"It's certainly real winter weather we're having now, isn't it ?" he observed, cheerfully.

"How goes the North Chicago Street Railway business ?" For months he, with the other publishers, had been aware that the whole North Side was to be made over by fine cable-tracks, power-houses, and handsome cars; and there already was talk that some better arrangement was to be made to bring the passengers into the down-town section.
"Mr.Haguenin," said Cowperwood, smilingly--he was arrayed in a heavy fur coat, with a collar of beaver and driving-gauntlets of dogskin--"we have reached the place in this street-railway problem on the North Side where we are going to require the assistance of the newspapers, or at least their friendly support.

At present our principal difficulty is that all our lines, when they come down-town, stop at Lake Street--just this side of the bridges.

That means a long walk for everybody to all the streets south of it, and, as you probably know, there has been considerable complaint.

Besides that, this river traffic is becoming more and more what I may say it has been for years--an intolerable nuisance.