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

mercial avenue, the levee would, very like
Iy, 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 g. Co. fiji
was what made Commercial avenue what
It 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
bulldogs 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'll it
some more.
We must confess that the process Of
reasoning by which the Argus and its en-
| gineer arrived at the conclusion that, to
raise the streets now filed twelve feet high
! or, would create more "holes to be reCep
tacIes for rain and sipe water to produce
mosquitoes, chils aud fever and worse
malarial feversN than we have with these
same streets at their present grade, Is
process that is peculiar to the Argus ana
its engineer alone, and is entirely too nlFl-
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 afford surface drainage
over the tops of the levees, would obstruGt
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 HIMSELF
Ii so, in what manner? And does the engin-
Ger of the Argus mean to say that all the
rian that would fall on the high grade
streets and on the buildings in the raised
district would not find its way, by means
of theagutters along these high grade,
streets into the river at all stagesi II not,
why notl Does the Argus and its engln-
eer know that when the rivers rise above the
mouths of the sewers and above the level
of the bottoms inside the levee and above
the level of the streets at their present
grade do they not know that then and
then only there is an obstruction of surface
drainage in the city, and that the rivers at
this stage, and they only, are the cause OF
such obstruc.ionl Very little thought, it
seems to us, would show the Argus and its
engineer, that the relative situation as re-
spects surface drainage and high water OBJ
stfuctior 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.
tween the streets, then and now, except in
favor Of high graded will not the rain that
then falls on the streets and houses in high
grade districts run over the levees into the
river at all times2 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
enlargng the outlets thereto, as we'll as ex-
tending the system and connecting 1t with
places where water accumulates in the low
places. The Argus seems to take the un-
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 Minnie 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 habtual patrons of the institution, and
who had gambed there, for "big, money,
as 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 Comings, and were each
fined ten dollars and costs, which they paid,
1t is not at all likely that this little lesson
will cause the institution to be closed, or
gambling to be stopped there.
Gambling has fascination which
comparatively few men can
resist and especially for the keepers Of UGH
dens, who find it profitable and lazy bus
mess, and who regard ten dollar fine a
good Investment because it gives their in
sltution about as much advertising a. a
man engaged in a Legitimate business
would get for five times that sum But the