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THE SAN FRANCtSCO CALL,‘ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1900. COMPLETION OF CHICAGO'S = = | ‘ ‘GREAT DRAINAGE CANAL ‘W ater Turned Into‘the'Art‘ific_‘ial Ché‘nnel That Connects Lake Michigan With the Mississippi River. B+ P 0T T IO 0 e P+ E SO0 0040009000404 000+09-00000 0009 “ g ] RESTORES LIFE FOR @ MOMENT French Scientist Produces Res- piration in the Corpse of a Girl. Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1900, by James Gordon Bennet. STORM RUINS THE MARE ISLAND QUAY County Roads' Throughout the State Rendered Impassable Waters. - @ - PARIS, Jan. 2—Thebault and his co-scientists engaged in trying to pre- o | vent pérsons-drinking, and Metchnikoff endeavoring to prevent them Erowing g | 4-'0ld, are put into the shade by Laberde with his “regular traction tongue™ & [} system of bringing the dead to.life. . had’ slid e | > Laborde’s system. was curiously illustrated at-Besancon by Professor Cou- ¢ . n g ¥ it-winter. The |4 tenot.- Among his hospital patients Coutenot had a girl dying of tuberculous & Y g the-breakers @ meningitis. .During one of his visits the girl dfed. The professor continued his ¢ : bl T he_ends: of {he Wharves | :) round of visits among the other patients and then went to the amphitheater, © £ 45 Soch bean s 28 3 where he delivered a regular clinical lecture for an hour on the subject of & | @ “Resuscitating ‘the drowned or suffocited by rythmical mechanical move- ¢ 2 |. ¢ ments. o the tongue. > - $ ' At thie ‘end of the lecture Coutenot announced to his pupils that he was * S - & golng to illustrate the technical part of the method upon the corpse of the o t $ ‘irl who had been dead more than an hour. The whole clinic returned to the & hospital ward. After the girl's tongue had b » drawn backward and forward & ; ’, several times, according to Laborde's theory, signs of respiration were no- : 4 ¢ -ticed and ccritinued for an instant. Shortly afterward the girl died agal &> ¥ = 2 @ieisieisieiedeieieieieieieieieie HARRY CORNSH ON THE ACK [Subjected to a Grilling Peteisies siedieieiere@ Cornish never flinched, but d baving been in that vi of the day before he package. e \‘“-Um!mi in making the acknowledge discrepancles con- the time the receipts of the seltzer; also errors in his state- he newspapers as to the manner he w t the Adams s on ng of the mv s dres: the mor: Weeks succeeded in getting the witness B R e 2 to acknowledge that in 159 he wore a P 2 Blaine hat with a black band, bvu s GENERAL VIEW OF THE CANAL NEAR ROMEO. Cross Examination. he denied having worn a hat of this char- S s 5 This plctira was taken twelve miles o from Chicago (at poiit marked on small.map: by ‘a cross), and shows, the 5 b By s P o e B g weather ‘cof o rock channel, by which the carial enters the Desplalnes River. Valley. ded significant chiefly because of the . Sto 5 Spectal Dispatch to ‘The Cail. Rt B Rt T s s B o600 0580 eb e st ede i o8edssestdededssdsedsd o ebedeirdsrdsse@® gy - Tonee and seeetiad etlen v ¥ NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—The forty-seventh « figured in this case. AG ah; ‘2.—The $33,000,000 | éapacity,” the tangl Hself,- properly speaking; | :and the’ popular error that' the two. municipal 3 By o e L Syusd & U : : HICAGD Iay e m‘sm ik, | Dekiris. 4t the South braich Of the -Chicagd | tes are one.from- the. taxpayers':standpoint and | -2y’ of the-trial-of Roland Molineux for | After the attorneys for the prosecution s oAn, presetit use BR2: | River at.Robey strest-and continugs southward | from- the .consideration of ‘the legal municipal | the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Adams | 8nd the defense, Recorder Goff and the bu i to be used as a ship ety Aol Chasnel Ttil.If reschos.| problesis. lavledd in thelr welfare: 16 s falla irors had questioned Cornisty Harry A canal, s in. use:t - after. seven Warks At Lookporte a -distariee’| Clous and.1ikely. 