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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1895)
. - - . . . . . ' . . . 'to , , 'f1nu O AnA J > AIJ.JY ] ) ] ) l : t SUNDAY S1r . . ' 1\JlER 8. l8nG. , In " - . - - - - - - . . - - - - - . - - - - - , . ; . - , . . -11" _ I _ _ . . . " ' : W are Given " Three Days , to Sell" 1 . . The Illustration of Winter Garments , ' . . . - - " p Monday , Tuesday \tVednesclay-not any later-The entire , $ . * , ' \VC here present will bear favorable com1)ill ! son with I any stock must -Priccs such < as were never . - ' .a. , J ' . ' , . ' . . . , . . . \ - . goods in the market-either at bank- quoted before-\ve ca'n't specify too " . . ' . - : I. . ( : " , ' . j m' ' . . . . , , 'ft " . : . : . rupt 91" specIal sale-both as to " ' : rup t hr' h. , . 'f- w . / , uc Jor tIme 15 too s ort , - n . . , . , , , , , , . " , " . ' " , , , , \Ve've got to condense , all our j . ' ? " ' t material . and finish , as well as . . business into three days and. t 4 - to price. 1 . Our iln is to the knife ! 1 a ' - apply to prices ' - give the cllsfomer the ' : ) - . CIS it , vas never applied , it . : , best that 1 money will ' , " . before-en trance as be- ' - . , fore on Farnam just j . " Ladles . . . . . buy and in every above 16th street in ' . r-- Inehes JACI\ET : in , : : : in . , instance guarantee the S . P . Morse t lx r. . . . real made of Jacltet Doc : , i _ . . , 1 DOUCL Beaver Cloth 1 satisfaction . . t t f caver ot 1 , l l n or BuddIng for 't CLOTH ChlchlIla buund with or Cheviot , , . , . " CAPE , refund the 1 t re un 1e three days ' 150 sweep , I3 raId , blues and blacks .c + , only" { ' $695 $ 335 $7 5 money. . ' . , . , , . , ' > , , ,4 d , , d _ . , " , Our , ' " . . , Proposition 26 , , " ' . t , . ; : : ( " i. ' ' . ' Tr e. , JAhF 10E T. To , Early Purchasers of WINTER CLOAKS Dot Boucle Irnnmt : j ' f made of . Jacket . ' " " ; , $ yR , e at ul I nnaerlala the nerv- Select . your winter garment < now . , ' Deposit one- meion wIth the . .Ieeves new , 'Zr / I . ' - third of ; the price . and \ve will hold it for you $785 . d , _ and up until you are in need of it. In that way you \ , . , are sure of just the cloak , you \Vant- ncl you will save money by buy- ' T'- I T'a . . a l - , , ' ' . ' I - J > - ) < , . -Y : : 1 y ; ' . ' , . . . I . . Mail orders filled the , same day as received. . d 4 . 4 . ; ' . , iI 23 . ' a Inches ' . . 1 ' " , Inl : 28 d.cW ' r Ions ' . , . " ; ) " Inch c ' T " ' ! f.U , : \ \ ' 11 Black KEnSE CLOTH CA only [ ' 1. : C A : ' . . . i & , C Cu0 beaver Capl' long , . ' ' r r + ' trluuned 1 . , ' trimmed black Thlbet with " . . J : BERG 0' with . Hercules . , : . . , Fur C D ( ' 1' ' a hrall1 I , . , ' , , , . J H black and navy -er " . . : : " ' : . ' 1 ' . $1125 $ In the S. j P. Morse . CPo Building , : ; - - - 16h : and Farnam Street , $485 $ I , : , - 0.- . . = . _ - _ ' I , I . . - . - - - . - - THE SEARCHLICHT [ OF TRUTH Turned on the A , p , A , by Retired Officer of the Order , h , SUPREME LECTURER SIMS ' INDICTMENT uA C..MJ.trney A"nlnHt the IU"htM of 'merltmu CUbe""IIJ' , und Q. M..nne" to 1I0I"'Ht l'ollulur Gurerument : . The recent split 11\ the "Amoreans , " better r known as the American 'rotectlve socla- tion , served to disclose to public glue some of the Inner worklngtl ot'the organization and to show that Its professed principles are bu A cloak for mercenary ends. Mr. 'Walter SIms , for a long ; Umo supreme lecturer ot Uo order , publishes In the Loyal AmerIcan of Lansing , ? Uch. , 11 terrIfic arraignment of the A , P. A" and asserts that he Is ready to prove every charge Mr. SIms addresses ! himself to W J. II. Trainer , the C&lU1dlan-Amerlcan supreme president of the A. P. A. , as follows : Dear Sir : Il devolves upon me to per- form a very unpleasant duty , one that I could have wished woulll never have been requested ' 'of me. When I entered the A..1' . A. , I did 10 believing It to be all that Us published principles claimed for It , vlz" , a nonpartisan , liberal AmerIcan organIzation - , , ganIzation for the protection ot the constitutional - . tional rIghts at citizenship and our Instltu- tlons and flag , but by IIId experience I find that LIB political leaders of today have other objects In view than those which were so