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March 31
1900: On the very last day of is fund drive, the University of Chiacgo’s President William Rainey Harper raises the final $136,000 needed to match John D. Rockefeller’s $2,000,000 gift to the university.
April 1
1908: Nettie Fowler McCormick and her sons Harold F. and Cyrus H. donate $50,000 to the YMCA’s semi-centennial fund.
April 2
1903: Addressing an audience of 5,000 at the Auditorium Theatre President Theodore Roosevelt again quotes an old adage: “Speak softley and carry a big stick, you will go far.”
April 3
1908: BOoker T. Washington, speaking at Orchestra Hall, contendds the solution to the problem in education & training.
April 4
1914: Plans are made to convert the Studebaker theatre to a moving picture and vaudeville house.
April 5
1955: Richard J. Daley is elected mayor of the city of Chicago for the first time, succeding Martin H. Kennelley
April 6
1904: Ms. Lucy Page Gaston of the anti-ciagrette League, renews her campaign against cigarettes by swearing out warrants for the areest of 33 tobbaco dealers
April 7
1902: Mayor Carter H. Harrison II calls for a revival of Chicago’s “I Will” spirit-“thr all conquering, unconquerable, imdomitable spirit of its citizenship the made Chicago.”
April 8
1921: The mild winter and consequest near-total failure of the icr crop riase the price of icce from $.50 to $.60 per 100 pounds.
April 9
1908: 55 Japanese businessmen, 3 aacompanied by their wives, arrive in Chicago to inspect the city’s industries.
April 10
1677: Fathre Claude Alouex arrives by canoe at the site of Chicago to take charge of an Indian mission.
April 11
1908: The YMCA begins a 2-week celebration of its 50th anniversary witha banquet held at its new building
April 13
1910: An auction of the art collection and properties of the late Chocago traction magnate Charles T. Yerkes nets $2,207,866 in New York.
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