Since he soon began to make between four and five thousand a year, where before he made two thousand, he moved into a brick house in an outlying section of the south side, and sent his children to school.

Mrs.Butler gave up making soap and feeding pigs.

And since then times had been exceedingly good with Edward Butler.
He could neither read nor write at first; but now he knew how, of course.

He had learned from association with Mr.Comiskey that there were other forms of contracting--sewers, water-mains, gas-mains, street-paving, and the like.

Who better than Edward Butler to do it?
He knew the councilmen, many of them.