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I ~t^Lj' STATE A:Sl> L ° A J fS ‘
1 GHO.M.BOGUE,
iißWiitin,
I boom s reaper block.
j No. 97 Clark-st., Chicago.
j riVcnto mo arc m ind o iSin«gonvent
I cwefallT looked after.
I Brother,
I GENERAL brokers,
I No. 86 Washington-st.
I„ . umAIES. ' EDGAR HO. MES.
j gJLKerfoot & Co.,
m mi iMs, ’
I 91 Dearbom-st.
I ISM have been engaged in the Regular
I REAL ESTATE AGENCY
I , Chicago, and have at all times for sale
I “IntifESPONoScE SOLICITED.
J fXBRAGG & CO.
I Real Estate
I AND
J Loans.
j gx Washington-st.
J hfl. GOODRICH,
I SI MAJOK BLOCK,
I 145 LA SALLE-ST.
Real Estate.
fi Ft»t<lass Easiness, Residence. Manufacturing, and
I let Property reoroemed.
I Retttesdooof capital scekißginveatmcoteO'lcited
8 Eipenlo Real Estate Vu ainons.
'll! TO \m
I 0a Chicago Real Estate in sums of SI,OOO
{ to SIOO,OOO, at lowest rates.
I HENRY WALLER, JR.,
I 97 Dearbom-st.
iHllpEffll
I MONTHLY SALES AT AUCTION.
I CHANDLER ACO.,Trustees. W.K. NIXON. Manager.
116 & 118 Dearborn-st.
CHANDLER & CO.,
Mortgage Bankers.
LOANS ON REAL ES TATE.
NO. 72 DEARBORN-ST.
3 ‘-GRIFFIN & DWIGHT,
WEST SIDE
Real Estate and Loan Brokers,
Cor. Washington and Halsted-sts. .
FRANCIS B. PEABODY & CO.
LOANS DPON REAL ESTATE.
Interest rate. 6 per cent.
AGENTS FOR SALE OF HEAL ESTATE.
174 Dearbom-st.
A. LOEB & BRO. ’
liej toed 01W Estate.
Kensington Lots,
ADJOINING THE
PULLMAN CAR-WORKS,
for sale on easy terms by C.B.SAWYER.
Room 24 Portland Block,
Corner Washington and Dearborn-f»ts-,
lake the Elevator. Chicago.
E. S. DREYER & CO..
BAKKERS,
loans and real estate,
■SB Washington-st., Chicago.
BROS.,
REAL estate dealers
AND
LOAN BROKERS,
no Dearbom-st., Room 15, Chicago.
J. P. WHITE & CO.,
1M ESTATE AND LOAN AGENTS.
A Specialty of Business Property.
Room 4 Reaper Block, 97 Clark-st.
. ~BAIRD & BRADLEY,
loan, Real Estate, & Renting Agency,
No. 90 La Salle-st.
COERCION, IN IRELAND.
For The Chlcaao Tribune.
Aiaod submerged In Sorrow’s tears,
An island crush’d by tyrant’s sway,
from sutroundinff fears,
sunshine chasinp shades away.
*O6 dark impending gloom which him?
."DUBd its peaceful zenith, cost
"•Pallor wretched woes among
a People’s love, too grand to blast.
felt the spreading gloom
ttu " hemmed her iu on every side.
if.,V^? l| ties-which were wont to bloom.
.iw® *aded oom the land and died.
laugh which tilled the plain,
‘l««iuS us l ck<Hl ever y grove and bow’r,
within that sad domain.
, - •“ n afcad by the tyrant’s damning pow’r. '
w hlch Freedom gave to song,
peace and plenty crown’d her brow, '
Tw‘ ne . 6 dread distress too i
' •tri“[p u ‘fd tymn t’s rule, was crushed till now. 1
. overburdened woes pressed on, ,
Swim V ll,6 * 115 tban m °cktng wo .
-S? 1 aU l heglories sno had won, i
■ ®oe armed herself to meet the foe,
%«?°r was the Sage’s lore: 1
the pen which told to men J
for which she bled before,
njfJ® da red to stand and bleed again. ]
• mount, In glen and vale, <
'52? ple met to ehange her laws. .
landlords la their efforts fail ~1
-to meet the issues Union draws.
Governmental gory head. • t
jaws of belching ire,
A%S? lt * lastly horrors fed,*
its bloody mire.
is raonstergrim, with fiendish frown, ’ :
J et with giw.
.aSSfit-^SW iaws la ys down, ]
, - old Ireland’s sons once more.
; ■ • P.CVT. Breen.
*»S2S2*JS?I2.i ror £® 8e Hop Bitters
* cure or help. Doubt not.
REAL ESTATE.
Good Inquiry for Bargains
Despite the Weather.
1 The Burlington & Quincy Will Put
Their Office Building on
Franklin Street.
The Old Post-Office and the First Na
tional-Sale of the Old Chit
, tenden Lot
Rise in Rents—Cheap Transit
for Chicago—Miscel
laneous.
There was a quiet real estate market dur
ing the week. Some buyers are iu the mar
ket, but inquiries are limited by the weather,
- which has been so inclement as to forbid the
showing of property. As the season ad-
I vances
NEW BUILDING SCHEMES
are coming up, though building will be un
usually late this year on account of the
weather. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad have had the plans drawn for the
office building they pronose to build on their
Jot on the comer of Adams and Franklin
streets. It will be of brick with stone trim
mings, will be five stories high, and will cost
1 $200,000. This puts at rest all conjectures
about a trade having been made with the
Burlington by which, in the interest of ad
, joining property-owners, it was to be induced
to build elsewhere.
The First National Bank have' decided not
to pull down the
OLD POSTVOFFICE BUILDING,
bat to reconstruct it. On May 1, when Sir.
Haverly le.aves, Mr. Burling, the architect,
will take it in hand. Jackscrews will be put
under the building, and it will be raised six
feet. This will make the first floor seven
feet above the street and will give room for a
first-ckiss basement. Two stories will be
added, making the building thirty feet higher
than it is now. The
OUTLAY WILL BE $100,009.-
The alley no rth of the building is at present
■ thirty-six feet wide, and the lot extends
; twenty-six feet beyond the building. It is
nroposed also to lengthen out the structure
twenty-two feet, which would give an alley
way fourteen feet wide. The First National
wishes to buy the property, and lias made a
! proposition to the Board of Education for the
i purchase.
Mr. Cyrus Wilcox will build at the corner
of Jackson and State a four-story brickbuild
ing for offices. It will cost $20,000.
On the southwest corner of Hoisted and
Lake will be put up this spring a four-story
brick building, 50x100, to bn used for stores
and flats. Foundations have already been
laid for several substantial buildings on the
property heretofore unoccupied in the vicini
ty of West Lake and Union streets.
Mr. U. P. Smith will, as soon" as the
■ weather permits, finish the , seven houses
began last fall on his purchase
ON THE LAKE SHORE,
south of Thirty-first street Several more,
houses are under contract for individuals
who wish to purchase. Mr. Smith builds
his houses to order, allowing intending pur
chasers the right to change plans to suit
themselves. lie owns the whole tract on the
lake shore, from the lake east to South Park
avenue, and from Thirty-third street to a
point 300 feet south of Thirty-first street.
This is the old Camp Douglas tract, and in
cludes thirty acres, with 7,000 feet of front
age, SOO ot it ou the lake shore. Mr. Smith’s
plans look to the gradual improvement of
this whole tract with houses, costing $5,000
t 0.510,000, to be built as called for.
