Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-05-15
NEW BOULEVARD
IN WINDY CITY
BEING PLANNED D
South Water Street Will Be
Converted Into a Beautl-I
full Thoroughfare; VampsI
Menace Motorists.
(By The Associated Press,)

Chicago, May IA (Dy the ASso-
ciated Press) South Water street,
where about a billion dollars worth
of turnips, cheese. ducks, eggs,
onions and other food stuffs are
bartered in year, is preparing to
pick up its squawking fowls, its
smells, it's babble of tongues, its
slippery cobblestones, and move.
A twenty million dollar double
decked street -- boulevard above,
trafficway beneath, is TO replace 1t.
The street extends six blocks along
the river through the heart OF
Chicago.
Promoters Of the Chicago beau-
tiful plan say the crooked river
side street will give way to bou-
leyard that will rival Michigan bou-
levard in beauty. The gay limou-
sine will flash where heavy huck-
ster 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 wher-
ever people eat, will become a rem
miscence.
The new street, like the old, will
begin at the site of Fort Dearborn.
the original nucleus of Chicago,
and will connect with other boule-
wards about q mile to the west close
to where the pavilion or wigwam
stood in which Abe Lincoln was
nominated for the presidency. 1t
will wind with the Chicago river
and the lower deck will have docks.
Overcrowded for years in be-
wildering jam six blocks long, the
commission merchants under the
new plan are TO spread out over
tho very latest thing in market
place to be constructed a mile or
two away on West Randolph street.
Assessment rolls amounting to
S20.000,000 for the South Water
street Improvements will be filed
within the month.
The new quarters for the food
merchants will be an immense rec
tangular section containing series
OF railroad tracks alternating VITA
streets, the commission houses to
face inward along the outer sides
of the rectangle, leaving the in
terror free for movement of traffic.
Adjoining will be another large
rectangle containing switching
yards for produce and aGfording
direct connection with approXi-
mately thirty lines entering Chi
cago. Charles Godding, member
of the committee of wholesale mer-
chants. that has the new market
place project in hand, is authority
for the statement that the business
done in South Water street reached
a total of nearly billion dollars a
year.
AS q memorial to the life of John
B. Murphy, world famous surgeon
and pathfinder in medicine, a great
medical library is to be erected
here in the near futude through the
efforts of more than five thousand
distinguished members Of his pro-
fesslon, the roll call Of the Amer
lean College of Surgery. A $780,
600 fund left by Mrs. John b. Mur-
ply for the benefit of medical sci
ence will be used as a nucleus 6f
the library fund, this to be multi
Piled by subscription from the
membership of the college.
Dr. Murphy, after arranging his
own funeral, died August II, 1916.
The detective bureau has peked
a dozen of its handsomest men and
assigned them to patrol Michigan
boulevard and Sheridan road in
fine big cars in an effort to stay
the ravages of the boulevard vano-
pire. said to infest these thorough
fares IN such numbers as to be
menace to motorists.
Campaign for an American opera
house where native works and art
lists as we'll as foreign opera in
English can be heard has been
started here by the Opera in Our
language Foundation. inc. Among
me hackers OF the project are Mrs.
Edith Rockefeller. Mccormick.
Mrs Archibald Freer. Percy Mack,
ay and Wallace Rice.