Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 21, 1874, Page 5

= REAL ESTATE. The Truth About the West Side Unien Depot. 1t Will Be Built, but Where Is Kot Decideds goms of the Sales of the Week, Trades, and Auctions, comparative Statement of the Loan Market for June. A Plan for the Decoration of Chicago Streets. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad --- New Bulidings. Miscellaneous. FRONT, THE RAILROADS, ¥EE LAXE THE WEST SIDE. fomany conflicting statoments Liave been ro- cantly mado regarding & projected union passen por depot on the West Side, that pubiic curiosity bus been aroused without bewng in any degree satisfed. The echeme, generally cousidered, is 20t 3 DeW OBe. IT WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED Jess than fon days after the great fire of Octo- bar, 1671, Then there wWas & ecrious intention of constracting & graud central union depot. Dol Thomae A. Scott, the late Horace F. Clark, Jean F. Tracy and James F. Jov all favored it; sut 8 Jocation conld not be sgreed upon; sad, us {here ecemed to be 0o prospect of at agreemeat, the Lake Shore aud Rockdisland Compruies “'ifl..l- irew, apd commenced the rebmlding of their magnificeut structure. Meantime the 1ilinois Central Company worked sssiduously to sccure tie Lake Front grounds, golug 80 far 85 10 ask PERSIDENT GRANT TO INTERFERE | In their behulf. Otberand mew toads desirad depot accomodatious. To induco them to uuite upon the Lake Front strenuous eJurts were mado 10 indnce the Northwestern aud the Zilwauice & St. Paul Companics tc run as far east aa the ‘montk: of the riser, and there cross over into the mnion depot. The latier Compenies, however, pever geriously estertained the proposition. Scuing the West Side rcads would not come, Mr. Jov determined to go over to them. It is a popular error tosuppose tuat rival roads pever wish {0 Tnn 1nto the same depot. The fact Is they would greatly prefer being side, by eide. ‘wuen mo uueyual advantages for securing business nead be 1earcd. Besides, in their open dealings ia the presence of one aa- other, railway olicinis are models of amity and courtesy. Al suspicion of unfair dealicg 13 dis- smed. Auy company would rather securo close connectione, even if askociated with the bitterest rival, rather than Lo wholls isolated. The opin- ion also prevails that railvay companies must Tive their freight und passeogor depots vesr to- cther. Such association might be conveniaut, ut is by no means cusential. TIE LATEST UNION NOVENENT bogan about two mouths ago. \Wearied of the deiays and aunoyance ivcident to the Lake Frout diffcrences, the C., B. & Q. and Michigan Cen- tral Companies resolved to micrate to the West Eido. Neither Company hes hitherto bad any Wisconein or Minnesota connection. Desirous of Eecuring these, negotiations were eutered into which developed s willnguess on tho part of the Cicngo & Alton, the Fort Wayne, tho Milwau- Xee & 5t. sul, and the Northwestern Compa~ nica to join the Durliogton and Michigan Cen- tral in constructing s union depot. The ground bounded by Van Duren, Caval, and Madison streets and tho river scemed most eligible. This is mainiy owned by the Pennsyivania Company, of which Col. Thomes A. Scott is President. ‘Hia aseent to the project was secured. Ariicles of mssociation were drawp up, snd doubtless wonld bave been signed by ail the contracting parties bad not. "TNPORESEEN DIFFICULTIES ARISE: Amsjonity of 1l eignatures have already been Bitached to the document, and as il the Com- pauiek are sincero in their endeavor 5o secnie o Taion depot, altbough -the precise location may De doubtyal, the project is uot. The partics in- terested greatly nced depct accommodations, aud are anxious to procure them. Unitedly thoy sould erect 3 structure that would be creditablo slike to the city and the corporaticns, while, xingly, the enterprise would bo 100 great & drain npon {heir depleted-exchequers. ‘The Presidents of the eix Companies named wiil copsutute the Directors of thie Association, from whom a President to control 1ts affairs will be chosen. Each Company contributes 2o equal Imount to the capital stock ; and, for the cou- [irction of the depot. the Association will isene eiz own bonds, gusranteed by the several Rail- say Compames. 'TUE ADVANTAGES OF A WEST SIDE Deation to these rulways are ;p}menc, The forthwestern would not then bo obliged to cross be river, nor wonld the Burlington auy longer » incur the dirpleasuro of tne South Side avenue semdentz. Tho Michigan Central, which termi- nntes a: Calumet, fourteen miles from Chicago, »ould either take thie Fort Wayne road ot Tolles- oD of iutorsect it further north if not desirous M tecaring their own eatrance. ¥ The effect of the consummation of such a Jroject mgon tho value of property near the Lake rout and around the fortnaate site is too mani- lest 1o justify comment. $ —_— SOME SALES OF THE WEEK. The most notable salo of tho week is that nade by F. L. Fake & Co. yesterday afternoon, [his was the sale of the Concordia Hall, 16 and 168 Twenty-second etreet, for £100,000. The sxchange was mado with parties in tho city. Fred L. Fake & Co. have sold Concordia Hall, Kos. 166 and 163 Twenty-socond street, between Btate street and Wabash avenue, for £100,000 ; Mo, 270809 feet on Archer uvenus, corner of Farrell street, and ruuning through to Lyman atreet, for $75,000; also the brick factory, corner of Twenty-eixth street and Stewart avenue, with ground, 96x10) feet, beonging to Wlilliam J. Fewksbary, to John Adams, of Rockester, N. ¥., for £30,000. ) C. M. Smith bas sold the proporty af the south- wost comner Sixteeuth and Arthur streots for 22,000, Cherles H. Dyer has sold 40 feet on Randoinh Mreet, west of State, south front, to Van H. Higgios, for $62,000. Day & Sanborn havo sold house and lot on Winchester avenue for £7,000; Lots 2 and 3, in Block 5, John Miller's Addition to Irving Park, for £1,000; and Lot 7, in Block 6, Cook & 'lndzn.on'a Subdivision on Ogden avenue, for 4,000, F.A. Bragg has sold houso and lot No. 97 lonth Robey street for §16,000. Charles L. Hancock has sold 55 feet on South Rater street, 80 feet east of Fufth avenue, to Fieglivon & Shields, for £50,442, . W. D. Rerfoot & Co. have sold 101x55 feet on South Water street, between LaSalle