, 1873-06-08
NUMBER 293.
had conveyed in letter tc Mayor Cady, OF HYDE
Park. The letter WAS read, Is follows:

oOAAu @l4C48U W kuo 1DFR11ul&uk WIZ Gull
mouth OF tho 1i7sr Vas entirely closed up, tbs 1var
being separated from tho Lake by sand spit about co
feet w1de- The Improvement consisted In cutting
channel from the river to the lake, and the conatuc
aon Of piers to prevent tho channel from filling up
only cause tending fill up the channel tha lake
tton and this can only Be couneraced BY protection
rasss which s1tend ont to the deep waer Of the a5o
waves In 1870 Congress appropriated $4,000
46 {46 ~ s6is a ~ 3sa n in 1s n 1877
Tho original estimate vas 100000 There has becn
expended up to date shout $130o00 leaving about
$50 600 to be expended the present scason Two thou
end feet OF pier haFe been built the north side,
and 900 On the south side Of the channel The chan
mel is 800 feet wide between the pies aud eleven
son deepen the channel and extend The piers = ar Is
the means Eiu permit The expenditure Of tho whos
amount estimated wt make this harbof equal to any
River-And the lakes and streams connecting With it,
to vessels navigating Lake Michigan, 80 that, at
en- b improved and made asaishle to
and manufacturing establishments tn tue Vi
harbor Of refuge for vessels which may ba driven south
Of Chicago Harbor, and might otherwise be driven
measure, to the fscnae. extended By the caansct !:
Chicago Canal and Dock Company, who own the ad-
}sceas Rr9Rsry and are engaged n its Development
Major Of EngineerH Brcret Col. q. s.A
Mr. C. H. CADY,
Mayor OF Hyde Park, said the opening Of har-
Dor like that was OF vast importance and in the
name Of Hydn Park no welcomed al there who
iudoteed the action Of the Government in aiding
and fastening the work. The value, as hatbor
: Of refuge, OF Calumet Was more to Chicago than
it's total estimated cost. Nature had made that
for 4 manufacturing centre, and they we're there
to Boleulnize 3 marriage between commerce
and manufacturers The remainder OF the Mayors
speech WRs brilliant with metaphors, referento
being made to Romulus, ancient Rome, and
other once popular persons aud places.
said that through the kindness OF their
teemed friend and enterprising feliow-citizea,
Col James r. Bowen, they we're present to in
augu1ate that harbor. It was new thing for
bea bor but - Dhs thy I lived, and forever after,
Lake Michigan would sound the praises Of that
day. [Applause-] Three years ago Congress-
made the first appropriation to improve the har-
bor, aud ut an expense OF only $3.50. .000, the
feet vide and Il feet deep: opening way for
the Calumet River to the lake. Thirty-one
years ago he had landed in Chicago, and he had
since seen wonderful events, but ho e1-
pected to see even more wonderful things
zee, in the next thirty years, a town at Calumet
as large ss the present Chicago IApplausel
From Evanston. his own town, to Calumet, hc
expected to see population OF 1000, 900 souls,
and the harboR before them connected With
pected to see St: Louis steamboats,
floating in that South Chicago harbor likewise.
STEAMBOATS, from st. Paul aud other points. He
believed the whole people Of illinois wore in
1x-aov. sAUxDEEs,
Of Nebraska, was delighted with all he had seen
in Chicago. They might regard him as . border
rnfaan {lanshteE{, because be had lived o. tue
NTH Vthc@ Chicago. He had boon to the
ball the night before, and vas satisfied from
that aud what he c@w elsewhere that Chicago
wae 7el-regulated family Bat, t. Tas not
mighty, who n1ad61 the lake aud the country
which supplied Chicago with prosperity. Eo
WAS from Nebraska. and that was part OF tho
Northwest, which WAS proud Of Chicago.
Of Minnesota, referred gently to divorces, and
expressed his fear OF the faciity with whica
those matrimonial 1cloases Wero granted in tie
city. The audience saw the joke, and laughed.
He told nice little Minnesota story, which
round there, but had no doubt it would come IN
due time Greatness waa tho destiny OF Chicago
It was simply inevitable, when God Almighty
scattered from his hands the waters that made
up these lakea and fashioned the why's OF COM
merce, he meant business. loud laughter.J
SENATOR odLEsDY
remarked TINT they were there to dedicate that
rising town to manufactures, and that harbor to
commerce. It WAS due in 4 large measure 70
the generous aid given BY Government: S The
looked everywhere to do good, and the goner
tho confidence Of intelligent voters u'i-
locked that harbor to the civilization OF
the world. Twenty, years hence they would be
land now, when they could get it for $4,000 60
acre, and which would then bs worth 31o0, ,00o
an acre: In 1868, Chauncey Bowen implo-ed
him to bny so acres of land in that vicinity at
$500 an acre, and he wouldn't do it. Tint had
should 60 in and invest. lady
said the stream WAS too narrow
to be navignted by Kansas mosquito, but it
vas as wide as Chicago River thirty~hve years
sgG 1hey dad ts hester 1Tss he would aaS4 nGs De
OF thousands Of people would rejoice in tho en-
erey Of the capitalists who developed that OBJ
scnre and uninviting region, Let them hare
commerce and manufactures like old mother
England and New England. whose hi!'a ~
sound OF the anvil and the loom. Illinois would
be her competitor, and the com petitor Of Mother
England. God had given them soil that would
not wear ont in thousand years, and what God
article, Illinois and Chicago impudence. Loud
laughter.1 They surpassed the world in
t1at as in everything else. Loox
at Chicago. How many Of then
remembered the year OF tho CREST conhag gratlon,
it's ruins now o1aced by the energy Of the peo.
pie. The country Was looking at Chicago and
the Intelligent farmera Of Illinois we're watching
them. The political creed to-day was to buy ~
cheap and sell as dear as theycould. No merchants
understood that better thnn Chicago mcr-
chants. He.Wonld rather entor into competition
with Satan himself than with q keen Chicago
merchant or banker. After apostrophizlng tie
banner Of tho country and the Union, the Sen
ate retired amid hearty applause.
COZ. JAMES H. BOWEN
said he could take one OF the steamers twelve
miles up that river. As WAS eaid, God h.:1
given them great advantages to be used, and ra
bad tried to utilize them for the benefit Of tna
human family. He thanked them for beina
there, and hoped they would como again Ser5
often [Applauae]-
Senator Logan WAS called Tor, but the train4
were preparing to go, and the Senator's eloquent
remarks will have to be delivered On more oi'"
perfume occasion.
The trims moved OF, and the boats did the
came, amid the fa1cwells Of the Calumettans q,
the bank The return trip was swl:t
and pleasant Nothing happened &c
make wives widows or children fatherless.
There wss = fine opportunity, however,
The engineer Of ono boat bet = hist with the Cap
tain OF another that he would beat him fifteen
minutes to Chicago It Was quite exciting
That bat was to be lost and won. It did nc,
II. .nJ, hat