Omaha daily bee., 1922-05-14
Chicaso's Famous
Market Street to
Become Boulevard
Gay Limousines to Flash
Where Hucksters Carts
Now Rumble Over Slip.
perry Cobblestones.

Chicago. May lJ.-Souih Water
street. where about a billion dollars
worth OF turnips. cheese, ducks. eggs
onions aud other ioodstuiis arc bar
tered IN year, Is preparing 10 pick
up is squawking fowls. It's smells
iis babble OF tongues, its slippery
eobbles,ones. and move, A $4,000,
900 donble-deeked street-boulevard
above. traiiieway beneath--is TO re.
place II. The street extends six
blocks along the river through the
heart OF Chicago.
Promoters OF the Chicago Beau,i.
full" plan say the crooked riverside
street will give way 10 boulevard
that will rival Michigan boulevard in
beauty. The gay limousine will flash
where heavy hueksier wagons and
delivery trucks rumbled. Silks will
rustic where the commission house
cat purred atop an orange crate.
South Water street. more or less
known wherever people eat, viii be-
come a reminiscence.
The new street. like the old. will
begin At the site OF Fort Dearborn.
the original nucleus OF Chicago. and
will connect with other boulevards
abou, q mile to the west, close TO
where the pavilion or wigwam, in
which Abe Lincoln was nominated
for the presidency. II will wind with
the Chicago river and the lower deck
will have docks.
Overcrowdcd for years in be-
wildcring jam six blocks long. the
commission merchants under the new
plan are to spread out over the very
latest thing in market places to be
constructed a mile or two away on
West Randolph street. Assessment
rolls amounting to $4,000 600 for the
South Water street Improvements
will be filed within the month.
The new quarters for the food mer-
chants will be an immense rcctangu-
lar section containing a number OF
railroad tracks alternating with
streets, the commission houses to
face inward along the outer sides OF
the rcctangle, leaving the interior
free for the movement OF traffic. Ad-
joining will be another large rectan-
gle containing switching yards for
produce and affording direct connec-
tion with approximately 80 lines en-
tcring Chicago.
Charles Godding. member OF the
committee OF wholesale merchants
that has the new market place project
in hand, is authority for the state
mcnt that the business done in South
Water street reached total OF near
ly Sl,0OO.000,000 a year.
Will Honor DR.. Murphy.
As memorial to the life of John
=. Murphy, world famous surgeon
and pathfinder in medicine, great
medical library is to be erected here
in the near future through the efforts
of more than 5000 distinguished
members of his profession, the roll
call of the American college of SUR
gerry. A 100000 fund left by Mrs.
John B. Murphy for the benefit of
medical science will be used as a
nucleus of the library fund, this to
be multiplied by subscriptions from
the membership of the college.
Dr.. Murphy, after arranging his
own funeral. died August II, 1916.
Trail Boulevard Vamps.
The detective bureau has picked
dozen of its handsomest men and
assigned them to patrol Michigan
boulevard and Sheriden road in fine
big cars in an effort to stay the
Savages of the boulevard vamp, said
to infest these thoroughfares in such