and Wells, Ile tite of the old Board of Trade. The consid- ¥ration was £60,000. The Isud 1s to bo immedi- Mely improved ‘with & fine block of storee, of prick, with stone trimmings. The adjacent 100 leet on LaSsile street is also to be improved. t the southeast corner of Superior and St. Clair streets they have sold 105 feex for 316,000 3 block of octagon marble fronts is to be built Bn the land. In the Packers' Addition they have soM, for £24,000, 3005400 feet, morth of Forty-sevents Ffii" on whicha new packiog-house is to be Juil On Western avenue, at the corner of Flonroy Mezeet, five lots for $6,500. At the coruer of Archer avenne and St. Jo- Yoph etreet, 50x100 feet for $3,000. On_Calumet avenue, betwsen Thirty-second E&Thut;-flmd streets, 75 feetat §i00 & foot. to bo immediately improved. % mrsir bas sold_eouth h:ll Block 122, 53 feet, st $15 per foof fiefi C. Givios has sulge;our half-acre lots 3 South Englewood for $1,200 each. C.E.Crafts has 8old kixteen lots mear tte Korthwestern Car-Shops at $18 per front foot. Morion Culver has s0ld ten tots at Evanston foEmma T. Bingham for §2.500: the house and lot No. 28 Milwankee avenue to L. L. Green- 181 for £6,500 ; & house aud lot on Union street, id THE CHICAGO DAILY . TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE. 21, 187 Gresnleaf for 3,500 ; 40 acre 3 milo from the railrosd station. to Ira Brown for $12,000; -and two acres in Glencoe to J. F. Nichols for £3,000. Wluyp!e & Cartle nave sold the n wi{ of 8 w 2 of 24,88, 13, for §40,000; also a brick house and 50 feet front on West Monroe street, near Learitt, for 15,000, 2nd the marble-front house and lot No. 71 Sheldon street for 20,000, D. Cole & Son have sold a three-story and basement brick storo and triangular loton Mii- waukee avonne, near Noble etreet, for 816,000, Meteou Hill hus sold Lots 15 to 24 in Block 8, and Lots 15 to 24 in Block 4, Hill's Bonth Engle~ wood Addition, for £7,200. Larkin & Jenks huve sold 10 acres northwest of Armitago and Kimball avenues, for $1,100 an acre, ail cash; and two lols on Twelfth street, west of Ashland avenue, for $3,000. Brown & Iall have sold 8 lots in W. O. Cole's L)xuk subdivision to South Englowood, three locks northeast from the depot, for §4,800: 28 lots in Cole & Corey's subdivision, two blocks north of the depot, for $17,500; 3 lots, with a cottaze house, in Cole & Corey's subdivision, for €3,500; 1lot in Irving Park, 505150, for 51,500 Ulrich & Boud bave sold 24 lots in Block 10, in Stewart's subdivision of the southwest 3{ of Sec. 1, 1. 88, R. 13, for $7,450; a lot on Michi- gan Terrace, fronting the lake, near Forty-fifth street, 50200, for £5,000; a lot, 160x130, wm Hyde Park, southwest corner of Jefferson and Oak (Fifty-third) streets, for §15,000; a lot, 80x 150, wouthwest ‘corner of Jeflerson and Oak (Fifty-third) sureets, for $7,200, E. Ashley Mears has sold 1 cottage and lot, 251125, on Prairie avenue, for 2750: 50 feet on Central avenue for £100; cottage and lot on Prairio avenua for 3650, J. &. Hair & Co. have sold a lot, 75x136, at the soutliwest corner of Warbhington aud Jeffersom streets, for 330,750 ; G0 acres in Sec. 10, 33, 13, for £39,000; 3 lots in Lawndale for 81,500, Warren, Reency & Co. bhave sold at South ZEvaaston 100 feet on Warhington street, west of the railrond, for B. F. Allen, to 8. H. Doe, for £8,000: also, 50 foet, with bouse, in B, F. Allea’s tract to George Morgan for $3.500, They have also scld, ou their own account, 50 feot on Chi- cago avenue to Jacob Himes for 32,500, and 100 feet at the corner of Kedzie and Wheoler ave- nues for 35,000, "AUCTION BALES. B. F. Lee has sold 8 lots, 25x125, in northwest quacter of Sec.9, 33, 14, nerr Rock Island Car Worka, at $100, and 1 lot In the Original Town of Jefferson for $810. C. C. Thayer & Co.sold at the Real-Estate Exchunge on Wednesday the three-story brick daelliug and ot 201¢x155 feet, No. 74 Honore street, for 34,700 “The terms wero ti0 assump- tion of & £3,500 mortgage, due in two years; balance casi. + Lots 13 and 14 in Block 12, and Lots 37 and 38 in Block 11, 1n Beebe's Subdivision of enat 3¢ of northwest & of Sec. 2, 3), 13, each 25x124 feet to alley. and lying within two blocks of dapot on the ililwaukeo & St. Paul Railroad, were sold to 8. Holley for &8.50 2 foot. William A. Butters & Co. bave sold Lota 9 =nd 10, cast front, ou Sonth Park avenuc. between Thirty-fourth snd Thirty-firth streets, 25 feot each, at 8130 per front foot, . Also, the two-story. and basement brick house, No. #9 " Lincoln avenue, for £5100 ; and No. 87, in the same ssreot, for £7,550. — - 4 THE LOAN-MARKET, Loan-zgeuts report the market dull, and no demand for money except on outside property, which they do not caro to touch. This is gen- eraliy Jooked upon as the gull season of the Fear, but the present June bids fair to make as Rood a showing a8 auy previous montb of 1874. In past years thero has becn s marked falling off in this department of business on the ap- proach of warm weather. June, 1573, compared witn May or April, 1872, exhibits a dimination of nearly 50 per cent; but June, 1874, is not only fally up to the average, but shightly in excess of it. In the first throe wecks of April there were tiled for record 1,002 trust-deeds and mortgages, with an aggregate consideration of §2,646,531; on the eame time in May 1,074 trust-deeds ana mortgage, representing $2,944,490, appeared on the Recorder’s books, and from Jume 1 to 20 the figures are 1,118 instruments, total consideration §3,361,828, Another and still more gratifsing fact is that the liabilities on real estatoare being more rap- idly reduced than they have been.-at suy time| during the past two years. Tho releases for the third week of June, 1872, weto 172, for June, 1873, they numbered 201, and for the samo peri- od in Jucs, 1874, they amouut to 309 in number, almost equaling the aggreeate number of trust- deeds and morégages. Tho releases incressed from 845 in the month of Januaryto 1,179 in May. 1874, and they have evidently acquired a momentum which promises to reduce the inc: Lrances placed on real estate Ly the ncceseities growing out of the Great Fire more rapialy than the most sanguine could have anticipuated. 