Chisholm's initiatives in municipal philanthropy were satirised by
Neil Munro in the first of his Erchie MacPherson stories, published in
The Glasgow Evening News of 10th February 1902. The 1902 annual inspection of the infrastructure of the
Loch Katrine Water Supply Scheme led by Lord Provost Chisholm is the subject of Munro's "Erchie at the Water Trip", published in the
Evening News on 7th July 1902. ==References==