Show illinoisan beats record kord of coolidge ILL more than R I 1 RIVERSIDE forty times a candidate for public office charles D sherman of riverside a suburb of chicago ties lias never been defeated lio iio has just been reelected elected re for the sixteenth time ns as village clerk an office he hog has held for the tha last twenty tight eight years mr sherman Is ending his bis fortieth and last year ns as assessor tor for the township of riverside this spring he refused to be a can candidate dIdato for reelection election re mr sherman was born bom on the site of the notel sherman in chicago in 1843 1848 ile he Is a grandnephew of francis 0 sherman builder of the first sherman bherman house and for several years mayor of chicago in the civil war mr sherman served for three years with the federal forces ile he was at atlanta when general sherman Sherm nn a relative active started his famous march to tho the sea bea for several years mr shermon sherman was cashier af pf tho the old fourth national bank in chicago lie ile Is ono one of tile the oldest if not the oldest masons Ma in illinois what ralph waldo emerson thought of the chicago of his day has just been discovered in letters ho he wrote to tits hla friend thomas carlyle unearthed by manager frank bering frota from some gome old records of the tha hotel emerson was a guest at the th first sherman house on a lecture tour which ho be made through the west in ile he then wrote carlyle the sherman house shows no sign or of the rough and uncouth although it was the first hotel built in chicago in 1800 after tho the close of tho the war lie was again in chicago and stayed at the sherman and again wrote to carlyle this time ho he said 1 I am still stopping at the sherman herman Ei house but the hotel has been rebuilt tito the old one was torn down in 1801 and this new hotel Is built on a scale of magnificence which one does not certainly expect this hotel la Is lighted with gas and so unlike english taverns there la Is no charge for or candles I 1 am told there Is a bathroom on every floor and the hotel la Is four stories high these bathrooms are at the disposal of tho the guests a nominal charge being made for towels alq and soap but if you supply your own soap and towels there Is no charge for the use of the water it Is a also heated without expense it if you so BO desire the people who como come to this hotel are very ery earnest slid and active many bill ni of them I 1 find bad quite intelligent being brought up in the east |