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William Waller Mansion

William Waller House, Palette and Chisel Club
Life Span: 1876-Present
Location: 1012 North Dearborn street
Architect:

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1876

Waller William

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1877
Waller William 11, 41 Clark, h. 336 Dearborn

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1884

Chicago Tribune, August 22, 1875

The Young People’s Clab was given a party Friday evening by a downtown member, at the house of Mr. Wiliam Waller, on North Dearborn street. As is usual ar their meetings, the young folks got some hearty enjoyment.

Chicago Tribune, March 28, 1880

There died Friday night William Waller, Esq., at his residence,No. 336 Dearborn avenue, in this city. Mr. Waller was an old and highly esteemed citizen of Chicago, and leaves a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn his departure. The funeral services will be held at his late residence at half-past 2 o’clock p. m. to-day.

Chicago Tribune, June 5, 1921

PALETTE AND CHISEL CLUB NOW PART OF NORTH SIDE COLONY
By Eleanor Jewett.
Unless organizations are called to mind purposely from time to time one is apt to forget them. There are so many new things springing up, and no many old things dying out, from day to day, that unless those things which are permanent—here today and equally here tomorrow, as they were yesterday—are designedly, at stated intervals, lifted from the shade of their permanence, brushed off a bit with memory’s touch, and placed in the limelight afresh, they might almost as well be with the dust of Caesars, buried a thousand years.

Therefore, lest we neglect an organization that has stood for a great deal during the past twenty-five years, and that la trying to make itself more valuable in the present, it is time that here and now we mention the Palette and Chisel club again. The club was started in 1895, and there were eight charter members. The membership grew with the years. From the eight it grew to thirty-five, then to 100, and now it is 400. Study classes in the studio and in the country are held for the benefit of the artist members. As many as ten of the members were studying in Europe at the same time.

The new town quarters of the Palette and Chisel club and their summer camp on Fox lake. Both places would be improved in appearance by shrubs. Will a volunteer gardener come forward to teach thess artists how to make a beautiful landscape outside of a canvas field?

Some of the original entertainments at the club, given during the past years, are amusing to recall. “Il Janitore,” by George Ade, afterward became known ta ” The Sultan of Sulu.” At the time when the newspapers were bringing influence to bear upon the Illinois Central to get them to electrify the roads into Chicago, the club produced a burlesque, “The Hog In Chicago’s Front Yard.” It might well be given again now. The electrification of the road is as much needed today as ev??.

“Carmine,” a take oft on the opera “Carmen,” was a marvelous production. “The Shredded Vast” was a huge comedy success. “Le Cabaret du Howard Pourri” was another famous bit of humor and sarcasm.

Aside from these amateur theatricals, the club indulges in more serious efforts, and has done so in a pleasant and worthwhile way. Annual exhibitions of paintings by the members have been held during the winters; December usually sees a sketch show: other interesting exhibits deal with commercial art, one-man shows, and exhibitions outside of the clubrooms, some given in the Art Institute galleries and others in various art galleries.

The club magazine is cleverly titled “The Cowbell.” The name was developed from the huge cowbell with which the noisy meetings were called to order in bygone, halcyon days by the president. It was published for three years and had a circulation of one thousand. The war put a quietus upon this effort, but the magazine is to be resumed.

Perhaps the most startling innovation of the club in recent days is its removal this spring from its old quarters in the Athenaeum building to the huge residence purchased by tho members at 1012 North Dearborn street. There are a number of other artist colonies, or fragments of colonies, in this neighborhood, and more than probably a few years’ time will see a Chicago Greenwich village spring from the nucleus of the Palette and Chisel club’s endeavor, like Minerva full panoplied from the brow of an aristocratic Jove.

The new building will provide for a studio and exhibition gallery, an etching room, a lounge, billiard room, grill, library, and reception rooms, as well a sleeping quarters for distinguished visitors. It will be as complete a thing of its kind an any city can boast. With all its new comfort, none of the mellow flavor of friendly companionship, so warmly felt in the old rooms, will be missed here. The dignity of the city house façade will not penetrate to the more or less Bohemian rooms within.

Some of the past and present members of the Palette and Chisel club who have attained distinction are: Leroy Baldrige, staff artist Stars and Stripes, author of “I Was There”; Gustave Baumann, gold medal, Panama-Pacific exposition, 1915; Clare Briggs, cartoonist; John H. Carlsen, Palette and Chisel club associate members’ prize, 1916, Palette and Chisel club medal, 1918; Frank V. Dudley. Butler prize 1916, Logan medal 1920; Walter Dean Goldbeck, Cahn honorable mention, 1911; L. O. Griffith, medal Panama-Pacific exposition 1915, Palette and Chisel club medal 1921; Martin E. Hennings, Pallette and Chisel club gold medal 1916, Englewood Woman’s club prize 1916; Victor Higgins, Palette and Chisel club medal 1914, Municipal Art league 1915, Logan medal 1917, Altman N. A. D. 1918; Edward Holslag, mural decorations, library of congress, member National Society of Mural Painters; Wilson Irvine, silver medal Panama-Pacific exposition 1915, Palette and Chisel club prize 1916, Chicago Society of Artists 1916, Grower prize 1917; Carl Kraft, Municipal Art league 1916, Artists’ Guild 1916-17; Ossip Linde, honorable mention Paris salon 1907, medal Paris salon 1910; Arvid Nyholm, Municipal Art league prize 1915, A. I. C. prize 1915; Edgar Payne, Palette and Chisel gold medal 1913, gold medal Sacramento fair 1918; Albin Polasek, Prix de Rome 1910-13, honorable mention Paris salon 1913, Logan medal 1917: Eugene Savage, Prix de Rome 1912-18; Walter Ufer, Logan medal 1917, Clark prize N. A. D. 1918; Ezra Winter. Prix de Rome 1911-14.

During the summer months the club maintains a place at Fox Lake for outdoor painting. The ” Summer Camp,” as it is called, is the property of the club and comprises a clubhouse of suflicient size to accommodate sev-entry-five persons. It occupies a sito adjacent to the lake.

The officers for this year are David L. Adam, president; Glen C. Sheffor, vice president; Fred T. Larson, treas urer; and C. Lynn Coy, secretary. Among the members of the club are Ralph Pearson, Walter M. Clute, J. Jeffrey Grant, Otto Hake, Alfred Jans-son, F. X. Leyendecker, Lawrence Mazzanovich, Karl Ouren, Sigurd Schou, Oswold Cooper, and Charles J. Mulligan.

The mention of the summer painting camp for members of the Palette and Chisel club brings to the fore thoughts of the plans for the summer courses at the Art Institute school. The school has decided to extend ite time of summer teaching, and courses have been arranged for a complete term of ten weeks, beginning July 5 and ending Sept. 10. The six week term closes Aug. 13; the eight week term closes Aug. 27. Special classes for normal students Instructed by leaders in the field of art instruction will be held the first three weeks of the term in the afternoons.

Pedro J. Lemos, editor of the School Arts magazine, will demonstrate colored cement craft. Lectures will be given by Hugo B. Froelich on high school design as applied to printing, by Miss Florence Fitch on ” School Management and Supervision,” and by Walter Sargent on “Art in High Schools.” Classes in out of door painting will be held, taught by Willlam Weish, and there will be varlous other classes in life, Jewelry, battk, tie and die, and gesso. There will also be morning classes for children.

