CHRONICLE AND COMMENT

The sixty-seventh annual meeting of the Society brought together a group of about forty members, who elected the ticket recommended by the nominating committee. Mr. Burley, the retiring president, presided. Mr. Burley having declined to serve another term, was succeeded by Dr. Otto L. Schmidt. Mr. Charles B. Pike was elected first vice-president, and Mr. George W. Dixon second vice-president. The following trustees, whose terms expired, were re-elected for another four-year term: Mrs. George A. Carpenter, Chalkley J. Hambleton, Chauncey Keep, Joy Morton, Edward L. Ryerson, John A. Spoor.

On motion of Mr. Loesch a resolution was adopted, extending to Mr. Burley the thanks of the Society for his "successful, able and arduous labors as president." Mr. Burley has served without a break since 1914, a decade

The Society has received word of the death of Mr. Charles F. Bond, a corresponding member for many years. Mr. Bond and his brother Shadrach are lineal descendants of Shadrach Bond, who held office from 1818 to 1822 as the first governor of the state of Illinois. About ten years ago, when the brothers removed from Illinois to Seattle, they presented to the Society valuable portraits of Shadrach and Achsah Bond.

The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the passage of Joliet and Marquette across the Chicago Portage was a notable occasion. Dr. Frederick F. Shannon, pastor of Central Church, delivered an address in his characteristic eloquent style, and Mr. Henry Purmort Eames played his own composition, setting forth to music the events of Marquette's life. This last required no little technical skill, in adapting early religious and Indian melodies to modern music forms.

On Saturday, December 8th, there was another informal celebration of Marquette and Joliet's passage through the Chicago River, when flowers were strewn from the Michigan Boulevard Bridge into the water, now strangely flowing in the reverse direction from that which they took when the French explorers first found it.

On December 8th, there was held in the Society's building a Conference on the Making of Good Citizens, under the auspices of this Society, The Illinois Society of Colonial Dames and the Chicago Americanization Council. The Women's Auxiliary Board initiated

this activity last summer largely with the object of bringing to the attention of Chicagoans the special facilities of the Historical Society in Americanization work. Dr. Schmidt extended the Society's greetings to the gathering, and addresses were given by Miss Jane Addams, on "Our Neighbors"; by Professor James A. James on "History and Real Life"; by Professor Nathaniel Butler on "America's Intention of Democracy." A class in citizenship was led by Miss Frances K. Wetmore. The consensus of members of the Society who were present at the conference was that it was highly stimulating, and that incidentally this Society had in several ways demonstrated how it can help in the work of Americanization. The Society's usefulness in this direction is not yet generally appreciated, and is deserving of greater support from other organizations.

It now appears that there may be some rivalry between the east and the west side of Michigan Boulevard for the honor of being on historic sites. The Kirk Building has long had its Kinzie tablet, but only recently workmen on the new Wrigley Building discovered a board walk, leading to the river bank, which they hope to prove was built by John Kinzie as an approach to the landing place for the skiff which was used by him in crossing to Fort Dearborn.

The Historical Society participated actively in the celebration of the nineteenth anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church, which in 1833 was founded within the walls of Fort Dearborn. The Society loaned an exhibit visualizing Chicago as a frontier post. Mrs. Minna Schmidt loaned five figurines, representing a Pottawattomi woman, Eliza Chappell Porter, Mrs. Kinzie, Madame Beaubien, and Mrs. Gurdon S. Hubbard.

It seems to take a little time for the information to spread that the Society's collections are again open to the public on Sunday afternoons during the winter months. On November 4th there were only 34 visitors, a week later 38; on the 18th there were 85, and on the 26th 101, making a total for the four Sundays of 258.

ACCESSIONS

During the month of November the Society received a total of 95 gifts for the museum and 75 for the library. The more important of these are listed below.

For the Library

From the author, Dr. William E. Barton. Four addresses, three of them on special aspects

of Lincoln's career: "The Lincolns in their old Kentucky home"; "The Education of Abraham Lincoln"; "Abraham Lincoln as the American Ideal."

From Mrs. George A. Carpenter. "The Geography of History," by A. LeSage, London, 1799.

From Mr. William J. Chalmers. "Plan of Chicago, prepared under the direction of the Commercial Club, during the years 1906-1908, by D. H. Burnham and E. H. Bennett," Chicago, 1909.

From Mr. Frank R. Chandler. "The Buckingham Family," by Rev. F. W. Chapman, Hartford, Conn., 1872. (This family, which first appeared in New England records in 1637, had its first Chicago representatives in the brothers Clarence and Benjamin.)

