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THE, CHICAGO E A Gl.fi, I I i H Reduce Your Gost of Living THE FAIR is the reliable store that keeps up the qunlity of its merchandise no matter how low it cuts the prices. GROCERIES, MEATS AND FISH Athletic Goods Automobile Supplies floats and Launches Bicycles Dry Goods Business Stationary Clothing Cutlery Clears and Tobacco Fishing Tackle Rods and Reels Guns, Revolvers Ammunition Qlovcs Golf Goods Harness and Saddles THE FAIR Stair, A Jam and Dcatborn Sit. Phone i:change 3 Mall Orders Filled Chicago Established I87B by B. J. Lehmann -------Kx --H ggSSgggggttgHgiHitli; ' BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBs! BHrBiBiBiBiBiBiBiBKt, BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBJ Pf ?isbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb i bbbbbbbbbsbbbbi MICHAEL J. Well Known Real Estate Man 'circulating "ugly rumors" about the Corporation Counsel, the Mayor and the honest aldermen who are standing up for ttao peoplo's rights. "Ugly rumors" Is good. Aldermon who are anxious to learn the truth ought to Inquire into the de tails of the pasaage of the telephone ordinanco five years ago. "Ugly rumors"! Well, there are some pretty ugly rumors going the rounds Just now. But the Mayor, Corporation Counsel and honest aldermon are not the one affected by them. A watchful eye is being kept on the situation by too many people to have it easily misunderstood. A new report has been ordered on the books and accounts of the Tele phone Trust When the aldermen get that report they ought to be In a position to low er rates. If they raise them they will raise something hotter than this climate has been for the past few weeks. We take the following from page 24 of the "Report on the Causes of Municipal Corruption In San Fran cisco as disclosed by the lnvestlga tlons of the Oliver grand jury and the prosecution of certain persons for bribery and other offenses against the state," made by a committee appoint ed by the mayor of that city and pub lished by order of the board of a- DANIEL Popular and Able fBraSHsBHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHfl CSHmKSBBSSSSSSSSSJBW' lgSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBl tSMMSmaiML mr" ' 'HsjgsgsgsH WKmWm iMfl H SSBSsHslilsH ' 'PL 4HHH1 gSgSBBBBBBBBBBaHlgsVBBVRite ' 9 2K3k21: jKHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHl B UP P! 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No attack of any kind on the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company was threatened by the Supervisors, and the sole par pose of the crime was to maintain a profit which might be cut by the competition of business rivals. The Supervisors were paid In all over $50,000. The managing committee of the board of directors of the company swore before the Grand Jury that they did not know now the funds were procured for the bribery." This report was signed by William Kent, formerly a well known alder man and reformer of Chicago and sin other member ef the committee ap pointed by the mayor of Ian Fraiehv co, Oct It, 1901. Telephone rates are entirely too high In Chicago. The Aldermen have a chance to lower them. Will they do it? The telonhnaie users of nickel phones to guarantee I cents per say.' If the monthly of nickels faMa start ef ah m the company make the pay the dlfferenee. If there saeald happen to be en ejus eg glibmi (ft L. CRUICE. Member of the Bar. gBBnBBBBHBHKulirM st'" sKafHEHsSF 'fKlSisSyiBBW assssssHssPilEiPWlHg ''JiiiiiltsmW BBBBsiBBBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBgSBCiiiB 4HllM BsSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSJK HfBsBHSIBSSHKjpJSSSSJ bbbb1bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb& iiIbMii awfMr nflsMWiisl BmBBsVlBssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssBBlgssnNOBm suHgssssnflBBsl BBBbKHHP1H' ! lv linVB3BSBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBi gsBBssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssBv'MRBsssssssssssssssssssssssssBn BbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV' 'VbHHH -------w lH -----------k--H gggggggggHiCmgggB gBkgSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBs! BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBmSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsl EDWARD F. Who Attacked the Qas Shut company gobbles them alL The phone renter gets no credit for