Show YERKES GREAT SCHEME To Transform Chicagos Filthy River Into a Boulevard Chicago Dec 2Twenty miles of docks on the lake front and the transformation trans-formation of the Chicago river into a boulevard by covering it with a culvert from end to end is what Charles T Yerkes proposes for Chicago The street car magnate appeared before be-fore the city council committee on harbors and bridges today and vigorously vigor-ously opposed the proposed deepening of the Chicago river and the lowering of the tunnels He urged that the city should grant the 6000 feet of land front it owns between Randolph street and Park row to a corporation with 50000000 capital to build 20 docks each a mile long which at the end of 50 years will revert to the city at the bare cost of construction Build them of stone said he and Chicago will have the finest docks in the world not excepting those at Liverpool e = |