New Britain herald., 1926-10-15
WINDY CITY AND
 THINGS OF NOTE
Metropolis Of Mid-West Is Mu-
 niCipality Of Beauty

Someone viewing the city from the top of a tai l building at twi- light said Chicago looked like an eastern city of towers and minarets.
 The illusion, helped by the fading light, was created by profusion of roof water tanks. But what is con- sidered a poetic illusion at twilight is thought of only as an eyesore in daylight.
 For that reason vigorous cam paign is underway to disguise or hide this necessary adjunct of mod ern building. Smokestacks are in- cluded. In the group of gothic skyscrapers being constructed on the downtown campus of Northwestern University. a graceful stone tower has arisen in the midst of the group. Many do not know that 1t conceals a smokestack. That tower cost thousands of dollars but 1t Is considered worth it from an aes- thetic standpoint
 The agitation over water towers, and smoke stacks revealed a curious situation. While loop buildings are covered with these "monstrosities," large number Of buildings in the central manufacturing district have concealed them in clock towers and similar structures, Incidentally this manufacturing section Is a place of beauty, facing on spacious boule- wards, with a profusion of grass plots and trees and the factories so attractively designed that they might be taken for schools or pub
 io buildings.
 Known to but few, the romance of Desdemona's palace In Chicago rivals to a considerable degree that of Shakespeare heroine in Venice. Moreover, the story of the l Chicago palace is matter Of fact that Of the Venetian palace only a legend.
 Desdemona's palace Is situated all most exactly one square south of Mrs. Potter Palmer's castle-like residence facing Lake Shore Drive, and is about two squares north of the home of Mrs. Rockefeller Nc Cormick. Wholly different in size, however. the Desdemona palace just 22 feet wide and three stories in height-has a peculiar charm un- equaled along the entire Gold Coast Of Lake Michigan.
 It Is an exact duplicate of the celebrated Palazzo Contarini-Fasan (Casa di Desdemona) In Venice. It was to this superb dwelling that Desdemona's father Is represented as having loft invited Othello," where Desdemona loved the gallant Moor flor the dangers he had passed" and he loved her that she did pity them.'
 The chief glories Of the Chicago palace as we'll as of its Venetian counterpart are the rich flamboy- ant traceried balconies built of stone.
 The romance is that Arthur Aldis of Chicago and his bride Mary Rey- holds saw this architectural gem Of Venice while they were on their honeymoon in Europe. Nothing would do them" said a famous Chi cago architect, but that they must have this palace in Chicago, and ] I.n I0rlul NUGT- looking Lake Michigan" Wholly unlike Desdemona, the Chicago bride and groom lived happy ever after.
 "Back number usually connotes l things of yesterday. - discarded 1 things. No small wonder then, so many stop before the little sign Haunting the term over dark door in a dingy Chicago office building. Back Numbers" it as- serts, inviting those who care to | enter.
 For almost thirty years, back numbers have provided living for the little man who, amid great bil- | lows of newspapers and magazines patiently files away each edition Of every paper in the city. His be- wildering task is not confined to Chi cago publications, for he can mag ically produce nearly every large newspaper in the country for years back.
 One could search the crowded rooms in vain for any current issue, for, true to his sign, R. S. Henshaw handles nothing but back numbers.