attractive - tractlye at Its Inception. Under their unprincipled - principled control It has become so cor- rupted that It has degenerated Into a conspIracy - acy against the liberty of its members , a large per cant of whom are honest patrIots. These men , mere omce seeking boodlers , have converted It Into a secret political machine manipulated [ hy professional politicians , an organization , as run today , dangerous tn the extreme to personal liberty In the very Institutions - tutions which It was primarily organized to v prolect. ' In order to sImplify the . . . IIItuation I make and am prepared to .ustaln . the following charges against the corrupted A. p A. as existing today : " 1. Its secret partisan polLileal methods are a conspiracy against the rights or American cItizenship and a menace to honest popular , gt'verl'ment. " 2. Its constitution , by which despotic power Is ! rested In Its omcerll Is a violation of the constitutions of the several states and of the United Slates and a menace to the per- sonal liberty of Its melllb ra. 'ec " 3. Its usurpation of powers such as are " alone vested In the constitutional court of the republie. " and rte refusal to allow Its members to appeal from Its actions to the civil courts , make It organized Insurrection. " 4. Its so-called advisory boards In which , BrO vested all the political action and liberty of Its members , are a conspiracy to control their franchises of citizenship In ! violation of the cousututlonal and legislative provisions and law for the protectroa at the Independence - , ence of the citizen vatu. " " 5. Its systematic persecution of Its mem- r \ beta and councils by the secret propagation j , of slanderous and libelous accusations , sus- t t .a penslonl and expulsions by Its officers for . . refusing to comply with their unjust , arbitrary } ' trary and Illegal dIctatorship Ia despotic and ' : un-American. " 6. Its claim to be a protective assocIation : of the liberal institutions which are founded h uppn the constitution under existing condl- \ . \lohl II a misnomer , under cover of which t" ' " it Is organized as a secret political machine t sun In the Interests of boodling politicians. t' . . ' 7. A' now constituted and controlled It , , . ' II the enemy of tree speech , a free press , t" liberty of conscience , religious liberty and : . political Inl1ependence. " . The rest Gf the open letter has reference , ' ; mainly to his connectlo\l \ with the order and Its attempt to deprive hIm 01 lala rlahta a . . ' - I , . . " " - - - as an American cItizen , tram which wo make the followIng extracts : "That when It became evident In Cook county last fall that the only honest American - can Issue In the political campaign was through an independent party , not In any seme to' ha an A. 1' . A. party [ , but repre- senting the principles , and thereby giving the members of the order an opportunity to vote without violating their obligations a systematic persecution \yas inaugurated by the partisan political push In the order against all who hall anything to do with the movoment. Patriots and councils were sus- penl1C1\ without law or justice , regardless ' : of I consequences. I "That T. D , Deaty , supreme secretary i and state president of Michigan , C. 1' . John- , son . state president of Illinois , professional politicians , together with a clique of politicians i tlclans In the order , did mallclQusly conspIre sgainst-my liberty of citizenshIp and reputa- tion , because , as they confessed , I would i spoil their political plans-whloh plans consisted - I slsted In l the bartering ot the vote of the . order , In IllinoIs and Michigan. . "Uonest and reputable members of the order In good , standing were denied the rights of free speech In councils , to our great damage , because said political clique had agreed to deliver the vote of the order to a certain political party "Now , sir , while I still owe my allegiance to the avowed principles of the order , principles - ciples of liberty which existed long before It was ever thought of , I renounce what I never . gave , all allegiance to Its secret proscription , Its unamerlcan practicer Its unjust and illegal - legal acts , its corrupt political machInery , by which It has In the past , through unprlncl- pled men