A SUGGESTION.
(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —In reading your article re the lute fire in Pollen street it occurred to me that it would be worth while considering whether the best plan for collecting Mb* scriptions to raise a sum of money—to be devoted to the immediate laying down of the nine inch pipes—would not be for some two or three of onr leading citizens to make a house to house collection. Surely few of the inhabitants of our leading thoroughfares, or of the side streets branching immediately off it, would be so "penny wise pound foolish" ac to refo.se a subscription according to their means for such an object. % But, in any case, I fancy it hat been sufficiently demonstrated that a domiciliary canvass is much more. likely to be successful in a pecuniary point of view than merely leaving the matter in the heeds of the citizens themselves, in whom the predominant characteristic (at least in many) appears to be "out of flight, out of mind."—l am, &c., - Martin H. Patjj*. December 22ud, 1879.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3433, 23 December 1879, Page 2
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180A SUGGESTION. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3433, 23 December 1879, Page 2
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