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vei. 2 HIGH'iVOOD, ILL]~OJS, .JULY, 192-10 No. :5

FIRST AID TEAMS IN BIG MEETD. H. Howard Tells Story of

New North Shore Line ExtensionEngineer Who Has Been in Charge of New Line Since

Its Beginning Gives Some InterestingFacts and Figures

H. HOWARD, '''rhe Man of the Hour" in the district whichthe Chicago North Shore and Northern railroad will serve,gave a very interesting talk on the plans for the railroad and

on the work wh ich=has been done thusf~J:"- _M' ~How,,,.cl i~ in charge 0" the I -\bui0ing -of t~e road all(~ ha~ V.en a NEW CARS AND BUSESleading l?ar~ 111 ~he engmeenng plans FOR SUMMER SERVICEsm ce then mception.

"The first step in the railroad was,of course, obtaining permission from Newthe Illinois Commerce Commission forits construction. After this was ob-tained ordinances were secured fromthe cities of Evanston aud Niles Cen-tel'," MI'. Howard said.

"'I.'he Evanston ordinance was sub-mitted on January 1, and after consid-era ble changing was passed on April 1.The Niles Center ordinance was passedupon submission the first time.

"The most important engineeringfeature of the new line is the grading'system. The cost of the gmiling willbe approximately $100,000. The grallewill be. 9,600 feet in length. There willbe 373,000 cubic yards of'dirt used inthis part of the construction.

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'Three Per Cent Incline Necessary'

"The greatest incline of the con-struction will be immediately after thetracks leave the present right of wayof the North Side division of the RapidTransit Company where there will be athree per cent grade. This is approxi-mately the same as the incline at Wi l-SOll Avenue. from the lower terminal toth e structure.

"This incline is necessitated by thecloseness of t.he Northwestern tracksand the fact that the new line will passunder these tracks as well as the streetto the cast of them. The tracks wi ll

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Car Equipment Same AsOrders; 13 Buses of

New Make

Recent

TEN new steel cars and thirteennew buses should all be in sorvicoby the time this issue of the

HIGHBALL reaches its readers, accord-ing to all announcement by Harold Otis,engineer car equipment.

The steel car order includes two par-lor 0bserva tion cars, one diner andseven passenger cars. '}'he cars werebuilt by the Cincinnati Car Company,who have built all of the recent ship-ments, and couf'orrn in design and speci-fica tions with the cars recei vcd lastyear. ,

The thirteen Hew buses are the firstto be purchased by our company fromthe Yellow Coach Manufacturing Com-pany and will be used for surburbanand city service. They are somewhaton the order of the Whi tas now inservice, but are easily rlistinguishableby their alurrunum rad ia tors.

'I'wo now Fageols of tho inter-citytype, were also expected early in July.They will be used for tours an d char-tering by special parties. The newones will be similar to the Fageol inter-cities already in service.

The new steel cars will be used totake care of the summer iucrense and,

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MEN AND GIRLSAPPEAR AT CHICAGO

Men's Team Places Fifth AfterHard Tussle Against

Big Odds

Two first aid teams, a men's and ag irls ', represented our company. atfirst annual championship first aid

contest at First Regiment Anno.r~' illChicago on June 20. The men's teamplaced fifth in the contest, which waswon by the Chicago Rapid Transit Corn-"l""""lV +o<"ln"1 -6_--- ....._.~l""'-J ,,~"'''.L<••

Members of the North Shore Linemen's team who competed are:

M. WittryC. DeVolkF. Meads. ;renningsP. HicksH. Renner

The showing of the North Shore teamwas most creditable when the fact thatthey have not had the length of train-i ng afforded the other teams competingis considered, This reduces the num-ber of men. available as well as- 'tileexperience of the men chosen.

'I'h e standing of the teams in th e com-petition was as follows:Chicago Rapid Transit Co , , .... 95.8Commonwealth Edison Co , , , , .. 95.4Illinois Bell Telephone Co , , ,95.0Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co 93.6NORTH SHORE LINE 93.4Public Service Company of North-

ern- Illinois ",.,', .. , ,.,.92,6

The North Shore team evidently werenervous when the competition began forthey only scored 81 on their first prob-lem, a handicap hard to OVerC011]('.They fought hard however and on oneof the eusuing problems hung up a per-feet score. Had their first problem '"-..score been above 90 they would havebeen much higher in the final staudiug.

