Judge Gibbons Decries North Side Land Grab and City Docks
Judge John Gibbons warns the public of a potential loss of 9,147,000 square feet of submerged land north of the Chicago river, urging Illinois and Chicago officials to uncover Streeter rights and pursue action. The item notes franchise issues for the Postal Pneumatic Tube Company, calls for public ownership of city docks, and outlines upcoming primary and election dates as political campaigns intensify.
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Judge Gibbons
North Side
Chicago
Streeter
Great
Olympus
Illinois
War Department of the United States
United States
Lake Michigan
Lake Front
Council
Gibbons
Legislative Committee
Postal Pneumatic Tube Company
Council Finance Committee
Chicago Association of Commerce
Chicago Postal Pneumatic Tube Company
City Aldermen Back Municipal Ownership of Outer Harbor
Chicago aldermen vote unanimously to back city control of an outer harbor on the North Side in a landmark move toward municipal ownership of a public utility. The measure, urged by Alderman Dever, prompts a clash with the Pugh Interests over docks north of the river mouth and a potential Supreme Court showdown.
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Dever
Sam
Chicago
War Department
Pugh
United States Supreme Court
James A. Pugh
Chicago Dock and Canal Company
Indiana Street
Albert J. Fisher
Fisher
Law Department
Supreme Court
Parsaloux
Traction Fund
Committee On Local Transportation
Corporation
Transportation Committee
Bion J. Arnold
Foreman
Arnold
Fishers
Charles EB. Merriam
Busse
Elton Lower
Civil Service Commission
Alderman Long
Alderman McInerney
Commissioner of Public Works
Alderman Littler
Metropolitan Railroad
van Buren Street
Commissioner of Buildings
Ordinance Mandates Sprinkling of Street Car Tracks
City Council ordinance requires every street car operator to sprinkle street car tracks along streets within the city unless explicitly exempted. The measure imposes duties on persons or corporations maintaining and operating street car tracks to ensure dust and debris control per the posted provisions.
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Captain Streeter
Washington
St. Louis
Lloyd
Missouri
Far West
Southwest
Middle West
Northwest
McKinley
New York
Republican Committee
League of Republican Clubs
John Hays Hammond
Democratic Federation
Owen
Oklahoma
Way
Horan
Alderman Cermak
Democratic Organization
Democratic Party
United Societies
Personal
State Senate
Walter R. Michaelis
Associated Organizations
Michaelis
Anton J. Cermak
Ald
Herman J. Bauler
A. W. May
C. R. Jandus
Legislature
Senate
Secretary of State
Board of Election Commissioners
John A. Cervenka
Fritz Glogauer
Matthew Huss
John A. Smejkal
Charles H. Kellerman
Joseph Helmenjak
E. J. Richter
George Landau
Nicholas Michaels
Bayler
The
United Socretion
Oregon
Messrs. Urion
Dawes
Greifemhagen
Larta
City Docks
Subway
Charles
Deneen
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