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Newspaper
Chicago Eagle
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1917
Page
2
The report lists victors by ward from Tuesday's aldermanic primaries, highlighting leading candidates and party affiliations across multiple districts. Details on margins and next steps await official certification.
City commissioners Bennett and Ettelson back two bills to legalize recreation use of the municpal pier with powers to lease concessions and finance expenses. State's Attorney Hoyne accuses aldermen of using Sunday closing law as a blackmail tool and seeks 225 saloon cases dismissed. Hoyne hints at prosecutions and potential special state's attorney aid, while Mayor Thompson shifts toward license revocation as a sanction to curb violations.
Corporation Counsel Ettelson endorses city power to pass Ald Geiger measure electrifying all Chicago railway terminals within ten years. Leon Hornstein notes time frame must be reasonable. previous opinions support the city’s authority to curb smoky and noxious powered rail operations. Witness debates involve detective Charles Jenkins and grand jury prospects amid political tension over taxes and drys.
Frank Dailey assistant attorney general leads a broad inquiry into election frauds across Indiana Illinois and Ohio. With Hoyne's staff he calls witnesses from the first second eighteenth and other wards for questioning.
The sudden death of City Clerk Siman, renominated on Tes day, forces the Republican Managing Committee to name his successor on the ticket.
The piece claims a winter sidewalk cleaning ordinance will keep 2000 police officers busy daily, notifying residents to clear sidewalks for the benefit of Trust Press Newsstands and city property, and argues it would aid thieves.
The Traction and Subway Commission issued a detailed supplementary report on Chicago industries. It ranks Chicago beside New York in product value with top sectors slaughtering and packing, clothing, and printing publishing, totaling over 700 million dollars annually. The city leads globally in slaughtering and packing, employing about 25,000 people, with product value up 2 percent from 1904 to 1914.
City and federal investigators led by Patrick R. Hilliard uncover more than 45 million pounds of ham bacon and beef in two stockyards cold storage warehouses. Estimates place meat in storage at over 150 million pounds, with 21 million in one warehouse and 12 million in another. Temperatures ranged 4 to 5 degrees below zero as inspectors toured aisles stacked floor to ceiling.
A city abandons ownership of sidewalk privileges by the Nance ordinance forcing homeowners to clean sidewalks. The measure raises questions if the city can compel property owners or tenants to maintain the area in front of newsstands and rent the space, effectively making owners janitors for daily papers. The ordinance appears to center on the abutting property owner and their proprietary interest in the sidewalk space.
Twenty seven Chicago organizations led by the Association of Commerce pass resolutions demanding immediate universal service. The Chicago preparedness conference calls on Congress to enact legislation before adjournment to establish a universal military service and training system.
The governor met with the waterway commission appointed by former Governor Dunne to study the project. He will not issue definite instructions yet. The current commission will dissolve when the Lowden consolidation bill takes effect, creating a superintendent of waterways in the public works department.
Pitteen propentare or the antiloan shark bill waited on house and senate committees at Springfield to urge favorable action on the measure which would limit to percent a month the interest charge on salary loans The bill is sponsored by Rufus W Abbott of the Chicago Telephone Company Rudolph Maté president of the organization spoke in support and urged passage.
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