Show WHO CAVE NAME TO BUSINESS STREET 1 CHICAGO CACO REVISITS REVISIT SCENES SCENE OF oi BOYHOOD f T rid G fhe eponym of A April p Clark street treel tree t i is in to town n e ed r J Jr f fa Clark of 0 o- o Cal Cat H Ife He is s the oldest r being 9 years earth on ti a it O drink of had a I lu hI not Dot r in is seventy lot e five vo years or liquor Ji end and do down wn his former fJ fa- up p ho remarked 1 that i it ih gems s to be pretty well weB j irris I visiting his only son wn II is s s r the tho first this is Ik 1 II He lie c Sacs the t since the they hu mas seen neen Chicago ll to call caU it Skunk village His JH- JH rather I ther ho llo declares owned the territory on both sides of oC what is now downtown down down- ow town Clark street but Lut sold ol it Jon long before be be- bej j fore the bi big jump in land a values lues came I At t prohibition headquarters ho he said aid I I si signed the ped pledge e seventy five I years ago and I 1 haven't let 11 a drop pass pals my lips from that time tim to this I hadn't h been heen en a drinker before that mind ind you I I just Si signed up b because that tr was S tho the thoI wa way 11 Iny folk folks hail bad been doin doing for six I or eight f. f generations lon Jt It Its It's s 's I m my nn experience ri- ri cn ence enee that in to ord order r to pet Jet a real reul good prohibitionist you have ha got ot to start 00 OO years back hAd Mr Ir Clark attended the meeting of the grand rand lodge of the In Independent Order Or Or- der Iler of Good in 1869 which I resulted in the formation of the tho national national na na- prohibition ri party He Ht wa was chairman chairman chair chair- I Iman man of the tho worlds world's s 's temperance nc congress I that net met in n Independence hall Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- del delphia via in While h he swa was a not battling t with tho the demon rum Mr Ir Clark was fighting Indian Indians He lie served in Captain Simons Simon's on s company compan of Illinois volunteers in the Blackhawk wk war Isar and today he is is the the only onh survivor IH IHor or of that organization which contained over uyer lOO men four Twenty years after diet tho the close c of that war war he applied for a pension It was granted in May In 1906 I I |