1t 18 doubtlees true that there 1s little or no_de- mand for money on ineide property, snd to thoso who fandly linger over the flush times of the loaning business immediately after our great calamity, the prosent season must scem aggra- vatiogly dull. Below arc somo tabular state- ments: THIED WILK JUNE,| THIID WEER SUNE, 1874, 1873, No. | Consuderation. $ 102,004 Concideration, No. Instruments, Trast decds, Mortgages .. Aggregate. Releases. ... COMFATATIVE STATEMENT FRO: | Consideration, 2,520,002 76,815 . | Cungideration. (| No. ol esonnsre 179) 430,0. 3,061,823, Tnstrumente.| Trust deeds. ortgoges .| Aggregate.f1,118 Releases.....| 8 64| 1 21| S — = DECORATION OF CHICAGO STREETS. To the Editor of The Cliicago Tribune: i The presence among us of such an exhibition as'that of * Paris by Moonlght” affords s an opportunity which should not be suffered to escapo of impressing upon our citizens the im- portance and value of judicions and TASTEFUL DECOBATION OF STREETS, avenues, and open spaces, whereverit is possible, with trees and shrubbery. - The view of the city is taken from a point directly over the garden of the Tuilerics, and the first view which meeta the eye of the specta~ tor on reaching the area, from which he looks down s8 if from the summit of a tower, is that of the Avenue des Champs Elyeces, whxclxz a8 will be scen at a glance, is 1n itself 3 beautifal park or garden directly in the heart of the city. In whatever direction tho eye is turned it will be geen that every opportunity has been seized upon to reliovo mau's artificial work in stone by the refreshing and ever-changing besuty of vegetable life. . ".':‘bu exhibition will doubtless be visited while here by thousands of citizeus and stran- gors, and there is no one who may Dot gain more than were 1dle amusemout frowm 1, if he will Dbut steady the manver in which attractive effect Las been secured in that MOST ATTRACITVE OF CITIES, , and endeavor to practice or inculcate the ideas thus obtained wheneverand wherever opportuni- ty offers. | Y The one general fact that will strike him 88 differiog f1om American cities with which he is famitiar is that beauty and grace pervad the at- ‘mosphere of the whoie city, instead of being sct apart and confined to particular localities, or banished from the acenes of every-day life and exhibited ouly in ornamental areas eo distant from the central portions of the city that they can only be resched by a journey of miles through monatonous streets. Public gardening in Paris is not confined o parks at s distance from town, and absent from the places where it is most wanted. It follows tne street-builders with wrecs, turns the little squares into gardens, introduces_graceful fountains here and thers and mareing them with flowers,—presenting every charm of natural beauty to the eye of the poorest workman, and siming directly aud ef- fectively at the recreation and benefit of the people. j j i Let us study the subject with a view to pro! by it, instead of stupidly admiring what has be'en done elxowhere, without an effort to rival oreven to imitate it. CHICAGO TAS ALREADY LOST > many opportunities of preserving areas, which would now add incalenlably to the besuty of the city, to eay nothing of increased pecuniary yalue wlich is_always conferred npon adjacent prop- ecty by the jntrodnction of ornamental aress and fine avenues in the midst of densely-populated cistricte, but much may yet be done by the ex- ercise of timely energy. It was thought to be & needless and_extravagant waste of land when one of our Park Commissioners, afew yearesince, urged the conetruction of tho boulevards connect- iog the city with the South Park, with & width of 200 feet. He had studied the s Paris, and with & wiso forethought of fature he ;2:2 u;) eouro s véledé.h «;1] 300 feet for these ve ), Buccae [ in getting 200, an that With diliculty. The sonsteastiog ot TUE GRAND AND DREXEL, BOULEVARDS, however, has been of more yalue 28 a lesson to our citizens than aoy amount of talk or writin, on the subject could have been. Althongh etil islied, and affording .only a suggestion of the beauty they will attain hereatter, when the trees shall have assumed their fuil proportions, and the finest specimens of private and publio buildings in the city sball line their sides, they are already o sonrce of pride and pleasure to our citizens, aa is amply evinced by the multitude of visitors by whom they are ged in every variety of elogant urgx:pnga on every pleasant duy. “Yet these beautiful and - attractive drives are remote from the central por- tions of tho city, and it is only after & weary and dusty’ drive of 3 miles through monotonous business or residence strasts that their nearest point is reached. Let us try to imagine now what would be the effect if those aveunes had their startiog point from the heart of the city, and OTHERS OF CORRESPONDING ELEGANCE radiated from the samo central point to the sur— rounding parks and adjacent suburbs. Is it not obvious that propesty 03 tho linos of such ave- nues would bo incrensed in_ valuo toa degres sufficient at Jeast to balance the amount thus approprioted? Is it not equally obvions that the division of the city into sections, separated {from oach other by avenues of such breadth, plunted with continuous rows of trees,wonld fur- nish the best possible safeguard against wide- spresd conflagrations, of which we aro to-day in Lttle less danger than before the experience which lias cost us 8o dearly ? Aud finally, is there ary possible means by which the beauty, hoealth, and attractive interest of the city in the eyes of citizens and strangers could have been promoted to such a degros as by thus providing such gardens as the ornamental grounds of these bonleyards would afford, with- m EASY ACCESS OF EVERY MAN'S DOOR ? Only 2 few years since, these avenues might have taken their Alm-Linf point at Twelfth street with no more difficulfy than was experienced afterward in pocuring them two miles further squth. But Twelfth street was then far out 1n tho country. aud peuny.wiso fnanciors could nog be made to believe that tho city wonld extond miles beyond it befora a singlo geuerstion had nsged away. Init yet an impossiviiity to extend rexel Boulovard ‘to Twentfy-second street by widening Cottage Grove avenue throughout its whole length ? "It is worth tho consideration