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Mr.
Purdy
went
out
,
and
Cowperwood
called
in
his
lawyers
and
his
engineers
.
One
Saturday
afternoon
,
a
week
or
two
later
,
when
the
building
in
question
had
been
vacated
for
the
day
,
a
company
of
three
hundred
laborers
,
with
wagons
,
picks
,
shovels
,
and
dynamite
sticks
,
arrived
.
By
sundown
of
the
next
day
(
which
,
being
Sunday
,
was
a
legal
holiday
,
with
no
courts
open
or
sitting
to
issue
injunctions
)
this
comely
structure
,
the
private
property
of
Mr.
Redmond
Purdy
,
was
completely
razed
and
a
large
excavation
substituted
in
its
stead
.
The
gentleman
of
the
celluloid
cuffs
and
collars
,
when
informed
about
nine
o'clock
of
this
same
Sunday
morning
that
his
building
had
been
almost
completely
removed
,
was
naturally
greatly
perturbed
.
A
portion
of
the
wall
was
still
standing
when
he
arrived
,
hot
and
excited
,
and
the
police
were
appealed
to
.
But
,
strange
to
say
,
this
was
of
little
avail
,
for
they
were
shown
a
writ
of
injunction
issued
by
the
court
of
highest
jurisdiction
,
presided
over
by
the
Hon.
Nahum
Dickensheets
,
which
restrained
all
and
sundry
from
interfering
.
(
Subsequently
on
demand
of
another
court
this
remarkable
document
was
discovered
to
have
disappeared
;
the
contention
was
that
it
had
never
really
existed
or
been
produced
at
all
.
)
The
demolition
and
digging
proceeded
.
Then
began
a
scurrying
of
lawyers
to
the
door
of
one
friendly
judge
after
another
.
There
were
apoplectic
cheeks
,
blazing
eyes
,
and
gasps
for
breath
while
the
enormity
of
the
offense
was
being
noised
abroad
.
Law
is
law
,
however
.
Procedure
is
procedure
,
and
no
writ
of
injunction
was
either
issuable
or
returnable
on
a
legal
holiday
,
when
no
courts
were
sitting
.
Nevertheless
,
by
three
o'clock
in
the
afternoon
an
obliging
magistrate
was
found
who
consented
to
issue
an
injunction
staying
this
terrible
crime
.
By
this
time
,
however
,
the
building
was
gone
,
the
excavation
complete
.
It
remained
merely
for
the
West
Chicago
Street
Railway
Company
to
secure
an
injunction
vacating
the
first
injunction
,
praying
that
its
rights
,
privileges
,
liberties
,
etc.
,
be
not
interfered
with
,
and
so
creating
a
contest
which
naturally
threw
the
matter
into
the
State
Court
of
Appeals
,
where
it
could
safely
lie
.
For
several
years
there
were
numberless
injunctions
,
writs
of
errors
,
doubts
,
motions
to
reconsider
,
threats
to
carry
the
matter
from
the
state
to
the
federal
courts
on
a
matter
of
constitutional
privilege
,
and
the
like
.
The
affair
was
finally
settled
out
of
court
,
for
Mr.
Purdy
by
this
time
was
a
more
sensible
man
.
In
the
mean
time
,
however
,
the
newspapers
had
been
given
full
details
of
the
transaction
,
and
a
storm
of
words
against
Cowperwood
ensued
.
But
more
disturbing
than
the
Redmond
Purdy
incident
was
the
rivalry
of
a
new
Chicago
street-railway
company
.
It
appeared
first
as
an
idea
in
the
brain
of
one
James
Furnivale
Woolsen
,
a
determined
young
Westerner
from
California
,
and
developed
by
degrees
into
consents
and
petitions
from
fully
two-thirds
of
the
residents
of
various
streets
in
the
extreme
southwest
section
of
the
city
where
it
was
proposed
the
new
line
should
be
located
.
This
same
James
Furnivale
Woolsen
,
being
an
ambitious
person
,
was
not
to
be
so
easily
put
down
.
Besides
the
consent
and
petitions
,
which
Cowperwood
could
not
easily
get
away
from
him
,
he
had
a
new
form
of
traction
then
being
tried
out
in
several
minor
cities
--
a
form
of
electric
propulsion
by
means
of
an
overhead
wire
and
a
traveling
pole
,
which
was
said
to
be
very
economical
,
and
to
give
a
service
better
than
cables
and
cheaper
even
than
horses
.
Cowperwood
had
heard
all
about
this
new
electric
system
some
time
before
,
and
had
been
studying
it
for
several
years
with
the
greatest
interest
,
since
it
promised
to
revolutionize
the
whole
business
of
street-railroading
.
However
,
having
but
so
recently
completed
his
excellent
cable
system
,
he
did
not
see
that
it
was
advisable
to
throw
it
away
.
The
trolley
was
as
yet
too
much
of
a
novelty
;
certainly
it
was
not
advisable
to
have
it
introduced
into
Chicago
until
he
was
ready
to
introduce
it
himself
--
first
on
his
outlying
feeder
lines
,
he
thought
,
then
perhaps
generally
.
But
before
he
could
take
suitable
action
against
Woolsen
,
that
engaging
young
upstart
,
who
was
possessed
of
a
high-power
imagination
and
a
gift
of
gab
,
had
allied
himself
with
such
interested
investors
as
Truman
Leslie
MacDonald
,
who
saw
here
a
heaven-sent
opportunity
of
mulcting
Cowperwood
,
and
Jordan
Jules
,
once
the
president
of
the
North
Chicago
Gas
Company
,
who
had
lost
money
through
Cowperwood
in
the
gas
war
.
Two
better
instruments
for
goading
a
man
whom
they
considered
an
enemy
could
not
well
be
imagined
--
Truman
Leslie
with
his
dark
,
waspish
,
mistrustful
,
jealous
eyes
,
and
his
slim
,
vital
body
;
and
Jordan
Jules
,
short
,
rotund
,
sandy
,
a
sickly
crop
of
thin
,
oily
,
light
hair
growing
down
over
his
coat-collar
,
his
forehead
and
crown
glisteningly
bald
,
his
eyes
a
seeking
,
searching
,
revengeful
blue
.
They
in
turn
brought
in
Samuel
Blackman
,
once
president
of
the
South
Side
Gas
Company
;
Sunderland
Sledd
,
of
local
railroad
management
and
stock-investment
fame
;
and
Norrie
Simms
,
president
of
the
Douglas
Trust
Company
,
who
,
however
,
was
little
more
than
a
fiscal
agent
.
The
general
feeling
was
that
Cowperwood
's
defensive
tactics
--
which
consisted
in
having
the
city
council
refuse
to
act
--
could
be
easily
met
.
"
Well
,
I
think
we
can
soon
fix
that
,
"
exclaimed
young
MacDonald
,
one
morning
at
a
meeting
.
"
We
ought
to
be
able
to
smoke
them
out
.
A
little
publicity
will
do
it
.
"
He
appealed
to
his
father
,
the
editor
of
the
Inquirer
,
but
the
latter
refused
to
act
for
the
time
being
,
seeing
that
his
son
was
interested
.
