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July 21, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 3 LAKE BLUFF ZONING ORDINANCE INVALID Judge Perry Parsons Hands Down Important Decision in the David T. Bjork Case Judge Perry Parsons, sitting in the County Court of Lake county, Illinois, at Waukegan, following hearings and arguments which have extended over the past three months and during which the leading zoning experts in the Chicago district took the witness stand, has just handed down a deci- sion declaring certain provisions of the Lake Bluff zoning ordinance to be invalid and unconstitutional, in- sofar as the property of David T. Bjork, at the northwest corner of Center and Oak streets, is concerned. One of the ordinance provisions in- volved was a regulation, which, ac- cording to contention of counsel for the Village of Lake Bluff, had the effect of restricting apartment con- struction to fourteen families to the acre. Urges Caution Alexander H. Marshall, Village At- torney of Glencoe, of the firm of Marshall & Marshall, attorneys for Mr. Bjork, indicated that the deci- sion, in his opinion, did not in any sense represent an impeachment of the Zoning principle, which he says has become well established by the decision of courts throughout the land, but that it does represent the extreme caution and careful scrutiny which the courts would employ in the application of the Zoning principle with regard to carelessly drawn, overly drastic, discriminatory, confiscatory or arbitrary zoning ordinances. Recent decisions of the Illinois Su- preme court and the United States Supreme court were cited to the same effect. This disposition on the part of the courts in the application of the zon- ing principle will, in the long run, Mr. Marshall declares, prove the greatest safeguard to the Zoning principle it- self. . Skokie's Golfing Team Swamps Wilmette Club The Skokie Country club golf team swamped Wilmette 23% points to 3% Wednesday. The winners were led by J. E. Cermack, president of the North Shore Golf league, and Tom McMahon. By winning the Wilmette match the Skokie players made a strong bid for the championship of the league. Temporary leadership will not be de- cided, however, until Glenview, pace setter, plays off the match it post- poned with Westmoreland on Wed- nesday. In the other matches played Wednes- day in the North Shore league, Illinois defeated the North Shore club golfers 16 points to 11, and Evanston out- scored Briergate, 17 to 11. WOMEN HOLD GOLF TOURNEY The third tournament of the season for women was held at Skokie Play- field on Wednesday, July 18. This was medal play against par with full handicap. Mrs. W. R. Thomas had lowest net and the two surprise prizes went to Mrs. R. F. Feagans and Mrs. Joseph Brown. The next tournament will be held on Wednesday, August 1, and there will be prizes for low net on the odd and even holes. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz, 187 Ridge avenue, left yesterday for Tower, Minn. Tt is there that Lake Vermillion, one of the loveliest of the lakes in the wooded country just north of Duluth, is located. They will be gone about ten days. J a eas Martel Commerce Chamber Names World Fair Committee Members The personnel of the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce World's Fair committee, of which R. H. Schell is chairman, was named Tuesday, and by this week-end it is said the members will be well on the way with plans for a one hundred percent showing on the part of the village in aiding the 1933 World's Fair to secure an advance sale of 10 admission tickets to each family in the Chicago Metropolitan district. Assisting Mr. Schell in the work here, are twenty-five members of the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce. To each of his co-workers he has sent out a circular letter together with the necessary order blanks for the sale of tickets. The money raised in Winnetka is to be deposited in the three Winnetka banks. The interest on this money is to be used for the running expenses of the World's Fair, it is explained, and the principal will later be called for to be used in the erection of World's Fair buildings. Want Pledges by August 1 An effort will be made to obtain the Winnetka pledges by August 1, and Chairman Schell is hopeful that the Village will make a good showing in its part toward the preliminary promo- tion. The other members of his committee are, U. C. Abel, E. A. Anderson, Paul Blake, B. W. Blow, R. W. Albertson, M. F. Lillig, Harold D. Hill, R. C. Papa, William Soderberg, Robert Hymanson, Vic J. Killian, Jack Schultz, Henry Klauke, Thomas J. Lynch, O. L. Porter, Harry Roberts, Gerald Roche, Frank Reid, A. J. Pul- lom, George Park, H. W. Paulson, A. F. Peters, Bert Smale, W. T. Wersted, E. I.. Weinstock. Mrs. John W. Green Dies of Heart Attack Mrs. John W. Green, mother of Mrs. Harry P. Clarke, 958 Spruce street, Winnetka, died of a heart attack last Thursday morning, July 12, at the Clarke summer home in Cambridge, Mass, where she was spending the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Clarke. She had lived with them for five years in Winnetka. The funeral was held at Bridgeville, Del., Mrs. Green's former home, on Saturday, July 14. The poor fish who's sitting up there on the hotel porch doesn't know