The girls' team made their firstpublic. appearrrnce at the meet andproved the hit of the evening. Theywere all decked out in their new uni-forms and presented a very attractive

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W. P. Pearrc Editor

CLUB OFFICERSP. F. McCall. . .' Honorary PresidentKenneth M. Owens PresidentJames C. Zwetsch Vice-PresidentB. M. English : SecretaryPhillip M. Cornes TreasurerA. C. Hirschner Athletic ManagerW. G. Guthormsen-

Manager of Stage Technic & Costumes

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appearance as they went through theirvarious problems under the able cap-taincy of K. C. Grant.

The girls' team is composed of thefollowing: - .

-x:. C. Grant, captainEsther Zersen Ma.rgaret DavisonEsther Krueger Gertrude StehleAda Helfer Marcella DietmeyerEvelyn Ramsene Madelyn StrangHattie Boehm Elizabeth SchanckEmlt).a Lathrop Mary MqCarthyJulia Ludlow Esther KennedyDora Setterman Mildred RogersFlorence Martini Luella Attridge

.T Lund acted as a recorder for the"match "fwd the following were ush ers.:M. Stadler~h-_!3entley, J. Zwutsch, L. }'.VanDuyn and ,\c",trenderson.

-----=-%e---:tWrtlr Sl~vJ.u~-1-rt"S-. spiri t -mani-f'ested itself in the loyal band of rooterswhich accompanied the two teams tothe meet. Several times the announcercommented on the excellent showing ofthe rooters.

"Tonight'8 gathering is strikinglyimpressive when it is compared withsimilar gatherings in this' armory si xor seven years ago," said Howard C.M'ath ison of Bauer and Black, who In-e-sented a handsome trophy to the winner.

" At that timo men were gathering

THE HIGHBALLhere on a mission of destruction andwanton slaughter, righteous though itwas. Tonight you men are gathered an-a mission of saving lives and aiding aueedy fellow man.

I I This first aid work is the finestwork to which a company or an indivi-dual can dedicate part or all of theirtime and the companies and men whichsponsor it are- to be highly corn-mended.' ,

'I'Iie finish of the meet was very excit-ing and the winner in doubt until theend. When the teams began the finalproblem the Bell Telephone team andthe Rapid Transit team wero very fewpoints apart and the Cornmouwe alt.hEdison team a close third. The tele-phone team arid the Rapid Transit teamboth lost eight points 011 the last prob-lem just enough to place the Edisonteam ahead of the telephone boys.

(' Next year .w e '}l SllO'Y 'elll," wasthe statement of the N orth Shorc ti'rinias they left the big hall. "Wa tell usnext yeat." .

. On June 2:J, the teams gave an exhibi-tion at the annual convention of theAmerican Fnst.itrrt« of Electrical En-gineers at the 'Edgewater Beach Hotel,Chicugo.

D. H. Howard Tells Story ofNew North Shore Line

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then run -in all open cut until 'they passunder Ridge Avenue.

"'rho right of way is being built toaccommodate a four track line, althoughonly two tracks will be laid at thepresent time. At its narrowest pointthe I'ight of way is 125 feet wide awlfor the tcmai n der of the distance it isbetween 1:J.0 and 200 feet in width.

" 'I'h e sharpest curve will be a 3 percent curve, approximately the same as

The Girls' Team in Action

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at Loyola station on the North Sidedivision I'ight of way.

Spring Rains Hinder

" Because of the excessi ve springra.ins we have been hampered ill ourwork somewhat with ground water. Inmaking the cuts we first are forced torun n trench down the center of thecut and then dig out level with that,continuing the operation until the prop-er level is reached.

, 'Some of the soil is not as good aswe had expected aiid at Ridge we hadto cut 12 feet below the subway levelill order to reach better bottom.'

Mr. Howard gave the following fig-uies Oll materials needed for t.he newrailroad in order to give some idea ofits magnitude:

373,000 cubic yards of grading, 110-000 of which is to be borrowed and263,000. from our own right of way.108,000 cubic yurrls isaheacly in place(June 24).9,600 feet of sewer; 4,000 feet in place.20,000 cubic yards of concrete .3,400,000 pounds of structural iron.500 tons of reinforcing steel.11 miles. of track.81,-<)miles of 100-1b. rail.2112 miles of 80-1b. rail.400 square yards of street paving, and

sidewalks.6 miles of temporary track now in use.200 carloads of cement. -200 carloads of gravel.100 carloads of sand.

