Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-14
RAY-FEVER MY
HAS REACHED
CHICAGO
wATERY EYED ONES ON
ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE
of Forty-Nine Million
Gallons a Day in Water Con-
sumed in Windy City Be-
cause of the Drought.

cause VI lIlG DIUuSlltI
H. fsneejal correspondence =rorning Journal
vi Chicago. Aug. 10.-The hay fever
u delegates Of the middle west are now
" svarming through Chicago, red-eyed
and CLUB" on their annual pilgrim
age to regions on the Great Lakes,
VI where they are immune. Each year
M the procession headed for the invig-
WI Grating air of Lake Superior, Georgian
MI hay ana the Temagami country grows
n larger. the reason being that fewer of
the delegates are made to go away
alone. The necessity of the hay fever
delegates mas become their opportun-
jty for a real outing, the regions of
their immunity having proved so
charming 10 them that now their fami-
lies and friends insist on going too.
# The transformation of the members
ri of the Hay Fever association is sud
IN den. men from inland towns sudden
III " turn nautical on of the great
inland seas; they are to be found ON
all sorts of craft from rowboats to the
biggest steamship on the Great Lakes,
M me llNul l'AiN . my vi IL ANbA ~
ern Navigation company's fleet, which
n the Chicagoans board at Sarnia. The
Y annual onset of hay fever has caused
u the exploration of all the 80, 600 is
4 lands of Georgian bay, that great
a archipelago of weird and fantastic
scenery. The great attraction among
those islands and the Temagami re-
glon is the air, which is dry and
baIsamic. one hay fever delegate,
whose misery left him Immediately he
/ entered Georgian bay wrote:
"The air seems to a lost the last
trace Of moisture, n becomes by
n reason of its dryness SO pellucid that
every object seems as If seen through
Il telescope. and the sunlight sun
a splendor not observed in moister eli
n mates"
The American Medical association
has done much to encourage research
for the relief of hay fever, and the
Dunbar antitoxin has proved a par
tial success. The misery, rledically
known as "hyperesthetic rhinitis," is
not wholly asCribed to dust and pollen,
the journal of the association recently
having said that the three causes were
nervous susceptibility, including pre-
disposition to govt and rheUnatism;
abnormal conditions of the nasal or
gans. and the irritation caused by dust
or pollen The most %effeetiv@ remedy
vet found Is a chance ii air. Light
clothing and light food are recon-
mended.
The drought in this city, which
seems likely to break the local rec
ords for dry weather for the last thir-
" years. has added enormously to the
consumption of wat,r IN increase be
ing about 40, 600, 900 gallons per day
The previous record was 4S7, 600, 600
gallons per day while now the city's
pumps are forcing about $50 600, 600
gallons every ~twenty-four hours. Fa-
cilities for increasing this amount of
water to BIZ. 00O, 600 gallons have
been completed and several Old pumps
/ have been repaired and put into serV-
ice. There are ~incipient water tamines
in some parts of the city whore the
pressure is inadequate or the pump
ing machinery has broken. The fire
department, overworked, has urged
special precautions against fire and
the lumber yard owners ave been or
dercd to keep their yards and sheds
wet down until the drought is over.
The wooden structures, elevators and
the poorer class of houses are dry as
finder n in their present condition
would furnish excellent material FOR
a disastrous conflagration. In fact the
daily fire record is twice that of the
last fourth of July. Window boxes,
garden plats ana lawns have suffered
IN spite of the aid from garden hose
especially the suburb of oak Park,
where the water is furnished by pri-
waite enterprise. There the vegetation
is whitening and dying and the resi-
dents have received circulars request
ing them mot to use the lawn sprin-
klers because Of the necessity Of keep
ing up the pressure for protection
again. fire" City Engineer Ericsson
has given out to Chicago people three
pieces of advice: observe the laws
regarding the hour for sprinkling
lawns, avoid the waste of water at all
INES, pray for rain" The big city
parks, which have not suffered for
water for more than twelve years. are
working night and day to keep the
grass in condition. Washington park
having put into use an engine To pump
water from the lagoon.
Real work upon subway plans for
chicago has begun, preparatory work
however. for the subway task is "a
huge one. involving now the charting
Of every water and gas pipe. every
telephone, telegraph, light and signal
Wire conduit in the downtown dis
tflct OF these the city now has no
record whatever, and as the network
~ these pipes and conduits makes al
most a solid mesh at the street IA
itfsectluns. so that one can walk
across upon them when the paving is
torn up, this phase Of the preparatory
work is Intricate and dauntlng. Mean
"hh" the subways OF eastern and Eu-
'"pean cities are being investigated by
'nrer experts who will seek to point
'ut the mistakes made elsewhere as
wei as the admirable features. BY this
research work Chicago expects 90
excel New York ln subway building ana
avoid the hlunders which already are
troubling Manhattan. II Is expected
mat an the pipes and wires now iu
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