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Street-railways at Last

           There’sanotherinSanFrancisco.Someonehasinventedacar,asIunderstandit,that’sgoingtorunbyelectricity,andherewearerunningcarsbarns,Icallthemwithstrawinthem.GoodLord,Ishouldthinkitwasabouttimethatsomeofustookatumbletoourselves!"

           "Oh,Idon’tknow,"commentedMr.Skinner."ItseemstomewehavedoneprettywellbytheNorthSide.Wehavedoneagooddeal."

           DirectorsSolonKaempfaert,AlbertThorsen,IsaacWhite,AnthonyEwer,ArnoldC.Benjamin,andOttoMatjes,beingsolemngentlemenall,merelysatandstared.

           ThevigorousKaffrathwasnottobesoeasilyrepressed,however.Herepeatedhiscomplaintsonotheroccasions.ThefactthattherewasalsoconsiderablecomplaintinthenewspapersfromtimetotimeinregardtothissameNorthSideservicepleasedhiminaway.Perhapsthiswouldbetheproverbialfireundertheterrapinwhichwouldcauseittomovealong.

           Bythistime,owingtoCowperwood’sunderstandingwithMcKenty,allpossibilityoftheNorthSidecompany’ssecuringadditionalfranchisesforunoccupiedstreets,oreventheuseoftheLaSalleStreettunnel,hadended.Kaffrathdidnotknowthis.Neitherdidthedirectorsorofficersofthecompany,butitwastrue.Inaddition,McKenty,throughthealdermen,whowereathisbeckandcallontheNorthSide,wasbeginningtostirupadditionalmurmursandcomplaintsinordertodiscreditthepresentmanagement.

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