Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-09-18

be really interesting would bc to ascer.
tain just what the rakcoif Of the police
was In the two eases.
The telegraph manual issued by the
Western Electric Company will teach
any one the art Of tc.egmply. TO get
n copy address Department u u. West.
ern Electric Company. ?i2 South lief.
ferson street. Chicago. and inc:ose two.
cent stamp.
You can rent boxes In X. q. Schmidt
4 Sons new safcty deposit vaults. ut
:p0 ClyhOurn avenue. for - per year
and upwards.
The Idea Of putting the employees Of
the public library into uniforms. the
women as well ~ the men. IL absurd.
Whnt next. Mr.. HildY
Chicago Inns new law firm. made
up Of three members Of President
Cleveland's official fnmily-Edwin r.
Uhl. Frank II. Jones. and Kennesnw
NJ. Lands. Mr.. TIL has just returned
from Germany. where he served this
country ~ Ambassador. Previously
he was Assistant Secretary Of state.
Mr.. Chl comes To Chicago from his
former home In Grand Rapids. Mich.
Mr.. Jones was First Assistant Post.
master General. He II nn Illinois man.
Mr.. Lands was private secretary to
Secretary Of State Walter U. Gresham.
He has been u ChicagOan for several
years.
The name Of the new firm IL TIL.
Jones 4 Lands. II Inns opened offices
at O?1 MOnndnOck building.
The West Park hoard placed itself
on record Tuesday as IN enemy OF the
West Chicago Street Railway Com.
pnny. The petition Of the company
came before the board asking for per.
mission To extend its Hc,lxie avenue
line north from Madison street to Chi.
cagO avenue, across Washington ana
Central bOulevnr,ls. ana by u unani.
nous vote was placed on file. This
action was regarded by the commits.
sioners M equivalent to u refusal.
Commissioner Graham led the Oh
position. Grahnm's the lone Demo.
crat Oh the Park Board left there by
Gov. Tanner. and the street car people.
and many others, can't understand how
II II that Graham leads his Republican
colleagues around by a chain attached
to a ring In their nose.
\ story has bccn printed to the II.
feet that the state Board Of Equalixa.
tlOn. which added about IL per cent to
the Cook county assessment lust year,
may add 10 per cent to II this year.
Were this done the total state ASSESS.
inent would liz about 40 millions. and
that for this county would be 377 mil.
lions. leaving only M, millions for the
rest OF the state. That would be only
about "a per cent Of what II was last
year. But the outside Of counties can.
not stand a reduction Of % per cent In
their valuations. The Inhabitants Of
those counties ana the municipalities
they contain might Ike pleased to see
more than half the state taxes paid by
Cook, but II In order to do that the
assessments outside OF Cook had to
be cut down 40 much as to make II
Impossible to collect sufficient taxes
to support county, city, and village
the arrangement would
not be profitable. Undoubtedly the
Of increase which the state
board will fix will he larger than It was
last year. 1t II true that In 1873 the
hoard doubled the local assessment.
hut In that year the total valuation was
,355 millions. The hoard was able to
raise Cook without cutting down other
counties too much.
EX-.Ald. Patrick Gleason declares he
hns been Disseminated against In the
letting of the contracts for plumbing
In the new dollhouse for juvenile Of
Tenders ut the bridewell. lie alleges
that the present administration has dis
eliminated against him for political
reasons. Gleason submitted the low
est bld-$7,5i7-fOr the work, and says
Commissioner of Public Works Nc
Cam assured him that he would be
awarded the contract. While the eX-
alderman from the First Ward was In
Milwaukee recently his bid was re-
iected. The work was awarded to j.
]. Barrett, as Gleason declares, at .he
hictation of OH Inspector Burke, as II
reward for political services.
DR. Frank w. Gunsaulus has an
nOunced to the congregation of Ply
mouth Congregational Church mis- in
tentiOn of declining the invitation to