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One
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
N THE of
preparations are
city Chicago
going
forward rapidly 3 4
world's fair,
hold In
calle i the 3
Progress, and the
of the exposition
a visualizat f
ion of the part
that the marvelous ad
vance
in
past century has 1
progress and in man
the way this is done, the
will
has ever
ingly, the which
are now in the process of construction
will be different from any others tl
have ever before been erected. TI
will represent not only the architec-
ture of today, hut the architecture of
he future. They will be “modernis-
tic” to the last That is, ail
of them will be—except one.
Along the lake front where the ex-
position will be held there already has
been built a little structure of rough-
hewn logs—Fort Dearborn of tragic
memory, risen, phoenix-like, from the
ashes of more than a century ago. And
visitors to the world's fair in 1933 can
look upon it against its background of
skyscraper-lined Michigan avenue and
in it, surrounded by the modernistic
architecture buildings, not only
an epitome of the history of Chicago,
but also an epitome of the history of
the whole United States
science
daved In
rel
be unlike any world’s
before bes n h Cora
eld. A
4 s .
Hon Dulidings
exhil
degree,
soe
Marvelous as has been this transfor-
mation of a lonely frontier outpost
with less than a hundhred white inhab-
itants to a metropolis of more than
three million, the fourth largest eity
in the world, there remains one amaz-
ing fact to make the story of Chicago's
growth sound like a scarcely-believ-
able fairy tale. For all of this has
taken place within the span of one
man's lifetime! That man is Nah-nee-
num-skuk, a one hundred and twenty-
one-year-old Pottawatomie Indian lv
ing on a reservation near Mayetta,
Kan., who waos born in an Indian vil
lage on the present site of Chicago In
1800.
Since he was only three years old
at the time of the Fort Dearborn mas-
sacre and the burning of the fort, he
not have any recollection of that
gedy, but he does remember the re-
blishment of a military post at
lengo when the second Fort Dear-
born was built In 18168 and the depar-
ture of the Pottawatomies from their
ancestral lands for a new home in the
West a few years later. It Is prob
lematical whether Nah-nee-num-skuk
will still be alive when the world’s
fair Is held In 1933, and whether he
will be able to come back to the scene
of his birth If he Is still alive at that
time. But the fact remains that today
there lives a man who could stand in
a city of teeming millions and recall
the time when this spot was but little
changed from what It must have been
when the caravels of Columbus first
touched the shores of the New world,
1. A photograph (taken at night)
which illustrates vividly the contrast
between the Old and the New. In the
of the replica of the first Fort Dear.
born, built for the World's Fair of
1933. In the background is the fa.
mous Chicago skyline, as seen from
Lake Michigan, with its towering sky.
scrapers and its myriad of lights.
2. Nah-nee-num-skuk, one hundred
and twenty.one-year old Pottawatomie
born in an Indian village on the pres.
ent site of Chicago, still living on an
Indian reservation at Mayetta, Kan.
3. A century of mail transportation
progress was dramatized in Chicago
recently when a message was borne
from the replica of the first Fort
Dearborn to New York by horse, auto.
mobile and airplane. In the photo.
graph Jochn Manson, a great-grandson
of the builder of Fort Dearborn, is
shown receiving the message addressed
to the postmaster of New York from
Col. John Sewall. He carried it to the
Chicago post office where it was placed
with other mail in an automobile truck
and taken to the municipal airport,
where it was placed on an air mail
plane,
But the survival of this one
dred and twenty-one year old “"native’
of Chicago is not the only evidence of
the amazing transformation that has
taken place on the shores of Lake
Michigan. Recently there took place
in Chicago an fncident which afforded
a dramatic contrast between the Old
and the New. Through the gates
the rebuilt Fort Dearborn one morn.
ing rode John Manson, dressed in the
military uniform of the style worn by
hig great-grandfather, the builder of
the original Fort Dearborn. He was
carrying a letter addressed to the post-
master of New York city, Through
the maze of automobile traffic on
Michigan avenue he made his way to
the Chicago post office where his let-
ter was dropped into a mail ‘sack
which was tossed into an automobile
truck and rushed out to the municipal
airport, There It was taken aboard
an air mail plane and that evening the
letter was placed In the hands of the
New York postmaster—less than 12
hours from the time it had left Fort
Dearbora.
