Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-05-18
Money Must Be Raised for the Con.
tractors and the People
Must Pay It.
The Carpet Baggers Who Are Behind the
Scheme Own No Property
At All.
But the People Who Do Must Pay to Keep
These Favorites in Pin
Money.

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
$5OOOOO.0OO before they are through.
or 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 IL finding many nd.
herents among the substantial property
owners of the north shore. The claim
is made that the engineering difficulties
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 part Of the district Is to in
crease the revenue Of the district in
order to complete the work already
started. Such n plan, say the irate
property owners, would tax the new
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 go ahead and take meas
ures to get us into the sanitary dis
trlct before there Is any detailed prop.
ositlon made in regard to what kind of
drainage system Is to be provided
for us? We want to know what we are
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. and
when there Is real need In Evanston
for such drainage.
"The dreamers speak of this matter
as IL 1t We're no more of I'm undertake
ing than to run a tile ditch across a 40.
acre field, but ! am one of the many
who believe that the cost of such
branch would be nearly equal TO the
cost Of the main channel"
Col. Kldder continued:
at is proposed to run canal four
teen miles long along the west line Of
Evanston, starting from the lake at n
point in Wilmette, where pumping
works are TO be situated, to lift the
water from the lake to the sewer The
bluff at 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
Wilmette 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 overtiOws with Its
present drainage ut certain seasons,
and that it 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 is
said to be impracticable, as 1t
would necessltate q cut of over thirty
feet for the first two miles and Of about
twenty feet for the following six miles
to bring il to its junction with the river
near Bowmanvllle. At that point the
bed of the river is twelve feet above
the lake level, and 1t would be neces-
sary to have pumping works there to
lift this sewage into the river.
From the talk at the Monroe, how
ever, all the improvements" will be
carried out whether the people kick or
not.
In a lecture before the New York
School of Clinical Medicine Dr. Thomas
ID. CrOthers, of Hartford, Conn., char
acterized cOcainism us one of the three
great scOurges of the world, alcoholism
and morphnism being the other two.
Custom-hOuse reports, the lecturer
said, show an enormous Increase re-
Gently in the importation Of this drug
and not more than One-slxtieth part Of
what Is now sold is used for legitimate
purposes. The vice Of cocainlsm Is
spreading alarmingly among the poor
as well as the rich. rs the drug Is be-
coming cheaper all the time. A one
ounce package, which less than five
years ago cost about 80, can now be
purchased for u cents.
One result Of this cheapening Is that
the cocaine habit Is becoming common
among tramps ana paupers as we'll as
business and professional men. 1t Is