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September 18, 1926 WINNETKA TALK LET CONTRACTS FOR SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Board of Education of Country Day School Orders Work Started on New Structure After the board meeting of the North Shore Country Day school held Tuesday night, September 14, the im- portant announcement was made that the contracts are being let now, and work will begin immediately on the new school aditorium structure. The board also approved the faculty insurance plan which is in effect in many private schools in the country. This plan is backed by the Carnegie Foundation fund. The school pays half and the teachers pays half, much as the war risk insurance was conduct- ed by the government during the war. This insurance serves as a pension. The new through highway to extend west of a parallel with the North Western railroad is slicing close to the football field used by the Country Day school. While the road does not actually encroach upon the field, it runs too close for safety, so plans are being made to grade a new field on the hill, leavine the old full-sized field for practice purposes. Start Auditorium First This new, full-sized field will not be started until the digging is completed for the auditorium, as the field will be close to the new building. The girls' hockey field will not be disturbed by the construction of the building, or the new football field, it is said. Turning from policies of building and athletics to other matters, the board also reiterated its policy of maintaing its balance of girls and boys in the classes. The school, experi- menting with co-education, feels it best for the students to keep the bal- ance of boys and girls in classes with a few more boys in each class than girls. Rather than take in additional students to fill a class, it will keep this proportion the same. If there is a lack of girls, the proportion of boys will likewise be limited, and the same with the boys. Another phase of the ex- periment is to group the boys and girls together, in certain grades, for the so- cial sciences, and separate them for the exact sciences. WRECK OLD HOUSE The old house on Willow road near the tracks and in the path of the street widening and other development in this section, was destroyed by fire, Friday. Chief Houran, of the Win- netka fire department, extended a lire of house from an adjacent hydran-, to be used in the event the fire should spread to adjacent property. A Delightful Home for the winter and spring months awaits someone who answers this ad on today's classified page: FOR RENT -- FURN. HOUSE. Oct. 1 to April or May. 4 bedrms. ; bath; 2 living rms. ; dining rm. and kitchen; oil burner; large yard. Tenth St. Tel. Wil. 992-J. or aia - p-- a BOY CAMPERS RETURN Last of Adventure Island Group Ar- rive After Busy Summer of Work and Play The final contingent of ten north shore boys, accompanied by Charles A. Kinney, director of Adventure Island camp, arrived home Wednesday after a three weeks post-season stay on the island. Of the ten boys three were at the camp for seventeen consecutive weeks, the other seven for fourteen weeks. The season iust closed marks the most successful year of the camp in transforming the island into a boys' world. With the exception of the main log lodge, which was built by experi- enced woodsmen, the entire construc- tion program has been carried out by the boys themselves. Since taking possession of the is- land last year, the boys in two sum- mers have completed the pioneering necessary to healthful and happy liv- ing conditions, and have transformed into a place teeming with youthful ac- tivities a densely wooded and rarely visited island that had previously lain uninhabited for forty years. Under the direction of an experi- enced landscape gardener the boys have completed three clearings: one, where the main camp is located on a ridge overlooking Green Bay: a sec- ond for a playfield: and a third for the tennis courts. On the edge of the main clearing the boys have built per- manent tent floors, an ice house hold- mg sixty tons of ice. a cold storace building, water system with tower, tank. and rump, and a sewage disposal system. Two cabins have also been built, one for the cook, one for guests. Build Camp Shop The largest single piece of construc tion work was the camp shop, 27 by 40 feet, in the buildino of which evers boy participated. When completed, the building will have a high loskout tower, while the second floor will be used as a drafting and olannine room for the boats, camp furniture and num- erous articles made in the shon. A broad veranda overlooking Green Bay will be used as a general meeting place and club house, where the boys and guests may swap yarns and dream about the sail and motor craft which every hov loves to think he will some dav build. In the shop building the boys have alreadv installed a power-driven band saw, circular saw, wood lathe, and other machine tools as well as bench tools. During the summer four of the boys built a 16-foot cat-boat, two others completed the framing of an 18-foot speed-boat, while another. is well along with the construction of a one-design centerboard sailboat suit- able for construction by boys of 14. The camp is rapidly attracting the attention of educators, of whom a number visited the island during the summer. Almost without exception, they, as well as the numerous other guests of the camp. were enthusiastic in their praise of the morale of the boys, the unique plan of the camp, and it beautiful location. Community House Starts Season's Activities Sonn Community House activities will be resumed about October 1. The build- ing has been put in shape during the past summer and the staff is home from vacations. The schedule of gvm activities will be ready for publication soon. There will be gym classes for men. classes will meet twice each week and, the Friendship Circle club, for working orrls, will meet each Tuesday evening. The Boy Scouts will meet each Fri- day