The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-04-09
Work Of Solving Question OF Sew
age in Lake Michigan To Be
Taken Up at Conference
KEN0SHA TO BE REPRESENTED
Officials in All Cities Along The Lake
Shore Are Asked to Send Repre-
sentatives to Meeting
Week From Tomorrow
(From Fridays Daily,

| Unnecessary sewage pollution Of the
waters of Lake Michigan has caused
some alarm among residents of cities
along the east and west shores of the
lake and a conference Of representa-
tives of over twenty-five cities will be
held in Chicago Saturday, April H. In
vitations have been sent to the mayors
of these several cities by the Chicago
Association of Commerce for the pur-
pose Of beginning a crusade in the in
interests of the general public. At the
conference an effort will be made to
show that the typhoid germ is often
found twenty miles out from shore.
The tank sewage system of Berlin will
be discussed with view to ascertain
how it might be employed in cities
along Lake Michigan, and surface
drainage will also be employed
An .invitatior has been extended to
Mayor German to attend the conference
as Kenosha is the fourth largest city
in the district where it is claimed that
unnecessary sewage pollutes the waters
Of Lake Michigan. The entire sewage
system Of Kenosha empties into Lake
Michigan and it is claimed that the
sewage pollutes the waters of the lake.
It is estimated that if a line were
drawn across the lake from a point at
Sheboygan, Wis, on the north to the
Michigan side that it would be found
that over 100000 people discharge
sewage into the lake, and are cores
pondingIy harmed by drinking the
water.
The municipalities to which the in
vitation to confer was sent are: Ben
ton Harbor, St. Joseph, South Haven,
Grand Rapids, Ludington, Manitowoc,
Sheboygan, Waukegan, Kenosha, South
Milwaukee, Racine, Milwaukee, Zion
City, Lake Forest, Fort Sheridan, High
land Park, Kenilworth, Evanston, Ham
mond, Whitney, East Chicago, Gary and
Michigan City. In one or two in
stances the sewage of these places is not
dumped directly into the lake, but into
streams emptying into the larger body
Of water.
The conference will take Up the
sewage and drainage problem in all it's
phases. 1t is hoped to create such a
sentiment that when the representatives
return they will have their local legisla-
tive bodies take such steps as shall re-
duce to minimum the harm that
comes from sewage polluted waters. It
will be shown at the conference that the
colon bacillus or typhoid germ is often
found twenty miles out from shore and
in a condition to harm all who drink
the water it affects
Tt is claimed that there is a constant
current flowing south on the west side
Of the lake and north on the east side.
What harm polluted waters may do
thus carried along, cannot be ignored.
The conference is expected to bring out
all manner Of discussion as to practical
diminution of the danger.
The conference is to be at the Great
Northern hotel Saturday noon, April
| II, and addresses will be made on the
present sewage condition Of Lake Mich
igan, and on the modern sewage system.
General discussion will be had as to how
to best approach the cities along the
lake on the sewage problem.