that exeess. That's the logto of the monopoly. Chicago Dally News editorial, De comber 19, 1911: It has been tho aim of the telephone company to do away with unlimited sorvlco as far as possible and to re quire all users of Its instruments to go on tho measured service basis. Op position to tho measured service plan is aroused whenever a patron of the tolophono company is made to pay two tolls whero one should be suffi cient. Tho ordinary porson In attempting to telephone to a railroad passenger stntlon, for oxnmplo, is likely to ask for tho wrong number for tho purpose of his call, for so confusing Is tho array of titles and numbers In the tolophono dlroctory that It Is often difficult to dccldo upon tho department that Is wanted. Frequently tho Infor mation bureau nt a railroad station, when appealed to, refers tho Inquirer to another tolophono numbor In the samo building. This necessitates the payment of a second toll, Tolophono operators nro careful to provent the second call from being mado without tho payment of a second nickel. Both tho railroad companies and the telophono company should do 'their bost to soo that tho arrangement of department names In the tolophono di rectory is sufficiently clear to enable Inquirers to call the first time for tho numbor they really want. Tho city ought to have a bureau of complaints to which appeals for the Improvement of faulty conditions of service might bo mado by patrons of local public utility corporation.. The Telephone Trust doesn't want much from tho City Council. It only wants the phono rates raised a trifle. They aro not high enough at present to swell the dividends of the local and tho parent company. It only wanta permission to install pay-ln-advanco slot machines all over the city, because people are not losing enough nickels already. It wants the people to bear more of Its earning expenses than they do now. It wants them to deposit a nickel before they can get police or fire pro tection on an emergency call. It wants the city to give it free rein to carry out its designs on the public. It wants a great deal more. What aldermen will sell out their constituents to help this monopoly? The telephone trust Is the most grinding of the many trusts that exist In the United States. It snuffs out competition by the power of Its money and the people are like so many serfs to be used nt Its own beck and call. The rising tide of Indignation will never subside until the whole tele phone trust and its aides and abettors are punished, Charles F. DeWoody, division super intendent In tho Department of Jus tice secret service, returned from n trip on which It is reported he has been gathering information for the Attorney-General regarding the alleged Doll telephone monopoly. It Is reported that an Investigation national in Its scope, Is being carried on by the forces of Attorney-General Wickersham looking to the filing of proceedings for the dissolution of the alleged trust, An exhaustive investi gation has been going on In Chicago, it Is said, of the operations of the Deli syndicate alleged ,to be in violation of the Sherman law. "You have been West it is under stood for the purpose of getting data bearing on the alleged telephone trust, have you not?" DeWoody was asked, "That Is a matter that I cannot possibly discuss. There is nothing that we can announce regarding any such Investigation," was the reply. The Chicago Telephone Company charges a much lower rental for its service in suburban towns than It does In the city. Yet the officers of the corporation have the gall to say that all of tho big gain in its service reported at tho annual meeting this year came from tho country. This, of course, is a reason for raising the rates, The following from the Chica go Dally News shows how the phone people bank on the reportB of the city "experts:" "Slight gains in revenues were re ported to the stockholders of the Chi CULLERTON. - off Graft In the City Council. cago Telophono Company at the an nunl meeting, although there was a falling off In tho profits In the city of Chicago Itself. This loss was due, according to President Bernard XX Sunny's report, to tho constantly In creasing number of "nickel a day" telephones, tho rovenuo on which av erages $22.70 per annum as against a cost of operation, ho said, of $28.64, as fixed by ono city expert, and $25.28 as fixed by another city expert. The peccntngo of nickel telephones in Chicago