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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1901. LATEST PORTRAIT OF MRS. MICINLEY. WEDS IN SECRET WHEN DELAY IS 3111S. FKINLEY SERIOUSLY ILL.

MUST GRADUATED MINUS BOUQUET. BLOW OPEN SAFE; THREE ARRESTS rhysicians Remain All Night at Bedside of the President's Wife. Board of Education Rules Against Flowers or Other Gifts at Commencement. Craeksmen Operate in "West Side Office and Are Seared by Their Own Work. TOUR OF WEST Is ENDED.

ROWLAND FIG IITS IN VAIN. USE TOO BIG A CHARGE. fseentive Will Remain with the ratient Until All Danger Is Passed. Austin School Is Denied PerMI3S101 to Hold Xxercises in a Church or Hall. Sound of Explosion Calls Pollee, but Not in Time to Meet Offenders.

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Her vitality has been at low ebb and she has eel-darn spoken to those about her. The President has been almost continually at her bed' side since their arrival here on Sunday night, save the few hours on Monday afternoon, when he left her to go to San and the three hours he spent yesterday in the parade. Mrs. McKinley slept through his absence On both these occasions. Attempts to Keep Engagements.

The strain which the President himself has undergone during the last few days bay been great. It has been a personal Fealties for him to carry out his engagements here in order not to disappoint the people. And It was still his desire to carry out the prearranged program in San Francisco to Cincinnati, May 15.Miss Majorie Ha rmon. daughter of Judson Harmon, ex-Attorney General of the United States, was rnarried secretly on Monday afternoon to George Heckle of Boston. Miss Harmon was a d6butants of last year, and met Mr.

Heckle during a visit in the East. The engagement had been announced and the wedding et for June, hut owing to Miss Harmon's youthfulness her parents favored a postponement. It appears that fact determined the young couple to prevent such a result. Mr. Heckle came here on Sunday and on Monday afternoon he and Miss Harmon visited the residence of a nearby rector and were married in the presence of two friends of the bride.

No flowers or any other presents at commencement exercises." This was the mandate of the Board of Education Refit out from the Schiller Building last night. At one sweep the trustees shook every blossom from the most attractive branch of the tree of knowledge. Nov the June graduation of the high will come and go without a bouquet for the graduate. But the flowers had their champions. who did not surrender without a struggle, Trustee E.

F. Rowland of Englewood making an impassioned plea for the preservacion of the individual rights and liberty of pupils." Do you mean to say," he asked. that this board can stop me at the door of the schoolhouse if carry a bouquet. It would be absurd and silly for you to say that I could not present a pupil with a bouquet. Think of the beautiful sight these beautiful young girls present when surrounded by bunches of beautlful flowers." Mr.

Rowland was just approaching a climax of pathos when he was interrupted by Trustee Tilden, who wanted to know if the graduates would be allowed to wear flowers. Another member suggested that tLe form of wearing hair and the dolor of dresses be prescribed by rule of the board. Text of the New Rule. The rule passed is as follows: No presents of any sort, including flowers, shall be given to graduates at their commencement exercises, and every effort shall be made to confine the expense incident to such graduating exercises to an amount within the means of each graduate." Trustee F. J.

Loesch defengled the resolution. The feelings of some pupils," he said, are hurt by the loads of presents and flowers they see their classmates receive. Presents and bouquets can be given the graduates in private. What we want to do away with is this display of the rich outranking the poor." The question was argued back and forth and the resolution offered by the School Management committee, which came as a recommendation from Superintendent Cooley, was amended and reconsidered in VELrlous ways. I In the final roll call the members voted as follows: YeasClayton Mark, Mrs.

C. K. Sherman, John T. Keating, Mrs. Isabelle O'Keeffe, Joseph Downey-, Christian Meier, P.

J. Loesch, John F. Wolff, Joseph Stolz. George W. Claussenius, Austin 0Sexton, Graham H.

Harris. NaysEdwin P. Rowland, Edward Tilden, James P. Peterson. This picture of the wife of the President, who is lying So seriously ill in San Francisco, is her favorite and is regarded by friends as the best likeness of her.

