Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 3, 1874, Page 5

. three months, instead of concentrating it on one e G —— tobe regulated by the supply and demand, is en- REAL ESTATE. What Was Done Last Week in the City and Suburbs, general Reduction in Rents---The De- mand for Houses Continuing, 2 Plan for Moderate Homes for Mod- erate Means, The Real Estate Exchange---The Lake- Front Question. Buddings and Improvements in the Suburbs. Trades, Transfers, and Niscellaneons. What there has been of activity in the real es- tato market daring the past week has been main- Iy isiblsin_the renting of houses =nd stores. There have been but few inquiries for property forsale sud etill fower purchases. The very dissgreesble weather has made it imposgible for dealers or customers to visit suburban property. The gsme cause has depressed joside propertr. This and the uncertain- ties of the financial legislation of Congress have given the real estato men of this city an une Zemsbly dull week. There is porhaps some- thing at work beyond the influences just men- tioned. Insall branches of business there is plainly to be seen 8 settling of values, & growing onservatism in operations, & general readjust- ment, which msy be traced back to the effect of the peuic, snd msy bo considered in some senso an anoticipation, although a remots ons, of the resumption of the gpecis standard in our currency. Real estate cannot expect to be an exception to the laws that are plainly modifying all busivess. Looked at in this light, the present quiet is nataral enongh, and o far more encouraging state than the ex- citement tbat would bave followed any atiempt to inflata the currency. Nothing new can be added to what hos been sad in previous issuea with regard to house rents, In every direction, except perhaps the North Side, east of Clark street, reductions bave been the ruls, and have ranged from 10 to BS3 por cent. The number of houses that wera rented this year by the 1st of May was much less {ban the number last year. A new phenomenon In honse-renting is the continuance of a lively demand after Moy 1. The disadvantages grow- Ing ont of the custom of dating ail loases from the 1st of May, and thus compelling Iandlords and tenants alike to submit to great_inconvenionces, and often losces, havo often been commented upon_in thess columns, 1t now appears that the wiedom of allowing the lease business to fall into the natural methods, forcing itself. A: no previous time subsequent to the 1st of May has there been such a demand for houses 88 there is at_present. Dealers re- port that they have hardly noticed any diminu- tion in inquines up to this time. This may be wconnted for ouly on the assumption that pwners have allowed many of their tenants fo remain st will, 'and tenants have preferred to fske the chanco of doing batier by remaining temporarily. The result of this innovation will be to extend the leasing business over two or day. In ths rents of stores, as in dwellings, thers tua been a general decline this spring, oxcopt in s few of the choicest business quarters. As in~ ftances of this downward movement, it may be mentioned that prominent dealer. has rented for 82,500 5 store on Lake strect, near Clak, which last year brought £4,000. A store in the eamo wicioity which has been held at £5,000 bas been leased for four years at £3,000 a year. Dn Wells street, in the neighborhood of South Water street, there baye been reductions from £2,750 to §2,000; and from 83,000 to 81,750, ‘Propert; between the river aud Market street, thaf used to be rented for 85,500 year, together with the payment of taxes and expenses, has been leazed for $3,750 net a year. Thess facts, which fairly show the course of the matket, are not very welcome, but they are not necessarily diccouraging. One of the most enterprising and most wealthy landlords in tho city asid recently: “The only way toto get rezts high again is to put them down now. That will sttract manulscturers and traders from sbroad, who ere now kept out by onr Lugh rents, With their influx, the demand for bouses and stores will increaze steadily and surely, and our prospenty will carry the value of real estate and rentals bigher than bafore.” The business area of Chicago has been largely increased since the fire that at-'li tents is inevitable. Defore the fire the c. limit of business was Monroe strcer. within this hne, Wells street, stroet, Market eircet, and Madison streer near the river were largely oc- cupied by shanties. Stores mow stretch dm:g Btete street and Wabash avenue as far eauth as Harrigon street. The shanties on Wells, Ciark, Market, and Madison streets have been replaced by blocks of business-houses. The ares actually occupied by business i larger now ttra at any previons tine in tho history of Chi- c2g0, but fenants must be found for “all theso stures, and the more the enlighted policy quoted sbore s followed tho more quickly will this re- Kt be achieved. Bince the veto the disposition of capitalists to 1money on imlymvnd renl cstate has grown mors fasorable. Property that has ouce boen mortgsged cannot of course be mortraged again theeo consorvative times, if it has remoined Hationary, or bas doclined since tho first mort- E*ge was given. The views of lender and bor- To%eraze of couree wide apart. Uncertainty of Iegislation hag produced uncertainty of business. Thile the borrower is anxions to get all he can, landers are more than ever dispoxed to keep a {6 margin in their favor. There are large amotnts of city proporty upon which advaunces csunot be secured on acconnt of first mortgages ly existing, and on & good deal of outside Froperty capitahists will make but slight loans rhg Pl:::. there appears to be anything fancy in The largest number of_np;licnfionu is made by Pers0us of smsll means. The prevailing rates ‘k:lflper cent; 9 por cent is taken for large <y a8, and thero may be exceptional transactions 8 per cent. One large tirm has loaned $50,000 g the week. Cia —_—— - MODERATE HOUSES FOR MODERATE . MEANS. 3r. Josish Quincy has printed for private cir- Sation # letter written by him to Alr. E. E. :’h:h. fumishing an account of every detail of Dedham Settlement, when under his man- | Jeement, an experiment has been tried of far- 8 independent homes for the working ban s This enterprize deserves the success it xm"ld:xe}-ed &t Dedham, and should commend 21 for imitation to the capitalists of all our Be cities, aud to none moro g0 than those of Thote who are not favored with 3fr. Quiney’s ‘_‘zi;mhm can find the letter printed in & by tho Rev. E.E. Hale, entitled, *Working s Homes.” T4 problem of how to get moderate houses ‘_Bfnmnns of moderate means is one that is ook the minds of s great many of limited “‘M‘“flrknm outside of the workingmen's m”h\h therefore present, as nearly as pos- ot Mr. Quincy’s own words, the main facts T interesting and most valuable lotter. B conditions must be united to insure the Vs hanr 20Y cheme looking toward **moder- mmes for moderate means "—chesp_ trans- g o0 20d the command of capital. Through Muygyfooitions of — Mr. ~ Quincy, tne hy goieelts Legislaturo of 1572 passed » nlporelling all the railroads terminatiog tuigg 3.0 run what are called workingmen's Nty m“‘ and evening at very reduced is Ao, the exertions of Mr. Charles % oo , Jr., and tho Board of Railroad g&“’,‘,‘:"“’flflfl. the Mansgers of the Esstern ing u 3, ontented to try the experiment of run- E 3 tin momning and ovening, which should Foreg TPantly guccesefal, and has incroace, ‘Railroad g?"'