Increased 36 per cent in 1908 and 42 per cent In 1911. The com pany reports Increased earnings in tho suburban division, which offset tho losses In Chicago." Tho one-cent telephone Is sure to come. All telephone patents) should bs con fiscated by the government when they become the exclusive property of the Telephono Trust The following frees an editorial In the Chicago Dally News of July 17, 1911, bits the ease exactly: "In an argument before the) national senate's interstate commerce) eomlt tee, Senator Kenyon recently urged several modifications of the flhertena antitrust law. One of them nrovtied that when any patent granted by the government ia uied to build tap a tmot or combination the patent shall be for feited." A telephone company that pays eight per cent dividends on twantv- nine millions of stock Is making too mucn money. The people are paying too much for tolepbone service. Penny telephones are to be estab lished In Detroit and there is no good reason why they should not be estab Hshoi in Chicago. The following dispatch from Detroit explains Itself: "Reduction of local telephone rates SO per cent for the average user, elimination of the distinction between 'residences' and 'business' telephones and the establishment of a rate of $8.30 per month and 1 cent each for outgoing messages In excess of 200 per month on single party lines, with no limit on incoming 'calls,' are pro vided for In an ordinance, on which a common council committee began hearings." CITY OFFICESNEW CITY HALL. City Architect Tenth floor. South end. Board, of Election Commissioners. Third floor. South end. Charles H. Kellerman. Anthony Cznrneckl. Howard 8. Taylor. William H. Stuart, chief clerk. Charles H. Mitchell, attorney, Board of Examiners. Motor vohlclo operators, 10th floor. North end. Moving picture operators, 10th floor. North end. Plumbers, 10th floor. North ond. Stationary engineers, 10th floor. North end, Doard of Inspectors of public ve hicles, 3d floor North end. Board of Local Improvements. General ofllcos, 2d floor. South end. Public hearing rooms, 1st floor. North end. Law department, 2d floor. South ond. Boiler Inspection. Sixth floor. South end. Building Department. Seventh floor. North end. Bridge Division. Fourth floor. North end. Business Agent. Vault floor. North end. City Attorney. Sixth floor. North end. City Clerk, First floor. South end. City Collector, First floor. South end. City Comptroller. General office, Gth floor, North end. Auditor, Gth floor. North end, Paymaster, Cth floor. North end. Real estato agent, Sth floor. North end. City Council, Council chamber, 2d floor. North end. General committee-rooms, 2d floor. North end. Commltte on finance, 2d floor, North end. Committee on local transportation. 3d floor. Special park commission, 10th floor. North end. City Electrician. Sixth floor. Center. City Hall. Superintendent, 3d floor. North end. Chief Janitor, 3d floor. North end. City Sealer, Vault floor. South end. City Statistician. Tenth floor. North end. City Treasurer. Second floor. Center. Civil Service Commission. General offices, Gth floor. South end. Examlnlng-room, 10th floor. Center. Bureau of Compensation. Vault floor. South end. Corporation Counsel. Fifth floor. South end. Bureau of Engineering (City En gineer), Fourth floor. North end. Department of Electricity. Sixth floor. Center. Finance Committee. Second floor. North end. Fire Department. Fire marshal, 1st floor. North end. Fire alarm telegraph, Cth floor. Cen ter. Firemen's pension fund, secretary of board of trustees (city clerk), 1st' floor. South end. Bureau of Qas Inspection. Vault floor. South end. Inspector of Oils. Tonth floor. South end. Harbor Division. Fourth floor. North end. Department of Health. Commissioner of health, 7th floor, llurcau of food Inspection, 7th floor. Bureau of sanitary inspection, 7th floor. Bureau of contagious diseases, 7th floor. Bureau of vital statistics, 7th floor. Department of Law. Corporation counsel, Cth floor, South end. City attorney, Gth floor. North end. Prosecuting attorney, Gth floor. North end. Special assessment attorney, 2d floor. South end. Local Transportation Committee. Third floor, North end. Local Transportation (Traction Ex pert). Third floor. North end. Bureau of Maps and Plats. Fourth floor. North end. Mayor's Office. Fifth floor. North end. Mayor's Office. Fifth floor. Center. Municipal Court New City Hall. Courtrooms, 8th, Oth