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

ITEMS OF INTEREST
Gathered from All Quarters
About Men Talked About
In the Walks Of
Politics.
Men Who Are Candidates and
Men Who Are Not and What
People Say.


People Say.
The streets belong to the people.
So do the street cars. The public
demands better service from the Chi.
cago Railways Company.
The telephone crime is to be put
over in o rush.
No more tree planting in Chicago
without paying a fee to the City
Forester for the privilege.
What IL the real cause of the neg.
lect Of the Railways Company?
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Henry J. Kolze, the popular former
county commissioner, 10 strongly
talked for minority appointment on
one Of the state boards. Governor
Dunno couldn't select better man.
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The boxing trust will be the next
thing in sight
A referendum on phone rates will
mean lower rates.
Automatic telephone service 10
really the only service for Q big city.
Il insures privacy and does away with
the wrong number nuisance and
other delays.
The scheme to quadruple the taxes
Of Chicago people passed the city
council. It 10 now up to the legisla.
ture to increase the great public
burden.
The Telephone Trust owns Chi.
cago.
No man In Illinois stands higher In
the estimation Of the people than Al.
bert J. Hopkins.
~
| Judge John X. Caverly IL making q
fine record on the Municipal Court
bench. He Is an able and conscien.
tlous Judge.
The JUL law is q tax eaters law
pure and simple. It means confsca
ton Of the property of the poor man
Drop nickel In the slot and see
the Phone Trust work.
Will any alderman have the hardi
hood to pledge the city to pay eight
per cent dividends on watered tele
phone stock?
II the city map department wishei
to do something reasonable and hon
est. let It enforce the street number
Ing ordinance. There are $4,000
houses In Chicago without new or any
kind Of numbers.
| Judge Charles A. williams Is max
ing the excellent record on the Mu
nicipal Court bench that all his friends
predicted he would make.
BY his clean and able record Al
County Judge. John q. Owens hal
further cemented the ties Of esteem n
which he IL held by the people Of Chi
cago.
Anyone who imagines that the Pro
gressive party Is dead In local polite,
will be badly fooled. The Progressiv,
party has come to stay.
Every time you 60 to the telephon,
you feel like voting against . maj
who favors the Phone Trust
ADVERTISEMENT
THE AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE.
For . good many years the Chicag
public had ample opportunity to OF
serve what telephone monopoly mean
IN the way OF service.
The rates had been raised sewers
times-and threats OF another rails
were being made. There was talk Q
abolishing certain forms Of residenc
service. Tho public was treated wit
scant courtesy. There were intermir
able delays in changing old phone
and installing new ones.
Then came the automatic telephone
bringing with 1t the much needle
spur of competition.
What happened?
Immediately the utmost efforts I
improve the manual service wer
made.
But It Is q cold, hard fact that thes
efforts have been to O large degre
unsuccessful. 1t IL simply physics
impossibility to make manual servic
come anywhere near the remarkabl
efficiency Of the automatic.
The reason is obvious. The auts
matte, Ia a higher development Of tn
telephone principle.
1t has eliminated the huge cost an
great uncertainty Of the huma
| operator,