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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
A STIFF CANDIDATE I'M THE
FOURTH DISTRICT.

1t is charged that certain Democrats
in the Fourth District propose to put
up "stiff" to run against George E.
Adams.
What has been the price? Who is
the stiff?
Is it Gen. Lazy Lieb OF the Colored
Swiss Janizaries
Or is it some other nobody?
The convention has been surrep-
titiously called for the 18th.
What does it all mean?
THE EAGLE will find out and inform
its readers.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

house sewers poured into it reddish,
gluey streams of refuse. 1t was so
thick that it nearly stopped the boat
Mr. Willing held up his hands in hor-
ror. DIR. Gilmore regretted that he
had brought no dsinfectants to be
used later"
DR.. Wickersham was interviewed
Monday in reference to this report and
said:
"The South Branch is the most hor-
rible and filthy place on the face of the
earth. / have not been all over the
world, but can't conceive of anything
more horrible or more foul. Mr.. Cuda-
by and Alderman Durham are labor
ing with the packers and are getting
them to see the necessity for abating
the nuisance. The effort should have
been made twenty years ago, for now
the South Branch is full of Accumulate
ed decaying matter"
And yet Wickersham will not enforce
the ordinance to end this death-deal-
ing nuisance.
Neither will Cregier.
What a horrible state of affairs
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
"SNELLS TO HEhHEM 4"

The Drainage Commissioners visited
the South Fork Of the South Branch
Saturday, and, according 10 the report
of their trip which appears in che
daily papers. whom che boat bearing the
trustees turned into Che Stock Yards
branch of che south Fork
The slmy scum Was efleWssesnt
elfh asswi doal animals iaa mueh
deceived io Dol recognizable hs genes
Species slnek up thmush a. mas
hme So hem tal .aa Aaashtarna
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
WHO IS OWEN f. ALOfS?

Mr.. Adds is an old-young man of
dudish appearance and superintendent
check.
His cheek encroaches on his scalp,
retiring the hair.
He is nearly all cheek at the top
now.
He is the agent here for some Bos-
ton Yankee-Jews.
He tries to palm himself off on So
ciety as young man. He is bald and
nearly 80.
Adds was once Chairman of the
Grievance Committee of the Citizens
Association. Charges were preferred
before his committee against a certain
party.
That party was informed half an
hour after the Grievance Committee
adjourned. The party skipped to
Canada.
Did Adds inform the skipper?
This is the Adds who proposes to
give $30,0O00O0 worth of city prop
erty for 81, 100000
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

IHAvE known men to carry about I'M
meaning relics in my time, but Joe
Casper, member of the indianapolis
Council, has watch-charm which is
enough to give some people the horrors,
says Vandalia conductor. Several
years ago he had two Of his toes ampu-
tated, and he preserved them in alco-
hol. The bottle was accidentally
broken, and Joe threw the toes into a.
pox in his garrett. Not long since he
ran across the toes and found they were
mummifed completely. Though greatly
shrunken, their forms were still per-
feet. He had them mounted in gold
in unique designs, and now wears them
as pendants to his watch chain, and
claims that the strange charm has
brought him good luck.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
VINO IS PIKE?

Eugene S. Pike is, if we mistake
not, one of the persons who wanted
Dearborn Park for a private art gal
lery, to be managed by himself and
person named Stafford
Eugene S. Pike is the person who
also tried to insist that the County
Board should sell him the Reform
School property at Oakland for $50, 900,
when s9S, 5000 was offered by as relia-
BILE a dealer.
Mr.. Pike is always grabbing at pub
lie property, for himself or as an agent
for others.
Eugene Pike is SO acquisitive that he
is always in litigation with his neigh
bors, who uniformly charge him with
encroachments on their property
This is the fellow who proposes to
give $30,00O,OO0 worth of city prop
erty to a soulless corporation for
81, 100000
A nice duck, to be sure
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
A NICE CANDIDATE.

One George H. Brine, who INDUCES
in genteel gambling in breadstuffs on
the Chicago Board of Trade, is men
toned as n candidate for Congress in
the First Illinois District against Alb
ner Taylor.
He is going to run on the anti-mo-
nopoly, lowtax, reform platform. He
is one of the fellows who increase the
price of the workingman's loaf and
who lower the farmers price of prod
uce. A nice man to run on an anti
monopoly platform, surely.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

MISS KELLY. Of New Westminster,
B. c., imagined that she had broken
her leg by a sudden movement of her
limb. Doctors were called in and
could discover no break but decided TO
open an ohscess which had developed
near the supposed break ON an incis
ion being made, a large-si2ed darniug
needle was found the point Of which
penetrated the hone Tho needle was
removed and the young lady Is rapidly
recovering. She has been lame since
childhood, and ll l. supposed che needle
entered Che loot then apd gradually
worked up b. where .t was muud.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
MR.. K. G. SCHMIDT.

