LP 269 OPTIONAL ORTUNiTieS IN CHICAGO I EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN CHICAGO A SUMMARY PREPARED BY THE COUNCIL FOR LIBRARY AND MUSEUM EXTENSION CHICAGO, JUNE 1911 v^ mr^ ,8^wv (^ruA'Wv ^^^^^ FOREWORD In the fall of 19 lo representatives from a number of the larger educational agencies of the city of Chicago met with rep- resentatives of the Chicago Association of Commerce to devise means of increasing the efficiency of the educational work in the city. It was recognized that in the city of Chicago there are many libraries, museums, colleges, and other institutions of learning founded for the use of the people, which might considerably enlarge the utility of their public service. To develop these opportunities a central board was established, known as The Council for Library and Museum Extension. The institutions now composing the Council are: The Board of Education The Chicago Historical The Art Institute Society The Chicago Public Library The South Park Commission The John Crerar Library Lewis Institute The Field Museum of Natural The City Club History The Women's City Club The Chicago Academy of The Chicago School of Civics Sciences and Philanthropy The University of Chicago Hull House Northwestern University Abraham Lincoln Centre The work of the Council is outlined along two lines: publicity and co-ordination. Firstly, it is realized that the educational activities of the city must be called to the atten- tion of the public more clearly. A centrally directed cam- paign of publicity has been planned to arouse the interest of the public in the educational opportunities freely offered at its very doors. The second task proposed lies in the co- ordination of the educational work of the city. It is believed that some work is unnecessarily duplicated; that many fields, worthy of attention, remain undeveloped, and that certain lines of work can be generally increased in efficiency. A general supervisory body is needed to conserve the city's 3 educational energy and to give to it direction into tn j channels of greatest opportunity and most pressing need. It is hoped that the Council may develop into such a federation of the city's educational forces. This booklet is the first published result of the work of the Council and is intended to give publicity to Chicago's educa- tional system. It has been expressed as an attempt "to take stock" of Chicago's educational resources. The Association of Commerce has lent its support liberally to this venture. The attempt has been made especially to catalogue educa- tional opportunities which are available to the public without pursuing an extended course of study: in other words, oppor- tunities for self-culture that may be realized by the bread- winners of the city. Inquiries should be addressed to the President or Sec- retary of the Council for Library and Museum Extension. N. H. Carpenter, President The Art Institute A. G. S. JosEPHSON, Secretary The John Crerar Library The Editorial Committee: George H. Mead, Chairman The University of Chicago Oliver C. Farrington The Field Museum of Natural History Henry E. Legler The Chicago Public Library Carl O. Sauer, Secretary CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS President Board of Education: J. B. McFatrich Superintendent: Mrs. Ella Flagg Young" (A list of the public schools, with location, may be found in the Chicago City Directory, p. i8.) There are i8 high schools, 272 elementary schools, a teachers' college for training of teachers, and several schools for special purposes. The membership for March, 191 1, was as follows: Teachers' College 588 High Schools 1 7,336 Elementary Schools 222,006 Kindergartens 11,513 Miscellaneous classes and special schools 694 Total 252,137 teachers' college The Chicago Teachers' College, located at Sixty-eighth Street and Stewart Avenue, and three elementary schools, used as practice schools, together constitute the Chicago Normal School, for the training of teachers. There are courses of two years each for the training of regular elementary teachers, kindergarten teachers, and teachers of manual training. There are also special courses for training of teachers of the deaf, of cooking, and of sewing. Graduates are granted certificates to teach in the public schools of Chicago. HIGH SCHOOLS Courses of study. — The general four-year high-school courses of study are so arranged that the students may pre- pare for entrance to colleges and universities, for entrance to the Chicago Teachers' College, for entrance to the higher 5 technical schools, medical colleges, and law schools. The technical high-school four-year courses fit the students for entrance to engineering courses of the higher technical schools, or lay the foundation for skilled workmanship in the mechani- cal trades. Two-year vocational courses have been estab- lished in Accounting, Stenography, Mechanical Drawing, Design, Carpentry, Pattern-Making, Machine-Shop Work, Electricity, and Household Arts. These may be taken in any of the high schools. The Mechanic Arts High School for Girls will ofifer courses in vocational work suitable for women. All of the high schools have gymnasiums in charge of special teachers of physical education. They also have lunchrooms for the use of pupils and teachers. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS Course of instruction. — The elementary-school instruction aims to teach children to read and write, to use the English language in a creditable manner suited to their years and attainments, and to make accurately the arithmetical com- putations that modern life requires of the average citizen. The course also introduces the children to the best literature of the language suited to their years, as well as to geography, history of the United States, civics, and elementary science, including physiology and hygiene. Throughout the course the children are learning to sing and to draw, and their bodily welfare is enhanced by exercises, games, plays, and other recreational activities, under direction of the teachers. Industrial arts. — In addition to the usual school instruc- tion, as above outlined, the pupils of all the grades, including the kindergarten, have an opportunity to engage in hand- work of various kinds involving elementary processes, as in book-binding, box-making, cookery, needle-work, woodwork, etc. The purpose of this work is to familiarize all the children with the elementary processes in industrial work, to give them a knowledge of materials, and to develop taste by the applica- tion of art to the simple projects which they undertake. Schools for the deaf. — Classes for deaf children are main- tained in II pubhc schools. In March, 191 1, 238 pupils 6 were in attendance, in charge of about 30 teachers. The oral method is used. Schools for the blind. — Classes for blind children are main- tained in four school buildings. In March, 191 1, there were 40 pupils in charge of 5 teachers. All of the textbooks for the blind pupils are printed at one of the schools (the Felsenthal) by a teacher employed for that work. The Board pays the carfare of the pupils to and from school, and the fare of one person to accompany each pupil when necessary. Schools for crippled children. — Two schools are maintained for crippled children, who are transported to and from school in busses, at the expense of the Board. In March, 191 1, there were 127 pupils in charge of 8 teachers. Classes for subnormal children. — Classes for subnormal children are maintained in 20 schools. About 400 pupils are in attendance. Open-air schools. — The Board furnishes 2 teachers for two open-air schools, established by the Bureau of Charities, and maintains 10 other open-air and low-temperature rooms in the public schools. The Parental School. — The Parental School, at St. Louis and Berwyn avenues, has in charge 317 truant boys committed to the school by the Juvenile Court. They are in charge of 10 teachers and 16 family instructors. John Worthy School. — The youthful prisoners in the House of Correction are taught by 5 teachers in the employ of the Board of Education. In March, 191 1, there were 147 pupils in attendance. Other classes for delinquents and dependents. — The Board supplies teachers for the children in the Juvenile Detention Home, the Frances Juvenile Home for Girls, and the Chicago Refuge for Girls. EVENING SCHOOLS Thirty-three evening schools were supported in 1910-11, for a period of 75 evenings, with a total enrolment of 25,992, and an average nightly attendance of 13,496. Choice of work. — 2,057 girls studied cooking, sewing, and millinery; 2,972 persons took shorthand, typewriting, and bookkeeping, and 3,678 studied subjects related to the industries (mechanical drawing, machine-shop work, elec- tricity, chsmistry, practical millinery, etc.), while about 4,000 took regular high-school and elementary-school studies. The number of foreign-born people learning the English language was 12,715, of 43 different nationalities. APPRENTICE SCHOOLS Under an agreement between the Carpenters' and Builders* Association and the union carpenters employed by the mem- bers of the Association, the carpenters' apprentices attend the public school for three months each year (January, February, and March). In 191 1, 260 apprentices were enrolled in two schools. The course of study includes architectural drawing, plan reading and estimating, English, United States history, and mathematics. VACATION SCHOOLS Chicago has 17 regular vacation schools that are main- tained for six weeks during the summer months for the benefit of children in the congested portions of the city. The enrolment in these schools for the summer of 19 10 was more than 13,000, 373 principals, teachers, and assistants were employed in this work. The work done is of a kind to involve the physical activities of the children — games, gymnastics, school gardens, nature-study, singing, drawing, cooking, sewing, manual training, and a great variety of hand- work. There are also weekly excursions to the country, the parks, etc. SOCIAL CENTERS A plan for the maintenance of Social Centers at public- school buildings during evening hours was launched in Decem- ber, 19 10. These recreational centers, nine in number, are open for two evenings of the week until near the middle of April. The attendance is drawn largely from young people who work during the day in stores, shops, and factories. Among the features that are incorporated in this work are singing, dramatics, gymnastic work, debating, orchestra organizations, library and reading-room facilities, and social dancing. Moving pictures illustrating educational and 8 recreational topics have been introduced for the first time in the schools. SCHOOL LIBRARIES The total number of books in the libraries of the public ichools is 161,170. These are apportioned as follows: Teachers' College 18,150 High Schools 32,769 Elementary Schools 110,251 Most of these books are accessible to the pupils of the several schools, may be taken home for reading, and are thus access- ible to the other members of the pupil's family. Of the 110,251 books in the elementary schools, 24,517 are in class- room libraries, which means that sets of books suitable for the several grades have been apportioned to the rooms, and remain in the classrooms, rather than in the general library of the school. By arrangement with the Public Library Board the principals may take out collections of books known as "School Deposit Libraries," which may be kept at the school six weeks. Individual teachers may also take out collections for their rooms. SCHOOL ASSEMBLY HALLS There are 17 assembly halls in the high schools and 187 in the elementary schools. These are opened, free of charge, for certain meetings having a direct relation to the school life, and may be opened for other educational meetings upon payment of a fixed charge to cover cost of heat, light, and service. The meetings permitted free of charge are: (i) Meetings of teachers for educational purposes; (2) Annual graduation exercises; (3) One alumni meeting each month; (4) Meetings of students of the school for musical or literary exercises, such meetings to be open only to members of the school; (5) Lectures of the William H. Ryder fund; (6) The three entertainments per year authorized in each school; (7) Two meetings per year of teachers and parents in each school district. • No fee may be charged for admission to any meeting except the three school entertainments. 9 THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM. A LIBRARY FOR THE PEOPLE President: Robert J. Roulston Secretary: Harry G. Wilson Librarian: Henry E. Legler The Chicago Public Library is a public institution, main- tained by the city as a part of the public educational system. There are nearly half a million volumes in the central library and its eighteen branches in various parts of the city, and all but a few thousand of these may be drawn for home use by the patrons who have secured cards for the purpose. The right of drawing books from the Public Library belongs to all who reside in the city of Chicago, and also to those who make their homes in the suburbs, within the limits of Cook County, and are regularly employed in the city. In order to become a book-borrower, it is necessary only to file an application giving the name and residence of the applicant, and bearing the signature of a second person, whose name appears in the latest city directory. This person becomes the guarantor to the Library for the proper observance of the library regulations on the part of the applicant. The cards entitle the book -borrower to draw two books, which may be retained for two weeks, and may be renewed for the same period. The cards remain in effect for three years from the date of registration, at the expiration of which term a new application must be filed. Books may be drawn or returned at any circulating center. Branches. — For the convenience of the public, collections smaller than those at the main building, but representative of the various classes of books to be found there, are kept in branch libraries located in various sections of the city. These now number eighteen, and are as follows: (Open from i to 9 p.m. — Blackstone, Lewis Institute, and Lincoln Centre open forenoons also.) Blackstone, 49th St. and Lake Ave. Hiram Kelly, Normal Blvd. and 6 2d St. Lewis Institute, 1943 W. Madison St. Austin, 5642 Lake St. Burr School, Ashland and Wabansia Aves. Lincoln Centre, Oakwood Blvd. and Langley Ave. Lawndale, Millard Ave. and 23d St. 26th Street, 3347 W. 26th St. West Park i, Chicago Ave. and Noble St. West Park 2, 14th PI. and Union St. Sherman Park, Loomis and W. 53d Sts. THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY— CENTRAL BUILDING Michigan Avenue, between Washington and Randolph Streets Cornell Square, Wood and W. 51st Sts. Mark White Square, Halsted and 30th Sts. Hebrew Institute, Taylor and Lytle Sts. Logan Square, 3125 Logan Blvd. Seward Park, Elm and Orleans Sts. Geo. C. Walker Branch, Morgan Park. Hamlin Park, Barry and Hoyne Sts. The library also has about 90 delivery stations in various parts of the city, connected by daily automobile service with the central library. Resources at the Central Building.- volumes, which may be freely used. classified as follows: II -Here there are 450,000 They may be broadly liislory, bio^rapliy, and Iravcls 56,000 l-'ine and practical arts, and sciences.. . 48,000 l\)ctry, drama, essays 15,300 Menial and moral science, religion. . . . 15,500 Lanj^auiKc, literature, bibliography 20,500 Political and .social science 15,000 Dictionaries and encyclopedias 7,000 Periodicals and newspapers 49,000 Government and state publications. . . 