who control It , become a political despotism , exacting from Its members sub- mission to the secret abrogation of theIr AmerIcan rights. "Its supreme .nslltntlon ; and cede of pro- cedure , prepared by designIng politicians , bo- Itows despotic powers upon Its officers , and thereby tends to the depriving of the citizen member of his political Independence. Ita obligations , as Interpreted by Its officers makes It an olrensc worthy of expulsion for the citizen member to appeal for protection from Its acts , however Illegal and arbitrary they may be , to the civil courts. It there- fore demands an allegiance to Its mandates through these men paramount to the rights of citizenship , seekIng thereby to establish an 'emporium In emperlo ; In whIch the Jaws of the secret stale are greater than those ot the republic. In short , It Is aiming to do the very thIng which 'when practiced by other orders It denounces as treason. Its sO-CJ.lled advisory boards are so conallluted and empowered - powered IIs , tq become a secret political Inquisition - Quisition , an' Instrument In the hands of professional fessIonal politicians , who usually conttrol them , by which to make merchandise out at the vote of the order , and terrorize the independent - dependent voter who dares to exercise his franchise regardless : at their proscriptive partisan manl1ates. It these boards order the members of tile order to vote In violation of their obligations they are expected [ to 110 eo or suffer the penalty , suspension and merclesa : persecution. This you know , sir , to have been practically ex- emplllled In Cook county and other places I . during the last campaign. Members of the order have been given practically to under- stand their obligations bind them to pro- teillosa endurance of these tyrannical acU. It they dare to investigate for themselves apart from the advisory InquisItion the politi- cal situation they are threatened with persecution - cutlon and expulsion , The order In many places hall become such an Instrument of persecution In the hands of boodling poltI- : clans that Its own members fear It 88 much as did Ule Ions of liberty dread the lion's mouth at the Inquisition In Venice centuries ago. Now , sIr , facts which are not unknown to yourself demonstrate that the secrel prln- cple ! of conduct In the order Is the 'political' push' rules , all \ others must be poUtlcal clay In the hands of these oUlclal potter. Whom pottent the 'omclal push' protects and exalts 11.II Its creature Is exalted rfgarlliess of rIght and Justice , and whom the 'omclal push' seeks to destroy he must 00 destroyed , h this what protEction to American Institutions results A ' T It 110 , we need an organization that will guarantee protection to individual liberty from the unlawful deeds of these self-atyled protectors. What use have wo of the institutions - tutlolla If there are no Independent citizens to use them T "When I entered the order I was told that It was not a politIcal organization , but an order destined for patrIotic education 10 which the rights at citizenship were superIor to partlua pol1Uea. I wu ghee 18 ua4er- - - - - - - - - - - - - stand ' that It opposed despotism and ahoml- nated tyranny. But exporlenc3 teaches ma that the purpose of its leaders today Is the establishment of a lawless anti-religious despotlsln In order to fight the despotic prln- , elples of religious zealoUsm I remain respectfully - spectfully yours. WALTElt SI IS. " . - - - CLEVELAND 'l'IIE COMING : NOUINEI1. : , Wlmltncy- Par Too shrewd to Snrrlllcc IIhn..elf NEW YORK Sept. 7-Chauncey 111. _ Depow was interviewed London hy the World cor- 're8pondpnt upon Prealdent Cleveland. "Clevelanl1 , " be said , "Ia as certain to be the democratic nominee as the national con- vention to meet . Whitney could not be elected He knows It and he Is too shrewd a man to sacrifice himself. " . "What about the third term ? " , "That has no influence with the mass . ot thq } democratic party. They don't regard : hint as a Caesar nor fear Caesarlsm If he Is electel1. It was different with Grant an'd' Jackson and even with WashIngton They were strong individual characters. Cleveland \ - land has persuaded his party 'at least ! that he Is only the mouthpiece ot the best desires - sires , of the people , with " no personal purpoIJ or even personal ansbUon : "Either he has lueJ < Ih extraordinary accidentally - ell1entally doing the right thing or hel Is ready : a great st.ntesmall- confess 'r ' 1:1' not . . sure In whIch aspect regard .bll1 , " NEW YORK , Sept. 7-Ex-Speakcr Crhp was surrounded by 1eWlpapar men aaaoon as the steamer New York , 0:1 : Iwh'e1 he was a passenger , arrived : at her dock On the silver question he Wa not. dso.ed : to fP lk and would not commit himself all , financial sub jects any further than to say hat English ! capitalists were fast buying \p : 4\nercl1 : bonds. ' , I Mr. Crisp expressed himself tn favor of' ' the nomination ot- Hon. WIUam : , C. Whtttey ! its the democratic nominee for preJl1m : "Hla record as secretaI" ! Df the navy was good and showed him to be not only a capable bet a most desirable candidate at , the . presant juncture - tune , " said Mr. Crisp , , . . . CITY OFFICIALS IINDICtt A CLOUD _ . Chllr"l " .It. . Eor"lu" , 'Varra..t. . Pn- nble to PI..t1Uo. PerHo" BUTTE , Mont. , Sept . -.Warrants have been issued for the arrest of several OL- oUlclals , among them ex-Cltf Clerk Perrin Irvine , and his assistant , Phillip \ L. Miller , charging them with forgery , commllttd during - Ing their term of oUlce. It la alleged that they Issued warrants to IIctltlo'us peraona , and drew from the city funds believed to aggregate over $25.000 The accused art believed to have ' left town , as the police have so far been unable to locate tbEm. The ministration of which they were members wu elected on a reform ticket. The treasurer - urer , Simon Jacobs , committed suicide sev- eral months ago , and was chart In his ac- count.n over $50,000. It Irvine' and Miller are arrested , It Is predicted that they will make disclosures involving many others high In business and social circles of l1utte. . Not Trying ; to Corner 'Via. . . . . , IIIINNEAPOLIS , Sept. 7.-The MInneapolis Elevator companies have delivered 150,000 bushels of September wheat to the Peavy company , as against a threatened 800,000 bushels and most of the companies are now protesting full friendship for the 'eaTY company . pany , although It IS well understood In the trade that the elevator companIes are a great deal disturbed because of thos loss 0& car- rying charges , the responsibility for which II credited to the 'eavy company as a result of their active buyIng operations. The re- port that the Peavy company was endeavoring - Ing to "corner" September wheat Is known to be without foundation , as that company never speculates 10 wheat In any form. - - - - - a - - - - llnr7lnnll : In the Rl'll1lbltenR CollllOn , NEW YORK : , Sept , 7-General Felix Angus , editor of the Baltimore AmerIcan , Is quoted by the Commercial Advertiser on the political situation In Maryland General Angus said : "Tile state will go republican for the first time sInce the WIlT. Half ot the democratic papers In that state bolted the democratic ticket and will support Lowndell for governor. It Is almost a rno- lutlon In political sentiment , and I venlJlre to say : that Mr. Lowndes majority will be anywhere from 6,000 to 20,000. Ills election II A foregone concluslol1. " . , . _ - " " ' - - - . JIICLIOI'S FOR' ' UnE ' I WATER > ; I I.MltLlONS Mammoth Ditch Designed to Relieve Ohi- cage of Live Aqua , INCEPTION AND PROGRESS OF THE WORK Ue.rHlnK the Current of a River for Saillhiry and Comml'relnl , l'ur- J..o'-J .h'rllrl"I' ' UI..tI"ct- lvely " ' Clilengoes ' ue ' CHICAGO [ Sept. 6.-Spaclal ( Correspond ence of The Ree . ) . . -There Is an enterprise at both technical , and general Interest now In progress In and near Chicago which for more than one reason deserves to be called a wonder First , as a performance charac- terized In itself by Its truly Chicagoan great- ness , and also for the lack at ostontatior ' and ChIcagoan modEsty with which It has been conceived , begun and placed on the highroad toward successful completion. Even the omclal title of this last great feat of American engineerIng skill and public spirIt , although born from , a state cart unendurable , , munclpal ! calamity , has the , se nt of violet- : like modesty Six years ago It first saw light In the IIlnols state leglslalure "The Sanitary - tary DlstrL of Chicago , " This name expressed - pressed much , but I\t- the same , time It meant i nOlhlng But the good people of Chicago , who are just beginning to realize what a big thing Is going on at their VErY doorsteps , It hael beta called the drainage canal , while with the. thousands of men working at It , U III called simply In plain Anglo-Saxon "our bit : : . , dllch " Undoubtedly these two names , lire a good" deal more expressive ! and more graphic than the oUlclal one , for It Is nothing else than n channel big enough to be rated even In the Jubilee l1ar : : of canal building among the master works of Its kind The great enter- prlao-In qUestioIl'ls destined to draIn for all time the Mg city of Chicago and her suburbs and to rid them quickly and thoroughly of their sewage , refuse and waste. It Is a canal-a , real ditch , but one of such dimen- sions and at the tame time of so peculiar a nature that It really Mia connecting link be- tween Lake MIchigan and the Mississippi river , 110 that alter Its \ completlop 'It will be the Jreaf JIving ' 1iterway between the mlgbtlest system fI'lnland takes ! and the largest sewer systeml.of the continent , and therefore a pert of thA channel between the Gulf of Mexico and the great Atlantic Itself. This Is 110 Chdeagpbrrag , not even a Chicago jest It Is slmpl > ; : II part. a technical and gecgraphlcal parl finding \ even lately an echo In the cries : of alarm qf eastern newspapers , which deem the Niagara In immediate danger or water pletlon , "i nd has also aroused most passionate fprot'llsts from Chicago's southern neighbors , aJQog ) the Mississippi for reasons still more .u tenable. As to the Chicagoans themse\vH. \ It has been already hinted that they only'-tiow begin to recognize In their drainage : ruJ.l..somethlng more than an ordinary open air ' & , wer. A few of them , however , are awalo"t-ntng to the stlll greater fact that the "big ltch" may be destined to become a powerful factor In Chicago's geographical and commercial development [ and its effect may reach thousands and thou- sands of miles beyond the narrow limits of their city and their sanitary distrIct. To understand this at once you will have to cast a glance at the topography or ChI- cago. Il wilt be seen that the water- shed between the Lake MIchigan and the northeastern Mississippi system stretches In Immediate : proximity along the western shores of the former , approaching them nowhere more closely than at that southwestern turner of the lake where two generatlonl ago Chicago sal laId out. Nowhere , there- fore , bas the drainage problenl of a young commercial metropolis bean from the beginning . nlnc one so great and peculiarly difficult aa here . for , although only from twelve to - - - - - - - - - - - , . - sixteen feet high this watershed \ yet mm- clout to make the floods of Lake Michigan tributary to the Atlantic , while the lower waters of the Mississippi are from 11) ( ; to 200 miles to the. west. As has already been said this abnormal hydrographic condition Is developed nowhere so distinctly and urgently than In Chicago Itsclf It Is here that the watershed ! approaches the lake most cloeely . and here also that just west of this almost Invisible watershed the Desplalnes ! rIver , flowing from north to south for many IIIl1es , cots through Cook county and skirts the edges ot the suburbs of the city. How- ever , only a few miles from the city It turns to time southwest , . where It Is called the illinois rIver , and empties Into the r.Hs- aisaippi 280 miles further south. lint that Is not all. llesWes this closest approach of the Mississippi watershed to Lake Michigan and the Invasion of time former's water system by the Desplalnes river , the city of- 'Chlcago has the ChIcago rIver entirely withIn her limits , flowing to the east and emptying Into Lake Michigan. 