President-Ralph Clarkson. MUNICIPAL ART LEAGUE. First Vice-President-Lorado Taft. Directors-The officers and Fred A. Busse, Howard Exhibition Committee-Mrs. William Frederick Grower, chairman; Mrs. H. H. Kingsley, vice chairman; Mrs. James S. Watson, secretary. The objects of the association are to promote the beautifying of the streets, public buildings and places of Chicago; to bring to the attention of the officials and people of the city the best methods for instituting artistic municipal improvements and to stimulate civic pride in the care and improvement of private property. The membership of the board of directors of the league includes the mayor of the city or the commissioner of public works, three park commissioners, three sculptors, three architects and three painters. The league is merely advisory and is not invested with any authority from the city. POINTS OF INTEREST IN AND ABOUT CHICAGO. NORTH SIDE. City hall, LaSalle and Washington streets. Confederate monuments in Oakwoods cemetery. Crerar library, 87 Wabash avenue, sixth floor. Douglas monument, 35th street and Ellis avenue. Drexel, Grand and 55th Street boulevards. Field museum in Jackson park. Fort Dearborn site tablet, 1 River street, opposite Rush street bridge. Grand Army hall in public library building, Ran- Jackson park, site of World's Fair in 1893, Logan statue in Grant park (lake front). Marquette building sculpture panels, Dearborn and Adams streets. Marquette-Joliet cross, Robey street and drainage canal. Masonic Temple; view of city from roof. Massacre monument in 18th street near the lake. Midway plaisance. Montgomery Ward tower, Michigan avenue and Municipal museum in public library building, Postoffice, on square bounded by Adams, Clark and Public library, Michigan avenue and Washingtou street. Pullman, suburb and manufactory. South Water street; commission house district. State street department stores; shopping district. Stockyards, Halsted and Root streets. Tunnels under river, Van Buren, Washington and LaSalle streets. University of Chicago quadrangles, Ellis avenue and 58th street. Washington statue, Grand boulevard and 51st street. Wendell Phillips high school, Prairie avenue and 39th street. Wooded island in Jackson park. WEST SIDE. Ashland, Garfield, Humboldt, Washington and Gar- Ghetto district on South Canal, Jefferson and Maxwell streets; fish market on Jefferson street from 12th to Maxwell. Haymarket square, Randolph and Desplaines streets; scene of anarchist riot. Hull House, 335 South Halsted street. Humboldt park. Humboldt, Leif Ericson, Reuter and Kosciusko monuments in Humboldt park. Parental school, St. Louis and Berwyn avenues. Police monument (Haymarket), in Union park. GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN CHICAGO. The postoffice and all other United States department offices, except where otherwise noted, are in the federal building, which stands on the square bounded by Clark, Adams and Dearborn streets and Jackson boulevard. Appraiser's Office-Harrison and Sherman streets; appraiser. Thomas O'Shaughnessy. Bureau of Labor-Room 851; special agent, Ethelbert Stewart. Bureau of the Census-Room 851; chief special agent, Zach C. Elkin. Custom House-South wing, fourth floor; collector. John C. Ames; special deputy collector, John Hitt: private secretary, Thomas H. Keefe; deputy collector at barge office, No. 2 River street, James M. Nash. Hydrographic Office-Room 528; nautical expert in charge, W. J. Wilson. Immigration Bureau-Rooms 855 to 857; chief inspector, J. W. Burst. Inspectors of Steam Vessels-Room 529; inspector of hulls, Ira B. Mansfield; inspector of boilers, Roy L. Peck. Internal Revenue Department-East wing, fourth floor; collector, Henry L. Hertz; chief deputy, Frank E. Hemstreet; cashier, John Williamson. Life-Saving Service-Room 500; assistant inspector. Lieut. J. G. Ballinger. Lighthouse Department-Room 703; inspector, Commander J. M. Orchard, U. S. N. ave Marine Hospital-Clarendon and Graceland nues; surgeon in command, George B. Young. Naval Office-Room 451; naval officer. Thomas N. Jamieson; special deputy, Edgar C. Hawley; deputy. Thomas Carr. Pension Agency-Room 403; pension agent, Charles Bent. United States District Attorney-Rooms 825 to 83?: Edwin W. Sims; chief clerk, William A. Small United States Engineer-Room 508; Lieut.