GLASGOW.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7749, 15 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

GLASGOW.

SEEN THROUGH YANKEE EYES. In the Washington “Daily Star” (U.S.A.) “Niksah” refers to Glasgow as follows: Rome was built on seven hills, but Glasgow stretches herself over about seventeen. This is only one of the many features in which Glasgow excels Rome. About the giant of the north there is a combination of the great modern city and the pictures* ciue old town, of the captain of industry and the patron of the arts, of coldness and austerity with sympathy and grace that is hard to match anywhere. COMPARED WITH EDINBURGH. Glasgow has much of the picturesque about her, but she never gets credit for it, because Edinburgh is in the neighbourhood. Edinburgh is picturesque in such a spectacular fashion that no other Scottish city has much of a chance. So it is taken for granted that Edinburgh represents the Scotland that Is put on canvas and Glasgow the Scotland that goes into bank hooks. Under more favourable circumstances, Glasgow might have won a name in both lines, hut as it is she has to be content with her modern buildings and her vulgar predominance In trade The list of the things that Glasgow does and makes would sound like the report of the secretary of a chamber of commerce with town lots for sale. It would include apparently everything that the human race has any use for or finds any prolit or p’easuru in producing. HER SHTPS, But above all things, Glasgow is noted for ships. She Is u sort of a Piititsljiurgh-l|yrthe-Soa. with her iron ore anVl her steel mills, and If there wore any place to lay them she would probably make steel rails tn immense quantities. The geographical limitations of Great Britain put a certain check on the length of railways, so Glasgow builds ships instead. “Clyde-built" bottoms are th*« aristocrats of the sea. It is hard to carry away any definite impression from Glasgow. Tm» picture that sticks in your memory la one of broad solidity, of stately buildings, grey and cool, of long lines of modern architecture broken here and there by some old-time shop o. church, of busy streets, shuttled through with double-decked trolley cars, of a pleasant Scottish burr in the King’s English, of a life seriou* and strenuous, like the city; and likf the city varied now and again by some decorous interval sacred to diguiileu anw.se men t.