1o condict to such misleading years of hard w . the frustees s < of entirely grihdial con- | bonciusions. thd i “ednadt e o0 earty” Altary dist whieh ©ds - the Ty ok port, the ‘eharinel v to about 300 - The sanita of "Clicago” comprises a. e including - the | feet inta a basin,” in ‘which : the: large | all: of the. cf Sighty-seventh street rt. of Ehicago arid.ilake vVesséls tan be easily turned and: manel-| ‘togetlier awith some forty-three sguare miles of ts 3 & ast ‘the- Chi- { Yered.. Fhe fromi the meuth of the' Chicago | Cook €dunty, oiitside. of -the ity limits; which ts: suk Ol 1 HIVer to the Lovkport works—and be It remem- | Will be.directly benefited: by the. fmprovement , of 1t is in. tise, but the 'WALEr beref: that henveforti -the: Chicagd River-will'| The population: of .th -city” of' Chicago .1n. 18%, vet. Teached the "other end, -at | flow -un~stream; a§ comsi 0d—is | accarding to the Federal census, was'1,09 only. seveii. feet, X ater ' | and. the equalizad-assessment. valuation of real uigh the Chicago River | estite’ and other property subject.to -taxation Mtfolled by the-bear- | in -the’ sanitary” district for the. year 1868 was ks situnted at the | §218,299,977, being one-tenth of the reai estate. south of the coni- ces ‘are, elected by -popular vote and and will: not. reach. it: for the flow .of ¥ never before has ilic work : of such de been marked with ‘such abso- ¢ Thete | trolling: works b upt and - about :forty | form an independent organization separate and { of ceremony. There Were BO-Ly.oi i the next four mtles, "It is by medns | distinct:from the municipal government of Chi- no' exerciges; no. cheering. i of. thesé controlling- works that - the wifer will [ Cago.: The “trustees may . levy' and coliect | B m. the sanitary district trus-]be'turned down the villey by.the simple open- . taxes for - carrying.-on .the work entrusted to ing-af the.great s er valves, and it is also the .c them. to’ the extent of:ome-half of 1.per cent .of ntrolljng: works that 'the 16 scene. th the value of the. taxable property. within_ the Eineers gathore few workmen ‘theré werp-not-a Cornish ‘again on the stand. The cross-examination of Cornish by. Attorney Weeks was feature the day's proceedings. Weeks commenced opened with Harrs by inquiring about the -hour -of Cornish’s return home from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club on the night' of December 27, 1888. . Cornish ac- knowledged that he was mistaken in pre- violis testimony as to the nour. The line of the cro: questioning were soon shif! €d, Weéeks: apparently attempting to show that Cornish, after twenty years of car- ing for athletics; ought to-know the taste ot bromo seltzer. The witness was next compelled to run a-gauntlet of questions regarding his re- roker on King. a chan, testified that Cornish the ¢ solidated Ex- the stand. King had shown him the present which he thought had friend; that he went to intending to take a dose zer: that he found no ler and gave up the at- Christmas r in the ce tempt He identifled the pelson bottle and the bottle holder as those that he had seen at that e The next witness was Patrick J. Finner, the assistant of Cornish at the Knick- erbocker Athletic Club. He suggested to Cornish, he said, that it would be well to save the wrapper from the wastebasket, where Cornish had thrown it, for the pur- pose of finding. if possible, Some clew to the identity of the sender. The day's proceedings concluded with 1 ters -down.the valley: can’ be- as. suddenly-. corporate -limits of the district, ag the same.| lations with various -members of the ! medical testimony whic »secutic en spectators; Théve ‘was wg grand might demand: . | Shall bé assessed -and equalized’ for State ang:| 1AH0N a e T T e iadention . zen - 8§ aSe s W e o e enters | county” taxes o the Yeas i wntor the e, andl household. of Mrs. Adams, Cornish testi- | has. heretofore kep he background ) :-0¢ ‘wiiter, 10 ke followed by turned down. the | made, and, by amendm .- | fied that he went to Chicago in 1833, and | Coroner's Physician Albert T. Weston. rs- of the -spectaiofs. Indeed, e be: unceasing: and beyond.