CONDEMNS WATER IN ZOO. 1 ADDS TO HOSPITAL FUNDS MORE THIEVES QUIT CITY. TO UNITE CITY CONCERT YIELDS ABOUT TO ALEXIAN TREATMENT OF LINCOLN PARK ANIMALS CALLED A CRIME. PICKPOCKETS ARE GLAD TO ESCAPE CHIEF O'NEILL. LOCAL ITIEPROVEMENT BOARD PLANS CONSOLIDATION.

Commissioner Hirsch Arouses Ike Board Members by Ms Charges As a Result Pipes Will Be Laid 300 Feet Connecting with City Mains Rumor That Superintendent Redieske Is to Be RetiredPlowing and Seeding of Made Land Ordered. Auditorium Filled with Friends Anxious to Help the North Side Institution Clear Itself of Debt Bishop Spalding of Peoria. Pays Tribute to the Order Which Was Organised to Assist in the Alleviation of Human Suffering--Musie Numbers Three Dang Men Take Train for New York, Sorrowfully Declaring an They Leave That the" Graft" Is Tough Under the New Police RegulationsSuperintendent Makes Another Tour of the Levee and Sees Improvement. Organizes, Elects B. F.

Rogers President, and Prepares for WorkDepartment of Construction Will Be tire Practical Result of Proposed ChangesTrust Company Sues City for 30.000 Road Ordered to Display Car Licenses. 1 Safe-blowers made another daring but une profitable raid on the West Side early yes. terday morning. and as a result three men. are behind the bars.

of the prisoners le Thomas Barry. a well-known safe-blower. The other two are mysterious personages, whose identity is hidden by the detectives ee. Central Station, who made the arrests. Thee two men were taken in a South Side They are -well dressed.

In their posseastoul was an up-to-date outfit for cracking safeeel The raid of the burglars wast on the officer of the John W. Eckhart company. avenue and Carpenter street. The burglars1 applied nitroglycerin to the safe. and the explosion that followed wrecked the strong box and badly damaged the entire The report and concussion were so great that the robbers did not remain to complete theiework, evidently fearing the police would' be attracted by the noise.

The robbers made' their escape from the building without booty.1 and were seen by several persons as they were leaving the neighborhood. Even had the robbers tarried they would have secured nothing of value. There was no money in the safe. When the clerks arrived office at 7 o'clock they found the police in possession of the place. The noise of the explosion had attracted- Detectives Dempsey and Mulvihill of the Desplaines Street Station but they arrived too late to make arrests.

Safe Twice Drilled. It was found that the safe had been drilled In two places before it was blown." 'rue first drilling was made near the combination knobs, after they had been broken off with a sledge. The second drilling was in the center of the outer door for the purpose of breaking in the inner doors of the safe. The first charge only was exploded, but its force was so great that the safe door wal blown from its fastenings. When the police examined the safe they (Its the fuse attached to a perforated plug in the hole drilled for the second charge.

It had not been exploded. This load also was an overcharge. Henry Wurth was extinguishing lamps at o'clock In the morning, and had just turned out the one near the office door of the Eckhart warehouse when the explosion came. Later he related to the police that it almost took him off his feet. A moment later the boy saw two men run out of the alley at the rear of the warehouse and cross the street to an alley, in which they disappeared, running toward the west.

The safe cracking had the earmarks of other work done in this city by Thomas Barry, the well known safe-blower, and Detective D. Mackey arrested Barry on suspicion. Two Mysterious Nen Taken-The first arrest of the evening came short ly after 9 o'clock when Detectives Bach and De Sousa brought a mysterious prisoner to detective headquarters. He was well dressed and looked like a business-man. To reporters the police said his name was Prank Smith." He was caught in a South Side flat, and as soon as he was locked up the detectives hurried back to the fiat After an hour they returned with another well dressed prisoner.

