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and presented a petition to the Corporation of the
City of London in its favour. The scheme, however,
failed to obtain the assent of the Corporation, and
was therefore abandoned.
The North London Tramways Co. also gave
notice of their intention to extend their line from
Finsbury Park to Clerkenwell, terminating ab the
end of Penton Street. The Vestry assented also to
this scheme, but it was opposed by the Metropolitan
Board of Works, and was not proceeded
with.
The Vestry gave its assent to the construction,
by the London Street Tramways Co., of an additional
cross-over at the junction of King's Cross and Pentonville
Roads, which has accordingly been carried
out.
The Vestry also assented to a renewal of the
license granted by the Board of Trade to the
London Street Tramways Co. to run Mekarski
Automobile Compressed Air Cars on the Caledonian
Road line, and on the 20th February, 1888, the
Vestry received a letter from the Board of Trade
stating that they had renewed the license for a
period of six months.
The Unemployed. — In common with the
majority of the Local Authorities in the Metropolis,
the Vestry were communicated with by a body
calling themselves the Social Democratic Federation,
requesting that they would at once make
arrangements for the execution of public works to
give employment to the otherwise unemployed
during the ensuing Winter, and suggesting the construction
of Baths and Washhouses, the demolition
of insanitary dwellings and the construction in
their place of healthy artizans' dwellings. The
Vestry replied that they had no funds at their disposal
for the employment on public works of the