Box 5B
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Joseph Medill (Chicago) to Richard Prendergast, 1891-06-21
File — Box: 5B, Folder: C62a
Scope and Contents
Replying to Prendergast's letter of 1896-06-20. "The general object of the act is to keep the sewage of the city, within the Sanitary District, from flowing into the Lake and thereby contaminating and poisoning the city's drinking water, and this can only be done by turning the drainage channel into which the sewer empties westward into the Illinois River."
Dates:
1891-06-21