Farewell to the Fair

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Chicago Tribune, November 2, 1893

No one could have visited Jackson Park: yesterday without being foreibly reminded that the Exposition had closed. Gone were the trooping crowds of visitors, silent were the band stands, invisible were the electric launches and gondolas, and dusty and dirty were the highways. Railroad tracks defaced the plaza and long processions of prosnie trucks passed to and fro loaded with cases or exhibits. If one entered the great exhibit buildings his first impressions were only deepened that the Exposition was a thing of the past.

The work of tearing down and packing up exhibits in all the Exposition buildings was commenced in earnest. A lot of teams started at an early hour delivering boxes and by night a great many of the packing cases had been filled, nailed, labeled, and placed in readiness to beloaded on the cars. The work of laying down tracks along the south ends of Mining and Electricity Buildings was pushed forward at a great rate. When the men quit work last evening they had ties placed in position almost to the lagoon bridge and the rails spiked on them half way across the distance.

Babel of Sounds in the Buildings.
Sounds echoed through all the big edifices. The crack of hammers, the rip of saws, the crash of lumber, and the hum of voices were everywhere present. It is now a repetition of the noisy scenes witnessed just prior to the opening of the Fair. Wagons loaded with empty cases go flying about the grounds in all directions. The Columbian Guards are full of important business. A few thousand visitors go about trying to see what they can before everything, is dismantled. Only a score of the are lights burned last night.

In the Transportation Building hundreds of workmen were actively engaged in the labor of stripping engines and ears, taking apart machines, moving out vehicles. taking down boat models, and bundling up bicycles. A part of the transfer table was ready for operation. The railings around exhibits have nearly all disappeared and some of the handsome pavilions have been taken down. The Frenchmen are getting their four engines and one car in shape to be made into train and sent away to New York. They expect to leave with them not later than Nov. 15. In order to take the engines and car, in one train it is necessary to put American buffers on them, and this is what the workmen were doing yesterday. The Pullman train is to be taken on an exhibition tour through the Southwest, Mexico, California, and the Northwest. It will probably reach California during the Midwinter Fair.

Hardly anything that looks like an exhibit has been left standing in the fruit and floral departments of Horticultural Hall.The shelves containing products of the orchard and vineyards are bare. The orange tower was cleaned off yesterday. The wine exhibiters are packing as fast as they can, and the flowers and plants are being carted away by dozens of teams. Nearly. all the exhibits of produce and plants in the Horticultural Building were sold to Chicago buyers and there will be little left to ship away.

Begging and Stealing Decorations.
The public was not excluded from the Agricultural Building yesterday and the small boy and decorative young lady created sad havoc with the decorations of grains and fruits. Wherever a handful of wheat or oats could be reached there were a dozen people to beg or steal. The floor was strewn with straw and débris, although little was done toward moving the exhibits proper. In fact the removal of some of the decorations only brought out in strong relief the beauties of others that might have been overlooked. Some of the exhibits are awaiting purchasers while others have already been disposed of. The exhibit of Wisconsin will be sent to the Agricultural College at Madison, and that of Minnesota to the State Experimental Farm at Hamline. The Michigan exhibit has been donated to the State Agricultural College at Lansing and the New York exhibit to the Agricultural Museum at Albany. Iowa and Pennsylvania are anxious to sell a portion of their exhibits. North Carolina has packers at work and the exhibit is consigned to the State Museum at Raleigh. The Florida exhibit is to be shipped to an exhibition to be held at Augusta, Ga., Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, and from there will be forwarded to the offices of the associated railway lines at Sanford.

Chief Buchanan says it will be two or three months before he can commence the preparation of his reports. In his sub-chiefs and assistants he has a particularly happy family. Yesterday they stopped work long enough to have their pictures taken in a group.

In the Forestry Building, also presided over by Chief Buchanan, there are preparations for removing exhibits. The temporary tracks on the east side of the building were never taken up and they will soon be connected with the main lines. Chief Buchanan said yesterday:

The forestry exhibit is one of the most attractive on the grounds. There is not an exhibiter in the building who has not had from one to fifty offers from museums or individuals to purchase his collection entire. It is hoped that many of the exhibits will be donated to the Chicago Columbian Museum, and they will be if the organization is perfected within a reasonable time.

Banquet Hall Deserted.
The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building may be regarded as the heart of the Exposition, and will, of course, be the last part to die. But it looked yesterday very much like a banquet hall deserted. There were no crowds, no music, no gayety, but a plenty of resounding noise. Hammer and saw were getting in their work and making sad havoc in some parts of the building. The demolition, however, was confined to the United States section. As to the foreign sections the formalities of the Treasury Department forbid any immediate stampede. The consequence is that, to a person who had not previously visited the Exposition, there was about as much to be seen as ever. The greatest deficiency was the absence of the crowd.

The Electricity Building presented a more desolate appearance. It was always dependent largely on its machinery for its attractions, and the machinery was still. Few visitors wandered along its aisles, and, instead of bands of music, one heard nothing but a roar of hammering and sawing. Everybody was intent on getting away at once. So it was at the Mines and Mining Building, except that the exhibits, being mostly of a massive character, had not, to any visible extent, been disturbed. Everywhere, however, the work of preparation is going forward with immense energy, and when the tracks are laid the disappearance will be magical.

Litter in the Back Yard.
At the south end of the grounds the roadways have remained unsprinkled since Sunday and scraps of paper and remnants of lunch-boxes litter every passageway. In the Shoe and Leather and Anthropological Buildings boxes and crates are being taken in, but no exhibits worth mentioning have yet been removed. At the cliff dwellers’ exhibit the packing of the curios commenced Monday. The structure will be razed to the ground before Dec. 1 and the exhibits will be shipped to Minneapolis and stored in a bonded warehouse. At the Krupp gun pavilion the public is rigidly excluded. Grimy workmen within are stolidly shoveling away sand and slowly uncovering the railway tracks lying under the big guns. On every doorway in both English and German appears the inscription, “No Workmen Wanted.” Contrary to current report at one time the great 120-ton Krupp gun will not remain in this country. It was thought it would be cheaper to present it to the City of Chicago than to pay for its reshipment, but the present intention is to ship it back to the works of Herr Krupp at Essen.

The model workingman’s home, supposed to cost $1,000 and exhibited by the State of New York, has been purchased by E. Soper for $325. Mr. Soper is one of the proprietors of the Big Tree Restaurant near by and he will use the house for a family residence during the winter.

The wind-mills south of the French Bakery are being dismantled and the French Bakery and White Horse Inn, except the bar in the latter, are both closed.

All the live stock has been removed from the barns south of the Stock Pavilion and the structures, thirty-two in number, are soon to be sold to the highest bidder. It is claimed that the material and construction cost $108,000.

Mr. Graham, who has been appointed Director of Works to succeed Mr. Burnham, said yesterday he did not know when the work of demolishing the buildings would begin. He thought the first struetures to go would be on the Midway, then the foreign buildings and the State buildings, the large structures being the last. Today tracks will be laid from the Transportation Building north to the California Building and before Saturday they will be extended along the avenue among the State buildings to the lake-front. Tracks are pushing up from the south to the Krupp gun-house, the Agricultural Building, and the Shoe and Leather Building.