- like th horse-cars, 5 conts for overy tea phantly Aha runniog of _euch & h’;{,‘fl;; i 1bat the B o HEallway ct tbat the Bastorn bl @ plag i beeg CADY part thereof. ' The experiment has ¢ the i : instesd ~of diminish, or income. ohs precis B9 50 193 & tich, Laryest by ¢he g THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY 3, I~74, bas adopted. Mr. Quincy bas no doubt that within five yearn the public will demand, and tho railroad managors will see it is their intercst Lo gTant, such_trains on every rond entering into the city. What such a liberal policy wowd do for Chicago, needs no comment. ‘The situation of the city, tha character of the country around it, ita fine suburbs, and the economical” tenden- cies nnd necossities of its hard-working popula- tion would make such an experiment even more feasible and popular here than in Boston. Having secared cheap transportation, the im- goxtnnt. question of capital presented itself. In ermany working people can supply themselves with funds by means of co-operstive savings banks, based on the principle that the credit of one hundred men, good for $100 each, is equiva- lent to that of one man for $10,000. Commonly, in this country a mechanic, thongh industrious and bonest, can_obtain s loan, if at all, ouly at that exorbitant rate of interest which will act as ao insurance against sickness, Joss of business, snd death. Workingmen could gain immense sdvantages from matusl confidence and co- operation in their savings and losns. Villages like those which Mr. Quincy has begun to erect, furnish an excellent basis for experiments inthis direction. Two years ago, twenty-seven Germans formed a co-operative association under Mr. Quincy's Emdaucn, and purchased a farm of sixty acres in edbam. This property cost $125 an acre, and was conveyed to Mr. Quincy as trustee. Streats wero laid out, and lots containing about onc-half of an acre were conveyed by Mr. Quincy to each member of tha Association. Ho then contracted to build ten houses for persons who felt sble to pay 86 per week as rent, taking from each of tho owners a bill-of-sale mortgage to secure a bond for §2,100. Ar. Quincy, finding that thereiwas a difference of nenrly-20 per cent in favor of building all the houses under one agresment, contracted to erect ten houses for $20,000, or 82,000 apiace, the ox- tra $100 in each bond being for the payment of interest on advances, incidental expenses, and insurance which was offected for the wholo amount for five years. The houses aro thus described by the archi- tects, which, with the plans azd elevations, gives an 1dea of therr value. Each house is entered from a verands 8x20 feet, which is protected on two sides by the nouse, aud thus affords an attractive out~of-door room. The entry (7x15 feet) gives sccoss to a parlor, sitting, or dimng-room, sud kitchen, each 12x 15 foet, and furnished with flues for bLeating. Theo kitchen aud dining-room, which communi- cate, aro each supplied with a commodious closet. The kitchen is provided also with a china-closet, 8 pump and sink. Opeuniog from the kitchen 18 a wood-shed, 14x15 feet, with & rivy. P the second story there are three chambers of tho same sizo a3 the rooms below, and a fourth,—a child's bedroom,—over the verands, 7 fest by 8 feot, with a large dormer. Each chamber has a large closot and a chimney-flue, and there is an ample linen closet with drawers in the corridor. All the windows opon at the top and bottom, and aro hung with weights; & window 18 pro- vided on the stairs, whore it maylight and venti- Iate the whole cenfro of tno house. - Pipes are laid in for gas, aud & cesspool is built thurty feet from each bouse, with propor - connections. A cellar extends under the entire houss, en- tered by stairs from tho kitchen and by an out- side cellar-entrance or roll-away. A furnace is placed under the entry and staircase, with which it communicates by & register so placed as to warm the whola house, s every room opans 1m- mediscely from tho staircase hall. L Each house is arranged so that the principal rooms on the first floor have an outlook in three directions; this facilitates a picturesque treat- ment of the exterior, which1s painted in two colors with hoods over the principal windows. ‘Che irreguiarity in the lines and masses of tho exterior ensblos the builders to Lroup thewr houses 8o as to avoid too apparent repetition and givo an effect of vanety, 23 well 18 to command any desirablo aspect from tho principal rooms. Each house is tharoughly built in every resoect, and_cost, completo, sxclusive of land, §2,333, the $335 being paid by the owners. Tho plans were propared by 3r. Edmund Quincy, Jr.. with the assistance of Mossrs. Wara & Van Brunt, architects, under whose care the honses were constructed. The rent, by the terms of the bond, was to be 86 2 week, or §24 each lunar month. This they were to deposit in & savings bank to MMr. Quin- oy's pame, as Trusteo. ‘The houses cost $2,335, and were occupled on the 1stday of July, 1873. On the lst dayof Junuary, 1874, they sent Mr. Quincy their paak books. He went to the Savings Bauk, drew his interest, and returned tho books to tho owners, with & balance to their credit. On the first day of July next they will scnd thom again, und Mr. Quincy expects to find that 312 has been depos- ited in each, or 33,120 in all. From this dednct- ing 91,470, interest at 7 per cent on 821,000, 81,650 in ol or §165 each, with the in- ferest allowad on tho deposits at 3 per cent, will be passed to their credit for the comencement of the second year to go towards the paymentof the houses. AMr. Quincy holds, as Trastee, pearly thirty acres of land, which, when sold will be passed to the credit of each momber proportionately. Ths will pay for tho houses in a_few years. If there were mot this resource, they will be paid for in the follow- ing manner—the owners in tho meantims pay- ing the eame ront they would have had to pay for inferior accommodations in the city : Ppricipal on each house. $2,100 Dopokits every year, 632 12 Tuterest st 3 per cant.... 221 ‘Deduct intarest on MOTtEAFO: censeesss 47— 174 51,926 Socond year—income....... 01 Dedct interest on §1, 13— 187 Third yesr—deposit. 321 §1,739 Deduct aterest o S22~ 200 Fourth year—derosit... Deduct interest on $1,539. Fifth year—deposit....... Deduct interest o $1,335. Stxth yoar—deposit... Deduct intereat on Beventh year—deposit. Deduct interest on $55 Lighth year—deposit. Interest on $369, Ninth year—deposit. Intercst on $300.. A cheaper house and a larger proportionalrent would of courae reduce the time. In this way, by co-operation between lenders and borrowers, and betwoen the borrowers among themselves, bouees caa bo built, sud the interest and principal of the loans sectirod with- out sny moro trouble than the negotiation of & mortgage on first-class city property, and, bot- ter yet, the transaction is one of simple busi- nees, with no clement of charity about it. In New York a village of fifty houscs has been commenced on this plan, the members purchas- ing only the lots, and octsining tho money for building directly from the savings bank. In States where the savinga banks have not the power or inclinstion to make such loans the workingmen should petition tho Leg- islature for a co-operative savings-bank, where, on good secarity, they can have the use