Show ty t y ELMO SCOTT WATSON I PC aly turned baab the regi r egi pages 0 history more athan 20 scars in atash alie other day Ss and there was drama in ts the scene too even i though a united states supreme coart chancery 3 about the last place on loud expect to see drama enacted but this ft as nn unusual court case and the fact tint the actors in it are of na alou wide interest if for no other reason would mike it noteworthy for this was the great level cont in which the plaintiffs are the states of wisconsin michigan minnesota ohio vanla and ie york ahe defend ants are the equally states of kentucky fennessee lenn essee louisiana arkansas mississippi and illinois and more especially cl otal dais of the metropolis of the middle attest in he person of the chicago Benl tary district llie adge was charles ians highes bornor sor nor of ew york lie publican presidential candidate secre tary of sante supreme court and united states senator who acted as special master for lie supreme court in li earing evidence in the vise the chief of counsel coun sel for lie complainants nants was newton I 1 haler who was sKie tary of war in the add to theca mid college ors of netlon il rano n and you haie lie stage set for the great court scene in tills drama ang among these was dr james W goldthwait professor of geology in college and a former lu tor at university atho as a pro ducca the historic exhibit A which the gap of two centuries and n hilt between the time of the trench esplor cri alien most of he Arn erkan continent was hlll a and modern das alie radio made the man in maine next door neighbor to the mau in washington for this inhibit A was a niep drawn lv 1 AI arquette in hla ex of the illinois headwaters tn which was among the hun of introduced into lie and which ma proe n de casle factor in alie control eriv alie hundreds of mapa hae been introduced into he evidence are ona a emall part of it for the record of this controversy which gw hichi ta alie nag of the old illinois ailcy canil in ISO lias crowing aster aid in RI eater bulk linn the down alie longer hilll in alio world already more than 1000 OX ord of et lune beci put into the record and the case has the onh hae bwy heard from and the are et to le nutria ahm the are on january 10 the cam bopf nd eirts in november Noi ember and into her when an adjournment upon hie of mar from the inked hy the ch of us nn aid in it wua for the purpose of cepil proof in the record hat sueji ft elon does hat and other historic were into the evidence so doctor B n alinosi middle ared scho ar atho ahna cohere tip of the ar the of con sj evsy greba i ml aln of early e end hundreds of limps made bv oilier cartographers who followed alie jesuit priest came before master as an expert witness it was ills testimony which turned back alie iager of hl history story to an almost forgotten era doctor goldthwait admitted tant rather Mainu ettes map blows a con line running from the des plaines aher which empties into alie illinois to the chicago aher originally flowed into lake michigan thus indicating thit the jesuit explorer biad bunde his canoe journey bi waler without a portage and that here was a continuous flow of water from the des nes to the lake nut this Is lie only gnp which does show lmh n water communication all oth rs to doctor a natural between the headwaters of alie two along the line of what Is now kedzie me nue chicago alie point la conald ered altal for one of the chief con tent lons of the Is tant the which reversed lie low of chicago river and fiade tt ar the only river that flows uphill joined lie two great continental aher fy stems tho and the st lawrence over a natural barrier the line of tie pret ent avenue which as a conal he tant from time librn moraul the flood of the DM plaines aher lind ill nr loui tines run off into inett haf stated thit ohp enters bif the cl and coin axt now alch hut tant hal the cuarenta cur renta anil not onla oiled cateri that should hae flowed into I 1 nap to he in lo 10 ali auler fand hut and anter bioni I 1 ake ats if the in alls w yerk to enjoin adli arld nun in baich na nord tn to their bip j tient lake i lower liiK of ane normal iuria leel j diio tine ahr i n iu hint the h 13 burdened the population of downstate illinois anil adjoining territory in the mississippi bisan ith polluted water and that adequate aT Farl sewage disposal plants would moke unnecessary withdrawal of wn tir sufficient to constitute a burden on greit lakes hen the defendants anbe the stand with chicago ai chief proponent it Is expected that they will not benj that an actual dh erslon water exists but they will deny thai this dh erslon ling done any real in joiy to 0 her lake states ibea ably will argue lint the leel ot the lakes Is dependent upon cycles of rain fall that it was lower in 1895 than in 19 and that the decrease in recent cars la due to lessened lion not to the chicago drainage canal V hether or not the SI arquette map will be the decisive factor in the case as it has bein said that it may be to be been after the has completed its estimated ano weeks of and argument and sir lias submitted the record together with a digest of the law his to the supreme court if perchance father Marquet tei does peoro 0 o be a decisive factor in g the caie in anor of the defendants ohl cago and the MIi lille wet will hae all the more reason for ahli memory in reference ahls jesuit priest who with hla companion jollet the fur trader came to the illinois country in 1173 and who was one of ohp first if not the very fant white man to thi present alto of chicago Is one if the best loved heroes of the middle we ahli name appears in doben of places on the cups of extern aites it Is perpetuated in schools and other in raids streets towns delm and counties chicago larte hns to honor him lat a new monument shown clove hiis un aled in it standi opposite the riall rIc ll MK school nn hit the three figure bere iere mr duette jollet and an indian guide the plon ctr ma be a coni tant tn 0 o of the fu hire |