The uncalled-for attack on the fair
name of Mr.. X. G. Schmidt by morn
ing paper, is to be deplored by all de-
cent people.
The article in question was unbound
ed and uncalled for.
Mr.. Schmidt is one of the self-made
men of Chicago and it will take more
than thousand ISLANDERS to hurt him
with those who have known him so
long and liked him so we'll.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
4 CRYiR8 SHANE

A delegation ~ residents Il tbs
fueniv ninth Ward called ga Hayof
tuegief "a fe DAYS ago % eamnlalu "a
q fasr..tf af aater
a menDer af the delegation emafa
lha .Ion snl fHa haaa at tha
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
THAT LAKE FRONT STEAL.

That most outrageous proposition
which two persons named Owen /
Adds and Eugene S. Pike, inspired by
d. Coparcener Cregier, made to the
Illinois Central Railroad Company as
to the Lake Front covered the most
baldheaded steal ever contemplated in
the history of American cities.
The people of Chicago do not fully
understand the enormity of the pro-
posed scheme, or they would demand
the resignation of Cregier, and make
the town too hot to hold the inoonse-
quential dude Adds and the ambling
and lanky Eugene S. Pike.
THE EAGLE will undertake in brief
phrase to explain the nature of the
steal.
All the land that the Illinois Central
ever owned within the old city limits
is about four blocks, on which are its
shops, between Twelfth and Sixteenth
streets. 1t has, in addition, an ease
ment for right of way 200 feet through
the city. This easement is not an
ownership, be it remembered
Judge Harlan decided, because of the
ownership of the blocks south of Park
Row being vested in the railroad com
pany, it also had substantial claim
to the riparian rights between Six
teenth street and Park Row.
The city has all the riparian rights
north of Park Row or Twelfth street.
There is no dispute about that.
Now these are the facts about the
ownership.
On this basis Adds and Pike were
directed to begin negotiations, and this
is what they proposed that the city
should do:
l. Give the Illinois Central fifty-tive
acres of made and submerged land
north of Monroe street and east of the
railroad company's tracks. SO con-
servative man as Joseph Medill esti-
mated the value of these fifty-fve acres
at $1O,0OO,OOO.
2. Surrender all right to riparian
rights between Sixteenth street and
Park Row, in which the city's equity is
estimated at 5000, 900.
3. Give the railroad company an adj
ditional easement or right-of-way on
100 feet running from Sixteenth street
TO Twenty-third street, leaving the
question of riparian rights undisturbed.
Value 5000 600 10 50, 900, 600
4. Give the railroad company a 300
foot right Of way along the outer edge
Of the proposed park from Twelfth
street north instead Of the 200.foot
right Of way which II now enjoys
through the generosity or Indifference
of the city Concession valued AZ
$1,000. GOO.
e Miscellaneous privileges worth
taW1. HW
n exchange hg those vast privilege
aad tbs great property valued al iron
sasanwn 81 tnUnooo vhai loea
a. lliaaa gsatFai pmpo|e W glfof
Uals 81 MHWt tni ihs atan..a
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
Pleasant JoUlNeNS.

Pleasant journeys can always be had
via the Wisconsin Central Line. The
employees are courteous and obliging;
the sleeping and dining cars and day
coaches are peers of any in the North
west. The leaving hours at principal
terminal points are convenient and the
depots are centrally located. All to-
gether it is the most desirable route in
either direction between Chicago, Mil
waukee, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Ash
land and Duluth. Try it and be con-
vinced.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
JOHN M'kEHNh.

John McKenna, the new candidate
for Clerk of the Appellate Court on
the Republican side, is an able young
man of the highest character for prob.
ity and integrity. He will poll big
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
4 GREAT FINAAGIER.

Comptroller Onahau, following the
advice Of the Tribune, proposes to
place a popular loan on the market
His idea ot popular loan IL the
issue Of per cent bonds Of the dc.
nominations Of N O0n aud 500.
Great hnancier. Ouahan
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
CAPTAIN HEALK.

Captain John j. Healy was treated
shamefully by the Republican State
Convention.
He should have been nominated for
Supreme Court Clerk.
But he will be heard from again.
Those who knitted him will have rea-
son to regret il.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
THAT LAKE FRONT HUMBUG.