Had such a letter been dispatched
from the Fort Dearborn of a century
ago It would have been weeks-—and
possibly months—before it was deliv.
ered in New York. For as one histo.
rian has put it “From November ‘until
May Fort Dearborn was as isolated
from the outside world as though it
were on another planet. We have In
epitome the story of the failure of one
attempt, made by Captain Whistler in
December, 1800, to break this isolation.
He obtained a month's leave-of-ab-
sence to journey to Cincinnati, To.
day the round trip may be made and
a fair day's business transacted in 24
hours, Whistler left Chicago the last
of November and reached Fort Wayne,
Ind, December 10, ‘much fatigued aft.
er 11 days of walry travel through
kun
of
#8 transact
if yom
stler's journey
! do It
iid cover in a
the distance it took
make,
What true of the
the first Fort Dearborn
as true of the
would ret
to
race
little over an kh
him 11
ur
Aa va
aays to
was isolation
was nearly
second.
lishment of the second Fort Dearborn,
Samuel A, Storrow, who was making
a tcur through the Northwest, ap
CREO
river, and shortly after entered
the fort, where he was received
one arrived from the moon'"™
Quaife, “The little establishment at
Fort Dearborn constituted a miniature
world, with Inferests and
writes
er world outside.”
Such were the conditions which ex-
cago—the era of the two Fort Dear
horns, That era came to an end In
1833 with the events, the centennial
of which furnishes the reason for the
exposition two years hence.
these was the incorporation of Chica-
go as a town, decided upon at a meet-
ing held on August 5, 1533, at the Sau
ganash hotel, Chicago's first hostelry,
where a total of 12 votes was cast for
incorporation and one against and the
town election held five days later
when 28 votes were cast, electing four
trustees and a president of the town
board. (By way of contrast it may
be remarked that in the recent elec.
tion to choose a “world's fair mayor”
for Chicago, more than 1,000,000 votes
were cast.) The other events was the
convening in September, 18338, of the
greatest Indian council ever held In
Chicago at which the Pottawattomies
and allied tribes cofed all their lands
west of Lake Michigan and their re
maining reservation in southwestern
Michigan, a tract of some five million
neres, to the United States and agreed
to remove beyond the Mississipp! river
within three years,
(0. 1831, Western Newspaper Union.)
Maryland in Foremost
Place in Tree Planting
The offer of free trees, made by the
forestry department of the of
Maryland, conditional on co-operative
planting, has been productive of wide
comment. It Is as
The Maryland department of forest
ry is again offering
for forest plantis
gtule
follows:
to give 1,000 trees
forest wus
owt an
210 every
friends and neigh!
fores:
ors in planting 5,000
tree seedlings, to bho
from the state forest
Very small trees are used
planting and only cost in
of 24 to 5
pending upon the
anda nursery.
for fores
the nelzh
borhood
trees are required
an acre
By offering 1,000 irees wars
dens as a bonus planting
is increased yearly, The state
offering free to all almost all
of trecg for roadside planting
whole program of activ.
ity is
Among
land to
Is also
yariely
On no
an Intensive
being carried
the used In Mary.
"wot
prevent fi to
out.
met hic
s8e8 are le
tures by state officinls {Hustrated with
and moving pictures. |
Helos
RIGOR
tailrong
foren {
niiy nt
strip
tion,
hein
“Sound” Residence Lends
Itself to Moderni
bot # }
zing
{ in
traflic
In the
used
prob ©1
skirts requ
ers to detour
the
once
sireets
townsfolk
they
compara
again
in
Rotarian,
Highway Improvements
In the last 1 America
has progressed from a horse-drawn na
tion of dirt to a rubbertired.
nation, crisscrossed in
fwenty YOars
roads
Today the United States
approximately forty per of the
roads of the world, of about
170.0600 miles are hard-surfaced high-
ways. This is almost one-fifth of the
total paved-road mileage.