Court of Honor Unlighted.
Last night, for the first time since the Exposition opened, the Court of Honor was dark. There was no light anywhere except from several hundred are lamps seattered about the grounds as patrol lights. Manufactures Building was open yesterday and a great throng of purchasers was busy securing what were believed to be bargains. The bargain-hunter just discovered yesterday that nearly everything in the building was for sale. Hundreds of them went out of the gates loaded with bundles. One man declared he had secured $50 in value for $10 outlay and said he was coming back again today. The attendance at the grounds yesterday was small, but there was much to be seen. The impression has gone out that visitors are discouraged from entering the grounds. This is erroneous.

Chicago Tribune, November 16, 1893

World’s Fair Notes.
The Ferris wheel cars have been provided with oil stoves. The wheel is bound to run until Jan. 4. The paid admissions to the World’s Fair yesterday were as follows: Whole tickets, 1,395; half tickets, 16; total, 1,411.

The Puck Building has been sold to a wrecker for $200, but its smaller neighbor, the White Star Line Building, gets no offers.

Of the thirty-nine United States army officers that were connected with the Columbian Guard Nov. 1 all but fourteen have returned to their army positions and duties.

The Viking ship is at Grafton. On account of low water in the Mississippi it cannot go up the river, as Capt. Anderson intended, to St. Paul. It is to proceed south to St. Louis probably today.

There was an auction sale of furniture yesterday at the Illinois Building. The goods brought over 50 per cent. of their original cost. Dec. 28 the remaining furniture will be sold at auction. The sealed bids for the building will be opened and the building knocked off to the highest bidder.

Chicago Tribune, November 20, 1893

Demolition in the Midway—Ruins of Old Vienna in the Foreground.

Jackson Park is today the wreck of a dream. It is a deserted city. While all of the beautiful buildings are there the most of them are as the shells of spirits that are gone Yellow dust, scraps of paper, and dead leaves are everywhere around the grounds, while inside the buildings several thousand men with great rapidity tearing out the exhibits, folding up the decorations, and generally dismantling the interior. All of the exhibits will probably not be removed before Jan. 1, but within four weeks there will be little left. Heavy machinery and foreign exhibits go out the most slowly because of the difficulty handling and customs regulations. Visitors to the park will recognize that while all the structures are there the life of the place is gone out. The movement of the people, the means of transportations, the decorations, and all features of that character are wanting.

The Court of Honor has been one of the first features to suffer. The flower pots which adorned the balustrades have been torn away. Two railroad tracks run along the façades of the Mines, the Electricity, and the Manufactures Buildings. Steam cranes and locomotives are on these tracks constantly, and engine bells are clanging the most of the time. One of the electric fountains has been torn up and there remains nothing but a pile of staff and a hole in the ground. The Macmonnies fountain ceased playing early in the week, but it has not as yet been touched. The statuary about the grand basin gives a small exhibition of life, for it has recently been painted a glistening white. On the west side of the Administration Building the Liberty bell still stands, but with its tongue tied.

There is but one official flag floating on the World’a Fair buildings. That one flaps over the office of the Director-General. The thousand others have seen pulled down and stored away. They will be sold shortly.

Frost Strips the Trees.
The lagoons are tenantless and seldom are the smooth waters disturbed. The ducks and wild geese have been taken and sold. November frosts have stripped the shrubbery and small trees on the Wooded Island, and the same dead appearance has seized the plants which lined the edges of the waterways.

Transportation about the grounds is a thing of the past. The electric launches hare been housed and the most of them sold. The gondolas quit doing business some time ago and have been huddled together under bridges. Intramural trains are all off, and the stations, along the route have been taken down. The destruction of the road began yesterday at the north loop. The wires have been ripped from the ties. Willard & Meeker’s steam launches formed a melancholy procession a few days ago as they were towed, part of them to South Chicago and the other half north. The rolling-chair people are the last to go out of business They still maintain an office on the east side of the Manufactures Building, and a few chairs may be seen about the grounds. The movable sidewalk moves no longer, and in the southern portioon of the grounds the roads even are being torn up.

The Administration Building has begun to suffer. A force of workmen was on the dome Saturday tearing off the lines which supplied the electric lights. Some of the offices inside the building have been closed up. The telephone company has removed its public booths. The model of the Treasury Building which stood in the center of the rotunda, has had all of the silver half dollars shelled off. The bank has begun moving out and the most of the entrances are kept closed.

Wrecking Done with Method.
In the Agricultural Building there is a general wreck. The booths of corn and fancy pavilions are being torn down and probably one third of the exhibits are out. But the Exhibiters the are allowed to remove goods through but two doors, and ever night the floor is swept. It is kept sprinkled during the day. German workmen are clearing out the statuary and pretty nearly every display has been attacked. Several of the South American republics have been unable to secure releases of their goods and these stand practically as they did at the close of the Exposition. The American exhibiters are the first to get away and are making great progress. South of the Agricultural Building is much evidence of ruin. The numerous windmills which had their wheels turning all summer have been taken down. The White Horse Inn has its doors nailed up and the other restaurants are similarly deserted. The stock barns are empty and there are piles of boxes and lumber in the southwestern part of the grounds. The Cliff-Dwellers’ exhibit has been donated to the museum. Such the outer covering of tin, which resembles stone, torn away.

The Anthropological Building is not being cleaned out asrapidly as the others. The greater portion of the displays are still there. About two-thirds of the exhibits have been donated to the Columbian Museum.

Destruction has been swift in the Shoe and Leather Building. The most of the exhibits there were by Americans and they have been packed up with great dispatch. There is nothing now to be seen as an exhibit.

The Forestry Building presents a fairly good show. Probably a third of its contents have been donated to the museum. Such exhibits as have been donated are still intact.

Machinery Hall, which during the Exposition trembled with the movement of machinery, is a wreck of its former self. The big Allis engine has been taken apart almost completely. The French, German, and British exhibiters have destroyed the pleasing features of their displays, while the Americans have boxed up and removed the greater portion of the small. er displays. It will be more than a month before Mr. Robinson gets the heavy stuff out of his building.

Decorations Are All Gone.
In Manufactures Building exhibiters are getting away as fast as they can. All the decorations have been torn down, and in cases where the exhibiters could not remove their displays they have closed them up and tacked sheeting around the sides. The clocks have been taken from the big tower in the center of the building and a railroad track is being run beneath it. Tiffany’s splendid pavilion is being boxed up The Germans, Austrians, and English have a third of their goods in cases. The Japanese have done nothing towards the destruction of their pavilion, but it is curtained so as to prevent sightseeing. Some of the French displays are still unmolested. The framework of the pavilion stands, but the interior furnishings have their effect destroyed. The Russian exhibit is still open to visitors and sales are being conducted. The Swiss people, too, are still selling watches. and the Italian section is open to purchasers. The galleries have many of the educational displays remaining. Maps, drawings, cuts of public buildings, and specimens of writing by school children are still numerous. Throughout the building there is the same hammering and sawing that took place before the Exposition opened. All the brickwork at the south end of the building has been removed, and boxes are piled about the entire colonnade. The east side of the building is stocked equally with boxes, while out on the granite beach there are continual bonfires fed from the debris of the interior of the building. Hardly a third of the exhibits have been taken out.

The Electricity Building is as desolate as any on the grounds. There is scarcely anything in it of interest. The galleries have been cleared and there remains but some heavy machinery on the ground floor. The big tower, however, is still there.

In the Mines Building there is confusion and demolition. It has not taken long to remove many of the mineral displays, but the massive iron pyramids and pillars of the German exhibit will require much more time for their removal.

