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WILMETTE LIFEWilmelte's 75th Anniversary 1872-1947North WesternBegan ServiceHere in 1854LeaEditor'amiin'iiii noun pIll a m ms Note: The following storywasCWleJllve* p[. DenII GBIl.ai U Oilwl oo4 not i ooi t -7.15.: a.ml IU.UC taken in part from a paper de-DbournPlc.6-4.V f.3D K.1SI II,. 19livered before the Evanston Histori-Greimerinee.<7, ;.32iai;10 11 U n Paru IT ikcae<\s7 un;.s3i2>iai;, tiu.au1 ,.iil society in 1945 by Patsy Gallichio.t*-wt7 w... .tiu.atii.2j+ii n.tio n til uTheI r.at| a.ii +u Hi story of the North Western's8umtrer108.50 M nMrigihcth-iogfa-way which hugs the Lakeldlcll.Ml108.51Row '11 HilIt MlB.MnPart shore between ChicagoUSB10 ? 11110S.57.andi 1SH1109.U W Milwaukee goes back to around10W09. 861850 when groups in the two citiesbeganI0M O 4 406 006 6 M8 M work on organization of tworailroad companies each of whichWft.i lBmTetBtion.eLOT:... 4 M6 04 swellwouldTTInnetk*...11.,11.51 build as far as the Illinois-Wisconsi11 Mn border.The Chicago company, which wasnii .cnn..knownIt OBU first as the Illinois Parallelrailroad and later as the Chicagoand Milwaukee line constructed itsroute as far as Waukegan in 1854.Throughag Bluff Chicago-Milwaukee serv-enohice was opened a year later.(nellwBQkee..W..Sli5lRefused' to StopWaakeih.11 OUau ioThe railroad refused to stop itst Stop on Signal, or to leave PasMtngerH.trains at such an insignificant pointStop fur Paasengers for Chicago.as Wilmette until Henry Dingee andAlexander McDaniel had a stationLOOKS FAMILIAR?Shown above .is a portion of a Chicago andEvanston is Central street. There("depot," of course, in those days)North Western railway passenger train timetable for the Milwaukeewere no stations in those days atbuilt at their own expense, $700.division, issued July 15, 1886.Kenmore, Kenilworth, Indian Hill,The line became a part of theBraeside, Fort Sheridan, or NorthNorth Western system through aNoteChicago. The fare to Wilmette was that the fastest time be-those days trains left from the oldseries of consolidations by 1883.tween42 cents, or about three cents a Chicago and Milwaukee inWells street terminal. Gross ParkNo Steel Railsthosemile. Now it's a -dime less. A days was two and one-halfis now Belmont avenue. Lake SideBack in 1854 there were no steelhours. Best time between Chicagomonthly individual ticket was $6.60is now Hubbard Woods, South Ev-rails on the roadbed. The rail wasand Wilmette was 37 minutes. Inanstonbetween Chicago and Wilmette. is Main street, and Northwooden, over the top of whichwere laid long metal strips to pro-CIVIC LEADERtect the wood from being wornFamilDEFEAT SCHOOLy Still LivesTheStaver Moulding, president of the proposal to build a new schooldown by the train wheels. Often themetaat Seventh street and Laurel ave-board of education from 1940 tol strip would tear loose andon Old Farm Sitenue was defeated, 386 to 250, in a1944, has also been president of thepunch its way through the floor ofreferendum held in July, 1919. Later,community chest (1939-1940) anda coach at some startled passenger.An early Wilmette settler, whosehowever, the proposition was ap-chairman of the Harmony conven-Suburban service started in aboutproperty was just to the west ofproved by the voters.tion (1937).1855. That is to say, two localthe Ouilmette reservation betweentrains were put on the schedule.Wilmette avenue and Central street,One left Chicago at 10 a.m. andEvanston, was George Steffens.the other at 3:15 p.m.The property has since been di-POLITICALvided among his descendants, and LIFEWilliammany of the family still reside in H. MacLean of Wilmettethe 1500 and 1600 blocks on Wilmetteserved the village (as trustee andpoliceavenue. Among them are: magistrate), the township (asassessor), the county (as countyG. W. Steffens, 1501; Peter J.,commissioner), and the state (in1515; Marguerite M., 1525; Har-the house of representatives andvey J., 1527; Peter, 1529; Joseph J.,in the state senate). He died in 1924.1531; and John J., 1604.VI :Richard V. WilsonWalter C. BruecksWe are very proudto offer our congratulationsto Wilmette on its75th AnniversaryBRUECKS-WILSONM rOLDFUNERAL HOME AND NEWRailway locomotives looked like this (top photo)back in the 1850s when the Chicago and North Western railway'sLinden at Tower Roadshore line between Chicago and Milwaukee was built through Wil-mette.WINNETKA 3436 WINNETKA, ILL. Lower photo shows the "Twin Cities 400," modern stream-liner which flashes north through the village every afternoon, south-bound late in the evening.