Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-04-21
EA0LETS.

ne NORM Stoe
EA0LeTS.
The boorishness Of Union Traction
officials is only elualed by the mean.
ness OF its service.
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Chicago has too much dead.beat club
government. Give the common people
a chance.
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II is noticeable that the men mixed
up in the past in the bribing Of juries
for street car companies all Jumped
town. Too many high officials to pro
tcct.
The people want lower fares more
than they want lower tunnels. They
want seats for their fares and better
ears.
The gang who have sold out the peo.
Die to the Union Traction Company are
throwing dust in the eyes Of the citi.
Sens by shouting "Lower the tunnels"
Their game Is to give the Traction
Company a new franchise next year,
IN consideration Of the lowering Of the
tunnels.
This IL too thin.
The people see through the game
Cow.
1t won't work.
The Government will force the low.
ering Of the tunnels. anyway.
What the people want IL lowering
Of car fares. more cars, better accom-.
0odations and better service.
Only 1900 people are interested In
bwering the tunnels. to wit: vessel
and dock owners.
Over 100000 people are interested
N lowering street-car fares and in &C.
curing the worth of their money from
the corporations which have stolen
their streets.
Chicago has the poorest street car
service in the world, especially since
tue TeIOTuucTS uuNe Uttu DutiruCu W
the Union Traction Company.
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Now that the law says the bicycle
has q right In common with other ve-
hicles. let It keep to the right as the
law directs.
The New York chorus girls are now
engaged In horse whipping their way
into publicity. 1t 10 hard on the vic.
tins. but brings the girls engagements
every time.
Another thing about the gold statue
Of 1.-THE American Girl" to be exhibited
at the Paris Exposition that Is unfair
to the real American girl Is that 1t IL
worth only $4,000.
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DIR. Pearsons says don't get excited
and don't get angry, and 1t will help
you to live one hundred years. And
yet some people that get mad and show
their teeth frequently live q long time.
too-a very long time.
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william Aston Chanler, wealthy
young Congressman from New York.
says: when q man marries his career
is ruined. Poor old Caesar, poor old
Shakespeare, poor old Napoleon! II
they hadn't married they might have
become famous.
Those who declaim about faults In
our public schools and their manage
ment give no alarm to DR.. Winship, Of
the New England Journal OF Education.
He sees with satisfaction "a tendency
10 better teaching, better supervising.
better books, better methods. and 10
hgher-toned men, intellectually and
morally" Doubtless he would allow
that this tendency to improvement Is
due In part to the frank exposure Of
defects. The best fri. nds Of free insti.
tutions will welcome all reasonable
criticism.
4 medical journal calls attention "a
the general neglect Of sanitary and
hygienlc methods In the management
OF sleeplng-cars. There are stringent
regulations about the transportation OF
dead bodies In baggage-cars, but there
Is no adequate and systematic prOvi'
sion for protecting living travellers
from exposure to infection, although
many passengers must leave disease
producing germs In the bedding or up
hOlstery. 1t Is customary to cleanse