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ONE CENT-LAST edition-ONE CENT DEUTSCHLAND IS READY TO DEPART THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL 5, NO. 257 Chicago, Friday, July 28, 1916 398 MUNICIPAL PIER TO BE TAKEN FROM PEOPLE? .Vomen Accuse City Hall Crowd of Trying to Take City-Paid Pleasure From People Aid. Merriam and Buck to Fight Ettelson Ruling. When the city council meets in the fall one of the first charges the city administration will havf to face con cerns the manner in which the Mu nicipal pier, built with the money of the people of Chicago, Is not going to be run1 for the people of Chicago if the present plans go through. Women of Chicago of the type of Harriet Vittum and Mary McDowell are going to be behind a fight to turn the pier into a recreation spot for dhicagoans instead of a booster proposition for transportation lines. If the ruling of Sam Ettelsen's of fice Is carried out the pier next year will have no dances, concerts, eta, meant for the entertainment of Chl cagoans. But when the city council convenes for the coming year Alder men Merriam, Buck and Rodriguez are going to force a showdown. When the Municipal pier Idea was first announced the people were led to believe it was going to be a grand playground, where they could escape from the city's heat in summertime and enjoy themselves by the lake breeze. In wintertime they weVe told they would have dancing and con certs with which to kill the evenings. And believing In those promises, they voted bond issues to pay for the pier. That was before the City Hall was h i iliMimimiriHMMM