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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Jul 1931, p. 36

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edwar Doý-i Th Ca W4 WPnt t Heaven CHANDLERS EFounfaint Square Evansfon Cai /StUeî Remember Books when' you plan your summer., New or Used Copies ýof the Current Literature, Our Rentai Plan i: Easy.' 1724 Orrington Avenue Evanston ... Chicagoans who read Mr. Drury',s latest book will be surpnised, to find how littie they really knew of the food establishmnents of their own city. l'le book is not by any means a color- less, cataloged account of ail the places to dine anid dance but the, naine of cali. restaurant is accompanied by a description of the interior, of the f oodý served.1 and ini man y cases the naine of the orchestra playing there, besides any other dctailed. information' that may. prove of interest to the reader.' For examrple, Mr.. Drury says of Thompson 's restaurant-theonie at 27 West, Madison street: "Here is.1the surprise of, your life. 'Uscd to- eating y>ur hain and eggs (coutitry style) ýon one-arm chairs and amid the clatter of. muci crockc.ry in any Thompsoni lunch room you are totally unprepared for the scene of' splendor and'spaciousness and up-to-dateness -that confront you as you enter, for the first turne; thIs Ttewest of the' Thornpson restaurants. The "one-arm" chairs are gone. Con- siderajuly léssered., too.. is the crazy symphony of dishes. Ail is changed .. \Ve know of no better place to ca*t during"lean davs" than this Rialto estabishment-and its sumptuoustiess is soothing to the ,pride." Schloffl's " Russian Workers' Co- ornerative restaurant, King Tut's Tomnb, St. Hnbert's. Madamie Galli's ... and, oh, a hundred other restaurants are descrihed in ,suich a i av that you will want to start riglit ont to- mi*prro .i on youir gastronornic adven- ture.s. The book is atira ctiv'ely. botund in bue,.chiecked, ýb 1 gin there' 1Carl 'Sàndbnrg. lIn a brief sketch of 'Mr. tDrrv's career. thc reader lcarns thit tlic former lias reviewed books for LlewllvnJones, for Harry Hanisen. th;lt he ivas a reporter for the Chii- catgo 'Dailv News, and is the author of . Arcliglit Dnsks." a volume' of frce,.-ver's e s.a of 'Chicago in. Seven Davs."-\7cra McDermiiidl. THE ARISTOCRATI C JOURNEY. Lettersof Mrs. Basil Hall, w.ritten durin a furten onths' sojourn in fAmeri,1827-1828. Editcd by Hoyt ,Kiny, 711 Forest avenxue, J,'Viliiiette,' is thxe ai(ttior of «"Citi- Clel Cole of Chicago," a biographv.ý of great jute'rest to man 'y aorti: sl'ore as wr/I as Chicago -peo ple. Air. King zwas Vir. Cole's secretary so 7u'às welI qualifled to write ail accuirate account of. the polixictil carrer of siidx a notrd figure. George E. Cole resided ini Wilrnettc for seventeen vears. His son,. Mun-ý -oc Cole, lives .in> Winnetka. Mr. Cole died, in Angust, 1930,. at the age 0 of 8,5. Thirty-five years of bis life were spent in "cleaning np": Chicago politics. MIr. K ing describes in a rnasterly. nianner M.\r. Cole's encotin- ters with the ward counicils,- the Polit- ical hosses,and nienibers -of the Clxi- cago city Counicil. ENCH ANTING, CLEMENTINA.. By Sophia Cleugli. Hougliton Mfln .Mrs. Cleugih hre introduces, be-. sides varions new principals à' num.- ber of people in supplemcntary roles who have figured in lier preceding novels of British gentle and titled folk disporting. thernselves at soirées, review a 1book <H ore uistami local interest than "Citizen Cole of Chicago," which was written by Mr. Cole's former secretary, Hoyt King, of Wilmette. GeorgeE. Cole was for mnany years a resident of Wilmette. *From 1907 to 1924 lie, made his home, .at 911 Greenlwood. avenue. From t.hat.- turne until his death in .August,'1930, he lived at the Union League club during. the 'winter, -and in the suin- -mer at the. home of his son, Munroe Cole, 593* Arbor Vitae road, 'Win- nèétka. The foreward of the boo0k is .wrtten. by-- Graham Taylor, former pastor of the Congregational churcli of Wilmnette. *"Citizen, Cole" flot only contain 1sa, a portion of Chicago .Pol iticallhistory but it is the biography of a mari fired with th- ambition to serve; a mari wbo fought tooth, hamjmer, and nail in> defens e of public interest. and who was, adnxiired ýand respecte d by his. enemnies as Well as his friends. lié shot straiglit fro.m thé e*shoulder., Thiere %vas nieither friend nor cenm1y *who evel' wondered how George E. Cole stood. He w-as .a lttle mani, Mr. King tells us, with "broad shoulders, a hard hegad,,a4id a bOlldog ja.w," who, "wtotprestige* or money, )ed for- lom hopes to.victorY." Mr. Cl a bn nJackson, \fiche, .March 2, 1845.: During the Civil war. lie servedtwo years as a piaein> tiéc lth Michigan .Volun- teer Infantry. iii 1878. lie camne to *Chicago and was for, a nuniber' of years 1president of tie George E.. Cole conip)aiy, printin.g and stationery house. By 1896 "lie had discliarged his obligation to bis famiily," who >were nlow cared for.' But' as he himi- self saijd, "it did 'lot take -rnucb b ook- ing aroun(l to) show mie thatI owed a debt to the comfmunity ... .was, of tie eighty,-fiive. per cent who% were intretedix hoes, conoinical go- ernment, but flot actively so."l In that sanie year-1896--Mr. Cole organized the1 Municipal Voter's league and becamne .its. first pri- dent. He %vas also active'in the Leg- islative Voters' leagiie,. in the Il]- tiative and Rèferendum Leaguxe of> lllinois and other civic movenlents in ýp j)j-- rle as acive fthen, the personalities of our. larger slaves shed a somewhat acid Iight h pbic life unitil a month before chties were beginning to emerge. on the mloonfigh t-and -magnolias his death, which Occurred wien hle New York waF busy, ratiier flam- tradition.. was 85 years old. boyant. and showy, its women hand- * The Halls met President John 1Mr. King writes well, and t hrough some, but overdressed. Qnly in and Quincy Adamns, Daniel *Webster, De his intimate acquaintance. with Mr,. about Boston, and to. a lesser degree Witt Clinton, William Astor, Pres- Cole and the Iatter's work he b as in Philadelphia, did Mrs. Hall en- cott Bancroft, Gilbert Stuart, and, built upi>a valuable biograpîy Which couniter exaniples of the truly civil- indeed, pretty- much everybody. is 'ful1 of intrsigproaj~

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