The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-01-27

IlIIUOIS ESHS1ncCiN anu AIh' " Fci = So
sociation gathered in Cairo yesterda,
TO hold the annual meeting of the so
ciety. They were a body of handsome
fellows at Armory Hall yesterday af
ternoon when they opened their firsi
session, and their proceedings wer'
as interesting as their looAs, even Il
the lavman. The officers OF the asso
citation are: President. John B. Hit
tell, Chicago: vice president. ]. W
Woerrnan, st. Louis; secretary anC
treasurer. E. E. r. Tratman. Chicago;
trustees. ]. W. Dappert, Taylorville;
w. B. Thistlewood. Cairo; Edward
,nartow. Urbana. All were present ex
cept the vice president. resident
Hittel presided over the meeting ant
Miss Bessie Wilson was stenographer
Mayor Parsons welcomed the VS.
itors to Cairo in happy little talk
telling of Cairo's big improvement
scheme in which the engineering ant
legal work had been very important
features. and had been we'll done. He
invited the visitors to inspect point:
of interest in Cairo. more especially
The pumping stations.
The mayo's welcome was responded
TO by J. G. Gabbleman, of Chicago
lie expressed pleasure at being here
feeling sure the meeting would be
profitable and much enjoyed.
Reports of committees were read
ma carefully prepared papers on sub
iects pertaining TO engineering were
read by members as follows.
The Relation of the Typhoid Fever
Death Rate to the Water Supplies in
lllinois--E. Barlow.
Municipal Engineering Work a
Cairo.-W B, Thistlewood.
Chicagos Sidewalk Proolem.-N. z
Murray.
Materials and Workmanship II
Street Paving, w. W. MARI.
instruction in Hydraulics and Wa
er Supply Engineering at the L. O
n.--Geo c. Habermeyer.
Sewage Disposal Plants for Sna,
nstitutions.-G c. Habermeyer.
Recent Practice IN Sewage Purifica
lion 0llustrated)-W S. Shields.
Reinforced Concrete Construction
illustrated ]. Widmer.
AunnI,-c+c-
H. E. Reeves.
Construction in Road and Pavemen
Construction at the University of Hi
los-R. B. Slippy
Tests of Roal Materials-R. E
Sippy.
Roads in Contra: f-:.inois-J. O Brien
The various papers were dis
cussed by members as eaC.i was read
Another series OF papers will be reaC
today and an excursion will be made
over the Cairo bridge and the Thebe:
bridge on a special train provided by
the Illinois Central railroad company
This evening a lrncneon and smok
er will be given to the visitors by the
afro Board of TIatre and Commercial
Club at Alexander Club grill room.
Following was City Engineer This
tlewood's paper on
Municipal Engineering at Cairo.
Location and not topography or
lained a city at the junction of the
two greatest water highways of this
continent, the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. That the advantages of loca
ton could offset the biographies
difficulties was and has been the sun
'position and the hope Of its people
from the time of the organization u
English capital to found and builC
upon this site city until the presen
time. 1t has been the hope that has
Kept alive the energy of its inhab
.tants through their almost perpetual
| fight for existence.
The first levces quilt were veal
and crude and a source of unlimited
anxiety at times when needed thu
most. The site after being protected
lby levees was found to be too low
upon which to build city and ce!
tain elevation was agreed upon t,
which height the site within tn,
levees was to be filed, To i'll thi
TERRITORY was an expensive, laboriou
Undertaking which has gone slowly Of
| from time to time with never a con
lcentrated effort on the part of all t
complete the work as a whole Almos
levery device from "Old Beck" t
hydraulics has been employed wit
varying success to move dirt from TIL
accretions along the Mississippi rive
outside the levees to points within.
While this process of filling wa
lgoing slowly forward the question c