For two weeks of what one alderman described as a long, laborious and exciting struggle, Chicago's property owners did what they had been doing for twenty-five years: they petitioned and remonstrated about their particular blocks until the council drew a line that seemed to place most prolimit proprietors inside and most antilimit proprietors outside the fire Limit.

Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.

For your information I enclose herewith clipping from yesterday’s New York Times regarding my appearance in Washington before the commission for considering policies for preparement for war, and to take the profit out of war, of which the Secretary of War, the Honorable Patrick J. Hurley, is chairman.

LOR. Now to confirme the complot thou hast cast Of all these practices, Ile spread the watch, Vpon precise commandement from the king Strongly to guard the place where Pedringano This night shall murder haples Serberine.