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.