evening as usual, beginning Octo- ber 1, and the Camp Fire girls will meet Thursday afternoon. women and children. Lnglish Schools Open of schools Monday, the children of Win- With the opening the public netka came trooping back to their several schools, fresh from the sum- mer's vacation and in prime condition for the year's work ahead of them. The enrollment this year, it is said will ex- ceed that of any previous year in the history of the schools. All class schedules are working smoothly and both teachers and pupils are preparing to make this the banner year of the Winnetka public schools. S. R. Logan is the new principal at Skokie and Miss Marian Elwell is principal at Horace Mann this year in place of Miss Hazel Hartwell, who has been granted a year's leave of absence dur- ing which she will study at Teachers' college, Columbia university. Miss Marian Carswell is principal at Hub- bard Woods school and Miss Florence Brett is principal at Greeley. Stewart Johnson Dies of Injuries From Motor Crash Word has been received of the death of Stewart Johnson of Winnetka, which occurred September 8, in Alex- andria, Egypt, caused by injuries re- ceived in an automobile accident. Funeral services will be held and the body shipped here for burial The message came that Mr. Johnson was returning from a bridge party and rar into an unlighted Arab cart which was carrying a load of bricks. He was taken immediately to the hospital where he rallied for a time, but died later. Mr. Johnson was well known in diplomatic circles abroad, and was in charge of affairs at Cairo, Egvpt. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Catherine Re Qua Johnson, 324 May- flower road, Lake Forest; a daughter Cafita, his mother, Mrs. Lorenzo M. Tohnson, and three sisters, Mrs. George Massey, Mrs. Raymond Har- denbergh, and Mrs. Ayres Boal of Winnetka. Mrs. Johnson was with her husband in Egypt until a short time ago, re- turning to their Lake Forest home for the summer. Mr. Johnson was born in 1880 in St. Louis, graduating from Yale in 1902. He attended Harvard law school and graduated in 1907. Practicing law in Chicago until 1915, he entered the diplomatic service in March of that vear. He served in Santo Domingo, Guatemala, Caracas, and Berlin. Ap- pointed foreign service officer of class four in 1924, he was assigned as first secretary at the legation in Cairo. Mr. Johnson was a resident of Win- netka, where he spent his boyhood. PREACHES ON "PROFITS" "Excess Profits" is the sermon topic announced by the Rev. James Austin Richards of the Winnetka Congrega- tional church, for his sermon Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. In the evening at 8, Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin will preach on "The Larger Liberty," hi text being from John 8:32. 8} SYMPHONY CONCERTS TO BEGIN IN OCTOBER First Program of Orchestral As- sociation to Be Given Octo- ber 18; Plan Seven Concerts The concerts of the New Trier Township Orchestral association will be inaugurated Monday, October 18, at the high school, it was announced this week by H. F. Horton, of Glen- coe, one of the outstanding leaders in the movement. There will be seven symphony concerts, all to be given on Monday nights as follows: October 18, November 15, December 13, January 10, February 7, March 14, and April 25. There will also be the usual four matinee concerts for young people, to be given in October, November, Jan- vary and March. Regular subscribers to the evening series have been notified that tickets are now ready for distribution. Af- ter the subscribers have been given a reasonable time, tickets will be avail- able for those on the waiting list, it is explained. Persons who desire tickets and whose names are not on the waiting list are requested to notify the secretary, R. D. Burtner, 1504 Monadnock Block, Chicago. There are always a number who are disap- pointed at the last moment, so prompt action is advised. Season tickets are sold for $6 for the seven concerts and no seats are sold for single perform- ances. The matinee tickets are in the hands of the music supervisors of the four villages in New Trier township. Begin Rehearsals George Dasch, conductor of the Symphony Players, has been in Chi- cago most of the summer perfecting his plans for the coming season. He is enthusiastic about the New Trier prospects, Mr. Horton says, and ex- pects to make the 1926-27 series a memorable one. Rehearsals for the first concert were started Thursday of this week. The program will be pub- lished in an early issue of this paper. Herbert B. Mulford of Wilmette, who contributed so much to the suc- cess of the New Trier association dur- ing the three years of his presidency, is traveling in Europe and hearing good music there. In a personal let- ter he writes: "I want to tell you of a 'promenade' concert I heard given by Sir Henry Wood. In the orchestra of seventy-two there were sixteen women (seven out of fourteen firsts, four seconds, one cello, three violas and one harp) and the guest conduc- tor was a woman giving her own com- position. Two balconies; smoking ; no seats on the first floor, but people stood there for fifty cents; Concert, 8 to 10:45: Dvorak's "New World," Mozart's E Flat Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, three overtures and three soloists (piano, soprano and tenor). All the people cheered Sir Henry for five or six minutes after the "New World." " Mr. Mulford; who is now a member of the Wilmette committee of the Or- chestral association, will doubtless bring back some good ideas for the New Trier concerts, comments Mr. Horton. Winnetka Masonic Lodge in Meeting Next Tuesday The first lodge meeting of the 1926-27 fall and winter season is an- nounced for Tuesdav evening, Septem- 'ber 21, by George Barbery, master of the Winnetka Masonic lodge, No. 1078, A. F. and A. M. The lodge will, of course, convene in the temple on Elm street, and the opening hour is 7:45 o'clock. This will be a stated meeting with work on the second de- gree, it is explained.