26,000 Enj^lish prcse fiction and juvenile 130,000 liooks in foreign languages S9,ooo Hooks for the blind 1,200 Most of the books in the above clas.scs may be drawn for home use; reference books and those which for special reasons do not circulate may be consulted in the various reference rooms of the library. Rcading-Room. — In the Reading-Room, 1,500 periodicals and serials are currently received, and may be used by any person of good deportment and habits. Open Shelves. — That part of the Delivery Room on the third door of the Public Library known as the Open-Shelf Room contains about 10,000 volumes. These arc selected from the general library, and duplicated there. The collec- tion is intended for the use of those who want something to read, but are uncertain what to choose; or for those who wish to look at several books on a subject before deciding about those they wish to draw for home use. Reference Department. — The Reference Department is designed to serve and assist readers who may come to pursue their studies within the library building. No card or guar- atUy of any sort is required, the only condition being that books shall not be taken from the room. All books that circulate for home use may be used here, and in addition many thousands of volumes not adapted to general circulation, by reason of their size, their costliness, or their rarity, are at the free disposal of the patrons of this department, A stafif of trained assistants is ready to lend aid, whether wants involve the selection of a course of reading, the preparation of an essay or a thesis for the school, the study-class, or the club, or merely the answer to a single question, the source of a quota- tion, or the portrait of a celebrity. 12 On the open shelves which h'ne the entire west wall of the Reference Room the reader will find, freely at his disposal, about 2,000 volumes of reference books, comprising the stand- ard dictionaries and handbooks in all departments of knowl- edge, general encyclopedias in English, French, German, Spanish, Scandinavian, and Bohemian, dictionaries of the classical and of all the modern languages, guides to history, literature, science, art, and religion, biographical dictionaries, directories of the principal cities, and many other works of general information. HIRAM KKLl-V liK.V.NLll idhAuu I'UBLIC LIBRARY The Art Room. — This room, auxiliary to the Reference Department, contains not solely books on "art," but also elaborately illustrated works, editions de luxe, and all books that by reason of their rarity or their beauty require closer supervision in their use than is exacted in other departments of the Library. Here are portfolios of beautiful engravings, and copies of the treasures of the world's great galleries. The Young People's Rooms. — The Thomas Hughes Read- ing-Room for Young People is conducted as a reading-room adjacent to the adult Reference Room on the fourth floor. It is administered by a special staff, and equipped with a 13 carefully chosen collection of books. This room is planned to meet the demands and the desires of the juvenile patrons of the main Library; to offer aid and counsel in the preparation of school -work, essays, and debates; to direct and attract their tastes toward wholesome and sane channels; and, perhaps incidentally, to provide a pleasant and inviting retreat for the scant leisure of the great army of juvenile bread-winners employed within the radius of a mile from the Library. THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY— DELIVERY ROOM In the small hall adjoining, occasional illustrated lectures, talks, and readings are given, and reference is made to the available literature of the subjects treated, by way of teaching the use and value of books in daily life. Oral story-telling, a method of interesting children which has been adopted with great success by libraries, is employed freely in the numerous branch reading-rooms established in the residence districts. Patents and Documents Department. — The contents of this department, as its name implies, include the reports of patents 14 granted for inventions in the United States since 1790, in Great Britain since 161 7, in Germany since the foundation of the empire, in France since the time of Napoleon I, and in Canada since 1873. Copyright and trade-mark records of the United States and Great Britain are also to be found here. These publications, numbering thousands of volumes, many of them high-priced and scarce, are invaluable to inventors and patent solicitors in determining priorit}' of invention or the state of the arts. Books for the blind. — The Library possesses an attractive collection of 1,200 volumes of books for the blind, including i;i. \ , , !;RAX(:ir-cniCA(;o public library two current monthly magazines, printed in four systems of raised characters, known as the Moon, Braille, American Line, and New York Point systems. The Library co-operates with the Park Boards by equip- ping, in charge of librarians, reading-rooms provided in the fieldhouses; with public and private schools, by furnishing classroom libraries; with institutions, in like manner, and also maintains business-house deposit-collections in a number of commercial and industrial establishments for the use of employees. IS THE JOHN CRERAR LIBRARY no N. Wabash Ave., 5th and 6th floors of Marshall Field Building. Hours, 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. except Sundays only. President: Peter S. Grosscup Secretary: Leonard A. Beesley Librarian: Clement W. Andrews Foundation and development. — The John Crerar Library, the youngest of the free public libraries of Chicago, owes its existence to the bequest of the late John Crerar, probated and established as valid in 1893. The amount bequeathed was estimated at the time to be about $2,500,000 but various improvements in business conditions have materially increased this sum to a total of about $3,500,000. The Board of Directors, designated by Mr. Crerar, decided immediately after the organization that the endowment should not be encroached upon, and that a building fund for the erection of a permanent home for the library should be accumulated from the income . This fund in 1 9 1 1 amounted to over $950,000, and is to be expended in the near future upon the erection of an adequate building for the Library, which will stand as a fitting memorial to its founder, and in which the aims of his bequest may be more adequately realized. Scope. — The Chicago Public Library had previously been established as a great lending library, and the Newberry Library was being developed as a non-scientific library. The great field left open to the newly erected library therefore was that of science. Accordingly, the directors decided to estab- lish a free public library of scientific literature, together with the technical branches, thus rounding out in an effective way the library field in the city of Chicago. Its special field may be defined as that of the natural, physical, and social sciences, and their applications. The books are divided into six classes: General Works, Social Sciences, Physical Science, 16 Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Applied Sciences. The last-named class includes the applied fine arts, but not music, sculpture, or painting. With three exceptions, theology, philology, and law, all subjects comprehended by a broad interpretation of its field as thus defined are to be found in the Library. Rooms. — The Reading-Room, furnished in dark oak, is on the sixth floor, and accommodates about 130 readers. Opening from the Reading-Room is the Senn Room, the reading-room for the Medical Sciences, furnished in the same general style. This accommodates 60 readers. Also opening from the Reading-Room is the Public Catalogue Room containing 16 seats for readers, and cases with 1,164 trays for the card catalogues. The Society Room is on the fifth floor, with separate entrance. It seats about 50, and its use is granted by the Committee on Administration, without charge, to meetings for scientific and educational purposes, and can be secured for the stated meetings of societies. The stack rooms are on three floors, and have at present seats for about 50 readers engaged in special research, and shelf- room for some 320,000 volumes. In the Reading-Room is shelved a collection of 4,000 volumes, intended to include, besides general works of reference and the most useful bibliog- raphies, the best books, both advanced and popular, on each important subject within the scope of the Library, and a selection of the other works of especial interest. It is con- stantly revised and kept up to date. This collection may be consulted without formality, as also may the periodicals within the Periodical Alcove. The Reading-Room contains also cases for new books, where the latest acquisitions are made available for the public. The Library had entered 275,000 volumes upon its books on June i, 1911, besides some 85,000 pamphlets, and 2,911 maps and plates. It is a good working collection in most of the subjects within its scope, and elaborately equipped in certain fields. Collections. — The Gerritsen Library is the largest and most important of the special purchases. It contains some 18,000 volumes and 15,000 pamphlets on social and economic sub- 17 jects, being especially full on finance, banking, labor, and socialism. It includes a distinct collection of nearly 6,000 volumes and pamphlets on the social, political, and legal status of woman. Other noteworthy collections are: some 300 volumes on ornithology, bought of the Newberry Library in 1898; the private library of Professor R. T. Ely, consisting of 6,000 volumes and 4,000 pamphlets, mostly on American labor and social movements; the collection of 8,000 volumes and 4,000 pamphlets on gynecology and obstetrics, formed by the late Dr. Eduard Martin and his son. Dr. August Martin; and considerable purchases at auction of mathe- matical books from the libraries of Boncompagni and Bierens de Haan, and of zoological books from that of Milne-Edwards. Besides 3,070 current periodicals which are kept in the Periodical Alcove of the Reading-Room and in the Senn Room, the Library receives some 7,000 other continuations, such as annual reports and parts of books issued serially, which are placed on the regular shelves as soon as received. The Library has paid special attention to the collection of public documents, and is a "designated depository" of the Congressional Documents, a special depository of the publica- tions of the United States Geological Survey, and a depository of all bills, resolves, and acts of Congress since 1901. Many state and some city documents, domestic and foreign, have been acquired. Catalogues. — Nearly 60 per cent of the titles are printed in the card catalogues especially for the Library, and almost all the remainder are obtained from the Library of Congress, The public card catalogue is in three divisions: author, classed-subject, and alphabetic-subject index. The classed- subject catalogue is the one most consulted, and has been made as full as possible. It is arranged according to the Decimal Classification with few alterations but many expan- sions. Under each final subdivision the arrangement of the titles is chronological, the latest being put first. Under each political unit (country, province or state, and town) are given the titles of all works dealing directly or chiefly with the place. These are subdivided systematically in accordance 18 with the first three figures of the main classification. The result is not only that works of adjacent places are brought together, and works on part of a country immediately follow those on the whole country; but also under each place related subjects are brought together. The alphabetical subject index is primarily an index to the classed-subject catalogue. Publications. — The Library issues, usually in May, an Annual Report covering the previous calendar year. Copies are sent free, upon request. The bibliographical publications are not distributed gratuitously. The use of the Library by the public has fully justified the decision of its directors as to its scope and character. Begin- ning with 80, the average daily attendance has increased to 442 in 19 10 in spite of the secluded location of the library. The recorded use of books, not on the open shelves, has increased from 15,000 in the first year to 155,000 in 19 10. The Library commends itself particularly by its carefully selected and exhaustive scientific material, the development of an unusually efficient card catalogue, and a singular exclusion of distractions which might disturb the reader. It is evident that such a library would attract readers in search of information rather than of recreation, but it must not be understood that it appeals only or even chiefly to university professors and students. On the contrary, these form a relatively small proportion. While engineers and physicians are the largest two classes, business men in search of business information, technical chemists, mechanists and many other skilled laborers, workers in social and political movements, normal- and high-school teachers and their students form a considerable element. To all those and in general to all who need scientific information The John Crerar Library extends a most cordial welcome. 