in the world of sports, and it is here that thousands have yet to achieve celebrity and fame. A. G. SPALDING & BROTHERS. No man has done so much to encourage and stimulate out-door sports in Chicago and the West as Mr. A. G. Spalding, the President and Manager of the Chicago Base Ball Club. To him that club owes its organization and success, and he is the patron saint of the base ball fraternity in the West. To him more than to any other man Chicago owes the reputation of its club and the honor of the championship it has carried for so many years. After retiring from the diamond Mr Spalding opened a store for the sale of base ball supplies and other sporting goods, and his emporium at No. 103 Madison street is now the rendezvous and headquarters of the sportsmen of Chicago and the Northwest. Here is sold at wholesale or retail every appliance or essential known to the sporting world. Here can be found the largest stock of guns in the West, at the lowest prices, and every article that goes to make up the outfit of a well-equipped huntsman or fisherman. The wheelman can find the most complete stock of bicycles and tricycles, and those who cultivate "the poetry of motion" will be charmed by the assortment of skates for parlor, rink, or pond. In base ball goods the Spaldings are the leaders and recognized authority from Maine to California, and they provide the necesaries for every other sort of out-door game or sport. For business men, clerks, and others whose occupations prevent them from securing a proper amount of healthful exercise they provide "the Home Gymnasium," which can be set up in a parlor, a library, a bed-room, or an office. Sleds and printing presses, magic lanterns, toy telephones and steam engines, dog collars, whips and blankets, carving-knives, penknives and scissors, dumb-bells and Indian clubs, fencing sticks, boxing gloves, and every invention for the health, pleasure, and profit of mankind can be had at the lowest prices. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS THE OLD PEDAGOGUE. HIS FIRST SCHOOL. In education John Watkins claimed to have taken the lead. He claimed that he was the first school-teacher in Chicago. He came West in May, 1832, and in the fall, after the close of the Black Hawk war, opened his first school. His school-house was on the North Side, about half way between the lake and the forks of the river. The building was owned by Colonel Richard J. Hamilton, and was erected for a horse stable, and, in fact, had been used as such. It was twelve feet square. The benches and desks were made of old store-boxes. The school was started by private subscription with thirty scholarships. But, as there were not that many children in town then, it was a free school for all who would attend. The first quarter Watkins had twelve scholars, and only four of them white. The others were quarter, half, and three-quarter Indian. After the first térm Mr. Watkins said he moved his school into a double log house on the West Side. This was Father Jesse Walker's Methodist schoolhouse. WOULDN'T BE CIVILIZED. In the winter of 1882-3 Billy Caldwell, Chief of the Pottawattomies, offered to pay the tuition and buy books for all Indian children who would attend school, and if they would dress like Americans he would buy their clothes. But there was not one that would accept the last proposition. Among those who attended this first school in Chicago were Thomas, William, and George Owen, Richard Hamilton, Alexander, Philip, and Henry Beaubien, and Isaac N. Harmon. The first Sunday school was organized by Philo Carpenter, who is still living on the West Side. This was also held in Father Walker's school-house, at the Point, and was first opened Aug. 19, 1832. There were fifteen scholars, mostly children of the French and half-breed residents. The teachers then not only had to instruct the little urchins, but go about from house to house and gather them up and bring them to school every Sunday morning. Mr. Carpenter was Superintendent of this school for several Librarian, using a silk handerchief to carry years. John Wright was the Secretary and the "library" to and from the place of meeting. FIRST SCHOOL-HOUSE. But in November, 1840, may be dated the earliest fair footing of education in Chicago. The Board of Education then consisted of Wm. Jones, John Young Scammon, Isaac N. Arnold, Nathan H. Balles, John Gray, J. H. Scott, and Hiram Hugunin. Teachers were paid $100 for a quarter, consisting of three months. There were but four: A. G. Rumsey, H. D. Perkins, A. D. Sturtevant, and A. C. Dunbar. The first public school building worth mention was erected in 1843, and stood where THE INTER OCEAN office now stands. It was built at the urgent instance of Alderman Miltimore, and was for years known as "Miltimore's Folly," it being very generally