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Cowperwood
was
in
no
wise
pleased
by
this
rough
denouement
.
Aileen
had
not
raised
her
own
attractions
in
his
estimation
,
and
yet
,
strange
to
relate
,
he
was
not
unsympathetic
with
her
.
He
had
no
desire
to
desert
her
as
yet
,
though
for
some
time
he
had
been
growing
in
the
feeling
that
Rita
would
have
been
a
much
better
type
of
wife
for
him
.
But
what
he
could
not
have
,
he
could
not
have
.
He
turned
his
attention
with
renewed
force
to
his
business
;
but
it
was
with
many
a
backward
glance
at
those
radiant
hours
when
,
with
Rita
in
his
presence
or
enfolded
by
his
arms
,
he
had
seen
life
from
a
new
and
poetic
angle
.
She
was
so
charming
,
so
naive
--
but
what
could
he
do
?
For
several
years
thereafter
Cowperwood
was
busy
following
the
Chicago
street-railway
situation
with
increasing
interest
.
He
knew
it
was
useless
to
brood
over
Rita
Sohlberg
--
she
would
not
return
--
and
yet
he
could
not
help
it
;
but
he
could
work
hard
,
and
that
was
something
.
His
natural
aptitude
and
affection
for
street-railway
work
had
long
since
been
demonstrated
,
and
it
was
now
making
him
restless
.
One
might
have
said
of
him
quite
truly
that
the
tinkle
of
car-bells
and
the
plop
of
plodding
horses
'
feet
was
in
his
blood
.
He
surveyed
these
extending
lines
,
with
their
jingling
cars
,
as
he
went
about
the
city
,
with
an
almost
hungry
eye
.
Chicago
was
growing
fast
,
and
these
little
horse-cars
on
certain
streets
were
crowded
night
and
morning
--
fairly
bulging
with
people
at
the
rush-hours
.
If
he
could
only
secure
an
octopus-grip
on
one
or
all
of
them
;
if
he
could
combine
and
control
them
all
!
What
a
fortune
!
That
,
if
nothing
else
,
might
salve
him
for
some
of
his
woes
--
a
tremendous
fortune
--
nothing
less
.
He
forever
busied
himself
with
various
aspects
of
the
scene
quite
as
a
poet
might
have
concerned
himself
with
rocks
and
rills
.
To
own
these
street-railways
!
To
own
these
street-railways
!
So
rang
the
song
of
his
mind
.
Like
the
gas
situation
,
the
Chicago
street-railway
situation
was
divided
into
three
parts
--
three
companies
representing
and
corresponding
with
the
three
different
sides
or
divisions
of
the
city
.
The
Chicago
City
Railway
Company
,
occupying
the
South
Side
and
extending
as
far
south
as
Thirty-ninth
Street
,
had
been
organized
in
1859
,
and
represented
in
itself
a
mine
of
wealth
.
Already
it
controlled
some
seventy
miles
of
track
,
and
was
annually
being
added
to
on
Indiana
Avenue
,
on
Wabash
Avenue
,
on
State
Street
,
and
on
Archer
Avenue
.
It
owned
over
one
hundred
and
fifty
cars
of
the
old-fashioned
,
straw-strewn
,
no-stove
type
,
and
over
one
thousand
horses
;
it
employed
one
hundred
and
seventy
conductors
,
one
hundred
and
sixty
drivers
,
a
hundred
stablemen
,
and
blacksmiths
,
harness-makers
,
and
repairers
in
interesting
numbers
.
Its
snow-plows
were
busy
on
the
street
in
winter
,
its
sprinkling-cars
in
summer
.
Cowperwood
calculated
its
shares
,
bonds
,
rolling-stock
,
and
other
physical
properties
as
totaling
in
the
vicinity
of
over
two
million
dollars
.
The
trouble
with
this
company
was
that
its
outstanding
stock
was
principally
controlled
by
Norman
Schryhart
,
who
was
now
decidedly
inimical
to
Cowperwood
,
or
anything
he
might
wish
to
do
,
and
by
Anson
Merrill
,
who
had
never
manifested
any
signs
of
friendship
.
He
did
not
see
how
he
was
to
get
control
of
this
property
.
Its
shares
were
selling
around
two
hundred
and
fifty
dollars
.
The
North
Chicago
City
Railway
was
a
corporation
which
had
been
organized
at
the
same
time
as
the
South
Side
company
,
but
by
a
different
group
of
men
.
Its
management
was
old
,
indifferent
,
and
incompetent
,
its
equipment
about
the
same
.
The
Chicago
West
Division
Railway
had
originally
been
owned
by
the
Chicago
City
or
South
Side
Railway
,
but
was
now
a
separate
corporation
.
It
was
not
yet
so
profitable
as
the
other
divisions
of
the
city
,
but
all
sections
of
the
city
were
growing
.
The
horse-bell
was
heard
everywhere
tinkling
gaily
.
Standing
on
the
outside
of
this
scene
,
contemplating
its
promise
,
Cowperwood
much
more
than
any
one
else
connected
financially
with
the
future
of
these
railways
at
this
time
was
impressed
with
their
enormous
possibilities
--
their
enormous
future
if
Chicago
continued
to
grow
,
and
was
concerned
with
the
various
factors
which
might
further
or
impede
their
progress
.
Not
long
before
he
had
discovered
that
one
of
the
chief
handicaps
to
street-railway
development
,
on
the
North
and
West
Sides
,
lay
in
the
congestion
of
traffic
at
the
bridges
spanning
the
Chicago
River
.
Between
the
street
ends
that
abutted
on
it
and
connected
the
two
sides
of
the
city
ran
this
amazing
stream
--
dirty
,
odorous
,
picturesque
,
compact
of
a
heavy
,
delightful
,
constantly
crowding
and
moving
boat
traffic
,
which
kept
the
various
bridges
momentarily
turning
,
and
tied
up
the
street
traffic
on
either
side
of
the
river
until
it
seemed
at
times
as
though
the
tangle
of
teams
and
boats
would
never
any
more
be
straightened
out
.
It
was
lovely
,
human
,
natural
,
Dickensesque
--
a
fit
subject
for
a
Daumier
,
a
Turner
,
or
a
Whistler
.
The
idlest
of
bridge-tenders
judged
for
himself
when
the
boats
and
when
the
teams
should
be
made
to
wait
,
and
how
long
,
while
in
addition
to
the
regular
pedestrians
a
group
of
idlers
stood
at
gaze
fascinated
by
the
crowd
of
masts
,
the
crush
of
wagons
,
and
the
picturesque
tugs
in
the
foreground
below
.
Cowperwood
,
as
he
sat
in
his
light
runabout
,
annoyed
by
a
delay
,
or
dashed
swiftly
forward
to
get
over
before
a
bridge
turned
,
had
long
since
noted
that
the
street-car
service
in
the
North
and
West
Sides
was
badly
hampered
.
The
unbroken
South
Side
,
unthreaded
by
a
river
,
had
no
such
problem
,
and
was
growing
rapidly
.
