Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-07-06
Chief O'NeiII Has Determined to Make
Crooked Coppers Walk the Plank
Before Long.
The Chicago Finance Company Is One Of
the Heaviest Sufferers from
Police Beats
And Other Legitimate Bankers Are Also Com
claimants Of the Methods Of Some
Oficers

and wife, which these deadbeats won't
protect. We have no desire to fore
close mortgages, thereby depriving
families of their homes; but lenient,
just and kind treatment on our part
cuts no Ice with people Of this charac.
ter. This class Of men have no right
OH the Police Department when there
are 80 many good, honorable men ready
to take their places who are willing
and honorable enough to pay their con.
tracted obligations. These men borrow
where they can, when they can, from
whom they can. md are always on the
alert to learn Of new places and new
people to victimize.
"They perjurc themselves TO get
money, making false statements that
they owe no other claims Of like char.
acter. while all the time they are In.
debted TO many others aggregating
hundreds Of dollars.
"Oh. yes, am onto their curves, as
these are the part and parcel that
make the Chicago police force a by.
word aud disgrace In other cities Of the
Union. But I must go to work now.
Come around next week, and I will
give you a couple Of more chapters Of
reading matter along the same line.
As the fellow said, more anon!'
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Chief Of Police O'Neill has wisely
decided that the police department Is
no place for dead beats. Men who bor-
row money from reputable concerns
like the Chicago Finance Company
cannot claim the immunity that men
do who IRE prosecuted for big interest
by loan sharks. The Chicago Finance
Company and other reputable finan-
cial institutions have been bled by po-
licemen until the matter Is a public
scandal. Chief Of Police O'Neill should
see to II that the Chicago Finance Com
pany gets Its money. His men have
no more right to borrow money from It
and then refuse to pay It than they
have to blow safes.
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The success of the grafters on the
present Drainage Canal has set the
gang wild.
1t now wants to build canals every
where.
The North Branch Is to be wldened.
The South Branch Is to be widened.
A canal is to be built to Evanston.
A canal IL to be built to Wilmette.
A canal Is to be built to the Calumet
The Calumet Is to be widened.
The gang expect to realize fully
$500. OOO, 900 before they are through.
OF course, this may bankrupt the
citizens, but what Of It?
Opposition to making Evanston and
the north shore towns a part OF the
sanitary district Is finding many nd
herents among the substantial property
owners of the north shore. The claim
b made that the engineering di4culties
to be overcome in such an undertaking
are such that the sanitary district could
not afford to do the work and that the
purpose Of making the north shore
towns a part of the district is to in
crease the revenue of the district In
order to complete the work already
started. Such a plan, say the irate
property owners, would tax the neSy
part of the district without giving any
local returns.
ut Is a grating scheme" said Col
Henry NJ. Kidder Of North Evanston
"why do they so ahead and take meas
ures to get us into the sanitary dis
trict before there Ia any detailed prop
osition made in regard to what kind Of
drainage system Is to be provided
for US? We want to know what we arr
to have Before we begin paying taxes
for 1t. feel sure that II such scheme
Is ever put through 1t will be long af
ter the Calumet river district is con
nected with the sanitary district, an,
when there Is real need in Evanston
for such drainage.
"The dreamers speak Of this matte
as II It We're no more of I'M undertake
ing than to run a tile ditch across 40
acre field, but am one Of the man!
who believe that the cost OF such |
branch would be nearly equal to tn
cost of the main channel"
Col. Kidder continued:
ut Is proposed to run canal four
teen miles long along the west line O
Evanston, starting from the lake at
point In Wilmette, where pumpin
works are to be situated, to lift tn
water from the lake to the sewer. Tn
blum at this point has an averag
: height of thirty feet above the LAX
level ana is battered by the stormies
: waves Of Lake Michigan. In additio
to the constant wearing away of tn
shore which would make the maintt
nance Of pumping station there Yer
costly, the bay is frequently filed wit
anchor tee that would render the OF