| ty-ninth -General Assembly Tlinois in_ 189 that his wife obtained a divorce from hif | 3 yie 5e Mra. A1 he. . Sihagey _wwen S z piag of the cangl resémbled more the neous, .for the ff this nower: was.incresed 1o 1% per. cent for 4|t March, 1897. Under a Severe Cross-e: B of Mrs. Adoms. was the first medi- eam of water that flowed over- the volume of 580,000 cubic: feét, per perlod af three years; beginning with the et oy, 9T b sev % | cal \-).u\ ss of s day. Ile teld ' de- -~ b e ol i e ‘stopped almast as eastly as. the simple | 15%. . Subsequently - It ‘appearing ‘that" the ‘dis. | aMination he admitted-that he knew Mrs. | tail the story of the postmortsm. Weeks COPIOUS DOWNPOUR land dike and gr e e t in’ thé spigot of a barr trict would not have &ufficlent funds to com- | Smail; that she had died in 15%4; that her | then cross-examined the witness at great CUFIOUS to t hole in. the ‘wall orks have inveived the' cc plete: the work.‘the trustees procured the pass- | real name w Mrs. Patterson; that | lenSth. He elicited the fact that Dr F sy -the great Chuice gates of metal, with |'age of an act by the General Assembly In 1897 o mde s T eston had not made a microscopic ex- A BOON TO FARMERS * ethod "was used to kheads, " and one bear-trap | extending the levy of 1is per cent for two years | Be had sent the woman to.a hospital be- | amination of any part of the body of 5, 3 sudden Tush of have fcal. flow, of | more, or uatil.and including ‘the. year 1599, | fore she died, and that had .paid th Mrs. Adams, though the physician him- - 0 Ber: ofye BRsie Lo L ening of ‘thirty-two feet, | They may Issye bonds to the extent of 5 per | expenses incurred in connection with her acknowledged the importance of thi < iabene Gl it'it robbed the opéning of ‘all ar-trap dam has_an openinig gent of ‘the value of the taxable property of the | burial. Cornish_apparently was irritatea | Court then adjourned until to-morrow. 3 tcally district, as determined by the last assessment | by the searching -questions asked b - . collateral éhannel | i, 2" said bonds: provided: Mowever. that pai s | AU e s Aefen v and Siaiy S o r. some tme fr 'l"‘ per cent shall not exceed the sum of $15,000,000, | L5 L€ 2 % e V'LLAGES DESTROYED Rt —_— ago’ River I ehin neavy foundati Under this authority the district has already |\ \""‘1”‘"’:(‘" f"\k""“ ]“;1 about that K pre the city to WIthil | gtreim leat aced as to fesued $13,900.000 of bonds, all pa n cur. | Physiclan told your detectives all abou i bein 44 per cent bonds and $5%0.60 being 34 | The witness was closely it 15 per cent bonds, running from one to twenty | cerning -his visit to the office Mr 3 e Fers i jears, except (e #15 per ceat bonds, whih run | Yocum, whom Cornish styled bis “Dest Terrible Havoc Wrought in the Aich- ; r a pros- for twenty years from date. Of the others one- | friend.” He was asked as to the route he istri P : twentleth Gf the issue must be pald off &nd re- | feak 1n BOINE from T ootey's ofce oore B alkalak District of' the Gov- < - - : tired each vear, and § has.already been | on.December 23. This line of question ernment of Tiflis. A e of S St Ietired, Jeaving $10.700.000 now outstanding. Ad- | wus ignificant, as it deve 1 the f: ST: PETERSBURG. Jan. 2—An earth- Lty at °9. o'clock -the gate oy Tetired on January 1, 1900, The bonds have been | that -Cornish passed the General Post- quake vesterday destroyed ten villages in . < A small t)r‘ am of-di » desir T s he valves | sold at an average premium of about 11-10 per | Office and that he had thus be given | the Aichalkalak district of the Govern- way to. the canal and cent. | the opportunity to mail the poison pack- | ment of Tiffis 4 e e e b the dredge had cut Goliiits o€ males | - = ke 5 \he h and. more -water-| ~ T k'in this great enterprise Wwas | % g . Brought Off by Tugs at er the ¥ with what had | pegun on i g i ’v'h..:,‘,.,w i . fore, it on the ice- | the- rock mont; ‘on “the line” be- | channe twéen Uoc 1 counties, so that a lit- Honolulu. ety tle over. 8¢ have been consumed in work i Over 8 entire an_outlay of about | tire ‘work c period ost of con Indeed, Iving dam \ve. an ce jam’ ths i the flow of wat s “not ¢ d.. At ed itself.close up 10 the 5 58,000, 00 y its engineers . are : 1-amd with- 2 “feW'| ynaniniovs-in the that_ the: work could | ftér a stream of water: both libor and r less than $40,000, 00 dredge continued and,. indeed, for the the fiffeen=foot wall 1 . the entire sewage oOf the | cut in the dam v Chivago,. which empties into*the Chicago | hic feet wat River, has,” as a. matter of fact, been flowing down Desplaine ley and -into_the IMi- nois and Mississippi rivers, That the citizens issinpi Valley @re ignorant of this as @ per Cent of certainly ‘are makes : it ‘non the less a ;. and -further- more, all this tine. the sewage has heen in a highly -offensive. contition, for -it has passed was strong down the eontinued €t wol all the discharge .50.000 | ute. - The ‘canal X0, 000 e feet admitted until-the chanrel s full. -down the Illinois .and -Michigan® canal,. into | he Chicago River had been turned into | which St wa the Dridgeport pumip- | empty canal the rate of 300, feet ing_w ]‘mn ; = V\Kx -“:“txfl -n;xlh he engineers. would have.fears .brafich in.a volume of only at 40,000 ‘cubic | totn od the: mumorons -Bridge [feet per: minute. It Is this same flow of actual | e vanal ehannel.and. Tor. the | sewase; therefore. and e and no- les e Nl O kunrt and the | -that is to pass' down the- Illinols Valley, but costrolllng works at - Lockport and, afluted by @ tremendous flow of. water ‘from | eity_of Joliet. forty miles.away. There:|jaie Michigan fpcreasing the total volume to would have béen aiso great danger in the 300,000 -cuble fest per myinute, or_ nearly eight Chicago” River from a sudden .fall of| times the past flow, and; by the rapid process | water and a consequent in:rushing-from [“of -exudation that takes .place in surging.and | d, and | Laike Michjgan. -About. Wedniesday: at | flowing. water, this. sewage -will ‘be rendered Ane On 1 ‘the water is expected. to reach Lock-| innocuous and harmless even before the city of re was. told that he | port, and about ar-days from. the time ached, i€ the conténtion of tlie most the flow beg according 10 the estimate | eminort.ch and Bectreiclintets s carmset t you? yelled the | of . the chief eng the ‘canal- will -be -, SHIuE O TN 40 e i et the cep hstruction ng sewers. now in pro- 1 'begin to Tun -over of Chicago 1 the water by the cit s Algoa answere silis at the gate at Lockport, twenty— i cimpleted, an approximate of 4200. cubic feet ht miles. from. Chicago. Thefe it Will| por minate: ‘of siwake, Which is now flowing soundings and fi | into the Desplaines “River and. then | fits T.ake Michigan, Will-be -divertel into the Algoa was o o the- llHnois and Mississippl. and 80 | Chisago River and the canal $o as to Increase returned. Tk ally Lake Michigan will shake hands by the addition. of. 500 feet per minate of as possible, and managec the Gulf of Mexie | sewage the amount now goihg Vi e | Vel 1o m sure “:‘-;i;‘ .l(zr\ people - are. aiready - eagerly | nols. River. - Consequently, it is said, it wilt | Guois also watehing the effect on the Chicago River cveral” monthk atter ‘the opening of the | she did of. ing of the canal. ” This stream. | ‘Tandl besgre BIS, G00 i S0 age aaaitional | frec which is g0 objectionable In its present |25 for. veurs been flowing down o that which has condition, is expected to. be comparativeiy the valley; and, reduced to a plain.statément onie | pure and certainly to lose all'its fedtuUres | or tacts, according to one of the trustees,. the She | objectionable frc itary s ot | dniy complaint which the: valley. towns .can when_ the present fon gives way tu'| now make 2 opeming ‘of the canal current from Lake -Michigan: B that e wili Ammediately -benefit their ‘pre: ent-conditions by a water dilution of seven-and | [ one-half times the volume of sewsge -now di- verted .down the. valley The canal has been c formity Awith the o dér which the fanitary crgamized, and 1L 1< of sufficlent size.and capa- e et the demands of the | city 