Chicago Consolidated Traction Company

Chicago Consolidated Traction Company Soundex Code C220

Charles Tyson Yerkes, Jr. had an unlimited faith in his own power of achievement, in the credulity of the investing public, and in the dishonesty of public officials. It could almost be said that results justified his faith. His executive force was great. The successive organizations of the lines of railway lying adjacent to the business district into the West Chicago Street Railroad Company and the North Chicago Street Railroad Company and subsequently the Chicago Union Traction Company and the organization of the more remote lines into the Chicago Consolidated Traction Company, with the changes in physical construction incident thereto, were in their way distinct improvements in the transportation of the public and were in fact the first practical steps toward a possible greater unification embracing the service of the entire city.