. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . ed in 1863. The alarm telegniph adopted in1864. The opera-house built in 1865. The telephone introducedin 1878. One of the most thorcmghly interesting engineering exploits ofthe city is the tunnels and water-works system, the grandest andmost unicpie of any in the world; and the closest analysis fails todetect a
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . ed in 1863. The alarm telegniph adopted in1864. The opera-house built in 1865. The telephone introducedin 1878. One of the most thorcmghly interesting engineering exploits ofthe city is the tunnels and water-works system, the grandest andmost unicpie of any in the world; and the closest analysis fails todetect any iini>uritics in the water furnished. The tirst tunnel isfive feet two inches in diameter and two miles long, and ciin deliver50,OUO,00U gallons per day. The seojiid tunnel is seven feet indiameter and six miles long, running four miles under the city, andcan deliver 100,000,000 gallons per day. This water is distributedthrouirh 410 miles of water mains. Chicago river is tunneled for the j) of pedestrians and vehi-cles from the South to the AVest and North divisions. There is no grand scenery about Chicago except the two seas, oneof water, the other of prairie. Nevertheless, there is a spirit aboutit, a push, a breadth, a power, that soon makes it a place never to r.
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