VINTAGE EDWARDIAN CHICAGO MAYOR HARRISON JUDGE OWENS RARE OLD RPPC PHOTO

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VINTAGE EDWARDIAN CHICAGO MAYOR HARRISON JUDGE OWENS RARE OLD RPPC PHOTO:
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An original unused real photo postcard measuring approximately3 3/8 x5 3/8 inches of former Mayor Carter Henry Harrison Jr. (his famous father was assassinated) and the legendary Cook County Judge John Edward Owens. Read some great information about these two below. Probably guests of the gun club which I\'m assuming is German for the most part based on the other photographs. This is a rare photograph, 1916 or earlier. Please consult The American Rifleman, January, 1929, for some excellent information regarding turn of the century sharp shooting clubs in the US, including the midwest. I will be posting numerous photographs of IL and WI sharp shooters and I hope you can find Mr. Frank Dulleck, world record holder,and other great shooters in the upcoming photos. Thanks for looking.Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. (April 23, 1860, Chicago, Illinois - December 25, 1953; buried in Graceland Cemetery) served as Mayor of Chicago (1897-1905 and 1911-1915). The City\'s 30th mayor, he was the first actually born in Chicago.Like his father, Carter Harrison, Sr., Carter Harrison, Jr. gained election to five terms as Chicago\'s mayor. Educated in Saxe-Altenburg, Germany, Harrison returned to Chicago to help his brother run the Chicago Times, which their father bought in 1891. Under the Harrisons the paper became a resolute supporter of the Democratic Party, and was the only local newspaper to support the Pullman strikers in the mid-1890s.As with his father, Harrison did not believe in trying to legislate morality. As mayor, Harrison believed that Chicagoans\' two major desires were to make money and to spend it. During his administrations, Chicago\'s vice districts blossomed, and special maps were printed to enable tourists to find their way from brothel to brothel. The name of one Chicago saloon-keeper of the time supposedly entered the English language as a term for a strong or laced drink intended to render unconsciousness: Mickey Finn.However, Harrison was seen as more of a reformer than his father, which helped him garner the middle class votes his father had lacked. One of Harrison\'s biggest enemies was Charles Yerkes, whose plans to monopolize Chicago\'s streetcar lines were vigorously attacked by the mayor. During his final term in office, Harrison established the Chicago Vice Commission and worked to close down the Levee district, starting with the Everleigh Club brothel on October 24, 1911.Harrison was a hopeful for the 1904 Democratic nomination for President, but was unable to negotiate his way through a tangle of conflicting loyalies to different Party bosses; the nomination went to Alton B. Parker, who was soundly defeated by Theodore Roosevelt.
Carter Harrison CribIn 1915, when Harrison left office, Chicago had essentially reached its modern size in land area, and had a population of 2,400,000; the city was moving inexorably into its status as a major modern metropolis. He and his father had collectively been mayor of the city for 21 of the previous 36 years.Harrison wrote his autobiography, not once but twice; his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, was a well-known writer of children\'s books and fairy tales in the first two decades of the twentieth century.COSMOPOLITAN JUNE 1914A Fighting Solon By Alfred Henry Lewis BORN in Chicago June 1875 he is in his thirty ninth year He was I baptized John Edward and his father was a policeman a brave and upright officer He left his son nothing beyond a reputation without a stain being murdered when young Owens had hardly touched thirteen It was in a battle with a brace of gun carrying bandits Young Owens fatherless at thirteen had the signal advantage of a great mother In her he was to find his sheet anchor for both his blood and his bringing up When wasn t this true No man and turn the pages of history while you will has ever been a great man who hadn ta great mother The father is not so important Young Owens passed his boyhood in what regions along Milwaukee Avenue were known as the Polish Patch The Polish Patch was inhabited by Poles and Irish all warlike It was fight or stay in the house and young Owens whose tastes were all for out of doors and who was vast ly attracted by such supreme works of nature as Goose Island and the clay holes along Elston Avenue grew up to combat as some Avenue grew up others grow up to wealth Battle was his heritage and since he soon learned how to hold up his hands he early became the champion for his weight gnat weight I should say of St Stephen\'s parish Few were the tan yards of that vicinity which did not witness his valor Also most of his fights were the fights of others for mothers solicitous over their offspring were wont to put them under the unconquerable wing of young Owens as they adventured forth to school He always accepted the trust and since thereby their perils became his perils their wrongs his wrongs split lips and black eyes were among his boyhood\'s most constant adornments Young Owens schools were St Stephen\'s Parochial and St Patrick\'s Academy Also once inside the schoolhouse he proved as apt with his books as in the tan yards and on Goose Island he was with his fists How did he live during these school book days It was the great heart of his mother that opened the way Some notion of how she must have worked and saved may be gained when you re told that young