19 THE NEWBERRY LIBRARY Washington Sq., Walton PI., Clark St., Oak St., and Dearborn Ave. President: Eliphalet W. Blatchford Secretary: Jesse L. Moss Librarian: William N. C. Carlton Location. — The Library may be reached from the down- town district by the Clark St. and N. State St. car lines. Lincoln Park is a near neighbor on the east. Building. — The building was erected in 1893 ^.t a cost of over half a million dollars, and is a pleasing structure in Spanish Romanesque style. The present structure is but one face of the edifice planned, which is to cover the entire square, having within a central court, 60X180 ft. Resources. — The Library was founded in 1887 from a bequest by Walter Loomis Newberry. Since that time, over $600,000 have been expended in the purchase of books, periodicals, and fittings for the Library. Aside from the revenues of the original foundation, the library has grown by the addition of some splendid donations, particularly of the Edward E. Ayer Collection. At present the Library contains over 272,000 books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, engravings, etc. In addition to this, over 900 periodicals are kept on file. Regulations. — The Library is open every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Certain departments close at 5 o'clock, but readers may file applica- tions for the use of books from these in the general reading- room. The Library is strictly a reference library, and books may not be withdrawn. Several thousand general reference books and newly received books are kept on open shelves. The others are drawn by applying to an attendant. Contents of the Library. — The Newberry Library is a general reference library, except for scientific books, all of which have been transferred to the John Crerar Library. Its principal departments are: The Department of History, including biography and travel, is a general collection of representative historical books and documents, both specific and general. Its strength in works relating to America is exceptional. Mr. Edward E. Ayer's comprehensive collection of Americana has largely been transferred to the Library. Such parts of it as are not housed in the Library are at the reader's disposal within short notice. This collection contains exhaustive material on the American Indian, his ethnology and political history, including manu- script documents, treaties, letters, drawings on paper and THE NEWBERRY EiURARV skins, and many portraits. An interesting feature of this collection is its ancient and rare books of travel and ex- ploration and many costly maps. Among these are numer- ous sailing charts known as Portolanos, made between 1456 and 1600. A genealogic index of very exhaustive character has been prepared in 1,103 folio volumes, which contain over a million references to American families. This is probably the most exhaustive and efficient index of family-trees ever prepared. Department of Documents . — The department contains more than 25,000 volumes and pamphlets issued by the United States government, by foreign governments, by states of the American Union, and by their more important munici- palities. Department of Philosophy. — Includes philosophy proper, religion, sociology, and education. Arts and Letters. — The art collection consists of works on aesthetics and the history of art, including architecture, painting, and sculpture, together with biographies of artists. Coins, pottery, costumes — the various arts and crafts are all included here. The Department of Letters contains the representative literature of the English and more important foreign languages. Department of Philology. — The Department of Philology was brought into prominence by the acquisition of the famous library — 16,500 volumes and pamphlets — of Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, on the history of man as developed through speech. The primary aim was to bring together specimens of all the languages and dialects of Europe; but it was soon enlarged to the acquisition of some specimen of every known language possessing even the most rudimentary literature. To this department was added the Eames Col- lection, consisting of 3,257 volumes and pamphlets relating to British India, Afghanistan, Tibet, and Further India. Department of Music. — In 1889 the Library secured the musical collection of Count Pio Resse, of Florence, consisting largely of works of Italian writers on the theory and the history of music. There have been added, from time to time, orchestral and vocal scores, works on the history and theory of music, on musical instruments, biographies of musicians, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and periodicals. Other collections. — (i) The Clarke Collection of works — 1,453 volumes and 429 pamphlets — on fish, fish-culture, and angling; (2) the collection of works on Egypt; (3) the Bailey Collection of works on China; (4) the Blatchford Collection of works on libraries and library buildings; (5) the collection of English and American hymnbooks. Department of Bibliography. — Of the department of books about books it need be said only that it is of necessity one of the strongest in the Library, and adequate to the continuous demand made upon its resources. 22 THE MUSEUM The Museum presents as its special feature the choicer items of the Probasco Collection, about 1,200 volumes of masterpieces in the arts of calligraphy, illumination, printing, illustration, and binding. Among the modern manuscripts are poems of Burns, Bloomfield, and Thomson, and sermons of Cotton INIather and Increase Mather. The Museum has the four Shakespere folios, 1623, 1632, 1664, 1685. Early printing. — The Museum contains choice works of the old masters of typography, including over three hundred incunabula. Among these are the Latin Bible printed in Strasburg, 1466, by Heinrich Eggestein, and Cicero's De Amicitia of the same year, printed in Cologne by its first typographer, Ulrich Zell. Early engraving. — Specimens of first attempts at engraving are to be found in such books as the copy of Roswitha, the 1499 Aldine edition of Hypnerotomachia PoHphili, and the early books of emblems. Binding. — Many of the 1,200 volumes in the Museum are excellent specimens of book-binding, dating from the fifteenth century to the present time. Letters of inquiry are received in considerable number and the desired information is carefully prepared by trained attendants, and readily given by the Library. Certain books not in constant demand are also loaned to other libraries under an inter-library loan agreement. During the past year over 66,000 people have used the Library, and over 100,000 books were consulted. In its field the Library is excellently equipped; the material is well organ- ized and easily accessible. The Newberry Library offers an excellent field for literary browsing to the general reader. Its claim on distinction, however, lies in its splendidly specialized collections. In these the student finds an exhaustive treat- ment of many fields of knowledge, careful criticisms, and rare documents. The lover of books also will find much to delight his heart in the quaint illuminated manuscripts of mediaeval monks, the curious drawings of the old map-makers, and the exquisite tooling of the world's famous book-binders. 23 THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY W. Ontario St. and N. Dearborn Ave. President: Thomas Dent Librarian: Caroline M. McIlvaine Objects. — The objects of the Society are to institute and encourage historical inquiry, to collect and preserve the materials of history, and to spread historical information concerning the northwestern states, particularly Illinois. The Society has always had the support of a great number of the most representative and public-spirited men of Chicago, both financially and in the direction of its affairs. Admission and privileges. — The Library, Museum, and collection of paintings are open daily, except Sunday, from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. and are free to the public. Writers and teachers are granted every facility. Children visiting the building individually are cheerfully given assistance, and classes accompanied by teachers are personally conducted through the collections by the librarian or assistants. The Library. — In the half-century and more that has elapsed since the field of the Society was defined there has been brought together a collection of 150,000 books, maps, and manuscripts in which every phase in the development of the Middle West is represented and in which certain depart- ments have become very complete. Naturally, the two sections that have been the most highly developed are Illi- nois and Chicago. The books specifically on the Mississippi Valley, including its archaeology, exploration, settlement, and commercial development, fill several cases. Through the generous gift by Mr. Charles H. Conover the Society is made the possessor of the most complete collection of books on the Lewis and Clark expedition in existence. The col- lection of maps is very complete, from the charts of prehistoric periods and the maps of the explorers to recent atlases of counties. 24 Space is lacking to treat in any detail the manuscript collections of the Society. There is a collection of over 15,000 manuscripts, among them many of first interest to scholars. The papers relating to the French regime in Illi- THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING nois and in the Missisisippi Valley are particularly valuable. They comprise original documents and letters in the hand- writing of Joliet, Allouez, LaSalle, Tonty, Frontenac, and other governors of New France, copies of the parish registers of the early French missions, etc. 25 The Society is fortunate in having early begun the col- lection of Illinois newspapers, which date from 1819 and include a large number of the more important papers pub- lished outside of Chicago. The collection of the Chicago papers begins with the Chicago Democrat, 1833, and includes the titles of perhaps every paper published in the city, although many files are far from complete. Lectures. — Historical lectures are maintained during nine months of each year. These are open to all interested in history. A course of Saturday morning lectures on the history of Chicago and the Old Northwest has been given, and a plan is on foot to furnish a lecturer on this subject to the schools gratis. Occasional lectures are given by the librarian in schools and settlements. Museum. — Not the least important branch of the Society's equipment is a Historical Museum supplementing the Library, in which almost every phase of the development of the Old Northwest Territory and Mississippi Valley is illustrated graphically. The exhibits consist of models of Indian mounds, and of forts; relief maps, original pictures of early streets and residences, aboriginal relics, and relics from battlefields, and a portrait gallery where may be seen the faces of repre- sentatives of the various regimes — Spanish, French, British, American — which have been the determining factors in the history of Chicago and of the Central West. Growing out of the Museum w^ork are the special anniversary exhibitions adapted to interest children and adults alike. The birthdays of Washington and Lincoln and the anniversaries of important events in American his- tory have become yearly institutions in the Society's work and have been productive of valuable results in fostering in the youth reverence for American institutions and tradi- tions. Publications. — The Society has occasionally issued his- torical studies which make available much valuable source material, and are distributed gratis to members, and are in part available for students generally. Nine volumes have been issued so far, with others in preparation. 26 OTHER LIBRARIES The Evanstont Public Library. — Orrington Ave. and Church St., Evanston. 48,000 volumes, general in character. Circulating Department free to Evanston residents; open to non-residents for fee of $2.50 per year or 25 cents per month. Reference Department free to all. Hours. — 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. week days. Reading-Room also open from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sundays and holidays. All depart- ments closed on Christmas, New Year's, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving. Special collections. — Coe Music Collection, a reference and circulating library of about 1,200 books, 300 music scores, and 500 pianola rolls. Pianola-piano for use at stated periods. Webster Medical Library, containing some 600 books and periodicals on medical sciences and allied branches; including special collections on diseases of women and children. The Evanston Historical Society's Collection of about 2,000 volumes, pamphlets, and pictures and objects of his- torical interest is open to library patrons on request. Extension work. — Deposit stations; schoolroom libraries; playground libraries. Occasional free lectures in Library Hall. Oak Park Public Library. — Scoville Institute, Oak Park. The Oak Park Public Library contains 22,000 volumes and 2,000 pamphlets. It is open every day except Sundays and holidays from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Library privileges are free to residents of Oak Park and to those whose business is located there. LAW libraries Ashland Block Associationt maintains a library for lawyers resident in Ashland Block. Chicago Bar Association, 69 W. Washington St.; Carlos r. Sawyer, librarian. — A private library for the use of the members only. The library contains aproximately 10,000 volumes consisting of reports of the decisions of the courts of the several states, the federal courts and the courts of England; statutes, digests, and reference books. Chicago Law Institute, 1025 County Building; Wm. H. Holden, librarian; Alfred E. Barr, secretary. — The 27 Chicago Law Institute is a law library exclusively. It con- tains about 54,000 volumes, is accessible to members; judges; state, county, and city Law Departments; state, county and city officials; visiting lawyers; students; and to other persons upon introduction by members, for temporary con- sultation. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sundays from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. MEDICAL LIBRARIES Columbus Memorial Medical Library. — For tenants of the Columbus Memorial Building. See also Medical Schools and Evanston Public Library. THEOLOGICAL LIBRARIES See Educational Institutions: Theological Seminaries. libraries in foreign languages German-American Historical Society of Illinois, Dr. Otto L. Schmidt, Schiller Building. — The organization is active in the maintenance of German-American institutions, and has assembled an important library in its field. Swedish Historical Society of America, Librarian: Professor J. E. Hillberg, Swedish Theological Seminary, Evanston, 111. — The library of the Society includes important sets of Swedish history and literature, and Swedish-American books and pamphlets. Current Swedish-American news- papers are kept on file. The library may be used after previous arrangement. See also Alliance Frangaise, Germania, Schwabenverein. miscellaneous Loyal Legion of America, Illinois Commandery, 320 Ashland Block, 59 Clark St. Wm. E. Furness, librarian; E. A. Davenport, custodian. — A reference library, open from 9 A.M. to 5 p.m., containing material particularly on the Civil War; 4,000 volumes. The Western Society of Engineers maintains an assembly room, library and reading-room, etc., and these are open to the public on all business days from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., or 4 P.M. on Saturdays. The library contains about 8,000 volumes of an engineering, technical, and scientific character. The library is a governmental depository. 28 THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Michigan Ave., opposite Adams St. President: Charles L. Hutchinson Director: William M. R. French Secretary: Newton H. Carpenter The Museum Building is open to the public every week day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Sundays from i p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to museum and library is free to members and their families at all times, and free to all on Wednesdays, Sat urdays, Sundays, and public holidays. During the past year the attendance of visitors has been about 720,000. The Art Institute comprises a museum of paintings, sculpture, and other objects of art, a school of art instruction, and an art library. THE MUSEUM The collections are numerous and important, so that the institution now ranks among the three or four most important art museums in the country. The Henry Field Collection of paintings includes 41 pictures, and represents chiefly the Barbizon school of French painters, including Millet's well-known "Bringing Home the New-born Calf," Jules Breton's "Song of the Lark," Troyon's "Returning from the Market," and fine examples of Rousseau, Corot, Cazin, Constable, and Daubigny. Old masters of the Dutch school from the Demidofif Col- lection are represented by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Frans Hals, and Holbein; "The Guitar Lesson," by Terburg and "A Family Concert," by Jan Steen; one of Hobbema's masterpieces; the "Jubilee," by Van Ostade; and Teniers Ruisdael, and Adriaan Van de Velde. These paintings are now of immense value. To this are added a large altar piece by El Greco, "The Assumption of the Virgin," and Cranach the Elder's "Night in the Garden." The comprehensive collection bequeathed by Albert 29 Mungcr contains examples from Meissonicr, Bouguereau, Corot, De Neuville, Detaille, Michctti, Munkacsy, Gerome, Rosa Bonheur, Van Marcke, Fromentin, Vibert, Roybet Bargue, Zimmerman, Koekkoek, Troyon, Courbet, Isabey Makart, and many other leaders of modern art. The Nickerson Collection embraces Japanese, Chinese and East Indian objects of art, in all about 1,300 objects, and a collection of modern paintings. The most extraor- dinary feature of it is the collection of jades, agates, and crystals, one of the finest in America. The pictures of the Nickerson Collection consist of 62 oil paintings from mod- THE ART INSTITUTE IN GRANT PARK ern masters, water colors, engravings, and Japanese prints and kakemonos. Recent acquisitions are from Manet, SoroUa, Boutct de Monvel, and eighteen paintings by George Inness. The collection of paintings by American artists, many of them the gift of the Friends of American Art, includes valuable examples of Whistler, Chase, Dannat, Inness, and many others. The Art Institute also keeps up important loan collections, and holds passing exhibitions, so that the exhibition of pic- tures is at all times very extensive. A gallery has been set apart for a continuous exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Chicago artists. Another gallery contains the Rosenbaum Collection of Ivories. 