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Thursday, May LINE REMAINS OF ; HISTORIC FEATURES 1siprinefield Attorney Tells How Few Relies Remain of Many Illinois Sites Historit- places of Illinois "from I prnwlor's point of view," was the lnpic of an address rcrontiy in Spring- tivld, at n gathering "of Kiwanis by John P. Snimt. attorney of that city who has travolmi afoot, and on horse, vxt,etvsively, nsys an Associated Press Import. ‘ When at Quebec, he said, he vis. ualizml a “beginning of Illinois" in the venturn of _the gallant La Salle, heading his hilats westward for the Illinois country. "Thereafter," the [ruling piano manufacturer with factory outside at" Chicago must dispose at nnce of a few pianos rc- lurm-d from a dealer. Included in tlu- l, t is one apartment grand and one diminutive upright. New piano cruarantm, on either. Rather than box and rrship tn factory will sell at " diserunt. Exibe " BATTERIES B E C K E R Battery Service DISTRIBUTORS CHAS. BAUER Factory Manager “mum 1306--307 N. Mirhix Chicago rEEiEiZEEg rmpnoor WAREHOUSE 15 North Flt, John Avenue PHONE InunLAN'n PARK .11 MOVING . J of HOUSEHOLD Goons PHONE B. P. 181-182 STORAGE p I A N O BARGAIN PACKING In () SHIPPIN G Kiln speaker said, “It was interesting to! :0 hack to Chicago. walk across the‘ ridee and note the bronze ablet that i: n'ds the fact that Robert Cavalier v La Salle passed that way. ' Nothing Remains l "Now nothing remains to connecti him and his gallant band of French-f men with the present generation; Rave a hrnnze tablet. Nothing remains that they left. save the_memory of strut hearts and highvisions of em- pire. And so it is with so many of the places in Illinois. . “Nothing remains as a connecting link with the past. At Starved Rock, nothing remains to tell the story of La Salle and Tonti, and the Illinois Indi3nf. At Peoria you can wander up and down both hunts: of the river, mast huuse boats, Mum ling over fish- ‘ermt-n and nets and fishermen's chil- dren and yuur guess is as good as that of the most scholarly historian as to the location of'the Fart (d the Broken Heart. e; Find Traces l "But there are many places in Southern Illinois where there are ten- gihle traces of French and English occupancy. You may walk as I did, north of the many hills of Chester. past the southern Illinois peniten- tiary past the old Pierre Menard home. where La Fayette was entertained. And there on the crest of the hill ftnd the well deflnod remains of the earth works of Old Fort Gaze. not the first one. but the second. "Here in Old Garrison Hill ceme- tery you may find inscribed on I sta- tue erected by the state this inseritw tion. 'Those who sleep here were first buried at Ksskaskia. and afterwards removed to this eemetory.' They were the early pioneers of the Mississippi Valley. They planted free institu- tions in tho wilderness and were the pioneers of a Ere-t eommonweslth. In memory of their "erifiee, Illinois; grateful, erects this monument, 1892. "And the thought that cime to me as I stood on this hill, overlooking niles of valley, stinding in weeds up to my waist, was that illinois hnd forgotten them. Gt'eetrtt, has tttttttt e shred th some 0) than two thousand knskia will over rm (WY. Old Kink-skin "i have prowled around ancient cemeteries all over the country, but have never found one quite an no:- lcrted as this one. Foxes had bur- rowed into the graves. fioaters found in the river are buried here with the old pioneers, the nameless dead of wandering gypsy bands, paupers, - and the weeds crow high. "When the name of ancient Kas- kaskia is mentioned, it conjures up the shade of the most colorful ttttd picturesque china" that MS ever stztlked across the pages of the his. tory of Illinois. With less than I modern company of inflntry, he set nut to conquer an empire and wit. tingly conquered more than an ern. pire." housand years, but KM over remain Just a mom and the THE. PRESS hills Highwood, [Ill-oil