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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30
UNWARRANTED INSULT 10 THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The impudent and utterly uncallcd
for slap ut the fire department recently
taken by the Fire Underwriters As.
ISOLATION will be resented by every
honest and unbiased citizen Of Chicago
That this or any other body should try
TO cast reflections upon department
that IL and has been the pride OF Chi.
cago for years Mt a time when Its mem.
bers We're yielding up their lives like
heroes In the discharge Of their duty Is
something that one can hardly be.
lieve as the act Of sane men. No doubt
insurance companies have suffered
heavily by the recent fires In the War
rem Springer building and the Wooden
Exchange. but that fact should not
operate to cause the Board Of Under
writers to make dOnkeys Of themselves.
No city in the United States, or. in
deed, in the world has a drawer or
more efficient fire department than Chi.
cago. DennisJ. Swenie IL recognized the
world over as the king Of fire fighters.
He has never spared himself. Night or
day. whenever the occasion has come,
he has ever been found at the post Of
duty.
At No time In Its history has the Chi
cago fire department given better proof
OF its excellence and never has Its
worthy and gallant chief shOne ont
more conspicuOusly In the discharge
Of onerOus duty than In the two bly,
fires Of last week, and now, as always
the thanks and confidence of the people
OF Chicago 60 out to its grand fire de-
partment and Its peerless chief.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

much surprise was expressed when 1t
was found no petition had been turned
In for Jackson street. as that Is the
thoroughfare on which the strongest
fight against the proposed enterprise Is
supposed to he made.
The Polk street petition contained 100
signatures. the Congress street petit
ton "a names. while that of sacramento
avenue bore only three. At the same
strong and voluminous remonstrance
from the Polk. Congress and Loomis
street Protective Association was also
put in and referred t. the Commissioner
NJ Public Works. Accompanying this
rcruoustraucc was letter from y. w.
Montgomery. president VI the associa.
ton. saying In substance that while
the petition might show a majority of
frontage in Folk street. between Sacra-
mento avenue and leavitt street. since
the signatures were secured this ma
jority had been reduced to 1000 feet
less than a majority by the revocation
of 1.3iO feet by Ambrose rlamandon.
The ordinance did not come up at all.
nor was IL mentioned in last nights
meeting of the Council. When the
Committee on Streets and Alleys West
took it up Aid. Cooke presented a sub
stitute for the original document. set
ting forth In extensive and more minute
detail Just what the company shall do
in the building. equipment and main
~
the proposed route.
There was present a large delegatio
of West Side property-owners. headed
by John A. Montgomery and Col. l.. IL.
Whitney. to protest against the ordi.
nance. "The question" Mr.. MontgOm-
cry contended. 'simply resolves itself
to this: The whole thing rests on our
ability TO prove to this committee of
| the council that a big majority OPP
poses the road, and get that proof be.
fore you"
George 8. Willis. one Of the chief
promoters of the road, was present,
and watched the proceedings with a
good deal Of anxiety. but had nothing
| to say. Aid. Cooke did all the talking
In favor Of the enterprise.
The fact the ordinance was recon-
mended to the Council for passage
without the committee knowing wheth-
err or not the company hid secured SUI.
iclent property frontage to entitle 1t to
franchise occasioned considerable
comment but the alderman took the
ground that It was not necessary, as
| this information would have to he fur
nished to the Council anyway before
the ordinance could pass and become a
law.
Mayor Swift and Commissioner Kent
said subsequently It was an unusual
| thing for a committee Of the Council
| to recommend an ordinance for a street
railway without first being Informed
as to whether the company had secured
the necessary frontage.
Mr.. Willis declined to talk further
than to deny his enterprise Is backed
by any other than few Chicago, New
York and Baltimore capitalists, who
think they see In 1t an opportunity to
make some money and propose to op-
crate the road themselves.
Col. NJ. II. Alberger yesterday admit.
ted his connection with the General
Electric scheme. His relation he states
will be that Of contractor for the con.
struction, although he says he has had
considerable to do with the floating of
the enterprise. mfr. Yerkes has abso.
lutely nothing to do with It," said he.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

