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North Shore Schools Open With the exception of New Trier High School all the institutions of learning have started. Building causes delay New system, known as "The Gary Plan," has been installed in Winnetka by the board--is a great improvement. With the exception of the New Trier high school, all of the schools on the north shore from Evanston to Glencoe have been opened for the coming year and in every place the enrollment has shown an increase over that of last year. There is not a school on the entire north shore that does not show some gain in the enrollment. In Evanston it is not as large as it is in the villages north, especially Wilmette. This standard, it is thought, will be kept when New Trier high school opens its doors Sept. 23. From all present indications the increase at the high school will be the greatest of any school on the north shore. The high school has never before opened before the middle of September, but this year it is unusually late in starting the year's work. This is due to the new buildings that are being erected. They will not be entirely completed by the time school opens, but will be in such shape as to afford better acomodations than have ever been offered before. PRincipal Brown believes that they will find little trouble in getting along until the new structures are ready to be occupied. New Plan for Winnetka In Winnetka the school bord has decided to make a change in the school system. The new system, known as the "Gary Plan," went into effect with the opening of school Monday. It was worked out for the Winnetka schools by Miss Mary Gillespie, the superintendent. The new plan will divide the pupil's time as follows: One-half of his time will be given to fundamentals, commonly called the three R's; one-fouth will be given to special work, namely, music, French, etx.; the remaining one-fourth will be given to supervised play and recreation. The number of school hours will be the same. Two specially trained teachers have been secured for the playground work. Harry G. Clark, who comes from Montreal, Canada, will supervise the boys, while Miss Mary Churchill will give all her time to supervising the girls' play. More land purchased. To make the new plan possible it was necessary for the school board to secure additional land. This has been done and apparatus will be installed as soon as possible. It is thought the new plan will relieve the congested school room, and by alternating the work with the supervised play the monotony that so often is a drawback to the pupil will be relieved. New work has been planned for the upper grades. Elementary science is to be installed, which means the boys and girls will have some knowledge of botany, chemistry and hygiene before leaving school. Until the new Samuel Sewall Graham school isi completed a kindergarten will be maintained in the departmental room of the Winnetka Woman's Club. Hubbard Woods will also be benefited by the new plan. The citizens of Winnetka have expressed their approval of the system that has been worked out, and believe that their schools now rank with any to be found. Glencoe is Shunned by Speeding Autoists Speeders evidently evade Glencoe in their tours or when they pass through the village they are very careful to stay within the speed limit. During the past two weeks John Cooper, motorcycle policeman, has found only two speeders. J.L. Houghteling of Winnetka was caught going twenty-three miles an hour and paid a fine of $15 and costs for his short ride. Rudolph Ullrich of Rogers Park was also fined $15 and costs for speeding in the village. Terrible Collision in Wilmette Averted A serious automobile accident was narrowly averted in Wilmette early Sunday evening when two large touring cars avoided collidig by the narrowest of margins. One machine escaped unscratched, while theother suffered a broken wheel in bumping ito the curbing. A large seven passenger Alca owned and occupied by O.C. Doering, general superintendant of Sears Roebuck Company, Chicago, was speeding south on Sheridan road. It had seven passengers. As it neared the corner of Lake Avenue, George Bird of Wilmette was driving west on Lake street. A collision seemed inevitable. Slowing down as much as possible, Mr. Bird turned south of Sheridan road. At the same instant the chauffeur of the big car turned into Lake avenue. He did not have time to make a complete turn but crashed into the curbing. The jar of the machine against the curbing threw one of the occupants out of the car. He struck on the grass and was not injured in the least. The left rear wheel of the car was completely broken by the crash. Mr. Bird's car was uninjured. Milwaukee Electric "Fires" Conductors Because their cash receipts did not compare with the amount of receipts indicated by the registers in their elecctric cars, five conductors of the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric railroad were discharged by the officials of the company last week. "Spotters" have been placed on all the electric cars that pass through Waukegan. One