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‘Waehington is certainly an ornate. ly beautifnl city and under ordinary circumstances a‘ residence there would be a most desirable thing, but in'the ease of the Admiral who is noted for his modesty and for his aversion to anything?‘ like display, it is probable that the publicity which would attachto a residence in the nation’s capital would not be alto- .r.-gctb‘erpleeeingto~him._ He would be conetantly shadowed by the nuc- merous “ Washington correspond- outs,” and his home would be 11 Hence for the curious. hum every baud-y naming It High lad Put. In...“ Winncch. "L. by the Newt-Letter ”“4“.”th Centnl Avenue. Winneth Entered at the Pout-0.0: at Highland Put an "wad-cla- mater. «on.» due... “I Town Nodh Shore Publishing Co. A m... Perhaps eVery paper - For in the United States, “'01-'_ . within the past few weeks, eommente'd on the ang- gestion’th a home be donated to Admiral Dewey The proposition is to purchase a site in Washington, either by congressional appropria tion or, popular subscription, and build a home that will show the na- tion’s gratitude tothe Admiral. There are many precedents for such a course and all seem agreed that Dew ey is in every way worthy of the honor A Condor 0! Noah Show Inwllhence. There is one point about which there appeareto be some question, and that is whether DeWey would accept the gift. ' e Telephone No. 92, W Put, sun!“ when, IANAOII. Tukihg all those things into con- TERMS $.50 PER YEAR. SATURDAY M‘AY 2'7. OFFICES: cideretion it would seem the pert oi wiedom to ”loot a site elsewhere. And the NIwILmu can think of no place thnt would he more charm- ing thou the North Shore. The Ad- mire], though retired from the navy. prohnhly would not care to he isolat- ‘ed from the wnier. As the weight of para grew on him he doubtle- would enjoy being able. from his veranda, to sweep Lake Michigan with a binocular and dream of his victories in Philippine waters. If Uncle Sam would build q home on the lake blah we don’t. believe any tightly organized admiral could resist the umpuiidu to accept it. THE SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER. If Uncle Sam would build a home )u the lake blufis we don’t believe my rightly organized admiral could resist the temptation to accept it. leoar Whatever growth the 1." 1| North Shore has en- Ofelia“? joyed during the past ten years seems to have been due almost wholly to‘the efl'orts ‘of the real estate men. With one or two exceptions, every attempt at local organization for the up- -building of the difl'erent north shore municipalities has achieved only par- tial success, and today a majority of the improvement societies are some- what flabby afl'air‘s. When the Sher- idan Road began to be an accom- plished fact a wave of building oper- ations went up the shore, and all property increased considerably in value. A number of well organized improvement societies, by systemat ically presenting the advantages of . the North Shore, could at that time ' have enabled this section to obtain far greater benefit that it did. As it was, the practical completion of Sheridan Road served chiefly to raise the priceof vacant property rather than to give impulse to building op- erations. The North Shore is on the verge of another wave of prosperity induced by‘ the completion of the electric road and the Iast‘train ser- vice to be made possible by track The property-owners in the dill‘ereut Not since the threatened» war with Canada some years ago, has Glencoe been so stirred as it has for a week or two past over the new assessment. Nothing is finite so disagreeable, so offensive to the average citizen as . this kind of a raking over and shak-. ing up of their household goods and belongings,â€"-this scrutinizing. value- ' ing, estimating the “cash value” 'â€" ' unless it is the swéaring to it all. Then the impertinent quizzing of the assessor, who “wants to know” all about your private afl’airs, how. much you have got of this and that and the other; howmuch people owe ’you, and how much you are in debt; how much is hidden away' in the old stocking against a rainy day; how many watches, pianos, how much jewelry. how many'horses, cows, pigs, (geese, chickens and ducks, grubhoes garden rakes, spades, shovels, picks and wheelbarrows you own and their- cash value. All this makes a good . many so tired and hot they are. al- most ready to say our civil, or an- civil. system .is a failure and life is hardly worth while. 7 A citizen with a two horse team driving along the Green Bay Road stopped to talk with a group on the sidewalk, who proceeded to admire the horses. He was asked by one what they were worth and declared they would be cheap at $500. “ Be careful " Was the reply, “ this is the assessor, ” urse I was joking, said the team- ‘el'evation on the North-Westeruxpéhring to another in the group. 0f towns should consider whether they r , are going to be in a position to de- ' firm the full benefit of this “tide in the aflairs of men” by proper organ- isation, or whether everything will I be left, as in the past, to the en- deavors of the real estate men. The town that has the best organization “the horses are not mine, but I wouldn’t give 375.103: the whole out- fit.” This is a sample of the general shrinkage in values'that has gone all around like an epidemic. Butterick patterns for sale at Miss Erskine’e,‘ Highland Park. among its propofty-owners is the one that will thrive the moat. The Wilmette improvement So. ciety cler- Innuel prize: 01.851!) each (or the three beet kept phoe- tahen care of by owners, to read the notice. which are posted in the vil- lege. The prizes will be ewerded next fall: The judges will consider ueetnees. care and planting. M