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U., CHICAGO, NO. 3-192C. famoi*5 Explorers By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN UAFFIC police halt traffic across the Michigan boulevard bridge at the mouth of the Chicago river in the second city of the United States and the fourth of the world. It is 2 :30 in -the afternoon. Tlje solid lines of automobiles, three abreast, come to an unwilling halt, with much protesting clamor of horns from the ever-growing rear ranks. Two American Flags are flying at the north end of the bridge, and between thpm gathers a little group of men and women. "In the name of the Illinois Society of the Colonial Dames of America," says Mrs. Holmes Forsyth. The rest Is lost in the tumult of city noises. A man, heroically baring his head to the driving snow, says something in reply. lie is Maj. A. A. -Spra&ue and he speaks for the City of Chicago. Then a sheet is drawn aside and there is revealed a bronze tablet, thus inscribed^ "In honor of Louis Joliet and Pere Jacques Marquette, the first white men to pass through the Chicago river, in September, 1673." At the south end of the bridge, after the same short and formal ceremony, is unveiled another bronze tablet. This one is "in memory of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, and Henri di Tonti." The traffic police signal, the impatient motorists, swarm upon the bridge and the unheeding city traffic hurries by. In the more sympathetic atmosphere of the Chicago Historical society an interesting program Is carried out. For example, Mrs. Joseph Rucker Lamar of Atlanta, head of the National Society of the Colonial Dames, speaks on the value to good Americans of acquaintance with such important incidents of our early history. Prof. Andrew McLaughlin of the University of Chicago reviews the careers of these four famous explorers. Joliet and Marquette were in truth on the Chicago river, 1673. When LaSalle first saw the river has been a subject of sharp controversy for generations. It has been claimed that he reached the Mississippi by way of the Chicago Portage in 1670. It was in 1681 that he crossed the Chicago Portage on his way to the Gulf to take possession in the name of France. As to whether Joliet an£ Marquette were the first white men to see the Chicago river that's another question. History does not record any previous visit by white men, but there had been white men in that region for a long time. And' the Chicago Portage--together with the Calumet River Portage--was the common highway for all who traveled. If a traveler coining up the Mississippi wished to go to Green Bay or Mackinac he used the Wisconsin Fox Portage. If.jho wished to travel east via the St. Joseph river, lie used the Calumet rather than the Chicago river. Here in brief is the why and wherrfore of the presence of Joliet and Marquette on the Chicago river: % 1672 Louis de Ruade, Count de Frontenac. was appointed governor and lieutenant generalof New France. He was greatly interest^ in the exploration of the region of the Great Lakes and selected Joliet to search for the Great Klver_ believed to flow southward into the Gulf of California. Joliet was born In Canada, the son of a wagon maker. He had been a promising sHiolar in the Jesuits' school at Quebec, but had become a wilderness rover and Indian trader. He was a young man, but had already made a reputation. Joliet reached Mackinac In December of 1672, and was delayed there by ice till May. There he met Marquette, a Jesuit priest of good family, eight years his senior. He joined Joliet for the southern trip. He had no official connection with the expedition. They traveled In two canoes with five voyageurs. They went up the Fox from Green Bay and down tile Wisconsin and descended the Mississippi to the mouth of the Arkansas. Here, convinced that the Mississippi flowed into the Gulf of Mexico, they turned back and reached Lake Michigan by way of the Illinois, Desplalnes^ and Chicago rivers. Marquete went to his mis-'" slon on Green Bay. Joliet disappeared for a year and did not report to Frontenac till August of 167^. Marquette's subsequent history Is briefly this: He had promised the Illinois Indians near Peoria that he would return and found a mission. In the fall of 1674 he started for the Illinois village. Bad weather or illness, or both stopped his progress across the Chicago Portage, and he spent the winter on the river bank about six miles from Its mouth. With the spring he reached the Indians and taught them. His health and strength giving out, he started for Mackinac. He traveled around the head of Lake Michigan, working his Way up the east shore. He died on the way. The next year his bones were taken up and carried to Xlackinac. "He always entreated GiHj," ^writes Father Claude Dablon in his journal, that he might end his life In these laborious missions, and that, JIke his dear St. Xavler. he might die in the midst of the woods bereft of everything." Marquette's unfinished journal can be found in 'The Jesuit Relations." Here are some of the things the priest has to say about his winter experiences on the bank of the Chicago river: We started with a favoring; wind and reached the river of the portage, which was frozen to the depth of half a foot. There was more snow there than elsewhere, as well as more tracks of animals and turkeys. The land bordering: the lake Is of no value, except on the prairies. Deer hunting Is very good. Having encamped near the portage, two leagues up the river, we resolved to winter there, as it was impossible to go farther, since we were too mu<fh hindered and my ailment .did not permit me to give myself much fatigue. Several Illinois passed yesterday on their way to carry furs to Nawaskingwe. I do not think I have ever seen savages more eager for French tobacco than they. They came and threw beaver skins at our feet to get some pieces of It. They traded us three line robes of ox Bkins for a cubit of tobacco; these Were very useful to us during the winter. We have had opportunity to observe the tldea OOming in from the lake, which rise and fall several times a day, and, although there seems to be no shelter in the lake, we have seen the Ice going against the wind. The deer are so lean that we had to abandon several which we had killed. We : killed several partridges. ' .