Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-11-08
The Drainage Canal.

detectives mp near Chicago to SIT on
the banl. and see the garbage 20 by.
It is said TO be sight worth witness
ing to see the Chicago river, which
has for years been Of the consistency
Of tar, and smelling like pacing
house, where it was necessary to split
it off in chunks like asphalt in order
to PRIV a boat through it, begin to
soften up from an injection OF lake
water, and act uncertain as to what
allied it, and then begin to move of
up stream, at swinging gait, taking
with it stuff that was attached to the
bottom, floating along in an aimless
way to the jumping oil place and be-
ing broken into down towards the
gulf Things have gone down that
drainage canal that Chicago Is in
luck to get rid Of before the butonic
plague makes landing in her midst.
Cats that used to catch the rats Of old
! Fort Dearborn. that have lin gered in
the river for half century, have sew
cred every tie that endeared Chicago
to them, and have gone to make new
acquaintance along under the levy at
ST. Louis, and corpses of the victims
of the robber and murderer are on
their clear winding way to the sea,
Unknown, and liable to cause suspl-
cion to rest on good men of St. Louis
if they make a one-night stand in the
Missouri Clown. People have come
for miles to see the things in the Chi
cago river 90 by, and to guess what
they are. The first few days after the
opening of the canal things did look
dark for the people OF the lower rivers
and it was no wonder they felt indig-
nant, but later the blue water of the
lake began to 90 along with the stun
and push it alocg, and when all Of
the Chicago river had gone to the
realms below there was blue streak
Of wetness never seen except in the
lake Now the people are rushing to
the river to see the blue water, which
many still think is caused from the
bluing used in Chicago laundries. or
that some dyer has upset blue dye
pot in the river. But gradually 1t is
dawning on the people that it is Lake
Michigan coming to their doors with
its odors of white-tish and white
capped waves, and it is said that in
St. Louis they are bottling the water
and selling it for Appollnaris, over
the bars. The third day after the
blue water began to flow down the
river there came change, the water
turning to a delicate amber color with
an odor of the malt house, and then il
was found that the sewerage from
Milwaukee, which had formerly only
run into the lake as far as the intake
of the water supply, had found new
current to the lake and had gone on
past Racine, Kenosha and Waukegan
and had triumphantly entered the
Chicago river and gone on to st.
Louis and that the her that leaks
into our river and makes it famous,
was being bottled for export, after il
reached the Mississippi. SO what
seemed to St. Louis at first as an out.
rage and a calamity, has turned out
to he a commercial success, Appoli'
nariS and beer finding a market every
where. Later the fishing industry o.
the Mississippi will be benefited
; Heretofore the people have existed
on Friday only on the rubber catfish
and the celluloid bullhead. but soot
the aristocratic whitctish and the
/ lordlv lake trout, the perch and tht
) sturgeon will be like the star Of IN
pirc, and take their WaV WESTWARD
) and so0therly, pisaa'ori,l explorers
following Marquet'e and LaSalle. ant
st. Louis VIII rcrei in Kind of fist
that makes brain instead of glue. Tn,
time will come when st. Louis will b,
so benefited because OF the drainag,
canal that the peopleof that sedentarN
community will insist on paying bael
TO Chicago the thirty millions eNpend
ed. with interest, and will be glad L
pay royalty to Chicago for the APP
poiinariS water it sends to them. ant
to pay Milwaukee a tax per barrel TO
the amber sewerage that cheers bu
Goes not inebriate, il used judiciously
with cheese sandwich and mustar,