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one place, two or three serious acci denfig hue all but transpnred Ald erman (Bushman objected, unless th )1 could move some other are light there, and that is what the street and alley vim try to do. Charles Streiber says he has to go out of town to get into town, because there is no walk on the west side of his street in front of Mrs. Dooley’s lots. Then some other fellow wants one on the west side of the same block; that wiIi’ta'keom sum ' “’8: thecity’s hick": ' els and build ufi the Milwaukee road folks. 'When a lot of these things went to the street and alley com- mittee, Rice wanted to know why his committee was made a dumping ‘ ground for everything. Alderman Cushman alluded to his Indiana ex- perience with lot lines and railroads. Mrs Hammond’s claim for rebate on street paving came up again and such a flow of “words words noth ing but words," as Cwsar or Henry VIII" or somebody else said. The matter is as clear as a pikestéff}. the city has collected for three feet more of pavement of Mrs. Hammond than it has built. and she wants a rebate, and the aldermen kick up a dust of words and reports to blind her. You mistake your victim, gen- ' tl‘emen. Mrs; Hammond has cleaned house too many years to be blnfied by dust. To tell her to go to the courts for a remedy. is not. just the thing when the city has collected too much money; ‘ New There was a big, bluff kind of a light. over the electric light hill. and finallyghg city paid that for .No- vember mid hung the Deccmlmr bill up till the February meeting,wv presume. That is rather child's play. instehtl of business method. Attorney Smoot. guw the council :1 bit of wholesome talk on its unpar- liamentary methodé; ' Material for a cheap hose and ladder trucks building was ordered near the standpipe. But is not that inside the fire limits? The council would not allow Peter Dooley to build asmall shed or annex to his office, and now orders a ,big one for itself; there wae nothing said of iron covering. To be sure. it stands next the stand pipe. but you can’t get WW... an. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. any watervout of that, except through the hydrants. We' must'rep‘rove‘nur ‘ very able, as well as genial, Alderman Phillips. He has not forgotten his school days, when he used to bend a pin in pecuâ€" liar shape, and set it down , in the teacher’s chair and await results, or when he used to thrust the point of one through a fellow schoolâ€"boy’s suxnmerttrousers and see/him jump. Now he is trying the same kind of 4mm‘éfiws65m *g’zsm aderjam-ef the second ward: Just as his crook- ed pin antics used to cause heaps of fun _f3r the boys, so his alder-manic tactics afl'ord us lots of amusement. but his victim don‘t seem tbenjoy it. Alderman Phillips, “Dont!” The first passenger engines Wéigh ed ten tons, and when fifteen ton: ones were put on, peoplgs Were : amazed; 80 or 90' ton moguls ,are 2 common now. ‘ If ydu want to read the bestr and most intgaresting book on‘ early rail- roading get Charles B. George's “Forty Years on the Rail." He has railroaded it all over the country and carfied more distifiguishml per- sons than any other man we Wot of. Wehave an old freight bill of the “Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad” datéd May 10th. 1859', to H. Payne, nine bags of meal, at 10 cts. per 100 pounds. and two hbls. flour {It S cts. per 100 It’s; total $1.37 from Chica- go hero. Frank Leech. agent. Who was he 1’ . Perl C. )W’Hef. who used to be the popular conduqtor on the old Rutlaml and Burlington mad “be- fore (la wah." and always wore the best fitting gloves and a natty Prince Albert coat, while he punched tick- ets, with a Winsome smile for every- body, died only a few days ago in California. William hallager told us the other day, his parents came here and located on the 80 acresjust West of Hugh T. Birch’s new farm house, in 1853. ‘There was no railroad then and passenger came on the old high top rattling Concord coach with four or six horses, up by Geo. Healer’s. Mrs. Hammondn. Alfred RAILROAD MATTERS. t. f)..<...n§ igaugmazéfizfiiéfl.Suitiété a? SLPeter’Sfind so on up to Waukegan and Milwaukeg. The railroad came in-1855, Peopler thoughttha world was made. There was one passen- ger train each way, two trains in all instead of forty as now and they only went as far north as Waukegan and passengers could then stay there or go on by stage or boat or on foOt to Milwaukee, which was practically the end of the world in that direction By and by the road got up to the “stem lin§.mbfiw the 9m 4mm Mil wankee‘glixet it. 6 B. George, now the proprietor of the popular (Safe in _Waukegan, was first static‘p agent and then conductor for years, and opened an eating house, the first railroad restaurant in the ebunty ‘ and for twenty-five years trains stop ped “twenty ”minutes for refresh; meats". ’ The Highland Park NEW§, Evans Broa, proprietors, and Lewis B. Hibbard, edigpr, is a neat, new local weekly that makes a vigoroi'ls bid for success. It will be a succass.~Re- gister. “:5 A bran new local paper, the Highâ€" land Park News, has made its ap~ pearance, the first issue hearing date Dec. 4th. It is a neat and newsy sheet of eight small pages and bids fair to serve Highland Park inter- ests wellsâ€"Evanston Index. Vol.1, No. l, of the Highland Park NEWS reaches our table this week. , It is a neatly printed eight- page paper. full of local news, inde- dendent, and ably edited by H. F. A. E. Evans. We wisl‘r these gentlemen and the News success. -~ ‘AAntioch News. We have received No ‘1, Vol. 1, of the Highland Park NEWS, 3 new three column quarto. It is neatly printed on tinted paper and presents a handsome appearance. The pa- per is to be devoted purely to local matters. The editor is Mr. L. B. Hibbard, which fact is a guarantee of able and bright editorials.â€"~Gaz- ette. The N EWS is the name of a new paper started in Highland Park this week. The progg-igtors, H: F. 85 A. E. Evans, are Well known in Lake Forest and liked by everyone The ans 18 3 Weekly, thgee‘column pa- per, published in the interest of Highland Park and immediate vicin- ity. The Forester wishes them suc- cess in their new undertaking.- « Lake Forester. AS OTHERS SEE US.