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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Also Mentioned on This Page
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