Chicago's Common Council never
appeared to. better advantage than it
-x----------.s---ssa.-~--z ----~---~-.--
did Monday evening when it practl-
cally rejected the Lake Front site
Illinois Central steal proiect-notwith-
standing the alternate pleadings and
bulldozing of Cregier.
The rejection was emphatic. 1t was
intelligent. 1t was done on sound
principles.
The proposition is the most senseless
and at the same time the most impu
dent in the history of Chicago.
It is senseless because the Lake
Front is not the proper site for the
Worlds Fair and for these reasons:
|. There is not sufficient loom there.
2. The Lake Front could not be got
ready in time for the Worlds Fair.
3. 1t would be too expensive.
4. 1t would interfere with the bust
ness and prosperity of Chicago.
There would at most be only $50
acres for fair purposes in the Lake
Front if it was flled in. The fair
grounds ought to contain 1000 acres
at least, and there ought to be room for
expansion.
The best contractors estimate that
the work Of filling could not be done
in shorter time than eighteen months.
1t would take four months to prepare
plans before the filling could com
mence.
The filling would then be completed
at the best about May l, 1892. There
would be but eight months to put up
the necessary buildings.
What an absurdityl
At the lowest calculation it would
cost $4,000, 600 to fill the Lake Front
The Worlds Fair Committee will have
an available IS, 600, 900, not a dollar
more
There would be only $4,000, coo for
building on and for identifying the
grounds.
The amount would be ridiculously
insufficient.
The crowding of the city streets in
the business district, in the event of
the fair being located on the Lake
Front, would place an embargo on
business.
About the colossal impudence of
the proposal to give up $40, 900, 600
worth of municipal property to the
Illinois Central Road, The EAGLE
will speak elsewhere.
Suffice it to say here that the mem
bers of the Council who helped to
shelve the impudent proposal of Mon
day, backed by Mayor Cregier, deserve
credit.
Alderman McGillen, who presented
the report, had the wool pulled over
his eyes 10y Mayor Cregier.
He has been undeceived since he
presented that report.
The Lake Front will not be the site
for the Worlds Fair, Notwithstanding
the efforts of the municipal confidence
man in the Mayors chair and the clum-
sy scheming Of the incompatible don
keys who constitute the majority Of the
local directorate of the Worlds Fair
Kent, Burke, Dixon, and the other
Aldermen who led the fight on the
Lake Front steal, and those Aldermen
who acted with them, deserve great
credit.
nQMEIIQ 10 uINNEM %
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
New blood for county Offices.
Too MANY barnacles in office.
A ISLANDER REfUTED.
A Scanda'ous Story About Mr.. K. c.
Schmidt Denied.

A Scandaious Story About Mr.. K. C.
Schmidt Denied.
Harvey Storck, attorney for X. G..
Schmidt, declares the story is false
which was published in morning pa
per concerning the elopement of the
millionaire brewer with his own niece.
"The niece is IS or 40 years of age"
Mr.. Storck said, "and is an invalid
Mr.. Schmidt has been promising him
selfa trip to Germany for long time and
he took advantage of the fact that his
boy is just now finishing school to
make the journey. Charlie Schmidt,
his nephew, asked that Miss Schmidt
be allowed to accompany her uncle.
1t is not true that Mr.. Schmidt was q
heavy drinker. No man ever saw him
under the influence of liquor. Mrs.
Schmidt denies that she gave the re-
porter the statement imputed to her
and said "We will not take any ac-
ton until we hear from Mr.. Schmidt,
who will be fully advised of the publ
cation. The Brewers Association, of
which he is President, will probably
make some move toward prosecution.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
FOR CONGRESS- I'M The SECONE.

Hon. Lawrence Mccain is named as
a candidate for Congress ON the Demo
cratic side in the Second District. He
would make an excellent Congress
man.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

How LONG will human body remain
in the earth before it decays until it
cannot be distinguished from the sur
rounding clays is question as yet un-
decided by the scientists. Much de-
ponds upon the character of the soil
and the different elements of which
it is composed. In countries abound
ing in limestone, or, again, in regions
thoroughly saturated with alkaline
waters, human flesh will retain natu-
raj color and firmness for an indefinite
period of time. The bogs of Ireland
have yielded up bodies fresh and natu-
raj as life that had been buried in their
Shiny depths for centuries. 1t is said to
be an historical fact that the bodies of
three Roman soldiers were found in a
peat bog on the Emerald Isle, in the
year 1869 A. D., fresh and life-like, al
though they had been buried almost
sixteen centuries.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
ms rs OUTRAGEOUS

Noe they are talking about holding
ono part of he Woglla falf m iaok
aoe rark aui iha ethss faft m the
iake lront
What tHamn
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
OBITUARY.
Justice Thomas Sweeney.

