State Of Missouri Vs State Of Illinois And The Sanitary District Of Chicago

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Excerpt from State of Missouri Vs State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago Q. Please state your full name and address? A. John W. Alvord. Q. Also your occupation? A. Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineer, Chicago, Illinois. Q. How long have you been engaged in the practice of your profession as a hydraulic and sanitary engineer? A. About twenty-four years. Q. Where? A. With Chicago as a center, in and about Chicago and tin: middle west. Q. Mr. Alvord. give an outline in a general way of your educational training? A. I was ready for entrance to the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College in 1877, hut was unable to take the course owing to poor health. My engineering education has therefore been confined to study and travel, coupled with practical experience. The first engineering work in which I was engaged was in 1879 in Chicago in connection with the construction of the Hyde Park Pumping Station of the Chicago water works and the Inlet tunnel to such station under Lake Michigan. Later, I was in charge of the operation of the Lake View Station of the Chicago water works, and was for four years City Engineer of Lake View, then a separate municipality from the city of Chicago, since annexed. After the annexation of Lake View I engaged in general practice in sanitary work in the suburbs of Chicago and adjacent cities. I visited Europe in 1888 and 1894 and examined the ques lion of water purification and sewage disposal particularly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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