Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-01-18

investigations AS soon as we can ma
enough material free from corruption
to form committee that can do the i'll !
vestigating without duplicating its own
members. This is n task that would
dismay old Diugenes, who undertook tn
find uuly one honest man; and we
shall probably have to call on the legis-
lature to appoint committee from the
outside. Still we are in no hurry to
begin, as We want to wait until the re-
suits of the New York investigation are
summed up and the total made known
so we snail fully understand what we
have to beat | will say for New York
that, i'm spite of all the corruption re-
Gently revealed, life and property are
fairly safe there, the crooks are known
and do not dare show their faces In
Wall street or the wholesale districts or
they will be arrested on sight; while the
stranger within the gates can at any
hour of the day or night 60 about freely
in any part of the city where business or
the pursuit of legitimate pleasure calls
him, and have no fear as long as he be-
HAYES himself. OF course If he is look
ing for trouble and wants to get into IA
'shndy", he will be gratited; but SO he
would in Middlebury, Burlington or
Rutland.
1t is different here. Murders and muir
derous assaults are of almost daily oc-
. la, hold nr sand
bagged nightly, not IN the dsreputable
parts of the city, but on some of the
principal business and residence streets,
while burglaries are too numerous to
mention. Some day these Chicago
people will rise up and with their char
acteristc energy will wipe out the
entire vicious element, if for no other rea-
son than because il is "A big undertaking
and because some has said they can't dc
1t. At present the city is paradise fol-
thieves and thugs from all the world.
: Speaking of big undertakings, the 81
t people are always hunting around for {
= big undertaking. The Worlds fair Il
l off their hands. The drainage canal il
: well under way. You seldom hear o
the latter and few people know that will
the exception of the Suez canal it is TIN
q most stupendous project of that natur
/ ever undertaken and that many of tn
o engineering obstacles to be surmountet
p exceed any connected with the Sue
- canal. But the trouble with that en-
h terprlse from Chicago standpoint is tina
= it does not belong wholly to Chicago, 81
V they cast a glance around for something
o else, as the few millions to be put int
t new libraries, industrial institutes an
f things Of that nature don't count. The
have found something, and as soon a
- the immensely of the plan is fully al
. preciated they will be deliriously happy
The courts have recently decided tha
- the land under water extending thir
. Of mile from the present shore and
long distance north and south belong
h, to the city. The decision of the coul
was hardly recorded before plan wa
:, on foot to fill in all the lake thus AZ
quire1. and on the land so created la
j.. out public park and adorn it with a
:. future library and art buildings, tOgetht
:, with reproduction of the best of II
W., Worlds fair building. Plans have a
- ready been drawn and the project wi
II undoubtedly be carried out, for it al
80 peals to the Chicagoans in way not
-, be resisted.