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Maitland made a few practical experiments in philanthropy at Oxford . He once subsidized a number of glaziers out on strike , and thereon had his own windows broken by conservative undergraduates . He urged on the citizens the desirability of running a steam tramway for the people from the station to Cowley , through Worcester , John 's , Baliol , and Wadham Gardens and Magdalene . His signature headed a petition in favor of having three `` devils , '' or steam-whoopers , yelling in different quarters of the town between five and six o'clock every morning , that the artisans might be awakened in time for the labors of the day . As Maitland 's schemes made more noise than progress at Oxford , Bielby urged him to come out of his Alma Mater and practise benevolence in town . He had a great scheme for building over Hyde Park , and creating a Palace of Art in Poplar with the rents of the new streets . While pushing this ingenious idea in the columns of the _ Daily Trumpet _ , Maitland looked out for some humbler field of personal usefulness .