-•The blessed Virgin Immaculate has taken care of us during our wintering that we have not lacked provisions and have still remaining a large sack of corn with some meat and- fat. Frontenac wrote this letter to the French government upon the return) of Joliet: > Sieur Joliet . . foifnd some very fine countries, and a navigation .so\easy through the beautiful rivers, that a per-asagcan go from Lake Ontario and Fort Fronteiw?Wn a bark to the Gulf of Mexico, there being only one carrying place, half a league in length, where Lake Ontario communicates with L&ke Erie. A settlement could be made at this post, and another bark be built on Lake . Brie. . . . He has been within ten days' Journey ...of the Gulf of Mexico, and believes that water communication could be found leading to the Ver- " million and California Seas, by means of the river that flows from the west, with the Grand River that he discovered, which rises from north to» south, and is as large as the St. Lawrence oppo- ---"Wte Quebec. » I send you, by my secretary, the map be has made of It, and the observations he has been able to recollect, as tie lost all his minutes and Journals in the wreck he suffered within sight of liontreal, where, after having completed a voyage of twelve hundred leagues, he was near being drowned, and lost all his papers, and a little Indian whom he brought from those countries. It is interesting to note in these days of agitation over a Great Lakes-Gulf waterway, that in this letter Frontenac says In effect that the Chicago Portage Is navigable and that Niagara Fails Is the only obstacle to continuous water-travel. All the early explorers had the same idea about the Chicago Portage. If they had actually to carry canoes across they Incidentally remarked that a few shovels would change all that. As a matter of fact, conflicting statements as to the . Chicago Portage were due to seasonal conditions. In times of high water canoes and even loaded batteaux went through easily." Of course thefee early travelers knew nothing of the miles of underlying rock close to the surface along the Desplaines river. . - f Joliet's canoe was upset actually within sight of home, "after avoiding perils from savages and passing 42 rapids." Nevertheless, he proceeded to draw a number of maps from memory. The one reproduced in part calls the region "La Colbertie," after Colbert, minister of Louis XIV. The ^"Baye des Puans" (Green Bay) he names after an Indian tribe. The "Mlsion de St. Fr. Xavler" on Green lta.v was Marquette's chapel. "Mlsconslng," is of course, the Wisconsin. The Mississippi is marked, "River that discharges into the Gulf of MeStco." "ltlvlere de la Divine" is the Illinois. Joliet named It after two reigning French belles: Frontenac'8 wife, who had been Anne de la Orange-Trianon, and her bosom friend, Mile, d' Outrelaise. These two ladies were called "Lee Divines." At the bottom of the map Is the Ohio, marked, "Route of Sieur La Salle to Mexico." It was apparently added to the map by a later hand. ; Here is a resume of the career of Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-87), as generally accepted by the historians after many years of controversy as to certain points: He was born in Rouen, France, and arrived In New France in 1666. He Is credited with the discovery of the Ohio river, and probably followed it as far as the falls at Louisville. In 1678 he began preparations to descend the Mississippi to the gulf. He built Fort Crevecouer on the Illinois river (Peoria) and organized an Indian, league to fight the Iroquois Confederacy of New York, the overlords of all the tribes from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. In 1682 he arrived at the Gulf, by way of the Chicago Portage and the Illinois, and took possession of the region, which he named Louisiana, In the name of LouM.XIV. He returned to Canada and then went to France. Here under authority of Louis he organized an expedition to the Gulf, with the purpose of founding a colopy at the mouth of the Mississippi, lie sailed from France in 1684, missed the Mississippi and built a fort on what is now the Lavaca river In Texas. He was assassinated by one of his men March. 19, 1687, near the Trinity river in .Texas. "The Murtlier of Monsr. de La Salle," 18 reproduced from a copper plate by Van den Gucht In the London (1608) edition of Hennepin's "New Discovery." The portrait of La Salle may or may not have some basis of authenticity; it follows a design In C.ravler, which is said to be based on an engraving in the Bibliotheque de Rouen and is the only portrait worth consideration. Henri di'Tonti (1650-1704) was an Italian soldier of fortune. He entered La Salle's service in 1678. It was he who built Fort St. Louis on Starved Rock in 1681. He searched long for IJa Salle after Ms disappearance In Texas. After living with the Illinois Indians as a, trader he joined Iberville at New Orleans in 1702. Of thes^ four men Joliet was the efficient voyageur, with the advantage of an education; Pere Marquette was the devoted priest, whose passion was to convert the Indians: Tonti was the soldier, the loyal and devoted lieutenant of La Salle; La Salle was the man of vision who saw a French empire in the Mississippi valley. To the student of history the development of the Mississippi valley since the day of these four ex-^ plorers is a marvel of marvels. 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