of theit own and their associates’ money to build small honses, inatead of having it all devoted to the arection of largo and expensive buildings. Such an cuterprise as this not_only claims the attention of capitalists who seek good invest~ ‘ments, in which it is no objection to have_ somd philanthrophy—not charity—thrown in, but it also demands careful considerstion from intel- ligent workingmen. After all, they had better help themselves than look to capital, and the history of co-operation shows sbundantly that “they can help themsolves if they will, The plaa_ of Mr. Quincy 18 only an extension of the system of co-operation, and it has had great succoss among the people for whom it wos originated. Y There are co-operative Societies in this city among the carpeters, and other trades might follow Mr. Quincy's plan with great advantage. Noris it for workingmen alone for whom it is feasiblo. Pooplo of very moderate means could Jive in comfort, now beyond their reach, if they would associafe together, and pool their re- sources for an enterpriso similar to the Dedbam Settloment. B XL SALES OF THE WEEE. SALE OF LEGAL TITLE. Lots'1 and 2, in Block 79 in the School Section Addition to Chicago, on Markot streat, between Monroe and Adame, was soid at public suction yestenday, at the door of the Court-House. Tho property was sold subject to mort- gages, claims in litigation, ond other incumbrances, It was bid in by friends of the owner, Mr. A. C. Harding, for $25,000. This price affords no index of the value of the prop- erty. It hasno significance except to snow the price st which an interest in litigation cm‘b_e sold. ‘The titie of tho property has been in liti- gation for several years, and pending the decis- ion the owner has refused to pay taxes or assess- ments. The sale was made to close a real est::a Rip, 0 ewie remsrke spply to the Al AL i - A oM enst 30 feet of the west 60 feot of Block 95 in the School Bection Additfon to Chicago. The property brought £5,000, and was nold_ subject to simiiar iucum- brances. As thero were incumbrances on this latter property amounting to $20,000, tho price really ‘smouats to 824,000, o nearly 31,000 a HEAVY TRADES. The following- sales sud exchanges were made this week by Day & Sanborn : To Albert L, Halo: Blosroa Block, on Randolph street, just west of Fifth avenue. $175, House No. 614 Hubbard street.......... To Barah Gale ; Block of stores known Wabash avenue. . . 10,00 Enos losson : House and lot on Eighteenth street, near Biate, 9,00 Also, house and lot No. 109 South Robey street 20,000 Also, 48 lots in Asiiton Sublivision of Bouth T ell ..o ceennan ceenes 15,000 To Charles L. Hal 25 lots in Miller & Rigdon Addition to Irving Park........ eeetiesssereiineanea., 6,250 SOUTH BIDE. B. W. Kroff has sold lot on Wabash avenue, near Forty-third stroet, for $1,000. B. F. Culver has sold two-story end basement brick house and lot at the.southeast corner of ggx;so-rmna asnd Thirty-seventh strect for Canfiold & Matteson have sold 41 feet front at northeast corner of Cottage Grove avenue and Twenty-fifth street at $200 per foot—e8,200. The house and lot No. 672 Wabash avenue have been sold by Mr. T. B. Van Wyck for £20,000. Henry Greenobsum, as agent for other parties, has paid £100,000 for property on State street, owned by the Prussing Vinegar-Works. J. 8. & A. Bcovel have sold. during the week, a lot on Forrest avenue, ncar Thirty-fth street, 80x125, at 870 per foot, cash, Also, several lots at Cornell Station. George H. Hess & Co, last week made a pur- chase of property on the northwest cotner of Oakwood boulovard and Langley streot, upon which they propose to build » biock of soveral houses, to be two-story and basemont bricks of eight rooms. The plans were hardly made for theso structures beforo purchasers made their appearance, and fivo of tho housos have beon sold this weok, tores at §5,500 each, and two at §6,000 each. Ulrich & Bond sold 65x169 fest on the porth- weat corner of Thirty-fitth strect and South Park avenuo. Tais property has a south front look- ing down the Graod South Park boulevard ; it s0ld for $17,000, one-fourth cash, and the bal- anceinl, 2,and8 gm-s, at 8per cent. The purchaser was John M. Muoller. Ublich & Muhlke have eold? 150 fest on the corper of Twenty-fourth etreet and Dearborn for $18.000. Th, purchaser is to improve with & two-story and basement brick house, costing 83,500, WEST SIDE. G. B, Griffin sold house and lot No. 574 Mon- ros strcet, 310,000 D; threo lots on Mil- waukee avenue, being 200 feat front on the north- west corner of Leavitt street, south front, 83,900; also one lot, 20 feot, north front, &7,400: house ond 93 foet front on the coraer of Fullorton ave- nuo and Sheridan stroet, $7,000; oight lots in Yearce’s Addition, on Armitago avenuo, $,600. &. W. Kroff_has sold threo lots on Hofman avenue, in Phinney’s Subdivision, north of Contral Park, at 8700 each; four lois north of Pavilion parkway and west of railrosd, for $2,250 cash. 3. F. Culvor has sold house and lot southesst corner of Jsckson and Honoro streots, for $8,000. 3.8, Gonld & Co. have sold on Evans avenuo, near Forty-fifth street, cottago and lot for $2,250 J. Henry & Jacob Weil have sold nine lots in Picket's Second Addition, tronting on Wood street, North avenue, and Elk Grove street, at from 3800 to 31,100 each ; house on West Mon- roe street, near California avenue, for £3,000 ; house on Ewing street, between JeTerson' and Desplaines streets, for 34,000, Mann & Congdon have sold north half of Lot 27 and all of 23(30 feet front) in Block 6, Union Park Addition, for 33,500; house and lot on vorthweat corner of Loomis and Heory streeis, for $3,200. AMr. Jonn Williams has bought the fine resi- denco at No. 575 West Washington sireet bo- longing to the estate of the Iate John Messer, of fisrmon, Messer & Co. The consideration was £40,000 cash. . C. Cole & Co. have - sold No. 55-Park-sre- nue, & two-story basement stone-front house, for $10,500; $5.000 in cash, and the balance in eightocn months, Tae purchaser was Mr. B Filend. Levi Wing & Co. have sold the two-story and Dbasement Vermont marble front house, No 604 West Van Baren-st., 26 feet front, for $12,000. Campbell Bros. have sold s lot on Harvard street (25x125), near Western avenue, for £2,500. On Monroe 8ireat, running from Barry Point svecus to Californin avenue, n lot 25180 for $900. Brick_houes*and lot on Congress Park, be- tween Van Buren and Harriton_streots, two blocks west of Western avenue. Dimensions of lot are 24x127. House two-story and basoment. Price, $200. Campbell Bros. report that an examination of their books shows their business g0 far this year is donble what it was Jast year for the samo time. Mr. George Schneider, President of the National Baok of Illinois, has sold 50 feet on the north- east cornor of Congross and Robey strects for £30 per foot. Johnson & Perry were the pur- chasers. Campboll Bros. have sold_a lot, 25x125, on Compbell avenue, between Van Buren and Con- gress streets, for $1,500. NOBRTH SIDE. Linn & Hawkinson have sold brick house aud It No. 135 East Kinzie street, for 16,000 ; 100 feot front, corner of School strect and Linn ave- nue, for $3,100; 146x150 feet on Grecs. Day road, near School street, for 6,500; and 130 feet on Shefficld avenue, near Rose street, for £3,500. G. B, Grifin bas 8old one lot on Rose atreet for $550. Chapman & Barber have sold Jot on Burling street, between Centro and