Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-21

Company. the Peoples Gas Light and
Coke Company and the Equitable Gas
Company, for the reason that these
companies in consolidating under the
name of the Peoples Gas Company
have violated the express conditions
against consolidation contained in the
ordinances granting them the privilege
to operate In the city Of Chicago.
When the Sangamon County Grand
Jury investigates Legislative brIbery
II must not forget the Gas Trust agent
who manipulated the dcal Of 1897.
That deal will not be outlawed for over
a year vet.
"Bumps" Billings, the head Of the
Gas Trust. should be called before the
Springfield grand jury.
He should be asked to tell. II he
knows. who the agents Of the Trust
were mt Springfield.
lie should be asked concerning the
session of 1897 rs well as the session
of 1900.
There are numerous questions, over
200 In number, which he should he ask.
ed to answer and which will be framed
up for the state In case II decides to
summon the Bl.City boulevard. Won.
der.
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The accounts that reach us Of one
prominent financicr show us that lie
must be daisy. The other day a poor
women called at the Eagle Office to tell
a terrible tale about this man. II ap-
pears that the shark lives with nm un.
married female. At one time he lived
with two Of them. He needed hired
girl and he engaged the 14-year.old
daughter Of the poor washcrwoman
who called at the Eagle office. The
poor little girl worked like a slave for
the rich miser and was even obliged to
clean his horse. One day he tried to
commit a criminal assault on the poor
little girl, who ran home crying to her
mother. with whom she has remained
since. 1t may not he Of public interest
10 know that the unmarried woman
with whom the shark lives goes into
the bath room with the old scoundrcl
and washes him ana also laccs his
shoes.
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The City Council should ask for the
following infOrmation:
1. The Comptroller shOld be directed
to report forthwith to the Council, Mt
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 gas by the Ogden Gas Company;
capacity Of the plant, and II said com.
pany or any other Is 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
%, 1902, the franchise Of the Economic
Gas Company was duly forfeited and
Its pipes and equipment recovered tC
the city, and. whether any permit has
been issued granting any other com
pany the 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 md equipment of
other gas companies, which, by eva.
SION ana infractiOn Of their ordinance
ana 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
rs surety and guarantee for the per.
formance 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 sold fran
chlse have forfeited.
3. The city gas inspector should be
instructed to report forthwith. direct
to the Council, what, II any. tests have
been made during the past yea Of the
power and illuminating quality Of gas
as required by the various gas ordln.
ances, Professionally granting street
and other privileges to gas companies
and II such required tests have been
made. to state for what company, OF
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
the Commissioner of Public Works
should be severally instructed to re-
port forthwith to the Council, In what
II any, respect any of the gas cOmpan
les granted ordinances and franchises
by this Council have violated said Or
dlnances and have hereby become liza.
BILE to forfeiture of their franchise
rights and privileges back to the city
3. The Corporation Counsel should be
directed to communicate with the At.
torney General Of the State and to re.
quest his cooperation and support In
the inauguration on behalf of the city
of Chicago of proceedings In QUO
WARRANTO; for the purpose of dis
covering the present condition and sys'
TEN of operation and responsibility un'