April 28, 1893 – The Chicago Club moves into “new and commodious quarters” [Chicago Daily Tribune, April 29, 1893]
in the structure that formerly held the Art Institute of Chicago before the
museum’s move to its new building on the lakefront. Designed by John Root, the headquarters for
the Chicago Club, at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street, “meets
the taste of the critic in its plain yet rich proportions.” Francis M. Whitehouse is the architect
charged with renovating the building to make it suitable for the wealthiest
private club in the city. The first
story wall was lowered to make the ceilings of the entry level appropriate for
the use of club members and “By this arrangement an extensive and finely
proportioned hall was secured two and one-half feet below the level of the
reading room. A flight of marble steps
leads up to the latter room.” Servants’
room and a laundry are contained in an addition that has been built over the
former courtyard of the Art Institute.
The club’s new headquarters will also have its own ice plant and
electricity generating plant. The
elegant building would remain the Chicago Club’s headquarters until 1929 when
it collapsed while being remodeled.
April 28, 1909 -- The Cubs come back in the ninth inning to beat Cincinnati in a squeaker, 6-5. Another sports reporting gem, this one by I. E. Sunburn in the Chicago Daily Tribune. "Meek as so many cosset lambs during the early innings of today's game," he writes, "Chance's [player-manager Frank Chance] men suddenly tore off their disguises, converted themselves into ravenous wolves, snatched away from the Reds the victory which was apparently clinched, and plunged a stiletto deep into the vitals of Clark Griffith [Cincinnati's manager]." Reds pitcher Bob Ewing is in command until the seventh inning when he allows two runs, but the Wrigley nine was still down by three going into the top of the ninth. Chance led off the final frame with a single to right. Third baseman Harry Steinfeldt "poled a long fly" to left, but shortstop Joe Tinker "smashed one so hot that [Red shortstop Mike] Mowrey had no chance of stopping it. Outfielder "Circus Solly" Hofman laces a line drive into center. Chance scores, and "only two runs were needed to tie her up." Cubs second baseman Heinie Zimmerman pulls a line drive between short and second and Reds left fielder Dode Paskert, hustling to cut down a run at the plate "fumbled the ball in his eagerness and it bounded gleefully back toward the fence." Tinker and Hofman score and Zimmerman "sneaked around to third a toenail ahead of Paskert's throw in." Cubs catcher Pat Moran hits a bounder to Reds second baseman Miller Huggins, who makes "a fine shot to the plate to nil Zim's run," but Cincinnati catcher Frank Roth drops the ball. That is all that is needed to seal "the grandest rally that has been pulled off this season in any section of the map." The game is played at Cincinnati's Palace of the Fans, pictured above.
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