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The Highland Park News. Published ‘in the Interests of Highiaml Park, Uighwmnl and Ravinia, every Friday ah 'rnnun by H, F. A. 1‘1. Evans. Advertlslnz rates made known on application It this office. , Terms, $1.00 per year, 50 u-nts tur six mumhs, 30 ccn‘s‘fm' (hrs: months. Office: in News Building, 255 Avenue, Highland Park, Illinuis. Enlcred at HOT WEATHER has one thing in its favor in that it helps In'ouk tho hack of the coal famine. Tm: wheel has fulIt-uw-in prices” 25 per cent.; the wheehnun has fallen anflififim‘éd’péf'Ceiit: [a godd many times and picked himself up. LF\\I'§ B Hmuxmg H F. EVANS, ~ I: VVHEBE is our electric street car line? The emrinevrs were hertf SM ~ ".1 eral weeks 1100 and located tfiv new depot just beside Fred Schumncher‘ 3 drug store and soda fountain. LAKE BLEFF has the “Sea Serpent“ on the brain in full force. We had supposed the Bluff was tlm strong- hold’bf thihition, 2m ism which has no Hymfiz'ithy with “snakes." A ST. LOI‘IS paper says: “Push the homeless carriage." W0 can't; the streets are so muddy and the police won't allow us on the hide- walks. How would an m‘vrlwml trolley work? Tm: big Christian Endeavor l('()llv vmtion in San Francisco, with its 12,000 attendants outside Balifomi’n, IS at an end, and we now trust the HHHHIK‘X‘S will come lmnm and midi-z ~ \‘nr tn lvml Christan: lives. T111: must houn'tiful 11111111111 i11 Eu- rope 11215 1101211 f111111d, the Crown Prim-(12119.0( Italy. But what is the use of talking: Iiiwhlnmi l’urk 1111s not V111 11111111 1111:1111 fmm. If W11 cant 11(11t the published pi1'.tl1r(1 1111 1111‘ our 1111 14% 1111(11 r H111 111111111. ed at the p05mfl1icc at Highland Park, “1., as scwml ,class mullcr. FRIDAY, J U LY .554242 mxazflmpm I: 4.. .SCHHQMH .2 i... . H ). (‘cmml a long delay was seconded by W. J. Obee of the third ward. We inâ€" sert the resolution in full as it may have a: historic interest. just now it is something of a municipal curious. ity; read it. \VIIEREAS, Certain rumors and stimulants have been circulated, and published in" Clré‘t?uhlit’ Press‘ltii‘l'the elfect that the Mayor of the City of Highland Park was interested in the contract let by the, City for the IRH'» ing of Vine avenue. 1 move that u committee to consist of the Auditing Tommittee be appointed to make due investigation and report its findings at" the next regular meeting l. . 0f the City conned n The following is the resolution introduced and passed at the last meeting of the city council. It was introdueed by Alderman Daniel Cobb of the second ward, and after THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. Now if Aldei‘men C‘ohl) knew half as much about municipal atl‘a‘irs as he seems to think he knows, .‘he would have known that this matter was wholly beyond the scope and limit of himself and his associates: evidently he has never read the stat- ute (lefiining the duties. and prescrib- ing the limits of the city council and before he starts out again he had better do it, at, least he might eon~ salt the ctty attorney. But it would seem that he and Alderman Ohm: think themselves abou- the statute theatlvice or anyone else. Josh Billings says one trouble with some people is they know so many things that aint so. but our plaint is that some people know so little of some things they ought and are supposed to know so well. Everylmdy svvms to understand that Aldermen (Mum and Cobb: hacked by the gang politicians out side the cunncil. are trying to make out that Mayor Svuns has (lune somvthing vvry wrong in comxw'tirm with the recent impmvmm-nt of Vin uvunm-. but just wlmt it is tin-y don't know. Now “‘1‘ will {4-H you just what it is. Early in (110 spring tlu- nu-mlwrs and fricndsof the golf club. iuoluding Messrs. Higgins and lit-Mm". \vhu nwn (he land be-(wwn Hm railway and Hm (1n!) gmnhda w..nh d V'im‘ MUNICIPAL STATESMENSHIP. WHAT THE MAYOR DH). avenue west opened, graded and Macadumized. The council passed the ordinance and called for hide; finally on motion of Alderman ()lwe the contract was let to Laing and Happ at some little preference. chiefly because they were home won and would employ home working“r men thus keeping the money hon- at home and We approve of that. The assessment had not passed tho court, but the golf folks wanted the work begun at anco and pushed as fast, as possible. Messrs. Laing and Happ made arrangements with Mayor E 'ans to fuinish the nioxiev' payday 1111116,, he got th‘é immayw ma 11 eiit 1111 “111 the street tand paid or saw that the 1111‘11 were paid Every man in this city interested in the club grounds and that includes about esexybody on the out side, and some besidos, '111111ted that road built and done at once and so someone must assume the. responsibility of getting the money for the help and n_1aterial used. Anyone was at liberty to buy those improvement bonds of Messrs. Laiug and Happ but 11115.11 had other uses for their money; Mayor Evans was situated so could secure tho money Aldermen Obeo or Cobb could haVet taken them if they had so wish1:1l,, Mayor EVansfldiklwt. because some one had got to do it if that street was done e1'1rly this sea- son, and these men know it. as “ell as any one. The law forbids the mayor or aldermen from being inter ested directly or indirectly. in any contract with thecity. Mayor Evans had nothing whatever in any shape to do with 11111, contract; he simpr’ accommodated the contractors by 111M ranging so they could get the ready cash to pay all bills. All his deal1 ings Were with the contractors, not with the city.11nd the bonds all go to the Evanston bank on the written order of Laing 1%; Happ. His mat» ter was no more a contract with the city than Alderman ()bee‘s sulrcon» tract last year with the contractors on Central Avenue, to build all their 'atch-basins and other mason work, and this year he partially bargaincd for the same with Laing 1k llapp, then changed his mind. we suppose and in all that he thought he did no wrong, and no one else thought he did any wrong. We do not allude to this to chargo him with any wrong, for we, do not think 111! com» 1111tt1d any. but if he, now thinks he did why dont he haw himself. in» vestigated and reetilied. before he attacks Mayor Evans? Mr. Evans has not a particle of voice or Vote in in approving a bill or paying one. One Word more. By doing as he did,heui‘1'11:11/l\‘.1>1‘l1.l 1' 1: 111.1 \11el1s