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The ake News VOL. V, NO. 44. Phone Wilmette 1640. WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1914. Room 8, Brown Building. PRICE FIVE CI BUYING SHIPS MIGHT GET US r1 IUI LE Congressman Thomson Thinks It Unwise for" the Federal Government To Be a Part- ner in the Transaction. ■ WOULD AMEND THE BILL Feels That if the Trade in Which These Vessels Were To Be Used Was Confined to South Amer- ica it Would be All Right. By Charles M. Thomson. la this letter I -wish to call your at. tention to another bill bavins to do with our foreign commerce which is pending in the house and which I understand is soon to be reported favorably by the committee on the merchant marine and fisheries. This bill proposes that the federal govern- ment shall subscribe to the capital stock of a corporation "now or here- after organised," the object of which corporation "shall be the purchase, equipment, maintenance and opera- tion of merchant vessels in the trade between the Atlantic, Gulf or Pacific rorts of the United States and the ports of Central and South America, and elsewhere (presumably Europe) to meet the requirements of the for-' elgn- commerce of the United States." The bill provides that the government "shall subscribe for 51 percentum of the stock of this corporation at par and the balance shall be offered to the public." /s Authority In Shipping Board. The bill authorizes the government through a "shipping board," consist* ing of the secretary of the treasury, the postmaster general and the sec tary of commerce, "to purchase the vessels, suitable for the purposes of euch corporation, with a view to trans- ferring them to such corporation." In payment for which vessels, "such cor- poration shall issue to the United States its (the corporations) gold bonds bearing interest at not less than 4 per centum per annum." My present inclination is to vote against the passage of this bill un- less some changes are made in it. You will note that the proposed, cor- poration is not authorised to build ad ditional ships for our foreign trade but to "purchase" them. In the main, ships available for purchase at this time, suitable for the purposes in question, are those belonging to the eoantri-- os Ppjnpa "»* at war and ciuiiin oinnp UHiiiio uiiiuu GUTS THE GOST F They Destroy Insects That Are Harmful and Increase the Yield of Things To Eat. AID BY FEE THEM D4UGTHE Keep the Migratory Birds Here in the Winter and Reduce the Insect Pests. A notable work is that now being pushed by Charles E. White of Kenil- worth for the protection of the insect- destroying birds. Mr. White is a Board of Trade man, but he is also an enthusiast on the subject of wild birds, and has gathered together a vast store of information concerning them and is now at the head of a definite movement to " preserve and conserve these insect-destroyers. He makes the assertion that one bilUon dollars a year will be cut off from the nation's cost of living if the wild birds the country over are protected. At , his home in Kenilworth, Mr. White has surrounded his place with bird-houses of every size and descrip- tion, a fountain and a bird-bathing beach for their exclusive use and food boxes containing suet and nest build- ing materials for the birds. Mr. White has proved by experiment that a great many of the migratory birds that an- nually go south do not do so because of the climate, but because they are starved out through lack of food. In "' mpftnt^wlntera Mr. White has fed the 1 ' birds and kept many hundreds of them throughout the winter Just by giving them suitable food. Special Food Boxes. A special design of food box has been constructed and is in use not only here but in many of Chicago's public parks. It was discovered that when suet was placed on the ground or on the limbs of trees without pro- tection, the bigger birds took posses- £'4sion of -tiw-ontlre--food-eupnly-~aadV crowded out the small and weaker birds. In order to prevent this the box now Jn_use was constructed. Its back consists of a curved piece of steel that protects the bark of the is hung. The front tree upon which it is hung. The First Chapter of a Short Historical Sketch of the miage cf Wilmette Something About the French Canadian Fur Trader, Ouil- mette, Who Built the First Home Here in 1826. The early history of Wilmette is so closely Intertwined with that of Chicago, and in fact with that of the entire region between Chicago and Waukegan, which has, in recent years, become known as the north shore, that it is a difficult task to give the