People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — Public Ownership of Monopolies. [ARTICLE]

Public Ownership of Monopolies.

The big bridge connecting New York and Brooklyn is owned by the two cities, and according to the New York World the receipts amount to two million dollars a year and is a steady source of profit to the people. Fares have been reduced until it is free to persons on foot. Better wages are paid and the men who collect fares and do other work about the bridge have better treatment than those serving any of the corporations. It is an illustrating the benefits of municipal ownership and as an object lesson can not fail to create an impression highly favorable.