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these fares include the return journey in every case. Moreover,
weekly tickets, in packets, will be issued on this basis.
A clause in the new Railway Bill, above mentioned, provides
that, " In respect of working men carried by working men's
trains, between the London station of the Company and
Neasden, and intermediate places, the company shall not be
entitled to charge higher fares than are for the time being
chargeable, or charged, by the Metropolitan Railway Company,
by their workmen's trains, between their Baker Street
Station, and Neasden, and intermediate places." It follows,
as a result of the above decision by the Metropolitan Railway
Company, that the working classes in London will gain
the benefits of this new scale of charges on both lines of railway,
when the Bill becomes law.
As it may not unreasonably be expected that an impetus
will be given by these arrangements to the erection of houses
for the working classes in the suburbs, we can but hope that
care will be exercised to prevent the concessions being so
mis-used as to involve the creation of slums outside London.
The houses to be built should not be too large, nor too
crowded on space. Working men, moreover, should be encouraged
to become the owners of their cottage homes. It is
especially to be desired, moreover, that workmen's tickets
should be issued, so far as practicable, to bond-fide workmen
only, so that the suburbs may not be overrun by " outcast
London."
EMIGRATION.
Emigration would seem, at first sight, to be another
means of reducing overcrowding, and the late Government did
well in appointing a Committee to inquire into various
schemes which had been proposed, of state-aided emigration
—from congested districts of the United Kingdom, London
included, to British Colonies and elsewhere; to examine the
results of schemes that have had a practical trial, and to