Evening star., 1925-07-08
WESTERN OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Initial impressions in the West are
Impressions of unmistakable and om-
nipresent prosperity. Chicago, bust
ling and buoyant, exudes good times.
Michigan boulevard is fuller than ever
Of high-powered automobiles. Massive
and magnificent new buildings spring
up. as if overnight. The city Itself,
still restlessly bent upon living down
its ancient reputation as a mere. com
munity of business. no longer talks
merely the language of dollars, but is
proud of projects in being or in
prospect, for further Identification. 1t
was not so very long ago that a lEisi-
tor to Chicago would be told in ,ac-
cents of,Sast pride that this or that
new skyscraper cost so.and+so many
millions, and that Tom, Dick or Harry
was about to spend so-and-so many
millions more on something that was
going TO be ever so much costlier
than anything anybody else anywhere
in the world had ever put up" Now
adays a visitor learns that Chicago
is erecting on it's incomparably beau
tiful water front a fountain that is to
be exquisitely artistic. or that plans
are. under way for a chain of lakeside
bodlevards of surprising splendor
Gone are.:Sthe days when strangers
within the Chicago gate are led to the
Union Stockyards~to= see the best and
biggest thing it has to show. ~
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Mrs Nicholas Longworth tarried a
few days in the West at the beginning
of July, to sojourn with her bosom
friend, Mrs. Medill Mccormick, at
Chicago. en- route TO her home in Gin
cinnati. 1t is the first visit the Con
sort of the next Speaker OF the House
has paid to the birthplace of her
daughter since Paulipa came into tine
world in February. That young lady
preceded her vivacious mother to the
West, having been sent to Cincinnati
In advance. Mrs. Longworth found
Mrs. Mccormick immersed in the cam
paign to defeat American entry into
the World Court when the fight opens
in the Senate next Winter. Her
friends thought Mrs. Longworth Wis
IDLY rejuvenated by the joys and re-
sponsibilities of motherhood She
always has the same explanation for
the secret of eternal youthfulness. Il
Systematically refuse to be bored" is
Princess Alice's" recipe for warding
off the ravages of time. The duties
that will be incumbent upon her when
Nick" is Speaker seem to be causing
her no anxiety. The gallery Of the
Senate. rather than her husband s
shop at. the other end of the Capitol.
will see her more often. for she dotes
on foreign affairs.
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Capt. francis J. Kilkenny, for many
years Gen. Dawes chief of staff in
Washington and in France, is now an
investment banker at Chicago. Like
sailor loath to leave a ship on
which he hong has served, Kilkenny
is as often within the Dawes orbit
nowadays as he is in his own Of
fees. In order that he may not be
too far. away at any time, these are
located just across the street from
the Vice Presidents Chicago head
quarters. Dawes took Kilkenny to
Washington when the former became
controller of the currency under
Mckinley. Then the young Irishman
served at the elbows of Dawes two
successors in the controllership.
When the United States entered the
World War, Kilkenny. as became a
fighting Celt with name like that,
got into the fray as early as possible.
Later, when his old chief was made
general purchasing agent of the
A. Z. F. in France. Kilkenny was
again attached to him. Then Dawes