. The street railway review . completedand perfected, Mr. Yerkes still sought new fields to conquer, andturned his attention to the elevated roads. His fight for the ele-vated loop, which has given the residents of Chicago the finestservice of the kind in the world, is unique in transportation these achievements are all the more remarkable when it is re-membered that there is prol)al)ly not a man in Chicago who hasbeen so much maligiicil and opposeil liy llic press and hindered in his work by political schemers as Mr. Vcrkcs. Hardly one of hisprojects for the iniprovemcnt of the str
. The street railway review . completedand perfected, Mr. Yerkes still sought new fields to conquer, andturned his attention to the elevated roads. His fight for the ele-vated loop, which has given the residents of Chicago the finestservice of the kind in the world, is unique in transportation these achievements are all the more remarkable when it is re-membered that there is prol)al)ly not a man in Chicago who hasbeen so much maligiicil and opposeil liy llic press and hindered in his work by political schemers as Mr. Vcrkcs. Hardly one of hisprojects for the iniprovemcnt of the street railway facilities of thecity has been allowed to go through without a storm of protest frompress and puldic. Yet through all this Mr. Yerkes has maintaineda dignified and unshaken position, quietly carrying his plansthrough, in spite of obstacles, and he now has the satisfaction ofkiifiwing that Chicago is beginning to realize what he has done forthe city. Charles !• .Marlow. secretary and treasurer of the Chicago Con-. L. S. OWSLEV,Vice-President. t. 1. . and Treafiurcr. solidated Traction Co. and treasurer of the Suburban Kailroail Co.,was born in Philadelphia Jan. 15, 1864. In September. i8q6, hecame to Chicago, becoming associated upon his arrival with theSiemcns-Halske Electric Co. as assistant secretary and December. 1898. he resigned to become auditor of the Yerkessystem of surface and elevated lines, taking his present positionwith the Consolidated in February last when the consolidation of thevarious companies was effected. Prior to coming to this city had been for a number of years in the freight claim de-partment of the Pennsylvania system at Philadelphia. In July to the resignation of Mr. L. S. Owsley as treasurer of theSuburban Railroad he succeeded that gentleman. Chicago General Railway Co. The Chicago General Railway was incorporated Oct. 21,1893. under the general railroad law of Illinois and so
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