Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1899-10-28

with gas by the Ogden Gas Company:
capacity Of the plant, and IL said com.
pany or any other Is performing the
labor Of lighting and extInguishing
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 Nv
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 and
Its pipes and equipment recovered to
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 and equipment of
other gas companies, which, by eva
sion and infractlon 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
rs surety and guarantee for the per.
torrance Of their obligations to the
citv md IN Uos ooo Sus,o.o t,1 rvos.o...e
under the terms Of any franchise
which any Of said companies through
evasion or. Noncompliance with all the
terms and requirements Of said fran.
chlsc have forfeited.
3. The city gas inspector should he
instructed to report fortbw with, 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 ortlin.
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 gns wns inspected. tx.
amined and tested, anl 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
IL any. respect any Of the gas compan.
les granted ordinances and franchises
by this Council have violated said or.
dinances and have hereby become la
bic to forfeiture of their franchise
rights and privileges back to the city
.. The Corporation Counsel should be
directed to communicate with the At
torney General Of the State and to re-
quest his cooperation ana 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
der their ordinances and franchises OF
the various gas companies and the con
sOlldatlon Of these companies known az
the GAS TRUST, which are operating
under the provisional ordinances and
franchises granted them by the Coun
ell. with the view of determining In {
court of last resort whether the sait
companies. or the said GAS TRUST
IRE legally fulfilling their duties ant
obligations to the city and its citizens
%6A
The profits Of the Bumps" Billing,
gas gang In Chicago must be something
enormous, Judging from what their imi
tntors make In other cities. A dlspatcl
70 the Tribune from Cincinnati says
THE Cincinnati Gas Company can sci
gas ut % cents thousand feet or ut
rents thousand feet and the price
charges will be oil profit. The by-pro
hucts more than pay for the cost of pro
ducing the gas.
'"These facts have been revealed Il
the last weeks gas agitation. and the,
come from the books of the Cincinnati
Gas Company. They have been uniu
tentionally set forth by Attorney Wa,
rIngton, the chief counsel for the "a
company, and NJ. NJ. White. presiden
of the Fourth National Bank, generall
reported to be the heaviest individua
hOlder Of gas stock In Cincinnati.
"rhe statements We're made by Wal
rington In his speech and by White Il
an Interview In local newspaper"
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