_. There will be a total .pf 2,400, carloadsofilia:enal used. ----. ~ - .'-

On Tuesday, August 19, a specialmeeting of stockholders has been calledfor the purpose of voting to legally takeover the Chicago North Shore andNorthern Railroad Company by the Chi-cago North Shore and Milwaukee Rail-road Company. The new road wasfinanced by the North Shore Line, buttho separate company which was formedis now to be absorbed by the parentcompany.

New Cars and Buses forSummer Service

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when conditions permit, some of theolder equipment will be retired.

With a break in the rainy weather, abig jump ill traffic was anticipated.P. IV. Shappert, traffic manager, reportsthat chartered buses are in big de-maud and blames the extremelv unsea-sonable spring for the moderate

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numberof tour patrons.

Card of ThanksGratefully acknowledging and

thanking you for the beeut dul floralofferings and the kind expressions ofsympathy during our hour of trial andsorrow.

Mrs. John Myhre and Family.

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THE HIGHBALL

A North Shore Trainman'sDream

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ByMotorman Short

A handsome North Shore trainmanLay on a bed of pain,

All hope was passed; his life ebbed fast,He ne' er would rise again.

"Have you a sweetheart fair andtrue?' ,

They whispered 0' er his bed,"Whom you would tell a last f'are-

well?"The trainman softly said:

, 'There's Daisy up in Evanston,And Millie in Wilmette.

There's Katie dear in Kenilworth,Those girls I can't forget.

At Indian Hill there's Sadie,At Winnetka, Marjorie,

At Hubbard Woods there's a littleSwede,

Whom I must surely see.

The. watchers stared in wild surprise,And then they said once more,

"Now tell us, pray, without delay,The girl whom you adore,

The girl whom you have sworn to love,And bring both wealth and fame,

Your promised wife and hope and life,Hurry, let's know her name."

There's Olga at Ravinia,A K. M., that is true;

In Highland Park there is Mary,~re~Fay, :l.nd.-Su~. ~

Then there is one in Highwood,Please don't ask me to stop;

Although Rosie is a Dago,She's a nifty little Wop.

"There's Priscilla in Lake Forest,And Mabel in Lake Bluff,

At Rondout there is susie,And in Area I've done my stuff.

Then up in old Waukegan, .There's Harriet, Jane and Bess.

Then look up Anna May from Zion,In my purse is her address.

"In Kenosha I have Martha,May the Gods be good to me.

At Racine there's red-headed Julia,Just bring them all to me.

There's Hattie in Milwaukee,And many more I can't recall,"

The trainman sighed, "It's time I died,I've 'sworn to love them all."

Couldn't Hold ItThe stationmaster, hearing a crash

011 the platform, rushed out of his officejust in time to see th~ express. that hadjust passed through disappearing roundthe curve, and a disheveled young man-sprawled out perfectly fiat among a COIl-fusion of overturned milk cans and thescattered contents of his traveling bag.

"Was he trying to catch a train ~"the stationmaster asked of a small boywho stood by, admiring the scene.

"He hid catch it," said the boy, hap-pily, "but it got away again."

UP AND DOWN THE LINE

Maintenance of WayBy Bess Schank

Vacations Are in Order Again

HAVE YOU missed anyone in theRoad Department. Hasn't it been quietfor the last month 9 Ellen Emanuelsonresigned. vVe thought to get married,but haven't seen an announcement yet.

OUR NEW Steno's name is MadgeSmith. Comes from Indiana. She re-ports after a week end in Logansportthat the cherries are ripe and hermother needs someone to pick them.Boys! here is a chance to earn somemoney during your vacat.ion. ButMadge, we do not think that thecherries are the attraction.

MR. HOMAN is conscientious. The-girls from the First Aid team tried toget him to go to Lake Geneva withthem last Thursday. He had work todo.

MB.. KRAMER thinks I spend toomany week euds ill Chicago. If· Iwasn't so attached to the bunch in theoffice I would spend all my time inthere.

J. F. MeKA Y is stuc1ying to be alawyer. Do we need any more legaladvisors on the North Shore Line?

THE ELECTRICAL department andthe road department have lots of f'untrying to keep out of each others wayon the pole Iin'e job. Leave it to Mr.Kramer to keep the road departmentahead.

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trouble with his bookkeeper on theweed killer outfit this year?

L. BALL leaves Saturday for a realvaca tion. He's going fishing up Northwithout his wife. Anyone can have thesurplus fish by calling for them andpaying all expense,s~~n1 .

