| Show memo Chicago Record The tow cubic feet of water a minute now flowing tram from time the ChIcago river In Into Into to time the maIn drainage channel assumes Immense importance when It Is e emit that over had been e cx on the great grent work vork before time the shovel or of the dredge scooped out the thelast last yard o of earth which separated Lake from from the channel Eight Bight years and four months 81 ago 0 less one day the first of oC earth was lifted to begin the construction Thou Thousands sands of then declared that the da day never neer would dawn which would see lee the of the work But no now th the end is III In sight The Tho waters hare been back the current of time the river has been reversed Yester Yeater Yesterday day In marked tire the beginning ot of the final stage of at the Oti whIch Is mm in In must come a deep wa tem I Lake the rIver Time The story olof of th the Chicago sanitary canal illustrates tea the audacity pluck and enterprise which have made mado Chi Chicago eago cago a familiar name the tho world over oer Chicago did thIs to create n a waterway rater va for tor vessels from Cram Lake Inke to the gulf guC It Its It tion far tor that purpose Is on an engineering possibility I It for tor federal to work out In the future Chicago made mOlle this vast ast expenditure for tor pure water and the tho manner tn In which the gl gi project has boon been carried to com coin In the tote of at great engineerIng and obstacles reo re fleets tasting lasting credit upon the tho sanitary tru trustees to whom the people COple committed the dIrection ot of tho work from Cram time to time Chicago News It must have occurred to ninny many thoughtful cItizens that the method adopted by the drainage trustees yes yesterday es esterday In Iii the matter of opening the tho grOAt channel has some obvious talt over the tiresomely familiar way ot of doing OI by Injunction suits Time The beet engineering kill kili in th the United States State has hns been engaged on the drain drainage age problem The conclusIons o of time the most men in the field nil as to the tho results whIch will 11 follow oloV time the openIng o of the channel been made malle and those conclusIons are time the best guides that nn any ono one will get until there has hall been nn an actual demon demonstration through time the turning on of the water Vator Is no now In time the canal If Ifan In an Interest is III actually In Injured injured that Interest will have Its remedy In a 0 suit lull for damages or other legal iwo based net upon UlOn theoretical but upon accomplished results If n a mistake bo hue been en made anywhere It will wili now be brought to light amid rectified reclined Milwaukee Ws TM The commercIal aspect ot of the opening ot of the ne new clI canal Is III one that fore lake navigation tor or Central Contral 1100 I perhaps for Cor some ot of the tho along Mississippi The hard would b be materially changed d nt at man many poInts west ot of the tho Mississippi river it large lake lako carriers could auld proceed through the Chicago canal and enter the tho Pt pi by br way or of the tho proposed extension of the eanni to mM make It n a navigable water vay ChIcago secured n a bad back backdoor door for Cor liar her sewage will no now tr try to got gel th time to deepen deppen her main river and nel It its south branch branchon on the pies that they form 1 a pArt ot of a proposed WA Waterway to the Mississippi river but the government should hould with Itobi the dredging lion Uon until the canal is a ship canal In tact as well ns as In Imagination Cleveland Plain Dealer Deater To bp be on the sare sub It was as thought best to quietly lit let time the water In and say nothing about It until the deed was doime If Congress feels huffy about It questions Inn may I be asked of at the secretary o of wr war 1 a joint resolution mo many be intro d forbidding itt diversion of at lace Michigan water ateI until a congressional committee lies hal investigated the whole subject representatives and scan tore lOR may ventilate lI te And ask I leave ye to print In the but In the meantime the tho MichIgan water will viii hI be steadily St Rt Louis loul taking ln Chi Chit t cego along alonlo wills it Il for St SL Louis to tt There will I be f wraCk HAlh III Ib the Missouri city when Ills It is that time 81 sly hive p I march upon Item and they mA may turn out with broom like en 80 Mr lr to sweep back h lie fined od or of diluted filth nUh lawn the hi big It will 11 he In lilt Ch ll Has turn turned the trIck rick aid wb n It MU u safely dens there he Q a ot of time the affair with lend Anti jon enough to make tip for tor the t sj and t ot of time tho actual opening ot of the tho bIggest and costliest sewer the world has hll ever eer seen cen San Cnn Call The Tho lands along the Des Flames and tho he Illinois rivers are comparatively lint fiat Water does not flow rapidly down downtIme tIme the streamS and the danger of oC contain from rom the sewage e Is therefore great root In the long hot summers of at the Mississippi Valley It will wll not take much iii II tho way of sewer stuff lodged along the me banks ot of the rivers to spread die ease nse over oer a wide area of at country It Itis is II the fear of at that t ull which aroused hostility to the project when whelm first mooted and nud It was for the purpose of at allaying that hostility that the tho promo tens of the enterprIse changed It from froma a mere drain to n a great canal fitted for tor commercial uses Now York Journal No Now that the tho water vater route between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi him hIlS b been en opened it Il will gradually duall be Im Improved proved roell until In time the more inane or less din future n a fleet o of battleships cnn can go goIn goIn In case of n need d from rom the lakes to the defense of New Orleans With the Nb canal added and the Inland coast waterway from New York to Improved our MV navy will have havea a mobility that all the other ileeta ot of the world combined match Boston Doston Transcript In time this Is expected to be a loth ship canal connecting the great gNat laken with the tho Mississippi river rIer and the Gulf Gult ot of Mexico When this system gets Into good working order It will give cle 1 a flow Ilow ot of cubic per minute under perfect control to toward toward ward Lockport where It enters the Des river and thence through the Illinois and MississippI rivers to the Gulf of Mexico Them Thero hill has been a goad deal of Ineffectual Protest made by St SI Louts though it If tM the engineers chem cheat chemIsts lets and sp speak time the truth that city will be no worse orse oft than It was OS before The sewage hits hns been pausing down this sante coUrse at atthe the rate rato ot of cubIc feet per mInute so It Is the tho same how diluted ceven ceen and II a halt half times |