30 The large Elbridge G. Hall Collection includes reproduc- tions of classical, renaissance, and modern sculpture. Another clement in the sculpture collection is the gallery of reproductions of the antique bronzes of the Naples Museum. This collection was the gift of H. N. Higinbotham in 1893. The Blackstone Collection of architectural casts occupies an immense gallery, and consists chiefly of French historic sculptures. There is no other similar collection in America. READING-ROOM Ol- RYERSON LIBRARY, THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO It includes cathedral portals and other architectural sculp- ture from the eleventh to the nineteenth century. Some of the casts are 35 ft. long and more than 30 ft. high. Other fields of art are represented by collections of an- tiquities, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman, and embroideries, tapestries, painted fans, textiles, etc. The department of prints also has become important. The most notable feature of it is a nearly complete collection of Meryon's etchings. 31 ART SCHOOL The school of instruction in art practice includes well- organized departments of painting, sculpture, illustration, decorative designing, normal instruction, and architecture. It has grown to be the most comprehensive and probably the largest fine arts school in the United States. There are about 700 regular day students, 400 evening students, and 400 normal and juvenile students. The whole enrolment is about 3,000 a year. This school is nearly self-supporting, earning and expending about $65,000 per annum. The most advanced branches are taught, and distinguished teachers from a distance are called in from time to time. LECTURES Fullerton Memorial Hall, seating 475 people, is used for lecture purposes by a variety of organizations. The Art Institute holds here about 250 lectures a year, mostly on art. A considerable number of these lectures are open to the public without charge. LIBRARY The Ryerson Library is a beautiful and commodious building, and the Library has become one of the most valuable parts of the Institute, consulted annually by 65,000 persons. It contains at present about 7,000 volumes, strictly confined to fine art, and including many valuable works. In it is kept the great collection of large carbon photographs known as the Braun Autotypes, 16,000 in number. The value of the permanent collections is estimated at about a million and a half dollars. The building has cost $1,200,000. The institute is supported by endowment, membership dues, taxation levied by the South Park Com- missioners, door fees, and voluntary gifts. The Art Institute is in the fullest sense an institution conducted for the public good. The galleries are open abso- lutely free to the public more than 160 days every year, and upon other days not only the members and their families, numbering more than 10,000, but artists and public-school, teachers and pupils are freely admitted. Classes studying art are admitted free at all times under easy conditions. 32 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Jackson Park President of the Board of Trustees: Stanley Field Director of the Museum: Frederick J. V. Skiff Curators: Dr. George A. Dorsey, Anthropology; Dr. Charles F. MiLLSPAUGH, Botany; Dr. Oliver C. Farrington, Geology; Charles B. Cory, Zoology Recorder: D. C. Da vies Librarian: Elsie Lippincott The Museum is open to the public daily, except Thanks- giving and Christmas, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Saturdays and Sundays during July and August the hour for closing is 5:30 P.M. Admission is free Saturdays and Sundays. On other days the entrance fee is 25 cents for adults; children under twelve, 10 cents. Teachers and scholars are admitted free at all times on presentation of proper credentials. The Museum was established in 1894 at the close of the World's Columbian Exposition by a gift of $1,000,000 by Marshall Field and about an equal amount from other citizens of Chicago. Mr. Field bequeathed the institution a further $8,000,000 in 1906 — $4,000,000 for the erection of a permanent building and $4,000,000 for endowment. The Museum since its establishment has occupied the Fine Arts Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, but will soon be removed to a permanent building now in process of erection north of the present site. All phases of natural history are represented in the collections, divided into the four groups of Anthropology, Botany, Geology, and Zoology. Four courts, arranged in the form of a cross, with galleries and adjoining halls and one wing to the east of the main building are now utilized for exhibition purposes. In the north court are extensive collections devoted to the archaeology of Europe. In the east court the archaeology and ethnology of America are largely represented. Passing north from the east court will be found a large hall devoted 33 to Egyptian archaeology, a very large and valuable collection illustrating this subject having been brought together here by Mr. Edward E. Ayer and others. The next hall eastward is devoted to archaeological specimens of the Hopi Indians. The halls found in the east annex are chiefly devoted to the ethnology of Asia and Africa, and include large collections from China, Tibet, and the Philippines, and from Somaliland, New Guinea, and New Zealand. In the halls to the south of the east court large and important collections relating chiefly to American ethnology will be found. The largest hall is devoted to the so-called Tribes of the Great Plains and con- tains a large collection of the ornaments, ceremonial objects, implements, and weapons of these tribes. In adjoining halls are collections illustrating the ethnology of the Indians of British Columbia and Alaska, and an entire hall devoted to the Esquimos. The west and south courts of the building with adjoining halls are devoted to zoological exhibits. Groups of many varieties of animals have been prepared to show them in lifelike attitudes in their natural surroundings. Prominent among these may be noted in the rotunda a group of two large African elephants, in the center of the south court a large case containing four habitats of white-tailed deer in the four seasons, a group of mountain sheep and another of polar bears. A number of table cases in this court contain a collection of shells and mollusks numbering many thousand specimens. The greater part of the west court is devoted to •groups of large mammals collected by a Museum East Afri- can Expedition in 1896. The gazelles, antelopes, hyenas, and other animals of Africa are well represented in characteristic groups. A large case in this court also shows habitat groups of various birds. In adjoining halls are to be found large sys- tematic collections of birds, divided into American and foreign; single specimens of large and small mammals; a large osteo- logical collection, representing over 280 species of all kinds of animals; a hall devoted to fishes and reptiles; and a hall devoted to invertebrates, sponges, corals, star-fishes, etc. North of the west court a number of halls are devoted to the geological collections. Among these H. N. Higinbotham 35 Hall contains one of the finest collections of gems in the world, nearly all the known gems being represented by remarkable specimens. A very remarkable collection of East Indian jewelry is also shown here. Skiff Hall is devoted to ores of the precious and base metals, all the important mining regions of the world being represented. In another hall a large mineral collection is shown. In alcoves adjoining these halls are 75 relief maps; a very large collection of meteorites, containing remarkable specimens; a collection illustrating the origin and uses of petroleum, and a model of the moon 18 ft. in diameter. There is a very large and complete collection of fossils arranged from the earliest to the latest and representing the successive forms of life which have character- ized the world's history. Prominent among the larger specimens here are a partial skeleton of one of the largest known of the ancient lizards or dinosaurs, a skull of the great horned dinosaur Triceratops, and a complete skeleton of a mastodon. The Department of Botany and Plant Economics occu- pies the galleries of the north, south, east, and a part of the west courts of the main building. The exhibit contains over 300 fully installed cases grouped according to botanical families and intended to emphasize the economic relations of the members of these families as well as their botanical and structural characters. Carefully constructed models in many cases show the structure of flowers and fruits, often in enlarged form. In addition to the economic exhibit the department contains a herbarium of about 400,000 specimens including about 2,500 types and figured specimens. The Library adjoining the north court contains about 50,000 books and pamphlets of a scientific character, designed for reference only. The public is admitted to the general reading-room and books may be consulted upon application to the librarian. Lectures. — In addition to the exhibits open to the public, courses of lectures are conducted by the Museum, at present in FuUerton Hall of the Art Institute. These lectures are given on Saturday afternoons in the months of March, April, October, and November. Admission to these lectures is free. 36 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Founded in 1857, Lincoln Park, Chicago Open free to the public every day in the year: from g a.m. to 5 p.m. on week days, and from i p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. President: Thom.\s C. Chamberlin First Vice-President: Albert L. Stevenson Second Vice-President: Ulysses S. Grant Se.re'.ary: Wallace W. Atwood Curator: Frank C. Baker THE MUSEUM The work of th3 society has continued more than half a century, and during that time several lines of scientiiic study in the Chicago region have been encouraged, numerous publications have been issued, and the material for a natural- history museum has been collected. The collections of birds, insects, shells, mammals, minerals, and rocks have been arranged from an educational point of view and are of special interest and value to those connected with educational work in and about the city. For purposes of comparison some material from more distant portions of this continent and from foreign lands has been placed on exhibition, but special attention is given to the arrangement of natural-history objects from Illinois and the Upper Mississippi Valley. There are vast quantities of material in the study collections which are made available upon special request. THE EDUCATIONAL WORK In addition to the scientific work of the Academy and to the public museum, the institution has undertaken several new lines of active educational work. 1. Selected museum collections, lantern slides, and stereoscopic views illustrating nature studies are loaned free of charge to teachers, schools, and to the homes of members. 2. Illustrated lessons and laboratory work in nature- 37 study are offered free of charge to delegates from the public and private schools. 3. Instructional courses in the sciences are offered to teachers. 4. University extension courses are given at the Academy. 5. Illustrated lectures are given at the schools and Park Houses by members of the Academy staff. 6. Illustrated lectures are given at the Academy to which the public is admitted free of charge. THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING 7. Field excursions are conducted for children and for teachers. 8. By appointment teachers may arrange to have their classes conducted through the museum by a member of the staff. 9. The Academy lecture hall may be used by scientific societies by appointment. 10. Instruction is offered in the care and preparation of museum materials. Announcements of courses of instruction are made in the Bulletin of the Academy, which is sent to all members and may be had by others upon application. 38 SOME PROSPECTIVE PLANS To construct a children's museum with a large auditorium. To prepare laboratories and workrooms for instructional work. To cond uct experimental work in the adaptation of scien- tific material and data to educational work. To prepare suitable reading material for nature-study. To conduct a nature-study camp. To ofifer advanced instructional work to teachers. To ofifer scientific courses of instruction during the even- ings for young people who are unable to undertake such work during the day. MEMBERSHIP IN THE ACADEMY New members are elected to the Academy by the Execu- tive Board on the nomination of two voting members. Further information regarding the work of the Academy, the opportunities for nature-studies and nature-study excur- sions in and about Chicago, the requirements for member- ship in the society, and the needs of the Academy will be gladly furnished by the secretary. OTHER MUSEUMS Other museums, particularly of scientific and archaeologi- cal interest, are maintained by various educational institu- tions. They are described under the several institutions, principal among which reference may be made to: The University of Chicago; Northwestern University; Loyola University. Aside from these larger collections, practically all of the city high schools have working collections of natural history and industrial products, as have many of the private secondary schools, notably the University High School. These are primarily for the purposes of classroom instruction, but to most of them the public has access. 39 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Midway Plaisance President: Harry Pratt Judson The University includes the Graduate School of Arts and Literature; the Ogden (Graduate) School of Science; the Colleges (Senior and Junior) of Arts, Literature, and Science; the Divinity School, the Law School, Courses in Medicine, the School of Education, the College of Commerce and Administration, Though the University is maintained primarily for those who can give their entire time to academic work, it extends many privileges to the general public. UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The Libraries of the University, containing approximately 340,000 bound and catalogued volumes, besides a large amount of material as yet uncatalogued, include the General Library and the Departmental Libraries. The General Library is a reference and circulating library now located in the University Press Building, 58th St. and Ellis Ave., but will in the autumn of 191 1 be established in the new Harper Memorial Library Building, 59th St. and Greenwood Ave. The Departmental Libraries are primarily reference and research libraries and are located mainly in the departmental buildings. They contain books especially needed in connec- tion with the work of investigation and instruction of a par- ticular department. The Reading-Room of the General Library and the Library of the School of Education are open to the public from 8 : 30 a.m. to 5 : 30 p.m. Library privileges are rather freely offered to teachers, scholars, and residents of the city generally. A statement of the regulations may be secured from the Director of Uni- versity Libraries, The University of Chicago. 