Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...accurate. Dr. Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as mater-mariner, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression and the drink evil, which find peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk. He has recently been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward VII for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell has already shown himself well fitted to treat his material from the point of interest to college...
...sparse and needy population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...
...speaker then took up the matter of poor service. He pointed out that the principal cry was against the overcrowding. He showed that much of this evil is due to the peculiar physical formation of the island which makes overcrowding inevitable. Furthermore reports of the New York State Railroad Commission show that cars are run as frequently as is practicable--a typical instance being the corner of Broadway and 23rd street, where cars pass at the rate of one every six seconds, while vehicles cross the tracks at the rate of 32 a minute. The speaker asked the affirmative...
...effect it would have on the politics of the city. The franchise-holding corporations are responsible for by far the greater part of the corruption in New York City, he said: The street railway companies, because of their primacy in power and wealth, have been the chief agents of evil. They have secured their franchises by bribery; they have swindled the city out of millions of dollars in taxes; they have purchased legislation almost openly. Even the courts have been in their hire and control. These facts are to be found in official reports, and it is only reasonable...
Regulation is not an effective remedy because it does not remove the cause. Municipal ownership strikes at the very root of the evil. If New York owns the street railway system and leases it to private companies, the incentive to corruption will be weakened because a lease is not as valuable as a franchise, and the operating company will be less powerful. If the city assumes the burden of operation then the opportunity for this kind of corruption will be entirely eliminated. The possibility of petty graft within the department itself can be avoided by adopting civil service rules, such...