Telephone Trust War Sparks Chicago City Fight
A heated editorial drive denounces the Telephone Trust as extortionists opposes aldermen and the mayor in Chicago. It urges investigation, calls for new reports, warns of rate hikes, and notes political reshaping as ward redistricting and elections loom.
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Telephone Trust
Chicago
J. Ogden Armour
Alwaya
Ilinois Tunnel Company
Graftera Union
Illinois Tunnel Company
Harrison
Council
American Telephone Trust
Tobacco Trust
Standard Oil Trust
Reinberg, Bauler
Clettenberg
Cermak, Twigg and Lawley
Snow, Harding and Richert
Elections Committee
Felix B. Janovsky
Matthias Mueller
Chicago aldermen back lake shore park plan and outer harbor boost
City council endorses filling lakefront waste land to create a large park and improve the outer harbor. Ald Foell calls for lake dump investigations and breakwaters to handle excavations. reports on waste removal costs and water supply impact requested. The plan also contemplates a city owned subway system and bond funding subject to state authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles M. Foell
Commissioner of Public Works
Commissioner of Health
Chicago Plan Commission
East 22d
Ohio Street
Traction Fund
Sexton
Council
Ald
B. W. Snow
A. J. Fisher
Judiciary Committee
Corporation Counsel
Building Committee
Geiger
Hey
Young
Harrison
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Janovsky
Mueller
Lawley
Snow
Thomson
Council Judiciary Committee
McWeeny
Seylerlich
Hotel LaSalle
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Wickersham
War Stimson
Metropolitan Elevated Railway
Chicago River
Sanitary Board
Panama
Department
Railway Company
Trans
Cermak and
Bauler
Alderman Snow
War Department
Chicago Avenue
Outer Harbor
Osborn Monnett
Bayler
Initiative and Referendum League of
Illinois
Springfield
Charles E. Merriam
George E. Cole
Taylor
Raymond Robins
G. Lee
O. F. Berry
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
W. A. van Hoekmot
A. N. Morton
Peoria
Miss N. Miller
Chicago American
New York Times
New York City
Armour
Packer
New York
United States
Klondike
Ogden Armour