Soplua streets, for 81,100, Ogden, Sheldon & Co. have sold two lots in the Nelson Addition, fronting on Lincoln strect, 1 Block 19, for $2,530, or $110 a foot ; and one lov on Cedar street, 25x108, south of Elm, for 31,000, At the corper of Western avenue and Van Bu- ren street, 8. E., they have sold & lot, 75125, for 26.500. On Elm street, betweon Crosby and Cedar, they have sold 1 lot 25x64, for $850. The Chicago Land Company have sold Lot 27 in Block 26, Elston Addition, for 81,350, Lot 27 in Block 24, same addition, for $1,000. Lot 41, Block 64, same addition, for 31,600, Lot 3, Block 64, same addition, for 81,620, The soatn 34 of Lot 4 in Block 30, bas been sold for $1,000. OAE PARK. Philander Smith has bought of Dr. Hiatt s corner block of 5 ncres, mext to Oak Park aveoue. The consideration was £12,500. The price of ncre-laod is 32,500 an scre: lots aro selling at from $20 to 360 & month. Rents range from $20 to $50 a month. IRVING PARE. John H. Avery & Co. have 8old 11 lots in Mil- lor's Subdivision, at $20 per foot; 14 lots in same at 322 per foot, and 2 lots at 318 per foot. B. F. Culver bas sold 200 feet front for 81,000. - MELBOSE AND MONTROSE. A H. Simonton has 8old 884 feet, with small house, at Melrose, and 1,167 feet at Montrose, $21,000—average price about £9.75 per foot. MAPLEWOOD. 8. W. Eroff hes sold 3 lots, two blocks west of depot, at 8500 each. LOMBARD. 8. W. Eroff has sold 15 acres at £200 per acre. SOUTH ENGLEWOOD. Thirty acres in Sec. 5 have been sold by Mr. T. B. Van Wyck for $37,000. Warren, A Keeney & Co. have sold at South Evanston during the past week 810 feet on Rinn avenue, fronting north, for £12,400. By O. S. Gilbert & Co.. 20 lots for £550 each, and 7 lots for $600 each 1n W. Q. Cole's subdi- vision. By J. C. Caldwell & Co., 8 lots for §500 each in Cole & Corry's subdivision. LAKE VIEW. Real estate pales in Lake View, as filed for record during the month of April, were twenty- eight in number, and to the smount of $156,133. This shows greater activity in tho transfer of lots in this town than at any former period. Al of thexo transfers have boen of single lots,—to those desiring to build and not to mere specula- tors, Mr. Frank C. Tavlor, Vice-President of the Fourth National Bank, has just bought the valuable Winslow place, at the north end of the park. The premises are being put'in ropair, and it is understood that Lake View 18 to obtain Mr. Taylor as & permauent resident. i BALES AT WASIINGTON HEIGHTS, At Washington Heights, Hopkinson & Haling have closed a sale of the S. W. ¢ of the Sec. 13, 87, 13. The gm’chuar is G. A. Bogue, who will divide the land for sale. The Thornton branch.of the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes Railroad runs through this place. The price was 48,000. 8 Hopiinson and Huling have sold Lota8, 18,19, in Plook 85, 0f the Blao Ialand Laud snd Balide 10§ Company's Subdivisien. The considerstion wad 82,100 each. Alr. Yaeger was the purchaser. The same_ parties bave sold Lots 6 and 7, in the same subdivisiot,, for £300 each® Thoy were purchased by the District authorties as the site of the District School. teventeen acres have been sold in the north- orn part of Bec. 8, 87, 14, to Lynch & Hott, for 81,447.50 per acre ta e MISCELLANEOUS. TUE LAKE FRONT. The guestion of the sale of the present City- Hall property and the lake-front was before the Committee on Wharves aud Public Grounds on Friday afternoon, but no decision was reached. A motion that the prosent City-Hall property shall not be sold until the new Court-tiouse ehall be nearly completed was catried. Thero was a prolooged debate on the lake- front question, which ended in nothing more definitetlian an adjournment. Ald. Jonas wasop-~ vosed to advertising the Iake-front for sale until the question of title was settled in some msn- ner. Ald. Moore was opposed to advertisiag the property as the title was in doubt. Ald. Cannon believed it wise to advertise it. It need not be sold to the railroads unless they offered enough. A motion to take the opinion of the Corporation Counsel as to whether thero were any legal ob- stacles in the way of sdvernsing tho property and selling it was defeated. The Committee then adjourned. THE EXCHANGE. The first meeting of the Real Estate Exchange was held on Friday, in their room, which waa formerly the Open Board of tho Board of Trade. Abont forty members were presout. Tha pro- coedings woro mainly intormal, and devoted to an interchango of views. President Rees was in the chair. Col. Clarke stated. for the Executive Committee, that the yearly duesof 825 would aot be collected until three months had elapsed. The initiation feo of {ea is to be paid at the next monthly meeting. B Col. Clarke corrected the erroneous impres- sion that had obtained in some quarters, that the Board intended to fix a rate of commission which shoutd be obligatory upon sll the mem- bers. They had no such intention, and members would be left to arrange their own methods of doing business. The Executive Committee have had 500 litho- graphed _tickets prepared, to be issued to mem- bers at the monthly meeting next Tuesday. The following new members then joined the Exchange: M. C. Foilansbeo, Frank Riedle, H. H. Honore, Jr., G. A. Chambers, Ed F. Sweet, James B. Goodman, George W. Waite, 0. K. Frold. The Exchange will hold ita first regular monthly meeting on Tuesdsy next. It meets for business every day between 11and 1 o'clock. WEST 8IDE BUILDING. Mr. W. L. B. Jenney, the architect, is building at the coruer of Larrabee street and Chicago avenuoe a fine block of stores of brick and terrs cotta for Gen. T. C. A. 8mith, of Marictta, Ohio. The block is bullt oa piers with large opoaings, spanned by segmental arches. MONT CLARE. This new suburban town ia located on the line of the Chicago & Pacific Railread, 9 miles wost of the Court-House. and is upon tho: highest ground within that distance outside of Chicago, it being 71 feet above Lake Miciugan. The village was laid out last fall, and grading of streets commenced. Tho first new building was con- tractéd for by Judge Platt, of Warren, Ill., and is now nearly finished at a cost of about $7,000. Several other buildings are now in process of erection, amoug which are the fine residence of Thomas Rutherford, to cost 85,000 ; Mrs. Savers, costing 84,000 ; John Bayers, £2,500; Fred. Moore, 84,000; Charles E. Allen, $1,000. George H. Daniels has bought 10 acres, and is to put up twogood houscs. The Hon. D. Boothisnow erect- ing & tine residence, 1 milo_east of Mont Clure, ata cost of §12,000. Mr. Charles P. Kellogg, of the firm of C. . Kellogg & Co., has & fine resi- dence, 1 mile east of Mont Clare, which cost £20,000. Thero is no new towa within 9 miles of Chicago ths seems to be building up faster, nor has a finer prospect for rapid growth. TUGELAND PARE. In Highland Park, the Highland Park Land Company aro erccting on St. John street, south of tho hotel, & residence to cost $12,000. On Central avenue, near the corner of Port Clinton, they are building s house to cost On_Port Clinton avenue, one block morth of éhs pxoxblic school, 8 house is being built to cost 6,000, 3 S i, o ST TOUIS. A pumber of Bt. ouis real estate brokers wero in this city, this week, endeavorng to ne- potiate tue sald of some St.Lows progerty. They were not successful. WASHINGTON HEIGHTS BUILDINGS. A very fine school-house hus been contracted for to cost 815,000, to be built