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38 WINNETKA TALK December 25, 1926 | | $5 TERMS $ | Mr. and Mrs. Donald McLaughlin | Iced Air in the Varsity 'BLAZE AT STADIUM -- --S5 {and small son arrived from the East | I E T t | ri : Special for Christmas. [hursday and will be here until after | - nsures : ven empera Ure | ooden Form for Concrete Destroyed New or rebuilt portable type- |New Year's with Mrs. McLaughlin's | I'he ventilating and cooling system | by Flames in Spectacular Blaze at Writers, i makes at only $5 per || parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy B. Eck- |installed in the Varsity theater is the Midnight Saturday SMITH TYPEWRITER SALES CORP. John J. McCormick, Mgr. 151 W. Randolph St. at La Salle Special attention to telephone calls. Central 4750 | hart, 206 Cumberland avenue, Kenil- | | worth. | ac Cen | Wilson DeCamp, 615 Abbottsford | | road, returned to Kenilworth last Fri- day from the University of Indiana for | the Christmas holidays. tested cows. Sanitary sealed caps. Ask Our Drivers t Greenleat 820. > y > y New Cream Top Milk a Comes from Tubercular- Or Phone Wilmette 3029-- The cream taken from this milk will whip hood $ 15¢ per quart P< finest obtainable, being similar to those |in use in only the largest and finest theaters in the country. The ordinary theater ventilating and cooling system is operated by the use of water in cooling the air. The plant installed in the new Varsity is the latest type of ice refrigeration by means of which the air is first thoroughly "washed," then carried over purifying ice and when it emerges into the theater it is at a temperature of 70 degrees thus | insuring an even, equable distribution of clean pure air changing every two minutes throughout the entire struc- ture. The plant proper is in a chamber | especially constructed beneath the rear | of the theater building, requiring a | space 80 feet square to accommodate | its complicated machinery. It was in- | stalled at a cost exceeding $35,000. Mark Cresap, 239 Essex road, came | home from Hill school to spend Christ- |mas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. | Mark Cresap of Kenilworth. CHRISTMAS Sold in the Eitel Restaurants C. & N.W. Terminal, Chicago Also at the New Hotel Fitel Delaware & Rush Sts. CHICAGO which is under the same management Eitel Christmas Bakery Specialties are famous because of their fine qualities. No holiday festivity iscomplete with- out them. RY CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS Enjoy Lunch--Tea--Din- ner in the Eitel Restau- rants. Delicious Appetizing Foods. Convenient to Trains. Three Restaurants: Main Dining Room, Train Floor; Lunch Room, Main Floor; Concourse Restau- rant, Washington Street Concourse. EITEL,Inc., Chicago & North Western Terminal Station, CHICAGO Fire, probably caused by an over- heated salamander at the top of the south ramp-tower of the west stand of Northwestern university's new two million dollar stadium, completely des- troyed concrete forms and otherwise | caused damage to the extent of nearly $10,000 at midnight Saturday. Fire- men, responding from both the Growe and Central street stations to an alarm turned in by a chance passer-by, en- gaged in a two-hour battle before the blaze was finally subdued while a crowd, estimated at several thousand | people, soon jammed all of that section | of the stadium fronting on Central Street. As the trucks from Grove street, un- |der the direction of Fire Chief A. N. | Hofstetter arrived on the scene, flames | shooting skyward to a height of 150 | feet were visible for miles around and |it was soon found necessary to sum- [mon all equipment from headquarters land station number 3. Two motor pumpers, hastily coupled-in at nearby { hydrants, were soon throwing water at | the rate of 600 gallons a minute. Mean- [while ladders had been erected against [the west side of the tower and, with a [slight breeze fanning the sparks and | flames directly into their faces, the |men bent their efforts toward confin- |ing the flames to the tower and toward [saving the wooden forms along the en- tire west stand. As a result possible | far greater damage was avoided. | Work on the stadium had been pro- | gressing steadily since the last game and the first balcony had been prac- tically completed. During the cold weather, salamanders, tanks construct- ed so as to allow an open fire to be built in them, were used to keep the green concrete from freezing and to provide some degree of comfort for the men. It was from one of these, it is thought, that the fire started. J. B. French, the contractor who is building the stadium and who resides at 901 Chesthut avenue, Wilmette, was out of town at the time of the fire and has not as yet returned. As a result it has been impossible to obtain a state- ment from him as to the extent and nature of the damage. Nevertheless, it is thought probable that it will be necessary to tear out a portion of the already completed tower in order to replace the structural steel that was (twisted or destroyed by the heat. Work toward that end will begin at once, according to the men in charge. Phillip Burnham, 536 Roslyn road, is home for the holidays from Canterbury school, New Medford, Conn, and James and David Burnham are home {from Princeton. Gift Suggestions GLASSWARE Goblets, Sherbets, Cocktails, Wines. 26 different patterns to select from. Priced at $3.00 up to $24.00 per doz. DINNERWARE Just received a most complete ship- ment of dinnerware direct from Europe. 53 different patterns, 100 piece sets, $24.00 to $275.00. 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