40 The Library of the Laio Scluwl contains the most important legal collection in the city, consisting of over 33,000 volumes, and includes practically all of the reports and statutes in the English language, and a considerable amount of material in foreign languages. The Library of the Divinity School is a comprehensive theological library and includes the Hcngstenberg Collection and the Colvvell Library. UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS The Museums of the University, though installed for the educational purposes of the institution rather than public exhibition, are yet open to any who may choose to visit them, on all days of the week — 8:30 a.m.-5:oo p.m. — Saturday afternoons and Sundays excepted. Haskell Oriental Museum contains valuable collections illustrating oriental art and archaeology — chiefly Egypt, Babylonia, and Japan. The Egyptian collection is especially valuable, embracing nearly 10,000 original monuments, either written or material documents, from all of the great epochs of Egyptian history and archaeology. The Walker Museum collections are estimated to embrace over 1,000,000 specimens — mainly rocks, minerals, fossils, archaeologic objects, and relief maps. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE University College is that division of the University through which late afternoon, evening, and Saturday classes in college and university subjects are conducted throughout the year (October i-June 20) in the central portion of the city, 7th Floor of Association Building, 19 South La Salle St. These courses, which are intended to meet the demands of those who are regularly employed in business or in profes- sional work but who wish to pursue some systematic course of instruction under wise direction, are exactly the same as the corresponding courses regularly conducted at the Uni- versity except that they meet less frequently — usually one session of two hours each week. Full announcements of the work of this College are issued about September i, December 42 I, and March i of each year and can he had by addressing University College, The University of Chicago. CORRESPONDENCE-STUDY DEPARTMENT Through the Correspondence-Study Department the University endeavors to offer as many as possible of the courses given in its classrooms so that those whose formal schooling has been interrupted may continue their studies. Besides contributing to culture, many of the courses, because of their bearing on [)roblems of everyday life, may be turned to immediate practical account. THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION The School of Education gives a number of its courses late in the afternoon with a view to accommodating teachers in the public schools who wish to do University work at the same time that they are engaged in teaching. PUBLIC LECTURES, CONCERTS, RECITALS, ETC. Throughout the year there are offered at the University at late afternoon and evening hours many free public lectures on social, economic, historical, literary, religious, and scientific themes by men of distinction from this and other institutions. These lectures are announced in the University Weekly Calendar which can be consulted at most libraries and educa- tional institutions. During the Summer Quarter (June 15-September i) many lectures, recitals, and open-air plays are given from 3 : 30 p.m.- 5:45 P.M. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Tuesday evening of each week a concert and Friday evening a popular lecture, reading, or other entertainment is given in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall. This program affords an opportunity to the general public to hear at the University by the payment of a small fee speakers of authority and distinction in many depart- ments of study and activity. Announcements may be secured after June i. THE UNIVERSITY LECTURE ASSOCIATION The University Lecture Association in co-operation with the University of Chicago conducts between October i and 43 May I of each season courses of public lectures and readings in different centers in the city. The program usually consists of four courses of six lec- tures each, delivered at weekly intervals throughout the sea- son. The lectures deal with such literary, historical, social, economic, and scientific subjects as are of interest to the gen- eral public. Their purpose is to enable the average busy man or woman to keep in touch with the progress of thought in the larger fields of human knowledge. The lectures, some of which are illustrated with stereopticon views, are pre- sented in a popular manner by experienced public speakers. These lectures are held at four places: On the North Side, in the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Church, Fullerton Ave. and Hamilton Ct., on Monday evenings. On the South Side, in Abraham Lincoln Centre, Oakwood Blvd. and Langley Ave., on Tuesday evenings. On the West Side^ on Thursday evenings in the auditorium of Lewis Institute, Robey and Madison Sts. Central: In the Music Hall, Fine Arts Building, 410 South Michigan Blvd., many afternoon and evening lectures, readings, and recitals are given under the auspices of the Association. The complete announcement of the Association, issued about September i, can be had upon application to The University Lecture Association, The University of Chicago. THE UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION The University Orchestral Association maintains a series of Tuesday afternoon concerts between November i and May I of each college year in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall by the Theodore Thomas Orchestra and recital artists of renown. 44 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Evanston and Chicago President: Abram W. Harris Northwestern University maintains the following ten departments: College of Liberal Arts, Evanston. Medical School, 24th and Dearborn Sts. Law School, Northwestern University Bldg., Lake and Dearborn Sts. College of Engineering, Evanston. School of Pharmacy, Northwestern University Bldg., Lake and Dearborn Sts. Dental School, Northwestern University Bldg. School of Music, Evanston. School of Commerce, Northwestern University Bldg. School of Oratory, Evanston. Evanston Academy, on the University Campus. The School of Commerce is in the Northwestern Uni- versity Building, Lake and Dearborn Sts, It offers evening instruction in economics, elementary and corporation finance, commercial law, accounting, transportation, and insurance. In founding the School of Commerce, business men and educators have united to supply the professional training which modern business requires. To accommodate the large number of men who are precluded by their employment from pursuing regular day work at a university, the school offers an evening course leading to a diploma in commerce. This work is given five evenings a week, between the hours of seven and nine, from October to May inclusive. Students who are able to carry the work of four courses each evening a week can complete the diploma course in three years. A total of 539 students have been registered during the past year. Extension Courses for Teachers. — For several years the University has offered in its city building courses especially adapted to the needs of teachers in the public schools. The 45 work in character and amount corresponds to that given in the classes of the College of Liberal Arts. A variety of courses are offered, with twelve lectures in each course. PUBLIC LECTURES AND CONCERTS The Norman W . Harris Lectures. — These lectures are given each spring from a fund given by Mr. Norman W. Harris. The foundation has secured each year some leader of scholarly research for a course of lectures. The investigations are not restricted to any particular field of knowledge. The lectures given on this foundation are published by the University. Tickets may be had upon request. JAMES A. PATTEN GYMNASIUM— NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Monday Evening Lectures. — A course of Monday Evening Lectures is given during the winter by members of all branches of the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts. Student Lecture Course. — A series of five public lectures and concerts are given annually under the auspices of the College Young Men's Christian Association. Other lectures are announced from time to time before the Science Club, before the Engineering Club, at the Medical School, at the School of Commerce, and at Garrett Biblical Institute. The Artists^ Series of Concerts in the School of Music. — These concerts are given under the auspices of the School of 46 Music and are open to the public at a small fee. Prominent artists are secured for these concerts. LIBRARIES The main Library of the University is housed in the Orrington Lunt Library Building on the campus. It contains the collections of the College of Liberal Arts, College of Engineering, School of Music, and Evanston Academy. Persons not connected with the University may be granted SWIFT HALL OF ENGINEERINTG— NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, EVANSTON library privileges for purposes of study. Additions are made at the rate of about 3,000 volumes a year. The number of volumes in the Hbrary July i, 1910, was 78,952. The library of the Medical School is in Davis Hall, the main building of the School, at 2431 Dearborn St. It con- tains a large number of reference books, dictionaries, current journals, and all of the larger systems of medicine and surgery. In igio the Hbrary contained 5,569 bound and 8,609 unbound volumes. The library of the Law School contains a large and un 47 usually complete collection of reports, statutes, digests, encyclopedias, textbooks, and legal periodicals. In addi- tion to this it includes the celebrated Gary Collections, the gift of Hon. Elbert H. Gary, '67, of New York City. The School of Pharmacy has a valuable pharmaceutical reference library of 2,950 bound volumes and pamphlets. All the principal chemical and pharmaceutical journals are received and on file. The Menges Library and Reading-Room of the Dental School, named in honor of the late Theodore Menges, con- tains 2,904 volumes on dental and collateral subjects, a large supply of dictionaries and encyclopedias, and an almost complete list of dental journals published in the English language, with about 16,000 duplicates. MUSEUMS The museum of the College of Liberal Arts contains several thousand rare and valuable specimens and is divided into sections as follows: Anthropology, Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, and Zoology. The mineralogy section is in the laboratory of Mineralogy and Metallurgy; the other sections are on the fourth floor of University Hall. The museum of the Medical School is arranged on the second floor of the Laboratory Building and contains prepara- tions and specimens illustrative of normal, pathological, and comparative anatomy. The specimens are preserved in the natural color by the Kayserling method. The museum of the School of Pharmacy, in one of the rooms of the School, is exceptionally complete in exhibits of drugs, chemicals, preparations, and apparatus. The museum of the Dental School is arranged in the reading-room of the library. It contains specimens to illustrate comparative anatomy, a complete set of specimens of the human skull, and a large collection of abnormal for- mations of human teeth. The following schools are affiliated with Northwestern University: Garrett Biblical Institute, Norwegian-Danish Theological Seminary, and Swedish Theological Seminary, all at Evanston, Illinois; Elgin Academy, Elgin, Illinois, and Grand Prairie Seminary, Onarga, Illinois. 48 THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Armour Ave. and Thirty-third St. President: Frank W. Gunsaulus Secretary: Frederick W. Smith The Armour Institute of Technology was founded in 1892 by Mr. Philip Danforth Armour of Chicago. The work of instruction was begun in September, 1893. The aim of the Institute was expressed in its first public announcement as follows: "This institution is founded for the purpose of giving to young men an opportunity to secure a liberal education. It is hoped that its benefits may reach all classes. Its aim is broadly pliilanthropic. Profoundly realizing the impor- tance of self-reliance as a factor in the development of character, the Founder has conditioned his benefactions in such a way as to emphasize both their value and the student's self-respect. The Institute is not a free school; but its charges for instruction are in harmony with the spirit which animates alike the Founder, the Trustees, and the Faculty; namely, the desire to help those who wish to help themselves." The Institute is a college of engineering, ofifering four-year courses in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering, and Architecture. The degree of Bachelor of Science is conferred upon the completion of any of these courses. Each course represents a carefully balanced group- system of studies, combining a broad scientific and engineer- ing training with the elements of liberal culture. Special courses are offered only in the evening classes and summer session. The laboratories and shops of the Institute are provided with the most modern equipment for instruction and offer unusual facilities for students of engineering. The courses in engineering are so arranged and graded as to enable the student to become thoroughly conver- sant with the principles of contemporary engineering practice, 49 and by persistent association of abstract analysis with practi- cal problems to prepare him for a successful professional career. Beginning with the general elementary subjects in the Freshman year, the student is led by gradual stages to the more strictly professional work, and the theories presented MAIN BUILDING— THE ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY in the lecture-room are, as far as possible, applied to the laboratories, drafting-rooms, and shops. Particular stress is laid upon systematic reading of current technical periodicals, the requirements and maintenance of a technical library, con- stant recourse to commercial drawings, repeated visits to manu- facturing establishments^ power plants, bridges, and buildings in any stage of construction, and engineering projects. 