Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-05-11
The Canal Itself Is No Good; Never Was
and Never Will Be
Useful,
Except to Line the Pockets of the Grafters
and Drain Those Of the
People.
The Notorious Gang Are Lying Awake Nights
Waiting for Their Schemes
to Mature.

The Drainage Gang. most OF whom
are carpet.baggers 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 at present and the people of Chi
cago 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
and generous city wake up and use
its clothes lines?
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Contentious of members Of the Drain.
age Board that reduction Of the flow
of water in the drainage canal In ac-
cordance with the orders Of the War
Department will threaten local SAM
tary conditions We're exploded the 9th
err day by Commissioner of Health
Reynolds. The commissioner declared
the present dilutlon of sewage In the
canal was beyond present practical
sanitary requirements. rs only rela.
lively small portion of the clty's sew
age was being disposed of through the
canal. He added that the reduction
OF the flow from 100000 TO 100000 Gu.
bic feet a minute would give no occa.
sion for immediate fears rs 60 Chica-
COS sanitary condition.
Charges were made. too. by a num-
Der of drainage trustees that the re.
duced-how problem has been used rs
club by those members of the board
who have fought for the passage of
bills now pending before the Legisla-
ture by which an extra tax was sought
by the Sanitary District for the work
of widening of the river. As result
the bill calling for IN additional tax
of one-half of / per cent TO carry out
this plan is expected to fail of passage.
So critical was the situation regard
ed by the trustees supporting the meas
IRE that conference was held during
the week with Representative Bowles
of Will County, the sponsor for the bill
in the lower house. The latter frankly
admitted that. though the bill had adj
vanced to third reading with little on
no opposition, its passage was practl
cally hopeless.
Frank Wenter was one OF the trus
tees who took no part In this discus
sion. IAN this talk about reduced flow
amounts to nothing" said he. eve
should have 100000 cubic feet of water
passing through the channel every min
ute instead of 100000. as ordered by
the War Department. Had nothing
been said about this problem there
would have been no trouble. Public
sentiment was stirred up, however, ID!
some of the trustees themselves. an,
they have used this question as a clul
TO force the bills now pending m
Springfield. That's the whole trutl
about this NATTER
Commissioner Reynolds further point
cd out that a reduced How would no
affect the supply of ST. Louis, an argu
ment which has been used In the cifor
10 secure funds that the work of widen
ing the river might be- taken up, 81
the ground that only a wider channc
will admit of flow Of 100000 cubl,
feet of wafer minute without mcnac
fng navigation.
II should say that the present di,u
ton Is beyond present practical SAM
'ary requirements" continued Commits
soner Reynolds. 1T Is 10 he remcm
bcrcd that only a relatively small pro
portion Of our sewage Is now being dis
posed Of through the drainage channc
practically none except that which Il
discharged into the South Branch, an,
an incOESidcrable contribution from
the lower eIl of the North Branch
Based upon our present knowledge, de
rived from studies and experiments
both In this country and abroad, diiu
ton Of 10000 cubic feet for every 100,
900 Of population i not excessive, II
least not theoretically"
Ia IS then pointed out that flow o
100000 cubic fen minute will MI th
main river and the South Branch iron
the lake 10 the entrance 10 the drainag
canal with pure water once In ever!
eight hours or so, and that this viii
suffice 10 maintain good sanitary con
dItion Of the stream and of the drain
age canal itself.
The serious question at issue, Or
Reynolds asserts Is the future develop
ment Of the sanitary system. Whcl
interccptlng sewers are completed, nnt
practically all the sewage Of the cit!
disI Of IN this way, II Is estimated