'to produce and maintain at -all times a ns Lo meet the demands of the | continuous flow of. at ledst-310,000 cubic feet-of pvas ise. for It has lald the | Xer ber mimute, With & current mot exceed- : hip canal conmect- | N& eni mille por hour. “The flow of water 18 of e manitary’ dfstrice | the minimum depth Of 22 feet in the earth sec- | Chssian a8 Federal, Government the | tioss of the canal and the samedepth through- of Chlcagy and e T e ture ‘he | out the rock sections. The.rock sections are et et O oo e blisiare (b | constructed of & width of"150 feét:at the bottom in, rock xeavailon and basting wn | SE She fock Nections: ana. ive:of {he carih tie canal, ‘If confined | Joi{ong have now @.capacity for i o ne ringle reautrement of sieporing | 357N Vet O ater et minite: so@at when e 8 £12.009,000 10§11, on-"|“he population of the city of Chicago -increases $12,000,000 to $14,000,000, 80 the:| 3 "a"606-600 people these sections will sti]l be dd- D Justly claim. to have ex- | cquafe for all ' demands: ‘consequently the onfy in the direction.of the | work - then ining o be dor | yequirements oflaw and the necess Tnéreqcing poputation Wil be the miere shovoling and dredging .to deepen and widsn | eight -miles of -the -earth sections to. conform wWith the rock sections. The plan of the Chicago Canal can hardly be sald to be with any one man. It his been a growth; a development, and muny mem can fastly iay claim to having played a_prominent part in this great public The Hering Commisston; on_the first, made det ations for posai of | Uhicago ¢ tnis Lite Probably no public work has been aindertaken te or municipality which from designed to do so mach far ble and ¢ | “Interest of the the CGhitago: canal.. The-require- which compelled the construction . nstructed in strict con- gapspor ate of the law’ un- whole t of Chicago was n > carries a crew of law s the following officers: r e isford, Officer A K ond Officer W. Brown, Third 5. Vickerstaff, Purser A. ngineer Al H. Auld, Se ok, Third E: Engineer, Li J * WOMEN ond gineer J. Da- Summers. 1 be some 'big bills to pay as a e Algoa’s trouble = will have to be hip appears to & T buoy at the f last night pakd, and the | ve destroyed mouth of the chan- REMAINS OF MRS. LEARY IDENTIFIED AT LAST " ol St B THE LONG-MISSING WOMAN | tribuien tonart i, Cr iin the Gult of aen: ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED. ings niress Wil show that 100. years. of petitions and’ demands sssfonal appropriations for: harbors and by mprovements no’ peti- floning eity_or community has contributed for 1 druggists 4 within h of every it is sa’e say that Hudyan has cured thou- rands of wo- nen. who have ng triu anal-lies Dh the great interest Many times a mere announcement of our sale is sufficient to interest people to . whobav® | The body of the woman fognd yester tv in a manaer | o soine Commission was appointed by the Gen- the extent of buying. about it afternc at Point Richmond by fisher- laws of gravity mon law of Eng- embly of Illinois, ‘to ‘sit be :\,;»::»vc&le y g men was postitvely dentifid by veintives | fand oo the 4202 of the conaurat, when evc | RS AR "acvenbly? "Bl S They know that our values are values, that our prices are right, and above all as being that c s. Elizabe _eary. ns began to be mold ks L and o sion in. January, 1883, pre.cnied t5 the Geneia - ’ As was stated in yestorday's Call the body,| 10 the Dresent time. and Indeed the laws and | Xeembly at, S ngfleld a Bl drawn under its that everything purchased of us is guaranteed—your money’s worth or your money had been in the water 5o 1ong & time that® nised In (he flowinz streams of the Jands the | Cotssa wmich Became (he Sroundwork fer the turned. identification was almost impossible. Rel- ural outlet of ‘the sewage of all populous | present sarnttary district act. The valley people retu atives went to Martine and ex- mum{th‘;” “»‘\“-nrn-‘.l';{;‘_r.“r'\‘n;)fw:r?