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.‘ Highland , “Park News. The Home was in- corporated in Illinois in 1890, spent nearly five years in Wilmette and then moved out here, where it owns two cottages and three or four lots, opening to the south. perhaps one hundred feet from the railroad tracks, so the ‘men can see and hear the traina, of which there are from '50 to 60 [messenger passing every day. These houses are under the personal care Of Dr. Frank M. lngalls, a comparatively young phy» Biciun and a railroad man also, so that he hasa fellow-feeling {or the men at the throttle, the brake or punching tickets. Hon. L. S. Cot fin of Fort Dodge, Iowa, is presi- dent of the organization and former ly was railroad commissioner of his The cut we herewith present is of the comparatively new home for dis- abled and homeless railroad em- ployee of this country and Canada, for when it oomes to talking of the railroad brotherhood, the “line” is an unknown factor; there is no Ding- ]ey protective tariff to shut out Can- adians from this noble charity. The Home is at “Idlewild,” a place about one mile south of the Park. That little burg was founded in the vis- ionary Utopian period of our history; it had a depot for years and trains stop- ped there one day, ‘ back in the ’70s, when everything here was 3 on the crest of the a wave. Idlewild was . idle for years; the 5 mole and the bat and , the‘sparrow and the j susceptibletramp had their homes in its un- ‘ occupied houses, till a little more than two years ago, the man- agers and founders of \ this home discovered 1 it, and wisely decided to locate there. VOL II RAILROAD MEN’S HOME. HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., SEPTEMBER 3, 1897. l little J. C. Anderson. of pressed brick fame, is working on a patent which mama to promise well. down in the little 7 x 5) state of Rhode Island. and so on. No one can estimate the good such a quiet, unostentatious in- stitution as this home confers on its inmates. Retired railroad men are be- ginning to look for homes in the near vicinity. so that Idlewild will soon become a railroad town in a very important sense. Dr. lngalls is a first-class manager and resident physician and llfl a people we are proud of the Home and its work. The Home is supported by the voluntary contributions of the men, not by the railway companies, and is one of the noblest charities in the land. Another commendable fea- ture of the Home is that it teaches its inmates almost any trade or art they may wish to learn, as a means of helping themselves to a liveli- hood. There one has learned den- tistry, one barbering, one telegraphy state. Ex-Conductor McRoberts of Waukegau is one of the board of managers. Our yonig’peopie _“progress”after this manner. The Misses White, Miss Millard, the Misses Floyd, MissP rail, Miss Hall, Miss Stanton, Miss McWhorter, Mrs. Tif- fany, with Lieut. and Mrs. Jamieson and Mr. and Mrs. S. W. James as chaperones; Lieuts. Davis, Will~ iams, Knowlton and ()stheim, Messrs. De Keven Towner, John Carpenter, Ford Carter Fred U. Sheldon. William Logan, Gerald Street, David Gray, EVerett Millard, Frank EVerett, Fred Buynton and one other young ‘manpforming a cheerful party of thirty, Went 011 their wheels first to Miss Floyd’s for their napkins, thence to Mrs. James’ for the soup, then to Miss Hall's for the fish 1 course, after which they rode merri~ ly down t1) the Log Cabin, where 3 Miss Millard aided by Miss White 1 furnished the meat course; thence to Miss Stanton s for the salads, and ‘11‘1w1 ‘111111111 ()N 'rmrn M1111. I We have heard of progressive euchre, like progressive sliding down hill, of which Virgil wrote so beau- tifully and cogently in those well known lines in the sixth book of the Eneid "Facilis descensus Averno est.” And we have heard of pro- gressive science and of a progressive theology, from the evils of which may the good Lord deliver us. But never before, till some of the enter. prising society people of this fin-de- siecle city inaugurated it, did we hear of a progressive dinner. All dinners, of course, progress from beginning to the end, from soups to creams and cakes, but the latest progres- sive dinners move for- ward from start to fin- ish on different lines. PROGRESSIVE DINNERS. NO 14