OK, lets go take a look see at the Cornerstone of the Evanston Municipal Building....
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THIS issue of the Milwaukee Magazine went to press prior to the :first rlin of the Olympian Hiawatha, on June 29, but some time in advance of that date a number of cities along the route between Chicago and Tacoma we~e laying plans for welcoming the new streamliner. A pre-inaugural run, called the Lake Washington Regatta Special, left Chicago on June 23 for Seattle, carrying the rowing crews of the Universities of California, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania, Yale, Syracuse, Princeton, Washington and Wisconsin, which were to take part in the Lake Washington Regatta on June 28. The group of more than 175 athletes and sports writers left New York on June 22 on the New York Central following the Poughkeepsie and Yale-Harvard Regattas. Arriving in Chicago the following morning, they and the special baggage cars containing their racing shells and other gear were transferred to the new train for noon departure. This Atlanticto-Pacific tour of the roWing crews was the first movement of its kind. Another pre-inaugural' run of the Olympian Hiawatha was made from Chicago to Minneapolis on June 26 for .representatives of the press.
.. PICTURES of the Twin Cities Hiawatha, drawings and leaflets relating to the Olympian Hiawatha, the Milwaukee Road history booklet and a copy of the company's annual report for 1946 have been sent to the Evanston (Ill.) Historical Society for placing in the corner stone box of that city's Municipal Building.
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