Salt Lake Herald | 1900-01-04 | Page 4 | Chicago's Achievement

ACHIEVEMENT Chicago has added ad insult in to lie io e in injury injury Injury jury he dM d St Louis by outgrowing i the river city The pork peck pack p I j erg r s have turned their sewage e I into the Mississippi Mi The lake was waa in inadequate Inadequate I adequate it seems and the Chicago river lay down under the load and re refused rei refused i fused to move moa I After contemplating the situation with clothespins n on their noses for tor a quarter of a century the santary au authorities of or Chicago decided that some something something something thing would have to be dona It was wasa W Wa a little expensive ve to burn bum the place again so they the conceived the idea of making the Chicago rl river er run up upstream upstream upstream stream Like a balky horse hoe t refused refu ed i ito to move en at ward and they resolved oved re to toBee toBee Bee see if like the course of empire it take its way westward I This plan was wag adopted without de delay delay lay Jay and with utter indifference to ex ox expenses expenses I pauses It was an opportunity to kill two two birds bild with one stone Chicago I could get rid of her accumulated cow cowage age and St Louis was down the river It was 88 like emptying slops slope out of an i upstairs window on a rival sleeping in inthe inthe I the alley ailey below So the canal has been Men finish d The I river flows backwards Chi ChiI Chiago I ago cago people l pl have our warmest congratulations con at and of St Louis Louie dur due most t tearful consideration 1