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may prove a boom, or a boomerang to several political ambitions: it. may make or udmake mayor and alderâ€" man next ygar. 1‘1“;sz a good deal of local po'iitica‘l pull in it: be careful, ambitious man. how you fool with this municipal buzz saw: Beware the “ides of April,” gen- tlemen; the voters are cutting notch- es in ; pine ~stick and scratching marks by thé‘"woodshed door, as to how you talk and vote on these vital. matters. They have got sticks all notched «mus-4m water, Jamey, bicycle ordinance Yand ‘bther' “things. .Mighty contrary are some folks. with fearfully long memories. No mistake .on one , thing; when Alderman Phillips proposed an open meeting to discuss the electric road, charter, etc., and said: “I want no Star Chamber business about this." he struck a popular chord. If any man thinks the people do not care, he is greatly deceived. 'They know to a man just who favored closed doors and why. and they are ,“spot- ting” them against April 13th.” Don‘t be deeeixfed on .that; they talk it“ rightAout to us. YThis street railroad mqaqure may About the first thing We heard Wednesday morning was the de- mand of the people for a big ball .for next Monday night‘s council meeting, where allihe people could' get in and (hear. Tuesday night same said lots of boys and men who own no real estate and pay no taxes were there and kept property owm ers out.Let the committee Friday in- struct the. clerk, or' some one. to have McDonald’s hall. or the Opera house ready and then the council adjourn to meet there. Common» “1"” * rails from Fort Sheridan to electric ‘light plant, thence to Laurel avenue. “Shanghai" rails; made for brick paving to fit snug, outside and inside the rails, aqd from Laurel south and every. where else the “T" an the side of the street. We see no reason for going in the middle of the street ‘ ‘ -- I- I. ),,1 A“ 1.... 0""!5 "’ from the electric light plant to Lauâ€" rel avenue. Keep on the want side next the railroad fence, the cars won’t scare teams or run uver folks or be in the way uf ‘bicycles out. thére on the grass. ‘ N0 twisting and turning duym round Vine avenue and StJohus place. but right straight up on the west side of StJohns, with a new bridge and all. and then the ‘com- pany can pay for half a dozen extra piles and run on the west side of the bridgei In n few years. twu or three at most. the new High School build- ing will be erected. ~and 1? viaduct THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. by a loaded team being set trying to 3 cross the tracks and In one case the ! team got set at 4 o’clock p. In. and held every car till 9 the next fore- ’ noon. Such rails and muddy streets '. are awful. under the Northâ€"wegtern at the 'foot of Vine avenue, so all the West Deerfield and west side folks can come right under the track to the school and you must not have any ‘ electric cars dewn there for High- wood children to cross twice a day. Strnight up St. Johns is the place. The style of rail used in the un- paved streets is a very important- aut matter, almost as much so for the company as for the public. We spent two winters in New Orleans, where the car tracks are laid in the mud in the centre of the streets and uémiy-‘zu- ,; ‘55.?”er to thflr £139 1 sition the cars _Were blocked at one, i sometimes a half a dozen crossings 2 from 15 to 60 minutes at each. place pun intended. The hall was packed by leading citizens from both sides of the track, as well as two or three . well known men from» Waukegan: '; The first thing was the Electric l 1 Street railroad, which took a little i ‘ over one hour's time and the Little 1 l Fort men had‘to wait till the 11:43 y itrain-, but. they did it with good‘ : grace. The petition of property i ; owners went to the street and alley 3 ' committee for yerification. Of course i '1 it is all right. unless some technical 1 ‘: error; these men are not trying any ‘ snap game. The ordinance and company's petition went to a special 1committee, composed of the chair. meuof ”all the other committees and attorney. The mayor 'was wisely put on, as he is undoubtedly the ‘ best business man in the council. and the attorney won't let the blan- dishments of the company's legal udvisersget away with the council. These committees meet Friday af- > ternoon for private seSSion and the ‘ l whole matter (mules up for public ‘ 1‘ free and full discussion and \dieti'on P i Monday night. January 25th. at 8 “ ‘ o‘clock. Tuesday night was a field day; no i Then came our city business. Block '35, down east of the ‘ club house. was replatted HO as to make the lot fit things since the location of the street wa. changed. This gives four fine lots. eag): inning a frontage of about 100 feet on the street auda “rear front." as Put says. on the. lake. The taxpayers on Central avennp will all get a (S lwrkcent. rebate whenever they pay and however much __they pay, as we understand it. Thé wmptroller's CITY COUNCIL. report was approved and its recon). mendations adopted. We trust this will endan unfortunate piece of bus- iness, to use a mild term. George D. Boulton’s claim for a rebate was ordered paid, he to“ protect the city against its being paid again. The” Electric light company’s December bill was up to be paid. and it ought to have been paid. The company can sue the city at once and beat it. for the company can sue the city any day and not only collect its bill in full but make the city stand lots of emits, for the simple reason that thekgity‘ has no-legal proof of a vio- l‘ated contraét'.’ " In ' c” Miner. “Friday” are undoubtedly pretty cute, but if any one thinks they are caught napping 26 hours a day, run- ning our electric light\plant, he is slightly deceived. They voted to have an expert test the Whole sys- tem, at an expense of about $75. uun 1v: vuv..- prove. It is to run 30 years. Smile people were afraid the wwe would have to be enlarged. 8 think it would be large enough if the entire district of Sewer "A" were built up as thickly as Chicago; we will'look it up and report later. Mrs. Lefâ€" fert's claim for gainages froin bad ; sideWalk was left with the attorney. g She was hurt'and had a doctor twice ' and wants 525. Some doctors’ bills would eat‘ the money all up, but Dr. Bergen is not only a gentle- man, but he has common honesty and professional honor. At 11:15 1). 1]). the curtainfell and the spell bound visitors - from Waukegan walked slowly down to the 11:43 train, delighted with this fin-de- siecle city and its urbane. business- like council. will be r aled‘ 111 February if Mr. The c meat sidewalk ordinance Rice cangeut it through. Mr. Cush- man had ‘sbmuch of the present or- dinance as forbids putting in new stringers in ”plank walks repealed, but it took him nearly an hour to do it. The ,contract for; Sewer exten- sion up into Fort Sheridan village was approved and sent up to Sheri- dan for them to look ‘over and ap- % Fred Rudolph and others of the Park. are in attendance quite regu. larly on the county court in Wau- i kegan this week. ”If our resident clergy wi us notices of their weddings cheerfully publish the 3311 where parties do not have 2 ding stationery. we don't “learn of the event, as it is delicate question to ask a yo 01' Woman when that we( coming off. clergy will hand ,' weddings we will .h the same. But not have any wed~ we don't always ;, as it is rather a to ask a young man that wedding in