Forty-one Railroads Enter City of Chicago Chicago is often referred to as the railroad center | depots in the city and there is a daily traffic of of the country. Forty-one railroads enter the city and they represent 40 per cent of the mileage in the United States. The roads occupy six major 1,294 passenger trains. Chicago has 160 railway yards, 73 freight stations and 85 locomotive terminals. Sixteen belt lines in the city have a trackage of 2,122 miles. Retail Trade in Chicago in 1939 Num Kind of business ber of Total, all stores Food Group. Source: United States Bureau of the Census ployes In Yr.. Kind of business ber of Sales stores $1,000 23 145 5,896 375 578 219 8,605 1,020 1,514 4,679 Filling Stations 2,161 47,069 4,405 4,486 2.095 36,648 4,508 2,826 3,354 Lumber yards. 141 16,059 Candy, nut 1,373 383 3,772 756 535 Bldg. materials. 2.469 45 Confectionery. 6,425 372 585 1.903 6,963 797 506 Delicatessen Heating, plumb 100 3,518 435 678 1,450 7,769 370 Fruit, vegetable 299 Paint,glass, wall'p 330 5,777 584 5,395 575 485 Bakeries, caterers Electrical supply 18 599 735 6,413 1,122 775 Hard're group. 879 10,771 891 Other stores.. 153 1,163 2,130 331 417 Hardware. 876 10,655 882 1,153 General Stores Eating Places.. 4,193 85,830 26,776 19,921 (with food)... Res't, caf'ias, l'rm 2,755 77,496 24,909 18,593 Lunch, coun, st'ds 1,341 7,287 1,644 1,092 General merch Soft drink, ice c'm 223 236 andise group. 1,070 Department. 58 Dry goods General-other.. 142 10.705 Variety. 333 26.967 452,212 58,937 61,158 Drinking places 6,710 53,575 8,381 8,165 967 16,552 3.409 3,512 Places, other... 5,743 37,023 4,972 4.653 700 Drug Stores. 1,903 62,139 8,516 8,292 1,163 With fountain 1,558 56.847 7.928 7.608 3,840 Other.... 345 5.292 588 Apparel Group 684 21,972 Men's furnishings Liquor Stores 378 7,347 622 765 Men's clothing packed goods. 357 20,321 1,813 3,009 Family clothing. 172 23,315 3,027 3,917 OtherR'tail S'es W'men's rdy-to-w 1,026 14,809 20,406 44,527 5.793 6,150 Fuel and ice.. 1,181 60.707 Furriers, fur shops 6,053 8.234 162 7,842 776. 1,470 Fuel-oil... 62 Millinery. 3,126 184 291 580 6,332 1,480 Corset & lingerie. 1,131 Jewelry stores. 376 12.670 1,072 1.979 186 1,983 248 203 Book 137 5,963 988 Hosiery.. 1.241 148 2.406 501 215 Stationery 207 Other apparel 155 190 2.000 280 Custom tailors. 308 Cigar stores, st'ds 751 10,743 834 959 279 5.859 849 1,288 Florist.. 589 5.832 764 Men's shoe.. 882 127 4.989 519 518 Family shoe Gift, nov'ty, s'nir 303 1,764 209 183 1,490 1,634 News.. 550 Women's shoe. 81 8,165 1.082 1,057 2,849 494 193 Furniture Office, store ap'ce 107 8,530 1,030 1,747 Office, store, house group. school supply. 96 Furniture 420 28,446 2,528 4,084 Opticians. 174 Floorcoverings 2,372 402 583 90 7,963 546 1,037 Drapery, curtain Photo'ic sup. cam. 37 2,008 160 243 upholstery. Sporting goods.. 61 2.718 Piano, mus. Inst.. 81 China, glassware, 6,359 654 1.161 Scientific, med'al metalware. Interior dec'tors.. inst. and sup'ly. 62 1.733 Other retail stores 418 Other home fur'n. 6.534 137 2,101 607 664 Household appli Sec.-h'nd stores 708 4,677 665 859 122 9.515 1,683 2,418 Radio, hou'ol ap'e] Tires, accessories. 77 1.052 117 224 136 6,555 388 592 Automotive grp. 678 126,680 7,578 12.398 Motor-vehicle... Pawn shops..... 38 1.252 143 264 172 1,209 199 243 274 95,748 5,436 8.933 Chicago Stock Exchange Transactions and Seat Prices Source: Chicago Stock Exchange Stocks Bonds Seats 1932. 1900. 1,418,738 8,362,600 1933. 18,288,000 1,433,000 10,000 3,000 1905. 1,544,319 8,567,500 1934. 10,178,000 847,000 6,000 2,000 1910.. 894,362 7,347,000 1935 12,483,000 429,000 5,000 2,000 1915.. 715,557 9,316,100 $1,025 $750 1936 19,436,000 194,000 7.500 2,000 1920. 7.367.441 4.652 400 8,250 4,900 1937 14,239,000 45,000 3.500 2,000 1925. 14,102,892 8,748.300 6,000 4.000 1938. 7,707.000 221,600 2,000 1,500 1928. 38,941,589 7,534,600 75,000 22,000 1939. 8.420.000 1,776,000 2,100 1,500 1929 82.216,000 4,975,500*110,000 60,000 1940 6,850,000 526,000 1,500 1,500 1930. 69,747,500 27,462,000 45,000 12,000 1941** 4,131,000 35,600 1,200 550 1931. 34,404,200 12,480,500 24.000 5,100 Prior to September 5, 1929, when number of memberships was increased from 235 to 470. The High and Low after September 5, 1929, was $50,000-$26,500. **To Sept. 27, 1941. Arthur M. Betts is Chairman of the Board; his term expires June 1, 1942. Condition of Members of Chicago Clearing House Association Source: Chicago Clearing House Association; figures are as of June 30, 1941 Puffer, D., $12,000. Smith, president. Jury commissioners-President John E. Traeger, officer Meyering, $7,187.50. (chief adult)-William D. Public guardian-Winifred G. McIntyre, $8,500. Public Service Department-Superintendent, Joseph H. Donahue, $7,187.50. Recorder of deeds-Edward J. Kaindl, $9,000. State's attorney-Thomas J. Courtney. $15,000: term expires 1944. Civil. Service commission-President, William P. Haberkorn, $4,500. Superintendent of highways-George A. Quinlan. $12.000. Cook County jail-Superintendent, Frank G. Sain, $4,791.60. Cook County hospital-Warden. Manus Mc County treasurer-John Toman, D., $9,960. Municipal Court of Chicago (Salaries, chief justice $15,000 a year; associate justices $10,000) Clerk-Joseph L. Gill; terms expire on first Monday of December in year indicated Circuit Court of Cook County Terms of justices six years; all terms expire June, 1945, headkuarters County Building. Clerk