-Col. William H. Bixby. United States. Marshal-Rooms 804 and 806; marshal, Luman T. Hoy; chief deputy, John P. Wolf. United States Subtreasury-First floor, northwest section; assistant treasurer, William Boldenweck. Weather Bureau-Fourteenth floor; professor in charge, Henry J. Cox. CHICAGO WARD BOUNDARIES. As fixed by the redistricting ordinance of Jan. 7. 1901. 1. Chicago river, 22d street, lake. 2. Twenty-second street, Clark, 26th, Princeton, 32d, Calumet, 33d, lake. 3. Thirty-third street, Calumet, 32d, Parnell, 39th, lake. 4. River, Loomis, 31st, Centre, 32d place, Morgan, 33d, Halsted, 33d, Parnell, 32d, Princeton, 26th, Clark, 22d. 5. River, Illinois and Michigan canal, West 39th, Parnell, 33d, Halsted, 33d, Morgan, 32d place, Centre, 31st, Loomis. 6. Hyde Park town line (39th), State, 51st, Cottage Grove, 52d, lake. 7. Fifty-second street, Cottage Grove, 51st, State, 71st, lake. 8. Seventy-first street, Stony Island avenue projected through to the intersection of the east line of sections 26 and 35, township 37 north, range 14, along said section line to city limits, 138th street, Indiana state line, lake. 9. West 12th. Morgan, 18th, Morgan, river. 10. West 12th, Laflin, river, Morgan, 18th, Morgan. 11. West Taylor, Cypress, 12th, Hoyne, Illinois and Michigan canal, Laffin. 12. West 12th, Homan, Ogden, Clifton Park avenue, 24th, Central Park avenue, Illinois and Michigan canal, Hoyne. 13. Washington, Homan, Kinzie, 40th avenue, 12th street, Western. 14. West Chicago avenue, Homan, Washington, Ashland. 15. North avenue, Kedzie, Chicago avenue, Ashland, Division, Robey. 16. West Fullerton, Robey, Division, river. 17. West Division, Ashland, Kinzie, river. 18. West Kinzie, Ashland, Madison, Centre, Van Buren, river. 19. West Van Buren, Loomis, Taylor, Laflin, 12th, river. 20. Ashland-av., Washington, Western, 12th, Cy press, Taylor, Loomis, Van Buren, Centre, Madi son. 21. North avenue, Sedgwick, Division, Wells, river, lake. 22. North avenue, river, Wells, Division, Sedgwick. 23. Fullerton, Halsted, Center, Racine, Clybourn, river, North avenue, lake. 24. Belmont, river, Clybourn, Racine, Center, Halsted, Fullerton, Racine. 25. Indian boundary line, Howard, Ridge_road, Devon, Clark, Irving Park boulevard (Graceland avenue), Racine, Fullerton, lake. 26. Howard street projected, Kedzie projected, Devon projected, Western, Belmont, Racine projected, Irving Park boulevard, Clark, Devon, Ridge. 27. West Devon, 64th projected, city limits, Bryn Mawr projected, 60th projected, Irving Park boulevard, 72d projected, North avenue, Kedzie, Diversey, river, Belmont, Western. 28. Diversey, Kedzie, North avenue, Robey, Fullerton, river. 29. West 39th street projected, 48th avenue projected, 55th street, Halsted. 30. West 39th, Halsted, 55th, State. 31. West 55th, 48th avenue, 87th, Western, 79th, Loomis, 63d, State. 32. West 63d, Loomis, 79th, Western, 107th, Halsted, 103d, Stewart, 99th, State.. 33. Seventy-first, State, 99th, Stewart, 103d, Halsted, 111th, Peoria, 115th, Ashland, 123d, Halsted, city limits, east line of sections 35 and 26, township 37 north, range 14, Jackson Park avenue projected. 34. West Kinzie, 46th avenue, 39th street projected, Illinois and Michigan canal, Central Park avenue, 24th street, Clifton Park avenue, Ogden, Homan, 12th street, 40th avenue. 