IN THE BUILDING PERMITS '
of the week were those to L. L. Mayer to
erect a two-story brick dwelling, 20x46 feet,
at No. 2335 Michigan avenue, to cost $0.000;
Garrett Biblical Institute, four-story brick,
basement. 20x32 feet. No. 334 Lake street,
$6,000; Alston Manufacturing Company,
three-story brick factory. 60x86, Carrier and
Crittenden, $25,000; W. H. and J. J. West,
two-story . dwelling, 23x51, Harrison and
Hoyne, $7,000; John Krus, one-story brick
cottage, 20x32, Twentieth and Paulina,6l,ooo;
Philip Dreesbach, three-story brick dwelling,
24x60, No. SSI Clark street, $6,000; James
Stinson to erect a three-story brick factory,
40x60 feet, at Nos. 39 and 101 Monroe street,
to cost $7,000; Fred Blauer, tliree-story brick
factory,2oxloofeet. No. 123 North LaSalle
street, to cost $6,000; James McGivern, addi
tion to Nos. 29 and 31 Hubbard street, $2,000;
George W. Higgins, live 2-story dwellings, 18
x 35 each, Nos. 403 to 411 West Van Bureli
street, 37,000: C. D. Martin, 2-story dwelling,
20x40, No. 15 Taylor street, $1,500; C. D. Mar
tin, 2-story dwelling, 20x76, No. 217 Third
avenue, $3,000; C. D. Martin, 2-story dwell
ing, 20x46, No. 221 Third avenue, $1,500; C.
D. Martin, four2-storv dwellings, 30x40 each,
Nos. 222 to 227>, Third avenue, ~$0,000;
Holmes & Pyatt, repairs to building corner
Jefferson and Lake streets, damaged by fire,
$5,000; Morton Frog and Crossing Company.
1-story factory, No. 00 Pacific avenue, $2,000;
Frank Lander, 3-story store and dwelling,
25x72, No. 36 Caualport avenue, $6,000.
SALES.
The “old Chittenden. lot ” on Dearborn
street, north ot Randolph, sixty-two feet
front, with irregular depth, lias been sold
for $60,000, an advance of $40,000 on the
price asked two months ago.
Adolph Loeb & Brother sold this week
two lots on Wallace street, near Forty-fifth
street, to Joint Walsh, for $2,030; two lots
ou Winter street to Patrick Lee tor $1,800;
forty-five acres in the Town ot Jefferson to
Christian Daraling for $7,575; two lots on
Bissel street, near Centre, to Mr. Pauling, ■
for Sl,S00: and a dwellingon North La Salle
street at $12,000.
The Scltroeiler Brothers sold thirty-nine
feet on Market, between Monroe and Madi
son streets, east front, at SOO3 a foot A
first-class witoiesale store will be erected on
this lot.
Mr. F. A Bragg sold a piece of acre prop
erty at Halsted and Fifty-fifth street for
$60,000.
For a tract ot forty acres on Sixty-third
street, near Woodlawn station, $65,000 lias
been offered.
The Chicago Real Estate Call Board will
hold its
FIFTH PUBLIC SALE
on Wednesday, at 3 p. m. Twenty-seven
pieces will be offered. A new feature ot the
Srogram under the head of “ Class C, the
Toker’s Call,” is thus referred to:
Entries and sates free ot charge to all real
estate agents and brokers, and limited to twenty ■
numbers. Ail sales subject to an auctioneer's ,
fee of one-halt per cent, to be paid by the pur- ,
chaser. Bids and otters will be announced, and ‘
the quotations made will be given for publica- ‘
tion. At the termination of the cull of each
uumbor opportunity will be had for any real 1
estate agent or broker to offer other lots iu • t
same block or vicinity, and when offered bids j
will be received, even though the property be
not listed in the catalog. The above terms ap
ply only to this special class, and all sales ef
fected depend upon agreement of buyer and 1
seller.—that is, when offers arc taken or bids ac- ,
cepted. Class G will only bo opened for entries j
for the next call. j
H..J. Steele, Master in Chancery of the (
Superior Court, sold the forts - feet front on J
the east side of State street, Ij-iite forty feet t
south of the corner of Harmon court, and j
extending back K’.S. : 4 feet to the ailes - , to- ]
gether with the fifty-five feet adjoining it on c
the rear end and fronting on the south side t
of Harmon court, for $14,530 cash. The pur- 1
chaser was Richard S. Cox, of Galesburg. a
W. P. Larkin has sold at Humboldt Park ;
one brick residence for $2,100, one cottage
for $1,300, one frame residence for $1,600, t
and nine lets from S3OO to S7OO each, a
T. D. Snyder has sold the S. E. i-4 of the N. t
E, 3f of 36,. 38, 14, forty acres, for SOOO an d
acre. This lies near the Lake Shore Kail- i
road on Eighty-third street, r
1 William N. Stokes sold for Henry F. Hop- r
peustedt Lot 9, Block 34, Ogden’s Addition, t
to Hugh Todd, Esq., for $6, WO. t
SATURDAY'S THAN PEItS. a
The following in-itrumeats were filed for 1
record Saturday, March,43: J
ci tv property. tl
Blssell St, 282 ft not Willow st, wf, 24x125 L
ft, improved, dated March UfJohnHaf
forkamp to Leonard Nazke). t 4,000 *,
Hubbard st, 48 ft e of Uobey St. s f. 24x200 d
ft to Ferdinand st, dated March IX (S, ■" a
and sV.a.Davies to Helen S. James}... 4,000 b
THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 13, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES.
West Thirteenth olace, 144 tt w of
Paullno-st. a f, 24x83 ft, dated March 5
(A, and S. Knisely to Thomas Thomp
son) 650
Vernon av, 63 ft n of Thlrty-ficst-sf, e f,
30x115 ft, dated March 11 (Master in
Chancery to Ell B. Smith) 1,791
west Erie st, 25 ft w bf Armour st, s f, 25
xl£s ft, dated March 9 (M. J. and W.Lister
to Austin Gunderson) 900
North Hoy tie st, 50 f t s of Le Moyne, o ft,
34x150 ft, improved, dated March 11 (P.
O. Sustad to Martin Delaney) 2,200
Sedgwick st, 44*4 ft n of Schiller st, wf,
22x90 ft, dated March 9 (Conrad Gchrko
to Jacob L owy) .. 1,200
Thlrty-elghth-st, 50 ft o of Gage, n f, 50x
147 ft, dated ilarch 11 (J. E. Tyler to
Ann Sullivan).... i ' 900
Homan av, s e cor of West Washington
at, w f, 145 2-10x200 ft, dated March I
(Michael F. Hecnan to James H. Walk
er)
West Lake st, 151 ft o of Hoyno ar, n f,
23x115 ft, dated Feb. 28 (Charles Gotta
chalk to Paulino Blutbardt) 3,000
Buttcrtleld st, 216’ft not Twenty-ninth
st, w f. 25x100 ft, dated March II (B. B.
Bullwinkle to Philip Dcrna) 2,450
Ashland av, 70 ft s ot Julian st, o f, 24x100
ft, improved, dated March 11 (William
L, Moss to John Ulthamcl) 723
Fulton stj 56 4-10 ft w of Oakley av, s f,
10x100 ft, dated March 11 (John E. Tur
ney to Myra C. Smith)... 3,400
Lake st, 66*4 ft e of Wabash av, n f, 63H*
100 ft, improved, dated ilarch 7 (John
A, Ely to Frederick C. Porter) -46,000
Portland av, near Thirty-sixth st, w f, 23
xl2sJ4.fi, dated March 11 (D. K. Pear- .
sons to Anton Hronck) 600
Townsend st, 96 f t n of White, w f, 24x125
ft, dated March 7 (M. and E. Thomas to
Henry Bormunn) 2,000
Dearborn av, 100 ft s of North, e f, 10x149
ft, dated March 1 (John B. Grammes to
Surah O. Egan) 2,500
Morgan st, 168 ft o of West Adams, 0 f,
514x184 ft, dated March XI (J. W. Kot
, tlestrmgsto William Woodrow)...