W. G. FITZGERALD is fishing upNorth. He says the "big ones" all gotaway. Some fish story.'

WE HAVE discovered the reasonAndy Christensen is out so much.Baseball season has started. Bet Andyhasn't missed a game, especially thedouble headers at the Cubs. But whereis ]\1[1'. Hyattg

YOU CAN find Roadmaster Young atGreat Lakes every day around 12o 'clock. The reason: STRAWBERRYSHORTOAKE.

'fHERE IS a rumor that Mr.Kramer's secret ambition is to beMayor of Berryville. ISH't one Mayorin the Engineering Department enough?

WHERE IS the Chief Clerk f Timefor sweet rolls and coffee.

C. B. WILLISON reports the fingeris growing nicely. In about 35 yearsit will be as good as the 01r1 011P

i,J'JJ'.lJ -,u~:r J:'VH:lVN ~ \ The RoadDepartment is manufacturing a newbrand. Guaranteed to kill all kinds ofweeds, cattle and insects.

V. McFARLAND is the new costclerk. Glad to have him work in om;department. But, did W. LinstrothHeed an assistant t

Office No. 1

WEHicks.

EXTEND our sympathy Mr.Sorry the widow has left for

MILWAUKEE SAFETY MEETING

Above picture shows the audience atthe monthly Milwaukee safety meeting.A story of the meeting, which was ad-dressed by Mr. Arnold and Mr. Simons,among others, was given in the HIGH-BALL last issue. The band at the rightplayed at the meeting, donating theirservices through the instigation of anemploye who is a member.

4California, but you should have steppedon it. Who will drive the Studebakernow j

OUR SAFE'fY ENGINEER has anew suit-dark brown to match hiseyes. Don't rush girls he's married.

,VANTED-One pair of non-skids.Dot cannot get her footing when play-ing Volley 'Ball. Ask Harold Duffy YES, IT'S true, Ma,dolYll Zook hasabout it. had her hair bobbed ~, Almost had to

WE ARE worricd about K. C. Grant. get the first aid team to work on someSince she has had that wild ride, she of the girls the first morning she camewill not come down to earth. Sh·h·h, to work with it bobbed It was such athere is another side to the story. shock some of them nearly passed out.

YES, 'rEG has taken Dot's advice But it's very becoming and Madolynand when she goes rid iug with" him': likes it too. Oh yes, he likes it veryshe insists that he does not drive more much!than 71 miles an hour. Under the cir- IT WAS almost as much of a shockcumstances, we don't blame her, but when Gertrude' Stehle got her hairare merely jealous. shingled. Gertrude has just returned

LOST! One boss, small but mighty- from her vacation. Says she had a goodsomewhere between New York, Spring- time staying home.

- field, Washington, Niles Center, Chicago WE HAVE A Hew girl in om office.and General Offices at Highwood. Fin- She hails from Des Moines, Iowa, butdel's please return to worried employes is now living in Evanston, She's sureof the office of Assistant to the Presi- a peach! Ain't, it so, Kenneth 9 Herdent. name is Dorothy Lalm.

THE LA'fEST in the Employment MR. COATSWORTH insists that-Office-" No afternoons off." Ruth some of the' girls in this office areSeiler took the afternoon off and got "Rowdies" just because they tried tomarried. Sony to see you leave, Ruth, break into Helen Berkdahl McOmber'sbut then they will do it, and we're new home before Helen got there. Theyhere to wish you all kinds of good luck. succeeded in getting in however, with-

PLEASE GO easy, Doru, another out his help.shock will kill us. TIlE L. A. L'. CLUB in this office are

YES, WE have a new stenographer going to see "Artisfs and Models" onin the 'Employment Department. Her Friday, June 27th. They sure picked aname is Marie Drobnic from ViT aukegan good show, but they didn't ask any menand she is a "non· bob. " Miracles will to go along.happen. , PRED W,<~GNER is leaving this de-

-----~£tnlent 'to lrakc his bTot:ilt;Y:s--pi-a;-C"e-l~·"T" . ...;.._..,:n.;.;.,.- ",W.~..ie-.i'·{l'lc:n"f)iI f.,i~!~£lc.: ~~ ~,.

the Ticket Accounting Department, We something sacred and not- to be con-certainly hate to see him go, but wish fused with the ordinary things in life.his success in his new position. Consequently, it was not difficult for

ERWIN RAATZ has been transferred him to win the affections of those hefrom the storehouse to this office to called friends.take the position vacated by F'rcd 'i/ifag- His character stood on a foundationnero We're glad to have him with us, of truth, integrity and loyalty and 1'0-

and we trust he'll like his new job. gardless of how heavy the burden ofhis life became at times he was neverfalse to his ideals. His motto was th eaxiom, "Be true to thyself, and it fol-lows as the night the day, thou cans't----not then be false to anyone."

