day.
The story ultimately became so hopelessly entangled, and âK.J.â looked so unlikely to finish it within a year, while still its denouement was undecided, that Mr. Willock, the editor, adopted the drastic and traditional old method of dealing with such circumstances, and wrote the final instalment himself. I forget exactly how he disposed of all the surviving characters, but I have the impression that he drowned the villainous ones in a shipwreck and abruptly married off the hero and heroine. So ended âK.J.sâ career in fiction.
BRIEF LIVES, 1888
Dr J.B. Russell
Appointed Glasgowâs second Medical Officer of Health in 1872, Dr Russell made many speeches with titles such as âLife in One Roomâ and âThe Children of the Cityâ, designed to prick the consciences of the powers-that-be. One paragraph illustrates the point he was trying to make .
Of all the children who die in Glasgow before they complete their fifth year, 32 per cent die in houses of one apartment; and not 2 per cent in houses of five apartments and upwards. There they die, and their little bodies are laid on a table or on the dresser, so as to be somewhat out of the way of their brothers and sisters who play and sleep and eat in their ghastly company. One in every five of all who are born there never see the end of their first year.
A VEXED QUESTION IN SANITATION, 4 AUGUST 1888
The Builder
The phenomenal success of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London spurred other European cities to emulate it. Somewhat belatedly, Glasgow entered the fray, but when it did it was with uncommonenthusiasm, with three exhibitions in twenty-three years. The first, in 1888, was held in West End Park. Its aim was âto promote and foster the sciences and arts, and to stimulate commercial enterpriseâ. Any profits were to go towards setting up a new art gallery, museum and school of art. Although it was supposedly international in nature, there were very few exhibits from foreign parts, though the Empire was well represented. The Glasgow International Exhibition was opened on 8 May by the Prince of Wales and closed on 10 November, by when it had welcomed 5,748,379 visitors and made a surplus of around £46,000. Not everyone, however, was wholly impressed by the experience . . .
This enterprise has just completed the third month of its appointed career, and of success, in the purely business sense of the term, there has hitherto been no lack. The sum of the attendance has been more than respectable, although the form in which the figures, through the medium of the local press, find their way from time to time to the public is hardly a straightforward or rational one. There is no excuse for ranking mere stall assistants as visitors; yet this is done, and not only so, but each entrance is made to count, and an attendant whose exceptional requirements take him in and out twelve times a day, swells the figures by twelve accordingly. There is not the same strength of exception taken to the mixing up of season ticket-holders and complimentary visitors with those who pay at the turnstiles (the only unerring criterion), but it would certainly be more candid to keep the two tables of figures entirely separate. Ticket-holders for the most past reside, or at least pursue their daily calling, within a short distance of the building; many of them make several visits daily, and in doing so contribute (innocently enough of course) to the swelling of these same somewhat deceptive attendance returns.
Since the opening, on the 8th May, a certain degree of change has been going on amongst the general exhibits, chiefly at the fancy of sundry exhibitors who were unable to open with a full show, or who had afterthoughts as to additions which appeared to them desirable. There has been a gradual process of accretion due to this influence, and there are cases, perhaps, in which it has gone too far. Pottery, earthenware and glass goods
The story ultimately became so hopelessly entangled, and âK.J.â looked so unlikely to finish it within a year, while still its denouement was undecided, that Mr. Willock, the editor, adopted the drastic and traditional old method of dealing with such circumstances, and wrote the final instalment himself. I forget exactly how he disposed of all the surviving characters, but I have the impression that he drowned the villainous ones in a shipwreck and abruptly married off the hero and heroine. So ended âK.J.sâ career in fiction.
BRIEF LIVES, 1888
Dr J.B. Russell
Appointed Glasgowâs second Medical Officer of Health in 1872, Dr Russell made many speeches with titles such as âLife in One Roomâ and âThe Children of the Cityâ, designed to prick the consciences of the powers-that-be. One paragraph illustrates the point he was trying to make .
Of all the children who die in Glasgow before they complete their fifth year, 32 per cent die in houses of one apartment; and not 2 per cent in houses of five apartments and upwards. There they die, and their little bodies are laid on a table or on the dresser, so as to be somewhat out of the way of their brothers and sisters who play and sleep and eat in their ghastly company. One in every five of all who are born there never see the end of their first year.
A VEXED QUESTION IN SANITATION, 4 AUGUST 1888
The Builder
The phenomenal success of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London spurred other European cities to emulate it. Somewhat belatedly, Glasgow entered the fray, but when it did it was with uncommonenthusiasm, with three exhibitions in twenty-three years. The first, in 1888, was held in West End Park. Its aim was âto promote and foster the sciences and arts, and to stimulate commercial enterpriseâ. Any profits were to go towards setting up a new art gallery, museum and school of art. Although it was supposedly international in nature, there were very few exhibits from foreign parts, though the Empire was well represented. The Glasgow International Exhibition was opened on 8 May by the Prince of Wales and closed on 10 November, by when it had welcomed 5,748,379 visitors and made a surplus of around £46,000. Not everyone, however, was wholly impressed by the experience . . .
This enterprise has just completed the third month of its appointed career, and of success, in the purely business sense of the term, there has hitherto been no lack. The sum of the attendance has been more than respectable, although the form in which the figures, through the medium of the local press, find their way from time to time to the public is hardly a straightforward or rational one. There is no excuse for ranking mere stall assistants as visitors; yet this is done, and not only so, but each entrance is made to count, and an attendant whose exceptional requirements take him in and out twelve times a day, swells the figures by twelve accordingly. There is not the same strength of exception taken to the mixing up of season ticket-holders and complimentary visitors with those who pay at the turnstiles (the only unerring criterion), but it would certainly be more candid to keep the two tables of figures entirely separate. Ticket-holders for the most past reside, or at least pursue their daily calling, within a short distance of the building; many of them make several visits daily, and in doing so contribute (innocently enough of course) to the swelling of these same somewhat deceptive attendance returns.
Since the opening, on the 8th May, a certain degree of change has been going on amongst the general exhibits, chiefly at the fancy of sundry exhibitors who were unable to open with a full show, or who had afterthoughts as to additions which appeared to them desirable. There has been a gradual process of accretion due to this influence, and there are cases, perhaps, in which it has gone too far. Pottery, earthenware and glass goods
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