Trains Are Disappearing.
The Transportation Building, Chief Smith thinks, will be empty by the last of this month. Practically all American exhibiters are out now and there are acres of bare floor. The French and German locomotives have been covered over and are nearly ready to be run out. The English locomotive and train were ready to leave yesterday. The most of the American locomotives are gone. Nothing remains in its original state.

In the Horticultural Building there is nothing left of consequence, except the exhibit of foreign wines in the south end of the building. The exhibiters were delayed here on account of customs regulations. The space occupied by the different States with their fruit shows has been cleared completely. The north end of the building is practically empty and nothing remains of the flowers and plants. The miniature mountain under the dome has been stripped and the German wine cellar sold and removed to California.

Two-thirds of the exhibits are still in the Woman’s Building. Some of them are closed up and covered over, while others may be inspected. The rooms on the upper floor, which were decorated by the several States and cities, have had their furnishings taken out. There appears to be little haste to get the displays away.

The Public Comfort Building has all the furniture piled up in the middle of the floor. The Children’s Building, adjoining it, is closed.

Nothing but a “Fishy” Smell.
The Fisheries Building presents nothing of interest. The fish have been removed from the aquarium and the main portion of the building is notable chiefly for its “fishy” smell. The skeleton of the big whale is still suspended in midair. It has become the property of the Northwestern University. Mexico has not yet removed its exhibit. Russia, Japan, and the Netherlands have mostly packed up. The French and British are nearly finished. In the north annex the Pennsylvania display has been torn out and the fish have been removed from the Wisconsin exhibit. Chief Collins thinks two weeks will see everything gone.

Nearly one half of the exhibits in the Government Building have been boxed up or removed. A hole has been cut in the side of the building and the railroad ears are run in. The big guns and mortars and the small guns have been taken outside the plaza east of the building. They are there awaiting cars. The men who are packing up the displays are experts and are working rapidly. The battleship is as nearly packed up as the Government Building.

Not one-eighth of the exhibits in the Fine Arts Ruilding have been packed. The walls are still covered with pictures and the floor is still kept watered. Visitors who secure passes and are admitted to the building go about with their catalogues, seeing almost as much as when the Exposition was opened. The French have not attempted to remove their exhibit. They have sold sixty-one pictures since the Fair closed and are doing better now than they did in the summer. The United States section is nearly intact, except the loan gallery, which has been removed. Germany is packing up, but many pictures are on the wall and nearly all of the Russian paintings are to be seen. The Japanese have done scarcely anything and the Polish artists still have their pictures hanging. There has been difficulty in securing the packing boxes, and to this is due the delay. A railroad track has been laid to the west entrance and when the work does begin the paintings will go rapidly.

Restaurants Are Few in Number.
The Terminal station is the only building about which there is any actual destruction. Here the fences have been torn down to permit trains to run in from the yard. The clocks have been removed and the restaurants are out. The checking-rooms are closed and the sodawater and cigar people have vanished.

All but four of the restaurants on the grounds are closed. The German restaurant in the Manufactures Building still does a large business. The Swedish restaurant in the north end of the grounds is open and the proprietor has announced the intention of remaining all winter. The Philadelphia Café is also open. The restaurant formerly in the Kentucky Building was opened yesterday on one of the ground floors of the Administration Building. These four are the only eating-places on the grounds.

Where Sadness Lurks.
The very thought of the State buildings in the north end of the park brings in a flood of memories of trees and foliage, of green grass. of flower beds, of neatly swept walks, of throngs of excited, happy visitors, of countless joyful reunions of individuals and societies, and of scores of brilliant receptions, banquets, and balls. No watering place in the world was ever such a maze of life. enjoyment. and fashion. It is memories like these that make the present scene one of depressing sadness. Gone forever is the rushing throng of people: withered and trampled into the dirt are flowers and shrubs: bare are the trees, whose brown and shriveled leaves fly before the wind on the littered, unkempt walk. and deserted are the handsome buildings that so lately were full of music and song.

One walks up to the palatial New York Building only to find the curtains gone from the windows, no human being in sight, a lot of boxes standing on the steps, and shovelfuls of dirt being thrown from the roof to what was once the lawn. A few weeks ago it was regarded as the most brilliantly beautiful building of its size on the grounds, and now it has been advertised for sale for weeks as old lumber and nobody wants it. It has been given away and, like a bad penny, came back again.

Just east of it is the incomparable John Hancock Building, which was all the summer a museum of all that was interesting in Colonial and Revolutionary history, and the scene of many social gatherings. Its surrounding yard, inclosed by a wall covered with flowers and creeping vines, is several feet above the roadway. A few weeks ago it was all bunting and flowers without and all life and gayety within. But today it stands empty, deserted, forlorn, and mysterious. Work the old-fashioned brass knockers, front and rear, hard as you will, and you hear echoes in the deserted halls, but never a face will you see at the door. The gorgeous Massachusetts flag that waved from the lofty flagstaff in the front yard is packed away in Boston. The creepers on the wall are parched and dusty, the flowers smile not, and the grass is russet-brown. Nobody knows who is in charge of the premises or what disposition will be made of the building. The probability is that it will be sold to some wrecker for $200. The Pennsylvania Building is the same sad sort of a spectacle with the same prospects before it. As in the case of the New York Building a fruitless effort has been made to give it away, and eventually it will be turned over to the vandal wrecker.

Desolation Among the Buildings.
These sights and sentiments are to be repeated all over that part of the park occupied by the State buildings. A few of them, like the New Jersey Building, hope to be reconstructed somewhere else; a few, like the Connecticut Building, hope to leave the grounds on wheels without seeing death. But many, like the Montana Building, are looking only for the wrecker, and the rest are disconsolate because even the wrecker will not notice them. It will be a relief to the mind when they are all swept away and the space they occupy is once more taken up with grass and romping children.

The scene presented by the foreign buildings is, as a general thing, similar to that furnished by the State Buildings. That is, they wear a look of funereal gloom. The British, Canadian, German, and Brazilian Buildings still retain symptoms of life. The Commissioners and their clerical force still inhabit these buildings, and must do so for months to come. But the smaller foreign buildings seem utterly deserted except by the mechanics employed to do the packing. The ominous word “closed” is on every door, the prosaic cases are piled up in front, and dirt, confusion, and loneliness reign everywhere around.

Not one of these buildings has yet been emptied. What the obstacle is it is hard to tell in most eases. But at least half a dozen of the Central and South American countries have revolutions on their hands, or are threatened with them. As to disposing of their buildings most of the Commissioners are in despair. They have tried to sell them and tried to give them away, and both efforts were failures. Venezuela and Costa Rica are happy because their buildings belong to the contractor who erected them. So that in addition to dirt, neglect, and desertion this part of the grounds seems to have hanging over it a pall of financial and other kinds of embarrassment. It would be a relief to see all these buildings, some of which are very fine, swept away in a moment.

Plaisance Is Almost Deserted.
As for the Midway it looks like the abomination of desolation. If it had been visited first by a cyclone and then by a pestilence it could not look less like its former self. The gates are hermetically sealed against all who do not present photograph or other passes, so that no fee however large will admit anyone. Consequently the great thoroughfare 100 yards wide and a mile long looks almost as bare as a like stretch of the seashore. The few human figures visible are mostly those of Orientals. clad in gowns and turbans of all the colors of the rainbow. These interesting foreigners are reputed to be dying of cold, but they themselves indignantly scout the charge. The Hindoo jugglers, a few of the Turks, and the fifty or sixty Bedouins of the Wild East show seem determined to be the very last people to leave the glorious Midway.