John E. Conroy C. J. Harrington, D. *Chief justice. **Chief justice criminal division. National 1941 Cornhusking Championship The 18th annual corn husking championship of the United States was held (Nov. 3, 1941) in Tonica, Ill., and was won by Floyd Wise, Prairie Center, I., who picked 45.37 bushels of corn in 80 minutes-a rate better than 60 ears a minute. A crowd of 115,000 persons viewed the test. Twenty-two pickers from 11 States were entered. Second place was taken by Leland Klein, of Metamora, Ill., with 45.21 bushels. Next came Ivyl Carlson, of Madrid. Ia.. with 44.36 bushels, third for the second consecutive year in national competition. Donley Martin, of Buffalo, Minn., was fourth with 43.25 bushels: Cameron Krauel, of Grey, Ia., fifth with a load of 41.89; and Kenneth Johnson, of Lakefield, Minn., sixth with 41.63. The all-time record was established (1940) by Irvin Bauman, an Illinois farmer with a count of 46.71. 195,427 Forest Fires Reported in 1940 The Department of Agriculture reported (Oct. 4. 1941) that the nation's 146,749,000 acres of unprotected forest lands suffered $35,877,000 damage in 1940. There were 195,427 forest fires that year, compared with 212,671 in 1939 when the damage reached $40,000,000. (*) Does not include $1,700,000 expended in building Chatham Village as a demonstration investment in large-scale housing. The permanent purpose of The Rockefeller, Foundation, New York City, is "to promote the well being of mankind throughout the world. Its program, in terms of broad objective, is the advancement of knowledge, with emphasis at present Medical sciences upon certain specific fields: (psychiatry); natural sciences (experimental biology); public health (development of general public health activities and study and control of certain diseases); social sciences (international relations, social security, public administration); the humanities (efforts tending to raise the general cultural level and to promote cultural interchange between countries). Except to a limited extent in public health, the Foundation is not an operating organization. Its activities are confined to the support of other agencies and to the training, through post-doctoral fellowships, of competent personnel in the various fields of knowledge. Carnegie Corporation of New York, New York City, was established by Andrew Carnegie for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States and the British Dominions and Colonies. The present program of the Corporation includes the support of educational and scientific research, publications of professional and scholarly societies and associations, fine arts education through educational institutions and national organizations, adult education, library service and training, and support of various related projects which give promise of providing new knowledge. The General Education Board was endowed by John D. Rockefeller with the stated object of "promoting education within the United States of America, without distinction of race, sex or creed." The present program concentrates on southern education. It takes the form of assisting state governments and higher institutions to undertake studies, experiments, and demonstrations in public education: studies of significant southern interests and problems; qualitative development of selected institutions; improvement of personnel. Special programs in Negro education relate to supervision and promotion of public schools, basic development of selected higher institutions, and training of staffs. Hayden Foundation. The Charles Hayden Foundation, founded in 1937, aims to assist needy boys and young men; to aid clubs, gymnasia and recreation centers in this country for the training and development of boys and young men; and to place within their reach the privilege of education, mental recreation and coordinate physical training. Administrative offices are located at 25 Broad St., New York City. The Duke Endowment was established by James Buchanan Duke to promote "the needs of mankind along physical, mental and spiritual lines" in the South. Duke University (former Trinity college) is the chief beneficiary of the Endowment. Other schools in the Carolinas also receive funds. Other objectives of the trust are the maintenance of hospitals, the care of superannuated Methodist preachers and orphans. To the original endowment was added $10,000,000 and two-thirds of the residuary estate. The main office of the endowment is in New York City. The Julius Rosenwald Fund, Chicago, in 1940 completed the twenty-third year of its work. The year's activities included: Experimental work in rural schools, especially in the South, with a view to improving rural education and so improving rural life itself. Fellowships for advanced study by exceptionally able Negroes and white southerners. Aid to the most important Negro universities. General study of race and culture and particular activity in this racial field toward improving the opportunities and conditions of Negroes in America. Julius Rosenwald provided that capital as well as income may be spent at any time in the discretion of the trustees, and that the entire fund. both capital and income, must be spent within twenty-five years of his death, which occurred Jan. 6, 1932. The Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, was created by Mrs. Russell Sage in 1907, as a memorial to her husband. Its