The road was in a rather unsatisfactory state financially--really open to a coup of some sort.
In the beginning it had been considered unprofitable, so thinly populated was the territory they served, and so short the distance from the business heart.

Later, however, as the territory filled up, they did better; only then the long waits at the bridges occurred.

The management, feeling that the lines were likely to be poorly patronized, had put down poor, little, light-weight rails, and run slimpsy cars which were as cold as ice in winter and as hot as stove-ovens in summer.

No attempt had been made to extend the down-town terminus of the several lines into the business center--they stopped just over the river which bordered it at the north.

(On the South Side Mr.Schryhart had done much better for his patrons.