35. West North avenue, Austin avenue, 12th, 46th avenue, Kinzie, Homan, Chicago, Kedzie. CHICAGO AND CALUMET HARBOR CHICAGO HARBOR-LIGHTS. On the southerly end of the northerly inner breakwater, a fixed red light in gray. conical metal tower 311⁄2 feet high; light visible 94 miles. On the northerly end of the inner breakwater, a fixed white light from lens lantern shown from top of white post 19 feet high. On the easterly end of the north pier at the entrance of Chicago river, a fixed red light shown from lens lantern on post 22 feet high; with the next light it forms a range showing the direction of the piers and course for entering the harbor. On the north pier, near its easterly end, at the entrance to Chicago river, a fixed white light, in gray framework tower 27 feet high; light visible 13 miles. In 30 feet of water, inside of and near the southeasterly end of the outer breakwater; flashing alternately red and white; interval between flashes, 10 seconds; red conical tower on rock-faced masonry tower, 59% feet high; light 67% feet above lake level and visible 16 miles. On the northwesterly end of the outer breakwater, a fixed red light, shown from lens lantern in gray skeleton metal tower 19 feet high; height of lantern above lake level 55 feet. LIGHTS AND FOG SIGNALS. CHICAGO HARBOR-FOG SIGNALS. On the north pier in front of and attached to the light tower, a bell, struck by machinery, a double and single blow alternately with intervals of 20 seconds. At the light tower near the southeasterly end of the outer breakwater, a 10-inch steam whistle; blasts 5 seconds, silent intervals 25 seconds. CALUMET HARBOR-LIGHTS. Calumet bar gas buoy, moored in 21 feet of water, on the northerly end of the Calumet bar: fixed white light with 10-second eclipse, shown from lens lantern. On the southeasterly end of the new breakwater, a fixed white light, shown from buff metal tower 34 feet high; light visible 131⁄2 miles. On the outer end of the north pier, entrance to the mouth of the Calumet river and South Chicago harbor and about 11 miles southeasterly from the Chicago breakwater, a fixed red light, shown from gray cylindrical tower 30 feet high; light visible 13 miles. com CALUMET HARBOR-FOG SIGNALS. At the breakwater tower, a first-cláss pressed-air siren which sounds thus: Blast, 3 seconds; silent interval, 12 seconds; blast, 3 seconds; silent interval, 42 seconds. At the north pier light, a bell struck by machinery every 20 seconds. STREET LIGHTING IN CHICAGO. Average number of lights of specified kinds used in 1904, 1905 and 1906. American National Red Cross Society (Illinois branch)-President, Gov. Charles S. Deneen; secretary, Charl's H. Revelle, 135 Adams street. Associated Jewish Charities of Chicago-President, Edwin F. Meyer; secretary, Louis Eckstein, 1328, 108 LaSalle street. Austro-Hungarian Benevolent Association-Secretary, Gustave F. Fischer, 1626, 164 Dearborn street. Chicago Bureau of Charities-President, Granger Farwell; secretary, Daniel M. Lord; superintendent, E. P. Bicknell, 644, 79 Dearborn street. Chicago Daily News Fresh-Air Fund-Manager, Albert G. Beaunisne. Sanitarium, Lincoln park, foot of Fullerton avenue. Chicago Relief and Aid Society-President, Charles Children's Hospital Society President. Frank 1,284,606.06 497,292.03 1,781,898.09 Illinois Charitable Relief Corps-President, Charles O'Donnell; secretary, Miss Jennie Dwyer. 70 Adams street. Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society-President, R.. J. Bennett; secretary. Rev. E. M. Wil. liams; superintendent, H. H. Hart, 601, 79 Dearborn street. Societe Francaise de Bienfaisance de l'IllinoisPresident, Paul Populorum; secretary, J. S. Townsend, 1534 Wabash avenue. Societe Francaise de Secours Mutuels-Secretary, F. Mercier, 199 South Throop street. United Hebrew Charities-President, H. F. Hahn: general superintendent, E. Rubovits. Office, 223 26th street. Visitation and Aid Society-President, T. D. Hur ley; corresponding secretary, Miss Esther Mercer, 719, 79 Dearborn street. Woman's Benevolent Association of ChicagoPresident. Mrs. F. S. Payne; secretary, Mrs. Edward Watkins, 9138 Commercial avenue. Young Men's Associated Jewish Charities-President, E. M. Newman; secretary, Victor B. Strelitz, 202, 103 State street. |