As to the buildings, it is a great mistake to suppose that they are all torn down. In fact, almost all of them are untouched. Among those that be wrecker has not laid his hand on are the Irish Village, the Beauty Show, the Glass Works, Hagenbeck’s, Donegal Castle, the Java Village, the Vienna Model Bakery, the German Village, Cairo street, the Ferris wheel, and the Moorish Palace. Among those that are torn down, or partially wrecked, and rapidly disappearing from view, are the Match Building, the Electric Scenic Theater, the South Sea Island Theater, the Samoan Village, the Home Restaurant, the Swiss Alps, the Turkish Village, the Persian Palace, the ice railway, the Algerian and Tunisian Palace. the Dahomey Village, and the Old Vienna. These are enough to produce an affecting scene of departed hilarity and excitement.

Nothing could be more picturesque than the scene presented by the ruins of Old Vienna. The buildings between the court and the highway all lie in an indistinguishable heap of rubbish on the ground, as if a tornado had ground them to pieces and then churned the débris. The range of buildings south of the court still stands, but great holes have been made in the fronts, as if war had reinforced the elements and cannon balls had plowed their way through these festive halls. The occupants are all gone; and it is well for them, for they could never bear the sight. The truth is it presents a fine subject for an oil painting.

Farce of the Ferris Wheel.
The Ferris Wheel is the farcical feature that relieves the oppressive tragical impression of the Midway. It turns away ten hours in the day, with its doleful rumble and click, with a full corps of employés and nicely warmed cabs, but without a single passenger. The company claims to have a contract with the Exposition until Jan. 4, and the Exposition denies it. The Exposition closes the gates and keeps away the wheel’s patrons. and the wheel company says it will run all the same and sue the Exposition for damages. The prospect of getting any money out of the Exposition is not brilliant, but the wheel is $75,000 in arrears for percentages. So the wheel goes round day after day with empty cabs, and men of every nation stand and look at it and grin.

Away out at the west end of the Midway is the Wild East, where not only the Bedouins but their horses, donkeys, sheep, and camels still stick, as if they had found a good thing in the bracing winds of this climate, and knew enough to hang on to it. Across the way from the enclosure is the grass plant used all the summer for military camps; and here might be seen Wednesday a symbolical charade of the departed glories of the Exposition. It was a flock of camels browsing in a snow-storm. Sic transit gloria mundi,

To Clear Away Fakers’ Shanties.
Building Inspector Toolen Orders Demolition Along Stony Island Avenue.
The places that knew so many noisy fakers and freaks all summer are silent and desolate. The candy booths, lunch counters, peanut stands, and side show pavilions along Stony Island avenue are deserted and their occupants are scattered. Only the empty shanties and queer signs remain. Inspector Toolen says he proposes to commence the work of cleaning up at once. These tumbledown, unsightly structures increase the risk of destruction by fire of surrounding property. From Blarney Castle to Sixty-sixth street Stony Island avenue is strewn with a conglomerate by mass of rubbish left there by the migratory individuals who lived for six months off the cheap tattered fringe of Exposition crowds. Nearly all the vacant spaces between Stony Island avenue and the Illinois Central tracks, along cross as well as parallel streets, were occupied with shap affairs for obtaining money. As a result many wagon loads of trash in the shape of broken boxes, loose paper, tin cans, pieces of lumber, and decayed provender accumulated. Apparently very little, if any, effort was made to keep the grounds cleaned of this refuse.

Since the Fair closed those whose duty it is to look after such things have apparently been too busy attending to other matters. However, within the last week, acting under police instructions. a few of the lot owners have been scraping some of the litter into piles and burning it. But most of the board shanties and small frame buildings used for quick 25-cent-a-meal restaurant purposes, cheap lunch counters, fake jewelry shops, and candy booths are still standing. The signs and banners either hang down the sides, dirty, weather-stained rags, or lie rotten on the ground. The picture is not an interesting one. There is nothing about it calculated to give the observer any pleasant recollections. Yesterday it looked desolate and dreary. The big hotels are all empty and cheerless. Here and there in the vicinity of Sixty-fourth street entrance, the Alley “L” station, and along the south side of Sixty-third street still linger the souvenir dealer and red-hot merchant dispensing wares to workmen and Columbian Guards. The scene presented a strong contrast the Sunday afternoons away back in June, when everything was wide open, in full blast, and playing to large crowds, when the air was overloaded with loud and frightful noises. Less than a hundred poorly clad, shivering stragglers shambled about the now quiet place. North of the Park Gate Hotel is a wide stretch of vacant ground covered over with rubbish. The gutters of Stony Island avenue are choked with old papers and broken fruit crates.

But according to Building Inspector Toolen the work of cleaning up is to be commenced right away and continued until the entire district is freed of all the objectionable matter. It is understood the owners of the property will be given an opportunity to do the work, but where they fail the city will have to undertake the job.

Chicago Tribune, January 13, 1894

The owners of the Ferris Wheel are proceeding in a leisurely way to take it down. They are not afraid of its burning, and it is too heavy for the relic-thieves to carry away.

Buck & Rayner Building I

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Buck & Rayner Building I
Life Span: 1870-1871
Location: Southwest corner of Madison and State streets
Architect: TBD

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1870

Buck & Rayner

Edwards’ Annual Directory in the City of Chicago, for 1871
Buck & Rayner (George Buck and James B. Rayner), druggists, State, sw. cor. Madison and 93 Clark

Chicago Evening Post,March 13, 1868

Mr. James B. Rayner having resumed his old place at the Central Prescription Drug Store, No. 93 Clark street, we are glad to couple with the announcement a few words of welcome and commendation. Several years ago Messrs. Buck & Rayner established themselves at this now well known stand and forthwith the name of “Buck & Rayner” became as it still is a household word in Chicago. Mr. Rayner withdrew in 1865 to engage in business at New York, and now returns upon the withdrawal of Mr. Buck. But the firm name, surviving, the first change, will also, we believe, survive the second,—for all the while there remains a familiar face and a competent head to represent the establishment—Mr. Rayner has hosts of personal friends in Chicago to whom his return will be no less gratifying than it is an assurance to all the patrons of united Buck & Rayner.

Chicago Tribune, June 5, 1870

Buck & Rayner’s New Drug Store.
Chicago may not be growing so so fast this year as in some former seasons. But it is doing better—having now entered upon what may be called the finishing period, On all sides, in the business portions of the city, wide and awkward gaps are being filled, while old buildings are being either torn down or refitted, to suit modern style and convenience.

One of the most noticeable changes of this character is to be observed in the building on the southwest corner of Madison and State streets. which was formerly occupied by a tea company, for that kind of business. While this is one of the most eligible positions for business in that part of the city, until lately renovated, it has played a significant part in trade matters.

