Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-09-23

Walk SIbIce O11 I1uWtnOTHc avenue, nor
has it any right to eight feet of Elstor
avenue for 400 feet of frontage. The
gas company occupies 1Iobbie. Elm AMI
Helm streets. The Schcuncmann Com
pany has its slabs and cordwood piled
on Elston avenue, near Division. until
it crowds the public. The Eagle viii
watch with interest for the Aldcrmanir
action in these matters.
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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 It's steel.
When the Trust bought the Infamous
frontage legislation at Springfield. 1t
shut out all new gas companies. hut it
did not shut out the solid and honestly
conducted Ogden Gas Company. which
now proposes TO parallel all of the Gas
Trust lines In Chicago.
The Ogden company stands for cheal
gas aud good gas.
All of It's customers are satisfied with
1t. ana that portion of the city served
by 1t Is the best treated In the gas line
of any part of Chicago.
The Ogden company means business.
II has the money.
lt has the machinery.
IL has the brains and the ability TO
carry ont It's projects in every way.
II will bust the Gas Trust.
ASSsEaM
The Gas Trust can juggle with the
courts some OF the time. but not a,l OF
the time.
Corporation money buys bailifs aud
brides jugics. Corporation money buy.
legislation. Is this sort of freedom
guaranteed by the constltutionf
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Excepting China. It would be hard to
and any country where the cNtortion
practiced 10y the Gas Trust on the I,co
pie Of Chicago would long be tolerated
The Gas Trust robs the people In cv.
cry way.
1t rents gas ranges to poor people ~
outrageous prices. II then puts on ex.
tra pressure scientifically applied AMI
forces air through the pipes ut u great
rate. This pressure IL especially strong
evenings when supper In being pre-.
pared. The people pay for wind which
costs the Trust nothing.
Special assessments for gas lamps 20
right along, hut the poor people do no,
get the gns on the streets after they
pay their assessments. The Gus Trus,
owns the streets. The city has moth.
Ing to dc with them.
The Gas """st IL not furnishing one.
half the light r. ~hould furnish. and for
years. according to published reports.
II did not furnish 22-candle power to
the city.
1t IL reported that the Gas Trust II
getting paid for thousands of lamps
which are not In service. and this can
he easily verified.
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The City Council should ask for the
following infOrmation:
/. The Comptroller shold he directed
to report forthwith to the Council. At
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, ana IL said com.
pany or any other Is performing the
labor of lighting ana eXtlng,lshlng
said lamps, and what. il any, contracts
have been let 10 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 by
what authority.
=. Th" Corporation Counsel and the
Comptroller should hc instructed 10 re-
port forthwith to the Council whether,
in accordance with the provisions and
requirements OF the resolution of Feb.
20. 1892. the franchise Of the Economic
Gas Company was duly forfeited and
It's pipes ana equipment recovered to
the city, and, whether any permit has
been issued granting any other COM
pany the use OF said pipes. ana also
whether any measures have been taken
to recover to the city its rights and in
terest In the pipes ana equipment of
other gas companies, which. by eva.
sion and infractlon of their ordinance
ana franchise contracts. have forfeited
said franchise ana their plant and
equipment to the city, ana 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 ana guarantee for the per-
Torrance of their obligations to the
city ana 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
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 ordIn-
ances. Professionally granting street
and other privileges to gas companies,
and II such required tests have been
made, to state for what company, or
companies said gas was inspected, ex.