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The following is an abstract of a big and highly important street im~ provement scheme as presented by Mr. Blue for the street and alley committee at the city council Tues- day evening. In many respects it is the most important and fapreach- ing scheme presented to the _city council since the water works were put in. The scheme practically in‘ cludes the inhabited portions of the east side and embraces the following features: FIRSTW A road of good substantial macadamwlS feet. wide 0:; {mm streets. and 2'?) feét in Port , Clifiton. St. Johns and Vine avenues; all the rest 18 feet. SECONtr-The cost will be about $1253 foot on each side of the street; thus a 100 foot. lot will cost $12.0,t0be paid Spot"cash or in seven years. This estimate of. cost includes the parkways. and means good thorough drainage. and hard solid road bed. THIRD ~The gravel atreets of High- wood. this committee finds. cuts through under heavy teanm and will not do here. FOURTH These taxes will fall on speculative and impmved property alike. and being divided into 54) many paymentsâ€" the first nne to be made in I898 will not be heavy or hur- densome. FIFTH The cmmnittee have Iet tel-shy the" dozen from prmument citizens and property owners asking for this improvement. and as they are our biggest taxpayen. some heed should he givexi to their wishes. ‘ SEVENTH Aldermen Rice. Olm- and Fritsch sign this report and reo- mumend its adoption. Here is the- designatiouof the streets for im- prm’ement: l'urt Clinton avenue. kmm'n us the Sin-ridan mad. from C-ntml are. nurtlu-rh‘ in Fort Sheridan; macadam 1m sand inundatiun. with brick guttcn-L > St. Johns avenue. Irnm Comm] avenue nurth tu Vim: street. ‘ \‘ine avenue. frmn westerly vity limits to First strum and irmn the Chicago umi North “mtrrn railmml trm‘kstn Pm! ('limim mp. IMPORTANT STREET SCHEME. V OL . I” - High] and Park News; TWESTY- F! \‘E FED-LT \\' [DI-2 meANUPARk ILL,” APRIL 9,1397. ’" den a\ c. Elm Place from 5:. Johns me m Linden we. Linden Park Place. entire length. Park avenue. fmm St Johns an: to Grand Bluff Place ‘- Hazel avenue. from 5‘. .Iuhns ave to Lake ave. Ravine avenue. from St. Johns ave m Fun-s! ave. l.inden avenue from the Sheridan magi. Imnh» erly to Mame avenue; sand fuundumm. nec- essary can‘h basins and drains, bm without guners, ‘ Dine avenue from Pros mm ave. to Park ave: (ig’and Blufi Place am Belle avenue, L'nnrt‘ length. Fmest avenue. from Sheridan 10 Pruspcd :n'c. Lakeavenue. Hazel ave m Laurel ave. Lake Place. from Laurel aw: m Central aw. Magpie avenue. from Port Clinton an- m Lin- "A charming soirie musicale was given gt tr “#5;ng ‘house on Saturday evening, April '3. under the direc~ tion of Mrs. Nettie R. Jones. The assisting artists Were Miss Marian Carpenter. F. W. Carberry and the Browning quartette. Most of them are too well known to need special mention. -The Browning quartette, the personnel of which is Mrs. Ada M. Sheffield, Miss Jessie Hawley. Miss Daisy Hubbard, and Mrs. William C. Lawmuunade its initial bow to the public before the Wom- an’s Club of Chicago on February 20th. and was received with enthu: siasm. Friends and critics unite in predicting for it a bright future. It is seldom. that four voices so sympa- thetic in quality are heard in en- semble work. The progrmn at the Club House last Saturday evening was as follows: Bruwn N Baltr lmw a duck uf uweet peas raised (‘slxx-ially for the Highland Park market and climate. T lit-y don't, give them "Way but they will grvw uml bloom. I. Sonata . Rulnnstc first \L-mL ‘R James. Mias 371. (Ann ntcr ‘.'. (a! “You‘ ll! .mc Me )9 " Iln‘ This a agSpmy.‘ \ The Brdwrfing Quartet“- "V‘Vnhuut Thu)" . ,(Sus' Suite Mudriu‘ul LuHah) The Browning (Juamvnr. \an “Were My Song with “'mgs l'mvirlvd (In “Thanks Mr 'l‘hy Hand." Mr. Carhcrr)’. Fink-tic (‘arhcrnz Mlume frnyn Mendelssuhn L'unccrm Muss Marla" Carpenter. A CHARMING PROGRAM. Mrs. Join-s. Miss (‘zu’lwnn-r EIGHTH .\’ FEET M'IIJE M iss Shcflirld Guy d‘lianh-lut Hen. F. Rom R ulwnstcin Harris St'hut W. F. Edwards. . Fred Rudolph , N Charles Gordon. Carl Grant ....... ,I. A. Bourke... \\'. F. Hug an J S. Prallg. .-\ . “U Fletcher Daniel Pause David A Holmes Pets); I-“Dooley‘n E. l‘. Ham According to these returns F. M. Evans received the highest number of votes of any éfihdidate. Does that prove he is the most popular man in town? We know nothing to the contrary and so set it down in that w.ay Judge Dooley leads all the justices and is happy. LI «,mmk There» will be a stereopticon lecâ€" ture on “The Japanese" by R. J. Bennett. next Tuesday evening, ‘ at Présbyterian church for the benefit of thQ'Young Men‘s Club. Admit-a» sion 25 cents. Plans have also been furpwd for, _an illustrated lecture on Electricity by Prof. Eiisha am Tuesday. April 20th at the Young Men‘s Club, and a reception and wolian concert Tuesday, April 27th. at the club rooms. The admission is H) cents to the last two mentioned entertainments. club members being admitted free to all of them. These, entertainments should be’ patronized by everyone and 1hus help along the club enterprise. \ Evans Bros. find their spring trad;- to be getting so brisk that they have purchased a new light wngmn. Flutéher‘é lilajOI'iU-C 7:...” . . .. AsslsTA NT PER \'|S()R Hugan‘u majority M . Bums M ahen Palmeticr CLUB ENTERTAINMENTS. ELECTION RETURNS. J L'STICES ()F l'l‘LACl‘ (‘UMMISSIUN HR. 51' PER \' 180R . CONSTABLES. COLLECTOR . UR. CLERK wows:- an 119 34m 227 31H 5m» 1+1