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january 11, 1929 DONALD B. MACMILLAN COMES TO SUNDAY CLUB Famous Arctic Explorer to Tell of Recent Polar Expedition at . Meeting JanuarY 13 I WILMETTE LIFE 3 In Guild Play ----------------------------~ GRADE SEPARATION NOW!" Kenilworth'· $61,000 Recreatioa Ceater JJNNETKA LEADER UR.GES Now Open - to be Dedicated ia DEDICATE GYM SOON February, Saya School Head Rail Croaainga . of North Shor~ Donald B. MacMillan, veteran Arctic explorer. will be the speaker at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club January 13. His subject will be: "Under Northern Lights." Anna Nyberg Spooner, violinist, will be the soloist this Sunday. From his first trip to the Arctic with Peary in 1908 when the latter reached the Pole, Captain MacMiltian's time has been continuously devoted to Arctic work and exploration. , With the exception of that of his chief and instructor in Arctic lore, Admiral Peary, his record of twenty years of achievement in the frozen North i~ without parallel. His repeated expeditions have added greatly to our understanding of that region. His contributions to the knowledge of its geography, natural history, ethnology, meteorology, etc., have been invaluable to science. Learfer in Science Captain MacMillan sailed from Wis.:asset, Maine, in July 1927, with a shipload of scientists from the Field Museum of Chicago. They estab,ished themselves for the winter in Northern Labrador in a situation suitable for a large variety of scientific observations and researches. We know from many messages received by radio from the party that these have been markedly successful. Many trips by dog sledge have been taken, much unknown country mapped and interesting contacts made with the natives. A message received early in March reported the worst blizzard known in Captain MacMillan's twenty years of Arctic expe.rience. Popular as Lecturer His lecture "Under the Northern Lights" will be looked forward to with keen anticipation by Sunday club patrons. The American lecture platform has known few more popular lecturers than Captain MacMillan. His modesty, sincerity, his admirable qualities as a 'mixer" and the absence of all artificiality and clap-trap make a strong appeal to the tens of thousands all over the country who have heard him again and again. 4 c. Legion Gets Thanks for Aiding Disabled Vets Harvey Hopp, commander of Wilmette Post, No. 46, American Legion, is in receipt of a letter from Edward Rosenthal, field director of the Red Cross at the Great Lakes Naval hospital, thanking the post for its interest in the hospital throughout the year just past. :M r. Rosenthal gives specific thanks for the party held Wednesday December 26, which the Wilmette post gave for inmates of the hospital. He closes by wishing American Legion members here a successful 1929. THREE DAYS IN CAMP Fifteen boys, members of Boy Scou! Troop No. 13, Kenilworth, took a three-day hike to the Cabin-in-tht'WQIOds last week with their Scoutmct.ster, 4'Bob" To,vnley. The boys left Wednesday and returned Friday. Snow games proved highly popular while the boys were at camp. GUILDS MEET TODAY The Associated Guilds of St. A ugustine's Episcopal church are holding . a business meeting this afternoon in the clubhouse on Wilmette avenue. Kenilworth's new $60,000 memorial Held Grateat Menace to gymnasium will be ready for use Mon· Life on Shore . day morning, January 14. Although some' interior finishing work remains to Editor's note: Something must be b e d one, t h e b as k et b a 11 fl oor Wt'11 b e done as promptly as possible to rid · the north shore community of its greatest available at that time. The gymnasium, which adjoins the menace, that of Grade Crossings! The new $140,000 Joseph Sears school ad- recent deplorable tragedy at Kenosha, the equally tragic death of Mrs. Emma dition on t h e sout h , h as b een un d er Loeb recently, at that death crossingconstruction for the last six months. Gage street, Hubbard Woods-only It will be equipped with the latest type serve to re-emphasive the imperative· h. Th b k b 11 fl ness for immediate action to Insure o £ f urms mgs. e as et a oor Grade Separation, not five or ten years is of sufficient size to permit the play- · hence, but in the immediate future. We ing of two games at the same time. submit in this connection the views of a With the opening of the new gym- prominent Winnetka citizen and invite from other north shore l lasium, a complete program of indoor expressions residents. Let us have Grade Separa· athletic activities for persons of all tlon Now! ages is to be started. The building will serve as a· community center, and Editor, Wn.M~rre LIFe: will be in use continuously, not only I know of no better New Year's during school hours, but after school resolution for the trustees of the variand in the evening as well. The $60,- ous villages along the north shore than 000 covering the c'o st of the structure, this, "Abolish Grade Crossings." is being raised by private subscription. In the Chicago Tribune of January Dedicatory services for the new gym- 2 there was the following editorial : nasium are to be held sometime next Crossing the Tracks Four young people of Kenosha were .month, probably on Lincoln's birthday, ground immediately to death when two Mrs. John Marshall, of Hubbard Supt. E. L. Nygaard stated this week. automobiles in which they were followThe building is to be dedicated to ing a hidden treasure were struck by Woods, will appear in the North Shore Kenilworth's World \Var veterans, and a North Western locomotive. Another Theater Guild's presentation of "The a tablet in the lobby will bear the youth in the p~.rty died subsequently Dummy," by Harvey O'Higgins and nimes of all men who served in the and three others were badly injured. Six persons, all members of two famiHarriet Ford, at the Wilmette Wom.