1'0 make It possible for this river to flow eastward at all and to be anything more than a swampy Inlet , there are two branches , the North and the South Chicago rivers running for twenty and thirteen mile : , us Indicated I by theIr names , from exactly opposite direc- tions , toward each other joInIng In the heart of toe city and then flowing In the proud length ' ! say twelve whole business blocks , as the Chicago river Into the lake That Is all , that there was orIginally In the world of Lhe renowned' Chicago river , and who at the 'tlme when the' Fort Dearborn garrison at 0s30did < , th lr. little washing , If they had any at all , In this swamp rivulet , would have dar d' to tttcdict that It would grow to be -the greatest Inland port of the world ? Ii we ! CDUI\t. \ but " the bulk of the annual tonnage and not its value It Is the third port In tilt ' 'worll1 In other words , It Is the main sourc of the unparalleled prosperity and the object of the , greatest pride of the city of Chicago. , IWt ) . : ? l the same 'time It has also become the source of Its greatest difficulties and Its mOlt fnce ant tronbles. For apart from its . function of receiving and sending cut the end lessJleets laden with lumber , gs'n ' , Iron , coal and the many other st3pes : of the great west , which are loaded and unloaded on this fifteen mile of rIver port , line wIth docks , elevators " , storehouses , lumber yards and fae- torruj , this river has always also had the olllee' of carrying ! off the whose : I1ralnsge and sewage of the metropolitan crganlsm grown up , around It to the number ot one million and I a half and mere , And whIt thlll amounts to will be illustrate even to the moat t unlnU'ated hi'the most Intt'atag ' : manner by a tinge simple , tac , , . m The great Chicago : > etck yards , known throughout the whole world : , are stu- : atel1 of the south branch : of the Chlcao , river , Into which , In n"eIluence of a dslly Ehugbl ref of tens of thousands : tf animals , they alone empty an annual sewage equal 10 that of a community of a mlJIon ! living , hunnn beIngs. If this one fact III not a sufficient basis , to . make another assertion true , under such circumstances ) ChIcago will not have 10 walt too long to equal with her whoe : amount ot sewage that of wnon. : "Dut , " you mIght interrupt "Is the ' a not the lake , one of the bggest ! depest and fire t bodies of water In. the who'e world , close at the door and under the very noses and lung of suffering Chicago ? Why dces : It n.t use It In the first place tall dra 'nage exigencies , like New York and Boston their ocean inlets and San Franc ! sco her bay , Ithout the Intervention . tervl'ntion of the rIver ? " No dcubt that this would be exactly the proper thing , were It not that the sweet and limpid waters of Lake 1I11eUJan have still another Important ut'8 for the people cr ChIcago , to which the briny floods lIurroundng : New York , Boston and : ! Sin Francisco never would be made subservient by their adjacent populallons. Without their lake the Chicagoans would not eniy be deprived ' prlved of the main source of" their great corn- merclal activity and halt driven to per ' sb by starvation , but they would also be robbed at their only store and supply of drlnk'ng water and all die from thirst Tile lake f.up'les ; the whole demand ot water for the purpo.1JS of drinking , cooking and other necerstiea ! ot everyday life , upon whIch the thousands of Chicago people are as 110pendeJt : cn their maternal lake as the infant on the mother'tI nourishing breast , And all to the latter the purIty Qt food III lIte'a first and foremost question , 10 to ChIcago the preserva- tion of the purity of her lake' waters , as well 811 811 thorough a check as poulhle on the river's pollution , bas been at all times the most urgent problem of Its municipal oxlst- ence This has ! been a 1Ifl"s problem and also a struggle for exIstence. BIgger and bigger and more and more expensive during the years of this struggle , the great aqueducts have grown , built way out In the lake and carrying back their Immense streams of water In tunnels extending miles through their own element. III the meantime the river has been Caught by the city , fully recognizing Its Jekyll and Hyde nature , and It has never ceased to con- front Its dangers with all means at Its cm- mand and to abate them at least where they were most Insidious and urgent. But the further out Into the lake the Immense aque- ducts were projected and the moro experimenting - mcnllng done with the rIver the more the population pf the city grew and time rlver'lI own Infecton ! and perversion of the lake increased - creased , till at last health , and welfare of over 1,000.000 were threatened 'with murderous - ous