Show Lakes kes and Bulldog With Her 4 r 4 Jg c MA STREETER By ROY J. J GIBBONS C Copyright P T 1927 NEA EA ServIce Inc CHICAGO March larch Down where the Chicago waterfront overlooks over over- looks the choIcest and proudest section see sec tion of the c city's tys ty's fam fand lI Gold Coast boulevard of brownstone fronts neT nT ill p there la there es-there 1 ides at anchor battered and forlorn forlorn for for- lorn an empty and abandoned Cl aft boat is the last vestige of the Kingdom of the J is s aU that remains to remind the year of a decade and less 0 G 1 I St d doughty and d rile threw a gesture at Chicago ch JUlS gone d down wn into its his his- lor t three months ago the craft the home of oC wIdow zhe he scrappy Ma fa Street Street- er Cr who ho dwelt in it with none but a awhile while bulldog for l company and a 1 across her knees SHE'S GONE d. d one None ow Ma la has disappear 1 exactly where sheh s gone To fo all this a 11 tal tale which cla back to 1886 arni amI Is the night of the big j md d It seems the grew sick of oft t Chicago anti and deci decided ed to pack up tn nd shove of off in his good old flat flat- bottomed scow thern But a arose and the We grounded on a sandbar just a few hundred feet from where he had set out the day The c couldn't get it off Da Days s 's lengthened into and that time the doughty old fellow with appraising eye welcomed wel- wel corned the efforts of contractors and excavators tho ho were using the c roadstead of f the for a dumping ground More years ears passed and the dumpIng dump dump- jag Ing ground blossomed into a wIde patch Datch or of made land The The- all this bY squatters squatter's right and called it The of Lake He claimed his possession posses posses- sion to be beyond the control of state and forthwith busied him him- to establish sh on it an Ameri an counterpart of Monte Carlo He Hc s t himself up as absolute t f or of his De and battled r- r off an who came t take it It from h hIt l with shotguns and rifles In one ed battle one man was wast t kilLeL d. d and nd several wounded t AJ- AJ UGE SUM called his the of Lake Michigan and andis w is known as Streeter- Streeter 4 ym y es almost r- r v rth of property today and the Jad oJ this wealth is built is perhaps perhaps' as much agaIn I Ii i ye rs ago the died in inI I of a supreme court fight Ight Cv r D estrict I ut gone his I. I V did not relinquish i the fight t together the now battered houseboat and moored litti tto one spot and then t tO an- an a ways keeping within the Ja waters off the Streeter t coa t. t Not ot so long ago the decision of Ui supreme sueme court was Was handed din confirming the judgment of l court court Mas case was Jot v r. r c h servers have been Ma la since The They want her i ve her boat nut But Ma la is She h has s not been seen since la Just tied to tot worn a-worn old t vb but but i it speaks the y histo da day when n. n tall lean a ls i walrus p and t hit hat defied all of Chicago iia hin fIght for br a fortune jr are ire the thc a answers to Now You ADne today A A- s schooner Henry Dana rhy rh y yere ere ere called caled clipper ships A. A Steady unvarying winds that i ss certain parts s o of the Atlan- Atlan tl land oceans so reliable t t ding vessels were able to jn k fairly regular schedules by th Cape Horn ii 6 j. j Regions ns in the Atlan Atlantic tic an and na oceanS near the equator ere rc sa sailing ling otten were for weeks weeks' at a time 1111 Privat ers i journal or diary In which t enters enters each days day's s y 9 t o d' d vessel ll 11 sQua sans sails on both masts 0 b te f chief r food t S Ii R y ge's tj fi fir r J gJ I J i |