of brick. The Bathany Union Church, whica will cost 875,000, will iay their corner-stone next Sunday. A'large number of fine honses are building or have been contracted for. Among the latter is the hotel at Morgan Park. The residences of Capt. Bpringer, J. B. Chambers, A. H. Huling, are just about finished. Mr. Fahnstock bas built a fine house on Prospect avenue. Thero are about thirty houses building. The stockholders of the Female Seminary decidedon Friday to proceed with the erection of their seminary, which is to cost from 90,000 to $100,000. SOUTH ENGLEWOUD. This place is but a year old, but has increased rapidly. Already some eighty fine residences have been erected, costing from $1,500 to §6,000. Messrs. Noble & Richmond have just completed & row of six two-story and basement brick swoll- front houses, costing $35,000. L. A. Gilbert & Co. havo disposed of some 250 lots in the grove and vicinity esst of the depot, at prices Tanging from €150 to 550 each. They have purchased s large tract of Iand near the Catholic Seminary, which they will place in the market shortly. ‘Trains plready run on the belt railway west from the lake shore to tho Rock Isiand Railway, 20d grading is nearly completed from this point west to the Great Eastern Railroad. Some heavy improvements are to be made in the eouthern part of South Maoglewood this sesson. At Ninetioth strees a large brick freight and pas- senger depot is to be bailt at once. Boveral fino residences are to be erected on the property of Henry V. Brooks; also o grocery store and meat market on Halsted street, adjoining the track. The stroets are to be improved and more shade trees to be set out. LAWNDALE. About thirty-five houses are now being con- structed in Lawndale, at prices ranging from $1,500 to £20,000. Alillard & Decker are build- ing a block of brick stores. In the subdivision of J. 8. Hair and others, three mules of water- pipe are being laic. SHEFFIELD Accommodation traing have eommenced run- ning daily to Shoflicid, Ind. BUILDING PEBAMITS were issued during the week as follows : Henry Wischemeyer, three-story and bagement brick, 50x43 feet, Nos. 363 and 365 Superior street ; U. P. Smith, two-story and bascment stono, 88x40 feet, Vincennes avenue, ncar Thirty-seventh streot ; J. M. Phillips, three-story and basement brick, 88x50 feet, Nos. 220 and 222 West Indiana street. William _Stuenkel, “two-story and basement brick, 24x53 feer, No. 441 West™ Tielfth stroet; Solomon and W. C. Snow, two-story and base- meut stone, 109x36 feet, Carroll avenue, near St. John's place ; VWashington Smith, three-story and basement stoue, 99x100 feot, Clark street, pear Van Buren; F. R. Otis, three-story and basement brick, €0x50 feet, Twenty-second street, near Michigan avenuos J. R. Silva, three- story aud_basement brick, 20x65 feet, No. 218 West Indiana street; H. B. Matthews, three- story and basement stone, 25260 feet, Sherman street, near Jackson; A. L. Sweet, two-story snd basement stone, 25x40 feet, No. 646 West Monroo street; C. B. King, three-story and basement stooe, 25x62 feet, No. 135 Rush etrect. HYDE PAUK BUILDING. Dr. Flood is building & brick block, next to the depot, of stores, three stories”high. H. A. Hopkins is building two brick stores next to Dr. Flood's. C. B. Waite is_building four brick houses near the dupot, on Jefferson street, near Oak. Mr. John B. Calhoun, the Land Commis- sioner of the Kansas & Pacific Railway, is build- inga house oo Jeferson Atreot. Chn'ng_puer Buiuse is build.mfin house near the corner of Fifty- fifth street and Hyde Park avenue. James Stin- son is bnildinfi a fins three-story brick bouse onStony Ieland avenue, pear Seventy-third street, to cost 310,000, Mr. C. B.Dupee has built six frame bouses at Seventieth street and Stony TIsland avenue, at & cost of $2.500 THE UHLICE ESTATE. Thlich & Mublke propose to put on the mar- Kot eighty acres on tho corner of Seventy-first and Halvted streets, being the E3¢ of the N E 1¢ of Sec. 29, 28, 14, in the town of Lake, This 1and lies just west of the Normal School, and between it and tho city limits Halsted street is ali graded and graveled. nUAORS. 1t is rurnored, on what foundation it is hardl; necessary to state, that the Rock Island and Michigan Southern Railroads purpose abandon- ing their fine depot on Van Buren street, and Tebuilding botween Sisteenth and Eightaenth and Clar: and State. Their present depot, the report specifies, ia to be converted into a mar- ket, “The Baltimore & Ohio Road, on equslly trath- fal authority, sre sbout buying the farga whole- sale bouse of Field, Leltes & Co., 8¢ cosner of Madison and Market otreets, for s freight depot. —— TRANSFERS. The following instruments wers filled for record on Saturday, May 2: CITY FROPERTY. Consiteration, dated $ 6,000 700 . 50D Thirty-first st, 8 e cor of Lowe av, 2 £, 251100 18, dated APril30 ........ 1,200 Harhilton av, 344 fes of Adama at, f, 34x128 ft, dated Apri130.,...se .. aeeeee 2050 Nor:h Des roprn st, 238% {8 s of Bchiller st, w 1, 31x250 ft, with bulldings, dated April 27, 8,500 Shober et, 75 {€ 8 of Thomson st, w f, 252124 1t, improvements, dated Apnl 1,60 Shober st, 100 ¢ 8 of Thompsos 11, dated April 2T. .. . 900 South Dearborn t, 450 1t & of Twenty-niath o, W, 253110 £t datel Mayl.....l....... 3,650 Halited bt, 120 £t 6 of Hubbard st, W f, £0x201 £, dated April 17.....voveeesenls e 6,000 ‘Halited at, 160t s of Hubbard st, w f, 105201 £¢, dated 3a; 6,000 1,200 3,500 2,150 .. 9 Albiny st, s e cor Jackson nt, w1, 5572303 £, datod April 28, 25,000 Market st, 8 8 cor of 3 803 {t, with brick building, dated "April 29, Johin M. Wilson to Gurdon &, Hubbard, J: 60,00 Burlington st, 110ftn of Elghteenthst, w1, 233100 {t, dated May 1.... i o 2,500 Forest av, near Thirty-fourth sf, w f, 204 X125 ft, dated May 1. tortrerriens 5,000 Thirty-seventh st, 537 ft w of Siewart av,n f, 232135 t, dated April 29, 800 5 pril 10 o 650 Hoymest, 74 {t 1 of Ewing at, 6 f, 122150 ft, dated Aug. 19, 1672..erv.nc 2 8,00 XORTH OF GITY LIMITA, N 3 Lot 5, Block 10, Ravenswood, dated Ve R - TS0 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITA, 0akwooa av, 2373 1t e of Vincenn: 40 1t to raiiroad, dated May 3, 4,500 0akwood av, 210 ft & of Vinca 14 to ratlroad, dated Msy 3, 8,000 Grove parkwsy, n w cornor of Forty-fourts o 1, 198 3-10x250 t, dated Ja, 15............ 25,000 Lot 80, Block 2, Fawcett's part of 8 X Soc 4, 3 14, dated April 28....oonionoicinann [ 1200 Lots 12 0 21, in Blocks 15 and 16, of Iglebart’s Subdivisfon in Seo 1, 38, 13, dated Nov. 5, 3,000 v 5,000 Ci 8,00 North 25 of w130 ft, Lot 17, Block 20, Hy Park, dated Jan, 2l.... . fo .. 4000 Lot4, n Block 5, of Day's partn o i Sec 4, 35, 14,dated Moy 1ouveruesee.n w60 WEST OF CITT LDMITS, Lots £2 to44, tn Block 2 of L. Stavels partn e X Sec 36, 40, 13, dated April 19....v..veuee. 