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wilmettebeacondaily.com news the wilmette beacon | October 17, 2019 | 21 A Word From The (Former) President More news flashes from days of yore Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 2 days ago • June 11, 1899: Wilmette Village Trustee Walter Faraday, 33, a cycling enthusiast, was arrested by Evanston police, along with 38 other bikers, for riding on the sidewalks of Evanston. The bikers claimed that riding on the sidewalks was necessitated by the impassable conditions of Evanston’s unpaved roadways. Faraday should be embarrassed by his arrest, because one year ago, he spearheaded the passage of a Wilmette ordinance prohibiting sidewalkriding, and he personally arrested twelve Evanstonians who were similarly avoiding Wilmette’s impassable roadways. His apparent credo: “Do what I say, not what I do.” • Feb. 4, 1900: Wilmette has no public park whatsoever, but Village President Joseph McKittrick, 52, is anxious to establish one on the lakefront. “With others I am advocating a park on the lakeshore. We can get riparian rights and frontage on the other side of Sheridan road, the finest interurban driveway in all the world. We want a sightly pier, and boating, and bathing facilities, and will not rest until we get them.” Alexander MacLean, 49, who lives at the southeast corner of Forest Avenue and 10th Street, expressed the hope that “a public-spirited citizen will donate a park of large dimensions on the shore of Lake Michigan.” Good luck with that idea, Alexander. • Sept. 25, 1903: William Taylor, 36, of Essex Road in Kenilworth, was killed this evening when he jumped from a Chicago & North Western train. Taylor, a grain trader and Kenilworth’s po- In 1900, before Wilmette had any parks or a park district, Village President Joseph McKittrick advocated for a lakefront park. Wilmette Park District was founded eight years later to make the lakefront park a reality. (Change doesn’t happen overnight.) Photo courtesy of Wilmette Historical Museum. lice magistrate, was on his way home when he became confused and mistook the Wilmette stop for the Kenilworth stop. As the train pulled north from Wilmette, he dashed from his seat and jumped from the platform of the coach, landing beneath the wheels. A dinner party at the Taylor residence was canceled. Besides his 33-year-old widow, William is survived by six young children. • Oct. 7, 1903: Alma Severson, 16, of Wilmette, a recent Swedish immigrant, left her mark on a “masher” whom she encountered on the electric train in Evanston. The young man, sitting across the aisle, “glanced knowingly at the pretty Wilmette girl. Then he winked at her.” She turned away. Undaunted, he crossed the aisle and sat next to her. She demanded that he “go right back where you belong!” He only smiled. “Well, then, take this”, she replied, striking him in his winking eye. He jumped from the seat and she gave chase, demanding that the conductor “put this man off the car at once!” The conductor complied. The startled passengers “cheered the plucky girl.” A newspaper columnist in Davenport, Iowa, cited this incident while blasting “mashers” as “contemptible human beings,” “freaks,” “fools,” “poor specimens of manhood,” “imbeciles,” and “a disgrace to the male sex.” • July 21, 1904: Wilmette resident Alexander MacLean, 53, died several weeks after suffering a minor injury. MacLean, a silk buyer for Carson Pirie Scott department store and an avid golfer, was struck in the left foot by an errant golf ball. Based on his religious beliefs, he declined medical care, even when the bruise became gangrenous. Finally his left leg was amputated, but his weakened body couldn’t tolerate the trauma. • Feb. 16, 1907: Wilmette complained to the Chicago City Council about the tolls being charged by the City’s telephone franchisee for calls from Wilmette to the City. Village Trustee Henry Gardiner, 34, of 720 Lake Avenue, is chair of the Village Board’s public service committee. He argues that the current rate for a call to Chicago — 10 cents for one minute, 15 cents for two or three minutes, and 5 cents for each additional minute — is too high for Wilmette’s 600 phone customers, many of whom are Chicago businessmen. He’s requesting that the rate be lowered to 5 cents for a three-minute conversation. Letters to the Editor Please leave Maple Park alone Renovation is planned by Wilmette’s Park District for Maple Park. However, the park, as it is currently, is a special place with appeal for all ages. It is attractive during all four seasons and has activity options for all ages. The playground areas are not duplicated elsewhere in the area, so Maple Park offers enticing play options. It is our fear that Maple Park’s “renovation,” will reduce Maple Park to a plain, regular, boring park. This is a real problem, as highlighted in a recent New York Times article (“Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous,” May 10, 2019). Modern playgrounds are smooth plastic and metal components that give a controlled and organized environment. As noted in the New York Times article, a non-profit THE LAKE FOREST LEADER Principal’s absence leaves DPM staff, parents with more questions than answers More than 60 Deer Path Middle School staff members and parents attended a special Lake Forest School District 67 board meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 8, in search of information regarding Principal Tom Cardamone, whose absence from the school starting more than two weeks ago has left many unanswered questions. Eight teachers and three parents spoke during the public comment section of the meeting to voice their support of Cardamone. According to the teachers who spoke, Cardamone was escorted off school grounds around 3:45 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in front of teachers, students and parents and then placed on administrative leave. Reporting by Peter Kaspari, Contributing Editor. Full story at LakeForestLeader- Daily.com THE NORTHBROOK TOWER Northbrook’s The Claim Company to move to new location on Skokie Boulevard After a history in Northbrook Court that spans four decades, The Claim Company is heading to a new home. The locally owned restaurant announced last month it will be moving playground research and design organization found that playgrounds in Europe, with seemingly more hazardous design elements, made children be more physically active and stay longer than the more sanitized American playgrounds. There were even fewer injuries on the more seemingly hazardous playgrounds, as children on American “safe” and “accessible” playgrounds become bored and then perform unintended dangerous maneuvers. The Executive Summary of the above study states, “The U.S. seems to have reached “peak safety.” We have created a nation of overly expensive, homogenously safe, and insidiously boring play spaces.” A 2015 systematic review using the highly regarded GRADE framework for study quality found crucial positive effects of appropriate risky outdoor play on both physical health and social development.(Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2015;12(6):6423-54.) We fear, too, a change from the sand at the surface of the playground equipment to the too common rubber surfacing which has a “…relatively high cost, limited play affordance, and increased risk of fractures…”(J Appl Biomech.2013;29:628-33). In addition, we appreciate the excellent maintenance this park has received from the Park District and Village, and, as such, little change is needed. The Park District and Village should pay attention to current research and not turn Maple Park into yet another redundant “safe” and accessible park. Laura Hemmer, M.D. Wilmette resident to a new location at 776 Skokie Blvd. in Northbrook. Its new home will be next to the Mariano’s store at the intersection of Skokie Boulevard and Dundee Road. Upcoming redevelopment plans at the mall set the move in motion, according to owner Arnie Krause. Krause, a longtime resident of Northbrook, said the mall informed ownership the real estate it was interested in redeveloping included The Claim Company. Reporting by Martin Carlino, Contributing Editor. Full story at NorthbrookTower- Daily.com. Please see nfyn, 25