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Saginaw City Directory 1924, 1924
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1gularly free from the undesirable type of floating population so frequently found in industrial centers. At the same time the labor supply is adequate to meet all demands.
3An indication of the stability of the city's population is found in the fact that statistics show 70 per cent of Saginaw's 15,000 homes are occupied by their owners, 64.7 per cent of the homes being owned free of incumbrance.
5Excellent conditions in industry are reflected in the prosperous state of business in Saginaw.
7Local business houses are strong and thriving, and wholesale merchants here sell their goods to several hundred towns all over Michigan. Local retailers also sell goods to residents of scores of towns within a radius of 50 miles of Saginaw.
9FINANCIAL STRENGTH
11Local banks have combined resources of $47,000,000 and are all strong and prosperous institutions. Four in number, three of them state and one national institutions, they show a stability and size which causes them to rank among the leading financial institutions in Michigan.
13SCHOOLS, CHARITIES, WELL HANDLED
15In the things which make life pleasurable, safe and progressive for its citizens Saginaw has gone far. Thirty-one public and 18 parochial schools attend to the education of the children, their total enrollment being 16,125. All are at a high plane of efficiency and have sound and progressive direction. Fifty-eight churches and missions, most of them with handsome and up to date church buildings, minister to the spiritual side of the city's life.
17Charitable and welfare work is efficiently handled by fourteen organizations associated under the direction of the Saginaw Welfare League, one of the pioneer community chest organizations in the country. This organization attends to the financing and oversees the operation of all of its associated organizations. Since its formation it had more than $4,000,000,000 in donations. The Saginaw Welfare League has a special fund for the maintenance of charitable work and for extension and improvement of the buildings housing welfare institutions. It was instrumental in the construction of one of the finest hospitals in the country at a cost of $650,000.
19COMMISSION GOVERNMENT IN FORCE
21Saginaw is governed under the commission system. The governing body of the city is a five-man commission, including a mayor and four councilmen, each elected for a four year term. They constitute both the legislative and executive body of the city, the council as a whole exercising the legislative functions, while each of its members is head of an administrative department of the city government. Police and fire departments are operated by this city government in an efficient manner and are well provided with necessary men and apparatus. The police department has 90 men, while the fire department has 107 men and 14 pieces of motor apparatus.
23Saginaw has 100 miles of paved streets, said to be the largest mileage possessed by any city of its size in the United States. The health of the city's residents is guarded by an efficient city health department, operating in the schools as well as among the residents generally. Within the past few years this department has brought about a marked improvement in health conditions, an improvement which shows every indication of continuing.
25RESORTS DREW THOUSANDS
27Saginaw is the center of a splendid system of good roads, improvement of which is continually in progress. It is on the Dixie highway, leading north and south through Michigan, the Colgrove highway, running east and west across the state, and many other roads which serve the ends of communication as well as bringing a steady flow of business to the city.
29Almost at Saginaw's door is one of the finest resort districts of Michigan, known for its splendid summer resort facilities. The east side of the state, fronting on Lake Huron, is an ever
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