purpose is for the improvement of social and living conditions in America." Its departments give special attention to studies in the social work field and to research concerning various problems in the more general field of the social sciences. Its staff interprets these findings makes the information available through publications, conferences, and other means of public education, and in various other ways stimulates action for social betterment. The Trustees of the Horace H. Rackham and Mary A. Rackham Fund have disbursed all the capital funds left by the will of the late Mr. Rackham. Within a short time the corporation will be dissolved. Mary Louise Curtis Bok Foundation, Philadelphia, was created in 1931 by Mrs. Edward Bok, for the "support of music and musical education, support and promotion of the fine arts, science, scientific research, invention, discovery, or general education." The principal beneficiaries are: Curtis Institute of Music and the Settlement Music School, both in Philadelphia, and the Research Studio, Maitland, Florida. The purpose of the Buhl Foundation, Pittsburgh, is to stimulate the advancement of human welfare by experiment, demonstration, and research. Principal grants have been to existing agencies or especially established agencies for promotion of nationally significant programs in the Pittsburgh | Reynolds Babcock and Mrs. Nancy Reynolds Bagdistrict in regional economic, social, and historiealley, for charitable, civic and eleemosynary purposes research, higher education (including social work within the State of North Carolina. by a grant of training at the graduate level), public health, and all the property received by them from the estate mental hygiene. The Foundation built Chatham of their late brother, Zachary Smith Reynolds of Village at a cost of $1.700,000, seeking to show the Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The first project commercial practicability of building for long-term undertaken by the Foundation was the inaugurainvestment and management of large-scale garden tion of a campaign for the control of venereal home communities, and to promote new and higher disease in the State of North Carolina through a standards in urban "white-collar" housing. Largest donation to the State Health Department. appropriation is $1,081,000 to build Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science, opened in 1939. The Children's Fund of Michigan, Detroit, was founded by the late United States Senator James Couzens to promote the health, welfare, and happiness of the children of the State of Michigan, and elsewhere in the world." Principal as well as earnings are to be spent within twenty-five years from the date of the gift. The work is confined to Michigan, where the Fund carries on directly local public health organization, health education, pediatric clinics in rural areas, oral hygiene, rural nursing, eye correction, child guidance through mental hygiene, and medical research. The Fund makes grants to other agencies in dependency and recreational fields. The Juilliard Musical Foundation, New York City, was set up by Augustus D. Juilliard to extend musical education and recreation. The general purpose of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D. C., is "to hasten the abolition of international war." The activities of the Endowment are of an educational nature and are conducted through the issuance of publications, arrangements for lectures and meetings of individuals and groups in the United States and other countries to advance the cause of peace among nations, to hasten the renunciation of war as an instrument of international policy,, to encourage and promote methods for the peaceful settlement of international differences, and for the increase of international understanding and concord, and to aid in the development of international law and the acceptance by all nations of the principles underlying such law. The purposes of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, New York City, include providing "retiring pensions without regard to race, sex, creed, or color, for the teachers of universities, colleges, and technical schools in the United States, Dominion of Canada, and Newfoundland" and in general to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education" in those countries. For these purposes the Foundation has paid retiring allowances to 1,945 former teachers and pensions to 1,083 widows. Through its Division of Educational Enquiry it has studied and reported upon numerous problems of higher education in the United States and Canada. The object of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D. C., is to encourage investigation, research and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind. The Institution desires to advance fundamental research in fields not normally covered by other agencies, and has organized its own departments of research in astronomy, in the terrestrial sciences, in the biological sciences and in historical research. The Commonwealth Fund, New York City, was founded by Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness. Its activities have been largely concentrated in the fields of education, health, including hospitals in rural districts; medical education, medical research, and mental hygiene. The Fund also makes small grants in the field of legal research and occasional