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ee] DISTRIBUTE RECEIPT BOOKS Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK mm VOL. VIII. NO. 5. WINN JETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1919 TEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS LOAN DRIVE WORKERS GIVEN "PEP" TALKS Mrs. Allan I. Wolff and H. A. De Windt, Victory Loan Leaders, Address Session at Woman's Club and Workers Display Enthusiasm Express Confidence in Quick Success A special meeting of the district and block captains for the Winnetka | Victory loan campaign was held at the Winnetka Woman's club this evening. Mrs. Allan I. Wolff, chairman | the Victory Liberty loan om jitee] of the Woman's club, called the meeting to order and explained the necessary details laying stress upon the great importance of the Victory, loan drive which starts Monday, April 21 Some "Pep" Speeches Mrs. Wolff urged every block cap- tain to start at full speed Monday with the determination to "finish the! job" in a week rather than "string it out" over the entire three weeks of the drive. H A. ntan of the Victory Liberty loan cam- paign, told the session of the work of preparation already accomplished and | what had been done in the way of | treating a espirit of enthusiasm in the Village and calling attention to the duty of citizenship in connection with the impending campaign. Prepares The Way This preliminary publicity, he em- phasized, would have the effect of preparing the prospective bond buy- | | ers for the visits of the block cap- | : -- This ad- | tains serving in the capacity of an advance agent, as it were. vance campaign, he said, would also have the result of making the can- vassing of the homes easier for the workers since the captains would, ob- viously, encounter less opposition. Kits and receipt books were dist- ributed atuthe meeting, and upon 'ad- journment the captains expressed great confidence in the quick success of the campaign. CHRIST CHURCH EASTER PROGRAM IS "ANNOUNCED There will be three services in Christ church, Sheridan road #iumboldt avenue, on Easter day, ail of which the community generally will be cordially welcomed. The first service will be at 7 o'clock in the morning. There will be an address by the Reverend E. Ashley Gerhard, rector, and the following musical program will be sung: '= The Processional Hymn 112 Kyrie 000. nivvisiiin Tuckerman Gloria [Tidy ... .ouuadiiiiie . Anon | Hymud@¥"..... oc mb Palestrina Offertory Anthem... iain t,o, Harker "As it Began to Dawn" Sanctus Sv ie he Agnus Peis unin Gloria in Excelsis Camidge Cruickshank Old Cha nt Nunc Dimittiss. oi. Gregorian The Recessional Hymn HS) vim none. 0 Tours FOUR -- TALK The second service will be at o'clock, and will consist of Morning | prayer, Holy Communion and ser- mon. The program of music will be as follows: The Processional Hymn 110 Christ Sullivan | out early, | | window in the Village. | and | to | Lyra Davidica | 17 gad | | WATCH FOR AEROPLANE | | VICTORY LOAN NOTES Boy Scouts Tramp Through Raln Placing Loan Posters in Every Store Window in Winnetka Every resident of Winnetka will want to be well informed concerning the progress of the Victory Liberty loan campaign in the Village. The following notes are compiled by H. A. de Windt, chairman of the cam- paign in Winnetka, and demand the attention of every citizen. | VICTORY LOAN HEADQUARTERS The furniture store of Charles F. | Schlieski at 563 Lincoln avenue, (just | north of the post office) has been rented for the Victory loan head- quarters. Frederick S. Tyrell and Arthur A. Zipi have consented to take charge of the headquarters same as they did for the last loan and Mrs. William | Dent Beall has volunteered to be 't of rubbish ST STH TS ETH THT - CLEAN UP WEEK Sn (HTN ATE EE HH THE SE HTT SE HTT ge LHL RPC TH [HL Next week has been designated by the Village manager as "Clean up Week" during which all residents are requested to 'co-operate in putting the Village in one hundred per cent condition. The universal collection which has been made two weeks during the has kept the Village in cleaner condition than is or- made every past year much i VILLAGE COUNCIL ISSUES STATEMENT ON FILTRATION PLANT AND OTHER PROJECTS | The Village Council has taken the necessary action to present for refer- endum vote on Tuesday, April 29, the question of the construction of a filt- ration plant to provide Winnetka with a pure water supply. As stated in the Talk of last week, two propo- sitions are to be voted upon by the citizens of Winnetka on that date. dinarly the case at this time of the |The first involves the general ques- vear, but there are numerous ac-/|tion of the desirability of a filtration cumulations of discarded household {plant at this time, and the second, fixtures, tin cans and