New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-08
CHJC4GOS NEW TELEPHONES.
CABLE NUISANCE-IRON-FO TAILOR
WAI-RELICS.
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Cu1rAGo April THE City Council has passed
An ordnance granting the Cushman Telephone Com
pany the right 10 lay wires and operate 'eie-
phone system IN Chicago thus breaking the monopoly
Of the Bell Company In this city. The charter pro
gides that all wires within mile north and TWO miles
west and south Of the city Hall shall be laid under
ground Within the city limits as they existed July
l. lss7. the wires are to be put under ground in six
rears. The piices are to be sos for the first year
and $50 for each succeeding year. except where
contract made for three years, when the rental per
lnnum shall be So The pubic offices are to be
,upplei with telephones free of charge and tele-
phones for police and fire systems shall be rented
% the city for not more than So per annum- The
Bel Company now charges from 500 to $50 per
rear.
The second week Of the operation Of the North
Sde cable only confirms the first impressions
to the complete failure of the system as means
Of rapid transit The cable also fails to work
smoothly and there have been several serious block
Eies during the week North-Siders are generally
grumbhng over the condition Of affairs and new
ground for complaint against the Phladephians arises
hon the fact that under the system the conduc-
have been instructed collect double fares from
passengers riding around the cable loop. Thus II
apssengcr gets car at Madison and Lasae sts.,
40 has to pay two fures before he can tide seven
squares In the meantime the City Council has como
TO Yerkes's and granted him the right 10 cable
his West Side lines on the same terms as he con-
strocted the North Side line.
Ii Is stated that larger quantity Of Iron ore will be
brought down nom the northern mines by rail this
season than ever before. The railroad companies
are bidding vigorously for the traffic and likely
10 get cool share of II unless vesselmen drop their
rates to a starvation basis. The land lines have
gwen II out that they will fix tariff that will give
business TO all their spare cars. This move is
cAxpra q, fRa T.rr.
present season with gloomy prospects for making
expenses In many lines of traffic. The rolling mill
concern has contracted fer 100000 tons Of iron ore from
the Gogebic region.
The glded youths of Chicago patronze English
taiors 10 such an extent that the Cbicaco tailor.
have united IN petition to -ongress asking that
the duty on manufactured clothing be increased 81
a. 10 equalZe It with the tarif wooen cloth and
talors' trimmings. The talUrs claim that the aver
ago DUTY On woonen cloths o. foreign manufacture
over % per cent, ana Ola Trimmings aOouL 90 per
eehi, with the average duty on Important manufact-
- cie1 elo,hing is only 40 per cent They further
Stam THAI a. la0Or Is much cheaper II England and
France they cannot cOhpete un0er the crcumst
Win the representatives Of London and French mau-
eiScturers, Who doing constantly Increasing
business In this country.
1t is given out thai the Gas Trust viii tbs year
e1pend $4,000 In the Improvement OF their works
srs1v a~,I- - -ASi t'a'4' Va 50 a. So
efahy serving the public better than heretofore
Another sIep VII be the adoption OF all uniform rate
oh tnfoc e13s Oi the city Ot 81 tnOUSauu
70 the city aud al 70 10 private consumers This
involves reduction OF 20 cents 10 private consumers
on the West eide The Announcement Ia not gen.
orally believed but II 10 thought 10 have been pub
lshed simply 10 influence tie proposed proceeding q
u annual the gas company's charter
Ioe c4ltn authoities are preparing for an epidemic
Oh smallpox aud they lay The blame al the door
81 the New-iork and Washington officials whom they
nenounce a. incompetent unwilling ~ enfnr,e the
lusrs line. II further asserted tha Ip0X
are icing landed by the shlposd and saaftrred All
eyc the country. II the disease should appear In
eheago the authorities think 1t car be efadloated
With little danger 10 the public on account ~ the
favorable time Of the year, while II necessary a zen
era Quarantine Will be established and lnspectur,
Appointed to watch all incoming trains
Chicago is nothing II not original She ia ored,ted
With insugurating Tmhs bath PARTIES az a
aversion TO young ladies, and comes another in.
sovati9I According 10 The Inter Ocean" the new
entertainments Bird TAX Matlneesp These
consists Of lecture repete with pretty sorie, and
enhesrd-of facts, coupled with BIZ, Of verse and
nasc1es OF biography. On stand near the lecturer
80 o'rd IN vsriety-wFens, jaws, ravens boLolinlus
i.1lns ana Illustrative OF the lecture The
sues attend In pretty carriage and strset dresses
Inal managers Of the company that proposes Il
spor Libby Prison to Chicago and place ii or