JuSuC6 fh0H1QS 0tUeeneH.
Justice of the Peace Thomas Swee-
ney died at l o'clock Monday, at his
home, 169 Fremont street, of quick
consumption. Justice Sweeney had
been in failing health for year, and
in March took trip to Colorado in the
hope of receiving benefit He was
thirty-four years old, and was APP
pointed to his Office by Governor Ogles-
by. He leaves a wife and six children.
Justice Sweeney was a member of
Hancock Lodge, A. o. U. w.
The funeral was largely attended.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

And who is to own the @free railroad"
that is to connect them after the fair
is over?
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

In the parlor of q country home not
far distant from Warrenton, Ga.,
there hangs between the front windows
likeness of General Robert f. Lee.
Just on the inside is an ivy vine that
has entwined itself along so as to al
most cover the front. Through the
crevice where the blinds lap has crept
a spray of this ivy, and as if drawn by
the magnetism of this picture, has en-
twined itself as beautifully around and
down the frame as if arranged by low
ing hands.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05
NOTICE..

THE EAGLE can be ordered at Chas.
Macdonald & Co.'S literary emporium
and book store, So Washington street,
and can be found also at..all frst-class
news stands in the West.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

A METAL has been produced that will
melt at a temperature Of $50 deg ecs.
IL Is an alloy composed oflead, tin, bis
muth and cadmium and in weight, hard.
ness and color resembles type metal IL
melts 20 easily that, placed on com.
paratyely cool part Of the stove, with
d piece OF paper under it, it viii melt
without the Paper being scorched
10 viii not retain heat, bat becomcs
cold Che moment lt melia "a D. used
n che manufacture q ths little auto.
matte hle alarms les hotels rhoy give
an electric ALARM when Che meial molis,
owing io che lislna q che temperature
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

The Lake Front scheme didn't work,
after all.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

The Republican party is overloaded
with dead wood.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1890-07-05

BOUNCE the chronic holders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-20
Social Chatter.

Social Chatter.
The Allentown Pleasure Club gave a sleigh.
ing party last evening.
A MUSICALE was given at the Pittsburg
Female College last evening.
MRS. D. W. NELSON, of Beaver, will enter
tain a large number of guests next Tuesday.
Miss BERINGER, of Laurel station, will be
hostess to gathering OF friends next Tuesday
afternoon.
A STAG euchre party will be given next Mon
day evening by the Smithfield Club at its
rooms, on Fourth avenue.
"AcREs OF DIAMONDS was the subject of
a lecture given last evening at Sewickley NJ. Z.
Church, by Russell II. Conwell
THE annual reception and ball of the Liberty
Hunting and Fishing .Club will be held at
Armory Hall Christmas evening, and will be a
pleasant affair.
A PLEASANT reception was given last even
ing by the members of the Central Presby-
terian Church, at IA Jackson street, to Rev. S.
B. Mccormick.
TWENTY young misses who have been in at
tendance at the Pennsylvania Female College
departed yesterday morning for Christmas hol-
idays at their respective homes.
THE marriage of Miss Hettie Ford, daughter
of Emery S. Ford, of North avenue, to Rev.
Mr.. Ballentine, pastor of the Bingham Street
NJ E. Church, is announced for January.
THE Balmoral Choir, the famous Scotland
singers, will appear next Friday and Saturday
evenings at Carnegie Hall. 1t comes to the city
under the management of Organist Leonard
Wales.
Miss FLORA BATsoN, the colored contralto,
who has created quite sensation recently by
virtue of the exquisite quality of her voice, is
to sing in a concert at Old City Hall on Mon
day.
AN old-fashioned sleigh ride, last night, was
enjoyed by large party of Williamsburg young
people. Tbey ''sleighed" to the residence of
the Misses Blackadore, several miles outside
them in very enjoyable fashion.
THE new st. Marks Church, to be dedicated
tomorrow, will have for an organist Leonard
Wales. The choir of Grace Lutheran Church.
on Grant street. will oficiate at to-morrow's s
services, as it has been impossible to organize a
permanent choir for the dedication,
AN entertainment was given last evening in
Curry Hall, by the faculty and pupils of Curry
Institute, for the benefit of the Society for the
Improvement of the Poor. The programme
was an extended one. and the performers both
musical and literary, were artists in their
specialties.
THE first annual masquerade ball of the Sill
yer Dell Sporting Club was held at Turner
Hall, Jane street. Southside, last evening.
There were about 70 couples at the ball. F,
Apple, A. Apple, w. Werner, ED. Fallenstein
and John Dillon were members of the commit
tee which had charge of the affair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-20
DOMAIN OF PLEASURE.
Eli Perkins Entertains q Small Audi
ence at Carnegie Hall,
WITH WIT, WISDOM AND PATHOS.
Two Good Free Concerts to be Given at the
Same Place To-Day.
OBSERvANCES OF SOCIETY AMENITIES

