Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-06-22
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. + y
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
$JO0,OO0OOO 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 ad-
herents among the substantial property
owners Of the north shore. The claim
Is 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 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 60 ahead and take meas.
ures to get us into the sanitary dis
trict 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
10 have before We begin paying taxes
for II. feel sure that X such 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.
1.-THE dreamers speak Of this matter
as II It were no more of IN undertake
ing than to run tile ditch across 40.
acre field, but I nm one Of the many
who believe that the cost Of such
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
blum ut this point has nm average
height Of thirty feet above the lake
level and IL battered by the stormiest
waves of Lake Michigan. In addition
10 the constant wearing away Of the
shore which would make the mainte-
nance Of pumping station there very
costly, the bay IL frequently Hlled with
anchor ice that would render the op.
Grafton Ct the works impossible. A
greater difficulty would have to be
overcome because of the fact that oil
of Evanston and the greater part Of
Wilmette are lower than the sewer
would be unless cuts averaging nearly
>hkty feet In depth We're made"
1t Is further objected by the oppo-
nents Of the plan that the north branch
Of the Chicago River overaOws with Its
present drainage at 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 is
said to be impracticable, as 1t
would necessitate cut of over thirty
feer for the first two miles and Of about
twenty feet for the following six miles
TO bring 1t 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.