The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-04

merchants on one SIDE, ana the river anu
commission business on the other, and, but
for the Fox, Howard & Co., fill on Com
mercial avenue, the levee would, very like
ly, be the only and principal business street
in the city to-day and everybody would yet
be "climbing the hill" for their every day
wants. But the Fox, Howard & Go. I'LL
was what made Commercial avenue what
1t is TODAY, caused the substantial build.
ings there to be multiplied from two, the
number there were when the filling was
commenced, to the several hundred OF fine
buildings that now line it on either side.
But many years of experience has proven
that the virtues of the Fox, Howard & Co.,
fill have been exhausted and that in order
to attain full development of the COM
mercial Importance OF the avenue, it Is
necessary to put more dirt onto it-fll it
some more.
We must confess that the process OF
reasoning 10y which the Argus and It's en-
ginGer arrived at the conclusion that, to
raise the streets now filled twelve feet high
er, would create more "holes to be recep-
tacles for rain and sipe water to produce
mosquitoes, chills and fever and worse
malarial ievers' than we have with these
same streets at their present grade, is
process that is peculiar to the Argus and
its engineer alone. and is entirely too intri.
cate for our dull understanding Does the
Argus engineer mean to say, that the streets
in the proposed filling district, If filled
enough more to atfori surface drainage
over the tops of the eveos, would obstruct
the surface drainage In the low places any
more than do these same streets now, al
ready filled partly, under direction and
with the advice and approval of himselfl
II so, in what mannerl And does the engn-
eer of the Argus mean to say that all the
ran that would fall on the high grade
streets AMI on the buildings in the raised
district would not find its way, by means
of thesgutters along these high grade,
streets into the river at all stagesi If not,
why noti Does the Argus and its engin
eer know that when the rivers rise above the
mouths of the sewers and above the level
of the bottoms inside the levee aud above
the level of the streets at their present
grade do they not know that then and
then only there is 40 obstruction of surface
drainage in the city, AMI that the rivers at
this stage, and they only, are the cause OF
such obstruc,onl Very little thought, II
seems to US, would show the Argus and its
engineer, that the relative situation as re-
spects surface drainage and high water OBJ
structior would not be changed IN the least
by adding more dirt to the streets as pro
posed And where would be the difference
as respects the accumulation of water be.
lNGtu lllc EklNNlG, AhCu duNl uOh, tANtPA III
favor Of high gradel viii not the rain that
then falls on the streets and houses in high
grade districts run over the levees into the
river at all timesl Does it do this nowl
Is not the quantity Of accumulated water
during high water periods lessened by
Just so much2 That the present system of
sewers will BE- abandoned by the city, the
Argus infers, no doubt, from the fact that
the authorities are at work, increasing and |
enlarging the outlets thereto, as well as eX-
tending the system and connecting 1t with |
places where water sccumuates in the low
places The Argus seems to take the IN
natural and contrary view Of everything in
this high grade discussion.
Yesterday Chief Myers disturbed a
gambling nest that has been breeding sin
for some time. 1t is located in the brick
house, second below the council chamber,
kept by Minaie Vincent and others. 1t
had been carrying on pretty bold bust
ness, until its character was the common
talk upon the streets, though, as usual in
such cases, no one would swear to what he
"knew.' But the chief got the names OF
eight persons, young and old, who had
been habitual patrons Of the institution, and
who had gambIed there, for "big money
as a business. Yesterday the chief arrested
young Vincent and George Evans, charging
them with keeping gambling. house. The
defendants pleaded guilty to the charge
before Magistrate Comngs, and were each
ined ten dollars aud costs, which they paid.
t is not at all likely that this little lesson
viii cause the institution to be closed, or
gambling to be stopped there.
Gambling has fascination which
few men can
resist and especially for the keepers of such
dens who find it a profitable aud lazy bus
mess, and who regard ten dollar fine a
good investment because il gives their in