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The Titan

CHAPTER XXIII
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So has the Chicago City Passenger Railway.

The North Side company is planning more extensive improvements than were ever undertaken by any single company before.

I hardly think it is fair to raise the question of compensation and a franchise tax at this time, and in connection with this one company only." "Um--well, that may be true of the other companies.

The South Side company had those streets long ago.

They merely connected them up.
But this tunnel, now--that's a different matter, isn't it?
The city bought and paid for that, didn't it ?" "Quite true--to help out men who saw that they couldn't make another dollar out of it," said Cowperwood, acidly.


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