This time they carried a satchel filled with a tine safe robs ber's outfit, drills, nitroglycerin, and fuses. Prisoner No. 2 the police called Fred Johnson." sadmitting that the names were fictitious. Lieutenant Rohan said Captain Colieran had instructed him not to give out' the news of the arrest. Inspector Shea arrived at Central soon afterward and questioned the prisoners for an hour.

Catch Two Alleged Rogues. By the capture of John Kane and John Dohney. alias Damns. Lieutenant Moore of the New City Police Station, thinks his men have broken up a gang of daylight thieves who have operated extensively on the Southwest Side. Dohney lives at 3001 Union avenue.

He, was arrested three years ago and was con- victed on the charge of burglary. Kane gave his address as 5309 Bishop street The prisoners were relieved, the pollee sav, of sets of skeleton keys. An order book which was taken from one of the men may have played an Important part in their operations. The leaves of the boor were covered with meaningless signs and scribbling. with now and then such phrases as East money," Nothing and A four to one shot." It is the police theory that while Dohney rang the front door bell his companion slipped around to the rear and entered the house.

If a woman responded Dohney, it is said, talked to her about putting in a gas range or displayed a. sample line of tea or coffee. With a man he usually talked insurance. Fraud Steals a Purse. A man representing himself as an of the Assessor's office called at the residence of Mrs.

Fred Miller, 10e3 'West Monroe street. and succeeded in stealing a pocket- book containing $0. Airs. Miller answered a knock at the door about 3 o'clock, and the man she found there said: Madame, I am from the Assessor's office and called for the purpose of checking up the schedule of property you sent in." The man moved about the room until he was near the window where the pocketbook was left. Seizing it.

he ran out of the front door and disappeared before help arrived. The thief has been heard of several times In various portions of the city, and the police are keeping a sharp lookout for him. Visit from Porch Climbers. Porch broke into the house occu-, pied by E. E.

McMillan, USI. West Adams street, at 8 o'clock last night and secured $100 worth of Jewelry and 115 in money. Members of the family were absent at the time. Burglar Works in. Hotel.

Thieves stole a diamond ring valued at 73 and a pocketbook containing $10 from the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. De Bower in the Granada Hotel, 76 Rush street.

whatever extent he could. This morning he thought he would be able to be present at the unveiling of the Donahue statue and so informed the eommittee, but at the laet when Ms escort already had drawn up before the Scott residence, Mrs. McKinley's condition was such that he decided not 13 leave her. And all day except for a brief half hour this afternoon. when he yielded to the entreaties of those about him and went out for a drive, he has 1-mlasned steadfastly at her side.

Cabinet Members Visit Oakland. The members of the Cabinet reluctantly consented to carry out today's program at the University of California and at Oakland, but they had no heart to put into the while their chief was grieving at is wife's bedside. The visit to Mount Tamalpais, arranged for tomorrow, has been enti'rely abandoned, but if Mrs. sMcKinley's condition warrants the President may attend the reception given by the various veteran organizations of this city in the afternoon. Citizens Show Sympathy.

Mrs. McKinley's illness has cast a shadow over the whole city. The people have shown their sympathy in a multitude of ways. All day long little groups have been standing across the street opposite the Scott mansion silently watching the drawn blinds of the room in which the first lady of the land lay. The news of the serious character of her illness evidently teaveled fast, because from all Over the country telegrams have been received by the President expressing sympathy for Mrs.

McKinley and asking for tidings of her condition. Just how soon Mrs. McKinley will be able to travel is a question which no one can answer now: It may be necessary for her to remain here longer than next Monday, when the party originally was scheduled to leave. Indeed, it is likely that it will be somewhat later before she is able to endure the long trip across the continent. But as soon as she is sufficiently strong the trip will be made by the most direct route.

NO stops will be made, and it is believed the tr.ln can be made in five days. Seriousness of Illness Known. From a source no43 official but close to the Executive household-it is stated that Mrs. McKinley's condition is worse than Secretary Cortelyou admits. It is stated that a persistent attack of dysentery, which developed in three days, reduced her to a shadow of her former self.

