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The Highland Park News. Published in the interests of Highland Park, Highwood and Ravinia, every Friday afternoon by Evans Forrest. 'l'crms, Moopcr year, 50 cents fo'r six months, 30 cents for three months. Advertising rates nude known on application a! this olflce. ()uxf contemporary of the Times- Herald figures that the coal strike has cost as follows: Office: in News Building, 255 Central Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois. Entered at the. post-office. at Highland Park, 111., as second class matter. LEWIS B. HIBBARD, A. E. EVANS, - I Mihers ....... Mine owners Railroads .‘.. ‘mrekeepers. ‘(msumemu Total loss ......................... 330. 000. 000 Still some people say strikes pay,-â€" whom and how? A RIDE down Central avenue dis- closedéhe fact that some half a dozen of those beautiful elm trees are to all appearances dead, and half a dozen more are dying, all for lack of water. We understand there is a tap in every piece of parkway so the citizens can put on their hose and wet them down as often as they will, all free of ex- pense so far as the water is conâ€" cerned. We shall watch now to see who wets down the shade trees against their lots. LAST Saturday, Sept. llth, was a red letter day all around. In “’31)- kegan the city council so far rec0v< ered its senses as to pass a dock or- dinance, and the “boys” made the balance of the night delightfully hideous. In the mining regions there was joy over the settlement of the coal strike. which has cost the men at least $12,000,000 in loss of wages. Then the public-spirited citizens of Raviniadifter many strug- gles, dedicated their new schoolhouse with speeches, recitations, flag raising, and “Auld Lang Syne." Again, the Morris Cassard silver cup was won by Herbert Schwurz at our Exnioor Country Clul) golf grounds. FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 17. ), - - EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER. .1 2,000.000 1 .000,000 5.000.000 4,000,000 8,000,000 And last,-but not least, the aristo~ cratic coterie of boarders at Ravin- ook had a genuine, old-time New [England boiled dinner. PEBHAPS the press has no influence. But when some Waukegan alderman were acting very foolishly about their harbor afiairs, the NEWS called them down: told them to act like men pass a harbor improvement ordinance, and so help place their city where nature designed it should be, in the galaxy of western cities. The alder- men read the News â€"â€" indeed they could not help it â€" and Saturday night met like men and passed the ordinance, and the town went wild with enthusiasm and delight. The press did it. r THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. As the vote showed, the over- whelming majority of the pedple in this city and township want a new , high school building. But lots of the people voted under protest; they want a school house, but they do not want a thirty or forty thousand dolv lar building, and they say if we vote for a thirty, the board will expend forty thousand dollars. There would be not a particle of objection to a fifteen thousand dollar building and then ten years later when the school demanded it, put on another fifteen thousand dollar addition. We cer- tainly had better build a piece at a time, than to have no school build- ing at all, as' is now the case and is likely to remain for some time. And this matter of the exorbitant expense, as they and many others style it, we are credibly informed, was the real cause of the dissatisfac- tion among the people out West, save perhaps three or four constitutional objectors. The farmers out west, while they do not want'a high school building, recognize the wants and rights of the majority who do want , one, and they would not have gone into court with the objections, had the board asked for moderate expen- i diture. This We are credibly in- formed from one who has been out there and made a sort of a house to house canvass on the subject, is the real position and feeling of the West Deerfiold farmers. We state it as THE HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE. given to us and publish it, hoping, if this is the case, that the board and the farmers, or their representa- tives, can get together and agree on a basis of action so that the farmers’ objections can be withdrawn and a fifteen thousand dollar building erected; We all want the scho'ol house, and the best we can get with ont being extravagant and burden- ing those who will be least benefited OUR SHADE. TREES. THIS severe and unusually heated season of drouth is full of peril to our shade trees, especially those trans- planted within two or three years, whose large roots, more particularly their taproots, have not had time to strike down deep into the sub-soil'be- low the'line of permanent moisture. It is the nature of some trees to throw out their roots near the surface, es- pecially where the surface is com- posed oi black prairie soil, or a prai- rie loam. This is particularly true of the rock maple. It is an excellent plan, where it can be done, to cover these roots with heavy clay from six inches to two feet thick, to protect them from the extremes of our sum- mer and winter climates and from our sudden changes as well. We did this a few years ago on two choice maples, and the change in their vigor and growth has been quite noteworâ€" thy. We found what we had done not only in the improved appearance . of the trees, but by cutting a trench near one of them for a water main. noting the developement among the roots in that stratum of prairie soil. deep under the clay covering. The marked peculiarity of this season‘s drouth is the intense heat and consequent absorbing power of the heated atmosphere. It draws the moisture out of the soil very rapid- ly and to a great depth. The cracks in our clay soil are both very nunr erous and very deep, hence all the moisture disappears from the soil to a great depth, and as soon as this dryness goes below the body of the tree's roots it must wither and (lie. Hence. first the wilting, then the discoloration and finally the fall- ing ofl' of the foliage, because the true is (lying. As already suggested this iH most