I West Adams st, 19 ft wof Oakley av. n f,
I 40x76*3 ft, dated Feb. 22 (John Sigwalt,
Jr., to Myron A. Decker)... 8,000
1 West Clyboura place, 168 ft e of North
Paulina st, n f, 24x125 ft, dated Sept. 10,
i 1880 (John H. Mellor to E. £L F. Hart)... 350
Forqner st, 100 ft w of Clinton, n f, 25x118
ft, dated March 10 (J. H. Boynton to J,
Belohrudsky) 800
Nutt st, 216 ft s of Sixteenth, e f, 24x124 ft,
dated Feb. 24 (J. C. Meistcr to August
Mueller) 800
Buttcrtleld st, 217 ft sof Twenty-seventh,
wf, 25x100 ft, dated March 11 (John Lef- *
her to S. M. Parish) 2,800
South Leavitt sr, 150 ft a of Van Buroo,
w f, 25x120 ft. dated Feb. 33 (E. S. Badg
er to Henry T. Wilcox)
North Carpenter st, 72 ft s of Carroll av,
. ef, 24x120 fi dated March 12 (Sarah A.
'Albaugh to F. L. Salisbury) 1,400
State st, 40 ft s of Harmon court, w f. 40x
133 ft, with 55x40 ft adjoining on Har
* mon court,-In rear of the above, dated
March II (Master la Chancery to Rich
ard S. Cox)
Wabash av, n w cor of Dock st, s f, 65 ft
to river, dated Feb. 28 (John D. Lank
enaa. Trustee, to Andrew Crawford)...
Cottage place, 523 ft a of Tbirty-flrst st. c
f, 50x110 ft, dated March 10 (Joseph E.
Gray to George A. Hart) 4,000
West Washington st, 20J ft w of Western
av, nf. 50x125 ft, dated March 11 (Lucy
A. Carpenter to the Chicago West Di
vision Railway Company)
• Wentworth av, n w cor of Finnell st, c f,
60x100 ft, improved, dated March 13
(John McrgeutbalortoWiiUamC.Seipp) 4,200
SOUTH OF CITV LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OP
SEVEN MILES OP THE COURT-HOUSE.
Kimbark av, 210 ft s of Chestnut st, e f,
80x175 ft, dated Nov. 27,1880 (Jared Bas
sett to Mary P. Bassett).... $ 2,000
Indiana av, 6si ft n of Fortieth st,w f,2lfi
xI6J ft, dated Dec. U, 1886(L r nion Mutu
al Life-Insurance Company 10 Frank
G. Springer)
Lot 129 of Lots 1 to 20 In Town of Bright
on, dated Oct. 2,1880 (John Grady to J.
B. MeGinty) 700
Fifty-eighth st. between Stewart av and
Wright, s f. Lots 35 and 30, dated March
11 (John F. Curtis to Oliver T. Moore).. 3,500
Forty-seventh st, s e cor of Drcyer, u f,
25x125 ft,'dated March IX (R. Berger to
W. Roach) 300
Robey st, between Fifty-third and Fifty
fourth. of. 5 1-100 acres, dated March
.12 (A. J. and W. F. Hogan to Calvin P.
Reed) .... 2,875
NORTH OF CITV LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF
SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE.
Mozart st, 3704 ft n of North av, e f, 50x
100 It, improved, dated March 11 (Fred
erick G. Frank to Carl Wagner) $ 2,050
Humboldt at, 150 ft s of Wanaiifla. w f,
30x120 ft. dated March 11 (John John
ston. Jr., to Jacob Bruppucher) 673
Heine st, 59 ft s of ArmUagc av, w f, 25x
113 ft. dated March 7 (M. and \v. D. Cox
to M.F. Klees) 300
SUMMARY FpR THE WEEK.
The following is the total amount of city
and suburban transfers within a radius of
seven miles of the Court-House filed for rec
ord during the week ending Saturday, March
12: City—Sales, 149; consideration, $661,616.
iSortb of city limits—Sales, 7; consideration,
$6,375. South ot citv limits—Sales, 36: con
sideration, $178,742. West of city limits—Sales,
9; consideration, $6,425. Total sales, 201; total
consideration, $675,156.
SCHOOL SITES.
The Board of Euucation has decided to ad
vertise tor a school site in the vicinity of
Monroe and Leavitt streets and Warren and
Oakley avenues. They have alstpdecided to
purchase Lots 9,10, 11, and 12 of Block 46, in
Walsh & McMullin’s Subdivision ot the S. E.
Uof Sec. 20, 39, 14, on West Twentieth
street east of and separate from the Walsli-
Strect School by a ten-foot alley, for thesuiu
of $9,350, providing the City Council will va
cate the alley; and Lot 30, Block 10, of
Brauu's Addition to Chicago,"on the corner
of Johnson and Wright streets, and adjoin
ing the site recently purchased ou Johnson
street, 34x99 feet, for the sum of $1,225.
IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK
were 25xSS on Stowart avenue, north of
Meagher street, $16,000; 627x204 on Sixty-sec
ond street southeast corner of Market,
$15,000; 4034x1.11 0n Prairie avenue, north
of Twentieth, $21,503; undivided half of 50. x
400 feet, improved, on West Lake street
southwest corner ot Peoria, $25,000; 300x231
on Thirty-seventh street northeast corner of
Stanton avenue, $16,370 ; 30x100 on West Lake
street southeast corner of Lajavitt, $5,250;
24x130 ou South Park avenue, north of Thir
ty-seventh street, $7,500 ; 22x03, im
proved, on Ogden avenue, north of
Washington street, $7,000 ; 20 acres
on Western avenue boulevard, northwest
cornerof Fiftietli street SIO,OOO ; 40x120, im
proved, on Drcxel boulevard, north of Brook
street on Dearborn avenue, south
of Goethe street $5,025 ; 26x120 on Harmon
court, east of Wabash, $6,000; '44|£xlso ou
Eortli State, northeast corner of Scott, $6,600;
triangle of four acres at southeast corner of
Elston avenue and Webster, $6,000 ; 50x1250n
Green street, north of West Congress, $5,500;
35x103 0-10, improved, on West Twelfth, east
of Jyootms, $5,000; 10UX20Q on Michi
gan avenue, south of Thirty-seventh
street 311,000; 20x101, improved,
on Ada, north of West Washington, $6,000;
24x100 on Blue Island avenue, east of Twelfth
street, witli 22 feet to alley in rear of the
above. $12,200; on Hammond
street, northeast corner of Eugenie, 810.250;
No. 178 Xonli Curtis, $6,000 ; 24x66 on Slew
art avenue, northwest corner ot Meagher.
$9,000 ; 300x125 on Byford avenue, southeast
cornerof West Fifteenth street $5,000; SOx
119 on Wabash avenue, south of Twenty
first street, $7,590; 49>4xt2!j ou Wabash ave
nue, southwest corner of Tlmty-eighth
street,witli2sxl23 adjoining on Thirty-eighth,
SB,OOO ; 50x80 on North Clark street north
west corner of Illinois, improved, $14,050 ; 25
xll4, improved, on Granger street, east of
Sedgwick, 35.100.
Property at
SOUTH EVANSTON,
which is one of the pleasantest of Chicago’s
northern suburbs, is in brisk demand this
season, several sales of lots at good prices
having recently been made. Gen. Julius
While sold last week ten lots at $1,900 each,
and is now building four houses, with others
to follow. These houses'are soldou monthly
payments at a low rate of interest
V RENTS;
There is an unexampled demand for busi
ness and office accommodations in this city.