50 LEWIS INSTITUTE Madison St., Corner Robey St. Director: George N. Carman Registrar: P. B. Kohlsaat The Lewis Institute is a polytechnic school for both sexes. Instruction is given in Engineering and Mechanical Arts, in Domestic Economy and Household Arts, and in the Liberal Arts. For four years of college work the Institute grants to men the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and to women the degree of Bachelor of Science in Domestic Economy. The title of Associate is given for the work of two years of college grade, and the Academy Certifi- cate for the work of four years of secondary grade. The buildings and equipment represent an expenditure of $750,000. The income from endowment is $80,000, and from tuition $85,000 annually. The total enrolment in 1909-10 was 3,136, of whom 1,439 were in day classes and 1,697 in evening classes. The Day Session opens the third Monday in September and continues until the fourth Friday in June. The Day Session begins at 8 : 40 a.m. and lasts until 5 p.m. Hours are arranged, as far as possible, to suit the convenience of students. The Evening Session opens the first Monday in October and continues until the third Thursday in May. The opening week is set apart for the registration and classification of candidates for admission. There are three terms of ten weeks each; one before, and two after, the holidays. The Evening Session begins at 4 p.m. and lasts until 10 p.m. Most of the classes meet from 7:30 to 9:30, for two evenings a week — Monday and Wednesday, or Tuesday and Thursday. The Summer Session opens the first Monday in July and continues for six weeks. In January, 1909, a plan of co-operation in the training of shop apprentices was inaugurated by the Institute and certain manufacturers in Chicago. The apprentices are sent 51 lo the Instil ulc half-time, alternating one week in the shop and the next week in school. For shop apprentices the session opens the hist Monday in September and continues until the last Friday in August, so that each apprentice has in a year 22 weeks in school, 26 weeks in shop, and 4 weeks' vacation. Boys between sixteen and twenty-one years of age are eligible to admission. No formal examination is required of ap|)licants, but the candidate must satisfy the employer that he is capable of doing the work required in the shop and l.ia\ IS l\: must satisfy the Institute that he is prepared to profit by the instruction that will be given. Admission to Lewis Institute is easy; graduation difficult. Hundreds of students wlio enter drop out when they reach their limit of achievement. Hundreds of others never try for a degree, but aim to better, in some degree, their present condition. Of the three thousand students now in attendance, not more than a tenth part will receive a degree. And yet the money spent in teaching these transients is wisely spent. The thousands of former students of Lewis have already made the whole community richer in money and in spirit. 52 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY President: Rev. Alexander J. Burrowes, SJ. Secretary: Henry S. Spalding, S.J. Loyola University is under the direction of the Society of Jesus. Its courses are open to students of any religious denomination, and to men and women; but the undergraduate (college and high-school) courses are for male students only. DEPARTMENTS I. St. Ignatius College, 1076 West Twelfth St. This is the Arts Department of the University. II. Loyola Law School (formerly the Lincoln College of Law), Ashland Block, Clark and Randolph Sts. Classes are held in the evening. III. Loyola School of Philosophy and Social Science, 601 Ashland Block. Classes are held in the evening. The subjects taught are formal and material logic, cosmology, psychology, natural theology, ethics, and social science selected according to the needs of the day. The course is open to all young men qualified to profit by the lectures. IV. Bennett Medical College, Ada and Fulton Sts. V. Central States College of Pharmacy, 1360 Fulton St. VI. Loyola Institute of Engineering, Ev'anston and Devon Aves. Courses in civil, electrical, chemical, and mechanical engineering. Vn. Preparatory Schools: 1. St. Ignatius Academy, 1076 West Twelfth St. Four years' course of prescribed classical studies. Special classes are conducted in the evening, 2. St. Ignatius Commercial High School. Three years' course in business training. 3. Loyola Academy, Evanston and Devon Aves. Four years' prescribed high-school courses. S3 LIBRARIES The main Library of Loyola University is situated in St. Ignatius College, 1076 West Twelfth St. A permanent library building is under construction on the Rogers Park grounds. There are branches in the other departments. The Library of St. Ignatius College has two main sections: 1. A depository of 5,000 volumes from the U.S. govern- ment, and open to the use of the public from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. 2. The private library of the institution, consisting of 47,000 volumes. It is meant primarily for the use of the faculty and the students, but is also open to the use of respon- sible persons, on apphcation to the librarian. This restriction has been made necessary, because neither the Library nor the College is publicly or privately endowed, and has no fixed income; nor has the Library any fees, but is wholly dependent on the funds assigned by the institution. The Library has been of slow and careful growth, and its contents chosen strictly with reference to the special needs of the institution as a high school and college of classical and general culture. It has about 2,300 volumes of science and mathematics, 8,000 of English literature, 4,000 of the Greek and Latin classics, 2,500 of biography, 5,100 of history, 1,200 of philosophy and sociology, 10,000 of Scripture science and theology. The Library is unusually rich in its tomes and early editions; and it possesses some valuable sets, notably Migne's Greek and Latin Patrology, Mansi's Councils, the Jesuit Relations, Graevius' and Gronovius' Greek and Roman Antiquities, a complete set of the Acta Bollandiana. There are two branch libraries in the institution, besides the branches in the other departments of Loyola University. THE MUSEUM The museum is situated on the upper floor of St. Ignatius College, 1076 West Twelfth St. It is open to the public on application to the Curator, on Thursdays and Saturdays from i to 4 p.m. In the animal section, the collection of birds is noteworthy. A representative mineralogical collection is one of the features of the museum. 54 THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF CIVICS AND PHILANTHROPY 31 West Lake St. President: Graham Taylor Secretary: Edward L. Burchard This school, estabhshed eight years ago, has become a center in the new profession of social work, and for the develop- ment of a more general and critical interest in social condi- tions. It has a corps of staflf lecturers as well as many expert special lecturers from the leading public and private institu- tions of philanthropy and social refojrm. Special lecturers in this fisld come at regular intervals |to Chicago from other cities. Students have at their disposal the social and philan- thropic organizations in Chicago for practice work and for observational study. These include social settlements, charities, playgrounds, factories, probation courts, prisons, asylums, and churches. A department of social investigation in connection with the school is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. Under the personal direction of specialists the students in this department make detailed inquiries into social conditions in Chicago. The statistical results thus achieved are pub- lished by the Foundation. A library of 600 volumes on social topics is accessible to the students and others desiring to gather information. A social museum of maps, charts, slides, etc., is being developed at the school to illustrate to the student by graphic and comparative methods what has been done both at home and abroad in the solution of social problems. This material is sent out also in the form of exhibits to universities in the Middle West, and to several cities. 55 OTHER SCHOOLS Jewish Training School, 12th Place and Clinton St. Superintendent: Joseph L. Bache. Object. — Non-sectarian education of worthy poor. Schedule. — Day school: for elementary pupils, 9 a.m. to 4 P.M. Night school: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for pupils over sixteen years of age employed during the day. Pubhc stereopticon lectures: Thursdays 2:30 p.m. from October to May. Library. — Use free on application to superintendent; 1,700 volumes, miscellaneous, in German and Hebrew. Entertainments. — Free on application to superintendent. Chicago Hebrew Institute, 1258 Taylor St. Superin- tendent: Dr. J. Pedott. Classes. — Evening and day classes; evening classes in English, for the Hebrew immigrant; an evening commer- cial school; and an evening trade school. Library. — The Library consists of a representative col- lection of Hebrew books and of a branch reading-room and delivery station of the Chicago Public Library. Lectures. — Free public lectures are to be held on popular topics every Wednesday evening during the coming winter. On Friday evenings there are scheduled lectures on social hygiene and religious topics. School of Domestic Arts and Science, Burton Block, 177 N. State St. President: Mrs. Lynden Evans^ Directors: Misses Henrietta Connor and Elizabeth Mace. The school was establisiied when co-educational work was abandoned at Armour Institute, and was equipped by Mrs. P. D. Armour. It is maintained in part from dues, but largely from gifts and endowment funds. Classes are held in cooking, home nursing, hygiene, house- hold economics, sewing, dress-making and millinery. It maintains regular autumn, winter, and spring courses, and in addition two short summer courses. Laboratories, a museum of food and textile products, and a model kitchen are valuable parts of its equipment. Extension work has been carried on by lectures, and short courses were given during the past year in 23 women's clubs, hospitals, and settlements. 56 LAW SCHOOLS Chicago Kent College of Law, 26 Van Buren St. Supported by tuition fees; night school; has a library of 2,500 volumes open to students and lawyers. Chicago Law School, 103-9 Randolph St. Offers three years' law course, night and day classes; courses for court reporters, and has in connection "The Chicago Seminar of Sciences." Illinois College of Law, 12-14 E. Erie St. Pre-legal and legal work; night and day classes. Free public lectures held Fridays 8:15 p.m. Library consists of 1,500 volumes open to students and lawyers. John Marshall Law School, 35 N. Dearborn St. Occasional public lectures on political and social sciences during the fall and winter. Library of 3,000 volumes open to lawyers and law students. Lincoln College of Law. — See Loyola University. Northwestern Law School. — See Northwestern Uni- versity. University of Chicago Law School. — See The Univer- sity of Chicago. MEDICAL SCHOOLS Bennett Medical College. — See Loyola University. Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, 704 S. Lincoln St. (Valparaiso University), contains the Byron Robinson Medical Library. College of Physicians and Surgeons (University of Illinois), Congress and Honore Sts. Contains Quine Library, open to anyone interested in medical sciences. Hours 9 a.m. to 5 P.M., except Sundays and hohdays. Hahnemann Medical College, 2811 Cottage Grove Ave. Homeopathic. Use of library limited to students. Northwestern University Medical School. — See Northwestern University. Rush Medical College, W. Harrison St., between Her- mitage Ave. and Wood St. The college is affiliated with the University of Chicago; the last two years' work only are given at Rush, and the University gives courses which cover the first two years of medical work. The library occupies the 57 first floor of the Clinical Building, and contains about 16,000 volumes and files of all the leading medical journals. THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS Chicago Theological Seminary, 20 North Ashland Boulevard. Established by the Congregational church, and consists (i) of a Seminary, (2) a German, a Danish-Nor- wegian, and a Swedish Institute, (3) a school of church music, and (4) of a Seminary extension. The Seminary has a library of about 30,000 volumes, known as the Hammond Library, especially on Old Testament, Semitics, and Egyptology. Garrett Biblical Institute, Northwestern University Campus, Evanston, 111. A theological school of the Metho- dist Episcopal church, affiliated with Northwestern Uni- versity. The Institute library is open 6 hours every week day. The library contains over 15,000 volumes, including the notable Deering- Jackson Collection of Methodistica. McCoRMicK Theological Seminary, 2330 N. Halsted St. A seminary of the Presbyterian church. The Virginia Library consists of over 33,000 books, housed in a new and attractive building. It is accessible to anyone interested in theological studies. Moody Bible Institute, 80 Institute Place. An inter- denominational Christian institute. Has day and evening classes, and supplies men for evangelistic services, throughout the city. In addition to the Bible course, a music course is given. Library, 3,000 volumes. St. Viator's, 3208 N. 40th Ave. Prepares novitiates for Institute of the Clerics of St. Viator. Library, 2,000 volumes, may be consulted on presentation of proper cre- dentials. Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Maywood, 111. Library, 10,000 volumes, mainly theological. The University of Chicago Divinity School, Haskell Museum, The University of Chicago. Western Theological Seminary, 1113 Washington Blvd. Library, 6,000 volumes, open for reference during the entire day and evening. 58 PUBLIC PARKS SOUTH PARK COMMISSION Offices: 57th St. and Cottage Grove Ave. President: John Barton Payne Superintendent: J. Frank Foster Playground Director: Edward B. DeGroot The South Park Commission has control of the parks and boulevards in the South Park District, 92.6 sq, miles in extent, and including the South Town of Chicago, Hyde Park,. South Chicago, Grand Crossing, Englewood, and the Stock Yards, with a total population of over two-thirds of a million. In this district twenty-three parks have been laid out, with a total area of over 2,000 acres, ranging from the small Hardin Square of 5 acres to Jackson Park, which covers almost a square mile. The moife important of these parks are connected by boulevards, in all 28I miles in length. The landscape gardener in forty years of unremitting toil has here developed magnificent groves, lawns, and gardens. The trees, shrubbery, and flowers represent a careful selection of the most pleasing and adaptable varieties. Birds in great numbers and considerable variety make their home in the larger parks and offer excellent opportunities for observation. The student of Nature finds reproduced here within the city practically all the conditions of wild life. Manifold means of outdoor exercise are ofifered, from the golf-courses in Jackson Park to baseball and tennis, boating in summer, and skating in winter. In each of ten parks indoor gymnasiums and outdoor playgrounds with wading pools have been provided. Instruction is given by trained men and women in gymnastics, sports, and dancing. A considerable number of athletic contests and play-festivals are staged, indoors and out, which often attract a large attendance. The direction of social and educational work forms an important feature of the work of the Commission. In the ten small parks listed below assembly halls and clubrooms are . 