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At
the
same
time
he
could
not
help
thinking
,
as
he
looked
at
the
proposed
loop
indicated
on
the
map
,
that
the
new
cable
line
,
with
its
string
of
trailers
,
would
give
down-town
Chicago
a
truly
metropolitan
air
and
would
provide
a
splendid
outlet
for
the
North
Side
.
The
streets
in
question
were
magnificent
commercial
thoroughfares
,
crowded
even
at
this
date
with
structures
five
,
six
,
seven
,
and
even
eight
stories
high
,
and
brimming
with
heavy
streams
of
eager
life
--
young
,
fresh
,
optimistic
.
Because
of
the
narrow
area
into
which
the
commercial
life
of
the
city
tended
to
congest
itself
,
this
property
and
these
streets
were
immensely
valuable
--
among
the
most
valuable
in
the
whole
city
.
Also
he
observed
that
if
this
loop
did
come
here
its
cars
,
on
their
return
trip
along
Dearborn
Street
,
would
pass
by
his
very
door
--
the
office
of
the
Press
--
thereby
enhancing
the
value
of
that
property
of
which
he
was
the
owner
.
"
I
certainly
do
,
Mr.
Haguenin
,
"
returned
Cowperwood
,
emphatically
,
in
answer
to
his
query
.
"
Personally
,
I
should
think
Chicago
would
be
glad
to
pay
a
bonus
to
get
its
street-railway
service
straightened
out
,
especially
where
a
corporation
comes
forward
with
a
liberal
,
conservative
programme
such
as
this
.
It
means
millions
in
growth
of
property
values
on
the
North
Side
.
It
means
millions
to
the
business
heart
to
have
this
loop
system
laid
down
just
as
I
suggest
.
"
He
put
his
finger
firmly
on
the
map
which
he
had
brought
,
and
Haguenin
agreed
with
him
that
the
plan
was
undoubtedly
a
sound
business
proposition
.
"
Personally
,
I
should
be
the
last
to
complain
,
"
he
added
,
"
for
the
line
passes
my
door
.
At
the
same
time
this
tunnel
,
as
I
understand
it
,
cost
in
the
neighborhood
of
eight
hundred
thousand
or
a
million
dollars
.
It
is
a
delicate
problem
.
I
should
like
to
know
what
the
other
editors
think
of
it
,
and
how
the
city
council
itself
would
feel
toward
it
.
"
Cowperwood
nodded
.
"
Certainly
,
certainly
,
"
he
said
.
"
With
pleasure
.
I
would
not
come
here
at
all
if
I
did
not
feel
that
I
had
a
perfectly
legitimate
proposition
--
one
that
the
press
of
the
city
should
unite
in
supporting
.
Where
a
corporation
such
as
ours
is
facing
large
expenditures
,
which
have
to
be
financed
by
outside
capital
,
it
is
only
natural
that
we
should
wish
to
allay
useless
,
groundless
opposition
in
advance
.
I
hope
we
may
command
your
support
.
"
"
I
hope
you
may
,
"
smiled
Mr.
Haguenin
.
They
parted
the
best
of
friends
.
The
other
publishers
,
guardians
of
the
city
's
privileges
,
were
not
quite
so
genial
as
Haguenin
in
their
approval
of
Cowperwood
's
proposition
.
The
use
of
a
tunnel
and
several
of
the
most
important
down-town
streets
might
readily
be
essential
to
the
development
of
Cowperwood
's
North
Side
schemes
,
but
the
gift
of
them
was
a
different
matter
.
Already
,
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
the
various
publishers
and
editors
had
been
consulted
by
Schryhart
,
Merrill
,
and
others
with
a
view
to
discovering
how
they
felt
as
to
this
new
venture
,
and
whether
Cowperwood
would
be
cheerfully
indorsed
or
not
.
Schryhart
,
smarting
from
the
wounds
he
had
received
in
the
gas
war
,
viewed
this
new
activity
on
Cowperwood
's
part
with
a
suspicious
and
envious
eye
.
To
him
much
more
than
to
the
others
it
spelled
a
new
and
dangerous
foe
in
the
street-railway
field
,
although
all
the
leading
citizens
of
Chicago
were
interested
.
"
I
suppose
now
,
"
he
said
one
evening
to
the
Hon.
Walter
Melville
Hyssop
,
editor
and
publisher
of
the
Transcript
and
the
Evening
Mail
,
whom
he
met
at
the
Union
League
,
"
that
this
fellow
Cowperwood
will
attempt
some
disturbing
coup
in
connection
with
street-railway
affairs
.
He
is
just
the
sort
.
I
think
,
from
an
editorial
point
of
view
,
his
political
connections
will
bear
watching
.
"
Already
there
were
rumors
abroad
that
McKenty
might
have
something
to
do
with
the
new
company
.
