GLASGOW.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 193, 21 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

GLASGOW.

SEEN THROUGH YANKEE

EYES. In the Washington "Daily Star" ( U.S.A.) ,I Xiksah'" refers to Glasgow as follows: — Home was built on seven hills, but. Glasgow stretches herself over .about seventeen. This is only one of the many features in which Glasgow exeels Rome. About the giant of the north there is a combination of tho great modern city and the picturesque old town, of the captain of industry and the patron of the aru, 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 chanco. So it is taken for granted that Edinburgh represents the Scotland that Is put on canvas and Glasgow the Scotland that goes into bank books. (Judcr more favourable circumstance-, Glasgow might have won a name in both Hues, but as it is she has to be content wii.li 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 chamtcr 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 jileasuib in producing. HER SHIPS. Hut above all things, Glasgow ;s noted for ships. She Is a sort ol a P,itiislvirgh-l|yrthe-Sea. with betiron ore and her steel mills and ir there were any place to lay them she would probably make stof" rail* m immense quantities. The geogrr—phicai limitations of Great Britain put a certain check on the length cf railways, so Glasgow builds ships instead. "Clyde-built" bottoms are th« aristocrats of the sea. It is hard to carry away any dc:»nite impression fronv Glasgow. T:,e picture that sticks in your memory one- of broad solidity, of stately buildings, grey and cool, o* long lines of modern architecture broken hc:v and there by some old-time shop cv church of busy streets, shuttled through v. ith double-decked nolle; cars, of a pleasant SVottfsh burr ?r the King's English, of a life serion* and strenuous, like the city: and I?k» the city varied now and again by sec c decorous interval sacred to digsifiert am .'semenf.