avenue. where the tunnel will end.
The shaft In Carroll avenue II ten
feet square and will be timbered until
the blue clay II reached. when the
brick work will begin. As the sinking
proceeds downward this construction
will be- un,lerp.nned until the bottom II
reached. When the tunnel In cOniplet.
ed u cup will liz placed over the shaft
ten feet below the surface ana covered
with earth.
The dirt ana rock taken from the
shaft ami tunnel will be hOisted to the
surface In buckets and by an automatic
dumping apparatus loaded into wagons
that will convey the material to the
Lake Front Park, where 1t will be used
In filling. Tracks with switches at
points 100 feet apart will be laid ON the
floor Of the tunnel, and dozen don
keys. known among miners AZ "jen-
Mes" viii be used to haul carts Of dirt
TO the foot Of the shaft. Nearly 10000
600 brick will he used In the cOnstruc-
ton OF the tunnel. Huge air compress.
Ors win be provided to force air to the
wOrkmen. pipe lines will remove the
water ana electricity will render the
tunnel light Us day. Beside Contractor
Duffy will provide every other cOnven-
fence for his men, who will be worked
In three shifts Of eight hours each.
Specifications for that section Of tho
tunnel let to Contractor Duffy pro.
vldes for an elght.fOOt bore.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30
THE REPUBLICAN, FAOTION rom.

The Republicans on Tuesday evening
fought 1t out among each other for
the control of the ward organizations I'm
every section of the city.
The result has proven two things,
namely. that there are still two factions
In the Republican party. and that the
old county machine Is still In control.
In only four or five wards was there
any opposition offered to the county
men. but I'm these the fight was hot and
fierce.
Henry Wulff saved himself from pO.
litical extinction In the Twenty.sev-
enth. but there Is n question as to
whether he can keep his head above
water. There Is a contest on foot there
and It has to be decided by the Coun.
ty Central Committee, which Is now en-.
tircly In the control of Mr.. Wulff's bit.
terest enemies. 1t will not he to the
benefit of the Republican party to force
Henry Wulff out of 1t, for he has on
more than one occasion pulled weak
tickets through with him on account of
his personal popularity.
IHVyu SSulilIi, tue cTStNuuS CHtbIiuuu
Of the central committee, has been
turned down In the Twenty-fifth
ward, and sheriff Pease Il once more
In the saddle there.
In the retirement Of Mr.. Smith the
party also loses a strong adherent. In
some Of the wards the fight mas been so
bitter that there will be contests he
fore the central committee, and no
matter how they may be decided they
are bound to leave ranking wounds
behind them. These fights and SQUAD
bles, though indicative ut first OF q
healthy condition Of natural rivalry In
a victorious party. are bound ultimate.
" to SOW the seeds Of dissensiOn and
defeat.
The wounds now being made. no mat.
ter how powerful the organization that
makes them, are bound In the days to
come to result In party injury II not
party dissolution.
with the Democrats It IL only a ques.
tiOn Of how long they can walt.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

at the primary elections deserve Inn
measurable denunciation: they were
worse In character than any similar
previous occurrences In this city To
their shame. he II said that the party
managers and committees have left the
task of prosecuting the offenders to pri.
vate enterprise. Practical politics. as
office seeking and holding are cuphe-
mistically called. rules every condition
of public service. and us the term of
office Is short and precarious public
business Is transacted in make-shift
or slovcnly manner. There Is a lack of
continuity. so to speak. our best men
shun the nomination for local offices.
which are thus filled up with profess.
sional politicians. The civil service
law If properly executed will have a
tendency to do away with this reluc-
lance for public service. as the candi-
date will he relieved of the dread of
having to satisfy the demands of party
managers and henclmcn of all grades
for patronage and employment"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

won't go In for strict partisan admin
istration of the district.
1t Is pointed out as evidence of the
Inconsistency of Mr.. Eckharts stand
that he does not carry his nonpartisan-
ship ideas into the craftsmanship ques-
ton. Upon that point he Is a straight
out party man. Frank Wenter gave an
honest and capable administration of
the office of chairman of the Drainage
Board. and IL on the question either
of non-partisanship, civil service or the
interests of the public or the enterprise
anybody should be retained In office.
then surely Frank Wenter should re.
main president.
But everything depends In all discus
sions of this kind upon whose OK IL
gored.
So long as 1t Is some other fellows
job Is under consideration 1t Is all very
well to be generous and nOn-partisan,
but when 1t comes down to ones own
affairs. why. that Is a different ques-
ton entirely.
1t certainly does seem an awkward
question for Mr.. Eckhart to answer:
Why Is It that the only job that he is
not only willing but anxious to deal
with from a strictly partisan point
of view Is that of president of the
board! Why II It that while he in
sists that merit shall be recognized in
the retention of the treasurer and the
clerk he cannot see any reason why
honest. able and fearless Frank Wen
ter should remain president of the
board?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