Owens was not an only child There were five others three boys and two girls all brothers and sisters to him and the mother working and saving compassed the education of them all Well she is not without her reward Her son the subject of this sketch holding highest office having honor among his people unmarried for her sake lives with her supports her caring for her and his sisters Young Owens didn t put in an unbroken boyhood boxing the neighbors children and poring over the books He was deep in the art of baseball and held his fielding and batting own with such worthies as Powell Frazer O Leary Murray McGill and Germany Schaeffcr all of whom grew up to adorn the big league nines catch impossible flies make unheard of throws to say nothing of setting fire to the bleachers at a batting crisis by filling the breathless air with pigskin and splinters and capping the feat with a home run At seventeen history lays hands on young Owens as a messenger about Chicago\'s city hall Nights he studied law to which field of human endeavor he was naturally attracted as promissory of endless contention Later he enrolled himself with the Lake Forest Law School from which seminary he graduated LL B in 1896 The Irish have the instinct for politics that fish have for water It\'s their native element Coincident with his admission to the bar Mr Owens achieved office and began to serve the people as an assistant city prosecutor Two years later he became chief assistant and in 1900 at the unripe age of twenty five the town at large elected him to the main office of city attorney for a term of three years So it has since continued He became a master in chancery in 1904 In 1910 as a Democrat he was elected county judge his present place for the term ending December ion In office Mr Owens has been and is distinguished by the same quenchless spirit wherewith in boyhood\'s happy hour he gathered laurels among the tan yards on Goose Island and in other nooks corners of Polish Patch Only now purpose is broader and higher he not for his own hand or the neighbors children but for popular right As the youngest city attorney ever had Mr Owens came promptly head on collision with the personal injury ring There was a formidable of law buzzards whose specialty it was sue the city Did some careless stub his incautious toe upon a curbing bump his inattentive head against a lamppost these law buzzards were most ready to draw and file his complaint THE PERSONAL INJURY RING Through methods only too well understood by the dark brotherhood of graft whether in or out of office the buzzard lawyers were singularly successful in obtaining settlement from the city At the rate these damage matters were going when Mr Owens took his oath of office a few more years and Chicago would have landed in the lap of a receiver Mr Owens broke up this buzzard\'s roost and saved the town The buzzards beak and unclean claw have been after him politically ever since For than a law buzzard deprived of his prey there is no more rage racked thing in nature The city however instead of annual millions is now paying in damages about one hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year and doubtless Mr Owens who has a passion to fight graft finds in the angry cries of the buzzards and the honest treasury difference he has brought about his soul\'s reward Humanity is in Mr Roosevelt\'s debt for those phrases Wealthy Criminal Classes and Malefactors of Great Wealth Also those classifications are as useful in Illinois as ever they were in New York Traction Gas and Telephone were and are the Big Money devils of Chicago When Mr Owens became county judge they had owned the town politically since the memory of Cook County man ran not to the contrary Their ebon lieutenants were the Bath house Johns the Hinky Dinks and the Roger Sullivans and their holds of vicious strength the river wards Since his elevation to the county judgeship Mr Owens has greatly gained the bitter disregard of these Big Money devils In a general way he has stepped on their satanic tails officially and stood there for weeks at a stretch Because I was interested to learn the details I asked an eminent Chicago officeholder for the story Said he WHAT OWENS HAS DONE To get at the thing right you should know that as county judge Mr Owens presides over the most powerful court considered politically in the world In his unchecked hands rests the entire election machinery1 of Chicago And from the first he has used his honest power to prevent the big Chicago criminals of Traction Gas and Telephones from skinning the town Until Mr Owens took office the lodging house wards were ruled by half a dozen men and held the absolute balance of power It was this element that defeated Dunne\'s reelection as mayor seven years ago At the last moment the river wards took the Traction money about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars Busse was elected and the Traction Settlement ordinances were fastened on the city were fastened on the city Mr Owens elected three years ago gave the city the first clean elections it ever had He smashed the colonizers repeaters vote brokers He covered the river wards with Burns detectives and a thousand special officers in the city election at which Mayor Harrison triumphed over the Sullivan candidate He brought every lodging house keeper into court He prevented cadets in the red light district from voting and sent several to jail Among them was the invincible Hogan of Hogan\'s Flop Hogan was convicted of perjury in connection with sworn lists of alleged residents in his lodging house There was a regular brokerage in votes that