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they observe a peace-time arniy dili- gently working with shovel, pick and *wheelbarrow, excavating marsh land, wheeling it to designated points, and dumping it according to scale. And when this peace-timç..armly, k'nown as, the Civilian Conservation corps, is soII, doing, it is bringing to a realization the1 solution of. a probfem, that has puzzled engineers for a long time. This army:is working onu Forest pre- serve property. It bias moved in at the! sole soliécitationi of Emmett Whealan, president of the Board of foreqt Pre-., serve Commissioners, 'and. throigli the granting of-a request made to. President Roosevelt by Mr. Whealen. This re-1 quest was miade to beautify'-a Forest Preserve holding. and- to do it, at no cost to the countyi Plann.d t. Imàsomve Skokie Sinice the Forest Preserve district be- gan to acquire holdings ini thé Skokie marsl ini 1920, improvement, of the holding was in the minds of the l3ard of Forest Preserve ~Conmiissioners, of which body Emmett Wbealan lias. bee;i a member nearly a score of years. Iii 1929 the advisory comniittee to *thie Board of Forest, Preserve Commission-I ers, of which Gen. 'Abel Davis of Glencoe is cliairman,I in its report for the developmenit of the forest preserves, recommended a lagoon system in the Skokie niarsh for the impounding of flood waters, as well as a scenic land-* scape development. Moniey was. to cone f rom the im- provement bond issue, but more urne- diate and iniperative irnprovements drew heavily froni the money thus acquired. *Despite this, a program wvas drafted, maps were drawn 'by engineers of the Forest Preserve district and actual work merely waited available money. Wheaiam AppeaIs tb Roosevelt, Presjdent Roosevelt launcbed bis idea of employing, youtb on. reforestation camps. President Wliealan, knoiwing.al details of the Plans drawn,,whîcb pro- vided for planting of trees, imrnediately saw the feasibility of addressing Presi-ý dent Roosevelt and proposing that lie send an, army to Skokie marsh to com-ý FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICT OF COOK COUKTYr EMMETT WHEALAM PRES».V' WILLIAMlBUSS HOMER J. BYRD Mn~ EDW.. J. FLEMINiG FRANK J. KASPER MAURICE F KAVANAUGIH PETER M, KELLY WALTER xJ LABUY CHAS G. SAUERSI -MARY Mc ENERNEY GEORGE A. MILLER MR.GLENN E. PLOJMB DANIEL RYAN ï AMELIA SEARS, JOHN E. TRAEGER, JR, CHARLES- H. WEBER GEN'. SUPIT. p 3- .3- n *3fl S la Put? t t, IDtvEimioII fTch NORTHf Qi s j s ~LENICOE PLIOP Sm 3T. WI/NN-ET$,A p~àm L. *~ ci?. n~oe Ccc CAMP Mi., Il and President Whealan revels at the aes- P. Mi., general tours. thetic anid recreational effects that are Pridays:,10 a. ni., general tour; Il being accomplished. Truly, this will a. mi., minerals and prehistoric- ex-. square up' with the motif of the F~or-f est Preserve district to build and to tells graphically liow the plan for the preserve for' posterity, lie believes. improvement of the Skokie, is being The engitieèrys sketch on this pageý worked: out. R. 1 . mi, asener _ rafi' -ma- ..... c r U ttts. tt, ()e r arKing inLemAA R. S Ams, pssegertrafic an-at the nearest North Shore line sta-. ager. The new rates wail be effective tion and traveling tô and from Chi-. between 'Chicago and ail points serv- cago by train. The new. style comn- ed by the North Shore line north to mutation ticket shoiuld prove popular Kenosha, Wis. . with regular riders, being mucli more Coincident with inauguration- of compact and more easily bandled these new, low commutation rates, than the coupon ticket."i -PARE ~iiJi4J * g ,,!AS'! DIVERS1OM DTCN, -tý lizj =