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Excerpt from Special Report of Mr. John F. Wallace to the Committee on Railway Terminals of the City Council of Chicago: On Conditions Relative to the Proposed Union Station Company Ordinance Proposed by Mr. Bion J. Arnold and Also on the Recommendations Made by the Officers of the Chicago Plan Commission The Adams street location is either preferable to the other two locations, or it is not. Considering the present situation, there would seem to be no question as to this, the most important controlling element being its relation to the convenience of the public using it and the gen eral interests of the public as a whole. As no proposition has been advanced or considered looking to the abandonment of the property used for railroad purposes north of Harrison street, and as this development does not interfere in any way with the freedom Of movement between the South and West Sides, er inter fere with the Chicago Plan, there would seem to be no valid rea son why this site is not preferable. While certain future eventualities, which are entirely conjee tural, might make the Harrison street situation a desirable one. 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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John Findley Wallace was born at Fall River, Massachussets, the son of the Rev. David Alexander and Martha (Findley) Wallace. His family moved to Boston in 1854 and subsequently to Monmouth, Ill. , where on January 1, 1857, his father took office as the first president of Monmouth College.
In Boston he was enrolled as a student during the years 1865-71, but he refused to take certain subjects required for a degree and consequently did not graduate.
To help pay his college expenses he worked as a rodman on the Carthage & Burlington Railroad in 1869, and as a draftsman for the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis in 1870. His first permanent position was that of assistant engineer in the employ of the United States (1871 - 76), working on improvements in the upper Mississippi, particularly on surveys of the Rock Island rapids and for a ship canal at Keokuk, Iowa. During the next few years he engaged in private practice at Monmouth, but served also as city engineer and county surveyor. From 1878 to 1881 he was chief engineer and superintendent of the Peoria & Farmington Railroad and from 1881 to 1883, of the Central Iowa Railway in Illinois; these five years were spent largely in supervising construction between Peoria and Keithsburg. He was chief engineer and master of transportation of the Central Iowa between Oskaloosa and Peoria from 1883 to 1886; in 1886-87 he was engaged in surveys and construction for the Northern Pacific in Wyoming, and in 1887-89 was bridge engineer for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé. He then reentered consulting practice in association with E. L. Corthell and during the next two years was concerned with bridges over the Mississippi River at St. Louis and New Orleans, and the entrance of the Santa Fé, the Chicago & Alton, and the Illinois Central railroads into Chicago. He was also for a time resident manager of the Chicago, Madison & Northern. In 1891 he began a thirteen-year connection with the Illinois Central, rising through various offices to that of general manager in 1901. His work included the elevation of the Chicago tracks, the provision of facilities to handle the crowds visiting the World's Columbian Exposition, and the construction of terminals at Chicago, New Orleans, and Memphis. Wallace became interested in Panama through a visit to the Isthmus in December 1896. He was suggested for membership on the first Canal Commission, but failed to receive an appointment. In June 1904, however, he was made the first chief engineer of the Canal, in which position he served for about a year. He favored the sea-level plan, but the type had not yet been determined by Congress; most of his work, therefore, was of a preliminary nature, although some actual excavation was begun. When the Canal Commission was reorganized in April 1905, with Theodore P. Shonts as chairman, Wallace was made a member, retaining also the position of chief engineer; he continued, however, to feel hampered by the lack of authority and by conflicting instructions and in June 1905, attracted by an offer from a private concern, he resigned.
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He married Sarah E. Ulmer on September 11, 1871.
