Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-05-04

The success Of the grafsers on the
present Drainage Canal has set the
gang wild.
IT now wants 10 build canals every
where. p"
The North Branch is to he widened.
The South Branch Is TO he widened.
A canal is to be built to Evanston.
4 canal Is 10 be built to wilmette.
A canal is TO he built to the Calumet.
The Calumet Is TO be widened.
The gang expect to realize fully
S500,OOO,OOO before they are through.
OF course. this may bankrupt the
citizens. but what of IL?
Opposition to making Evanston and
the north shore towns part of the
sanitary district Is finding many ad.
herents among the substantial property
owners of the north shore. The claim
Is made that the engineering difficulties
TO he overcome I'm 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 n part of the district IL 10 in
crease the revenue of the district In
order TO complete the work already
started. such q plan, say the irate
property owners. would tax the new
part of the district without giving any
local returns.
1T Is u grating scheme" said Col.
Henry NJ. Kiddcr of North Evanston.
''Why do they go ahead and take meas.
Urcs 10 get us into the sanitary dis.
,rlct before there is any detailed prop
osition made In regard to what kind of
a drainage system is TO he provided
for us? We want to know what we are
10 have before we begin paying taxes
FOR Il. feel sure that II such a scheme
is ever put through IT. 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.
"Thc dreamers speak of this matter
as II II We're no more Of IN undertake
ing than 10 run u tile ditch across 40.
acre field, but am one Of the many
who believe that the cost of such a
branch would be nearly equal 20 the
cost of the main channel
col. Kidder continued:
1T Is proposed to run canal four
teen miles long along the west line Of
Evanston. starting from the lake ut Il
point in Wilmette, where pumping
works are to be situated, 10 lift the
water from the lake 10 the sewer. The
bluif ut this point has IN average
height of thirty feet above the lake
level ana is battered by the stOrmies1
waves of Lake Michigan. In addition
10 the constant wearing away of the
shore which would make the mainte-
nance OF u 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 10 be
overcome because OF the fact that all
Of Evanston and the greater part OF
Wilmette are lower than the sewer
would I've unless cuts averaging nearly
thirty feet In depth We're made"
II Is further objected by the OppO'
Ncnts of the plan that the north branch
of the Chicago River OvertlOws with its
present drainage at certain seasons,
ana that it would have to be deepened
and wldencd very materially to accom-
MEDIATE the drainage from the north
shore district.
The idea of lake.level channel is
said To be impractlcable, as il
would ncccssitate a cut of over thirty
feet for the first two miles and of about
twenty feet for the following six miles
10 bring IL TO its junction with the river
near Bowmanvllle. At that point III,
bed Of the river is twelve feet above
'hc lake level, and it would be neccs
.ary TO have pumping works there 10
lift this sewage into the river.
From the talk at the Monroe, how
ever, all the improvements" will bt
rarried out whether the people kick OF
not