This renovation above alluded to is due entirely to those enterprising citizens, Messrs. Buck & Raynor, who have opened a new prescription drag store therein. Perhaps it would not be exaggeration to state that it has now been made one of the coziest, neatest, most elegant, and convenient places of the kind in the city. The floor is paved with the most expensive checkered tiling, and the counters composed of the finest material. The south wall is hung almost entirely with mirrors, which, with the refection of the show-cases and the countless stock of fancy goods therein, have a a most pleasing effect. A prescription and compounding room opens from the east end of the main room, which is devoted exclusively to those purposes The main room itself is fitted up and arranged in the tastiest manner, as well with regard to the convenience of customers as to please the eye. In the front part of tale room la the soda-water department, so ingeniously constructed, as to be entirely complete in itself, In this line the firm seem to make everything as desirable as possible. All the soda water, as well as the syrups used, are prepared by them from beginning to end. The soda fountain is a most costly affair, and the greatest of care is taken that the beverage sold shall come in contact with no poisonous or other-wise injurious metals.

The same attention ls paid to the mineral waters sold here. in which a specialty is also sought to be made. These waters are prepared according to the directions of the celebrated Dr. Hanbury Smith, of New York.

The dispensing department is also made as complete as possible. Messrs. Buck and Raynor have the very highest reputation in the medical profession of the city as apothecaries, a reputation which they deservedly won in keeping their old place at No. 93 South Clark street, where they began business twelve years ago.

In the way of fancy goods, toilet articles, and all the notions peculiar to a drug-store, this firm have a very find and select assortment. Their reputation tn this line is also about the best in the city.

These gentlemen have now two of the most most prominent and complete drug stores in the city, as they intend to keep their old establishment on Clark street in addition to the new one just opened on the corner of State and Madison streets. Those who take an interest in these things cannot fall to pass a pleasant hour in viewng the great improvements that have been made a their last-named new place

Chicago Tribune Building

Raymond Block

Carson, Pirie & Co.

Mayo’Jewelry Store, jewelers, 130 State, NW cor state & Madison

Chase Hanford & Co. Building

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Chase Hanford & Co. Bldg., Standard Oil Building
Life Span: 1872-~1924
Location: Wabash av. sw. cor. South Water
Architect:

Edwards’ Annual Directory to the City of Chicago, 1870-71

Chase Hanford & Co. Bldg.

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1874-75
Chase Hanford & Co. Bldg.—Wabash av. sw. cor. S. Water

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1880
Hanford P. C. & Co.—(P. C. Hanford) oils 51 and 53 South Water and 1 to 5 Wabash av.

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1885
Hanford P. C. Oil Co. P. C. Hanford, pres; S. N. Hurd, sec; 1 to 5 Wabash av.

Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1899
Standard Oil Co. Bldg.—J A Moffett 1st v pres; W P Cowan 2d v pres; G W Stahl treas 5 Wabash av. sw. cor. South Water

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1904
Standard Oil Co. Bldg.—5 Wabash av. sw. cor. South Water

Lakeside Business Directory of the City of Chicago, 1907
Standard Oil Co. Bldg.—5 Wabash av. sw. cor. South Water

Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago, 1911
Standard Oil Co. Bldg.—222 N. Wabash av. sw. cor. South Water

Chicago Evening Mail, October 8, 1872

WABASH AVENUE.
The business limits of this great thoroughfare have been extended since the fire from Madison street to Hubbard court, and even beyond that point there are business houses on the avenue, though it is probable they will vacate for more congenial quarters in the business portions of the city. On the east side of the street, we have such fine four, five and six-story buildings as the Durand Bros., Stein, Couch, Peck, High, Fuller, Lord & Smith, Thatcher, Drake, Giles, Averill, Inter-oceanic, Willard, and Hough. On the west side are the blocks known as Chase & Hanford, Doane, Jaeger, Page, Ballad, Burdick & Mead, Horner, Scammon, Ryder, Pierce, and Prussing.

Inter Ocean, December 19, 1886

AN OIL HOUSE BLAZE
A Stubborn Fire.
Flames were discovered at 4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon in the five-story and basement building at the southwest corner of South Water street and Wabash avenue. An alarm was immediately turned in by Patrick Sullivan, an employe of the P. C. Hanford Oil Company. A second alarm followed a few minutes after the first. The fire broke out on the third floor of the building, in the portion occupied by F. W. Thurston, dealer in glass and druggists’ supplies. It quickly spread to the fourth and fifth floors, which were occupied by Hanford, Hall & Co., dealers in paints, oils, and pigments. The fire also descended to the second floor, which is occupied by Robert Jeffrey & Co., tea importers, and where are also located the offices of F. W. Thurston, the Fairbank Canning Company, and A. Schubert, a cigar and tobacco agent. The first floor and basement is occupied by the P. C. Hanford Oil Company, the agents in Chicago of the Standard Oil Company.

The building owned by Hanford, Hall & Co. It has frontage on South Water street of 45 feet, and on Wabash avenue of 145 feet. The numbers on Wabash avenue run from 1 to 13. In the middle of the building. running from Wabash svenue back, is a firewall. The fire was all north of this wall, in the part of the building numbered 1, 3, and 5 Wabash avenue.

How the fire originated is unknown, but a rumor was afloat that it started from a pile of rags in the part of the third floor occupied by F. W. Thurston.

The losses are distributed about as follows: Robert Jeffrey & Co., total loss $5,000, fully covered by insurance in the London and Liverpool and Globe Insurance Company; F, W. Thureton, total loss $12,000 to $15,000, insurance unknown; P. C.

Hanford Oil Company and Hanford, Hall & Co., loss $20,000 to $25,000. fully covered by insurance in various companies; Fairbank Canning Company, loss nominal. The damage to the building was variously timated at from $5,000 to $10,000. No mineral, or other explosive oils, were kept In the building, but the stock of linseed and other heavy oils were stored in the basement, and mAy be Inore or less damaged by the vast quantities of water thrown into the building. The office of the Dupont Powder Company is directly across Wabash avenue from the scene of the fire, and a precautionary measure the small quantity of powder aud other explosives in Mock were removed to a greater distance.

It was an hour and a half from the time the alarm was elven until the fire was under control, and it was not entirely extinguished for three hours. No casualties were reported

Rand McNally Birds’ Eye Views of Chicago, 1893

⑨ The Standard Oil Building
Is at the southwest corner of Wabash Avenue and South Water Street, with frontages of 140 feet on Wabash Avenue and 40 feet on South Water Street. 65 feet high in 5 stories and basement, and brick and iron exterior. Here there are 1 passenger elevator and 2 freight elevators. The vast monopoly has its offices here, and shares its building with manufacturers’ agents and wholesale jobbers. The building, which was erected soon after the Great Fire of 1871, was remodeled in 1889.

Inter Ocean, July 12, 1894

While alone in his sleeping apartments in the Metropole Hotel yesterday morning Philander C. Hanford shot and killed himself.

Business complications are said to be the cause of the deed, Mr. Hanford was second vice president of the National Linseed Oil Company with offices in the Old Colony Building, and was supposed to have been worth several million dollars.

For two months Mr. Hanford and wife and an adult daughter have occupied apartments in the Metropole. Tuesday night Mr. Hanford slept in a room adjoining that occupied by his wife and Miss Hanford. About 9 o’clock yesterday morning the younger woman found her father unconscious in his apartments.

Hotel employes were notified and Dr. Hale was soon in the room. He found the bullet had penetrated the region of the heart, and that death had resulted from shock and hemorrhage. Neither Miss Hanford nor her mother heard the shot fired, although Mr. Hanford was heard moving in his apartments about 5:30 o’elock. It is thought he took his life shortly after this time.