59 available for the use of the neighborhood. The total attend- ance in the assembly halls is about 250,000 annually and in the clubrooms over 40,000. There is an increasing use of the halls for dramatics, musicals, lectures, debates, and social gatherings, English classes for foreigners have been organ- ized to some extent. Lectures have been given by the medical associations in an effort to spread knowledge of better methods of sanitation and personal hygiene. Many public schools have held exercises in various assembly halls. Neigh- DAVIS SQUARE PARK HOUSE AND PLAYGROUND In the Stock-Yards District borhood bands and orchestras have in many cases provided home-talent concerts. The service of the assembly halls and clubrooms is free, but may not be used for political or religious propaganda. The neighborhoods of these various park- halls have been quick to realize their possibilities for enter- tainment and instruction, and by the active co-operation of the directors the various park-halls are being used in some cases practically to the extent of their possibilities. In all these halls reading-rooms are maintained, five of them 60 being branches of the Public Library. The total attendance at the reading-rooms and libraries was 637,683 during the past year. In all of the squares and principal parks outdoor concerts are given by the best bands in the city, one each week from the middle of July to the end of August. PARK ENUMERATION AND SPECIAL FEATURES Jackson Park. — 543 acres, extending one and three-eighths miles along Lake Michigan. »*iiW^' m4 NEIGHBORHOOD FESTIVAL— CORNELL SQUARE Washington Park. — 371 acres. The park has exceptional floral displays and a large conservatory at all times open to the public. The conservatory has a glass area of 18,000 sq. ft. and is always attractive by reason of a varied floral exhibit. Grant Park. — 205 acres, still in process of improvement. South of the Art Institute is the Logan Monument by St. Gaudens. Marquette Park. — 323 acres; one-fourth improved. McKinley Park. — 75 acres; outdoor gymnasium and swimming-pool. 61 Calumet Park. — 176 acres; has public bathing beach. Gage Park. — 20 acres. The following parks are known as play parks and contain gymnasium and field-houses: Mark White Square 29th and Halsted Sts. Armour 33d St. and 5th Ave. Cornell 50th and Wood Sts. Russell 83d St. and Illinois Ave. Sherman 5 2d St. and Garfield Blvd. Ogden Park 64th St. and Center Ave. Hamilton Park. .72d to 74th Sts. between C.R.I.& P. R.R. and W. Ind. R.R. tracks. Bessemer Park 89th St. and S. Chicago Ave. Palmer Park iiith St. and South Park Ave. Davis Square 49th St. and Marshfield Ave. Hardin Square 25th St. and Wentworth Ave. Square No. 4 45th St. and Princeton Ave,. Unimproved: Parks No. 15, 16, and 17. \A/^EST CHICAGO PARK COMMISSION President: William Kolacek Secretary: George A. Mugler Superintendent: A. C. Schrader The West Chicago Park Commissioners have jurisdiction over and control 13 parks with an area of 629. 28 acres and 24. 75 miles of boulevards within the Town of West Chicago, the total area of parks and boulevards being 1,035.43 acres. The total population of the West Park District is about 872,000, within an area of about 35.5 square miles. The Conservatory in Garfield Park is one of the largest in this country, having a floor space of 68,000 sq. ft. and cubical contents of 1,927,000 cu. ft., and consists of a large palm house, fern house, conifer house, show house, stove house and economic house, showing interesting economic plants. The stove house contains a lot of bright-colored tropical plants, such as Pandanus, Anthuriums, Crotons, Dracamas, Caladiums, etc. The fern house is attractive with its large tree ferns, naturalistic rockery, and lawn spaces formed by means of lycopodium. In the show house can be found rich collections of orchids, and various plants in season, such as bulbous plants, azaleas, rhododendron, etc., 62 for Easter: fuchsias, begonias, etc., in summer: in fall, chrysanthemums; and in midwinter, camellias, poinsettias, etc. The conservatory is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. daily, and at special periods, such as Easter and midwinter, the conservatory is open until 10 p.m. daily. The three playground parks in operation are known as Small Park No. i, No. 2, and No. 3. In each park a field- house is placed of ample dimensions to house the various CONSERVATORY— GARFIELD PARK activities. In these field-houses are located the indoor gymnasiums for both men and women, library and reading- room, indoor shower baths, kind6rgarten room, assembly hall, and clubrooms. Outside of the field-houses are found the large swimming-pools, outdoor gymnasiums, the play-fields, wading-pools for children, and so far as space will permit, small garden plats are assigned to children to teach gardening. The gymnasiums, both indoor and outdoor, are under supervision of trained instructors, and the play-fields, chil- 63 dren's playgrounds, and swimming-pools are under the super- vision of competent attendants. The libraries and reading-rooms are operated as branches of the Public Library of the City of Chicago. LINCOLN PARK COMMISSION President: Francis T. Simmons Superintendent: A. S. Lewis The Lincoln Park Commission has under its jurisdiction that part of the city lying north and east of the North Branch of the Chicago River. The principal park in this district is Lincoln Park, with conservatory and zo5logical garden. About i,50D varieties of animals are kept in the zoo, a notable feature of which is the large aviary. The conservatory is noteworthy for its collection of orchids and floral displays in season. The Commission maintains the following small parks commonly equipped with field-houses and playgrounds: Lake Shore Playground. — Foot of Chicago Ave. Seward Park. — Sedgwick, Elm, Orleans, and Hill Sts. The fiald house contains an assembly hall, library, and club- room. A series of free illustrated lectures are scheduled for Tuesday evenings, commencing in January. Stanton Park. — Vedder, Vine, and Rees Sts. Hamlin Park. — Hoyne, WeUington, Robey Sts. and Barrington Ave. Has assembly hall with three clubrooms, stage, roof garden, and branch library. Welles Park. — Montrose and Western Aves. At all these parks recreation work is carried on as outlined for the South Park Commission. 64 SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS HULL HOUSE 335 South Halsted St. Head Resident: Jane Addams Illustrated public lectures either in courses or singly are held every Sunday evening on travel and popular sciences, and public concerts are given every Sunday afternoon. Other lectures are given at the House each winter under the auspices of Hull House clubs, most regularly those every Wednesday afternoon for the Woman's Club. Two groups of evening classes are divided into advanced and beginners; in the latter, English and composition are taught to immigrants, three or four classes each evening, the pupils being graded as carefully as possible. The advanced classes, fewer in number, teach civics, history, literature, etc. There are 175 pupils in the evening classes of the domestic science department, cooking, miUinery, and dress-making. The latter are held in the same rooms with the Hull House Labor Museum, where an attempt is made to connect the classes with the evolution of the textiles through the primi- tive methods of spinning and weaving still to be found in the Hull House neighborhood. Among the classes for young men are those in machine shops and those in the electrical club with lectures, demon- strations and a_ laboratory of its own. Some young men are also found in the Boys' Club classes. These latter consist of forging, brass-molding, tin-smithing, carpentry, and cabinet-making, telegraphy, commercial photography, cobbling, hammock-weaving, printing, an office-boys' class in typewriting, and use of a telephone switchboard. One of the older educational activities of the House is the Hull House Music School which is designed to give a thorough musical instruction to a limited number of children. Each child receives two lessons each week in singing and two 65 lessons either on the piano or violin. The School occupies a building of its own and gives occasional recitals which are largely attended. The Hull House Studio has been maintarned for many years. Instruction is given in drawing, painting, designing, lithography, etc. The little Hull House Theater seats 250. Plays are con- stantly given therein by the various Dramatic Associations of Hull House. Several libraries and reading-rooms are connected with the House, one in the Boys' Club open every day from 3 p.m. to 6 P.M. and from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., one belonging to the Hull House Woman's Club, and the Hull House general reading-room, open every evening. THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN CENTRE Oakwood Blvd. and Langley Ave. Head Resident: Jenkin Lloyd Jones The institution is a six-story and basement building, given to the institutional work of a social center with All Souls Church as its core and dynamic power. The basement is given over to children's amusement, manual training in wood and iron, forges, dark rooms for photographic purposes, etc. The main floor is largely occupied by a branch of the Chi- cago Public Library, with approximately 5,000 circulating volumes, and adults' and children's reading-rooms. The second and third stories are occupied by the Audi- torium, which with the galleries has a seating capacity of 1,000, an organ, rest-room, picture-room and other con- veniences, and a commodious stage. On the fourth floor is the Emerson Hall, with a seating capacity of 250, the Browning room. Civics room, Bible-room, Banquet-room and kitchen for social occasions. The sixth floor is divided between the Gymnasium, with the necessary baths, lockers, etc., for men and women, and domestic science, cooking, sewing, weaving, kindergarten, etc. A working force of some 22 give their whole time to the institution, which is open seven days in the week and all 66 the waking hours of each day. It aims to be a center toward which all legitimate needs of the neighborhood may tend and from which all available help may radiate. Its imme- diate territory reaches from squalor and poverty to elegance and riches, and the institution seeks to ameliorate the severi- ties and weaknesses all along the line by an exchange of commodities and courtesies. In a certain "round-up" of its kindergarten constituency thirteen different nationahties were represented. Its activi- ties enhst the co-operation of a wide range, religiously, socially, and economically. It serves as a " Center" for many neighborhood activities, and its rooms are regularly utilized by various social and civic clubs. Its material plant has cost about $200,000; it has an endowment fund of $100,000 and an annual budget of about $24,000. Its various activities show a weekly attendance of between 3,000 and 4,000 individuals. OTHER SETTLEMENTS Association House, 2138 W. North Ave. Head Resi- dent: Mary L. Atkins. Religious instruction has been considerably emphasized in the work of this settlement. Library. — 1,600 volumes, and a free delivery station of the Public Library. Schedule. — (i) Direction of children's clubs for dramatic, literary, and handicraft training; enrolment 800. (2) A department of domestic economy, with classes in dress- making, millinery, embroidery, and cooking; over 500 in attendance. (3) Sewing classes for small children. (4) During winter on Saturday afternoons a story hour is held for the children. Henry Booth House, 701 W. 14th Place. Head Resi- dent: T. W. Allinson. Library. — 2,400 volumes, over half being of literature /or children in the lower grades, and the remainder of carefully chosen novels, poetry, history, reference, and 67 schoolbooks. Once a week the library is open for circulation, A story hour for children is held weekly. Schedule. — (i) Occasional lectures from universities and elsewhere, (2) Night classes in English, intended for foreigners of adult age, who would not, or for some reason could not, go to the courses offered at the public night classes. Eli Bates House, 621 Elm St. The settlement is in the heart of the North Side Italian colony. Library. — Children's circulating library; story and game hours. Schedule. — Domestic Science school for women and girls. Classes in basketry, lace-making, embroidery, etc. Night classes in English. Italian club meets Monday nights; addresses by Italian-Americans, or Italian concerts. Chicago Commons, Grand Ave. and North Morgan St. Warden: Professor Graham Taylor. Class hours: Every day from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 10 P.M. The activities of the Commons are both social and educa- tional, and much is done in co-operation with neighborhood organizations, and with welfare movements, some of which are city wide and some nation wide in their scope. The activities of the settlement are built about the needs of the neighborhood and attract regularly over 3,000 people a week during the winter. Each summer about 2,500 people get some sort of an outing through the activity of the Commons, ranging from day picnics to camp outings of several weeks. Christopher House, 1618 Fullerton Ave. Head Resi- dent: James J. Coale. Library. — 1,500 volumes. Schedule. — Night school for foreigners, and an English class for Servian girls. Classes in freehand, mechanical, and architectural drawing, and in manual training. Cooking classes for girls, young women, and women. Weekly stereop- ticon lectures. Gymnasium classes, clubs of various kinds, and musical work. Frederick Douglass Center, 3032 Wabash Ave. Head Resident: Mrs. C. P. Woolley. A social center organized for the benefit of the colored 68 people. Two domestic science classes provide instruction in cooking and sewing. Several clubs carry on educational work, particularly the Women's Club. Emerson House, 1800 Emerson Ave. Head Resident: Mrs. Rhoda A. Leach. Library and Reading-Room open afternoons and evenings; dehvery station of Chicago Public Library. A number of clubs are organized for adults and children, particularly a Young Housekeeper's Club and a Mother's Economy Club. Class instruction in cooking, sewing, manual training, and music. Gad's Hill Center, 20th and Robey Sts. Resident: Mrs. Leila Martin. Library: Delivery station of Public Library and a loan library of the Illinois Extension Library Committee. A weekly story hour is established, with an average attendance of 50. Classes. — Two classes in English^ manual training, and domestic science. Elizabeth Marcy Home, 134 Newberry Ave. Superin- tendent: Miss Bertha Brown. Library. — 1,500 volumes. Tuesdays and Fridays, 3:00- 5:00 P.M. Classes. — English night school for Jewish immigrants; enrolment 130. Maxwell Settlement, 12 14 S. Clinton St. Secretary: Bennett Epstein. Organized particularly for social work among Jews. Reading-Room. — Open at all times; newspapers and books in Yiddish and English. Classes. — Organized on demand in Enghsh, stenography, domestic science, etc. A nominal fee is charged. Neighborhood House, 6710 May St. Resident: Miss G. Nicholes. Classes for adults in dress-making, millinery, cooking, elo- cution, dancing, and rhetoric. Individual lessons are given in piano and violin. Olivet Institute, Vedder and Penn Sts. Superin- tendent: N. B. Barr. 6q An institutional church maintaining manual-training and domestic-science classes, also a medical dispensary and chil- dren's camp at Lake Geneva. South Deering Neighborhood Center, 1044 i Hoxie Ave. Resident: Miss Sarah Kenney. Directs clubs for young men and boys. Teaches sewing, cooking, English to immigrants, manual training, and music. Library. — A delivery station of the Public Library and a free reading-room. South End Center, 3212 91st St. Resident: Miss Grace Darling. Classes. — Sewing, manual training, English to supplement work of public night schools. Library. — 1,000 volumes, and a deposit from the Pubhc Library. University of Chicago Settlement, 4630 Gross Ave. Resident: Miss Mary E. McDowell. Located in the foreign center of the stock-yards district. Classes. — Cooking and manual-training classes. A school of citizenship prepares men for registration teaches English, and the duties of citizenship. Clubs for boys and girls, debating societies, a mother's club. Instruc- tion in hygiene by a resident nurse to neighborhood families. 