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Show CHEAPER LIGHT WANTED. City of Chicago Prepared to Enter the Field. ' ' I ChieaRO. Nov. 24. Mayor Harrison to- day declared that the city would enter I the electric liphtinR Held at once in com-I com-I petition' with the gas trust and the Chi I cago Jidisnu and its subsidiary companies. com-panies. The mayor believes that he has I found a solution for the problem of regulating; regu-lating; and reducing the prices of lignt to the householders of Chicago. The attempt at-tempt to enter' the field by selling to corporation? and private individuals current cur-rent made in the municipal plant will, it is expected, result in an appeal to the courts I"1 the big lighting corporations. This, Mayor Harrison declares, is what the city would invite, as ft will determine its right to deal in public necessities. "It is just as well to meet this matter at once." said Mayor Harrison. "The earlier we enter the field the sooner we will be prepared to take advantage of the development of the power at the mouth of the great drainage canal connecting con-necting the waters of Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river." |