2020: DAY 49
27 Sussex St, Sydney, 1900 - Source: State Library of NSW
P4 CITY WORKMEN’S MODEL DWELLINGS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD - Sir: – … (Effect of cleansing has been to ‘unhouse’ numerous people who work on the wharfs)… “But in London (where there are not labour members of Parliament) ample provision is made by legislation that when a public company (companies do these things there) in order to obtain space for its operation has to demolish workmen’s buildings, it shall erect equal dwelling accommodation for them elsewhere; and besides the munificence of public-spirited citizens has for many years been well to the fore in providing model dwellings for the overcrowding population. The Peabody benefactions are case in point. These are managed on commercial lines and have been so successful that their example has been followed even for investment purposes by public associations. The Government by their act in resuming these harbour frontages will liberate a large
p10 BUBONIC PLAGUE
YESTERDAY’S CASES
WORK AT THE WHARFS - 4 deaths
- 2 new cases
- 712 rats
(Weekend reports getting shorter - half a column. Meanwhile, pages of news on The War, 2000 words on the Hawkesbury Agricultural Show, another 1750 words on the Wollongong Agricultural Bazaar, lots of entertainment, commercial & shipping news, court reports, theatre and entertainment etc)
P14 THE CYCLORAMA. - “ The usual representations are given daily at the Cyclorama depicting ancient Jerusalem, and after the historical lectures visitors never fail to remember with pleasure a visit to the hall of illusions. “ [The Cyclorama was a rotunda that existed on Harris St, near Central (where UTS now is). It housed panoramas of various scenes including a famous panorama painting of Jerusalem on the Day of the Crucifiction]