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Newspaper

Chicago Eagle

Location

Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jul 13, 1901

Page

2

Drainage Board Foes Claimmillions in Tax Funds

Six men form a bloc to control Drainage Board spending citing inflated tax bills and alleged payrolls on the Sanitary District. Names include Aleck Jones and associates tied to legal fees for firms and railroads, with figures of five thousand dollars per year cited for several counsel positions.

Drainage Board Springfield Jones & Jones Ass’t Sanitary District Sanitary Pullman Car Company James Todd Alece Jones John G. Drennan Illinois Central Railroad P. C. Haley William Sprincer Aleck Jones

Street Car Franchises Renewed Amid Citizen Demands

The column accuses the union traction gang of renewing street car franchises next year without concessions. It claims reformers fixed, notes silent crowds as expiration nears, alleges deals and distribution of stock to favored parties, and criticizes no better passenger conditions, fares, or cars, only tunnel lowers.

Franchises of Fifty Three Lines Expire in 1903

A list of fifty three street railway franchises owned by Union Traction Company shows expirations in 1903. The Chicago lines on the North and West sides are covered, with North Chicago and West Chicago Street Railway Company holding most grants. Several routes are marked as subject to the act of 1865, with numerous detailed street-by-street expirations and sections noted as terminable in 1903 or later.

Union Traction Company George C. Sikes The Street Railway Commission North Chicago Street Railway Company West Chicago Street Railway Company State Street Lake Clark Streets Division Street Clark Street Washington Treet Fullerton Avenue Diversey Boulevard Wells Street Fifth Avenue Randolph Center Street Lincoln Avenue Belmont Avenue Ashland Avenue Belmont Graceland Avenue Robey Street Tescoe Boulevard Roscoe Boulevard Western Avenue Cly ‘Bourn Avenue Clybourn Avenue Division ‘Street Sedgwick Street Chicago Avenue Polk Streets Polk Street 12Th Street Randolph Street Lake Street Clinton Street Madison Street Milwaukee Avenue Canal Street Harrison Street Canalport Avenue Halsted Street Jefferson Street van Buren Street 15Th Place Chicago City Railway Company Wabash Avenue Cottage Grove Avenue 22D Street Twenty Second Street 89Th Street S1st Wabash Avenue l Inc Indiana Avenue Eighteenth Street 18Th Street Twenty-second Street 30Th Street Downtown Loop Washington Polk 22D Archer Avenue State Halsted Streets Halsted 38Th Street Thirty-ninth Street Vincennes Avenue 20Th Street Twenty-ninth Street Canal Butler Street Wallace Street O'Neill 80Th Street 60Th Street

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Joseph C. Braden William Lecgner Thomas A. Smyth Frank X. Cloidt William H. Baker John S. Runnels Union Traction Gang Pinearn Avenue Garfield Avenue Racine Avenue Webster Avenue Larrabee Street Chicago Lincoln Avenues Racine Sheffield Avenue Evanston Avenue Diversey Street Wrightwood Avenue Lill Wrightwood Sheffield Seminary Woestern Avenue Clinton and Blue Island Avenue O'Neill Street Mth Place Armitage Avenue Washtenaw Avenue North Avenue California Avenue Leavitt Street Kedzie Avenue Wwth Avenue Grand Avenue Milwaukee Western Avenues Union Park Court Rockwell Homan Avenue Tinton Pants Western Hamlin Crawford Avenues Lake and van Buren Side Ogden Avenue 40Th Avenue Canaltreet Twelfth Street Fifteenth Place Jefferson Canal Streets 71St Street Kedzier Avenue Twenty-first Street Dearborn Dearborn Street 20Th 21St Street Twenty-sixth Street Thirty-first Street Lake Park Avenue Pitney Avenue First Street Chicago. & Alton Railroad Ullman Street Slot Street 380Th Street Thirty-fifth Street Rhodes Avenue 85Th Michigan Avenue Cottage Grove Wentworth Avenue Root Street Forty-third Street Illinoia Forty-seventh Street Illinois Central Ashland Fifty-first Street Grand Boulevard Wood Street Fifty-ninth Street Sixty-first Street Madison Avenue South Park Avenue Said Point Sixty-third Street Stony Island Avenue Wentworth Central Park Avenue Sixty-ninth Street Seventy-ninth Street South T1st Street 75Th Street
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