conductor, it is alleged, was discharged because his register indicated that he had taken in 35 cents which had not been turned in at the end of the day. Another conductor turned in 40 cents more thantheregister indicated he should have sent to the company. A year or so ago fifteen conuctors of this company were discharged. The officials of the company have called a large number of their men on the carpet and have given them a talking to that they wil never forget. The officials do not prefer criminal charges against any of their men--they merely "can" them. A general feeling of dissatisfaction, it is said, exists among the employees of the company. On conductor, who was given his discharge last Monday, had served as a conductor on the road for over twelve years. Another man had served eleven years. Mrs. Brodheim Dead August 24 a child was born to Mrs. N. Brodheim at the Evanston hospital. Complications set in and Mrs. Brodheim became very ill. She was removed to the Brown sanitarium at Kenilworth, where she died. Mrs. Brodheim was the wife of the Davis street furrier. The funeral was held Monday. Mrs. Wood on Equal Rights Winnetka woman speaking before Glencoe Suffragists told why women become Suffragists. Compares some Women Reports show Glencoe Equal Rights Association is growing rapidly and that it is doing good work. Warm weather has no terrors for ardent suffragists. This was proved Monday when all Glencoe's suffragists loyally braved the baking rays of the sun to attend the sixth monthly meeting of the Glencoe Equal Suffrage association. The meeting, which was postponed from the previous week because the regular meeting day fell on Labor day, was one of the most successful that the organization has held since it was founded earlier in the year. It was held at the home of Mrs. F.E. Compton, Grove street. Mrs. Ira Couch Wood of Winnetka, president of the board of the Illinois Training School for Nurses, which institution provides nurses for the Cook County hospital, was teh speaker of the meeting. "Why Women Who Interest Themselves in Civic Affairs Become Suffragists" was the title of her lecture. Mrs. Wood is very active inwelfare work both along the north shore and in Chicagto. She is a member of several prominent women's organization. In her talk Mrs. Wood compared the woman of today with the woman of the past. She held that years ago there was o necessity for women to have the ballot, as they took no active part in civic affairs. This has changed, however, she stated. It is now necessary for women to do much for their communities. This can only be done by the presence of women in civic affairs. She must take up the civic end of life. If she becomes interested in civic affairs she is bound to become a suffragist. Theses were some of the statements made by the speaker. The Glencoe women believed as did Mrs. Wood. This was affirmed by the hearty applause her different remarks were greeted with. The enthusiasm for the right to vote was once more stirred up among the Glencoe women by Mrs. Wood. That the suffragist movement is gaining in Glencoe every day was made plain by a report read by Mrs. Sherman Booth. The report showed that when the assocition was formed in Glencoe six months ago there were only nineteen members. Since that time the membership roll has constantly been on the increase until at the present time there are 127 members of the organization. Mrs. Booth also reported on the work that was done by the Glencoe suffragists during the recent campaign for signers to the petitions that were to have been sent to Springfield last week, but which on account of not enough names will be held until January. The report showed that more than 700 signers had been secured in the village. This record was not exceeded anywhere in proportion to the size of the city, stated a member of the organization. Operate on McNeil A.B. McNeil, the Evanston fireman who was so badly injured in a motorcycle accident some time ago, underwent an operation at St. Francis' hospital Monday. A silver plate was inserted between the broken bone in his leg. Aldermen Back to Duty At First Session after summer vacation water committee makes report so long looked for by public Motor Traffic Control Mayor Paden, following suggestions made by this newspaper, recommends ordinance governing motor driven machines They were all there at the council meeting last night--the first after the summer vacation; the "winter session," as his honor the mayor called it--except Rossbach of the Second ward and Carter of the Third, and it was impossible to ascertain whether or not the two absentees were off on a summer's junket together. If the aldermen expected to find cool weather by this time when they adjourned early in the summer, they were grievously disappointed, for they all came with coats under arms and with handkerchiefs at fevered brows when the mayor, after first playfully threatening sudden death to anyone of them who sprung any business of length, called the session to order at a few minutes after 8 o'clock. Will regulate Motor traffic His honor opened the