of property-owners s & means of increasing tho valuo of resl cstate op both sides. If Grand Boulevard were also extended. by widening South Perk ayonne to its junction with Cotiage Grove avenue,—it 15 safe to say that nothing in the country could compare in_extent and magnifi- cence with the circnit thus inclosed. It isidle to *look mournfully into the past”—except thatit may help us “wlsely to improve the prosent.” WIAT ARE WE DOISG TO-DAY TO PRESERVE and beautify the prosent streets, and the areas which yet romain unoccupied, or may be se- cored for public use within easy access of the busiuess couwre of the city ? Wabash avenue 18 probably doomed to he sso- rificed to the necessitics of the pnblio by the in- troduction of horse-carg, which will involve the widening of the road-way and tho removal of many of the tieca which live its sides. Maay fine avenues will still be left, thongh Michigan is the only one extending morth of Sixteenth street which is at present available for orua- mental use, and even Michigan suffers very serioun injury and deterioration of value of property between Sixteenth snd Fourteenth streets, by the vicinity of the plague spot, known 88 * The Patch "—which renders Indiana avenue ninbabitable for the sume distance. | If the whole of that delectable region wero secured by the.city and converted into public orusmental ground, the incrensed tuxable value of all the adjacent property would render tbe improvement A PIOFITABLE INVESTMENT. The opportunities for such improvements are comparatively rare near the central part of tho city, but a vast region which is still mn s tran- sition state surrounds the central districts of each of the three great divisious, and extends from it with an sooually increasing radius in which im‘flmvemenm are still poesble, which would add sncaleulably to the futurs beanty and elegance of the city, but ihe opportunity for which will soon be lost forever. When wo think with asigh of what our city might have been to- day bad we improved the opportunities of yes- terday, can we suffer ourselves to repeat the sin of omission for which we have nolonger the ex- cuse of inoxperienca? H. W. S. CLEVELAND. e s MISCELLANEQUS. ATCTIONS TO COME. Elison, Pomeroy & Co. will eell at auction at their rooms, on Tuesday next, 500 lots of-city and suburban property, the offects of the Groat Western Insurance Company, and fully de- scribed in our advertising columns. On Thuredsy they sell five residences, threo on Forest avenue, near Thirty-firat street, and one on Vernon avenue, No. 39, and one on Prairie avenue, No. 1486, On July 1 thoy sell the 400 scrcs at Lake Forest of which mention has already been made, On July 4 thoy eell 1,000 Iots of R. C. Givins property at South Eoglowood. TUE PALTIMORE & OHIO BAILROAD. Messrs. Kaiger and Quincy, of the Baltimore & Obio Railroad, are 'in the city for the purpose of attending the final details of ‘eecuring the right of way, and letting tho contracts for the grading and construction of the rond. Delay has been occa- sioned by the action of property-owners in Oak- wood Park, where the Baltimoro & Obio Iailroad is to join the Illinois Central, in 1usisting that tho road " should_condemn its Fight of way through their Jand. Both mdes have agreed to facilitate matters by referring the decision of tho value of the land fo two arbitrators, Mr, W. M. Derby for the property-owners, and Mr. W. D. iierfoot for the rond. Tbis method is more expeditious than the procrastinations of the law, but at the best must canse & delay that will prevent as speedy a performance of their ptans as the Lailroad Com- peny bad intended. On Friday tho oficials of the road wero to kave signed the contracts for grading the line betnween South Clucago sud Parkside Station, but tho unexpected obsta- Clo thrown in their way by the property owners at Oakwood Park has forced them to post- pone tho matter indefinitely. The right of way for all the restof the line has been secured without auy opposition from the land-owners, aud nothing but tbe delay at Oakwood Park prevents the immediate inception of the con- struction of the road. THE NORTH STDE. There was some fear expressed two years ago thet the North Side would ot recover frowm its disaster aad resume the position it had hitherto held as a residence section. 1t was rebuilt very slowly at first, sinco Copital and interest were for tho time being ceutered upon the business quar- ter to the osclusion of lesser matters. Tho provision coucerning the fire limits slso re- quired n better class of houses than people felt thoy could afford at that time, though it is now demoustrated that it was wise ordinance. At tue time 1t undoubtedly retarded improvements. Theso and other ressons mado proporty-owners auxiovs, and not s few disposed of their Jand at a sacrifice. During the E!st eighteen months the building of residences has becen remarkably active in the North Division. At the present 1ime 1t presents » beautiful aspect and the total Velioof the buildings now standiog 18 very much in excess of what it ever reached before. ‘The throe vacaut lots belongng to the McGeo, Ogden, aud Newbury estates, raoging in line from State to Rush strects, loave an unsightly gap. They wero formerly occupied by threo dwellings, and a mass of foliage, but now, in its wide expanso of barrenness, give a forlorn 100k to this part of the town. 'Aside from this, the streets are boing rapidly built up.” So great is tho popularity of this side of the river that 6 18 searcely & vacant houso to be found. Lh;':n:; Doarborn. strdot is broad, clean, well built up with beautiful homes, the majority of which are modern in style and finished in a su- perior manper, Rush and the other paraliel streets are well improved. ‘Around the dwellings of John M. Douglas, H. . Kiog, F. A. Winston, and J. S. Rumsey there have been set out a number of elm trees, which look indigenons. Wilhin:two blocks of St. James' Church there arono Jesa than fifteen dwellings now in course of ercction. Some of them will occapy 8 front- age of from 80 to 120 feet. On Dearborn street up towards tho park probably as many more may be seen. The new residence of F. P. Pca- body, Esq., being about 50 feet sguars, and faced oo ail sides with cut stone, is among these. Thero are also several blocks being bult on In- diapz, Lilinois, aud Ohio streets, The breakwater which is to inclose sa ares of water 400x8,000 feet, to be used 83 & plessure resort, has alresdy boen referred to. The work of sinking the piling is now going on, the contract tobe completed in July. The Park Commizsioners will bave the Lake Shore Drive 200 feet wide, which borders oo this sbeetof water, grassed down to the water’s edee. BUILDING. 