Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1912-06-15

the names of two streets were made
by the city council streets and alleys
committee. Ashland street hereafter
will be known as Granshaw street and
Longwood avenue as Longwood drive.
The sudden death of Otto Tosetti
was sad shock to his big circle Of
friends. Deepest sympathy Is extend.
ed to his father.
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Elevated roads whose trains make 1t
practically impossible to carry on a
conversation In any one Of thirteen
public schools are to be compelled to
abate the noise nuisance or face prose.
cution In court.
This action was unanimously agreed
ipon mt meeting OF the board Of
education's building and grounds com.
nittee. II was embodied In a resoli.
ion that fairly reeked with threats,
copy Of which will be sent to he
IL" roads that are accused Of making
conditions intolerable in the schools.
The resolutions set forth that the
value of the school properties has
been decreased by the presence Of
elevated roads and that in some In.
stances the buildings have become al.
most useless for school purposes since
the erection OF the elevated tracks In
their immediate neighborhood.
Charles w. Vail has made clean
and able record as Clerk Of the Su.
perior Court and his reelection by a
handsome plurality il predicted on all
sides.
Close contests will be the rule In
most all the congressional districts
In Chicago next fall
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Harry l.. Shaver should receive a
larger vote for reelection to the
Legislature in the Thirty.first District
than he did two years ago. His fine
record during his first term has won
for him an army OF new friends.
Senator John NJ. O'Connor has, dur.
ing the first part Of his term In the
| State Senate from the Twenty.ninth
District. made record that has more
than pleased his big army Of friends
and admirers.
Action by the City Council commit.
tee on harbors, wharves and bridges
practically decided the controversy re-
garding the right Of the Iroquois Iron
Company to I'LL In slip In the Calu.
met River. The committee voted to
declare the slip a private 'dne and to
recommend that the Council order the
commissioner OF public works to per.
NIT the filling.in work to proceed. The
work was stopped more than a year
ago. At that time II was cOntended
that the slip was a public one and
that the company had no right to oc.
cupy 1t.
County officials are rushing the re-
building Of one of the small structures
burned at the time of the infirmary
fire at the Dunning institutions. so az
not to interfere with the plans fol
transfers to the state on July l. The
state authorities have demanded tina,
the building be In the same condition
as 1t was at the time negotiations
were first started. They waived i'm
provements on the damaged infirmary
building because at the best the state
would have found the structure of M
use. The county board committee
headed by Commissioner Bartle,
Burg, is busily engaged on final steps
toward presentation of the big institu
tions to the state In couple Of weeks
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Both as a Judge and a citizen, Ed
ward Osgood Brown stands high II
the estimation Of all Chicagoans.
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One of the best judges on the Mu
nicipal Court bench Is Edward A
Decker. He has proven himself to b.
an able, painstaking and fair-minde,
Judge. He should be reelected.
The great reputation Chicago ha
in the financial world today is due L
the splendid efforts of men like A
bert G. Wheeler.
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The reelection of John ]. McLaugf
lin TO the Legislature from the Nine
teenth District is foregone conclr
sion. As everybody is with him. tn
election won't even be close.
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Congressman A. ]. SABBATH shout
have a walk-over for reelection In tn
Fifth District.
Joseph c. Blaha earned wide
spread popularity in the Nineteent
District by his fine record in the Les