CHAPTER XLIII.
The Planet Mars The banking hostility to Cowperwood, which in its beginning had made necessary his trip to Kentucky and elsewhere, finally reached a climax.
It followed an attempt on his part to furnish funds for the building of elevated roads.

The hour for this new form of transit convenience had struck.

The public demanded it.

Cowperwood saw one elevated road, the South Side Alley Line, being built, and another, the West Side Metropolitan Line, being proposed, largely, as he knew, in order to create sentiment for the idea, and so to make his opposition to a general franchise difficult.

He was well aware that if he did not choose to build them others would.