Collected Chicago

Last week, with the Black Horse Troop in solemn attendance and a group of First Citizens as special guests, the Chicago Historical Society opened to the public its spic & span new $1,000,000 Colonial edifice in Lincoln Park.

For 25-c- admission, visitors saw a complete chronological history of the U. S., reproduced" with marble, paintings, trinkets, dresses, guns, Sheraton tables, Chippendale chairs, bedrooms (in Paul Revere's bedroom are two cradles. Married thrice, Rider Revere was the father of 16), chandeliers, Indian beadwork, violins, and a group of wax figurines, modeled and garbed to represent late ladies whose husbands had a hand in molding Chicago's history.

Whaling equipment--harpoons, spears-- were brought from-Salem, Mass. From the Charles F. Gunther Lincoln Collection was purchased, among other things, a gas jet that lit the room in which Lincoln died in the Peterson House, Washington, D. C.

Unlike most such organizations, the Society boasts of no one patron who defrayed its new building's construction cost or who set up its comfortable endowment fund--an amount not for publication. There have been many contributors, most of them small. But much came from such potent capitalists as the Messrs. Charles Burrall Pike (the Society's president) and Potter Palmer, the late Julius Rosenwald, Vincent Bendix, Joy Morton. Director for the past five years has been professorial L. Hubbard Shattuck, who dislikes his first name, will not reveal it.

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