President-Charles L. Hutchinson. ART INSTITUTE. Lake front, foot of Adams street. Trustees-H. H. Getty, C. J. Blair, F. G. Logan, Hours Open-9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Free Days-Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. The Art institute was incorporated May 24, 1879, upon the application of Marshall Field, Murry Nelson, Charles D. Hamill, Ferd W. Peck and George E. Adams, for the founding and maintenance of schools of art and design, the formation and exhibition of collections of objects of art and the cultivation and extension of the arts of design by any appropriate means. A building was erected at a cost of $785,000 and was first occupied Nov. 1, 1893, The ownership is vested in the city of Chicago, while the right of use and occupancy is vested in the Art institute so long as it shall fulfill the purposes for which it was organized. The art museum now ranks among the first three or four in the country. It contains the Henry Field collection of paintings, which is especially strong in works of modern French masters; the Demidoff collection of old masters, chiefly of the Dutch school, and in addition numerous American and other paintings secured by purchase or gift. There is also a large and comprehensive collection of reproductions of sculpture, the greater part of it having been donated by Mrs. A. M. H. Ellis. Reproductions of antique bronzes, of objects found at Pompeii and Herculaneum and of Egyptian antiquities are numerous, while many other fields of art are well represented. The institute has a library of 5,000 volumes devoted exclusively to art, and it is consulted by 40,000 persons a year. The number of visitors to the art galleries during the year ended June 1, 1907, was 661,204. The school of instruction in art practice includes departments of painting, sculpture, decorative designing and architecture. There are day and evening classes for beginners and for advanced pupils. The instructors number about 70 and the pupils will average about 2,000 a year. The tuition rates are as follows: Day School-Full time for full term of twelve weeks, $30; four weeks, $12; four days a week, full term, $27; four weeks, $11; three days a week, week, full term, $24; four weeks, $9; two days a full term, $18; four weeks, $7; one day a week, full term. $12; four weeks, $5. Half-Day Courses-Five half days a week, $24 a term; four weeks, $10; four half days a week, $21 a term; four weeks, $9; three half days a week, $17 a term; four weeks, $7; two half days a week, $13 a term; four weeks, $5; one half day a week, $8 a term; four weeks, $4. Evening Rates-Three nights a week, $7 a term. or $3 for four weeks; two nights a week, $5.50 a term, or $2.50 for four weeks; one night a week, $4 a term, or $2 for four weeks. Saturday Rates for Juvenile Class-Twelve lessons for $5. The attendance of students for the year ended Counted in two classes.. 949 772 567 309 2,597 34 .2,563 Including church clubs, ministerial associations and general organizations. Actors' Church Alliance of America (Chicago Chapter)-510 Masonic Temple; secretary, Miss Ellen M. Sanders. American Bible Society-206, 42 Madison street; secretary, J. F. Horton. Chicago Methodist Social Union-Corresponding secretary, James B. Gascoigne. American Federation of Catholic Societies (Cook county branch)-President, Michael F. Girten, 5827 Princeton avenue. American Sunday School Union-1009, 153 LaSalle street; superintendent, F G. Ensign. American Tract Society-630, 324 Dearborn street; Baptist Ministers' Conference-10 Van Buren street, Walter Chicago Baptist Social Union-Secretary. O. V. Chicago Congregational Sunday School Association Chicago Disciples' Social Union-President, Errett Chicago Methodist Preachers' Meeting-Secretary. President-William H. Colvin. Christian Ministerial Association-Secretary, R. L. Church Club of Chicago-President, Amzi M. Congregational Ministers' Union-Secretary, Rev. Cook County Sunday School Association-1404, 140 National Christian Association-221 West Madison Presbyterian Social Union-Secretary, Thomas G. Unitarian Sunday School Society-515, 175 Dearborn Young Men's Christian Association-153 LaSalle street; general secretary, L. Wilbur Messer. ELEVATED RAILROAD STATIONS. ON THE "LOOP." Wabash and Adams, Wabash and Madison, Wabash and Randolph, Lake and State, Lake and Clark, 5th avenue and Randolph, 5th avenue and Madison, 5th avenue and Quincy, Van Buren and avenue, Oak Park avenue, Wisconsin avenue. CHICAGO & OAK PARK LINE. Route: West on Lake street. to Central avenue and west on South boulevard to Wisconsin avenue. Oak Park. Stations: Canal, Halsted, Morgan, Ann, Sheldon, Ashland, Wood, Robey, Oakley, Campbell, California, Sacramento, Kedzie, Homan, Hamlin, 40th avenue. 