4,000 SUMMABY OF TRANSTZRS FOB THE WEEK. The following is the total smonnt of city and sub- urlan property tranaferrod during the week ending Batorday, May 23 City property.... North of city limita, South of city limits West of city limits. TRUST DEEDS AND MORTGAGES. Following are some of the more important truat deeds and mortgages filed May 1: TRUST DEEDS, g D0pbins, Thomes ., to 5. M. Shepard, May 1, 1674, 0,000, Humphrey, Lucius A., to John Hatchinson, April 20, 1874, $11,000. ' SR 0tis, Frod. K., to L. Scoville, April 27, 1874, $10,000, Blosson Bros. to C. C. Clarke, March 35, 1874, §20,000, . MOBTGAGES. g Fipeman, Thotiss, o J. O. Church, May 3, 1814, Neeley, Albert, to D, A. Sm April 1, 187 s edes, April 1, 1674, HUMOR. ‘Two hends are better than one, especiallyin s barrel. is & new and ele- gant phrase. —A Georgia editor was bitten by a dog, “be- Iog evidently mistaken for a bone."” —The Brooklyn Argus is of opinion that & kind word will always go further than a flat-iron. —A New York dentist gives a premium chromo for every tooth he draws. —A Western paper announces the death of a 1ady celebrated for the * purity of her character sad complexion.” ; —On week daya you buy your music by the sheet. On Sundsys you can have it by the choir. —O0, bother cremation! e have to earn our living—and we don't want to be compelled to urn our dead. —The Danbury News man says: *Thers is nothing that will change a man so mnch s great grief, unless it is sbaving off his mustache.’ —Inscrivtion on a tombstane in Columbis, Tenn.: *‘Escaped the bulletsof the enemy to be assassinated by a cowardly pup—a kind hus- band, an affectionate father.” —Twenty-ono freshmen wore lately snspended trom sn English colleze because 8 professor couldn't find out who placed a ten-ounce tack in his chair, He, however, knew all about who sat down on it. —A gentleman in Pottaville has named hisdoj ‘* Peuny,” because it was one cent to him, an haa had ten mills with the cat. —A Wisconsin man conldn't find the word he wanted in the dictionary, becauss there waa no index. —Preceptor—'*Now, can any of you tell me anything remarkable in the life of Moses?" Boy—* Yes, sir. He was the only man who broke all tho commandments at once!"™ nch. —When the new idea is adopted, the obsequies of sristocratic individuals will be creme -1a- cremo-ation ceremoniee, won't they ? —It would only be & slight mispronnnciation to call cremation the *‘ bourne whence no travel- er returns.” —A gentleman was complimenting & pretty {oung lady in the presence of is wife. “It's ncky Idid not meet Miss Hopkins before I married you, my dear.” *Well, yes. itis ox- tremely—for ber,” was the dry rejoinder. —Tlio quickest way we know of to make a man believe that thors's nothing in - the world worth liviog for is to excite him ioto chasing a cat across a yard whero two or three clothes-lines are innocently swaying in the ovening breeze, —An Iows oy was Iately overheard addrese- ing his paternal in this filkal style: “You jug’ }em' lma 'lone, yeow ole cuss, or I'll elimb yeos’, will.” \ —A North Carolina Judge addad three vears to man’s zentence because the fellow hit him on the pate with a quid of tobacco and called him “old horse.” It does seem asif the word ** free- dom " had no business in the country.—Detroil Free Press. .—A contemporary mentiona that a near-sighted hen which mistook sawdust for Indian meal, ate beartily thereof, then Iaid a nest fuil of wooden knobs, and in three weoks hatched out a set of parlor-furniture. —Thoe ANuhon Hawaii, of Honolulu, says: #One of our legislators was very much put out on account of the riot. Ho was putout of s two-story window."” —A Georgia negro who bet 810 that Gen. ‘Waehington commanded the Federals at Bull Run handed the money over, with the remark: *Well, dis yere List'ry business is all mixed up, anyway!" —The man who held ticket No. 55,105 in_the TLouisville lottery (it was No. 55,104 that drew the capital prize), has been wandering about distractedly ever since, whistling *‘ Thou art so near, and yet go far." —An old lady with a Iarga family, living near a river, was psked if she did not live in constant fear that some of herchildren would be drowned. # Oh, no,” she replied, * we have onlylost three or four in that way.” —An exchange under the head of ** An hour with our business man,” describes two saloons, and ends the items with the remark, ** This com- pletes the round of the business houses on the public equare.” —People who propose to explore Africa, ought to kmow that it takes a whole month to dry s dead explorer 80 that b can be shipped home. —Charivari has s cartoon by Cham, in which & French peasant, welcoming 8 Deputy back to rural surroundings, savs, with hilarious malice : “Again in recess. Why, you represent the Assembly oftener in the department than the department in the Assembly.” —A emall boy got another boy, somewhat smailer than himeelf, down on the groand yes- terday, and got hold of both his ears, placing his kneo 1n the small of the boy's back, and asked him ina very persusive mauner if he would give him that white alley of his'n? The boy re- Plied 1n the affrmative. How easy it is to settle things when one goes about it the right way!— Terre Haute Express. —A couple racenll\{lpglied to s New Jersey Justice to be marrie: n catechising the lady the Justice learned that she had a husband liv- ing, a0d had ever beon divorced from him. The young man thereupon declared that the obstacle was insurmouatable, and the ceromony could not take place. ¢ If that ia all the trouble.”said the would-be bride, **I'll just take my little pis~ tol and shoot that assty busbend of mive on the AGASSIZ MEMORIAL. Proposed Tribute to One of the World’s Greatest Scientists A Museum that Shall Instruct Mankind for All Time. Clrcular of the Committee---The Teachers =--Anecdote of Agassiz. Our readers know that it is proposed to endow the masenm established by the late Prof. Agussiz at Cambridge, Masgs., 88 a natidnal mon- ument to his memory. The nation will honor it- self by 8o doing, and confer one of the grostest possible benefits upon posterity. How the prog- ress of scienco often confers the greatest bless- ings upon society in all its interests, is well il- Inetrated by the circular of the Memorial Com- mittee. It is as follows : In removing Louls Agassiz, desth has deprived us of one who, for the lst quarter of a century, has done ‘more than any ofher perzon to stimulate {n this conn- try the study of Nature and a apirit of acientific inves- tigation, Twenty-eight yearaago be left Switzerlind, bis native land, for the Unitea States, and_became an Amerdcan citizen, Those twenty-efgit years he gave to nnremitted labor in behalf of that higher education which, by the public at large, was little understood. Hin intecest was confined to no town or_State, to no individual or class. Ho journeyed much ; and, wher- ever he went, there his pupila were, Ho might have rested on the reputation he brought from Europe, and, by lecturing and wfiting, bave made a fortune. Such alife, howsver, ho would not, or porhaps could not, livo, ' At the age of 67 his brain gave way, and he died, leaving no wealth but bis name, bis exaziple, and bis works. Tt would not be grateful for the country, nor would it be for the country’s interest, that Agarsiz should Fass away without a fitting memorial. Such s memo- rial can be made out of the great museum which he began and partially built, and for the completion of which he has left full directions. Completed, it would bo & pernetusl fountain of knowledge, and'a monu- ment quick with his spirdt, “ Musenm "—a_word that commonly suggests little more than a_collection of curious objecta—is acarcely an_appropriate nama for the memorial that Agasslz ought to have. The museum he labored for in 3 presentation of the animal kingdom,—foesil and living,—arranged 80 2 to picture the creative thought, The sfndy of such a subject is the higheat to which the human mind can sspire. At theend of the nineteenth century, no nation, least of all the