‘!,{r&'i:';"‘: offered amendment after amendment; the bill S b amined the clothing and were able to pos. | 2o 2y n e e R uatod Ta she nars | Mot consideed In standing commitices. in Jolat | Our double-breasted blue serges are popular, well-made, satisfactory in every :;’;‘\f:)r_“” 1“:”“.. .‘i“'” s that worn by the | watershed of the Desplaines River, there would |.great detafl in the two houses of ‘the General Y when she left home They ordered the remains shipped to Va- ilejo for interment be no significance in the plans forever to turn the sewage. of the city down: the vall Desplaines and Illinois rive Klctmbly of that vear. and was finally enacied || Way—particularly in price. into a law full of eompromises and concessions, the sanitary district. Cobseprotiy, while the y of the TS, but the unique- —_—_— Mrs. Le ]wfi an aged and highly re- | ness of the ¢ Bl at “1”“ s tove ruquir»mfln(; nhr lalv\ ‘h:; ‘«x\ mrm;m-p vote ' £ B i 2 pected restdent of Vallejo BEiEnLy T | Eraphical conditions niin prehistoric | the people of the district in November, 15, and i P ent—pri Ledta Soars oM, fufirm. and nonr-ieien Sob | Hmes-when the. oerflow of waters. if, indeed. | it comprises. within its ared 18 square miles. | It will Pa}l' evetry mout‘le'r to Vt‘;‘t 0;1!' Chl;}dre“ds _Clothxln, department—prior to stock-taking we ber 3 of last venr snr eiEhted. | On | e Waters of the great laks reklon, flowed | The popular impression that In its area it 15 verything—the store abounds in values. DAt the foot of Mrpy Look the fer- | B0 i Missiseippt “Valley by making a cut | practically coextensive with the limits of have reduced almost everything Yty t0-ber hone In’ cet on Lier [ gh the glacial drift and rock between Chi- | city of Chicago is entirely erroneous. As a. She stepped upOR the boat all Lrkce of s | LTSRS Lockpors of a5 avsTARs Qepth of sbout | matter of fxu, the Ssnifay Sistviet compriote | B i ¢ ac o | G & feet in order 0 Once thore. rentors | furty four 3 e ro and Lyons, . ot was 1o She had been spending a fow | tne gravity flow from Lake Michigan to the | which are not within the city of Chicago, and Qut-of-town orders filled; write us for illustrated catalogue No. 2. Desnlaines and Tilinos v | the city of C It is not because a canal has been constructed hicago, on the other hand, com- prises fifty square miles in Hyde Park, Lake, s or inflem- SNWood&Co. ‘718 Market Street. | days at the home of her daughter, Mrs. | Hen-y J. Wolters, at 610 Elizabeth street. | Jous Ciecharge (eucorrhoea): Her Gaughter and her sister, Mrs. Har- | but because a canal has been constructed which | Evanston and Jefferson, which are not’ within od e et rington. accompanied her to the fe:ry. | Giverts the sewage of the clty of Chicago from | the sanitary district. Consequently, while the They were there with her when she 3 {ts natural outlet through the Chicago River-f city of Chicago contains 188 square miies and grozeist. Mc a i ey Y4C YO for Vallejo 3 {pto the lake to an artificlal outlet from the| the sanitary district 152 square miles, there is nd they saw that she safely left the waiting-room and went on board the boat When Mrs. Leary disappeared she wore a dark gown and bonnet and gray shawl Thesé articles were found on the body and positively identified as belonging -to the missing woman, GET HUDYAN I x packeges for 54 1f your iruggist does ot keep it, send di- TAN REMEDY CO, cor, Stock- San Franciace, Cal. T FOR WOMEN Ghicago River into the Desplaines and Illinofs, that the citizéns of the Illinois and the Miss} sippi valleys contend against this artifict channel fn contradistinction -to the inherent Tight of communities to dispose of sewage by the natural gravity flow of the country. While the Chicago River has been deepened end widened in order to Increasa its flow and really within the combined rea of the two 94 quare miles In which there is no community of interest as affecting the two municinalities. Every one row freely admits that the entire clty of Chicago should have been made a part of the sanitary district at the beginning, but this was not done and cannot be done without additional legislation by the General Assembly, EE.) DOCTORS. CALL OR