Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1911-11-18

The Superior Court.
pension fund of the department. For
several years the employees have been
paying In a per cent of their salaries
to this fund, and now the principal Is
to be divided. There are about 600
employees who have money in the fund.
The dissolution of the fund follows
the opinion Of the courts that there
Is no legal basis for its existence.
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Zina Il. Carter would prove pop.
ular candidate on the Republican
ticket for state treasurer next year.
Judge Thomas +. Scully is making
a grand record on the Municipal Court
bench. Men like him are needed in
that court.
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Alderman Carl 7. Murray has made
good during his first term in the City
Council from the Twentieth ward. He
is an able, energetic and conscientious
public official.
The Civic Federation Of Chicago on
Wednesday offered to pay the ex.
penses of trip by John w. Houston,
chief probation officer of the Munich.
pal Court, to Massachusetts and New
York for an investigation of adult pro.
baton work in the states. The offer
is contained in a letter addressed to
Chief Justice Olson and his associates.
'Inasmuch as neither the City Coun-
ell nor the Board Of County Commits.
sioners has appropriated funds from
which expense money for such trip
could be drawn" runs the letter, "the
executive committee will advance
such sum for such purposes whenever
desired"
The Civic Federation OF Chicago
was active in urging the enactment of
the adult probation law.
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Judge Edward Osgood Brown would
prove worthy successor to Judge
Grosscup on the Federal bench.
Senator Albert J. Hopkins boom for
Vice President on the Republican
ticket is growing stronger every day.
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Joseph +. Haas, the popular Repub-
lican leader and former county clerk,
Is strongly talked Of for sanitary trus.
tee.
The county board at its meeting
Monday night made an appropriation
to cover the cost of the recent judi.
cial election. With the appropriation
made and the payrolls on hand, Frank
Ryan, county comptroller, started
drawing up warrants and payment OF
the election officers will be made In
week.
Elevator men In the county building
and hospital employees are assured
uniforms as result Of the appropria.
ton also made by the board.
Paul Gerhardt, county architect,
submitted a lengthy communication
to the board showing how the county
was profting by the plan being fol.
lowed In the construction of caissons
for the new hospital. 1t was in an.
swer to the recent criticism Of the
hospital construction.
The commissioners ordered the sale
of the county live stock, represented
in the hogs kept at the Oak Forest
Infrmary.
The county board at it's meeting
Monday night authorized President
Peter Bartzen to appoint committee
to investigate the charge of Victor
Mey, milk dealer that demand had
been made that he pay for contract
to supply milk to county institutions.
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Among Chicago's prominent fnan.
clal and business leaders no one
stands higher in the estimation of the
people than Albert G. Wheeler.
States Attorney John Il. Wayman's
campaign for the Republican nomina.
ton for governor is now on and re.
ports received from all parts of the
state are very favorable to his candi.
dacy, according to his friends and
advisors.
Judge John II. Caverly's record on
the Municipal Court bench Is a clean,
able and energetic one. He Is the
right man in the right place.
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Edward II. Peters stands foremost
among Chicago's leading financiers
and business men.
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Directors OF the United Charities
of Chicago on Monday elected the fol.
lowing officers and directors: Presi.
dent, Charles II. Wacker; first vice
president, Julius Rosenwald; second
vice president, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen;