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"J Efi ict a fb Tr ET _ August 14, 1926 WINNETKA TALK 37 MAKE FIRE SURVEYS Underwriters Make Survey of Fire- fighting Facilities of 375 Cities at Own Expense The public has no conception of the great service rendered by the National 3oard of Fire Underwriters and its related and subsidiary organizations, including the Board of Fire Under- writers of the Pacific, and absolutely at their own expense," says J. B. Levison, president, Fireman's Fund In- surance company. A recent report of the national board shows that during the past year surveys describing the efficiency of water systems and fire de- partments, and the fire resistant quali- ties of buildings, have been made of Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, St. Paul and Atlanta; and on the Pacific coast, of Seattle, Salt Lake, Oakland and Berkeley. Reports have been made on 375 cities to date. During the same period, engineers from the Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific completed surveys of seventy-nine cities and towns. In forty-eight of these, the fire insurance rates were reduced, based on compli- ance with the required standards. In seventeen cases the rates were in- creased for non-compliance and in fourteen no change was made. New waterworks, accompanied in many instances by improvements to distribution systems, have been com- pleted or are under way in Buffalo, Washington, Baltimore, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Kansas City, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, Tacoma, Bellingham, and in various cities on the east side of San Francisco bay in California. Install New Systems A complete new fire alarm system has been put into service in Los Angeles and Stockton, California, and Kansas City, Missouri and the new fire our SENSATIONAL offer The NEW and GREATER HOOVER complete with dusting tools --the greatest advance ever made in homecleaning science -- making obsolete every previous cleaning method. Down Balance Monthly Limited time, limited stock, make action imperative. Phone today! Ask for a free home demonstration. North Shore Electric Shop F. W. SCHWALL 554 Center Street Phone Winn. 44 | ter alarm central stations and equipment mobile pumping engines. It has been | ber of Commerce of the United States, have been installed in various eastern, | active in the campaign to promote [In the development of the Inter-Cham- southern and Pacific coast cities. Na- | standardization of fire hose couplings. | ber Fire W aste Movement which 15 tional board engineers have been con- | About 1700 cities and towns have been now functioning in 446 of our leading sulted in all of these improvements. |standardized, and everything indicates | cities. City officials continue to depend on |that in a comparatively short time this| Work of this character is of such the National Board of Fire Under- | practice will be universal. The board | great public benefit that its value need writers for acceptance tests of auto- |is actively cooperating with the Cham- not be enlarged upon. Mark off Sunday, August 15, on your calendar as a day to be at Racine, Wisconsin. All day ana all evening,a beautiful regatta," A Night in Venice", will be held on the Root River, Racine, under the sponsorship of the Racine Chamber of Commerce. Four miles of illuminated floats, on canoes, will passthe judges'stand at Horlick'sDam intheevening. Admission is free-- plenty of room forall--music. Bringyour lunch for an all-day picnic. Conveniently reached by the North Shore Line; leave trains at Racine station. Your Vacation! WHERE TO GO AND HOW TO GET THERE » 1 Elkhart Lake, Cedar Lake, * Crystal Lake, Sheboygan, Port Washington: Take North Shore Line to Milwaukee; con- nections at door of our Mil- waukee terminal with Milwau- kee Northern trains for these points. Through tickets. 2 Michigan points--Luding- * ton, Manistee, Hamlin Lake, Portage Lake, Onekema: Take North Shore Line to Mil- waukee; Pere Marquette night steamer from there; arrive Michigan next morning. Through tickets. 3 Oconomowoc, Nashotah ! 5 * Lakes, Nehmabin ies; ilver Lake, Delafield, Wauke- CRYSTAL 4 SHEBOYGAN sha Beach, Nagawicka Lake, LAKE Pewaukee Lake: Take North Shore Line to Milwaukee--step ¥ into T. M. E. R. & L. trains at door of our Milwaukee ter- ® OCONOMOWOC minal, for these points. Through NASHOTAH LAKES PORT WASHINGTON tickets. NEHMABIN LAKES SILVER LAKE Lake Geneva, Twin Lakes, DELAFIELD WAUKESHA BEACH NAGAWICKA LAKE PEWAUKEE LAKE * Powers Lake: Take North Shore Line trains to Kenosha; comfortable North Shore Line Motor Coaches operate from there, on regular schedule, to these points. Through tickets. Bax ¢ MAESACSS esl 341 * Rae Q) (/ LUDINGTON MANISTEE fatioch, Channel Lele, * Loon e, Roun e, HAMLIN LAKE Lake Villa, Grays Lake, Volo, PORTAGE LAKE Fox Lake resorts, McHenry: Take Nort ore Line trains ONEKEMA to Waukegan or Libertyville; ------------------ NorthShoreLineMotorCoaches from there on regular schedule to these points. Through tickets. RACINE o Libertyville, Mundelein: * (Don't let the summer pass without a visit to beauti- ful St. Mary of the Lake at Mundelein.) Ror Shore Line to Lake Bluff where connec- KENOSHA tions are made with trains and | | motor coaches'on the Liberty- ville-Mundelein division. ZION Through tickets. NORTH SHORE LINE sted Sree LT LL TTT LAKE EyTWIN LA 10C FOX LAKE DISTRICT Qui), MCHENRY ORAVS Laxey, SIT TTTTelLLE oe LITLLL ». LIBERTYVILLE WAUKEGAN For schedules, rares and other information, in- Quire 2 North. Shore 5 ine ticket office, or a LAKE BLUFF Trafic Dept. Chicago, 79 W. Monroe Stree MUNDELEIN Shane Randolph 9226; NORTH SHORE filwaukee, Secu- rity Bldg , phone Grand SUBURBS 990 or Grand 2762. Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad Company The high-speed electrically-operated railroad WINNETKA PASSENGER STATION Telephone Winnetka 963 Baggage Checked 1.1 AN M-------------- CYS XUAN \