A Two Mile Walk Under Lake Michigan

About the middle of January the old tunnel under Lake Michigan, for the water supply of Chicago, was pumped out for an examination of the masonry. On the 24th of January, Mayor Harrison, with the city engineer and several reporters, walked through the tunnel to the crib, a distance of two miles, on a tour of inspection. The bottom of the tunnel at the land end is sixtyeight feet below the surface of the earth, and the party were let down into the great hole at 2:15 P. M. "With lighted miners' lamps they started on the journey, which was found to be laborious as well as uncomfortable, the water being ankle deep and the tunnel not quite high enough to permit a man to walk erect. The masonry was found to be perfect, and in commemoration of the trip, which took one hour and thirty-flve minutes, the Mayor screwed a brass píate to the wall of the tunnel 3,000 feet from shore, hearing the inscription : "Water let in Maren 24, 1867. Pumped out January 18, 1882. Found in excellent condition." Aclimb oí a series of ladders, seventy-two feet long, brought the party, well nigh exhausteJ, to daylight at the crib. Fourteen kinds of doga can be distingulshed in the Greek and Boruan records.