And there is still another phase of this subject that should be touched
upon. Buffalo is a city of homes for the humble as well as the rich. It
is a city full of the sweet content that belongs to the home-builder.
Building and loan associations, of which we have a great number, have
materially helped to bring about this result. But it is a fact that
these associations thrive only in soil suited to them. They are the
outgrowth of sterling worth, sobriety and manly ambition. Where they
thrive we find good workmen of conservative instincts, who are averse to
taking part in labor troubles. This is believed to be the chief reason
why Buffalo has always enjoyed a singular freedom from strikes. Be the
cause what it may, it is a fact that strikes are of a rare occurrence
here; and when they have occurred they have been quickly settled. The
firebrands of labor agitations have had very little encouragement here.
It is the more easy for workmen to own their own homes in Buffalo from
the fact that land values here are remarkably low. We stretch over a
large section of territory and have plenty of room for our people.
A first-class electric street car service gives easy and swift access to
the suburbs; while the New York Central Railroad runs trains every hour
each way on a Belt Line encircling the city and tapping residence
portions all around the fifteen-mile circuit.
Nowhere is there a more conservative, prosperous and contented community
of workingmen than in Buffalo, and this is a fact that builds up a
bulwark of safety for industrial enterprises and investment of capital.
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