share. Wonders $127 basis Never Cease. paid of blackmail Severe. sheets. When newspapers per was on a COLLAPSE OF THE S3O about the First London at banks Belle —Oh, The stock Is selling called loan have Myrtle—You had him of remember to you a now we a $3,000,000, heard the share. he news? I would have could told them they to loan him few friends who thought a never collection miscellaneous believed of Then the much It, but It’s All discouraged them sorts as When the banks true. sing? Weil, have came more. we CARDS OF HOUSE Traction” “Consolidated scornfully wonderful marked demanded things occurring security the for last. at nowar are well-watered extra $3,000,000, days. sale and the the $8,000,- of he produced Gwendolen —How did you manage ever 000 underlying Second me! stocks of of of registered London Belle —Dear companies, bonds, it? government a score he What which and has in bonds got the happened? “Just and got payment bought phonograph money. a In He “An sold 80 dollar. cents then called English spent>.three let at the made who them loan he had duke, sing Then to into it. on we a Supreme and to States Moore —Cas- United each he sold real value, Brothers, weeks returned, and voices.” in Decision of the promoters of America, has them hear their case no own Diamond substantial. Y. took in something Match married girl.”—N. Rock Island sell’s payment and English Journal. consolidation an Weekly. fame, suspension their and Made That Court Hopeless. sold, When the balloons all caused Chicago panic which closed the were a hopeless!” cried Reformed. “Blanche is simply the Yerkes stock exchange. cared all not at how soon “She him, married him reform teach who trying to to a woman one was about Melt. Necessarily, public discovered talk Millions the the of the smash that story did she not?” of her bridge whist. friends to play fourflush 99-year of the the franchise but values of Chicago Traction a was securities “So they say.” “Why?” expected bluff which had is the Charles T. he story of. “Did she succeed?” “I she knew began if by asking her Yerkes, would “called” 29, be day. who died December last, some “Yes, in the the continued the He value of the cards,” way. same a was in New The bluff York, second Judge Grosscup deserted by his got past on high roller during their marriage, but ‘Why, said, “and Blanche certainly! woman, TRACTION SECURITIES but wife, FALL OF THE CHISAGO the bench, he federal circuit had been before court as many years when she divorce allowed pack.’ judge got the About cents ten a a court in the United Philadelphia, first wife States supreme by his her that he much alimony Detroit Free Press. so when plain called” terms. he penitentiary it, and did it in to the sent was longer afford jolly good to be can no r wind a the The 99-year charge franchise of which he later on a as acquitted. w was fellow Naturally. he has settled down.” —Hous- so the balloons; 21 and He broker which had filled all the at was a ton My sisters Post. step-ma and go the builded banker, him, which had been his father before sand a ■ §-" of Street as Financial of Construction the on End everywhere. With step-brothers my Yerkes’ before with he 30. He few house of cards marked spent was a journey and fro they to And while No Time Lose. to Master Financier, Car That System by N. St. Paul, fanciful millions. in Fargo, D., and stair. years They occasion quite oft a “The the door told next man me —Judge. Minn., Traction before going Chicago The day when Union to was a as Yerkes —Settling of Franchise Charles T. s2,oo<k other day he going spend to was broker Chicago. in 1883. day in floated great was a INNOCENCE. PROOF OF his daughter’s voice.” on La heralded from But Yerkes his “balloons,” when has sold The event much Causes Crash. Question was “Say, know offered you me you institutions financial boys” the shifts “the Salle and from the interest to street $5,000 for week bouse and lot my a various bad who city, who bought held them and who of the and provided I could give immediate ago, Yerkes’ played of with them contentedly first. interests in the at success BY CLYDE ALISON MANN. possession?” The combination. Soon troubles scheme and began, and troubles great “Yes.” dawning of thickened public accepted the with month. The it each ? ■fK$ 3 f ? $ 1 <2 as K K H K * “Well, I’ll take it.” —Chicago Tribune. 