have bin
has
cent
which
cost America
been around S£1L.000000000 a
For the current year this bud
Intelligent Cleaning Up
Every clean-up campaign should In
vacant lots as well as homes,
and business places
but a better or
and more attractive, Everything done
in this way is to the advantage of the
property owner or householder, but
collectively it is to the advantage of
the whole city. Either selfish interest
or public spirit should be sufficient to
enlist city-wide co-operation. The com.
bination of these Incentives should
make the clean-up Intensive and com:
prehensive,
Looking to the Future
France's poplardined highways will
in a comparatively short time be sur
passed by America's drives lined with
memorial trees, England's roadside
hedges will be adapted to the Ameri
can countryside. Footwalks will be
come a definite part of the highway
system.” Raw cuts and Gills will be
planted with flowering vines and
bushes. Architectural engineers who
know how properly to plan highways
both beautiful and utilitarian will
lay out and supervise the building of
new roads Philadelphia Ledger,
Life’s Seamy Side Seen
in Paris Flea Market
The traveler who does not want to
miss one of the most unusual spec-
tacles in all of France, and one which
may not last many years longer, says
the magazine, the Ocean Ferry, must
go out some Sunday to Saint-Ouen, in
the old military zone of Paris, when
the famous flea market i8 In opera-
tion
Here, on cleared land which
held the old fortifications that guard
ed the city of Paris, and which is
under the jurisdiction of the
military authorities, the
poor of the city long ago up a
wretched empire of hovels and here
they
king out
ance
still
sot
have held sway for many years,
vretehed existence with
funk-collecting and
and hold
rum-
2 Ww
gpicking and
tindred loy occupations
z, every Sunday, igantic
mage sale
sordid,
Here the hun
huyvs second-hand clothing an
hold for a handful
Here set forth for
f
brushes, toothie
mn wreckage
utensils
'
fare gaie
& combs, anclent Vie
trola records, discarded family
ty §
i ALN,
por
tri fantastic bric-a-brae, toy, emp
ty picture frames, stuffed
anything and everything
hetter day
To this shoddy bazaar
working n and
and In the
Paris to
also come
Keon 8 and been east off.
come the
an his wife, tramps
fact all unfortunates of
look and to buy, to it
tourists to see this tragie-
and
spectacle and to seek hope
ized treasure
for some unrecogni
to the
comic
fully
which m
funk
WOMEN SHOULD
LEARN USES
OF MAGNESIA
To women wh
or so-called *
is a bl
It Is ads
Over
ay have found its ways
heap,
essing
ised
n assures regala
Used as a mo
nt th d
previ tooth qQecay
Friend of the Friendless
is {
Aerial
ambitious ae
Road Survey
n rial road
I be made
Alaskan
hia authorities to
The
|survey
most
ever att
this vear
and British
locate
pled w
nes of the
Colun
the 1
the route of i
u
kan highway.
woposed Alas-
Flax Cultiv_tion
cultivated
for its seed, the country being the
third largest producer of linseed.
Difficulty of reforming many a
eriminal is that he has no good
sense to appeal to,
Flax is
Castoria
Cuioren usually hate to take
medicine but ev ild loves the
taste of Castoria. And mothers like
AD
ACHE
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These tablets do not o s the
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Aspirin in the pocket size, and in
bottles. To save money, buy the
genuine tablets by the hundred. Don't
experiment with imitations.
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Grandmother always said this. Most of
us willing to pay $25 to get rid of boil.
Get 50c¢ box CARBOIL from your
druggist today. Stops pain immediately,
Heals worst boil often overnight Good
for s et Carl i
today
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res, stings, bites, etc. (
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British King's Civil List
of the or of G1
keer
of the
191 and “roy
The
from the e¢ix
actuai amount re-
{ celved for the
personal exper f the king
and
exceed
ROR] O
does not
American
addition,
e8 some income from the
the queen probably
the salary of an cabinet
In
| king receils
{| duchy of Lancaster, of
the duke~—Pathfinder Magazine,
{ officer, however, the
Smoke of Battle
Sergeant—Have you any
i yon?
Recruit—No
i some cigarett
gCars on
I can give you
or,
aad?
i ls
all that Is needed to cleanse
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