finished residents of the West and
Northwest Sides Of Chicago will bc fur.
nished with the purest of pure waters
provided by Lake Michigan at u point
three miles from shore.
The surface Of the street where the
shaft was started Saturday afternoon IL
twelve and One.half feet above the high
level Of the lake. Diamond drill Dor.
lngs In that district show the strata III
earth to bc composed Of sand. blue clay.
and hard pan for u distance OF ninety
feet, where solid rock Is encountered. AZ
the shaft II to be only 100 feet deep. It
will he but short time when the blnst-
Ing Of the bore for the northeast and
southwest sections Of the tunnel will
begin.
Foreman william Ennis. who II the
most expert tunnel builder In Chicago.
says In his opinion the entire base Of
the tunnel will have to be blasted
through solid rock, which will render
the new waterway even better than
those already constructed for Chicago's
water drinking citizens.
In two weeks the location for the
sinking OF another shaft will he fixed
upon by city officials near the intersec-
ton Of Madison street ana Seelcy ave.
nue., while third point for the same
purpose will be located ut Green and
Indiana streets. From each OF the three
shafts the work Of boring the tunnel
will he carried on In both directions. eX.
cepting Mt Madison street and Seeley
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30
REPUBLICAN DISSATISFACTION.

The action of certain Of the Republi-
can members Of the Drainage Board
has brought bitter disappointment to
the leaders of the Cook County ma
chine. Martin b. Madden, DOC Jam
ieson. Congressman Lorimer and the
other Warwicks of the local organiza-
ton are bitterly regretting having ever
had anything to do with Il. A. Eek
hart. They are piling maledictions
upon themselves for allowing the daily
newspapers to dictate to them his re-
nomination.
The reason for all this lies in the fact
that Mr.. Eckhart has refused to follow
the dictatlon of the party leaders and
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

1t Ii time that special course In the
science and art of docking men of war
should be established In the United
States naval academy or else that some
new form of construction Of this new
navy Of ours which has moved SO many
pens and pencils to flights of poetic and
pictorial achievement should be adopt.
ed. A few months ago We turned out
Of our shipyards what was enthusias.
tically heralded as the fastest cruiser
afioat. In our pride we sent her abroad
to show her In friendly guise to the
Britons-this was before the days Of
Dunraven and his little International
episode. The Columbia had been af0at
only few weeks when 1t became nee
essary to put her In dry dock. A war
ship has to be locked about as often
as q racing yacht and repaired about as
frequently and at greater cost. Any
one who follows with any degree Of
care the career of q modern ship Of
war from the time 1t Is put In commits.
sion will note that the two duties upon
which 1t Is most persistently engaged
are getting Its bottom scraped and GO
ing into dock for repairs. Somebody
once said that It was more difficult to
keep small sailing yacht than mis-.
tress. To keep man of war afiOat
seems to be task involving more per.
plexity and diplomacy than the right.
eOus Solomon must have exerted with
his whole thousand wives. No sooner
did the Columbia come out of the Brit.
ish dry dock than 1t was discovered
that all sorts Of things unintelliglble
to a landsman had happened to her
hull. There were dents In her plates
and her frames had buckled. Her
seams had opened and In general she
was reported to be In state of mel.
ancholy maritime collapse. Her com.
mander was concentrated for his
share In the docking and wept profuse'
ly on the stand while giving his testi'
mony. What has happened him after
his touching display of lachrymOse
emotion has not been reported. Per
chance he. too. is to be taken from the
tossing pillows and put into dry dock
But his downfall and punishment
whatever the latter may have been
seemed to have exerted no deterrent
effect upon his comrades In the service
nor do they appear to have learned any
more concerning the mysteries Of dock
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30
VINO IS oEHiND THE CHiCA0O
CENTRAL?