The felon, which developed on her hand at about the same time the dysentery started, caused her to have high fever, which weakened her greatly. She suffered intense pain, which: increased her nervousness and materially aggravated her condition. The combination of these two causes has depressed her spirits and is responsible for her present serious condition. A person, not a member of the official party, said today: Mrs. McKinley is as sick as any Nman I ever saw." MRS.

GAGE HAS EASIER DAY. Hundreds of persons were unable to obtain seats at the citizens testimonial concert for the Alexian Brothers' at the Auditorium last evening. The managers of the entertainment believe the receipts to the institution will exceed $6,000. Almost every profession in the city was represented in the audience, although doctcrs and clergy predominated. Addresses were made by Dr.

M. J. Seifert, chairman of the Executive committee, and Bishop Spalding of Peoria, the speaker of the even-(rig. The Mystery of Pain was the theme selected by Bishop Spalding for his address. Physical and mental suffering was given as the crucial test through which the advance to excellence must be made.

The charitable and semi-charitable institutions for the relief of suffering mankind was held to be one of the noblest efforts of the State. A tribute was paid by the orator to the order called into existence by the pest of the black death in the fourteenth century, members of which. filled with the spirit of Christian love, banded themselves together to assist in the alleviation of human misery. The music program was adhered to as arranged, the principal number being a vocal trio. "Jerusalem," by Mrs.

Marie ForrestGantz, M. Gauthier, and M. Devries. Among the other numbers were an organ prelude by Dr. Louis Falk, a violin fantasie by Bernhard Listemann, and piano recitals by Rudolph Gantz.

The hospital for the maintenance of which the concert was tendered is at Belden and Racine avenues, and is the headquarters of the Alexjan Brothers in this country. The first hospital of the order was erected in this city by Brother Bonaventura Thelen in 1866, which was destroyed by the Chicago fire. It was rebuilt in 1872, and used until 1897, when it was condemned to give right of way to the Northwestern Elevated road. 'Work On the present structure was begun Immediately, and it was completed in 1398. All modern hospital improvements are contained in the new building, and in the hydro-therapeutic department, the first sanitarium of its kind established in connection with an American hospital, more than 9,200 patients have been treated in two years.

1'4 1 i I consider the 'way the animals in Lincoln Park have been watered: in the past is a crime for which this board must stand responsible if the practice continues," said James H. Hirsch, member of the board, at the meeting of the commissioners yesterday afternoon. The commissioners looked as If they were receiving electric shocks as the formea. Alderman- told of his investigation of the park's pumping whiet taks water from an intake in the lagoon, where the sewage from the animal houses, and other places within the park empties. I desire to present a motion that this board at once arrange with the Water department of the City of Chicago for a supply for these animals," continued the commissioner.

It was unanimously carried, and ITO time will be lost In laying the pipes a distance of 300 feet, where they will tap a city main. Caused Sickness Among Animals. a No wonder the In Lincoln Park have been sick of late," added the commissioner. The polar bear nearly died during the last few days, and for no other cause than drinking this filthy water that would kill a hyena. The flowers in the conservatories have been supplied with city water and the horses in the big red barn also have been favored, but the wild animals In the zoo nearly have been exterminated by being forced to drink filth.

I will not say who Is to blame, but I am free to say that in atly appointment the bottrd shall make In the future I shall stand for competent men and political pull will not be considered. The present park pumping system can be remedied by having an intake in the lake." May Retire Redieske. Rumors were rife that Park Superintendent Paul Redieske would shortly be retired and a new man selected for the place, but none of the Commissioners was willing to talk on the subject. Much Interest was manifested, however, in the proposed visit of Governor Yates to Chicago next Saturday, and the possibility of his filling the two vacant Commissionerships on the board. Will Seed Filled-in Land.

General F. H. Winston made a strong plea for the plowing and seeding of the filled-in land of the park at Chicago avenue and the lake, just north of Captain Streeter's District of Lake and the superintendent was ordered to go ahead with the work at once. New Idea for Seawall. George Richardson, an inventor, presented a plan for a new seawall of conerete made by driving piles.

to which wire netting will be attached, and the squares filled with concrete. He said that with a sloping top such a wall would resist the action of the waves. The plan was referred to a new Committee on North Shore Protection, composed of Commissioners Hirsch and Chan-non. Children Visit the Zoo. Fifty children from the Franklin School visited Lincoln Park yesterday.

