Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-02-02
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The Finance Committee of the City
Council probably will not he able to re-.
port to the Council before next week.
This statement is made by Aid. Pike.
\ most urgent request was made to
the committee by City Electrician Eli
colt for an appropriation sufficiently
liberal to enable him TO light the city
properly.
Lighting Is perhaps the most i'm.
portant duty of the city government"
he told the committee. "Thc subject
has not received enough attention. and
n failure to illuminate the streets of the
city properly would result in II dlsas.
ter"
All Mr.. ElllcOtt wants l. Sl.OS5.OOO
OF this. SiOO.OOO would bc devoted to
electricity and SGSi,OOO 10 gas and gas
olinc lamps. lie asked for 5000 with
which to extend the clcctrc-lighting
system. With this sum he would re-.
place leo miles Of gas and gasoline
lamps with electric arc.lamps, which
would mean IN increase Of - per cent
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conducted. He also asked for S3jOOO
with which to place lines of gas aud
gasoline lamps on streets which are
now dcfectivcly lighted, and are on that
account dangerous To pedestrians. The
cost of gas and gasoline lamps Is S1OO
per mile. the Increase desired being for
fifty miles.
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light the city. The total amount of light
h. given for that sum was 3.S00O0O can
dlc.powcr distributed over the city. In
1900 the cost for Illuminating was
S3lO,0O0 for which the city got light
equivalent to 1O,SOO.0OO candlc-powcr.
The vast increase ls due To the substtu.
tlon of electric lights for gas and gaso-
line lamps. and to the use of more mod.
crn appliances. The amount asked by
the city electrician now Is but SiG.SOO
more than in 1856 though the city has
grown immensely" Mr.. Elllcoit said.
The notorious Dave Weber and the
equally notorious Sam Kanter should
not be permitted to juggle with the
Civil Service law without punishment.
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Gov. Yates, according TO members of
his Kitchen cabinet. will let j. Il. u.
Van Clcayc. who Is Superintendent of
Insurance. and Cicero j. l.indlcy. who
Is II member of the Railroad and Ware.
house Commission. serve out their
terms. which expire In the spring. An
, drew Russell Is slated for Van Clcavc''
place and fifty men are after I.lndlcy's
job. Some of the Governors close
friends say that Joe Bidwill will not bo
removed from the Board of Railroad
aud Warehouse Commissioners. al-
though W. -. Washburn, of Hyde
, Park Chicago. Is pulling wires to get
, on the commission. The politicians say
!, that Washburn cannot make good his
(. claim that he was one of the original
. Yates men. james =. Neville. of Bloom
/, lngton, who was the original Yates
| man of Mclean County, and who IN Il
member of the Kitchen cabinet will he
the attorney of the Railroad and Ware
house Commission.
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When will the trials of Weber and
. Knntcr take place:
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Every CRATER WHO Is IN favor of n
"dlyyy" on anything, from an office 10
, a contract, i against Mayor Harrison.
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Ernst IIummcl's friends are making
. n great fight for the city TrcaSurcrship
. nomination.
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p In It's brondcst statement the prob
r. lem of the worlds economy is to de
!. yclOp and give scope of individual orig
POI inalty, the benefits of whose exercise
I. are registered in individual charactel
n as well as in objective results. The
English economist, Marshall, however
declares that One-half of the power O
human Initiative Is suppressed by th'
: present social order, and II is not dllli
% cult 10 accept the statement, The hap
J. py Instances where individuals manlpu
, late circumstances so as To bring on
u striking results are rendered the mor'
NbHNlhChbuA ny lnt n'li'"l VI O'Hti w
u dIylduals who entirely fail not only o
e such achievement but of anything com
i parable thereto. And yet II Is known
l. that these others grade only somewha
i below the first In capacity, OF all TN
e stupendOus waste exhibited in III
2. physical and moral world this Is per
n haps the most tragic in character AM
* consequences Yet IL Is enacted unol
q trusiyely and with little dramatic ef
'e feet 1t is typhed by the clrcum
r. scrlbcd career of the working class bo.
NJ who, AT II years passes from the infiu
h. encc Of the graded" system Of educa