Amerlcan, may daro to Ig in Acionco : for sclence 1s only another word for knowledge, and Inowledge is the source of power, and of whaiever contributes to power. All knowledgs springs from one Toot: and the sap matured in the root flows through every twig of the tree: what {s elaborated in the leaf in1¢8 turn nourishes the roots. Few distinctions are 50 groundless as the popular ons between * practical 7 and “ scientific.” Three or four generntions since, learned men swon- dered why the rubbing of sesling-wax should make it pick up ecraps of paper; what lightning was: and why the muscles of s frog's leg _should twitch without apparent cause, What, to-dsy, bas resuited from the study of thess obsarvations? ' The dlectrotype of the printer, the plated-ware on our tables, the telegravh across the Atlantic, the determination of longitude, the Imowledge of the nervous system,—these, and & hnn- dred other thingr, o important o our modern eivil- ization, bavo resulted from the abstract studies of Volts, Franklin, and Farndsy, Notlong ago the ailk-worms, a main source of wealth to Sonthern France and to Lombardy, were dying; nobody knew why, Prof, Cornalia said, % The worms are destroyed by & moldy growth o’ their bodies. The spores, or garms, may be seen by the mictascope in the blood of the parent moth. Here ia the remedy: Each moth's eggs must bs coliected separately: then the blood of the moth must bo_examined, and all eggs of unbealthy parents must be destroyed.” Botho mierotcopists ssved the silk-growens of Italy and ‘rance. Every workmsn must have his toola: the tools of 5 zoologiat are collections of natural objects Aystemati- cally arrrnged. Such sn arrangement moaus tha exhi- Dition of the anfmal creation in its natural order. This 18 one of the prime difficnlties of science, which tazes the powers of the greatest genius, Bo difficult is it, indeed, that no two lenders of zoology havo ever ex- actly agreed {n their views; and it ia only by comnar- ing thene views that the student can judgs for himself, Of what tncaleulable value would “collections be, if such had been_srranged by Linnens in Bweden, by Oken in Germany, by Cuvier in France! But such musenms do not exist. Even the great col- lections of Cuvier are mingled with those of his oppo- nents, like a book culled from the works of many au- thors, In this country we may have such a musenm if we chocse. ‘The celebrated System of Nature of Lin- neus can be studied only in books. We may and should have Agassiz’ System of Nature {llustrated by the specimens which his own hands bave set in_order, 1t I8 for our people to say whether thoy will neglect this magnificert opportunity to socure a means of ed- fln:{;’m Which money cannot buy, and the fature may not give, The Muscum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge is 2n independent eatablishment, governed by a faculty of its own. It was founded fifteen years 8go by Agassiz, and has grown to its present large yproportiops under his haud. In connection with it is the newls-established School of Experimental Zoology on the Teland of Penikese, endowed by Mr. Andersan, of New York, The syatem of instruction hns the widest character, and includes elementary teaching, a8 woll 83 tho highest inveatigations, The exhibition- Tooms are fres to the public, Large sums have alrewdy been oxpended in bringing this National Museum to its present condition. Ita collections, fn_neveral branches, are superior to those of the Britiah Mnsenm or the Garden of Plants, To make Fuch an establ'sh- ment usefal, jt must have a large building, and s con- siderable annual income for the poyment of Profes- sors and assistants. To perfect the grand plan conceived by Agassiz will require at least $300,000, of which sbout one-third would be used in enlarging the build~ ing, end two-thirds would be fanded, 1{is to be hoped that the peopls of Americs, for whom Agnsslz unselfishly labored, nnd smong whom he spent the best portion of his life, will not esitate 10 carry on the work he began, His exsmole and his teachings have benefited every section of the country. The musenm ho planned snd founded will, if sujtably endowed, become &n_ever-increasing source of scfen- Hfic and practieal usefulness to the nation and the world. We cannot doubt, therefore, that this appeal will b answered by the public in the same generous smirit in which Agasiz devoted his genfus to the furtherance of science and to the advancement of edu- eation among us. But wo would not sppeal to the friends of liberal culturs in this countryalone, The works and the exam- ple of Aga=siz are tho precions legacy left by him to all nations: and we feel surs that n the great centres of scientifio activity in the Old World, where bis genius received its first fmpulses and achieved its earlieat tri- umphs, there will be felt an earnent desirs toaid in the work which, while crmmemorsting the labors and influence of Agiasiz will be an endaring source of sci- entific discovery and inspiration. AGABSIZ MEMORIAL COMMITTEE. John A. Lowell, Georgo O, Richard.H. Csbot Lodgs, Nathaviel Tharer, ~ o Tants Cabot, Goorge T.Bigslow, Prof.’ Willism B, Wiilam Gatton, age John M. Forbes, Rogers, . Benjsmin ‘Abbott Lawrcncs, Roger Wolcott, _ Plerce, Throdore Tyman, Alpheus Hardy, Cbaries Francls Sebastian B.Schlo- Otis Norornes, dams, ainger, Fraaels . Patker. Honry P Kidder, Martin irimmer, Edward J. Lowell, Augrstns Flagg, Simoayt. Ravoard, Aloxanier B Rico, T. G. Cary: R, O HalmorTeor Groris 3 " King, Jimea L Lfila. J., Tigorsoll Bow'Trocias G, Appto- Teorga Be Lorlng, B B. Whipple, _ William 8. Apple- Joha Commings,” Dy, - Pdward ' H.'ton. nrke, es Hall, Albany, Pres. Baroard, Kew York, mes T. Dans, Now {obm Audarash, NewYork, a1 6 Pris ?X Sial” ey, Phila- A ? i Be's e ORen, Chicago, Dy, George Engelman, B% . Iman, - i, "L‘.Zw.i‘:’h S :5“' rsw;f Jonephs Lotds, Phlla- 3 tinad, Salem, _de B e Thacs, Pevt R E. Rogers, Phils- . deiphis, - Georga Davidson, San Fran- 3 tions may be sent to Ssbastian B. se’;in’.’f;?}‘."'fl‘.’. Tressurer of the Committee, 6 Oliver street, Boston. THE TEACHERS. 1t is proposed that the teachers of the United States and their pupils contribute & special fund for the same object. The following ia their cir- calar: % Louls Agassiz, Tescher. Thin was the heading of his simple will; this was his chosen title: and it is well kmown throughout this country, and in other Iands, how much be has dona to ralas the dignity of the profession. and to improve ita methods. ~His friends, the {riends of education, propose to rafse a memorial to bim, by Flacing upon a strong snd en- duripg basis the work to which he devoted tus life, ths Museum of Comparative Zoology, which 18 8t once a collection of natural objects rivaling the ‘most celebrated collections of the Old Word, and & school open o all the teschern of the lxnd. Tt is proposed that the teachers and pupils of the whole country taks part ia this memorial, and that on the birthday Of Acussiz, the 23th of May, 1874, they shall each contribute something, however pmall, to the Teschera’ and Pupils’ Memorial Frud in bonor of Louls Agassiz; the fand to be kept aeparate. and the income o be applied to the expennes of the Museum. Joms Eatow, Commissioner of Ecucation, Wash- ington, D. C. Joser Hrwst, Secretary of the Smithsonian Insti- tution, Washington, D. C. JosEPE WaITE, Secretary of the Bosrd of Education of Max achusetts, Boston. W. T, Hanats, Superintendent