Wit and humor, satire aud pathos, were
all used and diagnosed by Eli Perkins in
his lecture at Carnegie Hall last evening.
The famous speaker and "exaggerator,
as he calls himself. was introduced by S. U.
Trent, Esq, of Ben Franklin Council, Jr.
o. q. A. NJ. the lecture being given under
the auspices of three councils, the Reliable
No. 80, the Colonel j. B. CLARK No. 2S6,
and the Peerless, Jr. o. U. A. NJ. The
audience, though small, represented the sale
Of enough tickets to pay all expenses and
have handsome balance beside to be ap-
piled to the debt of s., 900 vet remaining on
the Washington monument, in Allegheny
Park, to be dedicated February % next.
The subject of Mr. Perkins lecture was
American HuEor," and he commenced by
defining laughter. The cause of laughter,
or the definition as given by various authori-
ties, "a short-lived surprise, Fl" was rIdiculed
out of court by the speaker, as he said the
victims OF the dreadful Ashtabula disaster
must have very much inclined to laugh,
according to that, and he applied various
other illustrations. Laughter, Mr.. Perkins
said, is the result of some abstract deformity
of music, gesture, logic, theory or rhetoric,
and then he proceeded 10 empha-
size and illustrate the fact by the
use of stories whose very age had
deformed them. Humor. Mr. Perkins de-
fined as being true to life, always; wit an
exaggeration, always; and the stories util-
lied in this part of the lecture were astound-
ing, especially those with which be proved
the latter assertion, and which doubtless
have assisted in giving Eli Perkins the
name of being a colossal prevaricator.
The very essence OF wit, he said, was the
brightest point of exaggeration, and lawyers
and editors were the wittiest of men. A
caricaturist was witty man, because he al
ways enlarged upon the origina,. Mast was
king of caricaturists, and his sketches of
Carl Schurz in Harper'S Weekly, during
the Presidential election preceding the last,
were still fresh in the minds of many of the
audience, but in the last campaign he did
not caricature Carl Schurz, because they
were brother mugwumps, and one mug
wump wouldn't exaggerate another-he
couldn't
While Mr.. Perkins disclaimed anv par
ticular interest in temperance, he concluded
his lect1re with most powerful temperance
argument. Having just returned from Kan
sas, he gave the true state of affairs there,
which was very fattering advertisement
for Kansas, and a plea TOR prohibition.
Treating the subject seriously, he seemed to
regret that fact. and Immediately treated it
facetiously, but none the less powerfully.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-20
EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTIONS
Prepared for the Thirty-Second Free Organ
Recital, This Afternoon.

Prepared for the Thirty-Second Free Organ
Recital, This Afternoon.
For the thirty-second free organ recital at
Carnegie Hall this afternoon. City Organist
Wales has prepared an unusually attractive
programme. Beside his own organ num-
bers, Miss Bertha Galentine will sing twice,
and Mrs. Leah Dickinson will delight the
audience by whistling "Mocking Bird" and
Last Rose OF Summer" Following is the
programme:
!. Overture, "Die Stumme Won Portici....
"a. Nocturne, E fiat, op. 8. No. 9. F. Chopin
= 70. Scenes de Bal. Edward Schuett
tc Gizella Schottische. .Emilliano Correa
s. PotpOurri, "Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan
Something Sweet to Tell You"
f"Devoted Apple .Roeckel
8. Invitation to the Dance. C. Nj. Won Weber
e. Two waltzes DOnauWellen JvanOvici
:. "Mocking BIRD" and Last Rose of
summer .......................... w nlStled
"a. Gavotte Francois. Charles Foret
{. o. GaVotJe--. josef Low
lc. Bolero. osef Low
g. Nocal-Farewell song, Der Trumpeter
Won Sakkingen" ...........N Victor Z. Nessler
10. + Ineral March of a Marionette.. -. .Gounod
IL. Mach Innspruck March" Anton Klemm