There's going to be a new motor power introduced on the South Side within a year or two.

You've heard of it ?" "I read something of it," replied McKenty, surprised and a little questioning.

He took a cigar and prepared to listen.

Cowperwood, never smoking, drew up a chair.
"Well, I'll tell you what that means," he explained.

"It means that eventually every mile of street-railway track in this city--to say nothing of all the additional miles that will be built before this change takes place--will have to be done over on an entirely new basis.
I mean this cable-conduit system.