorance andshortsighteduess in the planning and inception ofpublic improvements, and the rapacity of quasi-pub-lic coi-porations and local-franchise monopolists,have acted as a most burdensome and deplorablehandicap. New York ought to have a municipalgovermnent worth far more than its cost. For public money expended, there ought to be value receivedbeyond a question or a cavil. Every interest thatconcerns the community in general ought to finditself better situated and with brighter prospectsby virtue of a wise, honest, a
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