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The Outlook is a Weekly Newspaper and an Illustrated Monthly Magazine in one. It is published every Saturday-fifty-two issues a year. The first issue in each month is an Illustrated Magazine Number, containing about twice as many pages as the regular weekly issue, and many pictures.

Price. The subscription price is Three Dollars a year, payable in advance. Ten cents a copy. Postage is Prepaid by the publishers for all subscriptions in the United States, Hawaiian Islands, Philippine Islands, Guam, Porto Rico, Tutuila Samoa, Canada, and Mexico. For all other countries in the Postal Union add $1.56 for postage.

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287 Fourth Avenue, New York Copyright, 1903, by The Outlook Company. Entered as second-class matter in the New York Post-Office.

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"No perfume, but fine linen, plenty of it, and country
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ERTAINLY there is no more agreeable fragrance than clean linen, if it has been washed with pure soap. Any soap will remove the dirt. Ivory Soap does so without leaving a strong, rank odor. Its purity makes the linen snow white and sweet smelling. Try it!

Vol. 73

The Tenement-House
Bill

Published Weekly

April 4, 1903

New York's
Canal Referendum

No. 14

After an exciting contest

The delegation which tion with a staff representative of The went to Albany from Outlook. "We are," he said, "constantly the city of New York passing legislation for the protection of last week to protest against any changes fish and game in the country, and it seems in the amended Tenement-House Bill as though we might legitimately pass legisprepared by the Tenement-House Com- lation for the protection of women and missioner, and passed unanimously by children in the crowded sections of the the State Senate, is said to have been one great cities." of the largest and most influential that has ever been seen in Albany. Some three hundred citizens, including representatives from the tenement-house districts, went up on a special train, and some forty or fifty more went up on one of the regular trains. Both delegations visited the Governor, and received explicit assurance from him that no legislation would receive his approval which had the effect to impair the efficiency of the present law in the protection it affords to the poorer people in New York. A hearing was to have been given on the bill by the Assembly Committee which has it in charge, but the canal bill occupied the attention of the House until eight o'clock in the evening, so that most of the delegation had been compelled to return to the city before the Committee could be convened. The selected speakers, however, remained, and presented the cause of the people to the Committee, and they included, besides representatives of the Tenement-House Commission, others who represented the better class of builders. The opposition to the The opposition to the bill in its present form comes mainly from speculative builders, who wish to put up cheap and poor tenements, and owners of old tenements built before the present law, not constructed for tenement-houses, and unequipped with any proper sanitary provisions. These the law requires them to add, and to this some of the landlords object. The argument for the Commissioner's bill was tersely put by an Assemblyman from one of the river counties in private conversa

in each house, the New York Legislature last week passed the bill submitting to the voters of the State the proposition to issue $101,000,000 worth of bonds for the construction of a thousand-ton barge canal in the place of the present Erie Canal. In the Senate the vote stood 32 to 14, in the House 87 to 55. In both bodies a small majority of the Republicans voted against the bill, while all the Democrats in the Senate and all but three in the House supported it. House supported it. The division, however, was in no sense partisan. It was altogether sectional. The representatives of Greater New York and of Buffalo, without regard to party, supported the bill, while a majority of the representatives of the rural counties, without regard to party, voted against it. The smallness of the Democratic vote against the bill was due to the smallness of the Democratic vote from the rural counties not bordering upon the canal. The arguments used against the canal were the enormous cost of the project, the decreasing value of canals because of railway competition, and the injustice of taxing rural New York to cheapen the transportation of Western grain. The replies made by the friends of the canal are badly reported in the despatches, but are briefly as follows: (1) The cost of the improvement is less in proportion to the wealth of the State than was the cost of the original canal in 1817 or its widening in 1835. The

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