out Tammanyed Tammany There used to be a saying that nobody could be nominated or elected unless he had the First Eighteenth and Twenty first the river wards It was with these the traction telephone and gas companies put through their steals But Owens cleaned up the spurious registrations named honest inspectors put voting machines into the danger spots and the fear of heaven generally into every repeater and colonizer in the town The Big Money thieves of Gas Traction and Telephones haven t been able to buy an election since Owens took his place as county judge Naturally they re hot about it The Owens methods have ever been fearless and direct In 191 2 the Democratic county committeemen elected by the people held a convention in the First Regiment armory to name delegates to the state convention In an effort to control the meeting the gang in the pay of the Big Money rascals planned to pack it with their own delegates as contesting delegates Owens as county judge to insure a fair and legal organization of the convention delegated Election Commissioner Czar necki a Republican to act as temporary chairman The Big Money thieves obtained an injunction a judge of the Superior Court aimed at Czarnecki Owens and the Police Department to prevent from interfering with their robber plans The elected precinct committeemen were denied admission to the armory Judge Owens left the bench jumped into an automobile and appeared on scene He had the door chopped down and regular committeemen went in and held their convention The Superior Court judge fined five hundred dollars for contempt The Court vacated the fine holding that the should not have been issued and that Owens county judge was supreme in all election matters JUDGE OWENS AND WOMAN SUFFRAGE Judge Owens is the idol of the women It was he who launched the which brought women the ballot in Illinois Six years ago he voted to give the to women in the Chicago charter convention As county judge he told the that while there was no warrant of law it if they got the ballots printed he give the male voters of Chicago a chance cast them yes or no and have counted by the regular inspectors women accepted the offer and while no had it the sullen ungallant verdict was secured by a majority so slight that the managers became alarmed It gave woman\'s movement a bandJwagon character and the politicians everywhere over themselves in headlong anxiety climb aboard Aside from politics life on the county bench of Cook is not all beer and skittles There is no busier jurist than Judge Owens His jurisdiction covers special assessment cases involving annual city and county millions in matters of paving street widening sewers condemnations and water When babyless couples desire to adopt a child they must go to Judge Owens and three hundred and seventy two couples went to him on this amiable mission in the year that has just passed He hears all complaints for non support of children by fathers and for non support of parents aged and broken by children too mean to do their duty Then there are lunatics and children by the left hand and fugitives from other states for whom extradition is asked and tax appeals and police magistrates reports and the appointment of inheritance tax appraisers and the naming of visitors to hospitals for the insane and the selection of arbitrators under the Employers Liability act all these must come before him But he is young as full of energy as a dynamo and so he does it all and does it well The mere name and fame of Judge Owens as a scrapper are often enough to carry the day When the city\'s garbage contract ran out and the garbage company wouldn t renew but was only willing to sell out to the public for eight hundred thousand dollars which was three times too much Judge Owens threatened a confiscation which he called a condemnation of the garbage company\'s plant At the first Owens frown the hungry company came down like Crockett\'s coon and meekly accepted two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars Chicago\'s Big Money devils did their best to beat Judge Owens when he ran for the county judgeship Acting through election committees they sought to bar him from the party meetings The Big Money devils feared the Owens eloquence The cheap scheme was a flat out Owens the man was as ready to fight at a political meeting as Owens the boy had been to fight on Goose Island His tactics were simplicity itself He merely roughed his way to the front Unannounced unin troduced and without so much as By your leave fair sir to the chairman he walked out upon the platform and said his say Also such was his fell repute as a battler that no one interfered The Big Money devils plans to kill him off reacted and the people carried him to victory Those same Big Money devils are filing their teeth and Judge Owens next election will furnish a clash from which Cook County will date time THE REASON FOR SUCCESS No one in Chicago politics has ever gone so far so fast as Mr Owens How shall you account for it He has honesty but others have had honesty and failed He has brains but how many have possessed brains and still couldn t score a victory There is no mystery which equals the mystery of a man To read his future to explain his past to account for his present to settle whatever of loss or profit he may show or promise you must push the search beyond the single fact of brains My own notion is that Judge Owens owes his largest debt to his early need for work and what responsibilities piled themselves upon his shoulders before he d begun to see the last of his teens

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