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February 1, 19.29 ·· . WILMETTE LIFE 23 to build Fort Dearborn are PAUL r~ GUERT· PENS· overland not much different from the modern as they make the woods · NEW .CHICAGo·· HISTORY doughboy ring with their boisterous song, complain about their sleeping quarters and Located in the Heart of EftDitoa Oserlooltiq - ... ' grumble because they have to haul logs down to the river. Reeount Maasaere . The reader hears again the jocund 1Jaht-AD7-Ciau rooma. n--.llb ....-.......... strains of Kinzie's fiddle, or sits down calam. Facal~ of oal7 prohul-.1 ..Uta. Archange, the squaw wife of An- to the hospitable table of Chicago's toine Ouiimette, father of Wilmette, is c6reetioa of Carl Selaetl·. portrayed as an outstanding heroine in first lord of the manor, with the gawky DRAWING · PAINTING DBSIGR the chapters .dealing witl! the Fort Gurdon Hubbard, pretty Nell Kinzie, ILLUSTRATION ADVERTISING Dearborn massacre in the new centen- and the "funny little Maria Indiana" CRA-FTS INTERIOR STAGE AllT nial history of Chicag9, entitled "Chi- who has been put on her good behaSend lot IIIUJtnlted Catlllot cag() a:nd lts Makers" written by Paul vior. T. Gi_lbert, 554 Brier street, KenilThe horrors of the Fort Dearborn worth, and published by Felix Mendel- massacre are told by the frightened sohn. · survivors themselves as they huddle One of the most vivid episodes of for protection in the darkened Kinzie the Chicago pageant as staged by M~. cabin while the sky is lighted up by · · h f the flares from the Indian encampment Gtlhert IS t e ptcture 0 Archange pro- and tl-te faint cries of tortured victims PHONE.GREENLEAF 167-4 tecting William Griffith, the quarter- are st ·t heard. n1as~r of the fort, &om the vengeance ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ of the savages, while other survivors .-· seek protection in the Kinzie cabin, on the evening of the massacre. · Antoine, the author points out, wa~ . a friendly Pottawatomie, and while her husband, a "squaw m.an," merely strode across the stage, her services to the white men were adequately rr.·· warded by a grant of land on the lak~ shore-the present site of W ilmettc, where she and Ouilmette cultivated the soil. Another chapter of the history deals with life at the Guardian Angel mission located at the former Gross Point, now . the west section of Wilmette. Several Contributors The author, Paul T. Gilbert, has been ·associated for many years with the Chicago Evening Post. Collaborating with Mr. Gilbert are Charles Lee Bryson, Wallace Reed, and Caroline M. Mcilvaine, former secretary of the Chicago Historical society. Mr. Reed contributes a chapter on the early restaurants and chop-houses, while Miss Mcilvaine is responsible for the accuracy of the volUJr,.. Garrets of many uf Chicago's old residents have been ransacked for long-forgotten daguerrotypes, rare photographs and prints, many . of which arc reproduced for the first time in this history. Scores of histories of Chicago have been · published within the last half century, some documentary and pretentious, others dealing more briefly and intimately with certain phases of "A NOOK FOR TWO" IN THE MAIN DINING ROOM the city's social life, but "Chica~o and It's Makers" purports to be the first record of this kind telling the complete story in easily readable form of the cit:·'s growth and progress from the days of the early French explorers to the present day, Characters Live Again A glance at the J?,.age proofs indicates that the author has attempted not to chronicle a mass of facts so much as to bring back to life the characters, such as Joliet, Marquette, La Salle, Tonty, the Kinzies, the Beaubiens at".l others who moved across th·~ Hours-7 :oo A. M. to 8:30 P . M. Chicago pageant, and to re-create old scenes. The story is told rather from the standpoint of the newspaper man than from that of the historian. The pioneer French priests, gliding in their canoes over the inland stream~ and across portages to the Land of the Illinois, are intensely human in this book, and it is from their lips, as they converse on topics of the day that thr reader learns of the events tr ~ ·tspiring. The reader is invited into the log cabin in the wilderness with La Salle as, disillusioned, his dream of empire faded, he writes his farewe11 letter tn the faithful Tonty and the garrison at Fort Crevoceur, bidding them .to re~ ognize the new authority which has supplanted his own. One sees Tonty of the iron· hand, demonstrating his EVANSTON'S LARGEST ~.N::P PINES'f HOTEL powerful "medicine" to the savages, or bow his head in prayer as the missionary priest, Marquette, is buried under the dogwood trees. The soldiers who have marched .Kenllwortb Man Makes. Historic · · ··Characters Re-live Parts in Vivid Chronicle Northwestem Univenity . Campua and Lake Michigan u..- ... 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