one without referring more or less frequently to that or the other. It is a history around which much of romance has been woven, deaUng as it does with heroic deeds performed and untold hardships endured by the y pioneers, unto whom must be given the credit of converting this region from a wilderness into one of the most beautiful residential dis- tricts to be found anywhere within the length and breadth of this coun- try. ■ S The written history of Illinois be- gan with the arrival of Marquette and Joliet at the mouth of the Chi- cago river in 1673. At that time this part of the state was in the posses* sion of the Illinois and$ Pottawatomie tribes of Indians. The southern part of the state, made accessible by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, was set- tled long before the northern part, and at the time Illinois was admitted into the Union (1818). its population of fifty thousand was found chiefly in the southern portion. This, then, was the condition of northern Illinois in 1790, when An- toine Ouilmette, a hardy young Frenchman, born on Canadian soil, and the man after whom this village was named, coasted down the west- ern shore of Lake Michigan in hiB "bateau" and landed at the mouth of the Chicago river. • Ouilmette was in the employ of the American Fur company, and is said to have been a progressive, energetic man of good business ability, which statement is substantiated by the fact that he, in the course of a very short time, not only owned a small store in Chicago, but was also the owner of a great many horses, oxen and sheep. In 1796 ho married Archange, a Pot- tawatomie woman, whose tribe was at that time living at "GrosBe Point," which name served to Indicate the locality situated along the shore gen- erally within the, space later known as "Ridgeville township." This is the first north shore* wedding of which there is any history. Oullmette's wife was a half breed, her father hav- ing been a French , voyageur by the name of Francois Chevallier. (The authority for this statement is I. J. Martell. a grandson of Ouilmette, who now lives in Kansas City, Mo.) Ouil- mette had eight children (besides an adopted daughter). One of whom, Sophia, was living as late as 1905 on the Pottawatomie Indian reservation at St. Mary's, Kan. In addition to^Joofcing after his store in Chicago, Ouilmette carried on an extensive Undo along, the. west- ern shore of Lake Michigan as far north as Milwaukee, and even up into Canada, and he ft was upon whom the garrison of Fort Dearborn, be- fore the massacre of 1812, largely de- pended for their supply of fresh meat and fuel. Ouilmette, by virtue of having married dad of their own blood, possessed a powerful Influence over the FoUawatoniios, and at the time of the Fort Dearborn massacre (1S12). ho - was instrumental in sav- ing the lives of at least two white settlers. A general exodus of white settlers and their families from this part of the country followed imme- diately after the massacre, and for four years, or until 1816, Ouilmette was the only white resident of Chi- cago.___..____________ .....__.---------- About 1826 or 1827, Ouilmette and his family moved from Chicago to the north shore and built a log cabin on the lake shore a little north of what is now called Lake avenue, or due east of the present site of the Ouilmette Country elub house. With- in the memory of old residents the former site of this house has been washed away by the lake, together with many acres of land. This house was later used as a tavern by one Joel Stebbins. and was finally torn down in 1865 by John C. Westerfield, who had acquired that P&>t of the reservation. (Frank R. Graver's "An- tolne Ouilmette.") In the year 1829, by the treaty of Paririe du Chien, which was made between the United ' States govern- ment and the Pottawatomie, Chippewa and Ottawa Indians, there was deed- ed to the wife of Ouilmette a large tract of land which from that time became known as the ■ "Ouilmette Reservation." BIG CROP OF STUDENTS R ACADEMY Harvest of Prospectives Is About Ripe and Principal Helm Expects Good Increase. GLENGOEHAS FOUR HUNDRED SAVED MONEY YOUNG PEOPLE IY NEW PUN IN PAGE! Business Management of the It Will Take That Many To Prfl Afet 4HE fACULTY BACK School Starts Next Monday With All the Teaching Force Back on the Job. Village Has Proved a Great Success and Brought More Money. ECONOMY ANO EFFICIENCY TYPHOID TAKES THE BEST OF MANKIND Contagion, Like War, Takes Away the Best of the Race. FALL HUNTING HERE; EA80N IS OPEN Arm of the Law Mas Been Lifted and Many Are Out WiffiGuliir^ Bvanston academy will open Us fifty-sixth year on Monday and Tues- day,-September 14 and 15, which will be registration days. On one of these days all prospective students should come to the office to register. Classes begin on Wednesday, the itfth. In or- der to get a satisfactory start stu- dents should have all preliminary de- tails out of the way before that day. although there will be opportunity to regtsteiriaterif necessary. Expects Good Year. Principal Helm feels that the acad- emy has never entered upon a year since he has been here with such material assurance of success and efllciency, chiefly, no doubt, because the entire faculty will return, and thts means, or course, that every depart- ment will be conducted In the most thorough manner from the very be- ginning of the year. The only excep- tion to this statement is that Mr. Harry T. Nightingale of the history department will be away part of the year attending to his duties as a member of the state board of equali- zation at Springfield, but his work will in no way suffer. Mr. Nightingale has been spending the summer In New England, where he has been visiting some of the leading schools in order to make a study of weir methods of teaching and compare . them with those used in the academy. He was recently Invited by Professor Pitman of the Massachusetts State Normal school to read a paper on "The Teach- ing of Civics and History." The school is situated al Salsm, and Mr. Nightingale expects to present his paper there on September 20. The return of Coaches Holsinger. Seller and Robinson means, of course, that athletics will start off with enthusiasm. All preliminary de- tails have been arranged for already. The coaches are planning to give Much Street Work Oone at Less Than the Old Cost ef Cleaning--Can Make Even Better Showing With Co-Operation. sent the Many Episodes fo- the History of Chicago at Ravin ia Park. SHOW BEGINS TOMORROW! Last January Olencoe captured Evanston's very efficient street super- intendent. Mr. Herbert H. Sherer, and made him business manager of that enterprising north shore village. This was recognized as a long step towards modern methods looking toward great- er economy and efficiency in the ad- ministration of the peoples' affairs. There was some objection to the crea- tion of such an office which the-courts had to decide, but the legality of his appointment was affirmed. What it has meant to the village In better serv- ice at greatly reduced cost is seen in a statement Just issued by the village board of trustees^ who say: What the Trustees Say. "Property owners and tax payors are vitally interested in and should know the manner in whiih their money has been spent J>y the board of trustees under the village manager plan adopted and put into effect Feb- ruary 1, 1914. "The trustees believe the plan has been successful from every point of view and they leave it to the good judgment of every thoughtful citizen and tax payer to agree with them or cooperate in pointing out what further changes or methods should be adopted in making your village the cleanest, most efficient and economically man- aged municipality In the entire state "It has been the endeavor of the board to better the physical and sant Will Give Two Evening sue* Afternoon Performance--Every thing from Indian Days to the Present Time. "Chicago of Today," the closing set of the six episodes In "The HistoryJH Chicago" pageant, will show the mod- ern dancing delight of the city In pic- turesque fashion. A group of ifli Forest young people will represent China and dance the Ta-Tao ittfl final tableau of "Chicago Now." Iflfl Chinese group are Misses LOlito |fl| more attention to the younger and lighter students of the academy, and provide athletic opportunities for them which Is strictly in line with the best modern methods. Flsk ball has been newly decorated In the corridors and recitation rooms, and is without a doubt one of the most satisfactory preparatory school build- ings in the country. The office receives dally visits from prospective students from all parts of the country, and Principal Helm is Im- pressed with the earnestness and splendid quality of those who expect to attend this year/ There has been a good deal of in- terest manifested through the corre- spondence In the splendid work done in the mental measurement depart- ment, which Is conducted by Miss Townsend and Principal Helm. In- quiries hare been received from schools and factories asking for infor- mation concerning the methods em- ployed. It is gratifying to Bvanston to know that Bvanston academy stands