Show LIFE LINE COSTS Cable 34 Miles Stiles Long Strung In the Drainage Channel Chicago Nov No 24 In the future it will not be necessarY to throw out the life line when a person pers m falls overboard In the sanitary canal at any point be between between between tween Willow Springs and the con controlling controlling trolling works A stationary life line consisting of a strong wire cable has been stretched along the entire dis din distance distance tance of 01 thirtyfour miles for the use of victims of accidents It was constructed at a cost of 12 The line extends al mg what is known as the Rode Rock Cut Here on n neither either side perpendicular walls of rock rise from eight to twelve feet above the tse t e waters edge There is no other possible means of escape for persons thrown overboard or who through any an anca cause ca are compelled to take to the water The cable is I made fast to Iron clamps projecting from the granite walls It hangs a few inches above the water and every quarter of a mile there is an iron ladder heading to the top of the rock rockWork rockWork Work on the cable was begun last May and completed yesterday It was examined and pronounced safe and ready for use |