Who Is behind the Chicago Central
Railway Company? This 10 the ques.
ton everybody asked yesterday, says
Tuesdays Tribune. 1t was not an.
swered. Some said Yerkes, other the
Northern Pacific, few thought Bran
denburg's project, and there was some
talk that McGann might get the fran
chise II IL was ever granted.
That the franchise will be granted Is
predicted by good many. The COun-
Gil Committee on Streets and Alleys
West had the ordinance up yesterday
afternoon and recommended 1t for pass
age. This was done, too, before any OF
the petitions Of property-Owners sign
ing frontage consents had even been
turned in to the City Clerk. Aid. John
A. Cooke fathered the measure and
pushed 1t through. He seemed anxious,
TOO, that 1t should be recommended
with as little consideration as possible.
Aid. Campbell made an attempt to
have it deferred until the Commission
er of Public Works could get chance
10 verify the frontage and report to the
committee Aid. Cooke stated, however,
1t was not necessary to wait for a
verification, and promised the Commits
sioner would be ready to make his re-
port to the Council next Monday night.
Aid. Campbell's motion to defer was
defeated by a vote Of @ to 4. Those
voting In the affirmative were Aid.
Campbell, StanwoOd,, Schermann, and
Mahoney. Those voting in the negative
were Aid. Cooke, Bidwill, Engel. Lam
mers, Revere, and Bennett. Then Aid.
Cooke renewed his motion and 1t was
passed by vote of to 3. Aid. Stan
wood this time voted In the affirmative,
while Aid. Campbell, Schermann, and
Mahoney voted In the negative.
Along between and @ o'clock In the
evening the representatives OF the
company carried three petitions into
City Clerk Van Cleave's Office and left
them with him. They were introduced
in the Council last night They purport
10 represent majority Of the property
frontage in Polk street, Congress street,
and Sacramento avenue. There seemed
to be a good deal Of doubt about the
eenuineness of these petitions and
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30
LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS.

In Ills annual report, just puDilsneu,
President Melville +. Stone, Of the Cit
liens Association, says:
"The recent developments with re-
gard to the management Of certain
county institutions have shocked the
moral sense of the community In
greater degree than similar but more
important and fragrant events did In
1885. 1t Is shown that periodical In.
vestigatiOns of administrative abuses
are transient II not altogether impO.
tent In their results. Transactions
within the council relative to franchises
have been held up to public view with
allegations of corruption which lacked
no circumstantiallty except positive
proof, but there seems to be no way OF
preventing the evil practices believed
to be connected with their passage.
The mayOral veto Is overridden In all
important cases. Many, II not most,
Of these ordinances are beneficial In
their provisions, but the malfeasance
lies in the fact that the money used for
their passage does not go into the pub.
lie treasury. SO marked has the cor.
ruption become that there are alder
men who will not vote In favor OF any
ordinance granting a franchise, no mat.
ter how beneficial in it's aspect, because
they feel that there IL certainty that
It IL tainted from some source or at
some stage Of its passage. Denuncia.
ton through the press has been more
marked In cases where the proposed
measure has trenched upon the exist
ing rights or business Of already es'
tablished corporations. This state OF
affairs has been Of gradual but persist.
emit growth. Perhaps the increased
number of members in the Council has
had something to do with 1t. When
there were but thirty-six members IN
that body such occurrences We're infre
auent or more easily prevented. Can
didates are not SO closely scrutinizeo
as to character and antecedents, and
the facilities for getting men into thu
Council for the purpose OF advancing
special interests or schemes are conse
auently greater than at that time.
"Our present administrative system
Is, We believe, responsible for much o.
the evils which are so constantly th'
subject of complaint. We have to'
much government. The city, county
school board, towns and parks all have
separate Jurisdiction, and their owl
officers and treasures. They form sep
arate cliques for perpetuation of thei
own existence and that Of the who'll
absurdity. There should be concen
tration and unifcatiOn. There SHOULD
| be but one government embracing tn
city and county with the schools ant
parks. Town governments should b.
abolished. This system would I'm
doubleday produce economy, but II no
1t would enable us to have better con
troll of local legislation and finance. Blu
1t can only be brought about by a rad
ical change under constitutional an
thority. The amended election laws
beginning with that of 1855, and includ
ing the Australian ballot law, have no
produced the desired effect on public
affairs. Machine methods In polite
are as powerful as ever--more so. Tn
recent exhibitions Of violence and frau'
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