Impartiality by poisoned air and lolscneJ ) water at the same time It Is too .nuch to enumerate all the meas- ures and steps taken by the municipality ot Chicago In the long run of her watery strug- gle for existence. They were at the best I half measures while the problem to be con- I tended wIth has been tram the beginning a whole and pitilessly complete ono. And f such a problem It remained till the slate of distress created by It became at last absolutely lutely intolerable and In the year 1889 led 10 the creation of the "Sanitary District or Chicago. " By It tbo colossal task was put at once Into the grasp of practicability-and not of practicability alone , but of the positive certainty-to be carried out In the very near future To effect all this and more It had been necessary , In the first place to make this new Board at Health , adminIstration : and building , subservient only to the one great purpose for which ft had been crested Next It was to he equipped with extensive powers , both of a technical and financial na- ture , which were indispensable to the suc- I cess of so extensIve a task , And last , but truly not least , the state of Illinois In char- tering the new sanitary district of Chicago , put Il beyond any connection with that Chi- cage city governmeht fragrant through time whole country as surpassing In the point ot m.ladorous notorIety even the Chicago river Ihell. This done one or two years more passed , filled with all that Quarreling and wrangling which seem , at least ! In this country , essen- tial with the beginning of great public en- terprises. But up to 1392 the work bad emerged only out of this stage of infantile I1lssaPe sufficiently before a final decision regarding - 1 garding works of a technical nature could bo reached , but also before the first stops for Its execution could be taken by making the ultimate selection from the four or five plans suhmlttell. Two or three months later September 3. IS9Z-"Shovel day"-the first spal1etul , of dirt was taken out of Chicago's "big ditch , " which Is destined to bold In the history of both modern metropolitan drainage and of canal building the place at a master work of its own , , Since then , under time presidency at Mr. Flank Wenter , a highly . uccesafu ( citizen and business man of German extraction , as. slated by Treasurer Melville 10 : . Steno and , a board of nine trustees , and under the technl cal management of Chief Engineer Isham Randolph , the work had gone on untalter- Ingly. In tact In this threw years It has made such raplll progress that the tremendous - menl10us excavations wilt be completed In somewhat less than two years more It will take then only the finishing touches of the lock and controlllnl works at both ends ot the gigantic cut , and once more , as In primeval times , the fiooos of Lake Michigan will flow clown to the southw st. Not as a whole and III such bulk as at the dine when everything down frofl , the lakes to the gulf wall one big inland sea , but after all In a volume of 300OQO cubic feet of haler per minute , and therefore enough to reach the Mississippi , some 300 miles farther south , as a river itself , a thIrd of the volume of the father of the rivers , above the mouth of the Mississippi , There never was a doubt entertained concerning . cernln the nature of the work with whIch the engineers of the sanitary distrIct would have to acquit themselves of the enormous talk Incumbent upon them-It could bo but a canal. From the first cblet engineer ot the enterprise . terprise lIIr , L. E. Cooley , toIr ! , Jabam Hanclolph'lI predecessor , Mr , Uenezette WII- llama , who submitted , In the spring of 1892 ! ) : , live routes , one of which was finally adapted , they all had agreed that the only solution - . of Chicago's life problem would he the pigging of a canal , The topography oC Chicago and ' Chlcago's earliest history Joined to urge the construction of an Immense channel diverting a part of Lake Michigan and the whole of till Chicago river Into the Mississippi system. I.a Salle , the Prl'Dcf { explorer , and first while man who ever stood-on the ground known today as Chicago , had reported as far back as 1682 , to the kIng of France , holY easy and naturally It would be to connect Lake Michigan with one or the other