The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-03-19
COUNTRY CLUB TALK
(For the Bulletin by X. Ray Faber)

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Contractor Duncan: A bunch o
you We're talking the other day abou
Excavations on the site of Cairo.
have a cellar at my house II ex
tends to sand and is great conve
nience except when flood stages in the
rivers come; then it fills up with sipe
water The water looks very clear
and pure, but like all sipe water. I'M
Idoubtodly contains the seeds of ~
phoid aud other deadly diseases. |
can account for the construction Of
Easements below ground here ONLY on
the idea that they afford a better cx-
terror appearance to the buildings:
for ii is hardly supposable that con
tractors and people generally do not
know that they cannot be made
proof against sipe water pressure.
Every time a food reaches our shores
they burst and the furnace fires are
put out. The custom house is saved
from serious troublbe because there
is a steam engine in the basement
that runs a pump the sipe water runs
in, but the pump takes it out and
does not let it accumulate in large
volume
Prof. FarloWs: Before the advent
OF the water works there were a mum.
Der Of drive wells in different parts
Of the city, and they supplied COOL
evidence Of the pressure of water
from the rivers when these were At
high flood stages, The drive wells
spoutcd water continually until the
rivers fell 10 level below the out |
lets Of the wells These Illustrations
II the great pressure Of flood waters /
IN Cairo, from below as well as or
al sides, should guide people in their |
building constructions They can. /
!ot build TOO high from the ground. |
anaOt have fouuIatic,s 100 strong /
n broad should avoid making exca- I
'a'ions as much as possible. audI
.hen necessary make them AIS shall |
ow as possible. The morto,should be
III up, not dig out or down If mis-
axes have been made in the cor
truction OF public buildings, or Sow
rs, or in other ways, that cannot he
cmcdied, the best must he made af
hem, or there faults must be re-
uced to the minimum by such meaas
$ may be used
Major Harris: ! have been some.
hat amused at tine outcome Of tasl
ubway experiment II was made 10
void the necessity of crossing tracks
f the Illinois Central, and great e.
DIT was necessary TO get the sub
ray wide enough TO accommodate
'agon traffic. ban by parsistency
iayor Claude Winter accomplished
ais. Now, so short a time after Trio
lhway was finished there are rail I,
Dads f. front of il, railroads through
and railroads across it. with prob J
BY more coming. The lime seems 1
ear when a wagon viii not be able .
get into Cairo. unless It comes
ross the river at Greenfe,d's. The
ty w!ll nave TO extend another fin
he'd street to the Illinois Central
nhanImort and build another tun-
Il through it. Then n sign viii have
be put up at the entrance tina
nnCt De taken down. NO railroads "
ed apply Firmncss would be re-
Tired to prevent greedy railroad
from apropriating it The I
obarkmrnt was probably built 10 I
.ep railroads out let the railroads
me, hur Jet them bore their own
Hes through the embankment. They
n get right ot way by coudrmpa
IN proceedings Tho city would b.
tier of ia several respects if Il
4 retained its grade crossing cal
camorc street.