as one of the pioneers In intro- ducing and developing this epochal work along constructive lines in edu- cation. so doing to keep expenses down as low as possible. Saved.on- Streets. "TO this end the board has secured the consent and cooperation of prop* erty owners In patching and tarvlating two and one-half mi lea, Or about 26,000 square yards of worn out streets at the low coat of eight cents per square m0Uf/I<ttaca_ ja«feer, Geneva King. Margaret ~ Carry. Elizabeth Adsit, Edith Cumiriings and Courtney Letts, J: C. McMullIn. Louis Houck. W. B. Kelly, Jr., William Hubbard, Dcaring Davis and John H ami inc. Mrs. J. Og- den. Armour is pageant chairman for Lake Forest and Mrs. Arthur Meeker town chairman for the Ravinia club, under whose auspices the brilliaS festival will be given on Friday am Saturday evenings and'Saturday mat- inee at Ravinia Park. The Fire of 1S7t. Another dance in which the north shore towns will take part Is the "Fire Dance," showing the city in 18TL Flame spirits and smoke spirits w be represented by. Kenilworth J Winnetka girls. Misses Evelyn I and Nettie Isom, Harriet St«9 caret Fitch, l^eanor SetreU^H Allen. Agnes Pease, Eleanor Sei Coxa Clements, Edith Chandler, Oiive Bully, Charlotte Parmelse.' Louies Ware. Marian Keehn, Elisabeth Kul« char, Helen Farrell. Betty Hoyt, Sarah Hoy*, Marguerite Lloyd. Mary Eager faryneoiiditiomrof the Tiilage^but-in--LlD^d-Cat,ierln« Blossom and Its! Gilmoro. "Chicago" will be acted Louise Tennis" of Bvanston. by Miss ^Chicago*; bollc figures: "Art," Miss Hester Washburn; "Literature." Mrs. John Hunter; "Science." Miss Billy Klrk> man; "Commerce." Howard Hoyt; **3 dustry," -Ludlow Washburn, and **1 sic," Mills Rachel Embrce. which are now useless for the pur- poses of trade. Nearly all these ships are German vessels. In my last StterT called attention to the Convention of London (1909), in which our own Government partic- ipated, which declared the transfer of an enemy vessel to a neutral flag ef- fected after the outbreak of hostili- ties, to be Void unless it is proved that such transfer was not made in order to evade the consequences to whiten enemy vessel, as such, is exposed; Of course the interests now own- ing these idle ships would sell them, if at all, because of the dangers to which theywouliLhft^exposed If they engaged in commerce under their present registry. The belligerent nations will regard these transfers as void. If the transfers are made to this proposed corporation and the ves- sels attempt to sail the seas under cur flag they will be seized by the war vessels of Europe and claimed as prizes of war, and that action would seem to be justified under the terms of the Declaration of London. Thejaxgumeitr may be made that our foreign commerce needs more ships. Granted, but what is to be gained when under the emergency con- ditions now prevailing, which furnish the reason for proposing this law, the ships available will be subject to capture by the powers at war. even after coming under our flag and under American registry? We will be greater losers than gainers under such a plan, it seems to me. ______.:;- zdBourtine JPMWeulttsa. ■- - --- But more important than that con- sideraalon is the following. Under terms of this-mil the corporation is not to purchase these ships, but the United States Government is author- ized to purchase them and then trans- fer them to the cor poration. 4n-ethet words, this transaction of purchasing and.. securing the transfer of ships now belonging to interests of the bel- ligerent countries, which transfers are void under the terms of the Declara- tion of London, and which the bellig- The following article by Dr. Victor is covered with a strong wire nei ihat will admit the bills of the hungry c yaughan in a current issue of birds, but too fine to allow them to re- 8clvncB wlll be # interest to local move all the suet at once As a re- ^^ Qf ^ flgnt ^ ^ suit, the chickadee. ^J^%" been waged here against the typhoid titmouse, robins and even blue birds -The--fall--hunting season--Is on. yard: also approximately 30,000 Coming of the White Man. remain there perfectly contented all winter. V This sign has been put White about his grounds and in many parks, and he hopes it will get general circulation throughout the country: "HAVE A HEART" Wild birds are readily attracted by feeding them suet. Study the feathered tribe, with your chil- dren, at close range. GET A SUET BASKET! You'll derive pleasure--protect your trees, shrubs and plants--be do- ing a great good. The bas- ket works summer and winter. Ask fon literature. MAKE FRIENDS OF THE BIRDS! An Immensa Saving. -Mr. White produces a great many government reports and other proof that an Immense saving will result by the preservation of the birds wnich fever germ: The claim has been advanced that up by Mr. the infectious diseases have bene- fited the race by the destruction of the unfit. This idea I have combat- ed most vigorously since our study of typhoid fever in the army of 1898. My colleagues and I found out that out of 9.481 soldiers who had previously been on the sick report and could not be regarded as possessing standard health, 048, or 6.8 per cent, contracted typhoid fever; whereas, out of 4G.348 men who had no preceding Illness. 