Still the public, instructed or urged by the McKenty agents to the contrary, were not prepared to believe it.

They had not been so well treated by the old companies as to make any outcry on their behalf.
Standing outside the city council door, on the Monday evening when the bill was finally passed, Mr.Samuel Blackman, president of the South Side Gas Company, a little, wispy man with shoe-brush whiskers, declared emphatically: "This is a scoundrelly piece of business.

If the mayor signs that he should be impeached.

There is not a vote in there to-night that has not been purchased--not one.

This is a fine element of brigandage to introduce into Chicago; why, people who have worked years and years to build up a business are not safe!" "It's true, every word of it," complained Mr.Jordan Jules, president of the North Side company, a short, stout man with a head like an egg lying lengthwise, a mere fringe of hair, and hard, blue eyes.