nnd 11th floors. county office8 new court house: Sheriff's Office. Fourth floor, room 423. County Treasurer. Second floor, room 212. Recorder o'f Deeds. First floor, room 120. Registrar of Titles. First floor, room 120. County Clerk. Second floor, room 233. County Comptroller. Fifth floor, room 511. Coroner. Fifth floor, room GOO. County Surveyor. Fifth floor, room 420. Custodlsn. Third floor, room 311. County Court. Sixth floor, room G02. Clerk County Court. Sixth floor, room COO. Superior Court. Eighth floor. Clerk Superior Court. Fourth floor, room 437. Circuit Court. Seventh floor. Clerk Circuit Court. Fourth floor, room 412. Probate Court Sixth floor, room 643. Clerk Probate Court. Sixth floor, room 623. Board of Review. Third floor, room 337. Board of Assessors. Third floor, room 812. ' President County Board. Fifth floor, room 623. County Commissioners. Fifth floor, room 537. County Attorney. Fifth floor, room 607. Civil Service Commission. Fifth floor, room 649, Jury Commission. Eighth floor, room 824. Law Library. Tenth floor. Superintendent Publlo Service. Fifth floor, room 619. Tho automatic telephone at two and one-halt cents a call gives perfect service and is growing In public favor. It has tho "Doll" beaten in every way. Life terms of office, high taxes, high prices and discontent go together the world over. Tho averago reformer loses a great deal of sleep in studying up eomo now scheme for graft. Tho field has been so thoroughly worked by the corpora' tion employes now 'reforming things that It requires men of extraordinary talent to break into tho game, The Municipal Voters' League, Legislative Voters' Leaguo and similar friends of the trusts have drawn so heavily upon the real stock of local nerve gifted talent, that much outside help will be needed for uplifts which will explore new fields. It !b certainly an edifying spectacle to aee people working hard and deny ing themselves luxuries, to get money to pay taxes; to raise the salaries of our office-holding aristocracy. An aristocracy of office holders what we aro fast coming to. is PreacberB of every denomination should be kept off of the Chicago School Board. When a preacher leaves bis pulpit to handle school affairs be has generally put his foot in it "up to his neck," COUNTY DEMOCRACY Officers and Committees of the Oldest Largest and Most Influential Demo cratic Organization in Chicago. , The Cook County Democracy Is the oldest, largest nnd most influential Democratic organization in Chicago. Following Is a list of the men filling tho principal offices and more Import ant committeeships: President Miles J. Dovlne, Secretary Robert E. Durke. Treasurer Peter Crot. Financial Secretary Thomas J. Powers. Marshal Captain James H. Far rell. Attorney George F. Mulligan. Medical Staff Dr. J. D.McQrcgor, Dr. Anthony Krygowskl, Dr. Fred Van Arsdale. Quartermaster John O. Hoeger. Asst. Quartermaster Michael J. Hanley. Sergeant nt Arms John H. Dullard. Asst. Sergeant at Arms Raleigh W. Taylor. Vice-Presidents, Aid. John Hadcrleln, Robert J. Roulston, Richard S. Folsom, Albert Schonbeck, Frank H. Novak, Charles C. Breycr, James McAndrews, John T. Keating, Simon O'Donnell, Frank W. Solon, Edward H. Morgan, James b. Bowers, Charles Vesley, N. O. Cony- bear. Executive Committee. Daniel J. McMahon, Chairman. John A. Mahonoy, Thomas Drury, Patrick J. Wall, Nicholas Lorch, Frank Ploner, Edward J. Roark, Stephen C. Dooley.Wnltcr V. Magnus, John L. McNamara, James R. Pyno, William Moffat, Frank J. Ryan, John A. King, Stanley H. Glomskl, Dr. F. E. Relchnrdt, H. E. L. Doggott, Moles worth King, Luko P. Collornn, Rich ard T. Hanrahan, M. E. Hughes, M. F. Sullivan, John H. Mnnoy, Morris Wil son, Albert 11. Putney. Congressional Committee. 1st Congressional District. Bartholomew Scanlan, S. H. Had dock, Henry Krug, Louis Scellg, Dr. J. J. McLaughlin, Jas. F. Ryan, E. J. Courtney, Peter Zllllgan, Louis L. Lcttlcrc, Snml. Ohlscn, Ernest Lang try, John F. Carroll, Austin Waldron, John Joyce, W. H. Armstrong, John W, Wurzcnburg, Dr. David O'Shoa, Fred M. Sturgeon, J. H. Montgomery, Wm. F. Mahoney, A. J. Marshall, Hen ry A. Johnson, Fred Buxbaum, Francis J. Woolley, H. Wcdcswollor, Jako Zimmerman, F. A. Van Arsdalo, An drew Donovan, Dart Dolatto, John T. Convoy, John W. McNeal, Henry Eck hardt. 