About half the offices in the Grannis Build
ing on Dearborn street, not yet finished,
have been rented. In tho new Borden Block,
on the northwest corner of Dearborn and
Kandoiph, vvliich will hot be ready for
tenants for several weeks, only two
offices are unfented. In the Portland
Block, now being enlarged, all the sixty-nine
offices are taken. The seventy-nine offices of
the Reaper Block, the ninety ' offices of the
HunorC Block, and those of the Bryan Block
are all rented at advances ranging from 10 to
25 per cent.
An Associated Press dispatch from Chicago
tojSewidrk gives iu a few words a vivid
and truthful statement of the rise, in rents in
this city: Tenants find themselves in the
dilemaof either having to pay a very largely
increased rent or moving to a less desirable
neighborhood. Some tenants, in refusing to
renew leases at vvhat were considered extor
tionate rents, have found themselves unable
to find new quarters. This condition of affairs
arises, accorduig to real-estate men, not from
the paucity of building onerations during the
past year, for very many large and commo
dious buildings hat-e been erected, but from
the rush toward the city of new business
firms. What is true of rents in the business
part of the city is also true of rents for resi
dences. and the Ist of May tvill witness such
a scramble for houses ast wtts never seen here
before. It now loots as if many people
would be entirely homeless, although, ac
cording to the building statistics recently
telegraphed, over r» t OOO residences were
erected during 18S0 in this city. The houses
which two years ago rented for §3O to SBO per
month, are now bringing from §SO to .SX2S,
and even higher proportionate rates are be
ing fixed in some cases. In the business por
tion the advance rangesfrom 15 to 50 per
cent One case is known in which a furni
ture firm which lust year paid §5,000, was
asked to pay $9,000 for a three years’ lease,
and, after casting about and finding no other
building available, was compelled to accede
to the terms. In another instance, a whole
sale firm in State street, whose rent has been
$2,500, will nay $5,300 the. coming year.
Agents, as well as renters and owners, con
sider this a genuine rise indents, not an en
gineered case, and it may be stated that the
business prosperity and growing, activity in
every branch of industry is further warrant
for the advance.” , , '
The building now occupied oy Schlesinger
& Mayer, corner Madison and Peoria streets,
has been leased to P. F. Kyan & Co., dealers
in dry goods.
TAXATION OP CHURCH BEAL ESTATE.
8,500
For years past the city has lost a large
amount iu taxesowing to theexemptlon from
taxation of' property—such as parsonages,
outside lots, and even acres—belonging to
churches. The omission of this property
from the assessment is clearly illegal, and
Controller Gurney is having a list of ic made,
and proposes to see that the Assessors are
aware of the facts tins year. If this kind of
property is assessed, as it should be, the city’s
income will be increased fully $15,000 a year.
The Improvement Committee of the West
Park Board at the last meeting of the Board
reported in relation to the erection of gates
or other protection lor teams passing along
CENTRAL BOULEVARD,
that a conference was held with the officers
of the Milwaukee &Sl Paul Railway Com
pany, and the officers are averse to any ex
pense for the erection of gates. Tlie Com
mittee recommend that a viaduct be asked
for if it was deemed best at this time.
Remonstrances have been put in circula
tion against tne majority report of the Coun
cil Committee on Railroads in favor of adopt
ing cobble-stone pavements in Chicago streets
which is made order for business
on Monday night. All pei)soiis opposed to
cobble-stjone pavements ou residence streets
are invited to call at once at the cilice of
Enos Ayres, Esq.. Room XI Reaper Block, 95
Ciark street, and sign remonstrances left
there for signatures.
The South Division Committee on Streets
and Alleys have again deferred action on the
6,000
1,400
VACATION OF LA SALLE STREET, •
on account of me failure of the parties inter
ested to airree as to the widening ot Pacific
avenue and Sherman streets, the rededication
of the street in case tho ground is not used
by the Board of Trade, and other matters.
It is expected there will bo a'meeting, and it
is hoped an agreement on these subjects, tills
week.
44,550
42,000
NEW YORK, LIKE CHICAGO,
has not houses enough for its people. Tho
New York Herald says that one cause of the
advance of rents in >iew York is that there
are not enough houses on Manhattan Island,
and that the majority of property-owners
who erect good houses to rentseem possessed
of the idea that only rich people are to live
there in the future. At present prices of lots
sightly and comfortable 'houses might be
erected in many respectable portions ot the
upper wards which at from SSOO to S6OO a
year would pay a good return on the money
invested; but almost every builder up-towu
prefers to put up houses fur which lie must
charge from $ 1,309 to $1,530, and run the risk
of having them unoccupied for a year or
two. Builders wlulluivo hut yet determined
on the cost ot projected houses will save
money by driving auout tbe built-up districts
near Central Park, and noticing bow all
small houses not of the clap-trap variety are
occupied, while many elegant mansions iu
the same neighborhood have been empty
ever since they were built.
IS SAN FRANCISCO,
3,300
4,275
the Bulletin says the market is character
ized by a fair iuqtiiry, with moderate trans
actions. Tite weather lias been unusually
fine for viewing properties, and intending
purchasers are taking advantage of the op
portunity to extend tne area of their obser
vations before deciding upon any particular
location. Although the building season lias
not yet fairly set in, there are numbers of
blocks and single dwellings in process of con
struction, thus absorbing nearly all the idle
mechanical labor, and leaving but few good
workmen out of regular employment
CHEAP CITY TRANSIT.
3b the Editor of The Chicago Tribune.
Chicago, March 12—The ; citizens of Chi
cago -will be glad to learn through The
Tribune' that the “Hedrick • Transportation
Company” is soon to put on a liiifeof their
coaches in this city. The vehicle by a new
and ingenious mode ot construction affords
one of the easiest and best means of transit
yet offered to the public. Eight passengers,
and no more, are allowed in each coach, and
tne fare is 5 cents—six tickets for a quarter
of a dollar. Cue horse is all that is needed,
and when filled the carriage speeds right on,
till some of the passengers wish to leave.
The Company is a Philadelphia institution,
where it lias met with great success. The
Lender speaks of its introduction at Cleve
land with enthusiasm, and its advent in Chi
cago will also bo hailed with equal pleasure.
X. Y.
GOOD advice for small investors.
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune .
Chicago, March L3.—iVc are now, as I be
lieve, entering upou another period of good
wages tor workingmen ami tradesmen, ami
of a contagious desire on their part to buy
real estate, because it is advancing in price,
and they have spare money, .
From long experience mid a desire to see
workingmen prosper, I feel both able and
disposed to advise them a little in this' con
nection, ami if otiiers than they can get any
good from it they also a re welcome,
v In IS?J—a period similar to tho better
times we think now at hand—all working
classes made «ione3’, and many “saved up’’
considerable sums. -Most of the money so
saved was used in one of two ways,—de
posited in savings banks or invested in real
estate. Both deposits and investments
turned out badly, and many resolved they
would never deposit in savings banks or buy
real estate again. But these resolves are
already beginning to be forgotten, and while
I know less of the savings-bank branch of
the subject, i hear of scores of workingmen
inquiring again about real estate purcaasfo
within their means.
While a believer in good, honest savings
banks, 1 can hut declare, as a fact, that those
workingmen who bought real estate, even at
the high prices (for them) of 1872, realized
much better results than those depositing
their savings. Yet there are three important
exceptions to this rule, mutiny ikesent pur
pose is to mention them, as a warning for
those thinking now of buying:
4. Those who bought more than they could
pay for, and so lost all they did pay.