44th avenue, 48th avenue, 52d avenue, Central, Prairie, Austin avenue, Lombard. 64th avenue, Oak Park avenue, Wisconsin avenue. METROPOLITAN ROAD. GARFIELD PARK LINE. Route: West from Franklin and Van Buren streets to 52d avenue. Stations: Franklin, Canal, Halsted, Center, Laflin, Marshfield, Ogden, Hoyne, Western, California, Sacramento, Kedzie, St. Louis, Douglas, Crawford, 42d court, 45th avenue, 48th avenue, 52d avenue. DOUGLAS PARK LINE. Route: South from Marshfield avenue station to West 21st street and west to 40th avenue. Stations: Polk, 12th street, 14th place, 18th street, Wood, Hoyne, Western, California, Marshall. Kedzie, Homan, Clifton Park, Lawndale, 40th avenue. HUMBOLDT PARK LINE. Route: Northwest from Marshfield avenue. station to Robey street, thence west to Lawndale avenue. Stations: Madison, Lake, Grand, Chicago, Division. Robey, Western, California, Kedzie, Ballou, Lawndale. LOGAN SQUARE LINE. Route: Same as Humboldt park line to Robey street and North avenue; thence northwest to Logan square. Stations beyond Robey: Logan square. Western, California, Note-Trains on all the Metropolitan road lines run around the "loop" and stop at the stations between Franklin and Marshfield except that some of those on the Humboldt and Logan square branches run through from Halsted to Marshfield without stopping at the intermediate stations. Trains also run west from terminal station in 5th avenue near Van Buren street. NORTHWESTERN LINE. Route: North from 5th avenue and Lake street to North avenue, west to Sheffield and north to Wilson avenue. Stations: Kinzie, Chicago, Oak, Division, Schiller, Sedgwick and North avenue, Willow, Larrabee, Halsted, Center, Webster, Fullerton, Wrightwood, Diversey. Wellington, Belmont, Clark and Roscoe. Addison, Grace, Sheridan and Graceland, Buena Park, Wilson. Express trains stop at Kinzie, Chicago. Fullerton, Belmont, Sheridan road and Wilson avenue. RAVENSWOOD BRANCH. Route: West from Clark and Roscoe streets to west side of Chicago & Northwestern tracks, north to Leland avenue and west to Kimball avenue. Stations: Southport, Paulina, Addison, Irving Park boulevard, Montrose, Wilson, Robey, Western, Rockwell, Francisco, Kedzie. SOUTH SIDE (ALLEY L) LINE. Route: South from Van Buren street and Wabash avenue to 40th street, east to alley between Prairie avenue and Grand boulevard, south to 63d street and east to Stony Island avenue. Stations: Congress, old Congress, 12th street, 18th street, 22d street. 26th street, 29th street, 31st street, 33d street, 35th street. 39th street, Indiana avenue, 43d street, 47th street. 51st street, 55th street. 58th street. 61st street, South Park, Cottage Grove, Lexington, Madison, Stony Island. ENGLEWOOD BRANCH. Route: West from Prairie avenue and 58th street to Wentworth avenue, south to 63d street and west to Loomis street. Stations: State and 59th, Wentworth and 59th. Princeton and 61st, Harvard and 63d. Parnell and 63d, Halsted and .63d, Centre avenue and 63d, Loomis street and 63d. NORMAL PARK BRANCH. Route: South from 63d street and Stewart avenue to 67th street, west to Normal avenue and south to 69th street. Stations: 65th street and Stewart avenue, 67th and Stewart, 69th and Normal avenue. KENWOOD BRANCH. Route: East from 40th street and Calumet avenue to Oakenwald avenue and 42d street. Stations: Grand boulevard and 40th street, Vincennes avenue and 40th, Cottage Grove avenue and 41st, Drexel boulevard and 41st, Ellis avenue and 41st. 42d street and Oakenwald avenue. POPULATION OF FOREIGN BIRTH OR PARENTAGE IN CHICAGO. Foreign Both Africa 399 Mexico Foreign Both 37,887 76,480 Poland (un 37.368 known) 2,193 11.206 Portugal Cent. America 141 Roumania 21 287 25.724 25.556 51,280 13,938 13,327 32.637 32.054 64,691 16,562 15.987 20.504 22,247 42,751 13,507 14.944 23,468 23,957 47,425 14,386 14.899 23.846 24.725 