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ggsEW&ygg LAST EDITION LAST EDITION GIRL CLINGS TO STORY AGAIN S? WEIGLE JUDGE LANDIS CONSIDERS McCORMICK CASE Entered as Second-Class Matter April 21, 1914, at the Postoffice at Chicago, DL, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran. Editor and Publisher. 500 South Peoria St. 398 Tel. Monroe 353. By Mail, Except in Chicago, $3 a Year. VOL. 4, NO. 46 Chicago, Thursday, Nov. 19, 1914 ONE CENT ILLINOIS CENTRAL GRAB IS BRANDED "STEAL" BEFORE ALDERMEN Henry W. Lee, Greater Chicago Federation, In Speech , Before Council Committee, Give Hot Shots to South Park Board Says I. C. Has Only Squatter's Claim The Illinois Central land contract with the South Park commissioners came up for handling by the city council harbors committee this morn ing. Across a table from John Bar ton Payr.e and Robert Redfield, president and attorney of the South Park Board, Henry W. Lee, consult ing engineer of the Greater Chicago Federation, declared: "The contract by which the South Park commissioners propose to give the' Illinois Central a strip of land five miles -long on the lake frontpjf-Cni- cago is a steal from the public. The so-called riparian rights which it is assumed the Illinois Central is to give as a consideration are rights which the Illinois Central does not hold. "The supreme court of the United Stafes has, repeatedly ruled that the Illinois Central has no riparian rights to land upon which it squatted in the early days of Chicago. The only rights it has to exchange are squat ter rights. "The Chipperfield legislative com- 1 mfeon' -oih -submerged and shore IJttfrBtegakMM - j,i mtmrnrnm