4» released be North Chicago day they would Chicago West when and companies a shrink- and net Flotation values Union Traction deal, values now Charles T. 12 the respective from hated bondage of paid not were a North J the of Yerkes. uniting and six rental The cent, X per moneys required Present Almost. Flotation < promised $10,000,000 interests by the leases, the and West traction Shrinkage. Value. Value- “Talk dreams coming about true — 1 $12,793,330 $3,956,700 $16,750,300 West Chicago Street Ry I night that burglar dreamed last a f 2,534,400 17,503,200 20,037,600 North Chicago Street Ry entered took watch from % my room, my 9,960,000 2,040,000 12,000,000 Union Traction, Pfd the dresser before I and sneaked out 1,000,000 9,000,000 & 10,000,000 Union Traction, Common could jumped catch him. I woke up, f watch.” out of bed and looked for the $9,531,100 $49,256,530 $58,787,630 “Was it gone?” 4,050,000 2,700,000 6,750,000 bonds.; Consol. Traction Chicago | 27,900,000 23,400,000 “No; going.”-r-Cleveland T but Chicago City Ry.. it was Leader. f $41,481,100 $116,837,630 $75,356,530 shrinkage Total Remedial. “l greatly kleptomania,” troubled with am J K ! [> • : 3 S h^ J >^h: 3 s j C- <*xJh2kJ» 2 £ E K h h < K , h >-: h '-r •t>v < H H K > v v T exclaimed the fashionably dressed she bustled into the woman, as Chicago.—Like cards the West Chicago and house of and cago a a Mother —Edward, did those eat you drug department. “Now, what would The tangle electric flaming with fictitious values, of outlying lines. money I raisins I the shelf? pantry put on advise it?” for to take you heavily towering Chicago North Chicago stocked me of the structure traction was the scattered all found seeds over “Your departure, madam, by all tumbling about liberally. During the securities and bonded came floor. means,” replied floorwalker, and the had financial generals of each Yerkes of the growth of the ears company Edward —It couldn’t have been me, bowed her the elevator. —Puck. to New York times Philadelphia and sold his stock for Criicago, part of many —Chicago seeds. ’cause I swallered my United States his first investment. the of the the amount of word at su* Daily News. Misrepresentation. Union Traction Then the court company preme “You public much misrepresented.” men are the organized $20,000,000 It Morgan, Armour, with of has cost was common Coinage. $12,000,000 Marshall Field and the Elkins- stock and of preferred estate, The is happy still, congressman “Yes,” answered the “I statesman. Widener syndicate and others leased the North Chicago stock, and it street Though o’er. car disappointed o’er and that regret I have not said all the bill If speech doesn’t his fix $75,000,000 realize what West Chicago companies. to and one over bright things that have been attributed deliver It’s to easy more. Yerkes probably knew Its stock offered the public and Charles T. to was —WashingtonVStar. and I to also thankful that me, am Chicago sold his street sold the Elkins-Widener syndicate, before he to years I all have foolish not said the ones.” Call A Down. legislative Philadelphia, securities, that certain of called the “street ear a now —Washington Star. don’t “Of course,” the gossip, “I Illinois trust.” Charles Yerkes said of the state of Tyson act way car $10,000,000 but supposed, know anything certain about her, back in 1865, did not, pocketed of nice hard cash extend as A Customary Impression. together Chicago the franchises for *of for the equities in the North and West then put and two two can use one “I rely the of the plain on sense people,” period 99 —” for of side companies which he already and make four streets from years. a said the youthful statesman. $10,000,000. court’s replied Champion, the decision had made “Yes,” Miss At meaningly, supreme “Yes,” answered Senator Sorghum. stocks fell in practically values Union Traction This worked well could quickly “some people put of he so can “Somehow always feels that a man City railway and Chicago his further together and make mischief.” heap, plan. By nothing out carry a the plain people have splendid judgment 25 The stocks dropped cent. paying dividend the first dividend —Philadelphia Press. per accompanying a on just after they have elected him table shows the losses. day, he encouraged the stockholders so new office.” —Washington Star. to Resignation. The of Union Traction holders that when he together his got company “Do *trike will think that you a all stocks looked, after it miscellaneous electric companies he was Higher Up. expensive?” asked make coal more one of like boys holding the sticks sold the lot, under the of the over, name Miss Thompson must have spent householder. bit only shriveled of Consolidated balloons with Traction to the a company, lot of her musical education.” a money on whether strike will “I don’t know a end of each stick Union Traction rubber the and at reminders as same company, it,” answered the other. “But do the buoyant beauty they bonds in Bonds looked of took payment. “What mak2s think so?” you —Washington Star. will.” something circus balloon public Co., had bought from the day good the and to Blair & to “She plays anything never any more of New York, and Yerkes put man. away be for betterment of the street fund proved almost joke, that to the guaranty sounds bit like Costly. tune.” a a