2nd Congressional District. Henry C. Schlacks, Edward J. Smith, Stcphon Hunt, Henry Osborn, Chas. E. Hill, Albert Scbaffnor, John McCann, John I. Drlscoll, Henry F. Hayes, John J. Curran, Thomas L. Byrne, Dr. J. D. Welntraub, John F. Nolan, F. B. Robinson, John D. Green, Frank Arnold, Robt. J. Cranston, Thos. F. Rowan, John Kavanagb, Louis MuoIJer, ,Thos. Howe, James Dumber, Chas. V. Richards, Thos. W. Corkoll, Dr. Eugcme E. Hartigan. 3rd Congressional District. Michael F. Ryan, Thos. B. Conroy, Matbew Rawen, George W. Hinckley, F. H. Chambers, M. J. McCoy, Wm. J. Mclnerney, D. E. Mulvey, James Hy land, J. V. Marlon, Patrick E. Dwyer, John H. Enrlght, A. C. Lutz, J. J. Mulvlhill, Thos. Davles, Mat. J. Corcoran, John L. McNamara, M. J. Carberry, Henry H. Nichols, Hugh- Manley, Clarence Warner, Wm. J. Hartney, Francis ( X. Buscb, John C. Kraus, Meyer A. Bernstein, Edward J. Duffy, Frank B. sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssb. tjbbBMbbbbbbbbbbbbb BBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSBBSsllBBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsI 1,, "BBBBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs! gegegegegegeA' A .bsssssssssssssssssssssssssssI N. Q. CONYBEAR. Well Known Wholesale Grocer. Shearln, Anthony J, McVady, M. J. Flynn. 4th Congressional District John B. Brenzas, James S Ryan, B. H. Helde, Walter Shea, John H, Burns, Vol. Schmltt Schmltt, Wm. T. Wallace, Jas. M. Furlong, J. M, Fits gernld, M. C. Buckley, John V, Schmltt Schmltt, Wm. E. Furlong, Everett Jennings, Marlus Olsen, Martin J. Sweeney, James IFyneS, John O, Baker, Martin Garskl, John Dillon, Jeremiah T. J. McShea, Patrick J. Rowan, John J. Culllnan, Fred C. Ewert, Dr. P. A. Murphy, H, Motster heln. i Sth Congressional District. P. J. Coffey, Frank Zerrlsek, Harry Schllck, Ed. Jcdllcka, Isnao Cohn, Max Kutcbal, Joseph Mendel, A. Nacker, Matthew Smith, E. J. McCar ty, John Felnen, Peter Hoffman, James J. Hallman, John Waska, Wm. J. Pcshek, James F, Denny, Tom Fitzgerald,- Nicholas Stokes, William , Altemeler, James H. Ryan, Geo. Mc Kcnzle, Joseph Wlrth, John J. Brady, Jacob Ports. Cth Congressional District. James W. Casoy, John J, O'Donnell, Ralph C. Whlto, Frank L. White, Hy man Lldorman, Frank T. Scanlan, Clarence Dullard, W. F. Cummlngs, Danl. Dowllng, John W. Christie, Francis P. Burnett, William George poolos, L. R. Buckley, Geo. C. Water man, J. C. Dooley, Richard P. Hlckey, M. J. Tlornoy, Max Le Beau, Fred E. Zimmerman, Geo. McMahon, Michael McCarty, C. Baldaccl, Harry D. Stone, E. H. Comer. 7th Congressional District. N. G. Conybcar, James M. Ward, James R. Mitchell, Fred J. Ross, C. W. Howo, Dr. E. C. Rohm, Geo. P. Mc Farland, Chris Nlelson, Dr. George Frost, John Lcsllo O'Brien, John W. Hand, Theo. H. Greenwald, Oscar Breltenbach, Robert F. Blckerdlke, Frank H. Landmcsscr, J. A. O'Don nell, Ellis W. Paul, Henry Broyer, Joseph Greln, Frank DeLaby, Dan H. Rote, Geo. W. LoVln, J. Edw. Clancy, John M. Kennedy, William Goodman, Geo. L. Franck, Fred T. Schwartz, Herman Peters, R. O. Gilbert, W. F. Kelley, Wm. H. Whlto. 8th Congressional District. John P. Quirk, Patrick O'Rourke, Michael Yarusso, J. A. Fenstcrle, Vic tor W. Hnnko, Louis W. Greco, Gary J. Maulelle, H. F. Martin, Philip Papas, Jos. Walsh, Albert A. Bock, Henry Hogan, Martin F. E. Norton, X. H. Kadow, Matthow E. Clark, Nick Sarno, Morris M. Kankowltz, Frank Navlgato, Timothy Finn, Michael Martin, Anthony Tortorlello, William A. Navlgato, Joseph De Stofano, Al phonse L. Cummlngs, August Woln rich, John Schwartz, James J. Mono nan. Oth Congressional District. G. A. Canlslus, Thomas E. Golden, Andrew A. Collins, C. E. Hayne, J. P. Fitzgerald, Fred Schulz, W. H. Lauff, Geo. J. Dyrnos, John S. Schneller, Norman P. Brodlo, Daniel F. Rice, Michael P. Lonen, John B. Bercher, Carl W. Westorllnd, Daniel L. Crulce, Chas. Oakley, Oscar Anderson, Geo. A. Maneatys, D. R. Murphy, George Wilson, Dr. Arthur I- Meyer, Nick Protopas, William Payne, Jacob Em erlcb, Jr., Ray R. Coombs, John Mai doon, John M. Mullen. 10th Congressional District Wm.J. Carroll, William H. Rose, Albert J. W. Appell, Seraflno Con fortl, George Bloedorn, Max Golden rath, Joseph H. Fitch, Fred Lorenien, Geo, C. Knight, Horace M. McCullen, Thos. J. Scherer, F. O. Anderson, Henry G. Weber, Barnard J. Baumer, Fred J. Rlnkley, George Wilson, J. P. Jaeger, John J. Devlne, David A. Rose, Frank C. Kellogg, James M. Slattery, ' Roy Barnett, Harry J. Ga ney, John Fanning, Malcolm B, Star rett, Edward J. Healey, Chas, Dosgfr erty, F. C. Adams. I - T-r rrfeteiiji