Mr. Hanford’s death surprised his friends and business associates. Tuesday he was at his desk in the Old Colony Building. His associates noticed nothing unusual. Tuesday night he visited with Landlord Miller, of the Metropole, and during the day discussed plans for a sea-shore trip, on which he intended starting yesterday morning.

No Cause for the Rash Act.
His business and family life seemed happy, and, although his wife was an invalid, her condition was not alarming. The family formerly lived at 2008 Calumet avenue, and owned a richly furnished house at that umber, where Mr. Hanford had fine collection of paintings. Since last spring the residence has been closed. Mrs. Hanford was absent for some time at health resort and on her return joined her husband in the apartments in which he committed suicide the Metropole Hotel.

Years ago Mr. Hanford controlled the Hanford Oil Company, and at its head waged determined war against the Standard Oil Company, About five years ago he surrendered, and the great Rockefeller combine absorbed his business. He represented the trust in Chicago for a time, but five years ago became an officer of the National Linseed Oil Company, a position which he held at the time of his death.

Yesterday Mr. Hanford’s wealth was estimated at a million. In addition to his oil interests he owned mines in Montana and Arizona. Much of his time was devoted to private enterprises, and his associates in the Old Colony Building offices knew little of the exact condition of his affairs. It is thought possible that the depression in prices for the last year may have cost Mr. Hanford large sums of money.

The National Linseed Oil Company controls much of the trade in that product, and handles the greater part of the Western linseed mills. Alexander Euston is its president, and Thomas McCulloch its secretary.

The Inquest.
Deputy Coroner O’Brien held an inquest at the Metropole Hotel at 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon. Miss Blanche Hanford, a daughter of the deceased, was the first witness.

She testified that it had been the custom of her father to open the dining-room door at 8:30 o’clock each morning so that breakfast might be served. Yesterday morning Mr. Hanford did not appear and at 9 o’clock his daughter went to his room. As she opened the door she discovered him lying on the floor and immediately notified her mother. She also sent at once for Dr. Hale.

Miss Hanford said her father appeared to be in his usual health and spirits when he retired Tuesday night. The witness added that for some time her father had been worried over business matters, but she never saw nor heard anything in his actions or conversation that indicated that her father contemplated suicide.

Dr. Edward M. Hale, of No. 2200 Prairie avenue, testified to having been called to Room 406 in the Metropole Hotel at 9 o’clock yesterday morning. He found the deceased lying dead on the floor and near his body revolver. Blood had flowed from a wound in the left breast in the region of the heart, and also from the mouth. It was the opinion of the physician that Mr. Hanford had been dead two or three hours when found.

The jury found that the deceased came to his death from a pistol-shot wound inflicted by himself with suicidal intent.

The revolver used was of 38-caliber, the hammer being loose and requiring care in cocking it.

Chicago Tribune, October 28, 1924

Start Jewelers Building In November.
Earl A. Clemons, president of the Riverside Plaza corporation, announces that it has acquired title to the entire site for the proposed Jewelers’ building at the southwest corner of Wabash and South Water street, and that work will start about the middle of next month on the forty-two story structure.

1900-1911—Chicago’s City Directories

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Chicago’s City Directories

Chicago Tribune, July 13, 1901

The City Directory of 1901 will be ready for distribution on July 20. It will contain 606,700 names, an increase of 22,700 names over last year. This, according to Manager Henry L. Smith of the Chicago Directory company, indicates an increase in population over last year of 70,000 persons, and gives Chicago 381,425 more persons than the government census shows.

The directory publishers, in giving Chicago’s population at 2,080,000, do not place reliance in the census of 1900. The school enumeration of last year indicated a population of 2,010,000, which the directory publishers say has twice been sustalned by the result of the directory canvass.

Confident in Higher Figures.
“Continuing the method which the publishers have heretofore found reliable,” said Manager Smith, with the provision only that if the United States census of 1890 not enormously too great that of 1900 was proportionately too small, the publishers’ estimate that the population of Chicago at the present time is 2,080,000.

“For the benefit of those who believe that figures which are ‘official’ necessarily are correct, regardless of the method of their compilation, a new ratio of population, according to the United States census of 1900 (1,698,575), to directory names in that year and 1901 would indicate a present population of 1,765,000.

“The publishers have seen no reason to alter their estimate because the wide discrepancy between the figures of the directory and school census on the one hand and the population announced by the United States Census bureau on the other. The method by which the census is taken by the government has never been such as to command any great degree of confidence on the part of those familiar with the facts.”

Some of the Directory Features.
There is not change in the appearance of the directory. It commences with the same name, Christian Aaberg, clerk, Lake street, and. closes with Joseph Zy wick; instead of Michael, laborer, 144 Cleaver street.

The Johnsons dominate with 5,775 names, the Smiths coming second with 4,830. The tribe of Jones has 1,675 representatives, the Millers 2,835, the Olsens 735, and the Olsons 1,260. The Carlsons are numerous, with 1,260 to their credit. In the colors the Browns predominate, there being 2,625. The others are: Green, 630; i Black, 360; White, 1,365; Blue, 27. Only one Red—Alexander by name—is to be found, although there are plenty of persons whose name is spelled Redd.

When it comes to names that make men smile there is Frank Yell and four who are entitled to the name Hell. There is one Rubbers, while one Sorrow, five Sadd, and two Sadden appear. There are 106 Sweet, with only five Sour to counteract their influence. There are three bearing the name Tear, four entitled to be called Tough, and twenty-five. known as Crook.

The name conceded to be hardest to spell or pronounce is George Zajonczkowski, When it comes to animals all are represented from Bruin to Zebra. Nations contain their namesakes, there being eighteen known as France and twenty-six named England. Commodities have their place from Tea and Coffee to Corn and Hay, while occasionally a name like Gooddinner is found.

The directories will be placed about the city the same as last year, being leased wherever they are deposited. Nickel-in-the-slot machines will be more in use than ever..

Inter Ocean, July 11, 1903

Chicago bas grown more rapidly during tbe year just passed than during any of tbe preceding five years, according to figures based on the new city directory, which will be ready for tbe public In about ten days. Tbe alphabetical list of names is already printed. The number of names in the new directory Is approximated at 654,000. This is an increase of 28,500 over the number of names in the 1902 directory, and a greater increase than that which bas been noted in any one of the last five directories over Its predecessor. Upon this number of names the city’s population is estimated at 2,231,000.

There are peculiarities in abundance In the new book, which contains 2,180 pages of names, In all the pages of names there is only one Man. He Is an. architect. A Duke la very ordinary In this book, however, and there are Dukes and Lords in plenty, and while there Is neither Bum nor Hobo, there la one Tramp. His name is William.

“Food” for Reflection.
In this peculiar book one can find Sugar, Milk, Coffee, and Ribbon. There are also numerous Ribbons. There are Victories, but no Defeats. There is Sunshine, but no Moonshine, although there are several Moons.

In the whole list there is only one Medal and one Bore. The latter is registered as a musician, too. There is also just one Big. There are, however, three Bigger and four Biggers. There is one Miser, but no Hermit. There is Bass galore, while the Soprano and Tenor are supported only by Peter and William, respectively, who are also a plenty of Beer. Booz appears three times, and there is one Booze, but not a single Thirst.

There is Music in the book, unaccompanied by Harmony. In relation to the music it should be stated that there is not a single Alto. There is Bass galore, while the Soprano and Tenor are supported only by Peter and William, respectively, who are also, respectively, a barber and a laborer.

