New-York tribune., 1902-01-12
TOPICS In CHICAGO.
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION INVALID
MEDICAL COLLEGES FOR WOMEN

COLLEGES FOX WOMEN
NEW UNION LEAGUE CLUBHOUSE.
Chicago. Jan. "a recent decision by Judge
Murray F. Tu.ey in the case attacking the
legality OF the purchase of the Wagner Palace
Car Company by the Pullman company lays
bare the weakness and futility of antitrust
legislation in Illinois Up to the time of this
decision Of Judge Tuley Illinois supposed to
be practically trust proof. especially in view Of
the fact that since 1891, the year in which
tive campaign begun against trusts and COM
binations in this State, there has been a steady
growth Of antitrust legislation. Now Judge
Tuey. Nestor Of the Chicago bar, who is openly
hostile TO industrial combinations of every char
acter, proclaims that Illinois antitrust laws are
in respect more unfavOrable to those comb-
nations than those of the State of New-Jersey,
which is supposed to be their permanent abiding
place.
While the people of Illinois have been laboring
under the impression that their legislative rep
resentatives We're steadfastly encompassing the
destruction of industrial combinations, it
appears that they being deceived and that
the so-caled antitrust legislation offers little
If any, real opposition to such combinations
In the words of Judge Tuey Legislation would
seem 10 indicate that the public policy of the
State of opposition to combinations and monopo-
lies. the antitrust legislation this State since
1881, has been of such character to raise
doubt to what is the law of this State upon
this question. Whether this conclusion has been
made by the friends or the enemies of such legis-
lation is matter of doubt" Should the Su-
preme Court share Judge Tuleys opinion, I-
nois Will be left without any effective antitrust
legislation.
Medical co-education in Chicago has received
q serious setback in the closing of the North
western University's Medical College for Wom-
en-, which has up to the present held promi
nent place among the institutions of its class
in the West, and which has in fact been fore
most exponent of the theory that is
equally fitted with man for the pursuit of med
cal attainments. The announcement of the clos
ing of the institution accompanied by
statement from the trustees of the Northwest
University to the effect that the sole reason
for depriving women of the opportunity of Sc
curing medical education he financial loss
which the womens department annually
tailed. One of the influential of the
tees. however, let the of the bag by
publicly averring that the cause of the
was the patent and, he said, well demon
strated fact that women We're not made to be
doctors" The mere suggestion from such a
source under such circumstances precipitated
avalanche Of protest and irony upon the Of
tenders head from numberless women practi-
TONERS in Chicago and throughout the country,
all Of whom offered themselves as sufficient
svidence that the trustee erred when he said,
''You can't make doctor of a woman" It is
not believed that the passing of the only Chicago
medical school devoted to the training of women
will damp the ardor of the women who are
seeking a medical education, since other insti-
tutions in this city have already thrown their
doors open to them and will doubtless con-
tinue to do so. The most notable Of the stu
dents affected by the closing of the medical
school is the Princess Marie Dhueep Singh who
recently from England to take the course
here. The princess has not sgni1ed what her
future plans will be. that she has been
thwarted in her original project.
If plans now nearly matured reach a fnality
the Union League Club of Chicago will soon be
III possession Of one Of the finest clubhouses in
the world. The plans, which are in the hands
Of the building committee, provide for the erec-
ton of splendid building on the site of
the present clubhouse, which, with the furnish
ing will cost approximately S1,000000. The
architects have drawn the specifications for a
building the scale OF the great clubhouses of
London, in design resembling the palaces of old
Rome and Florence. moderny equipped and ele-
gantly furnished, beautiful and dignified This
is The conception of D. H. Burnham, whose
architectural works contributed so largely to
the artistic success of the Columbian Expo-
sition. The design is the early fifteenth century
Renaissance, which has been generally accepted
as best for club purposes. The floors of the
building will be devoted to single purposes the
ground floor, with entrance only two steps
above the sidewalk, being given up entirely TO
Offices and similar uses, leaving the floor above
for iounging and reception rooms and when oc-
casion requires, for q state suite of fine ap-
pointnent- The next floor will contain the
dining rooms, while the floor above will be
the library, woTnen's dining and ban
quet hall The two next floors are divided into
bedrooms and apartments, of which there are
ffty-six- The top of the house is to contain
a swimming bath, billiard room and gymnasium
arranged not to disturb those enjoying the
comforts and conveniences of the other parts of
the house.
William Jennings Bryan is longer in
dispensable adjunct at Jackson Day banquets in
Chicago. For six years he has been a con-
spicuous figure on such occasions, but when the
local and State Democracy sat down on Wednes-
day evening to its annual dinner the former
Democratic standard bearer was absent. In his
place orator of the evening James Ham
uton Lewis, Of the State of Washington, and
while the hit of the evening was made by the
speech upon the subject I'VE Need Another
Jackson" the name of William Jennings Bryan,
OF Nebraska, not mentioned among the
names of those with which TO conjure
Organized labor has scored notable victory
through a recent decision Of the Illinois State
Board of Arbitration in the Of Plough
Workers Union No 9.460, against the Sattley
Manufacturing Company, of Springfield III. The
members of the union in their petition to the
State board claimed that the company had de-
MED their right to organize, and endeav-
oring TO break up the union. The State board
declared that workingmen had as much right to
holy