This is pure speculation,.and a dangerous
indulgence for a laboring man, especially if
he has a family. It you buy a $2,999 lot and
can pay but $599 on it and hence lose it it is
better to put ic into a savings bank, even
though i’ou get but 19 per cent back again.
2. Those who bought “ wildcat” worth
less, suburban property (good only for corn
and cabbage at about SSO per acre or $5 per
lot), and paid fancy prices for it I don’t re
fer to our established suburbs, which I have
great faith in. I think, however, that from
all practical standpoints, even our estab
lished suburbs are better suited to tho rich,
and that they will eventually be more largely
so used, leaving more room for work
ingmen nearer thoir work. But what
I do refer to is the wild
prairie “subdivisions,” with no streets,
trees, drainage, schools, neighbors, and but
few- railroad facilities. These, while very
good for gardening, fancy farming, country
seats in tracts of ten to forty acres, at about
SSO to $lO9 per acre, are practically worth
less in single lots, and yet many of them
have been sold and traded at, say $399, or
$3,939, per acre! I estimate Unit within
twenty miles of Chicago, and excepting all
our established suburbs, there are subdivided
into lots 57,690 acres, or over 500,000 of these
practically useless lots,—one for each of ns,—
and they have been pretty equally divided.
These remarks are not a thrust at suburban
property,—fur from it. X beliexv, there is in
the near future more profits, more comforts,
better health, and equal safety in our sub
urbs than in the city, but I do say to a work
ingman, if yon buy, buy something yon or
some one else can get to and from and enjoy.
3. Lastly, but not least, those who bought
and got a poor title, or none at all. Much
good advice could be given on this point but
I must, at. least for the present, state it.
.briefly.
Don’t buy a lot unless you can buy it cheap
enough to afford to hire a good honest law
yer, and go and see him before you pay a
dollar on the lot It is the preliminary con
tract, the “ receipt for a deposit ” on tne lot
that often governs the whole purchase. Have
him approve all. papers aud examine your
abstract Many buyers think that if the
seller furnishes them an “ abstract” the title
is all right whereas an abstract is merely for
a lawyer to read to see if the title is good,
and many a line, original abstract shows a
bad title.
Abstract-makers, even the Recorder him-
self, guarantees nothing as to the title in
their abstracts. They only show the trans
fers, judgments, etc., and your lawyer must
say whether all these show a good title.
Other buyers are apt to bo persuaded to buy
without an abstract, because they get a war
ranty-deed from a rich seller. This, under
our Jaws, Is poor reliance. I, or any good
lawyer, would prefer a mere quit-claim-deed
of a good title from the poorest man In Chi
cago to a warranty-deed of a poor title from
one of our millionaires.
In the selection of a lawyer good sense will
guide any one. Don’t be too economical
about It. Be shy of a lawyer who will super
vise a purchase and examine an abstract for
you for $5 or $lO, And don’t think your
money wasted,'or that your attorney is in
competent, because he hnds nothing wrong,
and seems to have done you no good.
And to a class of lawyers, I say: If a title
is good, pass It and tell your client so, and
stop the reprehensible practice of making
owners who are selling and their agents
useless trouble by quibbling and raising fool
objections, juSt to have seemed smart and
to nave earned your money. Experience,
CRIMINAL COURT.
Eddy Power* Given Twenty Tears for
Ki ling a Cliinamati.
John Waters was acquitted on a charge of
burglary yesterday In the Criminal Court.
Thomas Hallick was found orulny of larceny
and under age, and sentence was suspended
Charles Anderson pleaded guilty to larceny, and
was remanded. David McKilvey was tried for
larceny, and acquitted. Lawrence Beattie was
granted a new trial on the charge of burglary,
and his codcfcndant was given rtvo years in the
Penitentiary. Patrick Smith pleaded guilty to
burglary, and was given one year In the Peni
tentiary. A nolle prosequi was entered in the
case of Henry Kihler, William Henderson, John
Hopson, and John Curran, Indicted for attempt
ed larceny. Thomas Hickey and John Galvin
were on trial for robbery.
POWERS GETS TWENTY TEARS.
Edward Powers, for tho killing of Vo Mon, the
Chinaman, was sentenced to twenty years* im
prisonment in the Penitentiary, on a plea of
guilty.' Judge Moran, In pronouncing sentence,
said that he had concluded that the ease was
one demanding very severe punishment, and
that sollicient mercy had been shown the pris
oner by tho State’s accepting the plea of guilty
of manslaughter. The prisoner bad admitted
himself to be guilty of manslaughter, and tho
evidence for the prosecution showed that the
crime bordered very closely upon murder. Ho
felt bound to believe the statements made by
tho witnesses for tho State, It being
clear that tho defendant bad entered tho prem
ises where* tho crime was perpetrated for' the
purpose of robbery, and the claim that he acted
fn self-defense was without any foundation
whatever. The deceased,—a Chinamen,—lt was
true, was not a citizen, but he was a resident of'
the state, engaged in a lawful and legitimate
business, and was entitled to tho protection of
tho law to the fullest e.vtcnr. The hoodlums,
ami men belonging to tho criminal classes who
carry revolvers, and use them upon the slightest
provocation, he went on to say, saould he caught
tho risk they were running in so doing, and
the interests of the community demanded that
they should be severely punished, that they
should be put where they would be out or the
reach of such weapons. It was evident to him
that tho defendant was a person of criminal hab
its, that he carried a deadly weapon, and was a
dangerous man, and the sentence he was about
to impose be hoped would impress bis class with
tho idea that the law could not be violated with
impunity, and human life taken at pleasure
without just punishment being inflicted therefor.
This sentence, if lowers behaves himself and
does not lose any good time, amounts to eleven
years ami three months. Besides Powers has
hopes of securing a pardon, though why he
should expect one after such a cowardly mur
der it is bard to see. He will go to Joliet during
the month.
•JUSTICE COURTS.
“Dr." Lucas R. IVDllttuis.or“Dr. Luoas,”as
'be styles himself on dodgers, was arraigned be
fore Justice Uroirn yesterday to answer to a vio
lation of the State statute fn relation to tho
[jntciicoof med.clnc. Registrar Wrightr of the
state Board of Health, was tho complainant.
Tho hearing of the case was continued until
Tuesday.
• Hugh Curran was yesterday hold for trial at
tbe Criminal Court by Justice Morrison to an
swer the charge of receiving stolen property, a
quantity of tea valued at $25 or S3O, taken from
3. A. Wheeioek’s sin re, No. 440 West Van Buren
street; some time' ago. - Bail was fixed at SSOO.
Curran is already under $2,000 bonds to answer
a charge of burglary in breaking into the North
western freight-cars and stealing SSOO worth of
goods. ,
FUR AND SOLDER.
i>r The Chicago 'fribunae
There was upou tho Western Side-
One zcro-tlay in Winter-time —
A grensv man got in a cur.
When ail the track was white with rime.
His bands were coarse, nls face bemolled -
He held a canvas carpet-sack;
Bet on his breast a diamond gleamed
Tnat took tho car-load all aback.
That gem was many carats fine.
Ami like a glowing coal could blur
It Hashed like low-grade kerosene.
And took the rag clean off the bush.
7hc dav was chill, and egffS way up;
Six shillings quick each dozen brought.
A maiden in a seul-skiu sacquo
The diamond viewed, deep wrapped In
thought.
Tho youth bcmolled sighed deep and low;
The maiden saw her time right then.
Two hearts soft soddered there as oue—
A plumber be; she owned a hen..
The course of true love don’t run slick,”
Some poet said who died oue day.
There came u thaw—resources stopped,
And banished Cupid fur away.
That diamond to a butcher went
To pay for steak at tifteen cents.
The sacquc a landlord seized upon
To pay a slight advance in rents.
