Arizona republican., 1908-05-18
OFFICIAL MOVING DAY
 IN THE WINDY CITY
To Get Out of the Wreck cs the Old City Hall.

To Get Out of the Wreck cs the
 Old City Hall.
 Chicago. May 13.-This city will
 move June Extraordinarily On that | day it's administrative officers and offices and the office cats, of which
 there are dozens, will leave the old
 city hall (and it's millions of unof- ] cial cockroaches) at LaSalle and | Washington streets. and go to tenn
 porary quarters at 204 and 2O6 Ran l dolph street. The wrecking gang
 will at once be put to work on the | stone pile that has been Chica- | go's official home since 1884. The | work of raging the old city hall | and putting in the concrete cais- son foundations for the new struc-
 ture will be consolidated and is to
 proceed simultaneously. This will be | a unique procedure in the history of public buildings. and is considered by | optimistic citizens to mark an eff | fort to handle city affairs in a bus | iness-like manner. It has been dis
 covered that the stone in the old
 
 it may be crushed and used in mak- ing the concrete for the caissons for ! the foundation of the new structure 1 Samples of the stone will be tested | in a stone crusher, and if it can | be used there will be a big saving. Cook county was forced to pay s79.- 900 to get rid of the material in the old court house. the twin to the city hall. in preparing for the new one. In the new city hall. Chicago at last will provide public comfort stations, as is done generally in European cities. Two such stations shall be put in the city hall.
 The personal estate of John Alex ander Dowie, Prophet Elijah H." who builded cities, who established big industries, who dealt in millions and who held the financial destinies of his thousands of followers in the hollow of his hand-for a while now proves to be reduced to s1,200. of which Mrs. Jane Dowie has been awarded s400 as her widows dowry. The splendid robes of office have faded, the jewels have disappeared. the handsome furnishings of his homes have been taken away by re- ceivership, the erstwhile glories of the founders of Zion are memories only. Mrs. Dowie's memory of them has, however, prompted her to de- mand of the present receiver of Zion many items of personal property in the Shiloh house which she claims as her own. She has asked for the fur nishings of her bedroom, for house. hold articles, including a pillow case containing eleven infant robes," gar ments of cherished maternal associ- ations. She has also asked for a mahogany bedroom set inherited from Esther Dowie, her daughter, who was burned to death. The value of the real estate no one seems to know, and 1t may prove to be more valu able than is expected. Mrs. Dowie has a claim upon it. She and the son, Gladstone, the ''unkissed Clad stone" according to his father, are now in the chicken business on the Michigan estate, Ben Mac Dhui. near Muskegon. Gladstone, incidentally. is practicing law and recently has shat tered the belief that his father fos- tered, that he was "unkissed," for
 
 know all that happened to his son. Gladstone is reported to have declar- ed: Of course I have been kissed: first when I was reasonably young at school, and since then it has hap pened at reasoable intervals off and on, and I hope-.' His gestures indicated his hope for other tender impresses in the days to come. He declares that he came near being engaged once" in Zion City; that he may be again.
 Every railroad and lake transpor- tation line entering Chicago is scram- bling for a share of the big ship ments of grain that changed hands May 1st when the May deliveries were made and paid for under board of trade rules, and which now will go forward to it's ultimate destina- tion. The focus of this rivalry for traffic is the board of trade, for the grain and provisions bought and sold there run into tonnage figures which are enormous. The cured meats in 1907 totaled 753,259,255 pounds, and grain and flour 766,950,7S2 pounds. The figures incidentally throw new light upon the great legitimate bus mess of such exchanges, which has been confused with the gambling done in commercials, the bucket shops" which have been consistently fought by them for years. In order to maintain a continuous market for live stock, the packing companies sell in the provision pits for future delivery those meat products which must be cured, and on which they need to borrow as otherwise. for lack of capital, the record of 7,201,O61 hogs, and 3,3O5,314 cattle marketed for cash in Chicago in 1907 would not have been possible. About 1000 900 bushels of grain soon will leave Chicago elevators, of which the lake boats have got about 100000 bushels. The elevators here, with ca pacity of 6S,OOO,OOO bushels, will be practically emptied before the crops of this year are available, in fact, before part of the new crop has been planted. .-.