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kn "WINNETKA WEEKL Y Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk TALK VOL. IX, NO. 4. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, APRIL, 10, 1920 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS HUNDREDS JOINRANKS OF 'COMMITTEE OF 500° Ex- press Desire To Back Up Board of Education Plans For New School Many Representative Citizens PETITIONS DISTRIBUTED Board of Education and Winnetka School Association Work To- gether in Distribution The challenge thrown down to the Winnetka Board of Education on the auestion of site for the new school has stirred the village as no event since the great war drives. Hundreds of citizens, it is said, have already expressed their desire to join the rank of the "Committee of 500". iindicating their willingness to back up the board in its decision for the twelve-acre West Elm street Site. Name Executive Committee From the "Committee of 500' an Executive committee has been form- ed consisting of the following: George D. Wolf, chairman; Mrs. Ernest S. Ballard, Mrs. T. E. Brooks. Mrs. C. M. Buell, Mrs. Wallace W. Chickering, Mrs. Frank T. Crawford, Mrs. Alfred G. Freeman, Mrs. Mor- ris L. Greeley, Mrs. Roswell B. Ma- son, Mrs. Marc Newman, Mrs. Phil- ip S. Post, Mrs. James F. Porter, Mrs. Carrie B. Prouty, Mrs. Allan Wolff, William J. Carey, Charles Howells Coffin, Clarence E. Cook, William E. Davis, Frederick Dickin- son, William S. Elliott, Jerome Frank, Sherman M. Goble, George W. Gor- don, Morris L. Greeley, John Guthrie, Sebastian Hinton, Merritt Lum, Ros- well B. Mason, William D. McKenzie, George M. Pearse, Benjamin K. Smith, Judge Charles M. Thomson, Robert H. Wallace. Plans are being formulated by this committee to inform the whole vil- lage on the vital issues at stake, with particular reference to the desir- ability of adequate playgrounds. Suspend Solicitation The solicitors for funds for the new school have suspended work pending the outcome of the refen- dum to be held May 1. Meanwhile the huge campaign fund thermometer at the Winnetka station has been placed in storage, together with the subscription blanks covering $150,- 000 which had been raised for the twelve-acre site. It is interesting to note the ren- resentation from all sections of the village which so far comprises the "Committee of 500". A partial list of names of men members follows: (The names given helow represent both "Mr. and Mrs."): Arthur Alder, I. Sherman Aldrich, Alfred Alschuler. Eric Anderson, B. W. Anderson, Henry E. Barroll, A. W. Barrett, E. S. Ballard, H. C. Ball- enger, Fdgar B. Baumann, Albert H. Barbor, Morris Berkson, F. W. Blatchford, Nat. H. Blatchford, Jr. B. W. Blow, Ayres Boal, John T. Boddie, T. M. Brooks. Charles Buell, Frederick W. Burlingham, Francis P. Butler, Robert O. Butz, Chas. IL. Byron, F. Cadenhead, W. J. Carey, E. 0. Carlson, Edwin H. Clark, F. God- dard Cheney, W. W. Chickering, R. QS. Childs, Mancel: T. Clark, F. KX. Coreland, H. N. Copthorne, C. E. Cenk, Arlan W. Converse, Charles H. Coffin, Lowell Copeland. J. W. F. Davies, W. E. Davis, Ar- thur R. Dean, S. E. Dean, Frederick Dickinson, Arthur F. Durand, Frank D. Duncan,. BR. BE. . Durham, Oscar Eisendrath, Samson FEisendrath, Wil- liam Eisendrath, William S. Elliott, W. R. English. Eli. B. Felsenthal, James Fentress, Edwin Fetcher, Frank T. Fowle, Wil- liam G. Forrest, Jerome Frank, John E. Freeman, Dudley K. French, E. Ashley Gerhard, G. H. Gibney, | Sherman Goble, George W. Gordon, Harry Gottlieb, Morris Greeley. Sam- uel A. Greeley, John B. Guthrie, G. M. Haller, Raymond W} Harden- burgh, Leon Hamburger, John L. Hamilton, Ralph Hamill, H. D. Hart- ing, Sebastian Hinton, Charles W. Hubbard, Fred Hubsch. A. D. Jenkins, Charles A. Kinney, | Leonard, ! ILeon Longini, Merritt Lum, Roswell | Mason, John Macleish, George B.| Massey, William Ayer McKinney, H. | B. McKenzie, C. C. McKinney, Rob- | ert E. Meleney, John S. Miller, Jr. S. Bowles King, John R. William S. Miller, Taliaferro Milton, W. C. Moffat. Marc Newman, William R. Page, Francis W. Parker, Jr, Howard C. Phillips, Martin Philipsborn, Hugo Pick, James Porter, Philip Post, Paul Powell, Wm. Power, Bernard Ran- (Continued on Page 8) Winnetka Merchants Observe Good Friday | Act Favorably Upon Suggestion of | Christ Church Rector and Close Half Day | Suggestion made by the Reverend E. Ashley Gerhard, rector of Christ church, that merchants of the vil- | lage observe Good Friday by closing their places of business on the after. noon of that day, was favorably con- curred in by thirty-two Winnetka and Hubbard Woods business men. Early last week Mr. Gerhard di- rected a letter to each merchant in the village having the object of en- listing interest in the