Their teacher. Miss Lucy Schaffner, was their guide. They were especially Interested in the baby buffaloes and the baby camel. Pete," the zebra, never was better pleased than when the children crowded around him. Austin School Causes Trouble.

The board had further trouble over the case of the Austin High School, which had secured a recommendation from the School Management committee that it be allowed to hold commencement exercises in a hall or church. Hyde Park High School had been refused a similar request, but Austin felt confident that It had fared better. After Alderman Race and Alderman Hunter had called on the committee and eecured favorable action the Austin graduates secured a church. The board voted to deny the request, Superintendent Cooley stating that Austin needed special consideration no more than Hyde Park. The question of the purchase of forty typewriters came before the board and caused almost as much feeling as it had done in committee.

After waiting six months because typewriter agents were so insistent they could not settle on any one machine, the board decided to get around the whole subject by renting forty machines until Jan. 1, 1902. Trustee Keating charged the board with being irregular in its business proceedings. He said there was but one thing to do, and that was to follow Superintendent Cooley's recommendations. Rand, McNally Co.

Get Land. Final action was taken on the lease of the property at Clark and Harrison streets and Pacific avenue, transferring it to Rand, McNally Co. for ninety-nine years. The transaCtion marks the first step in what is promised to be a regeneration of the South Clark street district. It also necessitates the removal of the Harrison Street Police Station.

The terms of the lease give the property a valuation of $287,500. The rental paid will be according to the following scale: First ten years, annual rental $14,375 Second ten, annual rental 15.812 Remaining seventy-nine, annual rental 18,000 Decide Not to Be Charitable. The company promisee to erect a fireproof building at once, to cost not less than 000. The board wrestled with the question as to whether it had a right to be charitable, and decided that it had not. Mr.

Tilden said he had a right to give away his own money, but not to contribute that of the tax-payer for charity. Mr. Loesch contended that the taxpayer did not expect his agents to be men with hearts of stone. The case which aroused the discussion was that of Tommy Cogger, 6 years old, who was scalded with hot water while attending the Von Humboldt School. Trustee Loesch thought the board should be liberal and give Tommy's parents money with which to pay the doctor's bill.

Mr. Loesch had secured a list of all the expenses the parents had been put to by the and found they amounted to 370. He recommended that 500 be alrowed. The amount was cut down to 100, which will be paid the parents. The date for the opening of schools was fixed as Sept.

3. The request that the Council extend the appropriation for the parental school from $2140,000 to 300,000 was reconsidered. The trustees decided that not more than 1200,000 worth of building could be done this year If there were more money. New York's plaint that Chicago thieves are Invading the East because of the activity of Chief of Police O'Neill was further justified yesterday when three of the most expert pickpocketsoin the West boarded a train for the Eastern metropolis. Those men, Ed" Jacobs, Sam Scopek, and 011ie Scott, said a sad good-by to an escort of detectives as-a Nickel Plate train statled on its run out of the city.

The three pickpockets were arrested by Detectives Bohan and Morgan of the Central Station. When they were brought up before Lielltenant Bohan they begged to be let go, promising they would leave the city at once. They were arraigned before-Justice Prindeville, however, and each of them was fined $la and costs. The prisoners again pleaded for release, and finally the police agreed to let the men go if they would leave Chicago at once. Justice Prindeville suspended the fines and the prisoners were escorted to a ticket office, where they bought transportation for New York.

As they were put on board the Nickel Plate train at 5 o'clock Jacobs said: This town is too tough a graft. now. I don't want any of Chicago in mine while O'Neill Is Chief of Police. Good-by." Chief Sees the Levee. Meanwhile Chief O'Neill paid another visit to the levee yesterday and found conditions Improved.