Ah I weather strange results may bring,
And matters to a crisis force.-
This incompatibility
Soon culminated in divorce.
A warning take, re maidens all.
And vou. young men. your eyes keep peeled
In Winter, pins aud seal-skin sucques
Don’t always prove their owners heeled.
New-Man.
Grant’s Visit to \Va*Ulugton«
Clncuimdi Commercial.
Washington, March 10.—Gen. Grant, being
unused to crowds, concluded to remain in New
York during tho inauguration, but now that all
is quiet, slips silcntlv in at tho back door, takes
an obscure stand at Willard’s, and sends out In
the darkness for his faithful allies, and the
curious ones are wondering what Is belmr
planned in secret between himself and Logan,
Conkling and Cameron. _ ,
Tho ladles are Hocking around tho ex-Presi
dent’s wife, and overwhelming her with modest
Lenten invitations, and grand wardrobes are
being prepared for the inspection of the most'
gorgeous of our Presidential ladies.
“I used to go to church Just to see Mrs. Grant
enter,” said a young woman. u When the car
riage rolled up to the Metropolitan and
Mrs. President Grant alighted, tho curb
stone was tilled with fdlers. Tho footman
carried her train into tho church, and
spread it well out on tho carpet as she
advanced into tho sanctuary. Her toilets were
magnificent, and a new one every week. The
pastor. Dr. Newman, looked and acted like a
Cardinal more tban n Methodist preacher. It
was as line as IC we had Queen Victoria and tho
Dean «f Westminster to worship. Of course all
tho other high ladies of rank dressed gayly too,
and it was a gorgeous garden of tho Lord those
Sunday isn’t since what It used to be. Mrs.
Hayes took her children and walked to the near
est Methodist meeting-house, wore a walking
dross had neither train, footman, nor carriage,
and Mrs. Garfield would rather spend the day
rending some metaphysical treatise than take
tho trouble to put on any style.” , • ,
“ Mrs- Grant is very kind-hearted, and thinks
!c«* about tine clothes than people imagine,
said a Senator’s wife, not' long since. “She
takes care of all her poor relatives, and the boxes
of things she-packed with her own hands, and
not with old clothes either, when she was in the
White House, would astonish you. I have helped
per do it many a time. Whnt a kind
friend she isto:>; and how fond she is or her
sons’ wives, and they of her. Thorc is something
lovable in a woman when she* makes a good
mother-in-law.” „ _ . .
They say that the passage of Scripture which
President Garfield kissed, when he took tbe oath
of 6tHco, was, ” Every way of man is right in his
own eyes, but the Lord pondereth tho hearts.
“ To do justice, and judgment, is more accept
able to the Lord than sacrifice.”
While the congregation at the Christian Church
were singing, last Sunday, the second verse of
*• Welcome Sweet Day of Rest,’ and tho crowd,
clear to the gate, were Waiting to get a peep at
the new ruler, he entered to tho music of tho
hymn
“ The King himself draws near.
To see his saints to-day.”
These coincidents. Combined with the guardian
yellow cur that escorted Garfield to the 55 bite
4ousc, and the eagle that swooped down on the
ridgepole of Gcu. Garfield’s wigwam at the pre
cise moment of his nomination at Chicago, seem
to point to a very remarkable Administration. ’
Carlyle anti Ilia Double.
Mr. Carlyle. In his autobiography, speaksot
bis double, “T. Carlyle, advocate.” and “the
numerous mistakes, willful and involuntary,
which he. from my 15th year onward, had occa
sioned me, selling his pamphlets as mine, getting
my letters as his, and vice versa: nay. once or
more with some Ambassador at Berlin dining in
my stead; foolish rain fellow, who called me
Antichrist withal in his serious moments.
No one can he sick If the stomach, blood, fiver,
and kidneys are welt Hop Bitters keeps them
welt
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
A Grand Mass-Meeting to Be Held
Saturday Week.
A Strone Feeling that the New Move
Will Be a Success.
A regular meeting of tho Public Librar
Board was held yesterday afternoon. President
Onafaan In the chair. There were' present
Messrs. Onahan, Callaghan, Hatz, Walker, Kad
lec, ana Allen.
The report of tho Committee on Revision of
By-Laws was then taken into consideration, and
the changes recommended by the Committee
were adopted. Thetmly important feature in
troduced was the-supplying of people in the
reading-room with books between the hours of
9 a.m. and 9p. m. Sundays. No books arc to be
taken from the building, however, daring those
hours. The other chances were of minor im
portance.
Mr. James Lane Allen then spoke to the Board
at some length, reviewing the movement that
has been put on foot to build a library buildiug
as a fire memorial. He thought it was bound to
meet with
GRAND. SUCCESS,
and hoped that the meeting to be held in the In
terests of the movement one week from next
Saturday evening would be well attended. Mr.
Allen read the following letter which be bad re
ceived:
Central Music-Hall Office, Chicago,
March 7, ISBI.—JUr. James Lane ADrn— Dear
Sir: Your mode of showing to the world that
Chicago gratefully remembers the aid sent at
the time of the great tire must be unanimously
approved. It is dignified and worthy of a great
city, especially as it takes the objective form of
a building to secure for the people one im
portant branch of education. As it Is only by
united, prompt public action that a great good
of this nature can be successfully advanced, I
beg to olfer you FalrbanK Hull for tho purpose
of a preparatory meeting and the Central
Music-Hall for a general meeting, the latter
subject to seme necessary restrictions. Yours
respectfully, Mbs. George B. Carpenter.
Mr. Allen said he had culled on Mrs. Carpenter
and arranged to hold the proposed meeting In
Fairbank Hall at the time stated.
On morion. Mrs. Carpenter was tendered the
thunks of the Hoard.
Mr. Callaghan then submitted the following’
resolutions, which were unanimously adopted;
Whereas, A movement has been undertaken
by public-spirited citizens of Chicago, to organ
ize a popular subscription In order to provide
for the erection of a public library building, art
academy, and museum, the same to be u me
morial forever commemorating the world'sgen
croslly toward Chicago following the great
calamity of the tire, October, IS7ls oo it
ftoolrcd, Tnat this Board warmly approves
the proposition formulated by Mr. N, K, Fair
bank to carry Into effect the project for a public
library building, etc. (following the suggestion
emanating from a member of this Board), and
will give to the undertakingany desired aid and
cooperation in the power of the Board and of the
Individual members.
The Librarian was instructed to advertise the
meeting by putting placards in the Library.
The Librarian’s report was as follows; Circu
lation of books during February, 115,790; during
corresponding time in 18450,119,169; increase Inffr
lation, 23 per cent; daily average, 1,55(5.
Poole stated chat bo had placed the printing of
the supplemental finding lists in the handset
Hazlctt, who was the lowest bidder.
Mr. Onahan said that be had not heard whether
their bill had passed the Legislature yet or not,
and be hoped’the Committee would look after
it. He also referred to the resolution Intro
duced at u recent meeting of the Council pro
viding that
THE LIBRARY SHOULD MO VE
Into the upper part of the City-Hall after the
courts bad left it, on or about May 1. It bad
been referred to the Committee on Public Build
ings, and be had met the Committee a few- days
ago. At that meeting it was decided to refer the
matter to the Board of Public Works for
an estimate as to the expense. Mr. Ona
han said that the Librarian and himself
were to confer with the Building Inspector
Monday on the subject. It was necessary, he
said, to notify the landlord of their present
quarters of their intentions as to the coming
year, and he thought something should be done
about that at-once.
On motion, the matter of the renewal of the
lease was left to the Committee on Buildings
and Grounds, with instructions to report at the
next meeting.
The Secretary was instructed to have fifty
copies of the minutes of the Board meetings
printed hereafter for the use of the Directors.
