New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21

grain were Illegal Now these same operators
who lodged out of their trade obligations be-
cause they were at the losing end are pretty
much in the fix the shepherd who cried
wolf So that the court holds that cor
Illegal these same Board of Trade
brokers afraid they will have to shut up
shop.
Under the auspices of the National Dress
makers Association convention of modistes
and display of costly and magnificent gowns
have held the attention of devotees of fashlon-
that is, of the feminine class-for the current
week in the Fine Arts building here This affair
is seemingly friendly rival to the recent con-
vention of the American Dressmakers Protec-
tive Association in New-York.
Chicago pride in the local institutions that
serve to mark the step in advance the city takes
| in the race with other large cities receives
big boost through the Chicago Business Womens
Club. This organization rouses more than usual
interest for several reasons. One is that the
club has home. and thus adds to Chi
cagos list of novelties; and, then, it shows very
forciby the difference between the sexes. The
Windy City feels gratifed that it has achieved
priority in the important question of the bust
| ness womens clubhouse, for while New-York,
Buffalo, ST.. Louis and one or two other large
| cities have business womens clubs. they have
not as yet given those clubs any houses in which
| to establish permanent quarters; so that. so
! far is known. Chicago is the first to domicile
| an organization of the genter sex in a. style and
| manner to evoke the admiration of the sterner
/ sex. But there is something else that will likely
| make the business women's organization shine
| by comparison with the mems clubs, and that is
| the things that the women's club will have to
| interest its members in club affairs. These Will
be literature, sociology, art and domestic science.
| These are the features that viii spur cultural
| activity, and thus the demands for the de-
veopment of self-realization and the correla-
| ton Of social factors
| That Chicago is too much and too extensively
| governed is often proved by the acts of
| certain collateral administrative bodies than by
| the arguments of the civic reformers The one
| thing that always starts an upheaval and bitter
| controversy in municipal official circles is the
| matter of adequate revenue from taxation to
| meet the needed expenditures to carry the
| city's business. While, whole. the different
! divisions Of the city government show little
| squandering of the peoples money, there In
/ stances from time to time which demonstrate
/ that multiplicity of taxing bodies forms the
real source of the danger to municipal officers.
Just before the reopenfng of the public schools,
| the Board of Health called attention to the cpl
| demic of typhoid fever. the source of which was
/ alleged to be-and Is Stlil-tne
| water supply The Health Commissioner, after
| urgent pleas, succeeded IN inducing the school
| trustees to issue an order that the parents sup
ply the pupils with boiled water in bottles for
| drinking purposes at school, and shut of the
| hydrants IN the school houses. But the efforts
| to persuade the School Board to install fltering
plants in the schools proved aborttve. Recently
| the trustees decided consider the question of
| water filtration, but determined that 1t would
| be necessary to have thorough test of the
| Lake Michigan water supply by experts. 1t is
estimated that the cost of making the water test
| will be not less than $4,000. The city Health
| Department has staff of excellent bacteriolo-
| gists on the citys payroll, who for eight years
| have been making daily tests of the water sup
| ply which are made public, and which certainly
| furnish in every particular the Information the
| school trustees seek to obtain through the me-
| dunn of outside bacteriologists at a cost OF
| $500 to the taxpayers. But, being 1ndepen-
| dent and having the authority the Board OF
| Education purposes spending thousands Of dol
| lars needlessly to demonstrate something that
| is regarded as a fect-that the water Is con-
| taminated despite the $4O.OOO.OOO expenditure
| on the drainage canal-instead of spending a
| little money for spring water or filters to pro-
| tect the children under its care