Mechanical

HAROLD DUFFY has been seencalling at the Mayor 'shouse in High-land Pal'k VOI'Y near overy evening.It seems kind of queer to us that he al-ways enters in the rear door. Could itbe possible that he is calling on theMayor's cook instead of his daughter.

THE QUESTION that has- now ar-isenat the Highwood Office is: Does Ed.Gurney live in Highland Pmk orWaukegan. The majority say he goesto Waukegan very near every night, soit must be Waukegan. It's a prettygood town, eh, Ed ~ For some people.We wonder what the attraction is.There must be a woman in the case.

KENNETH OWENS is going with ablonde f'rom Wa ukegan, and he is ever-lasting talking about her. To hear himtalk it won't be long beforc he willjump off with the rest of them and getmarried. LET US KNOW, KENNETHWHEN?

Ticket Accounting

WE WONDER when the girl who hasbeen talking so much about getting adiamond is going to get it. IVe wishhe woul dJuu-i-y and give it to hOT so wecan add her name to the rest of thenames of girls who have diamonds, Youknow, we can't always believe what wehear». ,Ve must see.

NICK thought he had a .good hidingplace in the vault up until Mary Mac-

THE HIGHBALLCarthy walked in there after somethingand to her surpri sc found him trimminghis corns. Better find a new place totrim yOUI' corns, Nick.

-Purchases and Supplies

Auditing

HATTIE BOEHM has sent in a serv-ice slip suggesting that all companymice be muzzled. We have a few petevening visitors occasionally and Hat-tie genel'ally climbs on the highest deskat such times to practice vocal training.

LRE ABEGG bought a new rain coatthe other day after he got soaked in acloud-burst. And now· it "Ain'tgonna ra.in 110 11101'e."

WE HAVE a new bookkeeper withus. His name is Christy' Hamlink andhe is from Kenosha. Come in and gIvehim the glad hand.

O. E. FOLDV ARY has made a dis-tinct improvement in his golf lately.He has cut down his non- dictionaryvocabularly about 5.0 per cent. That'splaying the game. ~

REMEMBER OUR old North ShoreFillies favorite-Marion Fisher9 Well,she's coming back to the Auditing De-partment. She has been away at col-lege since we last saw her.

RALPH STRAND, the blonde sheik,who recently came to the cost divisionof the Auditing Department, has been

transferred to the Chicago North' Shore& Northern Railroad.

HAROLD MASON is back on theLine again. He takes the place vacatedby Ralph Strand in the Cost Division.

JAMES DUFFY will henceforthgrace the corner formerly occupied byPaul Meade. James will be a worthysuccessor and will continue the cheerfulatmosphere that has graced this cornerfor so long.

GEORGE IWHNOW comes to theCost Division to replace James Duffy,who was trunsf'errcd as timekeeper.George also comes from that wickedcity, Kenosha.

.Ifn ;ifltetrioriamBy 0, E. Foldvary

On Tuesday morning, June 10, 1924,Paul Meade passed into his last longsleep, and how welcome was this restafter a week of pain and suffering fromthe ravages of pneumonia. Althoughhis passing brought S01'1'OWto all whoknow him, his death leaves a memoryof sweetest recollections.

The unusually wide-spread extent andsincerity of the sympathetic reactioncaused among his fellow employes onthe North Shore Line is a natural resultof a well spent life, conceived in highideals and dedicated to noble purposesof kindliness and considera tion forothers.

Will Scorn Healt~ Bankrupt

Going into health bankruptcy willsome day be judged with the same se-verity as taking advantage of the bank-ruptcy laws in finance. So says Dr.Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Le-land Stanford University and of theAmerican Medical Associatinn,

"A servant of humanity has no rightto be physically unable to perform hisduties," Dr. Wilbur declares. "Theparamount importance of health for'the adequate discharge of public andprivate duties can escape no one.

"It is probable that in a reformedpublic opinion of the future a break-down in health, when obviously causedby excess or imprudence, or culpableignorance, will be regarded as a speciesof bankruptcy and will be severelyjudged.' ,