Forestry Commissioner Rothrock. Of
Pennsylvania, recently expressed him
self interestingly on the much mooted
question of whether deforestation has
been the cause of any diminutiOn of the
annual rainfall. He says that II forests
have had any influence on the rainfall
In Pennsylvania 1t has never yet been
conclusively proved. The facts within
the range of his observation seem to in
dictate that forests do not increase
rainfall to any great extent II at all,
Notwithstanding statistics to the con-
trary from European sources. 1t does
not follow from this that Commissioner
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

ing. Only few weeks ago with much
blarinR of brass and changing of Gym.
balls we announced to the world that
the United States, which had long lag.
ged superfuOus on the naval stage, had
launched the most powerful battleship
ahoat. The world aud our people, who
incidentally paid some $5OOO,OOO for
this irOn-bOund craft, were assured that
none Of John Bulls floating arsenals
might longer hope to sail up the Mar.
rows and put New York under cOntribu.
ton. The weight Of the armOr of the
Texas. the power of her armament, her
marvellous coal capacity and her super.
lative speed were all commented upon
learnedly by the press of the nation.
But the Texas, too, has succumbed to
her commander, aided by the sinister
devices of the dry dock. She, too,
though only eight or ten weeks out OF
the navy yard, had to be dOcked, and
her frames are buckled and her bot
tom denied and all the other things
horrible and mysterious which can be-
fall a man of war have happened to her.
Plates will have to be taken out, frames
reinserted, the ship put out Of service
for two or three months and some hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars expend-
ed upon her before the foul work Of the
treacherous dock can be remedled. Per
haps, however, 1t Is not just to criticise
the commanders of these vessels for the
disasters that have befallen them. Con-
sidering the very considerable time
which all men Of war spend In the dry
dock, the mistake Of our naval archi-
tects has doubtless been In planning
these vessels with view to any service
aflOat.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-11-30

ROthrOck Ii against the policy Of pre-.
serving the forests. On the contrary
he says he would be glad II It could be
shown that the multiplication of trees
ana the growth Of forests would In.
crease the annual rainfall. He believes
that the forests serve as reservoirs for
the storage of water, and thus prOl0ng
the water supply for the creeks and riv-
ers into the summer months. Snow
melts more slowly In the woods than
In the openings. and this 10 one cause
of the prolongation Of the water supply
In wooded sections. Besides, the mat.
ted leaves and soft mold with which
forests are carpeted act as vast
sponge which retains the moisture and
permits 1t to run away only gradually.
When forests are removed the snow
Ii no longer shielded, and the leaves
and mold are also exposed to the evap.
Orative influence Of the SUMS heat. Tho
supplies Of the creeks and rivers are
thus shortened. The streams are eth
or running banks full or sluggishly
flowing through the lowest depths of
their channels. In the West and North.
west streams and lakes are drying up
because Of the breaking of the soil for
farming purposes. The sod formerly
shed the water into the .h0llows and
produced lakes and creeks. Now the
moisture is absorbed by the earth where
1t falls, and the water courses dwlndle
In consequence. This change Ia another
logical sequence of the removal of the
earth's natural covering by the advanc.
ing agriculturist. The preservation Of
water courses at the expense of agri.
culture is not to be thought of, but 1t
would certainly be wise to preserve and
cultivate forests for the purpose Of hus-
banding the precipitation Of the winter
and spring months into the hot and dry
summer months.
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NOTICE..

The Eagle can be ordered Mt Chas.
Macdonald & Co.'S literary emporium
and book store. IS Washington street.
L. II. Jackson's wholesale ana retail
cigar store. 1O5 Washington street, and
ut all first-class news stands through.
cut the West.
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HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.

The success of the trip Of the Chicago
troops and Of the Illinois party to the
South was largely due to the painstak-
ing efforts, ceaseless vigilance and tire
less work of Adjutant General Oren-
dOrff and his popular Assistant Adju-
tant General, Colonel Hugh t. Bayle.