what's going on back home. He didn't have his home paper sent here while he's on his vacation. Just call our Circula- tion Department--say when and where. They'll do the rest. Operation Fatal R. Rathbone, Henry of 312 Sheridan road, Kenilworth, died last Sunday at the Presbyterian hos- pital. Congressman Bank Construction, of Unique Design, to Begin August 1 Work will be started about August 1 on an attractive new home for the Glencoe State bank, according to plans of the bank's officials. The new build- ing is to be located at 333 Park ave- nue on a fifty foot lot facing that street and extending back 125 feet to Tudor court. The structure will be unique in that each front will be of different appear- ance. The design of the Tudor court front will be French mansion. The bank itself will occupy about two-thirds of the part of the build: ing facing on Park avenue. It will be of modern classical architecture. The exterior is to be of stone, while thg interior will follow the lines of the con- ventional bank floor and will have all the marble, bronze work and other trimmings usually found there. In the basement will be a safety deposit vault having 2,500 boxes. A number of offices planned espec- ially for doctors and other professional people are to be built above the bank. On the Tudor court side the first floor will be divided into three shops. There will be a number of four room apartments on the upper floors of this part of the building, which will face the site of the proposed Glencoe Women's club building. Leon Stanhope is the architect. Hamptondale Avenue Contracts are Awarded The Winnetka Village Board of Lo- cal Improvements Tuesday evening awarded contracts for the Hamptondale avenue sewer and water pipes to the Pastoret, Dorsey, Barret company, of Deerfield. The water pipe contract was awarded on a bid of $7,981.40, and the sewer job on a bid of $25,975.40. Four other bids were received for the sewer work and three others for the water pipe contract. The Board then adjourned, as there was not a quorum present for a meet- ing of the Village council. Montague France of 892 Elm street returned Tuesday from White Lake, Mich., where he spent a week visiting his parents at their summer cottage. He reports that he turned in two ex- ceptionally low golf scores over the Whitehall links. CONGRESSMAN RATHBONE DIES SUDDENLY SUNDAY Prominent Illinois Legislator Fails to Recover After Operation Henry R. Rathbone, of 312 Sheri- dan road, Kenilworth, Illinois congress- man-at-large and Republican nominee for reelection in the November elec- tion, died last Sunday at the Presby- terian hospital following an operation for acute bladder trouble. Mr. Rathbone entered the hospital ten days previous to his death for ob- servation and treatment for the ail- ment with which he had suffered for more than two years. After the opera- tion Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer, at- tending physician, said that his patient appeared to be doing nicely and ap- parently was out of danger. But on Sunday morning Mr. Rath- bone's condition suddenly became seri- ous. His wife, Mrs. Laura Harney Rathbone, who had occupied a room across the corridor from her husband during his illness, was summoned. He died soon after Mrs. Rathbone reached his bedside. Mr. Rathbone was years old. In the primary last April Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick and Mr. Rathbone were the successful Republican candi- dates for congressman-at-large. The decision as to a successor for Mr. Rathbone rests with the Republican state committee. In Congress Since 1922 A member of congress continuously since 1922, Mr. Rathbone was also a former president of the Hamilton club and of the Lawyer's Association of Illinois. He was considered a trial lawyer of ability. Mr. Rathbone was born in Washing- ton, D. C, Feb. 12, 1870, His father, Maj. Henry R. Rathbone, was an of- ficer of the Twelfth United States in- fantry in the Civil war and was with President Lincoln, as a special aid, in Ford's theatre in Washington the night Lincoln was assasinated. In 1893 Mr. Rathbone came to Chi- cago. He was a graduate of the Phil- lips Andover academy, of Yale univer- sity, and held a law degree from the University of Wisconsin. He was a member of several fraternal organiza- tions. Besides his widow, he is survived by a brother, Gerald Rathbone, of San Francisco, Calif., a niece, Louise Ran- dolph, of Washington, D. C., and two nephews, Buckner T. Randolph, Wash- ington, D. C., and Richard Harney, of Chicago. The funeral services, held on Wed- nesday, were conducted by Kenwood lodge, No. 800, of the Masonic order at the Oriental consistory, 919 North Dearborn street. Burial was made at Rosehill cemetery. Hoover Wins in Wilmette Rotary Club Straw Vote Hoover, 81; Smith, 32 That was the result of a straw vote on the presidential candidates taken at the regular Wednesday noon luncheon of the Rotary club in the Masonic temple this week. Tach member of the Rotary club present at the meet- ing cast one vote for himself and one for each of the members of his family who are of voting age. ON FISHING TRIP Burt Crowe and his son, Roger, left Kenilworth last Thursday evening for Ely, Minn, on a fishing trip. From there they will go by canoe to Canada. They plan to be gone for about three or four weeks.