observance of Good Friday. "The response to this letter," says Mr. Gerhard, "was so cordial and so generous that I am exceedingly anx- lous to give as wide publicity as pos- sible to my appreciation of it. The following Winnetka and Hubbard Woods merchants gave their ready endorsement to the plan and agreed to co-operate in carrying it out. Co-operative Grocery and Market. C. A. Forberg Grocery and Market. Hubbard Woods Cash Grocery. Winnetka Commission Market. Progressive Grocery. Pullom and Regan Grocery. Rudolph Grocery. Winnetka Grocery. Peter's Market. A. J. Vollmann Market. Voltz's Grocery. Flynn's Grocery. Atlantic and Pacific Tea Store. Winnetka Commission House. John Smith. Quality Cake Shop. Winnetka Sanitary Dairy. Brandl Bros. R. H. Schell and Co. 0G. L. Zick and. Co, E. B. Taylor and Co. John H. Dethloff George Park. F..S.. Parr. J... F.. Eckart. Hubbard Woods Electric and Hard- ware Co. North Shore Electric Shop. G. W. Ettinghausen. Duncan's Confectionery. George Rasmesen, Jr. Delebecque's. MORE LAKE FRONT LAND BOUGHT BY PARK BOARD The Village Council, it was an- nounced this week, has advanced funds for the purchase of land south of Elder Lane and east of Sheridan road to be added to the land recent- ly purchased by the Park Board 200 feet north of Elder lane. The Park Board will ultimate'v paw for the 100 foot strip just purchased. The purchase of this lake front property secures to the village for all time the use of at least 280 feet of lake frontage. As previously an- nounced in the Weekly Talk. this strin of land is to be improved as a bathing beach. ATTENTION READERS On pages twelve and thirteen of this issue of the Weekly Talk will be found a Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown letter embodying an appeal for shoes and clothing for Serbian refugees. This appeal should interest every reader of the Talk particularly as Dr. Brown's work in the Balkan country is largely maintained by vol- untary contributions from this vil- lage. ADVICE FROM FLORIDA The Weekly Talk this week dispatched a telegram to Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hoyt, Green Cove Springs, Florida, congratulating them on the celebration of their sixtieth wedding anniversary. In the knowledge that the Hoyts were Talk readers a re- auest was added for an expres- sion of opinion on the present Winnetka school situation. Mr. Hoyt wired back as follows: Green Cove Springs. Fa., April 7, 1920. E. W. Weber, Editor, Winnetka Talk, Winnetka, Ill. Thanks for congratulations. You ask my views on new . school drive. Am not well posted. T should advise citizens vote on this and village pay when in funds. Building so ex- pensive. Better wait. Good time to practice economy and show good sense. William Hoyt. EXPERTS COMMENT ON W. ELM ST. DRAINAGE Windes and Marsh, Engineers, and Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton, Architects, See No Difficulties The possibility of draining the 12- acre Elm street site and the practic- ality of busses have been attacked by critics of the Board of Education's plan for the new school. In order to get the attitude of the Board towards these questions, a Weekly Talk rep- resentative interviewed a member of the board this week. In answer to the question as to drainage, the following letters were submitted as confirmation of previous correspondence which has been pub- lished in recent issues of the Weekly Talk. April 7, 1920. Winnetka Board of Education, Winnetka. Ill. Confirming our verbal statements and former written opinion, there is no practical engineering difficulty because of drainage to the use of the West Elm street site for a school. The east five hundred feet of the tract is above high water mark. The most westerly portion, which is also the lowest portion, will average about eighteen inches below high water mark. The flood water can be kept off this site without filling by raising Lake street roadway about one foot, constructing a culvert across Lake street at the north ditch in Elm street, diverting the south Elm street ditch to the north Elm street ditch near Glendale avenue, ditching and filling Oak street to the level of Elm street, constructing a backwater gate at Lake street and Oak street, and tile draining the school site. An estimate of the cost of the above work would be from $2,000 to $2,500. The above work can all be ac- complished by the time the school is ready for occupancy and between now and the time completion of the: building the entire tract can be rais- ed above the high water mark by the use of the filling materials avail- able in the village. Yours very truly, Windes and Marsh. (Signed) Frank A. Windes. April 7, 1920. Mr. Laird Bell, President Winnetka Board of Edu- cation, Winnetka, IIL. : : : Replying