a — In this the shriveled bit of rubber cold $5,000,000 for day in cash case, more a service, and the advent of the Elkins-Widener and Union stockholders Cleveland Traction Leader. Servant —The plumber this were car says had millions, and the “boys” securities. and cpst into the street paid only dividend. Finally syndicate five dollars receivers chqck should be one more. multi-millionaires. Those who also sold his He interests in the Which? were in Chicago welcomed appointed. The Union operation it’s the Castleton —But amount he car was were Riche —Look me! at Twenty years the companies from hand. Even Traction and West Chicago for. every asked boy, working like dog, a ago poor a fighting This by who had been receivership in you’ve But kept him newspapers, was “Yes, sir. are now. and Look me! See at what I now Yerkes. by their Stockholders of the served to aid him all. — hour.” nearly —Life. no waitin’ for means an have made of myself. publicity flotation the \Vest the North in the of Chicago sued traction company Smarte —Yes, And Do Not Succeed. sir. Do Is this Chicago you— conditions could be city of stbcks. No Chicago The company. McQueery—l wonder why meant warning example?— as women a or an auspicious. Union Traction sued the company more Cassell’s, trouble take much conceal to their so Early in the it learned that $2,000,000 finally day for and poor w as r age? elect the entire issue preferred and people of service drove the to common car All of Us. don’t; Crabbe —They they merely underwritten; stock had been pledged “immediate to municipal a mayor “I expect shall all have lot we a trouble try take to to conceal their York been that Chicago and New had ownersnip.” now.” of trouble age.—Philadelphia Press. and allotted $7,000,000 of the preferred in the face of the certainty This was so?” “How Philadelphia $3,000,000. On stock spoils the the politics and that corrupt “Why, in getting Unnecessary. used to calling her West North Chicago and by putting exchange be made would system -worse Mrs. Knicker —Don’t Longworth instead think of Alice.”— Mrs. you preservatives strength thousand Chicago both moved the hundred into politics the up on Houston Post. awful in food? are general enthusiasm the the certain of employes, street over means a car Newbride —Yes, indeed; Mrs. I make deal. seemed Traction No Union control. for machine one Mean Insinuation. perfectly cake of articles and my pure the innerworkings delve far into disposed to service The street was very never car maifl, Said the lasts and long.—N. Y. it ever ever so the inner of has and secrets Yerkes’ reign, but during good afraid I’m Sun. situation. darling Jim For several in most That traction days constantly sections my worse grown when Won’t love I old.” me grow Yerkes’ brokers deterioration continued, and this city by the of the Trouble Came. The friend, Said her the hand difficulty in supporting had little while litigation of on every (in the cars Young Borem parlor)—Tommy, “I’d spend not short period companies. The market for the absorbed the big necessary Any time him sister know I does here? on your am well Yerkes of raised by the If he’s already growing cold.” get to out the public of cover. were nopes Tommy—l think She told so. mamma —Cleveland Leader. the but month after It two two-thirds purchase last of a control was or year this morning she had presentiment a traction prices flotation that of the Chicago $18,000,000 of the the of trouble coming.—Tit- that was MUST KEEP GOING. stock began to stocks the exchange S2OO share by City railway stock at on a Bits. public this To the unaccountable; syndicate. Morgan-Field-Armour sag. was the the insiders evidently had begun Always Ist Step That Costs court Most. of the Not decision But the supreme foundai.on realize the untenable securities collecting to funds City railway Hudson for his has depressed was securities. the for the big issue of thrown $10,000,0u0 and nearly voyage. into panic see,” he explained, will in “You “it The 99-year already syndicate statute Morgan-Field a was City Railway discover litigation, 35 less the river for the cost to than to and had been for consternation of years, about to celebrate the tercentenary.”