Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-09-16

colleagues on the Drainage Board: ut
any rate, his opinion would doubtless
prove II most valuable one.
At last the people of Chicago are in
a fair way to obtain their rights.
The Infamous Gas Trust will soon
have foe worthy Of Its steel.
When the Trust bought the infamous
frontage legislation ut Springfield, It
shut out oil new gas companies, but II
did not shut out the solid and honestly
conducted Ogden Gas Company, which
now proposes to parallel oil Of the Gas
Trust lines In Chicago.
The Ogden company stands for cheap
gas and good gas.
AL OF Its customers IRE satisfied with
It, ana that portion Of the city served
by It Is the best treated in the gas line
of any part Of Chicago.
The Ogden company means business.
1t has the money.
1t has the machinery.
1t has the brains and the ability to
carry out Its projects In every way.
1t will bust the Gas Trust.
Bumps" Billings has not instilled
very much confidence into the public
when the stock Of the Gas Trust 10
quoted at nine points less than It was
two months ago. Bumps" IL a Door
manager.
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The Gas Trust can juggle with the
courts some Of the time, but not all Of
the time.
Corporation money buys bailiffs and
brides juries. Corporation money buys
legislation. Is this sort Of freedom
guaranteed by the constitutiouf
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Excepting China, It would be hard to
6nd any country where the extortion
practiced by the Gas Trust on the PEG.
pie Of Chicago would long be tolerated.
The Gas Trust robs the people In ev.
CRY way.s
II rents gas ranges to poor people ut
outrageous prices. It then puts on ex-
tra pressure scientifically applied and
forces air through the pipes at o great
rate. This pressure Ii especially strong
evenings when supper IL being pre-.
pared. The people pay for wind which
costs the Trust nothing.
Special assessments for gas lamps 60
right along, hut the poor people do not
get the gas on the streets after they
pay their assessments. The Gas Trust
owns the streets. The city has moth.
Ing to do with them.
The Gas "'~st IL not furnishing one.
half the light \ Should furnish, and for
years, according to published reports.
It did not furnish 22.candle power to
the city.
1t IL reported that the GINS Trust Ia
getting paid for thousands Of lamps
which are not In service, and this can
be easily verified.
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The City Council should ask for the
following information:
I. The Comptroller shold be directed
to report forthwith to the Council, ut
Its next regular meeting, what. II any,
receipts have come to the city from
gas companies under the provisions of
any Of the gas ordinances; what, II
any, street lamps are being supplied
with gus by the, Ogden Gas Company;
capacity Of the plant, and IL said com.
pany or any other IL performing the
labor Of lighting and extlnguishing
said lamps, and what, II any, contracts
have been let to gas companies for sup.
plying the city with gas. together with
the name, or names, of said company,
or companies, and the amount Of which
said contracts have been let, and hy
what authority.
2. The Corporation Counsel. and the
Comptroller should be instructed to re-
port forthwith to the Council whether,
In accordance with the provisions and
requirements of the resolution Of Feb.
20. 1902. the franchise Of the Economic
Gas Company was duly forfeited aud
Its pipes and equipment recovered to
the city, and, whether any permit has
been issued granting any other com.
pany Ihe use OF said pipes. and also
whether any measures have been taken
to recover to the city its rights and In.
terest In the pipes and equipment Of
other gas companies, which, by eva
sion and infractiOn of their ordinance
and franchise contracts, have forfeited
said franchise and their plant and
equipment to the city, and what, II any,
measures have been taken by the city
to recover penal sums on bonds filed
by any Of the above named companies
as surety and guarantee for the per.
Torrance of their obligations to the
city and to gas consumers In general,
under the terms Of any franchise
which any of said companies through
evasion or noncompliance with all the
terms and requirements of said fran
chise have forfeited.
3. The city gas inspector should be
instructed to report forthwith, direct
to the Council, what, IL any, tests have
been made during the past year of the
power and illuminating quality of gas,
as required by the various gas ordin.
ances, Professionally granting street
and other privileges to gus companies,
and II such required tests have been
made. to state for what company, or
companies said gas was inspected. ex-
amined and tested, and where and by
what process said gas was manufac-
tured.
4. The Comptroller. the Corporation
Counsel, the City. Gas Inspector and