Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-05-04
Will BREAK CHICAGO
The Drainage Gang Will Prove the
Ruin Of This Noble and Gen.
erous City.
A Tax of Over 81 on Every S100 of
Assessed Valuation Is
Arranged.
The Canal Itself Is No Good; Never Was
and Never Will Be
Useful.
Except to Line the Pockets Of the Gratters
and Drain Those Of the
People.
The Notorious Gang Are Lying Awake Nights
Waiting for Their Schemes
The Notorious Gang Are Lying Awake Nights
Waiting for Their Schemes
to Mature.

The Drainage Gang. most of whom
are carpet.baggors who own no real
estate In Chicago. because they do not
know the moment that they may he
called away To stay. are going to
break the taxpayers of this city.
Chicago people are taxed almost To
death III present. and the people of chi.
cage are grooming under the burden.
The Drainage Gang now wants the
Legislature To tax every 500 worth of
property in the city 81 for the benefit
of its contracting friends.
Robbery most base.
Robbery most foul.
When Will the people of this great
aud generous city wake up and use
IT. clothes lines;
~6A
contentious of members of the Drain.
age Board that reduction Of the flow
OF water In the drainage canal in ne.
uordance with the orders of the War
Department will threaten local sani.
'ary conditions We're exploded the 9th.
~ day by Commissioner of Health
Reynolds. The commissioner declared
the present dilution of sewage in the
canal was beyond present practical
sanitary requirements. as only a rela.
lively small portion of the cltys sew
age was being disposed of through I'll,
canal. lie added that the reduction
of the flow from 100000 TO 100000 GU
bic feet minute would give no occa
sion for immediate fears as 60 Chica.
COS sanitary condition.
Charges We're made. too by Il mum.
her of drainage trustees that the re
duced-fiow problem has been used a.
a club by those members of the board
who have fought for the passage oi
bills now pending before the Lcgisla
ture by which an extra tax was sought
10y the Sanitary District for the wurl
Of widening of the river. A. II result
the bill calling for an additional taN
Of onc-half of per cent 10 carry on
this plan j. expected 10 fail of passage
So critical was the situation regard
el by the trustees supporting the meas
IRE that a conference was held durin.
the week with Representative Bowie
of VIII County, the sponsor for the BIZ
IN the lower house. The latter frankl,
admitted that, though the bill had al
yanccd To third reading with little 81
no opposition, It's passage was plncti
cally hopeless.
Frank Wenter was one of the trus
tees who took no part in this discus
sion. An this talk about reduced flow
amounts 10 nothing" said he. Wv,
should have 100000 cubic feet of water
passing through the channel every min
ute instead Of 100000. a. ordered by
The War Department. Had nothing
been said about this problem there
would have been no trouble Public
sentiment was stirred M, however. hy
some of the trustees themselves. and
they have used this question a. a club
20 force the hillS now pending ~
Springfield That's the whole truth
about This matter"
Commissioner Reynolds further point
"l our that reduced fiow would MOI
affect m" supply Of -. Louis, an argll-
ment which has been used in the "ffori
20 secure funds that the work Of widen
NJ the river might b" taken M, ul
the ground that only Il wider channel
VIII admit Of flow Of 100000 cubic
f""t Of water a minute without mcna"
ny navigation.
y -hOUld say that the present diu
Ion , beyond present practical SAN.
'ary requirements, p" continued Commits
-.ou"r Reynolds 1T I, 10 b" r"mcm
bored that only relatively mail pro
portion Of our .cwag" = now being dis
posed of through the dranag" chunn"
-par."ulIy non" except that which j.
DISCHARGED into the South Branch. uud
10 neon, ld~rabl" contribution from
ruc lower -! 81 'Hr north Branch
Based upon our present knowledge, d'.
rived from studies aud experiments
both 10 Tile country ana abroad. q dilu
ton Of 10000 cubic iror for every 100,
'"r of population is nor rNr"--.'r, al
urt-f not theoretically"
il is then po.u'rd uw Thar how 70,
100000 muGc i,"r minute W.ll MI Vi,
uau gg"r and The Sug.. Branch from
r.r lake 100 III" entrance 'H 'ur drulua %
canal with pure waiter ru.. .u every
.-u- hours or ,o, aud rmr this viii
suffice. II" maintain 2p"l sanitary rou
J..pu oi the stream and or .ln drain
=" cana. itself,
The serious question 20, --u", Hr
RrruoI4- u-~owr- IS ta" future uryrl"p
n,g' OF the sanitary Sy.rou When
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