70 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSO- CIATION OF CHICAGO Class work. — Evening class instruction for men and older boys is given at most of the city departments, for which tuition fees are charged, ranging from $i .00 to $10.00 a sub- ject course for a term of three months. About one hundred different subjects are offered, grouped under the following heads: Elementary, Business, Special Vocational, Drawing, Engineering and College Preparatory. Special class in- struction for members of railroad departments is also provided. Day schools for young men and boys are main- tained in several of the city departments, offering grammar- school and high-school, commercial and technical courses, and special courses for apprentices in the building trades. Clubs. — Voluntary organizations among the members are conducted for the purpose of promoting debating, scientific research, and interest in subjects supplemental to classwork. Lectures and talks. — Series of educational lectures and practical talks are given at frequent intervals throughout the year at all the city and railroad departments, which are open to both members and the public. Announcements of these lectures and talks are made through the daily papers. Reading-rooms. — All the city and railroad departments maintain reading-rooms furnished with current periodicals and newspapers. The use of this privilege is restricted to members and visitors holding passes. Several departments are equipped with small reference libraries for the use of class students and other members. English instruction for foreigners. — The Chicago Young Men's Christian Association co-operates with other agencies in the organizing and conduct of special classes in English for foreign-speaking boys and men. The instruction is free or given at a nominal charge. 71 General Offices. — 1201, 19 South La Salle St. General Departments. — • Central — 19 South La Salic St. Division Street — 16 21 Division St. West Side — 15 13 West Monroe St. Wilson Avenue — 1725 Wilson Ave. Scars-Roebuck — Corner Kcdzie Ave. and Harvard St (in process of construction). M, & k "^-^. ^ gl Mm ii m W^' mm' UdL. \ m I '«>^ mt fip^*^' --^..JJ. ^m HYDE PARK BRANCH— Y. M. C. A. Hyde Park — 1400 East 53d St. North Side Boys' Club — 1336 Fullerton Ave. Railroad Departments. — Pennsylvania Lines (ssth St.) — ^^2 Garfield Blvd. Pennsylvania Lines (59th St.) — 59th & Leavitt Sts. Dearborn Station — 817 Plymouth PI. Chicago & North Western — 367 North 41st Ave. Grand Trunk— 3508 West 51st St. Chicago & Eastern Illinois — South Holland, 111. 72 MUSICAL ORGANIZATIONS Apollo Musical Club, 40 Randolph St. Chicago Musical College, 624 Michigan Blvd. — The school occupies a new seven-story building, equipped with studios, a concert auditorium, Ziegfeld Hall, rehearsal halls, excellent libraries, reception rooms, and executive offices. Instruction is given in every branch of music and a School of Acting, Opera, and Expression is attached to the institu- tion. Saturday morning free public concerts are given by members of the faculty and students. The school also has occasional public lectures by men of note. Germania Maennerchor, 25 Germania Place. — This organization is the most important of a great number of German musical clubs in the city. The library of the society is open to the public and contains 1,379 books and 562 pamph- lets. These are all German-American, and are representa- tive of German-American Literature from Sour down to date. Occasional lectures on art, music, and literature are given by the club. Irish Choral Society, 515, 243 Wabash Ave. The Theodore Thomas Orchestral Association. President: Bryan Lathrop; Vice-President: Daniel H. Burnham; Second Vice-President: C. Norman Fay; Secre- tary: Philo a. Otis; Treasurer and Manager: Frederick J. Wessels; Assistant Manager: Henry E. Voegeli. The Association was founded in 189 1 for the purpose of giving a series of concerts in the City of Chicago, in the belief that no semi-public institution can contribute more to the pleasure of the intelligent and to the elevation of the masses than an organization of the character of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra. The series now embraces 56 performances, one every Fri- day afternoon and one every Saturday evening for 28 weeks, beginning about the middle of October. In addition a series 73 of 6 matinees is given at the University of Chicago. Mem- bership of the Orchestra is 87. Orchestra Hall, the Home of the Thomas Orchestra, was built by popular subscription in 1903-4 as the Orchestra's endowment. There were some 8,500 subscribers to the fund, and against the property neither stocks nor bonds have been issued, the organization being quasi-public in character. The rentals from the Hall and the sale of concert tickets have placed the Orchestra on a self-supporting basis. From 189 1 to 1905 Theodore Thomas was conductor of the Orchestra, and since his death the Orchestra has been under the leadership of Frederick Stock. After the death of Mr. Thomas his widow presented to the Association the Theodore Thomas Musical Library, with the exception of a few rare scores which have been placed in the Newberry Library. LECTURE ASSOCIATIONS, CLUBS, ETC. The Daily News Lectures. — For ten years The Daily News has been giving free lectures in public-school halls in all parts of Chicago, but particularly in districts remote from down-town attractions. It rents these halls from the Board of Education and gives free lectures on nearly all Friday nights from early in October until late in May. In recent years it has given more than 300 lectures during each school year. These lectures are divided into fall, winter, and spring courses. A considerable number of lecturers co-operate in this work, many year after year. Some of the lecturers travel widely in search of lecture material. They are addressed primarily to adults, and in the main children must be accom- panied by their parents. It is the special effort of The Daily News to make its lectures of the school extension sort, awaken- ing new trains of thought in the minds of busy men and women and helping adult persons of foreign birth who are learning the language and customs of this country. The sub- jects treated are of many kinds, including new discoveries in science, topics from American history, great historical events 74 in other lands, great men and women of this and other coun- tries, and also readings from the poets, particularly Shake- speare. These topics are all well illustrated with stereopticon pictures. The free lectures are given with the co-operation of the school principals where the courses are held. Tickets for the lectures are distributed by the principals, who also have charge of the audiences at the lectures. In the future, as in the past, courses of free lectures will be held in suitable school halls wherever the school principals desire the lectures and are willing to co-operate with The Daily News in making them successful by distributing tickets directly to those who desire them and in other ways. It is the intention of The Daily News to increase from year to year the number of free lectures. Announcements of the lectures are made from time to time in the columns of The Daily News. The Chicago Medical Society. — Saturday evening course of free lectures in Fullerton Hall, November to May, on subjects dealing with sanitation, hygiene, and health. Attendance varies from loo to 500. The Chicago Geographic Society. — Lectures in Fuller- ton Hall, Art Institute, once a month, from October to May. Attendance is limited to members and their guests. The lectures are of a geographic character, and are mostly on travel. The Chicago Sunday Evening Club. — Orchestra Hall. President: Clifford W. Barnes; Secretary: Philip L. James. The Sunday Evening Club provides the only large free meetings of a religious character in the business center of Chicago on Sunday nights. The seats are free, the services are strictly non-sectarian, and everyone is welcome. Eighty thousand was the total in round numbers for last season, making an average of 2,300 each evening. The Club was organized and is conducted by well-known Chicago busi- ness men, some of whom take part in every service. Men of national and international reputation, drawn from every walk in life, give talks on individual and civic better- ment. Governors, senators, judges, educators, authors, presidents of great corporations, in addition to the most 75 distinguished clergymen of all denominations, are included among the speakers. The music is furnished by a trained chorus of fifty voices and a quartet of noted soloists. Alliance Fran^aise, — Fine Arts Bldg., 410 S. Michigan Ave. President: William Burry; Secretary: Isabel Lynn. The Alliance Frangaise is an international association for the propagation of the French language and the establishment of closer relation between France and other countries. Free public lectures and readings are held alternately every Saturday from 12 to i p.m. at Fullerton Hall, Art Institute. The program is entirely in French and all those interested in the French language are invited to attend. The French Library contains 7,000 volumes, including classical and modern literature, works of art, science, phi- losophy and history. It is open every day except Sundays and holidays, from 9 to i and from 2 to 5 o'clock. In addition to the privilege of drawing books, the members have the use of the reading-room, where current revues are on file and where books of French plays and operas being given in Chicago may be found. New volumes and the latest publications from Paris are continually being received. During the winter season a series of causeries on French books and authors are held at the library rooms on Saturday afternoons. Germanistic Society of Chicago. — President: Harry Pratt Judson; Corresponding Secretary: Starr W. Cutting. This society aims to promote the knowledge and study of German civilization. Lectures are held every alternate Mon- day evening from November to May in Fullerton Hall, Art Institute. Prominent lecturers, European and American, are secured for this series. The lectures are alternately German and English and are limited in their scope only by their rele- vance to matters German. Admission is by ticket. ScHWABENVEREiN, North Side Turner Hall, 257 N. Clark St. Secretary: Julius Schmidt. A militant organization of South German culture which gives occasional public lectures. 76 THE CITY CLUB OF CHICAGO 218 South Clark St. After October i, at 315 Plymouth Court President: Henry B. Favill Secretary: Spencer L. Adams Civic Secretary: George E. Hooker The Library of the City Club of Chicago is a working collection of books and pamphlets on civic and social subjects. Its primary purpose is to furnish reference material for the use of the committees of the City Club, which are interested in the investigation and improvement of local municipal conditions, -The Library at present consists of between 2,500 and 2,600 volumes and 95 boxes of pamphlet material, magazine clip- pings, typewritten reports, and other literature of the ephem- eral sort. Much of this material, of course, is to be found in the larger libraries of the city, but some of it is not avail- able elsewhere. Some of the subjects dealt with are Municipal Art, City Charters, Public Education, Public Utilities (in- cluding Gas, Electricity, Telephones, and Street Railways), Harbors, Wharves and Waterways, Public Health, Housing Conditions, Labor Conditions, Parks and Playgrounds, Political Organizations, Publicity and Statistics, Municipal Finance, Streets and Alleys, and Traffic and Transportation. The Library has in its files the charters of a large number of commission-governed cities. Since the Library has been established primarily for the members and the committees of the City Club, it has not been thrown open to the general public, but persons engaged in serious research, if properly introduced, have rarely been de- nied its privileges. As a part of its civic work, the Club also maintains a Free Lecture Bureau which will, upon request, furnish speakers on social and civic subjects to churches, societies, clubs, and other organizations in Chicago. 77 The Woman's City Club. — Room 225, Northwestern University Building, 31 W. Lake St., Chicago. President: Mrs. H. M. Wilmarth; Superintendent: Miss Anna E. Nicholes. The Woman's City Club was organized June 4, 19 10. The purpose of the Club, as stated in the by-laws, is: "To bring together women interested in promoting the welfare of the city; to co-ordinate and render more effective the scattered social and civic activities in which they are engaged; to extend a knowledge of public affairs; to aid in improving civic conditions, and to assist in arousing an increased sense of social responsibility for the safeguarding of the home, the maintenance of good government, and the ennobling of that larger home of all — the city." With a view to civic improve- ment the Club has been investigating housing conditions, bathing beaches, city waste, foods, and police-station and jail conditions. Other lines of work are projected. 78 INDEX Abraham Lincoln Centre, 66. Alliance Frangaise, 76. Armour Institute of Technol- ogy, 49- Art Institute, 29. Ashland Block Association, 27. Association House, 67. Bennett Medical College, 57. Board of Education, 3. Chicago Academy of Sciences, 37. Chicago Bar Association, 27. Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, 57. Chicago Commons, 68. Chicago Geographic Society, 75. Chicago Hebrew Institute, 56. Chicago Historical Societ}', 24. Chicago Kent College of Law, 57. Chicago Law Institute, 27. Chicago Law School, 57. Chicago Medical Society, 75. Chicago Musical College, 73. Chicago PubHc Library, 10. Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, 55. Chicago Theological Semi- nary, 58. Christopher House, 68, City Club, 77, College of Physicians and Sur- geons, 57. Columbus Memorial Medical Library, 28. Daily News Lectures, 74. Eli Bates House, 68. Elizabeth IMarcy Home, 69. Emerson House, 69. Evanston Historical Society, 27. Evanston Public Library, 27. Field Museum, ^^. Frederick Douglass Center, 68. Gad's Hill Center. 69. Garrett Biblical Institute, 58. German-American Historical Society of Illinois, 28. Germania Maennerchor, 73. Germanistic Society of Chi- cago, 76. Hahnemann Medical College, 57. Henry Booth House, 67. Hull House, 65. Illinois College of Law, 57. Irish Choral Society, 73. Jewish Training School, 56. John Crerar Library, 16. John Marshall Law School, 57. 79 Lewis Institute, 51. Lincoln College of Law, 57. Lincoln Park Commission, 64. Loyal Legion of America, 28. Loyola University, 53. Maxwell Settlement, 69. McCormick Theological Sem- inary, 58. Moody Bible Institute, 58. Neighborhood House, 69. Newberry Library, 20. Northwestern University, 45. Oak Park Public Library, 27. Olivet Institute, 69. Public Schools, 5. Rush Medical College, 57. St. Viator's Normal Institute, 58. School of Domestic Arts and Science, 56. Schwabenverein, 76. South Deering Neighborhood Center, 70. South End Center, 70. South Park Commission, 59. Sunday Evening Club, 75. Swedish Historical Society of America, 28. Teachers' College, 5. Theological Sem. of the Ev.- Luth. Church, 58. Thomas Orchestral Associa- tion, 73. University of Chicago, 40, 57, 58. University of Chicago Set- tlement, 57, 58, 70, West Park Commission, 62. Western Society of Engineers, 28. Western Theological Semi- nary, 58. Women's City Club, 78. Young Men's Christian Asso ciation, 71. 80 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 019 877 737 7