other rubbish. |the authorization of a bond issue of particularly in vacant lots, which | $90,000 to build the plant, such bonds should be cleaned up. All material | to be retired out of earnings of the to be carted away should be placed | Water department. iby the residents in boxes, barrels, or{ The council is strongly recom- {other containers, and set out on the | mending the issuance of bonds for parkways. Special wagons will be | this purpose, and presents to the put on during the week, and will public the following statements for collect promptly all material so careful consideration: placed. Council's Statement | regularly at the headquarters to help | THANKS WINNETKA with the details. Arr an aeroplane during gements have been made for flight over Winnetka 1 the Victory Loan drive. | | | I | The | 'plane will drop Victory loan literat- | ure over the Village. de Windt, Winnetka chair- | | BOY SCOUTS DISTRIBUTE POST- | ERS On Thursday 14 Boy Scouts started right into the rain, to place Victory loan posters in every store are doing lots of helpful work for the Victory Liberty loan campaign. | VICTORY LOAN QUOTA REDUC- ED Winnetka's quota for the Fourth Liberty loan was $650,000. This quo- ta has been reduced to $500,000 for the Victory loan, but such the enthusiasm of is The Scouts | the district and block | | captains that, already, they are talk- | ling of "Over the Top" figures.| {WATCH THE BIG THERMO- METER AT THE STATION. | NEW GERMAN HELMETS Block captains are to have a chance | {to win a brand new German helmet. Prizes will he based on the number ubscriptions, amount of bonds | of | cota" and the number of days of each week they land subscriptions for the bonds. WANT PHOTOS OF MEN The service album, containing the photographs and records 1s progressing ant that the in service fa men nicely. "It is from Winnetka soon as possible. If the such men have not al- 1 photograph, it is urgent- hat they do promptly. be .bound together with asked SO ma LiiCse 1 il Wii the record vhen the volumes are ~omple they will be placed in the Public library for future r n Please r or send to the f he War Emergency Union, or to Mi Yive Grover, chairman HISTORIC BEDS OFFERED FOR SALE BY WINNETKAN WHO FOUGHT IN WAR | of Winnet- | photographs of | FOR SUPPORTING BIG DISPENSARY The following letter to Mrs. as Taylor, Jr., and the History of the Winnetka Dispensary will be of in- terest to Winnetka people, because through their generous such splendid work was sible. Note: --The History of the Win- netka Dispensary appears elsewhere made pos- Thom- | donations | To the People of Winnetka: ; We. the undersigned members of | the present and retiring Councils of the Village of Winnetka, realizing that the time has come for Winnet- ka to proceed as promptly as pos- sible with certain long deferred and much needed public improvements, have adopted the following program, after careful consideration of the | present and prospective financial re- sources of the Village. This program provides for the con- during the next five years struction in this issue. of the following improvements: Mrs. Thomas Taylor. Jr., | 1. Replacements and additions to Winnetka, Illinois. { W Stee and Light plant. My dear Mrs. Taylor :(-- 2. Filtration Plant. We are enclosing herewith a his- 3. Village Hall. 3 Eo tory of the Winnetka Dispensary | 4. Municipal Yard and Utility which I feel sure will interest the | buildings. donors. WATER AND ELECTRIC DE- Mere words cannot tell the good | PARTMENT REPLACEMENTS work that has been accomplished by your generosity but this will serve a slight record of the help you have given this past vear and a half. Most of the personnel are now scattered but the work will go on un- | AND ADDITIONS.--During the com- |ing year, certain unusual expenditur- es will be required to improve the | operating efficiency of the water and electric plant, and to provide for fut- ure 'growth. This construction will til we close our doors in the spring. | include improvement of generating Dr. Brown, as you probably know, units, a new stack, and provision for will remain with the Lafayette com- | more ecenomical handling and stor- mittee. She was here two weeks ing of coal and ashes: Tt is estime ; ago and was much interested in the | ed that tie cost of the foregoing 1m- great distress of' northern France !nrovements 'will Le approximately and said we would organize a dispen- 3300 sary and small Rospital at Cambrai. FILTRATION TLANT--The: con- We were delighted "with this idea | struction of zn ade~nrte ! efficient and went at once to the Com nission filer: Hon. plant ut the pumping sta- for Relief of Belgium to lay before tion to purify our water supply was them the proposition but unfortunat- | sctively under consideration by the ely Dr. Brown has