The Committee having in charge the proposed
memorial building were tendered the use of the
Directors' room for their meetings.
THE MASS-MEETING.
A meeting of the Committee appointed at the
Palmer House Friday evening was held in N. K.
Falrbank’s office yesterday afternoon for the
purpose of arranging for the Music-Hall gather
ing in aid of the Public Library. It was decided
to bold it Saturday evening, the 26th lost., and
to invite Wirt -Dexter, Thomas Hoyne, Arch--
bishop Feehun, Franklin MacVeagb, E. G. Asay,
E. G. Mason. D. L. Stmrey, Judge Moran, Emery
A. Stores, W. J, Onahan. W. J. Hynes, and sev
eral others to make five-minute speeches.
It was decided chat no subscription should *be
taken up, but that the meeting should be called
upon to appoint a committee on. subscriptions,
which would be charged with the work of solic
iting in all parts of the citj*. Mr. Fairbank
made a lengthy speech, in which he said that he
had no doubt half a million of dollars could be
thus secured, and, though he" did not detinitiy
commit himself on tbo subject, be intimated
strongly that he knew where another half mill
ion could be secured. With a million thus se
cured by popular sunscription. combined with
the larger donations of the wealthy, a memorial
of the tire could be erected wnich would be a
credit to the city, and its people, and public
men. The meeting adjourned until Monday aft
ernoon at 2 o’clock.
FLEUR DES ALPES;
Or* Fostletliwaltc’* Last Love*
London Punch,
[The /Esthetic Towns Man rose lanecldly from his
seat, and leaning asntnsca bookcase with tins idly In
bis hapd, and the Peacock’s Feather in bis hair, he
rcaduloud—J
Good Philistines all, T don’t carry manuscripts
about me to read to the likes of you! and If x
did you couldn’t understand them—and if you
could. I should be Supremely disgusted—more
over, you would have the advantage of me.
Curl can speak plain KngJisa when it suits
me and make myself pretty well understood,
when I like—even by such as yourselves—where
fore, since you arc willing to listen, I will tell
you why lam here to-night, far away from the
Cimabuc Browns—remote, ah me. from the
tender companionship of my Maudle!
You have never heard of Maudle and Mrs.
Cimabuc Brown? I dare say not. To know
them is a Jov, and the privilege of a select and
chosen few;‘fur they are simply Perfect. Yet
in their respective perfection, they differentiate
from each other with a quite ineffably subtle
exquisiteness.
For Sac is Supremely Consummate—whereas
He is Consummately Supreme. I constantly tell,
them so, and they agree with me. '
X also make a point of telling everybody else.
Mr modesty prevents mo from revealing to
you”all thev toll me (and everybody else) about
myself, beyond the mere fact that they consider
me alone to combine, in ray own mind and per
son, Supreme Consummateness, with Consum
mate Supremacy—and I agree with thorn. We
get on uncommonly well together, X can tell you.
' It will not surprise vou, seeing that X ara thus
gifted, to bear that for the last year or two I
have been quite a Social Celebrity. Xt happened
In this wise: . . . . . „
One evening, for want of anything better to
aay, I told Mrs. Clmabue Brown, in the strictest
confidence, that I could sit up. all night with a
Lily. She was holding one in her hand, as usual.
Sbo was deeply moved. Her eye moistened.
She said, “Quite so!” and wrung my Ungers.
And it struck her as such a beautiful thought
that she couldn’t help letting It out before that
blundering buffoon Grigsby, who always tries
to poke his vulgar fun at Maudle and myself;
and Grisby went and told it to every aoulhe
knew, as a good joke against Mel
Now Grigsby, for some reason or other that I
could never make out, knows everybody worth
knowing, and' everybody worth knowing very
naturally wanted to know a man whocoldsit
up all night with u Lily! ,
ALlly! Just think of It, ye wortbyPhlllstines!
wbatallower to have chosen! and for what a
purpose? How Consummate! How Perfect!
How Supreme, Precious, and Blessed! Nay, how
Utter! X became the fashion. These very ad
jectives of mine have grown into household
words. Even Grigsby uses them now, and about
me of all people; me, whom b»* pretends to hate!
For docs he not call me, and to my very face,
too a Supreme duffer, a Consummate ass, a
Blessed idiot, a Precious fool, a Perfect noodle.
nay an Utter Nincompoop!
Poor Grigsby! Want an utter sell for him!
Bui be lacks the real sense of humor! .
I had imitators, ot course. 1 can hardly call
them rivals. Pllco.x declared he could sit up all
night with a Stephanotis—and actually did so, I
believe, and was seedy for a month in conse
quence! And as for MUklngton bopley, he
swore bo never went to bed without an Aloe
Blossom! a thing that only happens once in a
century! They overdid It. They always do.
And Grigsby let them alone. . t
Next season I took Maudle aside, and whfs
pe red to him (in the hearing of Grigsby) that I
sat up all night with a Primrose. I thought It a
capital chapge after tbo Lily. So simple, you
know’ And we all went in tor simplicity just
then even the littio Clmabue Browns! And
what a sell for PUcox and Sopley, with their
Aloe Blossoms and Stepbanotises I
A tear rolled down tho Perfect cheek of Han
dle (for his cheek is almost as consummate as
mine): pressing me to his bosom, he said, “Dis
tlnctlyso!” Grigsby let off a big D„ and went
forth like an indignant lamb to spread the news
ab l?took immediately: the people worth know
ing (Grlgsbv’s people, ha! ha!) literally fought
for me—Grigsby was nowhere.
PUcox followed suit with a Marigold, or a Dan
delion, or some such twaddling superannuated
old weed. And Sopley, poor boy! tried it on
with a Snowdrop, so he said; bat It was In June,
you know, and at alb They overdid it
as usual, and wens out of it again I The fact In*
‘•they ain't got no tacV-nsGrigsor says when
he wants to bo funny. And as fur the sense of
humor, they are as banly olf as Grigsby himself..
Besides which, Pllcox pots his clothes ready
made at Bphmim Brothers, in the Strand, or
somewhere. And Sopiey can't bear up against a
snub from a lady of title. It upsets his stomach,
and he goes home and tells his mother and sis
ters,—and then they tell everybody all round.
Fatal!
Now, the Lily bad carried me through my first
season, tho Primrose through my second, Tho
question arose: What Flower of Flowers is to
curry me through my next ? It must bo simpler
than tho Primrose, rarer than the Lily, ana as
consummate and all that as either; and such,
moreover, as to rile Grlsby to madness, and
leave Sopiey and Pilcox sticking in the mud for
tho rest of their lives.
Ijwt up all night with a Botanical Dictionary,
and bit upon rho very Mower at last—tho Deter
Blossom! The Perfect Thing! I Oh. my Gris
by I it will be the death of you I And you, Pro
fessional Beauties, look well to your laurels I
lor this is a stroke of Genius, and will carry me
on to I&S3—or even *4l
-£ nt i that is why lam here to-night,
uood Philistines, every one, you are witnesses
tnercor—and when called upon to do so (by
t»ng spy, for instance) must testify to the fact
Jellaby Postlethwaite, was actually
caught, by an intelligent little quadruped an-
s werimf to the name of Toby—ln a snow-storm
L t .. ra . l ?, w l n , t " r ’ 9, feet above tho level of the
i** min * ” deg. 12 min.
i er »? oat f®vorab!h circumstances, and at
personal risk nnd inconvenience to
myself, in the \ cry act of
Sitting up all night ■with an Edkl-
WEiss I
, Esthetic Postlethwaite produced a
dned specimen, smelt it passionately, and
sSttsdldtto y ' Punctl revlved Um. Three
VOICE OP THE PEOPLE.
Hr. Ranter and Ilie Jmljrrnblp.
