Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-05-11

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 widened.
The South Branch Is to be widened.
A canal is to be built to Evanston.
A canal Is 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, 1000, 600 before they are through.
or course, this may bankrupt the
citizens, but what Of It?
Opposition to making Evanston and
the north shore towns q part Of the
sanitary district is finding many nd.
herents among the substantial property
owners Of the north shore. The claim
IL made that the engineering difficulties
to be overcome In such IN 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 new
part Of the district without giving any
local returns.
ut IL a grating scheme" said Col.
Henry NJ. Kidder Of North Evanston.
"Why do they 60 ahead and take meas.
urcs to get us into the sanitary dis.
trlct before there is any detailed prop.
osition made in regard to what kind Of
a drainage system Is to be provided
for us? We want to know what We are
to have before we begin paying taxes
for 1t. I 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. and
when there Is a real need In Evanston
for such drainage.
"rhe dreamers speak OF this matter
as II 1t were no more of TN undertake
ing than to run tile ditch across 40.
acre field, but l am one Of the many
who believe that the cost of such n
branch would be nearly equal to the
cost of the main channel"
Col. Kidder continued:
ut Is proposed to run a canal four
teen miles long along the west line Of
Evanston, starting from the lake ut n
point In Wilmette, where pumping
works are to be situated, to lift the
water from the lake to the sewer. The
bluff ut this point has an average
height of thirty feet above the lake
level and Is battered by the stormiest
waves Of Lake Michigan. In addition
to the constant wearing away OF the
shore which would make the mainte-
nance Of pumping station there very
costly. the bay Is frequently filed with
anchor ice that would render the Op'
Grafton of the works impossible. A
greater difficulty would have to be
overcome because Of the fact that all
of Evanston and the greater part OF
Wllmette are lower than the sewer
would be unless cuts averaging nearly
thirty feet IN depth were made"
1t is further objected by the oppo'
nents Of the plan that the north branch
of the Chicago River OverhOws with its
present drainage ut certain seasons
and that 1t would have to be deepened
and widened very materially to accom-
mOdate the drainage from the north
shore district.
The idea of a lake-level channel il
said to be impractlcable, as II
would necessltate a cut OF over thirty
feet for the first two miles and Of about
twenty feet for the following six miles
to bring it to Its junction with the river
near BOwmanville. At that point thu
bed of the river Is twelve feet above
the lake level, and 1t would be neces
sary to have pumping works there Il
lift this sewage into the river.
From the talk at the Monroe, how
ever, all the improvements will b'
carried out whether the people kick o.
not.
~
In a lecture before the New forl
School of Clinical Medicine DR.. Thomas
ID. Crothers, of Hartford, Conn.,, char
acterized cOcainism rs one OF thee three
great scourges of the world, alcoholism
and mOrphinism being the other two.
CustOm-hOuse reports, the lecturer
said, show an enormous Increase re
Gently in the importation of this druI
and not more than One-slxtieth part OF
what Is now sold is used for Legitimate
purposes. The vice of cOcainism II
spreading alarmingly among the poo
as well as the rich. as the drug Is be
coming cheaper all the time. A one
ounce package, which less than nv
8 ars ago cost about ~, can now b'
purchased for Is cents.
One result Of this cheapening Is tina
the cocaine habit Is becoming common
among tramps ana paupers as well a
business and professional men. 1t l