5 Fottor Palmer is leiting the contracts for & stone front building on the carner of Ktate and Quincy ots. In style, copied alter a building in Vienna, Austria, snd will be differont {rom any structure in the city. It will be one of the most beautifal buildings 1n Chicago. He is also letting the contracts for two forty feet stores on Btate street, opposite Quincy, with stone fronts. They are to be four etories hij and work on them will commence next week. Otto Matz has upder contract & brick tors, 25 260, 8 the corner of Madiron and Wood streots, for Mar. Chaperoni. 1t istocost £6,000; a threc story and basement britk house on the corner of Dayton street aud Clybourn avenue, for Henry Dettmarn, Esg., to cost §7,500; two brick reui- denees on LaSallo sirest, thres storics and base ment, with prossed brick fronts and stono trim- mings, for Messrs. McNurly & Bro., to cost $12.000; threo stone front reeidences at the cor- ner of Pearson strect, with front towards Water Works place, to cost $15,000. On Chestnut stroet, in Tear of Turner Hall, Messrs. McNurty & Bro. intend to ercct a fine boarding stable, which it to be perfect as to its interior arrangements. The building is to be 50x111 feet. aud will bave a handsomo Milwaukee pressed brick front with galvanized iron cornices, on Chestout street. On Clsrk stroet, noar Division, Mrs. O'Connor has closed tho contracts for the erection of threa two-story and basement brick dwelling-houses, SHEFFIELD, This new manufacturing suburb in Indiana, three miles below South Chicago, &t the ontlet of Wolf Lake, bas bean visitod by numbers dur- ing the past weok, tho Sheflicld Houso having becn opened and the improvements submitted to public examination. The Sheffield Associstion will offer no property for salo until September, but are understood to be negotiating with parties | ‘Wwho desiro to make improvemonts. On Saturday a party of euginocrs snd practical men went to the mouth of the Wolf Lake out- Iot. _Among thom wero Col. D. C. Houston, who has been vecured as Consulting Engincer L. Y. Schennerborn, Chief Engineer in charge of Sheflield Improvemeuts; and Mr. Miller, en- ncer of Mesurs. Fox & Howard's corps. A ull survey for the Wolf Lake harbor was made Iast yoar it will bo remembered by order of tho Sccrotary of War, in response to a State memo- rial from Indiana. and yesterday the mouth of the barbor *was lacated, for the construction of which Col. Houston will immediatoly mako Dlans and estumates, and Mesurs. Fox & Howard tho proposals. ‘The work of this season is to be done by the Sheffield property-interests on both sides of the niver with a view to opening Wolf Laks &t once to ° tho logging and lumber trade of Alichigan and Indiana. The Larbor work proposed for this scason is ex- Dected to bo done beforethe middle of August. THE HAMILTON & LACON RATLROAD. This road in graded to within half amile of the city limits, snd subscriptions aro now being col- lected of §30 to $£100 au acre of the property- holders botween Millville and Cuicago for the immediate completion of that portion of the line. It has been decided to_abandon the nar- Tow gaugo that was at first adopted, and to sub- stitute a middle gaugo. The completion of this part of the line mill have & favorsble effect on property in Secs. 20, 21, and 92 E. Commu- tation tickets will be given for two years free to partics who improve on tho Line of the road. A NEW ENTEBPRISE. Among the sales reported this week will bo noticed that of the hrick-factory at the corner of Twenty-sixth_street and Stewars avenuo, This wwas purchased by John Adams, Esq., of Roches- ter, N. Y., and will be ased s 5 waste-cleaning factary by the Chicago Waste-Cleaning Company., ‘This is an entirely new enterprise, the Company working under & patent which they have secured for the operation indicatod. HIGEWOOD. -There are now twenty buildings in course of construction at Highwood, costing in the aggro- gato £108,000. A mass-meeting of the citizens was hold last Tuesday eveniug. at which & com- mitteo was appointed to visit ail owners of prop- erty aud induce them to Iay eidowalka in front of their land. P — TRANSFERS. The following iustrumenty were filed for rec- ord on Saturday, June 20 : cITY PROPERTY. Conaideration. Diller st, 160 ft 5 of Ohip sf, o £, 47x128%; £t, dated June 20.... S 2,005 West Indwaua at, 163 100 {t, dated Jun, 2, 187 . 2,000 West Adams t, 240 £¢ e of Loomis 120 ft, dated June 1. ... 5,000 Flournoy st, 416 ft e of 2,000 1,000 1,000 5,500 wvittst, 8 f, 483100 1t, dated Jupe 19.....0. .. Z5 Wood st, 125 ftn of Glarinda st, w{, 35x130 ft, dated June 19.. o e Wood st, 50 £t n of Clariida st, w f, 25x130 ft, dated June 18, Niusteenth 4t, Towy fi, dsted Sept, 30, 1873, 18,500 Burling af, 113 ft & of Webster dated June 19. 4,000 Leavitt st, 271t 1t, dated Sept. 19, 1873. 4,00 Ogden av, 8 e cor of California av, trisngle of 159 7-10x142 2-10 11, dated Aug, 8, 1873...... 4,000 Indiana av, 8 of Eightcenth st, w f, 21x 100 ft, dated Jume®........... 11,000 ‘Kossuth st, 166 feet o of Stewart av, & 1, 50x124 1t, dated’ June 5. - 2400 Halsted 6t, 1273 ft s of Eighteenth st, ¢ f, 25x 1005 ft, dated June 19.... 2,800 Indians av, 8 14-100 ft 1 of Thirtieth &, w f, 40x110 1t, dated June 19 (Nelson' D Golyer to Charlcs IL. Lawrence) Ashley st, n e cor Hoyn av, dated April Emerald at, n w X103 ft, dated May 18... . 600 Quinn st, 100 {¢ 5 ¢ of Steirns &t, n e f, 26x1i5 ft, datéd Oct. 27, 1673....... .00 Tho premises No. 248 Fourth av, dated June 38 - 5000 Clybourn av, 65 {t n wof Rnerrst, nef, 35 1t, dated Muy 8.... 52 .0 1,600 Forest av, sof Thirty-third st, wf, 21 54-100% 125 ft, dated April 7. EARTIPTITy . 2612 Forest av, 8 of Thirty-third st, w 1, 43 100z 125 st, dated April 22 . 