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If the city council of Lake Fun-st dmss not bestir itself and get down to business and pass that Electric strcet railroad ordinance. the road cannot be built iii season to accmn» modate the wealth. culturc, beauty. etc. of Highland Parkmanlncnccinent week. All that. is vanting now is that missing franchise through Lake Forest. lan't be thcy have caught on to the Chicago incthml and arc waiting for SUIIIHHIP to put up “suth in " A PROMINENT citizen of line culti- vated literary tastes congratulated the NEWS on securing the services of so able a writenas Parson Styles, L. L. D. on its staff and pfonouncml his article last week one of the best he had ever read. Uur ambition is to stand at the head of American journalism. WE understand some of the St Johns folks want cedar blocks; they would rather put in new pming ev ery ten years. We are in doubt, but the the Central avenue west ex- periment will tell the story not far hence. WE understand Architect Bock has some plans for the improvement of the city building. When the court cil gets aro'und to that important matter we shall make a “few feeble remarks" on the subject. THE cleaning and Ijepairing done on the new Central avenue shows what can be done when our street department has adequate funds with which to work. Advertising rates made known on gppllcltlon at this office. _ _ LEWIS B. HIBBABD H. F. EVANS â€" Entered at the posboffice at Highland Park, “L. as second class matter. Published in the Interests of Highland Park, Highwood and Ravinia, every Friday afternoon by H. F. A. E. Evans. Terms, $1.00 pcr year. 50 cents for six months, 30 cents for abree months. Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois; The Highland Park News. Office: McDonald‘s Buildipg, Sx. juhns FRIDAY, MAY 14. 1897 - â€" - I‘JDITUR. BI‘SINESS MANAGER. Tm: council instructed the com iiiittot- to anmim- the Happ road roller and if all is right to buy it for $37)”. ln tho course of tirm-, this booming wvstern (-ity will lg-arn what a little va England (’Olnitry town had learnt-d twenty years ago. We wvre rusticating one summer on the old home farm, and tlu- public high» way lwing in a dilapidatml condition. wv set to and repaired it. inadv a lxaautiful, wellâ€"crowned “pike," as‘ good as could lw made without, gravel. It sot things going in that town. and for years tho town has owned its own scrapvrs, plows, roll» era. teams, wagons, etc: all com» plntv and (lows all its highway Work mvnml Its own scrapvrs, ph era. teams, wagons, etc” plntv and duos all its highw APRUPOS of our advocacy of a cen» tral parkway on St. Johns. we will say, there is an earnest effort being made in/S'ew York city to have shade trees planted along their streets in the business districts. We are guing to preach 2| eentral parkway with all our might an'l then let the, St. Johns folks do as they like: it is their street and their wishes should decide with» in all reasonable limits. or down by the Presbyterian church. as their teams stand on the street crossings and then they make a mud hole there all the time and the la- dies have to walk around them. FOR the rights of wumen and children we think the street sprink- ling carts should not lw allowed to fill on proxfiineut cornersam Hawkins WE arv told the boys are killing b' (is with sling shots. One man sziis he saw a scarlét tariager- killed a day or two sinca in that way. Swear out a warrant and have ‘the boys arrested; it will cost them $5 and perhaps a few days in the city jail. No favor will be shown those who kill birds. Tm: best and most serviceable street in this city today is the new cedar block. Its only defect is it is not crowning euuugh; it should be fully six inches higher in the centre of the street. But it is clean and dry. not as dusty as the macadams and not an muddy and sticky after being sprinkled! THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS l The Second Ward has reason to I be. proud of its new alderman, Dan- ‘ iel Cobb. Monday night he made his first speech or little speeches. on I l the need of care and faithful adher- ; ance to the law in the matter of the oth'cers' bonds. First he wanted to i know that the bondsmen were worth 1 the legal amount of property and i he wanted to know that the bonds ‘ were executed in legal form and he thought the committee should go over these matters in private session and talk these things all up in pubâ€" lic. But he insisted that in all these important matters they. should attend to the city’s affairs faithfully. WHEN Mayor E 'zms called on (lol. Davidson for :1 speech at "Wholvsulv improven'wnt" meeting. the colonel said he was reserving his thunder for future use. We lisr te-nml for a few peals Monday night. but no sound only an “aye"or“ nay" in voting on‘sefizral important mat~ tors. Some people rate an :Il(l4-r~ man's vuluo by tho amount of talk lu- puts in. but people of sense know THERE is one phase of this two sets of street sprinklers that ought to he abated as a nuisance at once; We mean having both sprinklers go over the same street almost at the game time. 0 Some days this~ week Cen- tral avenue east has been one stretch of mud. which made it- wholly unfit for a bicycle or a V pleasure team,~ If both machines want to show off to the people, all right. hm they have no right to spoil our streets by this process. $20,000 tax; not much. Better die poor than be bled in that Way after you are dead. Tm: Supreme Court of Illinois upholds the income tax law, which takes $21,000 tax out of the mun. ' 000 estate of the late John B. Drake. That Settles it. we won't die ric‘h not if we'c’qn hell) “it, and we think we can: No cmmuonWeélth of [Hiâ€" nois is going to pillage our tomb of on a business plan; and for revery dollar expended they get, in this way. as much as we get for; five dol- lars. Sometime the Park will own its own equipment entire.