There still were things 'which called for treatment by Inspector Hartnett, he said, but some of the surface evils had been rubbed off." I have sources of information regarding affairs in the levee," declared the Chief. As fast as things are called to my attention I send an order to the Harrison Street Police Station and the matters are attended to." In the afternoon the police raided the house of Jet Kelly at 421) Clark street, directly across the street from St. Peter's Church. Ccmplaint had been made to Captain Mahoney by memberg of the church that the women of the resort were overbold. Later the police raided the house at 76 Van Buren street, said-to be conducted by Dora Linke.

In all twelve arrests were made. O'Neill Has a Dyspepsia Cure. Dyspepsia, Chief O'Neill says, afflicts many members of the police force, and he lays the blame for the malady on the dog watch" system. By this system a policeman is detailed to go out and watch for fires and other trouble at 4 o'clock in the morning. He wanders about the district until 8 o'clock In the morning.

Then he is relieved, but must return to work at noon. In the four hours off duty the policeman has to take breakfast and his noonday meal, and the crowding together of these meals is what, gives him dyspepsia, the Chief says. The Chief proposes to substitute the 11 o'clock By this method the policeman works from 11 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock at night, and then is ready to sleep at the station- in reserve. Meantime other policemen go on duty at 7 o'clock in the evening and remain out until 4 o'clock In the morning. The day men reliel-e the 11 o'clock men when the latter go in at 8 o'clock In the morning.

I hope this way will satisfy thee old-time Lieutenant who always' crops out anonymously and criticises the actions of the Chief of Police," Superintendent O'Neill said. Alderman Charles Ailing, with the Rev. Father Bowen, called on the Chief yesterday to Inform him as to conditions at Calumet avenue and Twenty-ninth street. E. Valerga.

who occupies the southwest corner of the street intersection, has applied for a license to sell liquor there. Father Bowen owns the grocery on the southeast corner, and, with many of the neighbors, is opposed, to the granting of the license. Mayor Harrison has referred the question to City Collector Brandecker and the license has not been issued. One of tbe chief grounds tvethneuep.roposed saloon will Mushmouth Johnson and fifty inmates open ef protest mnt ccutas hui Is that eohtua avenue. Johnson Fined.

of his place, 464 State street, who were arrested on May 11 for gambling. were placed on trial before Justice Prindiville yesterday. Non-suits were taken in the cases of the Inmates by Prosecuting Attorney Harkins and they were discharged. Johnson was fined $50. The difficulty of identifying the ng i tf- oe rn bayb at ni 1 deo Cn iint Cy Prosecutor cases set sr apagrsi as iotnnhseet strhe awe them.

os. MAYOR IS TIRED OF HIS JOB." Admits, However, That When He Secules Sufficient Rest He May Want Another Term. Under the new Board of Local Improvements, which organized yesterday with the election of B. F. Rogers as President, portions of a number of city departments will be consolidated, making practically a new Bureau of Construction.

Parts of the Engineering bureau, the Bureau of Sewers, and the Department of Public Works will be placed under the Jurisdiction of the board. The creation of the new Water bureau and the new organization of the Improvement board will leave practically nothing in the Engineering bureau, and the Department of Public Works will have only the intercepting sewers as a work of any Importance. Members of the board, after organizing yesterday, spent the day hunting for quarters in the City Hall which will accommodate all the divisions of the city government to be included under Its direction. 'Officers of Ne1w The officers of the board as selected are as follows: PresidentB. F.

Rogers. I Vice PresidentAlbert Schonbeck. SecretaryJohn A. May. Assistant SecretaryErnest Mc Gaffey.

Assistant Corporation Counsel Teefy be the attorney for the board. A. M. Lynch Is the only member who is not an officer. It will be impossible for any new construction work to be undertaken until next year," said President Rogers.

The courts will close for the summer vacation before any great headway can be gained, and the principal work of the board will be to get cases in readiness for the courts when, they open in the fall." Secretary John A. May also said it would be impossible to start any nem work or a year. There are 200 old cases for street Improvements pending now," he said, and 150 sewer cases. These will be taken up as rapidly as possible and some of the most Important streets passed on. No new work can be done for a year." Public hearings will be begun on May 21 and continued for four days.