7,197, or 15.3 per cent, developed ty- phoid fever. More than 90 per cent of the men who developed typhoid had no preceding Intestinal disorder. Under ordinary conditions the strong, busy man, especially the one whose activities demand wide excursions from his home, is more likely to be- come infected than the one whose sphere of action Is more limited on account of infirmity. The reason for this is too obvious to need statement, and it follows that more men than i women and more adults than children Thursday the arm of the law was lift- ed, and the ban being removed, fisher- men and hunters departed fOr the lake regions and the streams where game Is supposed to be in abundance. There are said to be flocks of ducks In the marshy regions near the north end of Cook county and In the lake districts of Lake county. Several hunters, armed with repeaters, left Thursday morning In the hope of bagging the unsuspecting game. Scores of the followers of the nlm- rod sport are planning- to leave the city tomorrow to follow their favorite sport As the laws governing the killing of game is now pursued under the fed eral statute, there are many changes in the game laws this year over other seasons. As the law prohibited the shooting of any game in spring, the hunters are especially eager to par- take of the' sport this season. square yards of oiling has been done at a cost of two cents per square yard (a reduction of one cent per square yard over the, cost of previous appli- cations). In this work the property benefited has stood three-quarters of the expense. All the streets of the vil- lage have been thoroughly cleaned at least twice and the catch basins once in the past six months and an organ ization built up to keep them so. Not only have the streets and basins been Earlier episodes in the story of the city begin with "The Coming of the White Man." Highland Park girls whin; will act as Indian women are Misses Cecil Vail, Margaret Cashing, Marjorie Small. Margaret Deming. Marjorle Loudon, Kathleen Bergen, Mildred Swlgart, Dorothy Scofleld and bets William. Winhetka's contribution of Indian women to that first act inelttdw Mrs. VV. F. Wallace, Mrs. G. B. Cal kins. Thyra Ruhiand and Ruth Llebe Children from Glencoe In a little el cleaned, but in addition, 26.000 square t English dance will be Marian C yards of old pavements have been | Ruth and John Hollo way. He^nft 1 Rachel Borncarop and Mary Ellsabe ©rent powers not!- _ of Europe have fled our Government they shall con- sider void, are to be made not by the proposed corporation but by the 4iov- trnment of the United States, as such. destroy the insects, that In turn ruin havo typhoid fever. Moreover the the croos One government report case mortality is greater among the toys that in Illinois each year birds strong, beauwdjath in the tofecttous destroy more than three million bushels of noxious Insects. Scientists point out that there are one hundred and seven species of insects, that, prey on elm trees, two hundred and sixty-four that attack poplar, three hundred and tonety-six that prey on birches and four hundred that dam- age oak trees. He thinks thejtime will come when it wUl be a crime to plunder toTTdTran*rthat the com- nmhtty wilfnnvr alight to compel a man to return to hw land whatever fertility he removed from ft. By pro- viding bird shelter and food we will «.v a billion dollarsr worth of crops, (Continued on Page 6.) diseases is often due to the rapidity With which the invading organism Is broken up by the secretions of the body cells and the protein poison made ^HKe^er~Ffo«r\th» I have^conclud- ed that contagion, like war, destroys the very flower of the race. This view is sustained by the historians of the pestilences of former times.