Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1913-04-12

ing business men.
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Albert J. Hopkins, the popular for.
mer United States Senator from iii.
nois, can at all times feel certain that
his honest and able record at Wash.
ington is well known to all the people
of this state.
Among Chicagos leading financiers
and business men no man stands
higher In the estimation of the PEG.
pie than Albert G. Wheeler.
Both as a lawyer and citizen,
james s. Hopkins Is liked and re.
spected by all who come in contact
with him.
One Of the ablest, most energetic
and most popular public officials in
Illinois is County Judge John Z.
Owens.
Judge John r. Caverly is making a
record on the Municipal Court bench
that he can at all times point to with
pride.
Chicago people have been sold out
to the telephone trust by some of
the Chicago aldermen.
This fact Is proved by the Council
records for the past year.
An expert" showed that about
100000 should be divided among tel.
ephone users and rent payers in Chi.
cago.
Then the Company pleaded that It
was going to raise the salaries of
Its employees and pension them.
That would eat up most of this sur.
plus.
A number of the Aldermen be.
lieved this, or pretended to believe
It.
Chicago people will get no phone
reduction.
And now comes the telephone trust
In its annual report Just printed, and
says that after deducting nearly nine
millions Of dollars from its profits
for the purpose of raising salaries and
pensions, 1t has net profit Of nearly
one hundred and three million dollars
left. The Chicago Company is mere.
ly an underlying branch of this mon.
opoly and all the stun that we have
been hearing at the Council Commit.
tee meetings has just been so much
rot. pure and simple.
Here is what the Telephone Trust
says itself on this subject in its print.
ed report:
During the five year period be.
tween 1907 and 1912 the assets of the
Bell Companies have increased $751;.
100000, while the capital obligations
and payables outstanding have in
creased only a little over $199, 100000.
The surplus and reserves have in.
creased from $61,300.000 to $164,200,.
900, or nearly $4,000, 900, even after
setting aside $s,S45.00O for the ben.
eft fund recently created for the en-.
ployes."
Any Alderman who votes for the
Trust after reading this statement
should be retired to private life.
The new council can make or un.
make its reputation on the telephone
question. The people are alive to
this issue.
That awful joke, officially speaking,
the City Forester, is at 1t again. The
City Forester never does anything in
summer. Winter is his time for max.
ing splurge. The City Forester was
created by the Beilfuss ordinance
which prohibited property owners
from trimming, spraying or otherwise
caring for trees planted by them.
selves in front of their own property.
The City Forester is supposed to do
all this, at cost to the property own.
er Of 50 per tree. The City Forester
Is never heard from In summer.
Hence Chicago trees are dying Off by
thousands, except on boulevards
where the money Of the taxpayers Is
expended for the very rich, by park
boards. Winter being here and no
trees in leaf, the City Forester has
crawled out from under the pay roll
long enough to sound his usual winter
warning through the fad loving daily
press. The tussock moth is here, the
high salaried fellow declares. The
tussock moth evidently doesn't fear
the snow or the cold. That is why
the City Forester calls attention to
1t In winter. The yawp published In
the dailies Is interesting to the stu.
dent Of fad conology. such as the City
Forester turns out