changed her mind | Council two years ago, but the ad- concerning it. We cannot blame her! yont of the world war made it .in- at all for they are devoted to her at | dvisable to proceed. Conditions Chavaniac and naturally do not want have now changed, and this improve- [to lose a woman who has not only | ent should be constructed at once. organized the entire work of the La- |; a recent report to the Council fayette Preventorium but has also from Mr. Samuel A. Greeley, Sani- endeared herself to the people of | {ary Engineer, filtration is recom- the adjacent towns. mended as the most feasible solution I may come to America in a few i of our water supply problem, and the weeks and hope I will have the! . st of a plant to serve the needs of pleasure of seeing vou either in Chi- etka as well as of Glencoe, to cago or in Winnetka, for my trip | whom water is sold under cont t would not be complete unless I could has heen placed at between § explain to you how we have spent and $100,000. the money you have sent us so gen-| yi; 1 AGE HALL--One or the most erously 'for all these years. imiportant needs 'of: the Village is van sincerely RE dequate and appropriate quarters Isabel S. Lathrop, in' which to house 1 3s President. ivities of the municipality. The EET Sa present structure is entirely unsatis- PRAISES WORK OF factory from the standpoint of sani- DR. ALICE BARLOW- tati uacy and appearance. BROWN IN FRANCE ry plans were drawn for $ lding three years ago by the people of Winnetka have ] ellows & Hamilton, a : ux yv heen sufficiently assured of 101] five Special Ville the love and es in which Doctor | Hall committee. The cost of this im- Alice 1 is held in| provement was estimated at that France, and of the splendid work she time to be approximately $90,000. Ihe has done there, but the following: architects now estimate that aiter letter is a new tribute to her self- the elimination of the portion of me sacrificing devotion. and will® un- | building originally designed to house : Two {four-poster béds said to bel + than 100 years old and in ex-| cellent condition, are announced for | sale by Mr. Black of 985 Vine street. The furniture, according to the own- er, is historic value having been at on e the property of the] grandfather of Betsy Ross the maker | ous: Passover '........ Crotch | Proper Psalms 2,57,111. | Te Deum Laudamus in C. ...... Salter | Jubilate Peo. i SAE G0 Smith Hymn B30 00 a0 Sullivan Shorter Kyrie ....c. 0000 Winter | Gloria. Tibi %a vi. iviiiiivevoi Eyre CT Hymw 121.0... rh Palestrina Sermon Offertory Ante oh NU Tours | "God hath Appointed a Day" Sanctas:....0 00 an ny Gounod x Nunc Ditties Beethoven : The Recessional Bymn 368 ................... Powell In the afternoon, at 4:30, there will -be a Children's Festival at which 01d Chant taster carols. will be sung and the missionary ite-box will be present- ed. Victory Loan Captains On page 8 of this issue will be found a complete and revised-list of the Victory Liberty loan District and Block Captains, together with the designation of boundary lines of | of the first American flag. Friday Friday is still Winnetka's regular day at Fort Sheridan. Volunteer drivers can take boys out riding any afternoon. Report in person to Mrs. C. C. Rice, at Red Cross headquarters at Fort Sheridan. As there is a lengthy waiting list of wounded and crippled men, who are unable to be about the grounds, a request is made that the drivers fill their cars at the Red Cross headquarters. Repel any such trip to Mrs. Frederick B. Thom- as. Phone Winnetka 794. Vacation Time Children at St. Joseph's school are enjoying a vacation this week. The school session will re-open on Tues- each district. day, April 22. doubtedly be of interest to her many certain Village equipment and to pro iriends vide storage, the cost of the building, "Dear Madame: under present conditions, will not be Fxcuse me for taking the liberty above the original figure. It 1s of writing to you; without doubt! recommended that as soon as the site wou will find my letter bizarre. but I |can. be obtained and the necessary { know that you are a friend of Dr. funds made syllable, tac Sater drown, therefore I feel that you will submitted to the peop e 101 & is FE [read it with interest. I know that | endum vote and, Er you wish Dr. Brown to return to!e¢d plans for the Village Hall be i % America where she will be among Pared and the construction startec hér own people. I understand this! MUNICIUAL YARD AND UTILI- : Su Ay" T AQ Jai very well, and even a little visit to TY BUILDINGS--Provision for the her own country would do her al economical storage of equipment and | ereat deal of good. But if you knew all the good she is doing here and how we all need her presence! You will think Madame, that I am selfish. | supplies