Public Bchools, Bt. ZLouis, 3o, Eowass 3. Lowrit, Boston. Jomx 8. BLaTcHrORD. Boston. Jaxra 3. Banxazp, Tressurer Tenchers’ sod Pu- ila’ Fund, Boston, P Tommunicaiions _snd_remlttances for tha « Teachers' and Pupils’ Fund 7 of the * Agassiz Me- ” tho Tzeasurer, morial ™ may bo sent 1o the 2Py M, Bammazn, Room 4, No. 13 Exchange sircet, Boston. Anna E. Bracket, of New York, contributes the following CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE OF AGAS3IZ, which we do not remember to have seen in print: Now thatall who have ever known or seen Agassiz are remembering bim, it may uot be unlnteresting to recall a little incident which happened, nearly tweaty fan seo, tn ome of ihe Massachiusetts Norunal bhl‘fi:"md old Commonwealth never did & wiser OF & more generons £%0 men, Agguasiz aad Gayo Schools to the YOUung men anc Rot only her own future teachers, but also the teach ersin many other States. I wasthen a pupilat the oldest of them—the school in Framingham. Thither * thing than when she engaged the tolecture in her Normal ‘women who wers to be, a3 wont to come Gujyot, and, sojournin; 0] for a week or ten aaya. Aty :g' ] arth and oy of genoais and the creation, so stmply, 8o kindty, that e forgot the distance between us. | AAd thither fams also Aggassiz, with his frank, nobls, kindly face, to #peak o usof the animal kingdom. 1t was during o of theso ataya that tho incldent fo which T refes oo During the noon intermission one of the girls Bicked up and brought with ber to her desk oot in ittle gray snakes so common in Magsachusetts conatry felds, and while a grouo of girls wero standing by, sho suddenly produced it. There was at once 3 start, andan exclamation of disgust and loathing, and the Gipected sensation had been qulto satisfactorily pro- who waa standing on the platf talking with the' Principal, and walting for the schoo to be called to order, {nstantly came rapidly down the aisle to the exaited and disgusted group, find, on sex! the cauze of ths commotion, st onco took the little frightened creature gently, slmoet tenderly, into hig strong hand, and as the nake twisted itself round bi A vrrist, hosaid, quietly, 58 if it wers & , “Oh ! it i the Coluber DeKayi, 8o named from . DeEay who first characterized {t” The words ‘Wera nothing, but the geaturs and manner were inde- scribable, at 0nce 8o protective and #0 reverential that they, 28 well as the whole scene, have always stood out clear in my memory with the vividness of ons of shl;n:i:;;ep!eh rea,” 1t was s if tho volce, ostesd of rema; ually e simple remari” of recognition wbich it ach ** Ho prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast; Ho praseth beat who lovetty best ngs, Lo tand For the Aot God She torsth aar - Ho made and loveth all,™ 1 eannot anawer for the impression T kmow that to ono at lesat that geature ?flmflb‘.‘: charscteristio of the man, struck the key.note of bee tesching for many years afterwards, in many different places, and to thousands of puplis, and the gratefal Temembranco of it ia to me now ike & floral gffering which I lay upon his distant, honored grave. The names of the Committee are a sufficient guarantee that all fands contributed to this ob- Ject will be wuelf appropriated. The £300,600 Decoseary Lo complete tho endowment shoald all bo contributed within the next few weeks. We trust the Northwest, where Agassiz was well !k;o'-\’n end highly appreciated, will do its fall are. OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. ALLAN LINE Comprised o tho followiog First-olass Full-Powered B, STEAMSEITS: SARDINIAN CIRCASS: PULYNFSIA! SARMATIAY HIBERNIAN CARBIAN ES T ATRICK FOUNDLAS DISPATCHED TRI-WEEKLY. MAIL STEAMER EVERY SATURDAY AT § A. 3., From Quebeo to Liverpaol and Glasgow, AND FORTNIGHTLY FROM BALTIMORE, Caliing at Halifax for Liverpool. o Cabinpuaics t Lirerpool, 870 254 880, and Gl Steerage at Lowest Current Rates, Frelglts from Europe ut Reduced Ratos. Cheapest mud Shortest Rontes. ALLAN & CO., Agents, 72 and 74 LaSalle-at. ANERICAN LINE The Oy Line Carrying the United States Flag, ln.l!ln' weekly between ?Mhd.lyhh and Liverpeal. Cabin, Intermediate, and Steerags ACCOMMODATIONS USSURPASSED. Rates as low as any First-class Tine. Through Tickegs Lower than by other Lines. 5 Through to Chicago from British Points, 635.55 Currency. Excursion Tickets at reducsd rates. Drafts Britaia, Ireland and Gun‘ylnB;.!. Tow "““nn Gosiy Ofice, 138 LaSallo-st., 5. W, cor. Madison, Chicago. J. H. MILNE. Westera Agant. FOR EUROPE. CUNARD MAIL LINE ESTABLISEIED 1840. Four Sailings Every Week. GREAT REDUCTION IN RATES OF PAS« SAGE FIROM EUROPE. Through to Chicago from British Points, $37.00 CURRENCY. Pasties Intending to purchase ficke's should do soat once. P.B. DU VERNET, Gon'l West'n Agonts N. W. cur. (lark and Kaodoloh-sta. GUION LINE. g FIRST-OLASS TRON STEAMSHIPS, Between NEW YORK and LIVERPOOL, calling at Queenstown, Carrying the United States Mail, SAFETY AND COMFORT. 57~ Passongor booked to and from the princlpal Eae DR a Lettars of Goadit loruod an lesding Banke o < and Bankers throughout Earope. HENRY GREENEBAUM & CO., FIFTEH-AV. Great Reduction In Passage Rates by Anchor Line of Bteam« ships every TUESDAY, THUESDAY, and SATURDAY. From New Yark to Liverpool, Glssgow, otc., otc., $36; Hamburg, $26. To New York, $29. To Chicago, $34. Fares to and from other British, Irish, and Continental Ports at proportionate rates. HENDERSON BROTHERS, N.E. corner LaSalle snd Madison-sts., CHICAGO. NEW YORK TO CARDIFFE. The South Wales Atlantic SuArnlMElAml' pany’s Now First-ciass, Full-powered, Ciyde-puilt Stesmabips will sall from Pennsylvania Railroad Whart, Jersey Clty. .April 4| GLAMORGAX, “April 18 | PEMBROKE . and passengers at through rates from rrying good: fs’f;'o'i" ot the United Brates and Canads to ports in 1he s ‘Channel, and all other pointa in England, ‘These steamships, built expreanly for the trads, are pro- vided with all tho Litest improvements for the comfortasd coavemezca of CABIY AND STEERAGE PASSENGERS. First Cabin, 875 s0d $8 currency. Second Cablz, 525 groncy. Siderage. #% currency, Erepaiitoersge crttficatea from Cirdit. — For fother particalars, apply (a Cardifl, a3 tne Com- pany's Oces. Ko, Tnck Cnmbery aad ia Now York io ARGUIBALD BAXTER & CU.y Agonte, No. 17 Bruading. National Line of Steamships, INOTICE. Thls Compaay takes the rsk of lasurance (ap to 850,000 L 56103 0% ach of ts vossels, thas Wiving. passeogars the"bout, Doutibie guariatos 1ofsafet sad steldaace of rat soa. o Bl Loty M ety TYold ico nd beadianda. R e Fork for LIV ERPOL and QUENS- TOW overy SATURDAY, trom X, Yok i oo (dlrct) v fotatabt. 5, S, 430, currency: & coranes et ickota ot roduced rates. 1c ‘1 and rd. {'V?[’}Ktlfil {lAé’ALVgfl Gen'l Western Arent, Mo aat et GIar and RABGalphstt: (oppomie bew Sherman House), Ghicago. CARRYING THE UNITED STATES MAIL. Tho magnificeat new and full.powered Staamshizs Re- pablie, Biitic, Adriatic, Biitannle, Oceasle, Celtic, otoe B o e ork G Saturdis sod rerpcol o ‘Bursdays. | Rates s low as any rscciass 1dh: Dratison 9..'.5’}1‘;:::;‘“%” frluad trowaci apwarda. Ofice, 51 Bouth o oD CAGERGREN. Agent. ANCHOR LINE. Prom New York to alt parts of Great Britaln, Irelaa and Continental Earops erery Saturday. “Tacadsy, Tharmday, au 63 Sruu(é:mlmr:' Q:";‘i' A pply at Company's Ofcos, e ROTH KI{". Agents. SCALES. FTAIRBARK® BTANDARD Camiy from 7. L OF ALL BIZES. = FATRBANKS, MORSE &0 111 AND 113 LAKE-ST.