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es { February 12, 1927 WINNETKA TALK PUSH WORK ON TRAFFIC WAY, MERCHANTS' PLEA Wilmette Business Folk Give Unanimous Endorsement to Through Highway Plan The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce | in session Monday of this week voted unanimously in favor of a resolution | introduced by Hoyt King, chairman of the civic committee of the Chamber, lending the unqualified endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce to the pro- ject of extending a direct highway from McCormick boulevard in Evans- ton through Wilmette over Main street. The Chamber of Commerce not only expressed itself as endorsing this pro- ject, but offered its services to its vil- lage in any way which may be found necessary to expedite this undertaking. The King was in substance as follows: "The Wilmette Chamber of Com- merce endorses the project for the ex- tension of a highway from McCormick boulevard, north to the Cook county line, through Wilmette over Main street, by condemnation. if necessary to acquire property, and by special as- sessment, for the improvement." The action of the Chamber was in- fluenced largely through talks by Rob- ert Kingery, secretary of the Chicago Regional Planning association and W. W. DeBerard, chief engineer of the as- sociation. Mr. Kingery, by use of maps, explained in detail the status of the highway in question, showing por- tions completed and indicating steps necessary to bring other sections of the highway to completion to finish the whole. Facilitates Local Traffic He emphasized that this highway would be used primarily for through traffic from Chicago to the various points on the route in the distribution by trucks of goods from Chicago firms to local dealers and homes in New Trier. would not be used primarily for the long distance hauls terminating beyond the north shore towns. Instead Mr. Kingery emphasized traffic with through destinations, would be routed largely over Waukegan road and the other new west through highways which it is proposed to build along the Skokie Valley line. The new road is to be forty feet in width and the Wau- kegan road, it is said, is to be widened to forty feet in order to take care of ever-increasing traffic. In regard to the building of the new highway through Wilmette, it was ex- plained that the state would pay for a twenty foot strip of the proposed forty foot pavement, the state's share of the expenditure to be made through the county. The Cook county commis- The road, it was pointed out, | sioners have already set aside $100,000 | for this project, it was explained. Cites Other Projects Mr. Kingery also spoke of the plan to extend Crawford avenue, along As- bury avenue, in Evanston, to join up with Ridge avenue in Wilmette, which in turn, would connect with the Mc- | Cormick boulevard extension in Win- | netka. Mr. Kingery, in the discusson of the | | general scheme of road building, said | |it is the plan of the association, wher- ever possible, to develop section line trafic arteri:s, 2n: g ve interzsiing and forceful figures of the gigantic un- dertaking which is ahea'l nf those who | are planning these great highways in | order to keep ahead. if possible, of the | | growing need of such roads. In regard | | to the increase of automobiles, he | [showed by comparative statistics, that | |an anticipated 35,000,000 cars will be in | use in the United States by 1930. Work Here Progresses | Mr. DeBerard gave a very interest- | |ing report as to the status of the work accomplished in the matter of bringing | the new through highway over Main | street in Wilmette. The project 1s now in court, he said, it having been found necessary to spread a new assessment roll because of some legal difficulties in connection with the original assess- | ment. He also reported that the con- | demnation proceedings involving the | J. E. Dempsey triangular piece of land { | at Fifteenth street and Elmwood ave- | nue are progressing satisfactorily. ENTERTAINS STAGE STAR Mrs. D. P. Hurd of 152 Bertling lane, ! entertained a group of friends at a luncheon, Friday afternoon, February 4, in honor of her cousin Miss Mildred Elliott, who, for the past three years has been appearing as "Mrs. Cohen" in "Abie's Irish Rose," which has re- cently been playing in Chicago. It is interesting to note that Miss Elliott out of the seven representative companies, now playing throughout the | United States, was chosen for the Lon- don company, which opens its run early in the spring. Mrs. Preston Boyden of 806 Rose- wood avenue, left the north shore for {Italy on Monday, February 7, on a {three months' trip. The trip planned! includes an interesting tour in France, { Sicily and "little out-of-the-way cor- {ners," with a possible final meeting of |the three Chase sisters, "Libby," who | {has been abroad for some time, and | Janet, who will accompany her sister, | { Mrs. Preston Boyden. April 1 will |see Mrs. Boyden back in Winnetka | | again, after three months of real ad- | | venture. rei: Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. Buiz of 627 Sheridan road, announce the birth of a daughter, Alice Emily, on Janu- Jary 28. 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