To the credit of the book. it should be said that, while there is Justice in large quantities, there is not in the new directory a single Injustice. Light there is, but it is unaccompanied by either Dark or Darkness.

Growing at Both Ends.
Aabel is the first name, as it is in the 1902 directory, but this year there are two of this name Instead of one. as before. The other names mentioned are stretched out through the 2.1S0 pages between Aabel and Zyzna, the last to be registered. Zyka was the last in the 1902 book, but this year there are twenty-eight additional names after Zyka.

Re, Es, and Ex are competitors for the honor of occupying the smallest space, being the shortest names recorded. The longest name? Well, really, no one knows just where or what it is, but it is unpronounceable.

Despite the fact that Henry L. Smith Is the manager of the Chicago Directory company, those of hrs name are outnumbered by the Johnsons. But the Smiths sre running a close second. There are 5,986 Johnsons, to say nothing of the Johnstons, and those of similar name, while the Smiths number 5,374.

The directory publisher’s estimate of the present population of Chicago is based on the ratio of the population in 1890 (as established by the United States census) to the number of directory names in that year, the number of names in the 1903 directory, 654,000. being the third number of an ordinary arithmetical proportion, from which is derived the population at this time.

The figures secured in the national census of 1890 are taken in preference to those of ten years later, because of the fact that it is generally recognized that the last United States census, in so far as Chicago is concerned, was not authentic.

Chicago Tribune, July, 21, 1904

NEW CITY DIRECTORY IS OUT.
Chicago’s Population Is Given as 2,241,000, an Increase of 10,000 Over Last Year.
The new city directory for Chicago was given to the public yesterday. Based on the number of names it gives Chicago a population for 1904 of 2,241,000. This figure is arrived at by computing upon the census of 1890.

If the census of 1900 is assumed as a basis upon which to estimate the present population, as determined by the ratio of directory names in 1904 in comparison with those of 1900, the present population is 1,910,700. The directory of 1903 gave Chicago an estimated population of 2,231,000.

The new directory contains 657,000 names, an increase of 3,000 over the directory of 1903. The relatively small increase is accounted for by the fact that “greater care than ever before has been taken in this year’s canvass to exclude the names of unmarried women not in business, and therefore best represented by the names of heads of families.” Last year’s directory had 654,000 names. The 1904 book contains 2,823 pages, or twenty-one more than last year’s directory.

Chicago Tribune, November 14, 1907

Classifies Business Concerns.
The twenty-seventh annual volume of the “Lakeside Business Directory” was issued yesterday by the Chicago Directory company. The book gives a complete list of all the business concerns in Chicago and its suburbs, classified alphabetically and according to lines of trade. It numbers 1,752 pages.

Chicago Tribune, May 2, 1909

OLD STREET NUMBERS KEPT.
Changes Adopted by City Council Will Be Given Merely in “Annex” to New City Directory.
The 1900 City Directors will not contain the changes in street numbers recently adopted by the city council and postoffice department. An “annex” to each directory. however, will contain a complete comparison of the new numbers with the old.

Unfamiliarity of the public with the new names and numbers led the publishers to adopt this course as most satisfactory to the public, but the new street numbers will be used in next year’s directory.

Collecting names for the new directory will be begun tomorrow by a force of 500 agents. The book will be issued Sept. 1.

Chicago Tribune, August 25, 1909

If you are a frequent user of the city directory of Chicago you had better take a course in cross indexing within the next two or three days. The new directory, nearly 300 pages larger than that of last year, will be ready for distribution Friday.

Nearly 200 pages will be devoted to a supplement made necessary by the change in residence numbers which will become effective on Sept. 1.

The supplement is a unique feature gf the volume. In it the streets of the city are list-
ed alphabetically and under the street name in opposite columns marked odd and even numbers are the old residence numbers and the new. The order of the city council for a change in house numbering went into effect after the work of compiling the new directory was well along.

To do the work all over again would have delayed the issue of the volume until New Year’s, and it was decided to compile it on the basis of the old house numbering and to add a supplement showing the changes in street divisions and numbers.

Must Use Supplement.
“There may be considerable difficulty in people using the new directory until they become accustomed to the new street divisions and number.” said Manager E. J. Dillon yesterday. “But the supplement has been compiled carefully and verified from the data of the city water bureau and the map department. As soon as people learn to use the supplement there should be little trouble, for the new volume is more carefully compiled and far better in general than ever before”

The total number of names in the directory is 765,600, an increase over 1908 of 10,500 names The estimate of Chicago’s population, based on the United States census of 1900, is 2,462,600 This estimate records the increase in Chicago population within the last year as 37,600 people.

Humorous features in the matter of names appear. The first name to appear is Aaberg, Christopher, and the last name is Zyzik, Mrs Josephine. The name of Johnson easily leads all others in point of numbers It is repeated 7,056 times. and its nearest competitor is the Smith family, with 5,153 members The longest name in the directory is—take a long breath for a running start—Michael Christophilopanagiotopulos, 182 North Peoria street.

Birds, Beasts, and Fish.
In the new volume the three kingdoms of the world are fitly represented. In the animal branch, as compiled by Manager Dillon there are 407 Foxes, 666 Wolfs, 27 Bears, 40 Coons, 8 Sables, 30 Badgers, 16 Beavers, and one or more representatives of other families.

Now for the birds. There are 208 Cranes, 84 Crows, 122 Birds, 29 Eagles, 57 Peacocks, and 34 Partridges. Among the insect division there are 6 Bees, 4 Beetles, 1 Bug, and 4 Gnats.

Supporters of local option may take hope in the liquor division. There are 36 Sherrys, 7 Beers, 1 Ales. 2 Champagnes, 12 Seltzers. 3 Wines, 15 Ports, and 2 Clarets. But there is only 1 Water and 91 Waters. There are 50 Brewers, 311 Steins, 2 Gallons, 4 Pints, 80 Glasses, and 2 Goblets.

And there are names denoting many kinds of trees, flowers, and fruits. There are names of royalty, such as king, Prince, etc. There are “jewels” of names and the whole gamut of grains. In fact, there is a name for about every object you every heard of in Chicago’s new directory, and that name betokens a resident.

Chicago Tribune, August 26, 1911

That Chicago is rapidly approaching the three million population mark and will reach it before the next federal census in 1920 is indicated by the city directory for 1911-12, advance copies of which will be issued by the Chicago Directory company on Monday.
An increase of 78,001 over the federal census figures of 2,185,283 is shown.

Taking for a numerical basis the multiple figure of 2.74, which is the ratio of names in the official census figures to those in the city directory, this statement of increase is conservative.

Tabulated Pages Total 1,804.
An addenda of 28,550 names to the directory lists has been made, and the new publication will contain 1,804 pages of tabulated matter. The Chicago directory is three times as large as that of New York. According to E. J. Dillon, manager of the Chicago Directory company, the new city directory will stand as a publication perfect in every detail. Nearly 3,000 men have devoted their entire effort to the work for the last year, and every possible check has been kept upon the tabulation of names and figures to avoid mistakes.

First Directory in 1844.
Comparison of the new directory with the first one published in Chicago, in 1844, provides an interesting sidelight on the growth of the city. The first one was compiled by J. W. Norris and published by Ellis and Fergus, job printers. It was a small handbook, containing 1,620 names. The city was described as “a thriving village of 7,000 in-habitants.”