The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-09

] Il remains incomplete remains there 10 this day,
land If IL were not for an indignant people ~
might be finished but IL is not finished aua l
lcan't tell you when IL viii be, had hoped that
I'VE would escape this dome enterprise, ana es-
,cape some $4,000 or 100000 expense IN IL, Tor
lit is certainly useless ornament ana was
much gratiGed TO learn last winter, when ms
sbuldipg committee called my attention 10 heir
lplans, land | examined them very carefully, be-
cause had been interested in this court house
business some myself,) that they had dispensed
with the dome. That was marvellous; II Is new
Iera in courthouse building, and hope II Will
continue.
/ | have said great many of the court houses
THAT we're built in this state II few years ago
5were built with a dome upon the top Oh them.
III made diligent inquiries into the melhou OF
building them; also made IL my business ~
Enquire diligently into the resources OF Tue
lcouBty and the expense connected WIN the coh-
sstruc,ion of such court houses. ma IN Adams
County a court house that cost Siuo,uoo, III
Igreat square block with iron around II. Inc
Kence itself cost 1000 aud II Is heated ny
~ bteam furnaces in the basement, and II takes SO
much coal to heat it that they had to bulld
ailway tunnel under ground 10 run theif coai
An and throw their debris out. Well, SIR, you
come to examine that court house and what do
you find? You find the astonishing tact thnt
the county clerks Office Is in one corner oil the
building and the county Judges Office In another
You find another fact, that the courtroom Is so
large and so much out OF proportion ana III
simply inloleraDle. You can not near any.
thing in it. And allow me to state mere lhat
they did not build it az our people are building
a court house; they issued bonds; they went IN
debt, and the county Is IN DEBT yet lot IL iargcy,
and they are paying interest and the expense
connected with tile running OF 1t ana keeping IL
up are simply enormous. Then you go over TO
this rival county Of ours, Mclean; they nave
$4,000 court house and it is half dome ana ro'
tunda like many of the rest. And they nave
, lar ri
that the acoustic properties IN that are simply
miserable, and Us remarked by the presiaihg
Judge at one time when was vlsitlng that
building, 1t IS simply intoleranle'' 80 You
Through all these counties court houses accord
~ ing to the tastes Of the men who run the instl-
tutions Of the county. Now my own OPINION Is
that the court house in Liyingaton county is the
best court house In the state OF Illinois Tor the
money. After examining the plans of the pres
ent court house which is building in La sale
county at once declared that 1t was my ideal OF
a couit house. l think | can recommend II 70
every one. The rooms are well adapted 10 each
other well proportioned, well located. whether
there have been any changes stAce examined
il do not know. As so the expense OF the new
court house just wish to say that when you
trust a La Sale county building committee TO
build anything YOU can rely upon IL oeihg aohe
as cheaply as it is possible for the work to be
<ione; there will be no steal; there Will be no
s%extra expenses; you have no fears OF sharks ana
= shylocks over.rcaching them; you can always
depend upon them looking after Their own IN
terests, and in this case trust they nave ialth-
fully done it.
| have little more to say about it than
to graduate you that it is going to be paid for,
as has already been alluded to, without the
people feeling it. rode out home win a
farmer the other day and he remarked to me,
after looking at the basement OF the new court,
house. that is going to make heavy taxes.
Says / : my friend, did you know you have al H.
ready paid for one third of that entire structure:
"Why no." So he will pay the other two thirds
and he will not know it unless somebody tells
him. This thing will 90 right straight along;
the court house will be completed; 1t will be
good Job there will be no steal in it; con-
graduate you all upon that fact. A voice,
'Good ~
The president then introduced Mr. Henry
Bellinghausen, who, in the absence OF Captain
Fischer, responded to the toast, " The Board OF
. Supervisors of La Sale County" as follows
i In the absence Of genial member OF the
board Of supervisors, whose presence was eX'
pected, was called upon to respond to this
toast l must regret that the task has not been
assigned to ADLER hands; however, any one VINO
has been connected with the board OF supervis,
ors, even for short period OF time, is expected
to say something applicable to the body when
has in charge the immediate interests OF the peo-
pie of the county; and dare say that no one
who has ever served as a member OF the board
of supervisors Of La Sale county will ever look
hack with regret to the time when they associ-
ated with men who were gentlemen in every
sense of the word in whose company II was
always pleasure to conduct the workings OF
the supervisors. The board of supervisors, Ia
dies and gentlemen, is prominently before you
to-day on account Of the important measures
which have been under consideration, cspcc-
ially during the last year, and | am pleased TO
say on this occasion that while there were many
differences among the members OF the board,
.l.a Il Lao rN,,Iy lnf pf
one, and that during all the discussion in reIa-
ton to the new court house the board as whole
has managed to retain its self-respect, ana
I hope has retained the confidence OF the people.
;, Being myself one of the minority, one OF the
HImmortnl Seventeen" as they have been
called ! am pleased to say on this occasion that
while we differed with the majority as to the
location for the new court house, and probably
always will differ with the gentlemen on the
suhiect vet we, as becomes good citizens, bow
to the will of the majority; and knowing the
disposition of the members OF the board l eau
assure the citizens on this occasion that there is
determination on the part Of the members OF
the board to guard well the sacred trust which
has been confded to us-the building OF the new
court house; and l assure you that the board
including the "lmmortal Seventeen" have bu
one wish and one desire, and that is that the
buildings may be so constructed that when com
pleted they will reflect credit upon all who have
had any connection with the work.
h The Hon. Washington Armstrong then ap
preached the front and said
| desire to return thanks to the Honorable
Worshlpful Master OF the Lodge Of Illinois, ant
through him to his Lodge, as well as to the st
Bernard Commandery, Of Chicago, and the civic
and military companies who have favored vi
with their presence on this occasion, and also e
the mayor Of the city Of Ottawa and all wht
have favored us with their presence.
-FOUR reporter, supposing thci speeches owe
hara laff tho stand and we unable tn Drp
sent in full, as are the above addresses, the de
tense of Masonry by Grand Master Scott. l
was brought out by rumors of opposition to tina
body's laying the corner stone. The Grand Mas
ter simply gave a short sketch of Masonic his
tory, the purposes of the order, and pointed t.
the character of the men who are and have beef