assumed that there would never be in children enough in Chicago to fill SO large a building. The Mayor an official message to the Council recommended that it be converted into an Insane Asylum or sold, and the proceeds used to erect smaller buildings "suitable to the present and future requirements of the city. This was afterward known as the Dearborn School. In a single year there was need for more room and the Jones School was built at the corner of Clark street and Harmon court. In 1845 the Kinzie School was built on Ohio street, near LaSalle, and in 1846 the Scammon School, on West Madison street, near Halsted. In the year 1883 there was an average enrollment of 60,251 children in the schools and an average daily attendance of 55,991. There were in November 704 children who had sought admission to the schools but could not be accommodated for want of room. The number of teachers employed was 1,150 and the number of schools 60, with 911 rooms and 56,790 sittings. The value of the ground on which the schools of Chicago stand alone is worth $1,200,000 and the buildings about $1,260,000, while the furniture cost $110,000, and the heating apparatus $240,000, making a grand total of $3,800,000 invested in school property in the city. There are also 118 private schools and 29 academies, seminaries, and colleges, embracing all departments of education. FIRST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. The first man to think of a medical college at Chicago was Dr. Daniel Brainard. As early as 1836 he had conceived the idea of establishing such a school. He called in the assistance of Dr. G. C. Goodhue, and the two secured the passage of an act of incorporation by the Legislature at Vandalia, which was approved by the Governor in March, 1837. This was the first instrument of the kind the college building, and nearly 10,000 patients are treated here every year. HOMEOPATHY. Hahnemann Medical College was chartered in January, 1855, and the first course of lectures was given at No. 168 Clark street in the winter of 1859-60, when twenty-five students attended, and eleven were graduated Feb. 14, 1860. A new college building was erected on Cottage Grove avenue in 1870. ECLECTICS. In the spring of 1868 arrangements were completed for the establishment of an eclectic medical college in Chicago, and on Nov. 2, 1868, was inaugurated Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery. It first occupied rooms on Kinzie street, between LaSalle and Fifth avenues, and thirty students were in attendance at the first session, ten of whom graduated. The second home of the institution was at No. 180 East Washington street and then 461 South Clark street was used until 1875, when the new college building was built at 511 and 513 State street. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. issued to any educational institution in the State of Illinois, and Rush College was the first medical college in the Northwest. Although the charter was obtained in 1837, no lectures were given until 1843. In that year two small rooms were fitted up on Clark street, and Dec. 4, 1843, a course of lectures was begun, the faculty consisting of Drs. Brainard, Blaney, McLean, and Knapp. There were twenty-two students, and at the close of a sixteen-weeks session William Butterfield received the only degree conferred, and was the first doctor graduated in the Northwest. In 1844 several liberal citizens gave the institution a building on the North Side, which was used until 1855, when a larger building was built in the same place. The fire swept away everything in 1871, and in 1872 the spring course was begun in the amphitheater of the old County Hospital. In 1875 the present college building, at the corner of Harrison and Wood streets, was begun, and it was opened Oct. 4, 1876. The Central Free Dispensary is located in CHICAGO MEDICAL COLLEGE. The Chicago Medical College, at the corner of Prairie avenue and Twenty-sixth street, was organized in March, 1859, and first known as the Medical Department of Lind University. It continued under this title until 1864, when the name was changed to that which it now bears. In 1869 it was adopted by the Trustees of the Northwestern University as the medical department of that institution. The real founders were Dr. H. A. Johnson, N. S. Davis, W. H. Byford, E. Andrews, R. N. Isham, and David Rutter. The first course of instruction was commenced in October, 1859, with a class of thirty students. The present college building was erected in 1870. This institution was for ten years the sole representative of a systematic and graded course of medical instruction in this country. FOR WOMEN. In 1852 Emily Blackwell attended the first course at Rush Medical College, but was denied a second, and graduated at a Cleveland college. In 1866 and in 1868 women |