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THE' CITY -WANTS SOME RIVER PROPERTY BACK ' The city is now trying to get back some of "the property along tire Chi- fe eago river which private interests has been grabbing off for several years. Vjommissioner of Pubhc'Works Mc Cahn will submit a report to the cbin mittee on streets and alleys balling for the seizure of this propertyr Four teen street' endg occupied by private corporations without authority are listed in' the report They are: M Main Branch RiVer. MaSalie Street North side. Pump house of Chicago Railways Co., -25 feet by 30 feet, in center of street, r us'ed in connection: with tunnel, c'" North Branch. irfiaines Street North side. Small she'd of Consumers Co., used for gasoline storage. of barrel shed of Hirst & Begley Lin see"H Co. in street. Riverside" Paint Co-, also in street. North Branch Canal, rHaines "Street East. side. Fenced iflf'ahd covered by coal shea's of Phila delphia & Reading CoaTand Iron Co. Weed Street East 'side. Lumber shed of Adam Schillo Lumber Co. S South Branch Riyfcr, Sixteenth Street East side. Tracks, part of dock house atfd stor age shed of Chicago & Western In diana Railroad. , Nineteenth Street East side... Co,y ' ere"d by tracks of the Chicago & West en! Indiana Railroad. Lime Street South side. Switch tracks of Chicago &. Alton Railroad. Stock Yards Slip. 1 Gage Street North side. Material or Ghicago City-Railway Co. " West Branch of South Branch of n Chicago River. Central Park Avenue- North side. Single track railroad bridge, ' 'Paulina Street North slide. Switch tracks of Barber Asphalt Pavtng Co. -Wood Street North side. Switches of American Gas & Foundry Co. Lincoln street "North side. Switch tracks of Edward Hlnes Lumber Co. Hoyne Avenue North Side. L Switch of Morton Salt Co. 6 o THE WAITRESSES' STRIKE' The Restaurant Keepers' Associa tion tried to put one over on the wait resses by paving -Judge JVindes issue an injunction Saturday evening after the attorney for the union had gone home. The injunction was an effort to restrain the girls from continuing the effective ' sjlent picketing at Knab's strike-bound places. Edgar L. Masters, attorney for the Waitresses' Union, said that the in junction did not Btop picketing at Knab's restaurants and that the form er emplpyes of those restaurants, would continue to picket them. Josje CJostelio was arrested today charged with assault and battery. The complaint was sworn out by "Babe," an Italian cook of Knab's. Miss Elizabeth Malpney, business agent of the Waitresses' Union,-and Mary Anderson are going to Mayor Parrison to prjotest against the actions of Officer Mike Hurley in the waitresses' strike. o o WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY HOOK OR CROOK? When an English peasaht of the middles ages went to the forest to gather wood for the fire he carried a crook with which to gather Hp the dead boughs and sticks, and a hook to break off small boughs. The for estry laws were very severe, and any one caught cutting down trees with an ax was punished. So the peasant gathered his firewood by "hook and by Crook," and, through neither hook nor crook are now in use, the expre&r sion is as popular as it was in toe middle ages. Corporation counsel ruled city may oust George Weston, city representa tive on street'raflway board of super vising erigineers. mimmmmmmimmmM