51 Central Park uv, 257 115 o 1465 1t. dated Juno0, West Taylor st, 216 £t w oOf 100 1t dated June 19.... v, 120 ft 0 of W 125 (, dated June 13. Sixlots In Secriet’s 5 acres in ne 8w i Scc. 17, 39, 14, dated Feb, 20. % Forty-four and ono-half ft on Sixty-first st. in Englewood, of & W X Sec. 16,35, 14, dated Juge1d. " Lots 60 and 61 of Hoary's Subdivision iu s & & of no X Sec. 9, 39, 14, dated Juno 20 BUMMARY OF TRANSFENS FOR THE WHE) The following i the total amount of city snd subarban property, witlin a radious of seven miiles of the Court-House transferred during the week ending Saturday, June 203 North of city South af city limits. West of city Limits,, For the weck ending June 13 For the week eading June 6. For the week ending May 23 For tho week ending 3oy 16.. For the week ending May 9, For the week ending May The Laccadive Esianders, From the Pall Mall GGazelte. Oue want speedily begets another, and the in- babitauts of the Laccadive Islands have, it seems, become o exigeant of Iate that they have almost exhausted the patience of the Madras Government. Some years ago they suffered from rats. A maternal Goverument at Mzdnd sent them mungooees to eat the rats. The rats, how- over, were more thian a wateh for tho mungooses, and took to climling trees. The Laccadive Ielanders were, however, not to be foiled by this ingenuity, and at once indented on Madras for owls to caiy on the war aloft, and thus cir- cumvented the rats. Now they have applied for jays to eat up s peculiar kind of worm they are tronbled with, and the Assistant Collector of South Canara has kindly #suctioned tius addi- tion to to the feathered potice of the Archipel- ngo. But the wants of the Laccadivers aro in- eatiable; they havomade a further requisition for o midwife. Tlus application i viewed with no small alarm and anxisty. One midwife, it is urged, can ba of littls sorvice to a whole popula- tion of Luccadivesses. The request will donbt- less be followed by anotber for more midwives. “Give them a midwife,” says the Pioneer, ‘“and they will take & college of surgeons.” ‘Ine Mad. ria Government certainly stands in an awkward position. Having granted mungooses, owis, and jays, it can berdly rofuse & midwife, but “it isa long lane that has no tumning.” The day must couwe, sooner or later, when the Laccadivers will bave Do wish ungratitied, and it might be a8 well to request them to state boldly and at once what they really do require to make them thoronghly comfortadle. o Sy A Dog with a Presentiment. A Witmington (Del.) paper tells this story: *On the morning of the drowning of Oficer Wirt, bis wife tried to persuade him from going » fishing, when be took from his finger his gold ring and, placiug it upon hers, told her to wear it ol by roiarn, and that he would not_be gone long. When e was leaving his residence his dog, & fine animal, caught lum by the pants leg (an sct be was never known to do before), when he drove bim off; aud as he etarted off the dog seized him by the leg azain, and could not be driven off, ecemingly trving to prevent his mas- ter from loaving his bome, when Wirt, to gt rid :fi bim, to0k by revolver from his vockes and 0¢ him. 1 year “sgo. FASHION. Costumes for Saratoga, for New- porty and for the Moun- tains, Horning and Evening Robes--~House and Walking Dresses. Trimmings --- Hair - Dressing =— Hose, Hats, Parasols, Gloves, Ornanients, Ete. Thers has beens good deal said about economy this soason,and that watering-place toilottes ware tobemach siimplor, and to cost very little. Fulled with this impression, we did not suppose thera wonld be the least difficulty in Sinding mantna- malters and milliners comparatively frea to take oxtra work; but, upon inquiry, ono hear THE SAME OLD STORY of each season: **We have all the work we can possibly finish between now and the 1st of August. Then wo commence on fall dresses.” “You aro probably making over a great many of Iast year's robes, are you not#” * Oh, no! vory few. Thero aie a fow of our oldest and woathiest custorflers who always have s portion of one sea~ son’s outfit “altered for the second, but most of our wotk is upon now importations.” 8o much for Hadame Rumor. Investigate, and you will find that loves of bonnets and miracles of dresses aro just 2s much sought for as ever before. People often fancy they are cconomizing; but, when the bills como to be footed up, the result genorally proves that the economy was only ons of those flattering tales which hope whispers in a husband's ear. In this connection, we might look at some of tho articles & Lello finds necessary for a summer's sojourn at homo; that is, in her own country. If she ia going abroad, she requires nothing but a traveling-dross until she reaches dear Paris, where she can vie not only with the lily of the fleld, but all the other flowers, in the huea of her raiment. Solomon in sl his glory would quietly subride and give ber the pas, very certain that bis purple and fine linen for court-dnys could in no way compare with bers. If sho staya at nome sho requires THREE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF OUTFIT: one each for the mountais, the sea-ehore, ana Saratoga. Tor the first, slie must have & judi- cious misture of thick and thin clothing,—pre- ferably the former: for the second, she must abjuro all linen and cotton fabrics, and confine berselt to silk and woolen goods, whether in the form of gauze, Oriental goods, or gros-grains; for Baratoga, she may let her fancy run riot. Heroshe will find all sorts of days upon which to wear all sorts of things, and soehe may indulge in a hydrophobia of fashion, and bite her husband or father, who has to foot the bille, if he can. It is always desirable to have thom & little orazy on the samo subject. MORNING-ROBES are more claborate than ever. They are made of the finest Fronch nainsook, and elaborately trimmed with _Valoncionnes lace and ribbons, stul, unless for an order, the geouine hand- made lace is rarely 3een now on these garments. The imitation known as Italian_lace is Bubsti- tuted. This is made in charming designs, is soft like the real lace, is made of the snme thread a5 that used in the genuiue article, and {8 also smoked or otherwise colored to give it the appearanceof real lace, which grows yellow from tho length of time it under- ioes tho manipulation of not fairy fingers, but usually substantial ones. Theso