Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-12-21

evard and Sheffield avenue. The Fl.
della society Is the second oldest sing.
ing organization in Chicago, and mum.
bers among its members many promi.
nent men. Its chorus of forty male
voices, which entertained last night, is
well known. Ferdinand Walther, pres.
ident of the society, presided. Among
the speakers were ex-Alderman Arthur
Josetti and Frederick Bergman.
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In Judge Hickman Seaman the PEG.
pie of Cook County have an honest,
able and fearless man on the bench.
Recommendation made by the Cir.
cult Court judges for decrease Of
employees in the different county fee
offices will not take effect until March
1, according to a statement given out
| by Judge Jesse A. Baldwin, chief jus.
tice of the Circuit Court. The state.
ment given out by Judge Baldwin sets
| forth that from December 1 until
March 1 substantially the same mum.
Der of employees will be continued in
the Offices Of the Circuit, Superior,
Criminal, Probate and County Courts.
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The many friends of Andrew Dono-
van, the popular attorney who made
such a splendid race for Congress in
the First District, are booming him for
that vacancy on the Municipal Court
bench.
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Trustees of the Chicago Sanitary
District inspected the Calumet Sag
channel on Tuesday as result Of dis.
closures that the walls Of the ditch
were breaking badly.
A remedy, or partial remedy, may
be found by the purchase Of additional
dumping grounds and the chief engi.
neer will be looked to for plans to
strengthen and decrease unnecessary
weight or strain on the banks of the
Sag branch.
For Trustees Daley, Reding and
Brett, new members Of the board, the
inspection was the first official visit to
the channel.
Every Chicagoan would be pleased
to see Judge Edward Osgood Brown
appointed attorney-general.
] Members Of the Lincoln Park Com
mission held their annual meeting, and
the old officers OF the board were re.
elected as follows:
President, Francis T. Simmons.
vice.president. Bryan Lathrop.
Auditor, Frederick L. WIKI.
Treasurer, Theodore Freeman.
Attorney. Charles A. Curran.
The commissioners are Francis T.
Simmons. Bryan Lathrop, Frederick l.
WIKI, Leo Austrian. F. H. Gansbergen
Amos Pettibone, Charles H. Wilson
and Theodore Freeman.
william d. Munhall would prove O
winner as the Democratic nominee for
Judge Of the Superior Court next
spring.
william Ryan, Jr, treasurer.elect.
announced that the Continental and
Commercial National and the Fort
Dearborn National Banks of Chicago
will 60 on his bonds and control the
placing of the funds Of the treasurer
during the next two years. The Con.
tinental and Commercial now holds
the position of guarantor for the pres.
ent state treasurer and Edward F..
Tilden Of the Fort Dearborn National.
through County Treasurer O'Connell,
has been taken in as surety for the
new treasurer, It 10 asserted.
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William A. Doyle deserves the high
place he holds In the estimation OF
the people Of Chicago. Both as a
lawyer and citizen his record IL
clean and honorable in every respect.
Col. James Hamilton Lewis is the
choice Of Illinois Democrats first, last
and all the time for United States
senator.
Chicago taxpayers, 1t is announced,
will pay between 10 and Is per cent.
less taxes on their property this year
than they paid last year. County Clerk
Robert NJ. Sweitzer today finished his
preparation of the rates In the va.
rious towns, the result showing such
reduction. The reason for this lower
tax rate Is the recent Supreme Court
decision that resulted in putting the
bond issues under corporate scaling
process.
Chicago. as had been anticipated,
will be the heaviest loser. The total
reduction of its resources, as figured
today In the county clerks Office, will
be 1921 900. Last year its rate, out.
side the bond issues, was $1,1O, and
this year 1t is rs cents, the bond rate
being 80 cents.
Cook county will lose $35O,OO0, but
most of this Is made up by the taking
over Of the Dunning asylum by the
\ state Hence the county, it Is an.
nounced, will not suffer materially.
The sanitary district will lose ST.
$4,000.
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Judge John Il. Owens continues to
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