Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-13


Sixty.ninth street-vincenne avenue
to Leavitt street. terminatle 1909.
Leavitt street to Western avenue, ex.
pires 1915.
Seventy.nlnth Stieet-vlnceDpes ave.
nue. to Halsted street, terminable 1908.
South Chicago A,enue-71st street to
1905.
Jefferson and Lake avenues loop. ex.
pires 1907.
Thirty.ninth street to 51st street;
grant expires in 1907. Overhead trolley
permit expires 1904.
From 63d street to vlncennes avenue
expires 1907.
Overhead trolley permit for this part
expires 1904.
T'hirty-eighth street to 51st street. ex.
pires 1915.
Wentworth Avenue--Archer avenue
to 3oth street. expires 1910.
10Th street. expires 1909.
Overhead. trolley ~eTwit expire <eoA
Thirty.ninth to 9th streets, expires
1905.
Sixty.seventh street to South Chicago
avenue. expires 1000.
Fifty-flfth Street-From Cottage
Grove avenue to Lake avenue, expires
Butler to Wallace street. expires 1915.
Thirty.ninth to Root street, expires
1014.
sixty.ninth to roth street. expires
1914.
CENTER AVENUE.
Forty-seventh to 18th street, expires
1914.
Buried deep In an old chest found
the other day. among other bOyisl
| trinkets. an Old-fashlOned almanac
How the ghost of happy, Olden days
walked the halls Of memory Mt til,
sight OF that old almanac. remem
ber where 1t hung In Its place of honol
over the wood box behind the little
kitchen stove. There We're no "kltchei
ranges" then. 1t was part Of thu
furniture. rs were the little cracked
mirror and the towel rack. where. afteI
ablutiOns at the pump outside. ! be
took me to comb a tOwsled head. Their,
1t hung from Jan. to Jun. !. Father
got 1t at the drug store. He put II
his order to the drug store early II
December. Or II he forgot II. mother
said: "NOw. pa, don't forget to get ar
almanac mp ut the store before they
are all gOne." Turning over to the
first inside page found, where ! knew
1t was. tho "slgns OF the Zodiac.
Those signs with their Latin accom-
paniments were to me as weird as thu
Eleusinian mysteries to the Greeks
and are to this day, for that matter
Even the preacher could not explain
their full signiticance! And here arr
the advertisements OF the pills ant
blood restOrers with all their Old-tim,
frankness ana infallibility. | knew tn,
names OF the deponents and the town,
where they lived. by heart. And a
the slightest indispositlon felt ever!
symptom they described. And tn,
jokes at the bottom of the pages. Some
how they do not make such jokes now
adays. They We're durable jokes. The!
lasted all the year. like the honest blu,
jeans of the times. The jokes and tn,
jeans We're wash goods. And the joke
had about them the flavor of eterna
humor. Yet, somehow, as l try to real
those ancient jokes do not laugh. Th'
tears get In my way. Maybe II ! coul,
go back thirty years the jokes wOul'
he funny. And not only the tears. bu
the faces that come between. the face
that are folded In the yellow leaves
They are like the faded faces In TIN
old daguerrOtypes. Somewhere thOs
faces shine. doubtless. In eternal youth
but cannot see them! There are al
manacs a plenty nOw-tons Of them
but have been too busy to keep tract
of the moons phases and read tn,
jokes. And oh, weary and worn spiri
of man, how ! sometimes yearn 70
those days when 1--WE were SO happ!
and 30 pore," for the homely and hap
'py days Of the old almanac!