In these hearings it is expected the board will be able to pass on a number of Improvements in important thoroughfares. They include: North Clerk street, from Kinzie to North Water street. Congress street, from Fifth avenue to Franklin street. State street, from Twenty-sixth to Thirty-ninth street. Halsted street.

from Chicago avenue to Division street. Canal street. from Harrison to Lumber street. Harrison street, from Clinton to Halsted street. Indiana avenue, from Eighteenth to Thirty-ninth street.

Thirtieth street, from Prairie avenue to State street. Sues City for Damages. The Philadelphia Mortgage and Truss company has begun suit against the City of Chicago for $30,000 damages on account of several unpaid assessment vouchers held by the corporation. The vouchers were issued in Th92 to It. F.

Conway, who was the contractor for certain work. Most of them represent the cit3r's share of the expense of the work for public benefits. They were issued on the following dates for the mentioned improvements: On Feb. 20. Fifty-first street between Wallace street and Ashland avenue.

On June 15, Dearborn street, between Forty-seventh and Fifty-ilfth streets. On July 13. Powell avenue. between Milwaukee and Fullerton avenues. On July 27, Belmont avenue, between Western and Milwaukee avenues.

On June Id, Roscoe street Sheffield avenue to Robey street. On July 13, western avenue, between Fullerton and Belmont avenues. Roads Ordered to Show Licenses. The elevated railroad companies will be ordered to display a car license in every car operated on their roads. The license costs a year and each car will have to carry one to show the city has received compensation specified by ordinance.

The city will insist that the licenses be displayed to avoid disputes with the traction companies. Hundreds of river front to Harbor Engineer Burke. have encroached on the river and have extended their dock over the legal dock line; Efforts now are being made to straighten the river line and to push back the docks which are over the line. The color line has added to the vexations of the Civil Service commission. A requisition has been made for apipeman for Engine Company 21 of the Fire department.

This company is composed of colored firemen. The new man must be taken from the eligible list in the order of his standing, but the highest colored man on it is topped by a score of white men. The only solution the commission sees is that the white men will waive the appointment and there will be no acceptances until the colored man is reached on the list, A 0 Mayor Harrison made Corporation Counsel Walker his political legatee because he is tired of the job temporarily. He said yesterday that after he had rested he might think differently and tear up the will. He expects to get the rest when the Aldermen go to Buffalo-and there is no session of the City Council.

The meeting of May 27 has been passed over to permit the trip. and while the Aldermen are in Buffalo the Mayor will take to the woods. This job is a killer," said the Mayor. It means five years of a man's life for every one he puts in in the city's service in this position. if, at the end of my term, I feel as I do now, I will not ask for another.

However, I will say that I reserve the right to change my mind after I have rested." Mr. Walker, the heir, said: That is just some of the Mayor's talk." Mayor Harrison is now authorized to render first aid to the injured." By accepting a costly medicine case of black morocco leather, containing scissors, needles, bandages, vials of medicine, and other surgical the Mayor yesterday agreed to voluntarily render his services gratuitously in cases of injury as an active member of the Geneva emergency corps. On the medicine case is a heavy silver plate engraved as follows: Presented to the Hon. Carter H. Harrison by the Geneva emergency corps." MISSING A WEEK; MURDER FEARED BY HIS FRIENDS.

Charles Sandberg, an Austin Contractor, Disappears and Woods and Fields Are Searched in Vain. Wife of Secretary of the Treasury Shows Slight Signs of Improvement. Ington, D. May 15.ESPeelall Tnt're is a slight improvement in the condition of Mrs. Gage tonight.

She rested easily last night and had a comfortable day. Her friends are somewhat encouraged tonight. but she is by no means out of danger. Owing to the change for the better, slight though it was, in the patient's condition Secretary Gage felt justified in going to the Treasury depart-tent today. SEEK WORD FROM M'KINLEY.