—N. Y, courts franchises and the possibility that the company’s expire are been contention hope has Sun. 99-year might rule adversely the to the and Yerkes served to of and his attorneys blighted. Both Statements. after downward day drive the stocks “Jagsby he drinks than says more a Domingo. flotation, About Santo day. Six the months after Facts day.” gallon of water a T 50 than prices much the not day situation at the more Such is present w ere "Nonsense! He it except never uses had Yerkes of those which cent, at magnificent is It per Santo Domingo. a chaser.” as a Chicago sold his West North Chicago and of the the beauty spots of island, one “Well?” —Cleveland Leader. street railways. climate the finest and has world, ever Chicago from misruled by Everyone who inhabited and is It crosses Needy seen. The One. depot Parmalee which, in spite to another in Frank pupulation, mongrel one a Uncle —I a Disgusted shall leave my bus, baggage abilities, is who sends his and not, virtues of or the and needy. many to poor money Old Gent (who wants packet of in Parmalee will of a transfer be, type fear wagon, I across a and a never Nephew—Heaven bless Nogood you, notepaper)—Do keep stationery? would be interested that you know enough to enough and vigorous to strong said always I uncle; wouldn’t you Shopwalker—No, sir. I should secured Parmalee the ho destinies and advance control its soon as w r man w r —Tit-Bits. own out. leave me if lose job I did. 99-year which of the enactment statute my civilization of its paths of in the own public best, and Lake Street known the elevated railway and the Chronic Compaint. to A are the been important. has He for good, its and initiative. For so was own The Boy’s Idea. Northwestern tneir estimated elevated losses and the elevated out of are: “Doctor, eyes order. are I original in Chicago my street world in general, It of the car man the good Mother —Yes, The in the my days son, downtown loop for another all the time.” double and the days when Lincoln $17,000,000 back in P. J. Morgan & Co controlled by see should stronger be nation. a all the Rome ancient fighting of $5,000,000. Marshall 17,000,000 Field Estate was have been long “How debating reading Douglas slavery you this, and wants that questions were It knows ,J. Ogden 17,000,000 Armour the in done arena. ...... had taken It Yerkes 13 the for company?”—Judge. to mutterings of meters and gas years United States. But it were J. J. Mitchell Syndicate 12,700,000 war be the nation to didn’t —And they The Boy allow Elkrns-Widener his work out well-defined Syndicate 12,700,000 any plan, all of the civil The heard. ghosts—and were superstitious and guns war is sees choir, Attitude. in the Her ma? fighting —Yonkers The based the problematical pyramid of fictitious values in value of on silent when the an not yet the German helmet. was measure always they wear (admiringly)—You’re Statesman. J He not the sort Illinois of the legislature detail is act confusing tangle of bond which well a which served Yerkes framed Magazine. England so —New yourself give girl to of away. construed publicly by and stock issues Yerkes of companies, to ill. was multi-millionaires many other and so Repetition. (insinuatingly)—No; but She 99-year franchise, but but be which you general its structure is simply he a “Uncle Dick” Oglesby Takes Two. It governor was believe —Do Bacon that history you —Tit-Bits. ask father. might probably knew —for he sold this: all his the and he evidently of Illinois, ask her don’t to saw “Why you marry itself? repeats be the holdings! —to extension With $1,500,000 Yerkes mere in bill, but *o 1880 evils in it, for he vetoed the afford surely You you? marry can Egbert—Why, certainly The Answer. I do. And of the to the charter which of company bought North the and the his West side it passed veto. salary.” over was your believe possibly on I that be what is the “How historical worti man can a more franchise. the granted street lines, then horse lines, was told Yerkes loved fight, but things I her, but she to said car car “That’s what do, —Yonker« novels too. Statesmans SIOO,OOO to corporation?’' year any a had inflated the balloon Carefully he and made contract with himself to Chicago Post. getting hot for him in couldn’t.” —Houston too a that she were declining persistently “By to an» “North Chicago Street marked them, with reconstruct profit in great 1898, final in when he began the —Chicago Tribune. swer.” sold his stock the until he Railway” at reconstruction. Many Polite. lines Very Finely Chiseled. balloon blowing There new process. was It quoted the built $256 by Yerkes through share. —Don’t think was on would if I kissed Harry were talk of lynching if —What Miss Deery Near the Top. the aldermen He per you many you say open $32 the other day at companies. Each stock exchange profile of Greek statute? a new made concessions Yerkes, and the Knlcker —Are they climbing company t to you? has the was a ley so« * stocked bonded and for double share. Yerkes I’d be —Yes; it’s particularly than himself don’t impolite Jellers ladder? She —You Miss cial or more once was suppose more “West balloon labeled value. the its He filled cheek.—Chicago you? hia Tribune. threatened. He blacked of do noticeable in the enough to Bocker —Yes; they you, one eye among are Railway Co.” Finally Street until he Yerkes had the North Chicago Chi- prominent business called tbs and —Yonkers Statesman. . almost present.—N. Y. Sun. man Yl •» >£ -