session with a request that the council refer to the street committee the matter of an ordinance better controlling automobiles and auto trucks operating over the city streets, thus proving that he has during his weekend trips in Michigan been a careful student of the columns of this paper, wherein the abuses of the privileges of the road have been described and commented upon from time to time. At the suggestion of Mayor Paden, Hugh McCulloch was appointed a special police officer connected with the department of health. This is to make more effective his services as food inspector for the city. Water report ready now Chaiman Knapp of the water committee announced that the engineers' report was ready for the council, and that it would be printed and distributed to the members of the council prior to the next regular meeting. The repot of the engineers is a lengthy document, and will later be published in full in these columns. A digest of it is included in the following report of the committee to the council: Evanston, IL, Sept. 10, 1912. To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council of Evanston Gentlemen:--The report of Messrs. Langon Pearse and Walter W. Jackson, who were engaged by the order of the council to take up the filtration subject for the purpose of ascertaining the proper size of plant for Evanston, has been submitted to the water committee. Owing to the illness of Mr. Pearse, the report has been somewhat delayed. This report consists of a 33-page document on the filtration of the Evanston water supply with diagrams and tables and a ground plan of their arrangement of building and filters on the ground at our disposal. Appended to the report is Appendix A, concerning the pitometer tests of the pumps and Wilmette meters; Appendix B of eight pages, on cost of pumping with steam and electric power with reference to proposed additions to the equipment of the Evanston water works; Appendix C of twenty-six pages, on waste prevention and meters, and Appendix D of five pages, on extension of intake. (continued on page 5) Father Pays Last Tribute Charles G. Dawes, parent of Rufus Fearing Dawes, Young Man Drowned Thursday, Writes Eulogy. Praises Boy's Life In Document Father Said that his son lived long enough to win out and that future years would only be material. More than 500 persons, many of them men prominent in financial, business and political circles of the country attended the funeral Sunday afternoon of Rufus Fearing Dawes, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Dawes, Greenwood boulevard and Sheridan Road, Evanston, who was drowned late Thursday afternoon in Lake Geneva. The massive home was not large enough to accomodate the friends of the popular boy and many stood on the beautiful lawn while the service was being read. A most remarkable tribute, touching in its tenderness a characterization of a son written by a father, was read by the Rev. William T. McElveen, pastor of the First Congregational church of which the boy was an ardent member. It was a touching, kindly expression of the father's grief, but it carried with it all the pride in which the father held him for the work he had done during his twenty-one years of life. Prominent Men Present At the services were former Vice-President Charles Warren Fairbanks, George B. Cartelyou, former secretary of Commerce and Labor; C.A. Hanna, national bank examiner of New York; and many other men prominent in political life at Washington who were intimate with Mr. Dawes during his residence in that city as comptroller of the currency. Bankers, railway men and persons closely connected with Mr. Dawes in business were present. The floral tributes were many and beautiful and proved the love the boy's friends held for him. In the tribute written by the father the grief of the parent shows plainly through every line, but he takes a philosophical view of his son's death. Says He "Won Out" "My boy lived long enough to win out," he says. "Whatever the years would have added would have been only material. In a man's character is his real career." In describing the writing of his son's life he said it was "one last high and solemn duty" which he owed to him. Dr. McElveen was in charge of the service. He eulogized the life of the young man and spoke of him as a close, personal friend. The tribute of Mr. Dawes to his son was as follows: "The most of those here assembled are the personal friends and acquaintances of my dear son. So far as the outer world is concerned, his promising life, cut off so early, must ever be wrapped in obscurity. But I, his father, owe him one last and solemn duty to protect the high leson of his life, as far as lies within my power, by using this last assemblage of his friends when their minds and grieving hearts will the more indelibly receive the final impressions of his memory. Start of Business Career. "Rufus' business career covered his last four summer vacations, dedicated voluntarily by him to preparations for his life's work. Passionately fond of sports and social recreation, to which the college work of the bal-