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WINNETKA TALK October 16, 1926 SIT NOW For Your Christmas Photographs In October we can render far better service than during the Christmas rush. We can accommodate you in every way possible--hold the pictures for delivery until the week before Christmas and gen- erally be of greater satisfaction than if you "put it off until the last minute." Stanton Wilhite 743 Elm Street Winnetka _ Phone Winnetka 210 Motor Club Urges Motorists to Get Ready for Winter "Now is the time to start getting the car ready for winter driving," says a bulletin issued this week by the me- chanical first aid department of the Chicago Motor club. "The hose should be in good condition and all connec- tions should be tight. Flush out the radiator now before it is filled with expensive freeze-proof solution. Re- pack the water pump glands and put on a winter front before the first cold days come. "Another precaution that the motor- ist should take at this time is to see that his motor is tuned up. A motor that is running smoothly will save the battery, and the battery is one- of the most important parts of the car, dur- ing the cold weather when it is sub- ject to additional strain. The gas tank and vacuum tank should be cleaned, as a partly clogged gas line may cause a great deal of trouble when the zero days come, especially if there is a little water in the gas to freeze. "It is also advisable to inspect the ignition points and to renew them if necessary. The starter and generator also should be inspected. The condi- tion of the battery is important. The mechanical first aid department of the club receives thousands of calls each year from motorists whose cars are stalled because of weak batteries. Ii the driver feels that he needs a new battery, now is the time to get it. It is much easier and less expensive to get a new battery now than it is to be stalled some bitterly cold night this winter. The cornerstone of the first railroad bridge to span the Mississippi River was laid in 1854. The structure con- nected Rock Island and Davenport. Cao E lHAL Suggests for Autumn . . . sport coats and windbreakers, capeskin and suede as colorful as autumn, as warm as a snug hearth fire; the smartest of sports things, always. ......... 565 Lincoln Avenue Winnetka Hubbard Woods SERVICE Wm. Merrill : Day and Night METER CABS--TOURING CARS BY HOUR OR TRIP TAXI Phone 828 Winnetka 915 Linden Avenue Hubbard Woods ig TJ Ty ER RET TELLS EXPERIENCES IN FLORIDA STORM Kin of Winnetka Resident in Worst of Hurricane; Describes Work of Rescue Mrs. Edith Swain, a nurse for the past two years in the family of Robert Burrows, 271 Linden avenue, Winnet- ka, is in receipt of a letter from her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Milliken, relat- ing in a most thrilling manner the ex- periences through which she passed during the recent storm at Miami, Fla. Mrs. Milliken and her husband were residing in an apartment in the heart of the city. She says: "We were in the worst of it. Being only a block from the bay, the waters rolled in upon us. The storm lasted from 3 o'clock in the morning until the following noon. Floods--and the most terrific winds. Not a window is left in town. Our roof caved in. Huge concrete blocks came tumbling down. Jack, (her husband) is out hauling in the dead. Big ocean liners are washed up into the main streets. "Before we left for the raft, I made a big pot of coffee telling them we could make a better fight on a 'full stomach." Women in our apartment house were hysterical. I told every joke I could think of in an effort to keep up their spirits. The woman who owned the apartment went to pieces and I went around nailing up the doors and moving stuff upstairs. Offer Prayers "Talk about the praying going on-- say, no preacher can ever beat oe] of those folks. I had no feelings. I kept so busy I didn't have to sit and wait for death. I figured I hadn't been so kind to God when all was sunshine, and I'd be jiggered if I'd scream to Him in time of storm. I just can't be a fair-weather friend, somehow, even to God. I just show- ed Him my appreciation by breaking my neck to help others. Some of | those who prayed the loudest would- n't even part with a pair of stock- | ings. "You can't imagine the wind. For | hours it raged. Not a palm tree is left standing. Dead bodies floating past. After we made for the raft we saw it was going under and decided ! to try and get back to the apart-. ment building, only three rods away. There were two women to every man. | I 'yelled to Jack that 'I'd swim it.' I did for a rod, when I struck my leg on a tree in the water and made' it so numb Jack had to bring me in after all Family Carried Away | "It was so pitiful--on the same raft was a man, his wife mother and little boy three years old. The man wrapped his legs around a tree and they all hung onto him. The poor man had no clothes left on him. Finally they all drifted away on a box and that's the last we saw of them. "This morning I am going up to po- [] * WITHOUT H L 0 A ™ S COMMISSION § ion Desirable Homes and Apartment jy 1 Buildings : 1 John Hancock Mutual Life !nsur- | M ance Company 1 1 A. D. LANGWORTHY, Loan Agcut ] 1 112 W. Adams St, Chieago ' Telephone Wilmette 3347 DR. FRANK B. ERWIN VETERINARIAN Specializing in the trentment of your hest friends the "Dog and Cat" All calls receive my personal attention 1000 Rides Ave. Wilmette, TI. i five hours. lice headquarters and give my services as nurse. "Twelve of us slept on the floor in | a two room apartment last night. Martial law is in force now and one can't so much as stick his head out of doors. _ "Of course, after it was all over, it's just like me, IT had to have my little cry. But Jack said he was so proud of me, as I kept my jokes going and trying to cheer everybody up while we seemed to be merely waiting for that last minute of our existence. I admit it was awful. Just a constant, terrible, terrible wind, not a twister. It first came from the northeast, last- ing for three hours and flooded about a foot in depth and then, mind you, it turned right around after a lull of about an hour and came back from the southeast, bringing the real flood and death toll, and thus it roared for A straight wind with a velocity of from 110 to 150 miles per hour. "There's some discussion as to the speed, but to me it seemed to be a thousand miles an hour. Four men could not hold a door which had also been nailed shut, with two large spikes. so it blew open and away went the roof. "We have our arms shot full of serums to prevent typhoid and yellow fever, from the effect of which we are feeling very bum. Bring in Dead "The dead are still being brought in, in large numbers, They are harpoon- ing them from the rivers and the canals, and the bodies are so discol- ored as to make it difficult to dis- tinguish the white folks from the col- ored folks. Some have arms and legs torn off and others have pieces of wood driven into their bodies. Thirtye eight thousand are homeless and wrecked. "When we look about us and see all this, we think how fortunate we are. Twelve of us are living in a two room apartment but we are all good scouts and are getting along all right. But we have lived on beans and stuff that we could salvage, for so long, that I declare I will be tempted to shoot the first person that ever says 'beans' as a diet for me, again." Get Back to Normal In another letter which Mrs. Swain received from her daughter this week, she says the wreakage is mostly cleared up off the streets and things are rapidly shaping themselves back to normal. She adds: "To me the most pitiful thing about the storm was the pleading distress whistles of the big boats out in the bay. Their distress signals meant lives were hanging on their last. To this day, government boats are out in mid- channel gathering up bodies that we will never know about, as the state guard are not allowed near. "Miami does not let it get out, but every undertaking place in town has |been heaping bodies in sawdust in boxes until their friends could get them. The second night we saw a truck go past with thirteen dead piled it it--feet sticking out. We lived through it all, the storm and its effects, stupified. We who live here know there are over 1,000 dead, besides many whom the government boats do not know about. D. A. R. PARTY FRIDAY The Fort Dearborn chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will give a benefit card party and dance at the Evanston Woman's club, Friday, October 22, at 9 in the evening, for the benefit of the building being erect- ed by the organization in Washington, D.C. Ouilmette Court No. 848, Catholic Daughters of America, is giving a card and bunco party Monday afternoon, October 18, at 2 o'clock, in Odd Fel- low's hall, Wilmette. ha Eo ah Rane i