of the tributaries of the I\1lsslsslppl , stretching with their sources closely UI to the very shore ! of the lake , As the loral discoverer was also the first Eurolean , to go down the Mississippi 10 Its mouth , taIling possession of all the new country In the name of his king , and naming the , /outhern ! part of It In his honor , Loulelana ; ho knew very well what his proposition meant and 200 years ago In glowing terms , ho described to his majesty the greatness of the exploit , to complete by such a canal connection the uninterrupted - interrupted waterwaY'of 5,000 miles , and embracing - bracIng all that was then known of the la er United Slates , reaching from the French Canadsa at the mouth of time Se Lawrence , to the I.'rench . Loulslanas at the ; mouth of the Misslaalppl. Unfortunately , thlll first scheme or a Michigan - Misslsslppl canal perishd > , Ingl'tber with its Inlreplll originator , when hosue. - . cumhel1 five years later to his own followers' mutiny In the wilds of 'I'exas. But not tor- " ever. Immediate resurrection awal'ml It with the very first movements : of what we call today the Wonderful history of Chicago ' ' When , 150 years after the arrival of L1 v Slllle , and ' twenty-Ihro yens after the erection - tlen of' Fort Dearborn at the mouth of the Chicago river , the town of Chicago \'all laid out , Il was done hy a commissIon created In 1829 by the legislature I of the young back- woods state of Illinois under the name of a "Cans I Commission , " empowered to "Iocato canals , Jay out towns , sell lute , and apply the proceeds to the construction of c nals. " I Chicago , to be chartered all a city In 1837 , . . . . - was the lint town Jalll out In 1833 under there provlsloll While the first canal con structed under them was the , illinois and Michigan canal built for nearly 100 milts , . . from I8H to 1817 , and , notwithstanding the tremendous railroad traffic grown UJ ah then , with Chicago 81a center , still , iis teday In use for navigation between Chicago and the navigable heIl1watera of the IIl1n01. river at La Salle. 'fhls old canal has been In every espect this model and .forerunner at We - new drainage canal It Is not only construct through the same tract or country , and on the Rime line 811 is I now Its gigantic succes- ser , but It has been used ! slnco 1874 all a , ship canal 1 for small craft , and also as a I hlp for the drainage ot the city This wall accomplished by the erection of big pmnp leg works near the spot whore the canal leaves the south branch of time Chicago river , I and hy pumpIng ao much of the latter'a I infernal cargo of putrid offal UI ( to the canal level and by dispatching In this way down to the illinois rev r and to the I\lIaslulppl. It was one of limo many temporary steps and botch measures which were taken by the city to get rid of limo foul contents of Its river before ! they would reach the very heart of the city , and later on the lake , Iollloning both ChlcaKo's diet ot air and ot I water But how much , or more correctly , how little , could be effected to that purpo-.o by a channel not over fifty-Dye test wide , and not deeper than seven ? What kind ot cut and ditch will It take In reality to ae- t compllsh a. diversion ! of Michigan waters ! sufficiently powerful to carry with them the wllOle of the Chicago rIver , and of Chi- I CJgo's sewage backwards to discharge them - ' ( Into time Mississippi : sYltem-that we will ' learn from nn Im'leetlon ' at the tremendous 'I work as It III now going on at the new draIn. , age canal itself , which will be given In another . other letter next Sunday , uno JIItACIlVOGE - - - Protect Your Chlldr..n , Mothers ! would 110 well to atomize their children's throat and nasal : passages morning and evening with Allen's Hygienic ! 1'luld-a , positive preventive of all cllltsgious diseases , i sllch as diphtjmerla , scarlet and typhoid fever ! slllall pox , bronchitis , ell' It hall a pleasant , aromatic flavor and Is perfectly harmlel8. , - - - - S..t"III.t'I' for 'I'hrt' 1'enra , LOS ANOIsLES , Sept , 7-Wllllam F.neeth , , . , a MInnesota rchool teacher , was today sen- ' . . tented to thrall years In Ban Quentin Irson : " . for forgery , nseth : forged the name of I. . 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