Local Reception. Committee Will Ask if Wife's Illness Will Prevent Chicago Visit. The joint committee of the National the Illinois Manufacturers' asclation, and the Union League, appointed arrange for the reception of President IfefilinleY will be held at the offices of the furmer association. 508 Stock Exchange Building, at 4 o'clock today, The purpose is to ascertain if possible whether the state of ir McKinley's health will prevent the President from visiting Chicago on June 11. 'We shall telegraph Mr.

Cortelyou at once," Secretary A. A. Burnham," as we desire to know whether to go on with our or to wind up those already made. Of urse we could not expect a visit from the rrPoident should his wife's condition make it Idvisable that they abandon their plans." 31iss CrItiietlly In. Springs, May 41s4 Helsn Long.

daughter of the Secretary of the Xsey, is in as good health azs at any time since her ni in November. 1S9S. Three Weeks no she ttatraetel a cold. from Which she suffered slightly a few days, but no effects remained. The rEPort is dying Is whoIly BUSINESS NOTICES, hr.

Steger', Angostura Bitters mate health, r'41' cheeks. ed happinese. Dr. Stegert's An Aift cheeks, omil SILVER MEN TALK EXPANSION. 1 Jefferson-Jackson-Lincoln League Plans to Establish.

Branches Throughout the State. 1 KEEP ASCENSION DAY FEAST. Elaborate Ceremonies Today at Father Larrabee's and Church of the Epipriiiny. A a At a meeting of the Jefferson-Jackson-Lin coin league in the Sherman House last evening steps were taken to establish branches cf the organization throughout the State. Arrangements wert, made also for the representation of the Chicago branch at a con.

ference of the league in Buffalo next August; Charles Sandberg of 131 Clark avenue', been missing over a week andhis friends think he has been murdered and ro--ed, as he carried several hundred dollars, or has become insane and wandered away. Sandberg disappeared from the grounds of the Westward Ho Golf club, where he was supervising the erection of a building on May T. The woods and fields north of Oak Park have been searched for traces of the man. The day before he left he refused to accept a payment of $800, saying he did not need the money before the end of the week. Sandberg has a wife and three, small children, is 35 3-ears old.

and has been considered a successful contractor. DETECTION PROVES HIS WORTH. Volunteers to Collect List of Dog Owners and So Far Has Reported 450 Names. HOPE GIVEN FOR BILLY RICE. Said at the Hospital That the Old-Time letinstrel Probably will Recover.

The celebration. of Ascension day, the titular feast of the church. was begun at the Church of the Ascension last night. At 8 o'clock solemn vespers were sung by Father E. A.

Larrabee and Father J. C. Craig. This morning there will be several low masses, followed at 11 o'clock by solemn high mass. Bishop Coadjutor Anderson will preach the sermon.

The Eervices at the Church of the Epiphany, Ashland boulevard and Adams street, will be at 7 a. 11 a. and 8 p. m. The mush; -Nat the evening service, will be elaborate.

LLiC CLALLIK. Wm 611.1.SA Detective John Tobin of the- Englewpod station has the distinction of being the only Chicago detective known to have volunteered to collect a list of dog owners preparatory to the payment of the stipulated tar. His action is due to overhearing a criticism of detectives' ability to escape disagreeable work. He already has turned in the names of 450 -dog owners. kovviLv.Lo Northwentern-Firtst Iteptintent 3teet.

Coach Hollister of Northwestern University has completed arrangements for a track meet with the First Regiment on Saturday afternoon at Sheppard Field. While the purple does not expect a victory. Dr. Hollister will be able to pick the team that will represent Northwestern In the Find Cause of F. E.

Hoag's; Death. At the Inquest held over the remains of Frank E. Kellogg at the L. Hobblethwaite undertaking establishment in Evanston yesterday the Coroner's jury brought In a verdict that the deceased came to his death by drinking corrosive sublimate with suicidal intent. The funeral will be held at o'clock this afternoon with interment at Rosehill Cemetery.

Cemetery. Billy Rice, the minstrel, who Is a patient in the County Hospital, was reported last evening to stand a good chance of recovery. The old tltne blackface performerit suffering frcm acute i A I (1.