GLASGOW'S COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1638, 19 March 1884, Page 3

GLASGOW'S COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE.

Many readers will be surprised to learn tlmt Glasgow is the second largest city in Great Britain, and the third in commercial importance. In population and manufactories it almost equals Philadelphia, ami for wet weather surpasses, any' American city, large or small, with winch I am acquainted. The people are busy, thrifty, industrious and exceedingly polite, intensely national, but absolutely ignorant and indifferent'about America and American affairs. I have not met any person so ignorant as tho Italian count who asked whether it was not dangerous to venture outsido of New York on an account of the Indians, lint they do not seem to know or care that in tho vicinity of the noble city of Towson there is a populous and thriving villago called Baltimore, Glasgow claims to have the largest locomotive works in the world, and the shipbuilding yards extend along the Clyde twenty miles to Greenock, presenting a scene of ceaseless industry that astonishes even an American traveller. The Glasgow Cathedral is one of the most ancient and interesting churches in Great Britain. Tho present structure was built in 1181, and is in excellent preservation. The University of Glasgow made it a prominent place, even when the population was quite small.—Baltimore Day Letter.