, 1880-02-26

! I'D anu EI1CIOdI11Cu OQt1A Oy t41C
raj Railroad.
ter of the city,-the possibility of large con-
fiagration in the lumber district, which, nm
der auspices similar to those of October, ISL.
might again reduce the greater portion OF the
city to ashes.
1t will not, however, BE- practicable to do
much with the outer harbor, say the Goyern,-
nlent Engineers, until another north and
south breakwater, parallel with the present
one, has been constructed. At present, when
dash over the breakwater with such violence
that it would be impossible for vessels am
chored inside to unload Or load, and i'll case
of very severe storm they might be exposed
to much danger. Still another breakwater-
and a costly one ut that-will be needed be-
fore the outer larbor can be fully utilized.
The heavy dotted lines on the map indicate
the property rights originally granted to the
Illinois Central Railroad by the ordinances
of 1889 and 1856 It will be seen, however,
that the Company has largely
GONE BEYOND THE LIMITS
thus defined, and has extended its. territory
even unto where the water-line is Indicated.
This ABSORPTION covers at rough estimate
somewhere i'll the vicinity Of twenty acres,
and is of immense value. The great bulk of
this, If not almost all Of it, has been taken
psons OF & e hs fSePaay B Hs e @
The Subsequent repeal OF this act the Com
pany saws. cannot affect its riDarian rights.
It maintains that it is wellestablished
principle in law that the land under
owner has any claim by virtue Of
lis land abutting OH the water's edge, be-
longs to the State and not to the Federal
Government, with the limitation, however,
that nothing shall be done to It to interfere
pany received its charter it was empowered
to enter upon and take possession OF any
State property on the line of it's road to All
extent of 200 feet i'll width for any distance
t. outeq barbor s We're bv act of
tile Legislature included within the city linz
its to q distance Of one mile from the shore
line, but the municipal jurisdiction thus corr
ferred was of purely police character.
water in front OF the Lake Park, which at
that time consisted Of a strip vary
ing in width from six to twenty feet
from the east line of Michigan avenue, as
then sidewaIked with pine plank, was grant
given to the Railroad Company as a quid pro
quo for the latter's erecting a brcakwater in
front of it's right Of way from the north line
of Randolph street to the city limits, on the
Squn S Side Ths was to M the shore
the waves, which lad in Wears previous
washed away large sections OF the bank and
seriously ;e,s endangered the existence OF Mich
le.lh a'elue; Z.
into the common law, say the counsel for the
Illinois Central Road, the riparian right con-
slsts SIMPLY IN the natural accretion to the
shore-llne. 1t lt1requently happens that there
lsa yearly abrasion OF the shore BY the action
OF tue wind and water, and what is taken off
II one place. finds lodging elsewhere.
Hence the civil Law, regarded the nat
ural accretlon simply as recompense
Tor the natural abrasion, and that the one
would about equal the other. In the case Of
abutting thereon has an undoubtcd right to
all the, benefits that may be derived there
from, ne can exercise these rights only. so
long as lie does not Interfere with navigation
and tile public veal. The Company does not,