To the Editor of Hu Chicago Tribune.
Chicago, March 11.— In one of your special
dispatches from Washington I find this passage;
“In addition there was a telegram from the
journalists Joseph Mcdiil, Hermann Raster, and
W. P. Nixon, staling that Mr. Isham was their
choice.”
I have signed no telegram stating that Mr.
Isham was my choice, but only a telegram re
questing the President to make the appointment'
from the Illinois district for the vacant position
upon the Supreme Bench, and not irom the Ohio
district, which already had two seats on that
bench, while our district had none. I did .so
stating distinctly to the gentleman who pre
sented the telegram for my signature that I
would not sign it if it was a petition tor the
appointment of Mr. Isham, because I did not
believe that the mere fact of that gentleman’s
partner having been given a position in the
Cabinet was a suilicicnt reason for deeming him
belter qualified for a place on the Supreme
Bench than be would have been thought to be
three weeks ago by ninety-nine out of every
hundred who now recommend his appointment.
A ery respectfully, Hermans Raster.
♦‘Cobble Stone*.”
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune•
CinCAGO, March 12.—The residents on streets
on which the street-cars are run are much ex
cited and very indignant at the renewed at
tempt of the street-railway companies to force
upon them the intolerable and infernal cobble
stone nuisance. This is the third attempt of
these monopolies, after having been defeated by
the almost unanimous remonstrance of the res
idents on those streets, to smuggle this meas
ure through the City Council. There can bo no
possible reason why these close corporations, who
have made millions of money by the free use of
our best streets, and have almost entirely escaped
payment of taxes, should now* be permitted to
till these streets with cobble-stone pavements.'
This pavement is not only an intolerable nuisance
to residents, but to all parties driving or team
ing, and one of the avowed reasons for Its use
is that It will drive all teaming and driving
from those streets, thus virtually confiscating
all car-track streets to the use of the corpora
tions. It does not seem possible that the City
Council can go so far as to force this devlish
nuisance upon so large and respectable a body
of their constituents. There may bo some rea
son for the use of stone for all pavements In the
business centre of the city; but the attempt to
force cobble-stones upon our residence streets,
against the almost unanimous protest of the
residents, will be resisted by all the old ot law,
votes, and intiuencc of those whose home com
forts and property rights are so unnecessarily
sacrificed. Justice.
Xbe New Library.
To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune .
Chicago. March 12.—The proposition “to or
ganize a popular subscription to build a Public Li
brary and an Academy and Museum for the pur
pose of commemorating the world’s generosity
extended to our city after the fire of 1571," is In
the right direction. It, may be hoped that all
commemorative monuments may be hereafter
such as shall combine practical, active utility
with the event commemorated. Wo need no
monument to remind us ot our great
misfortunes. These are' easily remembered*-,
for they appeal to our selfish interests.
But gratitude for favors received is
as rare os an ostentatious show of
it would be in bad taste. Thu thousands who •
poured rbolr sympathizing-offerings into Chicago
after the great fire, thought of no monument,— .
it was an outpouring of the love of the neigh
bors that sought to alleviate suffering; and to -
restore as far as they could that which had been
destroyed. Hence the contributions to. tbeJLnw
Library, and the nucleus of the Public Library,
and the contributions to the Historical Society.
Now, while I quite agree with the proposition
adopted at the meeting at tbo Palmer House lost
evening, 1 think it should be enlarged so as to
include tbo placing of the Academy'
of Sciences, the Astronomical Society,
and tbo Historical Society on. their
legs again. These institutions were established
and maintained, not exclusively, but to a great
extent, before the great contiagmtioo. by per- .
sons who lost choir all in that and.subsequent
tires and the panic. Each of these institution*
are afloat, but they all have their flags at half
mast, and must remain so unless a popular sub
scription or the generous heart or Chicago, If
there is such a thing, come to their relief. There
are a large number of public-spirited men In >
business who have amassed fortunes in Chicago
within tbo lust ten years, and who. it ought not
to be doubted, if appealed to in a proper
manner, would at’ once unite la lift- .
ing these institutions out of their pres
ent embarrassed and seml-Ufcless condition.'
The primary Idea of those who came to our re
lief In 1871 was to aid those who bud suffered
through the great conflagration. Shall'wo not
most worthily commemorate their charity by
following their example in relieving those insti
tutions which have suffered so much through
the same calamity?
1 defer to another occasion the calling of nub- •
lie attention to tho rare and valuable objects
possessed bv these institutions, but I will not.
forbear in this paper to suggest that Dearborn'
Park should be obtained for the monumental
building which Is proposed to be erected. Should
the suggestlonspresented lathis paper be favor
ably received, I may send vpu another com
munication on the subject. Tours, etc..
J. Young Scammon-
The Old People’ll Home—An Outrage, i
To the Editor of T7ie Chicago Tribune.
Chicago, March 12.—Permit me to remind the
renders of The Tribune who feel an Interest in
the charity for old people which this Institution
was designed to promote, that tbo annual meet- ;
ing for election of Directors, will be held , the
first week in 31 ay next at the Home, northwest,
corner of Indiana avenue and Thirty-ninth
street. To become ft life member, with the right
to vote at all such meetings, It is only necessary
that a person should pay $5 for the benefit of
tho Homo at least thirty days before such meet
ing. This Institution, commanding an estate of
probably &UU.UUO. and having in charge the tem
poral welfare of about sixty aged ln
mates, is cosmopolitan and liberal in
theory, but In Us present management
narrow, uncharitable, aud oppressive. Xt Is to
be hoped that a sufficient numberof our citizens
will interest themselves in this matter in time.
Salaries unreasonable in amount are lavishly
paid, and employes are retained apparently for
favor and not from necessity. That lugor beer
goes in at the door of the Home freely Is an
open secret, but that It is designed for or real
ized by aged stomachs wc deny. In n charitable
institution we are opposed to puddings for the
managers and potatoes for the managed. Re
spectable women who were once surrounded
by loving friends now trembling with
age, are subjected to snch insults as
these; “You lie.” “You cat too much/*
“ You’re too lazy to work.” “You’re not sick,
you’re only playing off.” “X’vo got wealthy
women to back me and 1 don’t cure what Sidney
writes.” “I’ll be hero next Christmas, but you
won’t.” “ WeTi gel a new law and then we’ll
show you.” Thus, with the utmost refinement
of cruelty, these old people, 70 and 80 yean
of age. at their own home, by tbolr own fire
side, where nobody but a friend has the right
to enter, are insulted and abused. To-day, wi'ai
no opportunity to defend herself, one ot tA
inmates, who Is. X believe, over 80 years old,
and who has been visiting lately the family
of Judge Booth In this city, received tho follow
ing letter from her •• home
OLD People's HOME, CHICAGO. March 10, 1381—
Mr*. .V. ir. lU'Mioett— DEAR Maoam: You have been
dismissed from the Old People’s Home by tbe proper
authorities, and 1 am directed not to receive yon
aaam as an mmate. You are at liberty at any time to
send for and take away any property or effect* be
longing to you now In the Home. x oars truly,
* * mbs, fe- A. Shank land. Matron.
Through this cold March storm, while lam
writing this article, this old lady Is pushing her
footsteps to the door of the Home, there to be
spurned and spit upon, and driven out into the
storm and sleet with a broken heart.
I appeal to tho good sense, the sympathy, ana
the charity of tho public to secure to these old
people what they are powerless to obtain for
themselves: a just, humane, and considerate,
management for the Horae. These old people
dare not speak for themselves, and many times
their silence is misconstrued into submission.
They feel all the Indignity Which has been
heaped upon them; and they fear that the
agomeut la sustained byatew “^mhhy^ladlefc.
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