American continent, Chicago has grown up in thir- employed in this work, in three relays, working ty-six years from a lair of wild beasts to a great eight hours each; the only cessation being from 12 metropolis, under some of the grossest natural dis- o’clock Saturday night, to 12 o’clock Sunday… … the next ten feet, and shore by a ceaseless CHICAGO WATER-WORKS TUNNEL. the highest fifteen feet. drench of abominations from the sewers of the city, It was impossible to conduct water from any point remote enough to be assured against this contamination ; and in fact, the shore water from whatever…
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