miscellaneous grants for philanthropic and social welfare purposes. Cranbrook Foundation was established in 1927 with an endowment of $6,682,055 from George G. and Ellen S. Booth, to be devoted to the completion of the religious, educational and cultural projects begun by the founders at Cranbrook. Bloomfield Hills, Mich. The principal purposes of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, Pittsburgh, as expressed by the founder, Andrew Carnegie, are: "To place those following peaceful vocation, who have been injured in heroic effort to save human life, in somewhat better positions pecuniarily than before, until again able to work. In case of death, the widow and children, or other dependents, to be provided for until she remarries, and the children until they reach a self-supporting age. For exceptional children exceptional grants may be made for exceptional education. Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroines as the Commission thinks advisable-each case to be judged on its merits. A medal shall be given to the hero, or widow, or next of kin, which shall recite the heroic deed it commemorates, that descendants may know and be proud of their descent. The medal shall be given for the heroic act, even if the doer be uninjured, and also a sum of money, should the Commission deem such gift desirable." The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York City, grants fellowships to citizens and permanent residents of the United States, to assist research in any field of knowledge and creative work in any of the fine arts. The Fellowships are awarded to men and women who have demonstrated unusual capacity for productive scholarship or unusual creative ability in the fine arts. The Fellowships are granted for varying periods, long or short, depending on the amount of time needed by the Fellows for the work they propose. The stipends granted Fellows are normally $2,500 a year. Fellows may go to any part of the world where their work can best be done. Foundation also offers a limited number of Fellowships, for work in the United States, to Canadians and, on its Latin American Fellowship plan. to Puerto Ricans, and to citizens of Argentina. Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. The purpose of the Foundation is "the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding and the appreciation of beauty, by aiding without distinction on account of race, color or creed. scholars, scientists, and artists of either sex in the prosecution of their labors." The The John and Mary R. Markle Foundation, New York City, has limited its new interests to support of research programs in the medical sciences. Prior to 1935 the Foundation was interested in the field of social welfare and there are a few organizations outside of medical research to which fairly substantial support has been given for a number of years. which it has been felt expedient to continue temporarily. The Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City, was established and endowed by Mrs. Elizabeth Milbank Anderson in 1905 as a memorial to her father and mother. Jeremiah and Elizabeth Lake Milbank, with an initial gift of $3,000,000. The general purpose of the foundation is "to improve the physical, mental and moral condition of humanity and generally to advance charitable and benevolent objects." Mrs. Anderson increased her gifts from year to year until they amounted to $9,315,175 at the time of her death in 1921. The Fund assists official and private agencies and institutions in the in-field of public health and medicine, education, social welfare and research. Emphasis is given to activities which are preventive rather than palliative. The Spelman Fund of New York was chartered in 1928. Its present program is centered upon the improvement of methods and techniques in public administration. Support is extended to public and quasi-public agencies for dissemination of formation on current administrative developments; for study and improvement of administrative practices; and for testing new methods and devices under actual operating conditions. The Maurice and Laura Falk Foundation, Pittsburgh, confines its activities to the making of grants to economic research studies. Within this field, it makes its appropriations to established economic research organizations; the Foundation, itself, does not conduct research. The grants are for the specific budgets of studies which deal directly with matters affecting American trade. industry and finance. It is the purpose of this research to result in publications which are addressed to the lay audience of the general public. The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation was established in 1936 by Richard J. Reynolds. Mrs. Mary The Permanent Charity Fund was organized in Boston in 1915 to accept gifts to the fund, the principal to be held invested and income each year to be applied to charitable purposes. The committee consists of 7 residents of Massachusetts and no person seeking or holding public office is eligible. The first funds were received in 1917 and amounted to $2,836,553. The general purposes of the Kresge Foundation, Detroit, as set forth in the declaration of trust by S. S. Kresge, are: "The purposes for which this Foundation is created are the promotion of eleemosynary, philanthropic and charitable means of any all of the means of human progress, whether |