- war. The Kenilworth Neighbors' club lies, were killed the other day when an's club · on January 22. M.rs. Mar- recently announced a donation of their automobile was struck by a Soo shall plays the part of Rose, the wife $1.000, part of which will be used for line train in Oak Park. A seventh was of Spider Hart, leader of the men whr1 the purchase of the tablet, while the Injured. In neither of these grade crossing have kidnapped and are hiding the remainder will be placed in the build- tragedies can the blame be fixed on the motorists for reckless driving nor on little girl. She has played with the ing fund. the engineers for neglect. With extraGuild twice before, one time as the ordinary precautions on the part of the drivers in the two accidents the com~ VISIT PLAY CENTERS wife in "Come, Seven" in 1922, and of course, would have been avoidalso a·.s the Duenna in "The Duenna," Members of the Recreation staff sions, ed, but only ordinary safety measures the Guild's major production of 1925. spent seve·ral days of the Christmas were taken. Despite safety first campaigns, the great volume of motorists vacation visiting the recreation cen- will continue to exercise only ordinary ters of outlaying communities of Ch~ safety measures. The fault is in the railroad crossing OF PRESIDENT cago and making a statistical survey system, once satisfactory for horse of the work and facilities in these drawn vehicles but now obsolete and John H. Daviea Elected President of places. a threat to the lives of motorists. It is not convenient for an automobtle Chamber of Commerce at Annual driver to come to a complete stop before Meeting Last Monday Night HOLD PARISH DINNER crossing the tracks, to get out and look The Kenilworth Episcopal church both ways for an approaching train, and it is not done. Anything short of that John H. Davies, contractor, was will. hold its a!'lnual parish dinner and procedure is only an ordinary precaubusmess meetmg at the Kenilworth tion. Safety demands that railroad elected president of the Wilmette crossings shall be separated, either by Chamber of Commerce for the ensuing club, January 15. Reading of the an- elevation or depression, from automobile year at the annual election of that or- nual reports and the election of a ves- traffic. That a countrywide program of ratlganization held Monday night at the try will comprise the business of the road grade separation has not been unCentral cafeteria. Mr. Davies succeeds meeting. dertaken is partly the failure of the Emil A. Nord, who has held the posicompanies to take the initiative and Carl Schultz, son of Mr. and Mrs. partly the hesitancy of regulative and tion for the last two years. D. E. Allen, Jr., was chosen vice- C. C. Schultz, 1609 Lake avenue, re- legislative bodies to compel such a program. These two tragedies In the Chipresident and Dan G. Stiles, treasurer. turned Sunday to University of Illi- cago area with the loss of eleven lives Miss Irene Strickler is the permanent nois where he is a freshman in the are startling reminders that traffic facilities are dangerously inferior to traffic school of engineering. sec retary of the organization. conditions. Directors elected for a two-year Constant Menace term were: Emil A. Nord, Robert M. This menace has always been before Tohnston. E. F. Griffis. and Dr. C. B. us since the Railroads came and we Blake. Dr. Blake, whose term as a seem no nearer a solution than we director had expired, was re-elected. were ten years ago. In the meantime, The other directors elected Monday the lives of many people have been are taking the places made vacant .by sacrificed. Succeeding board of Vilthe expiration of the terms of Henrv lage trustees have been 14 passing the B. Gates. Lloyd Hollister, and A. C. buck" back and forth between the Wolff. The four directors who retain railroads involved and their own comoffice for another year are J. M. Car · mittees, with apparently no result. We rico_, Dr. Floyd L. McGrath, A. C. have been told that one difficulty is Pearson and Carl C Renneckar. the number of interests involved. We Annual reports covering the activiYou are on have been told, also, that the villages ties for the year 1928 were presented will have to bear their shar~ of the 1)\· the officers and committee chairthe straight road expense, which means increased taxmen. Plans were discussed also for the installation banquet tentatively set ation. What is extra taxation comto resul~s for the earlv part of February. Dr. pared to loss of life? Unfortunately, I Blake is chairman of the committee in am not familiar with the conditions of when you use charge of this event. the franchise under which the electric and steam railroads are operating the 1\fr. and Mrs. William C. Hayes had through our various villages, but I as their guests over the Christmas doubt very much if some legal presholidays. Mr. Hayes' mother and sure could not be brought to bear upon father from Fort Vayne, Ind. them· to promptly 1execute some plan -0of relieving us from this constant danMrs. W. H. Anderson. 127 Robsart ger, which has been aptly termed by a road. Kenilworth, entertained twelve Glencoe resident as the 11 Family Turn to guests at dinner and bridge Tuesday Skeleton" of the north shore villages. evening, January 8. Invite Expresaiona them now! -oI should like you, as editor of th. Dorothy MacFarland, 541 Crescent paper, to call for an expression place. returned Sunday to University (Continued on page 4) of Illinois, where she is a freshman. c. CLASSIFIED AD PAGES