--Dr. Vic- tor C. Vaughan in Science. shrubs and trees. Insect-destroying birds are called the police of the air by the chief of the United 8tates Biological Survey. (Continued on Pig* »-) SHANNON'S CAR STOLEN. Stealing of ^cars at tow baseball parks in CWofcjsJ^ has become com- non7™T!Snttumber of cars missing after each ball game has been so large that the Chicago police ape mak- lwg a flirttfflftiM^fl eBort to1 put a stop to it. Rev.T. V, Shannon had his car stolen from to front of the Cub park last Thursday. He had declined to pay some young men money to watch -I toe- ntashlae* an they ran o< wBIlb».,, A J UST1FICATION The board of health of Bvanston is, and always has been, very car*, ful not to use any Influence of any kind,4 nor to have Its tittm used in any manner to further the ends of any commercial enterprise. In a recent Circular published by the Wilmette Dairy, in which they used the name of the Bvanston health department, it might be con- strued as an endorsement by the health department of the milk fur- nished by the Wilmette Dairy. The board of health Is in no way responsible for statements made In the circular, which waa issued with- out their knowledge and absolutely against their policy. They never have made any statement to the effect that one brand of milk was better than another. AH analyses made fey toe department are public records and may be obtained at any time, but comparisons ef one bread with another are never made for publication.--C. T. Rooms. M. D., Commissioner of Health. ^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmt/bmmmmmmmmm ____ "! ' r - q__i. MUSIC SCHOOL OPENS. The Illinois College of Music has reopened Its studio in the Brown building for the season of 1914-15. Mr. Edwards, the director, may be seen on Tuesdays or Saturday afternoons. This college Is one of the substantial schools of the city. It was organised fourteen years ago, is Incorporated, and issues diploma:- and certificates. --Of the faculty these teachers will be at the studio for-the present as fol- lows: Tuesday, Mr. Edwards, piano; Wednesday, Miss Rerwash, voice; Fri- day, Edna Reiner Marshall, expression and dramatic art; Saturday. Marie Bd- v.ards. A concert will be given by tbe fac- ulty Ift tbe near future. Mr. Edwards invites tnose^totereateirto calt^Tnes- days- and learn of the system and methods of the college work, which Is strictly of the best in all departments ----- SOMt LIV1 Lots of young feUows find It hard to earn aa much as $10 per week to spite of the fact that they can roll a cig- arette with one hand. cleaned, patched, tarviated and rolled at a labor cost of $424.84 less than the cost of tbe mere cleaning of streets and basins during the corresponding six-months period of 1918. "Our water loss, which- at the first of March, 1914, was nearly one-half of the entire amount of water registered through the Winnetka meters where they join our mains, has been reduced by over one-quarter by the finding, and stopping of numerous leaks.--------%-- "The following tables will show how Jasper. Ravinia children will ' Marian Rosenwald. Fletcher and • entty Seymour, Jerry Learning, Jol Legler, Le Mar Fearing and Oertr Fearing. Four hundred young people children will be In this great hist festival closing the summer soeftc season of the north shore. OVER HALF Ml *---- HOMES IRGOOK after the collection of various special taxes and permits as compared with the'previous half year: Collections During First Six Months. 1913 1914 Gain Building ------Sp------ ": ~~ -permits ..$ 51.'Ji $ 177.30 $135.38 Sewer permits .. 100.00 300.00 100.00 Water-----------„.,■■..,.,■ - „--.- ■,■-,>,■, -.■-Ai'rg^ permits M 1C7JM 3SL00 ih.oo •'( ' W ..V______-. Most of These Are in City- JUiottt Six Thousand in Country. . fh.„ijaJ4ed-JB!&ten census d«g§ pent" at Washington baa just a bulteito-deeding with the &t ql Cook county homes, The facts contained In this as follows: There are 618,1*1 in Cook county. Of this number are farnvhomes. Of this number SjU bdfcaj^gg gain... -,,...........833SI.88 Vehicle Tax. 1»1S 1*14 Gain Collected dur- . Ing year..$1,186.21 $1,713.88 $587.71 ot the farm homes are owned by ti Dam Tasu_________-----v; occupants, and, are true from §M ^»18 1814 Gain Sege encumbrance. Those witfe^ Collected dur- sas<» number 71$, Renters Ing year..$ lfO.OO $ 305.00 $145.00|W-r>« *■»•'**■•>...,.. v _ ~{M ________r_________ _t^ Of toe toiai ut bm^*i uOu»es HL •- __ _'_' ' _.^ _ _ |county. SKJHa are pity homes. There YHlV Altl ALL GONE. l*f* i*3#8t urban home owners In toe What has become of the oldfash- \ county. Of 9g loned children who used to safe per-1 mortgaged; 6ijg* are tree mission from their parento when they: cumbrance. A total of I wanted to do anything? 'renters.