From the Chicago Council of Social Agencies. "Social Service Directory, Chicago, 1923." (The Historical Society is included in this roster.)

From Mr. S. S. Date. "Chicago Magazine,” volume 1, numbers 1-5, Chicago, 1857.

From Mrs. Henrietta McCormick Goodhart. "Hands across the Sea," reminiscences of an Anglo-American marriage, privately printed,

1921.

From Mr. Herman Hagedorn. “The Americanism of Theodore Roosevelt, Selections from his Writings and Speeches," compiled by Herman Hagedorn, Boston, 1923.

From Mr. Adam P. Kastler. License issued to Nicholas Kastler to keep a grocery and sell liquors on North Water Street, between Dearborn and Clark, signed by L. D. Boone, acting mayor, and Henry B. Clarke, clerk, dated Chicago, May 1, 1847.

From Mr. Joy Morton. "Chicago's Highways Old and New," by Milo M. Quaife, with an introduction by Joy Morton, Chicago, 1923. ·

From Dr. Charles B. Reed. "Decouvertes et Etablissements de Cavalier de la Salle de Rouen, dans l'Amerique du Nord," by Gabriel Gravier, Paris, 1870; and ten other volumes.

From Mrs. Charles H. Requa. Letter of W. H. Wells to Luther Haven concerning the resolutions of the Board of Education to name a "school house in the South District . . . . the Haven School," dated Chicago, April 29, 1861.

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From Mr. Smith Stimmel. "An Address of Hon. Smith Stimmel at the Unveiling of a Bust of Abraham Lincoln at Christiania, Norway, July 4th, 1914." Mr. Stimmel was a member of President Lincoln's mounted body-guard, and

was on guard before the Peterson house at the time of his death.

From Mr. Will Sidney Turner. "Kentucky in the War of 1812," by Andrew C. Quisenberry, Kentucky State Historical Society, 1915; also ten Georgia documents, 1802-1839.

From the University of Chicago Press, "War Record and Personal Experiences of Walter Raleigh Robbins, from April 22, 1861 to August 4, 1865", edited by Lilian Rea, privately printed, 1923.

For the Museum

From Mr. George A. Brennan. Halftone portrait of Father Marquette, from a painting by a Canadian artist, thought to be Roos.

From Miss Ethel Bruton. Four "Whitefield views of Chicago in the ‘sixties””, including the Illinois and Michigan Central depot, Clark and Wells Street bridge, Rush Street Bridge, and Michigan Avenue and the Illinois Central round house.

From Mr. James L. Gregorie. Directory card of eighteen business firms distributed immediately after the Chicago Fire, showing their west side locations; collected by the donor, who was working for the Cleveland Paper Company at the time.

From Miss Elizabeth Baxter Hodson and Miss Augusta Sabine Reisse. Twelve women's straw hats, being the remainder of the season's stock of millinery of the year 1893, the year in which the donors entered partnership in the millinery business which they still conduct. These hats caused much comment at the recent World's Fair exhibit at Marshall Field & Co.

From Mrs. Esther Perry Hornbaker. Child's dress of Dolly Varden material, worn by the donor's mother, Mrs. Esther Rockefeller Perry when she was five years old. Mrs. Perry was born in 1832 and came to Chicago in 1857.

From Mr. E. H. Jung. Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine bearing patent date of 1851, and saved in the Chicago Fire.

From Mrs. John T. Noyes and Mrs. Fannie High Blodget. A collection of photographs of members and friends of the High family, including John High, Fanny Elizabeth High (Mrs. Blodget), and her sister Elizabeth (Mrs. Noyes), when children; George High; Mrs. John Clarkson (Anna High); George W. Meeker; Minnie Burch (Madam Ribot); and Mrs. Dr. Johnston.

From Mrs. Charles H. Requa. Two carte de visite photographs each of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Haven; also original photograph of Mrs. O'Leary's cottage and her famous cow.

From Fire Chief Arthur R. Seyferlich. Bucket used by the bucket brigade of the Chicago Volunteer Fire Department.

From Mr. Charles I. Sturgis. Commutation ticket between Chicago and Aurora, issued to H. N. Goodrich, May 13, 1851.

From Mr. A. W. Watriss. Photograph and lantern slide of the Washington Elm as it appeared in 1880; usher's badge and souvenir badge of the National Peace Jubilee, Boston, June 17, 1869; various articles from the Thomas Dowse house, Cambridge, Mass., built in 1812, among them two pairs of brass fireplace hooks, pair of brass andirons, bellows and fire set, copper bed warmer, foot warmer, and flax spinning wheel. Mr. Dowse was called the "Literary Leather Dresser" by the favored Harvard students whom he permitted to use his extensive library.