Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1914 — Now ’Gene Wants to Build the Chicago Subway. [ARTICLE]

Now ’Gene Wants to Build the Chicago Subway.

v Shades of General Jackson! ’Gene Purtelle now wants to build a subway for Chicago, according to yesterday’s Inter Ocean, and Mayor Harrison says, “It soynds like a real proposition to me. I understand Mr. Purtelle represents French capital. He has been in Chicago for several months making a detailed study of the situation.” Mayor Harrison or any other Chicagoan who thinks Purtelle is the “real goods” should look up his history a little, and they will find the only capital he represents or even did represent, apparently, is unlimited gall that would put a whole herd of government mules to shame.