Excerpt from Municipal Government: As Illustrated by the Charter, Finances, and Public Charities of New York During the past ten years the policy of public ownership and control of public prop erty has developed into an established fea ture of municipal government, and valuable franchises are no longer distributed as politi cal rewards or personal favors without pro test. Methods of developing revenue-pro ducing public property, and of utilizing the enormous waste of refuse incident to clean liness and sanitation, are now studied thor oughly and intelligently with encouraging results. Everywhere there is a promising tendency toward thorough business methods in the conduct of the affairs of cities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.