Show SOMETHING IN TILlS THIS NAME Fake Street People in Chicago Got It Named Earned for the Mayor Chicago The majority of the residents of Fake street an ambitious young thor thoroughfare thoro o destined to become by grace of the city council Harrison avenue now go about their daily duties with a load oft off their minds With the neighbor neighboring ing lag people of ot high sounding Bonaparte street holding their heads in the th clouds Fake street residents have chafed for years under the burden of cheap humor that neighbors have indulged at their expense Fake street as one of the residents expresses it aint no lake shore drive It is a little one block cut running be between between between tween Bonaparte and Lyman LynIan streets and contains about twenty small cot cottages cottages cottages with a humble beer saloon on the corner There are no stores One end of or it lies In the shadow of o Ar Armours Armours Armours mours curled hair and glue factory and the big tank of the Universal Gas company The other dwindles in a modest and earthy fashion into a I cut At first glance the most striking objects on ap appear appear pear to be coal oil cans children wood wooden en fences and basement steps Over twenty years ago the thorough thoroughfare fare became known as Fake street af at after atter ter tel Fred L Fake a real estate manof man of I Chicago who owned most of the prop property property I erty in the neighborhood I IAsa As Asa a general rule the people who ve veon e eon on Fake street are not behind their fel fellow fellow I low citizens in the interest they take in the grave public questions of the day But for tor the last few weeks in the I eyes of Fake street there has been only one grave public and that was the renaming of the street I In the first place some enthusiastic Bohemian Democrats announced that the best name the street could have was vas Harrison avenue after the may mayor I or with a second choice of Schiller SchUler avenue Schiller street being the thor thoroughfare thoroughfare thoroughfare on which the mayor resides They had a third name Carter boule boulevard boulevard vard yard up their sleeves but they held i that in reserve for contingencies Finally the adherents of the Harrison avenue slogan triumphed and they the are arenow arenow I now joyfully celebrating their victory The unsuccessful faction now has a I suspicion that in insisting on the new name the enemy was simply making a abid abid abid bid for tor sewers and other necessary im improvements improvements improvements and that the compliment to the mayor had a hook on the end of ot it I |