48,571 13,630 14,210 29,944 29,493 59,437 14,539 13,754 32,139 29,710 61,849 18,838 16.277 17,652 11.281 28.913 14,834 8,386 24,208 22.687 46.895 14.258 12,579 23,918 25,975 49,893 17,126 18,581 24.220 22,526 46,746 19,898 17.966 25,940 24,010 49,950 15.811 13,868 43,476 13,026 14,436 27,315 32,549 28.451 29,285 27,840 28.293 35,115 23,220 26,837 24 22.574 22,738 45,312 12,422 12.300 24,722 25 28.979 33,125 62.104 19,025 22,447 41,472 *Includes only those whose parents are of the same nationality. Of the total population of Chicago in 1900 587,112 were foreign born and 1,111,463 native born, or 65.4 and 34.6 per cent respectively. Of the nativeborn white population 354,379 were of native parentage and 727,341 of foreign parentage. COLORED RACES IN CHICAGO. There were in Chicago in 1900 30,150 negroes, of whom 16,073 were males and 14,077 females; 1,209 Chinese, 68 Japanese and 8 Indians. SCHOOL CENSUS OF MINORS. WardsMales FemalesTotal WardsMalesFemalesTotal 1,990,750 14.. [School census 1904.] Year. Dec., 1853. South. West. North. 26,592 14,679 Aug., 1856. Oct., 1862. 45,470 17,859 30,339 28,250 25,524 57,193 35,525 73,475 38,923 58.755 90,739 50,924 169,353 19.. 200,418 Oct., 1868. Aug., 1870. Oct., 1872. Oct., 1874. Oct., 1876. 88,946 214,344 64,556 96,771 220,874 77,763 .104,768 222,545 80,348 Oct., 1878.. .......111,116 237,606 88,009 367,396 395,408 407,661 436,731 6,863 13,570 4,479 4,520 8,999 9,608 9,396 19,001 7,433 7,662 15,095 9,756 9,845 19,601 11,117 11,772 22,889 11,424 11,219 22,643 17,276 16,558 33,834 12,844 12,969 25,813 14,945 14,795 29.740 10,227 10,096 20.323 13,303 13,196 26,499 10,823 10,630 21,453 12,217 11,656 23,873 8,544 8,610 17,154 9,528 9,049 18,577 353,362 353,188 706,550 ILLITERATE MINORS. According to the school census of 1906 there were 52 persons between the ages of 12 and 21 who could read but not write and 140 who could neither read nor write; total, 192. Of these 16 were mutes and 7, blind. 1.. 2.059 2,062 4,121 20.. 6,707 2.. 4,493 4,639 9,132 21.. 25.83 1885.. 169,353 4,448 26.26 1886.. NOTE-The figures of population in this table are those of the United States census for the years 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 and 1900; of the state census for 1845, 1855 and 1865; of the city census for the years 1843, 1846, 1847, 1848, 1849, 1853, 1856 and 1862; of the official census under the school law for every even-numbered year thereafter until 1897-1906. 1857-1906 1900. For the years after 1900 the population is estimated according to the government census bu reau method. CHIEF CAUSES OF DEATH. Average death rates per 10,000 population for the last decade and the fifty-year period, 1857-1906: 1897-1906. 1857-1906 1897-1906. 1857-1906 Diphtheria and croup 3.69 12.38 .19.20 5.34 Diarrheal diseases....13.34 28.34 3.44 Dysentery Bright's disease...... 7.77 3,91 0.41 4.10 Pneumonia 13.05 1.41 6.45 0.08 2.77 18.55 6.34 Typhoid fever.. ... 2.75 6.21 All tuberculosis.. ...17.70 Heart diseases... ..10.41 In his annual report to the mayor and city council for the year 1906 Charles J. Whalen, M. D., the commissioner of health, says: "The total 29,048 deaths from all causes reported during the year to the bureau of vital statistics represent a rate of 14.18 per thousand of the minimum estimate of 2,049,185 midyear population. While this is 3.9 per cent higher than the average rate of the previous two years, it is 3.6 per cent lower than the average of the decade 1896-1905 and sufficiently low to again sustain our oft-repeated contention that Chicago is the healthiest of American cities that have a population of 300.000 or over a fact that is graphically set forth by the appended diagram, in which the figures of population are those of the United States census bureau and the deaths are as reported by the representative health authorities." The highest rate recorded in Chicago in the last sixty years was 73.8 in 1849 during the Asiatic cholera epidemic, the lowest 13.6 in 1904. The rates for 1905 and 1901. 12.7 and 13.9 respectively, were nearly a low as the lowest. More than 70 per cent of the total reduction in the mortality rate of the last forty years occurred in the ten years, 1896-1905. Within the last two years the rate has increased slightly owing mainly to abnormal weather conditions. |