to your inquiry with ref- erence to the West Elm street site, there is no objection from an architectural point of view to the use of this site for a school building. All questions of drainage can be readily taken care of. Very truly yours, : Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton. "This would satisfy any doubt as to drainage of the 12-acre site," said the member of the board. "We can safely trust the judgment of men who have made a study of the prob- lem, just as we do with the heating and ventilation, or design of the school building itself. The rumors that have been flying around have no | foundation of fact, and good citizens should refute them without hesita- tion. "Upon what do you base your estimate of the cost of operation of the cost of operation of the busses? was the question the reporter asked. For answer he was handed a number of letters from school boards in various parts of the country which have had busses in operation for a number of years. Good Buss Service "In Brewster, Minnesota, for ex- ample," the board member pointed out, "two large Wayne motor busses have been operated for the last three years and a half. They claim the roads are the worst in Minnesota, yet the busses haven't missed a day's service. Children have been trans- ported six and a half miles without a single accident in the whole period. | Under hard-road condition (such as round), the operating cost per buss we have in Winnetka the whole year has averaged $13 a month, two which of course must be added drivers' salary. The busses are heated by the exhaust. Altogether the board has received reports covering the opera- tion of 191 busses in 8 states over periods ranging from two to ten years. Here is a summary of these statements: No serious accidents--unanimous. No trouble with discipline--one minor exception. Low cost of operating expense-- 'unanimous. High degree of success and effi- ciency--unanimous." Stores Barred From Indian Hill Section Joint Session of Muncipal Bodies Recommends Vicinity Be Zoned For Residences Only Residents in the Indian Hill section of the Village, represented in the In- dian Hill Improvement association, won the preliminary round in their fight to bar all store buildings from that vicinity. At a joint meeting last week of the Village Council, the Winnetka Park Board and the Winnetka Zoning commission the session decided to recommended to the Zoning commis- sion that that section of Winnetka south of Willow street and east of the railway right of way be zoned for residential purposes only. The Zoning commission, it was announced, expects to proceed at once to give consideration to this recommendation. The Tllinois State Zoning law requires that all prop- erty owners be notified and the pub- lic hearings be held before the Zon- ing law becomes effective. The fight to maintain the Indian Hill section as a residential neigh- borhood only began with the appli- cation bl the William F. Temple Co., for a building permit to erect a two- story combined store and apartment building at Bertling lane and Win- netka avenue. Rejection of the per- mit by the Village Council followed a fight against the proposed intro- duction of the store building lead by the Indian Hill Improvement associa- tion. OLIVER FLEMING MURPHY BURIED AT MT. VERNON, OHIO Veteran of Civil War Who Died Here March 26. Laid Tc. Rest By Comrades The death, recently, of Oliver Fleming Murphy at his home at 905 Elm street, marked the passing of another out of the rapidly thinning ranks of veterans of the great Civil War. Mr. Murphy had been a res- ident of Winnetka less than three years, but in that time won many warm friends and was particularly active in Congregational church circles. Oliver Fleming Murphy was born December 15, 1840, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and, except for the last thirty months spent in his new home in Winnetka, passed his life there. Fe died March 26 of heart failure. He was in the first class that entered the Mt. Vernon high school, and re- mained until the outbreak of the civil war. Frail health prevented him entering the army at once, though his elder brother Marshall was the third man from Mt. Vernon to vol- unteer and his brother Bryant saw service with the 4th regiment to the close of the war. Mr. Murphy joined the Home Guards and when they were called to the front, served at Fort Lyons. After his return home he was deputy clerk for many years and entered the insurance business. He was married November 2. 