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Show CHICAGO TO GAIN 100 ACRES OF PARK Chicago. Sept. 26. A plan to mako 100 acres a j'ear of public park land out of Lake Michigan without cost to the city wns submitted to the city council by tho Chicago plan commission commis-sion last nlvht. The scheme suggested suggest-ed Is to allow contractors who cart away ashea, clndors, excavatod earth and other materials the privilege of dumping the waste Into the lake providing pro-viding they build retaining walls at thoir own expense The roport was adopted by tho council and favorable action seems probable by tho aldermen. alder-men. Estimates are that four million cubic yards of waste material could be obtained each year. At prasent, 2.-000,000 2.-000,000 cubic yards of wasto 1b haulQd far out In tho lake at great cost to the contractors. The report points out that while the park area of Chicago is only 3,600 acres, Boston has more than 12.000. New York S.000. Philadelphia 4,000 and Los Angeles 1.000. tf |