of the water and electric de- partment as well as of the general Village, and for the handling of salvage of waste materials, is urgent- Alas, we are all selfish, above all ly needed. This will eventually re- 'those who have suffered these last quire a group of utility buildings, (years. Dr. Brown fills a great role surrounding adequate yard space, among us. I have never known any | preferably located where switch cne so devoted, so charitable, or so track facilities can be had. good. She is a noble being in all A competent architect is now work- respects. There are very few like ing on preliminary plans for this im- her. For us she is a guardian angel. | | provement, based on a careful analy- | | I live in the Chateau Lafayette; the supervisor of the little orphans. (Continued on page four) I am | sis of the present and future needs of ihe various departments of the Vil- lage. While the detailed plans for | these buildings have not been . com- pleted, an approximate estimate Blaces the initial cost, at about $30;- 000. The site of the yard and buildings has not been finally determined, and the present Council regards the question of location as open, plan- ning not to decide it definitely with- out hearing and considering all sides interested. Financial Policy The income of the Village from general taxation is barely sufficient to provide adequately for current cost of providing clean, well main- tained and well lighted streets, police and fire protection, etc. Rather than to raise the rate of taxation, the Council believes it to be desirable to provide much needed improvements out of the surplus of_the Water and Light department, provided a liberal amount is reserved for proper main-- tenance and expansion of the water and electric properties. AVAILABLE RESOURCES--An analysis of the financial condition of the Water and Electric department made in March, indicated that at the | end of the fiscal year, March 31, 1919, the probable balance on hand in | cash and bond investments would I stand approximately as: follows: Electric. Fund ioe n i ne 3540043 Water Fund. wei. viitibi ernie. 5,083 Electric Depreciation Fund ... 60,044 Water Depreciation Fund .... 7.530 f 1070] IOV SA ial $121,573 The probable annual surplus of 'the Tlectric department for the next five years, after deducting depreciation and normal betterments, will be ap- proximately $15,000. The correspond- ing annual surplus of the water de- partment for the next five years will be approximately $7,500. Both of the above amounts may be increased in case prices for operating materials are reduced, or in case of increased consumption resulting from addition- al population, and it is believed that the amounts stated are conservative estimates. In addition to the foregoing, the electric depreciation fund will be in- creased by $30,000 and the water de- preciation fund by $12,000, during the next five years. The total available the five year period be stated as follows; Balance on hand March 1919 : Surplus earnings department for 5 Surplus earnings rtment for 5 in Electric over therefore surplus may Electric > years . 75,000 W ater yf years..... Deprecias de pa 37.500 Increase tion fund Increase in tion fund 30,000 Vater Deprecia- 12.000 $276.073 be available five year period needed Village impro- after making adequate pro- r depreciation of water and properties and for contin- of operation. : Recommend Plan of Finance After careful nsideration Council has decided that the plan for financing the proposed provement follows: 1. Provide ater and lectr exte out Total This tot durin for al reserve will the coming nancing vements, vision electric gencies Ww the wisest im- CO as placements a ing to $33,000, surplus. 2. Provide utility buildings, out of present cash 3. Construct Village available cash surplus, a been increased to a sufficient amount by earnings of next two years. 4. Provide for the immediate con- struction of a filtration plant by issu- ance of 5 per cent serial bonds in the amount of $90,000, to be retired in eighteen annual instaliments with in- terest out of the surplus earnings of the Water department. During the coming five years, the cost of retir- ing bonds with interest will be $36,- 000. 5. Provide for other desirable im- provements, the need for which may subsequently develop, out of cash re- sources when available, to the amount of £40,000. of and estimated at $30,000, municipal yard surplus. Hall fter sa out of 6. Reserve for depreciation of wa- ter and electric properties and for contingencies, the balance of the available resources, amounting to 240.000. The foregoing program may be summarized as follows Water and electric replace- MCHES. ahs se Seaside 33,000 Municipal yard and utility buildings «J. vate snares 30,000 (Continued on page four.)