1869. to | Eliza O. Murphy, with whom he spent fifty vears of happy life, cele- brating the golden wedding anni- versary in November, 1919, Mr. Murphy is survived by widow and three sons. Funeral and hnrial services were in Mt. Vernon. Ohio. where he had snent the maior nortinn of his life. Members of the Mt.. Vernon. Post nf the G. A. R. were in charge of the services. VILLAGE ELECTION IS COMPLIMENTARY BALLOT The Village election. Tuesday. Ap- ril 6, by reason of no contests was uneventful and entirelv compliment- arv. The personnel of Village offi- cials remains identical, with the ex- cention of the election to fill vacan- cies, of Howard C. Ballenger and Lawrence Stein, for trustees. Officials elected were: : Villace trustees: Harriet M. Hud- dle, Walter F. Wallace, Howard C. Ballenger, Lawrence M. Stein. Village treasurer: Harry C. Sey- moinr. Village marshal Theadore Flvnn. Village clerk: Stella Winslow. Librarv trustees: P. B. Kohlsaat, Pauline D. Rudolph. and collector: IMPROVE NEW PARK The new park west of the Hubbard Woods station, recently donated to the village by an organization of citizens, will be improved by the Park Board immediately. the | SCHOOL ASSOCIATION APPOINTS COMMITTEES Actual Campaign Work Is Placed Underway As Committees Get Busy on Horace Mann Site Proposition HAS FORCEFUL ARGUMENT Earle S. Barber in Letter Presents Association Views Schocl. Question --_-- With the committees appointed and actual campaign work underway the Winnetka 'School association this week presents a formidable force for concerted action in support of the so-called Horace Mann site for the new school as opposed to the West Elm street site under consideration by the Board of Education. The association members busied themselves this week in completing organization co-operating with the Board of Education in the circula- tion of petitions for a referendum vote on the school site question. Name Committees _ Of particular interest at this time is the personnel of the association committees. The names are as fol- lows: General Committee: Frank D. Ful- ton, chairman; Joseuh E. Winter- botham, Leonard H. Roach, Arthur F. Klein, S. C. Hancock, C. S. Jack- son, A. Miller Belfield, B. J. Gilespie, Arthur F. Horsman. Publicity Committee: Earle §. Barber, John H. Hansel, Jr., Stanley Clague, Stanley B. Rogers, J. Wil- liams Macy, Fred F. Parsons. Finance Commijttee : Charles N. Ascheim, chairman; William T. Wehrstedt, R. A. S. Johnson, Thom- as G. Windes, S. Hallet Greeley, W. L. Ware, Charles I. Weeks, Lewis C. Norton. Officers of the association, as pre- viously announced are: W _.E. Shoemaker, president; Mrs. Frank D. Fulton, vice president ; John E. Lutz, secretary; Charles N. Asche eim, treasurer. Directors are: C. S. Jackson, S. C. Hancock. Leonard H. Roach, Sher- man S. Orwig, Arthur F. Klein. Mrs. William A. Thrall is chair- man of the membership committee. Good Representation If the committee representation may be regarded as a fair indication of the general representation of the organization it will be seen that the organization draws its supporters from every section of the village. What the association actually stands for and the pertinent re~~ons for its advocacy of the Horace Mann site may be found in the accompany- ing letter to a committee member from Farle S. Barber, one of the leaders of the association forces. Mr. Barber is quoted in part as follows: on § French Lick, Indiana. Sunday, April 4, 1920. Dear Si: Note your leter relative formation of committee boosting the use of the Horace M»>nn school site for build- ing nece-s~rv rer--'rements for cen- tralized 7th a~1 8h crades instead of using Skokie site at West Elm street. I believe the brvin~ r= condemn- ing of the whole black a most | sensible proceecdur~ ~~ the ~ast could be almost covered from the heavy cost and maintenance over a period of a few years of the so-called busi- ness plan the other site necessitates. It offers a location which even the School Board admit is more practical than the one they suggest. Logical Plan The buying of what is principally vacant land of several acres diag- onally across the street is most logival for a playground site and would accomodate the requirements of the 7th and 8th grade older boys and girls such as is asked for. All necessary equipment for outdoor ex- ercises can be laid out in the space available and certainly give all the opportunity necessary for the older bovs' and girls' games. Of course, as is planned now the lower grades that were to continue at Horace Mann, Greeley and present Skokie schools will 'use the land available around the present build- ngs. ne Best Accomodations The enlargement of the Horace Mann site as planned by the Winnet- ka School association will accomo- date the students there more ade- quately as far as playground is con- cerned than the schodl board is planning in their present scheme. They seem to concentrate on the idea of more adequate playground for pa