laces and inscr- tious, in tho widths generlly preferred for such nsglige toilets, vary 1n prico from 91 to €2.a dozen’; and, a4 . they aro. used in the most elab- orate manuer,—the entire waist and . sleeves of | these robes ofien being composed of these com- bined with bands of ribbon,—we find that, even when mado of Italian lace, these necesaary arii- cles cost from $75 1o $200. A MODEL Iind the entire waist and the front widths, which were gored, composed of verueal bands of laco and Swiss inscrtion, under which were placed rose-colored gros-grain ribbon, which were fin- ishod at the edge with roscttes and cnds ebout 4 inches in length. Tho back was waiteau- shaped, which foll very gracefully, but with abundabt fullacss, in 8 denii-train, The trim- mings of lace and embraidery formed an elabor- ate pattern on tho back. The elcevo was formed of the iusertions, sud had threo silk paffs, under nawsook ones at the sboulder, elbow, and wrist, Buttons, mude from the delicate pluk mothor-of pear] tiing of certain sea-shelis, fastoned tho waiat. A white silk petticoat was to be worn undor it, whilo the palest pink coral sot, elabo- rately carved, comprising car-riugs, brooch, bracalots, comb, locket, and hair-pind, sccom- paniedit. A pink parasol, with cover of lace muslin snd_emuroidery to match the dress, and with handle of carved rose-corsl, was ad- ded. An aumoniere of silver filagreo, lined with rosc-colored gilk ; & rose-colored silk fan _with Valencionuess odgo, each pointed and finished with & paioung of the ermina moth,—com- ploted this dainty morning dress, which could ouly Lo worn for a promensde on a piszza, or, at fazthost. not boyond the lawn, It was only intended for this purpose, asno Lat accompanied it, the parasol being inteuded to keop off any tao vénturesomo or penetrating suu-ray. This was intenaod for Saratogs. Another, one which wos destined to CHARM AT NEWPORT, was made in referenco to tho dampness, which, even in that favored place, wil take the £tilfness out of lawns snd musling, This was of an Al- gerine gaods,—a whito strips of wool, 80 fine it sicemed. but for its uteven surfaco, fo bave no more positive material presenco than tae most delicsfe Indis muslin. Tho white stripo was about two inches broad, while an incb-wide stripa of scarlet_silk, edged with a tiny Lino of gold- colored silk, alternated with tho white one. Down each nido of tiio frout, which was left open tothe hem, worespirals of real Turkishlace ; and o throe-poinied hood of the laco fell over the shoulders. The sleoves wero long and loose, and were trimmed_with tho lace, and bsads of white silk_embroidored in various colors. A broad band_ of tho embroidered silk passed around tho bottom, and was edged on each sido with the laco. A scarlet fez accompanied this, and a wrap of the finest scarict cashmero. A parasol, Japaness in shape, but of white silx trimmed with lace, and_ s et of amber jewelry, curiously earved, comploted this unique dress. The parasol-landle waa of amoer, with a siiver dagger-lulc for e bhandle. By prossing a tiny spring, the daggor was found to have s blade, and, when withdrawn, might bo used either of- fensively or defensiveiy. A third robe, FOR TIE MOUNTAINS, of - white Sicilienne, lined with quilted blue eatin and trimmed with bands of white velvet, piped with blue satin, had ornaments in Swiss work of carved and painted wood. The usual ornaments were garlands and bouquots of forget-mo-nots, whilo the comet represented a succession of Cupida clissing each other and becoming entangled in similar garlands. A blae quilted satin petticoas sccompenied this robe. Theso are the models from which others wero to_be mads, either elab- orating or simplifying them to suit varying castes. The new dresses are mach LONGER-WAISTED, _ B0 that those of French importation fit American women wish but hitle aloration. The great trouble with them bitherto Las been, that the corsago has always ueemed too short tosuit the figares of ~our fair country-women, whose ~ sole defoct, if defec: it is bns been this same rather long waist. Black mlk, which scems to have been tho staplo traveling dress in drawing-room cars, is_giving way, 24 the Feason advances, to gray goods, au 2 few browns. One very pretty suit bad s silks petticoat of rich, dark brown, trimmed with 3 einzle ehirred founce. The polonaise was of summer camel's hair, a shade lighter, trimmed with ball-fringe and carved tortoise-shell bat- tons. Ths umbrella matched the petticoat in shads, and was lined with a pale Tose color. The bat also matched, and bad a double binding of velvet and ilk, a roll of the two fabrics tivisted about the crown, with a pale pink wing and a hittls dark foilage to comulete it. A neck- tie of pale pink, and glaves the shadeof the petticoat, completed this stylish costume. An- othcr, of steel-gray silk, had Imife-plaiting on the skirt, camel's_bair polonaise with oxx silver-buttons _in the shape of koap- sacke, the umbrells lined with blue, and the nocktie also of blae, gray, and white, striped linen collar, chemisette, and cuffe. ‘Black silk pet:icoats will not form sach & nec- sseary adiunct to walking-dresses as they did a They ars roplaced this sesson by soveral shades of maroon or wine-color, 2nd the new tints of pouchard and fraise-ecrasse. With these will be worn the many . CURIOUS ECRG FABRICS which have been importod this season, and very clogant_toilottes will be composed of them. Some of them will have the recent styls of cor. eage, known aa the cuirasse, whichis gradually growing info favor. * Many peoplo, however, still Drefor some form of basqiie to thia new fashion, which somewhat resembles in cut the sncient shirt of mail,—fitting, howevor, somowhat more clogely to the figure.” It is shorter bohind than in frout, and secms 2 if it wero o step toward the old long-pointed Elizabethan bodice. ) | rOR EVENING WEAR, silke, grensdines. and gauzes, are made mp fn combinations which seem miracles of grace and bezuty. Ribbons and flowens aro till much used in garnituro, and baads of feathors heading lutle Jounces havo a charming effect. Somo of these geem moro elaborato than ever, while athers are plain oven ta moverity of atyle. A white siik-dress was trimmed with flonnces of stripod grenadias, with & Greek overskirt of tho grrenadine, and the trimmings wore headed with bends of featliers of a delicato_ rose-color. Spanish laco edged each flounce and the tunic, o sprays of wild roses sua dack foliago com’ oted it. Dlack granadines are elaborately omamented i wi JET LACE, to euch an extent that, with tho rays of the sun falling on such & costamo, the boholdor's eyes are fairly dazzled, This is bard upon Aloazo when ho withes to bo polite to Araminta. He secs hor cnmin‘; recognizes her stately carriage, propares to inake an elaborate bow, when sud- denly the sun, which has been hidden bebind s cloud, comes out, and ho is blinded. bowildered, stazgers, and faucies he is snn-struck, bas it is ouly the scintillation of her jet-besprinkled cos- tume. It isthe phtter that is not gold, and is elready boing discarded by the more fashionable people for Srimaiags of striped hgrnmxdma. or tbo piain Hernani, elaborated wit! ipure and thread-lace. o L A VERY PRTTY COSTGME for small recgptions or uvenings at horo was of white grengdive, the skirt of which had five flounces, bonnd with violet velvet, The tablior was of box-plaits of grenadine and bauds of velvot. Tho waist was o simplo basque, over ‘which was worn & vest made of alternate stripes of white Valenciennes, insertion, and violet yol- veb ribbon. A sash mado of three rows of rib- bou and two of insertion, the ends ronnded aund finished with lace, which passed around tho hips, snd was kuotted behind in an intricate mauner, completed this costame, except that the ornaments wore all flowers, even to a necklaca of pansios. Sashes mado in the scyle above roentioned are considered the most admirable at present. For black dresses, thoyare either of Velvet or watered ribbon and guipure lace. PRETTY HOUSE-DEESSES of corded jaconet are made up with skirts trimmed with shirred ruffes, and duinty little Jjackets fastened with knots' of ribbon. This same [ancy is soen in piques and tho other goods foracruing-weer ; white these &re often com- pleted by an apron of delicato muslin, embroid- ered and trimmed with face, having oue semi- circular pocket, following the outline of the apron, placed upon it, 1o the way of additions to an ordinary dress,— auch as jackets, vess, fichus, belts, numouicres, and trifles of that wort,—tlero was probably nover bofore been siich a variaty to chooss from. "They ovade description in their eudless quantity end difference of design. -One woman may bhave just the eame additiona to bor ‘toilet “in the way of thaso ‘minor articles of dressas anotber, and yet look au if uhe were attired in a totally difforent way. The general effect is the same, however. Against the new style of HAIR-DRESSISG wo must protest. Banged hair was bad enough, especially when it was cut squars across the forebiead in the regular;Gainsboronzh style, witi- ont auy fltfiness to soften it; but tho new coif- {ure is intinitely worse. ‘The hair is crimped in the old style, bat, instead of being combed and brushed until each hair has an individuat dicec- tion, and acts on its_own responsibility, the air is parted at the nide, and the crimps laid as smoochly s maybe acrosa the forehead. Very few Taces con afford to adopt it. 80 it is not probable wo shall be_much troubled with its ontre ugli- ness. New York women dress their hair in this Way to & certain oxtent ; but then thé New York fachionable, to the meanner born, would adopt the last new thiny in style, and wear it uutil it grew common, even if it made Venus look like one of the Fiends. She knows nothing but style; and what is trus of the exclusive who lives on Madison avenue or Murray Hill is also true of the denizen of the Fast-Side. For this Teason they sl look alike, Mrs. Millionaire dresses herself to look lika & well-rolled and closely-fastencd umbrella to-day, and next week her chambermaid i3 also arraved in tho new fash- ion. To-morrow Mra. L. will look like o balloon, or as if she were a practical exemplification of inflatlon ; and just as surely all the rank and file will follow suit. Any ono who 18 not in the pre- vailing mode ia looked upon as from tha coun- try, in that town where the shop-girls are cheap editions of those who dwell in palaces. AMONG BNALLER JATTEERS we may mention the new =ili hose. Somo of these have the foet whito up 12 about the boot- top, and the other part blus or crimsou; whils, in others, the order of thinga i8 quita roversod— Bome have striped fect and plain uppers. Gloves with five and six buttons are scill & neces- sary sdjunct to a feshionablo woman's promenade - or evening toiletto. They come in every imaginablosbude; sud soy dress, mo matter how curious in Lint, can be matclied with them. They must match each toilette exactly, onless it bo black, when pale Javenderand eream- color are the proper thing to wear. Parasols have grown more like umbretlas than ever, and really a protection from tho sun when walking. For driving out, they are mado a trifio smaller, ‘These also must match costumes, unless tho dreas be black, Itis litllo wonder, then, tlat those who can not afferd to change with overy new fashion, or have thew made up io tho pres- ent harmouions style, wear black almost uniy sally. 1t admits of any tie, Lat or parasol, bei usod with it, provided thess also match, snd is alwaya quiet and elegant-loolking when properly fashioned. A WALKING-DRESS of black grenadine had Lhe lower skirt made with lengthwiae pufls, headed with guipure lice. The Jong, pointed overskirt was edged with Jace, and headed by o band of feathers, while tho plain basquo was similarly trimmod. A chip hat, edged with bluc featbers and biack Ince, with paie aslies-of-roses featbiers, and damask and salfron rosobudy, docorated tho outside. Iarazol of black silk, with guipnre cover aud lining of pale bluo; and gloves of delicate cream-coloz. SOME O THE NEW RATS tarn directly up in front, aud loolk as if they had Toen moved around until they wero roversed in position, or ns if the hat been Lur- riedly seized, and, unaided by the reflec- tion from & mirror, had been thas placed on the Ovo, of finest hito chip, had tie brim tumed up in Iront aud faced with black velvet. Three black roses, a Jittle to tho left, were placed on this. A folded band of white silk passed around the crown, and beld loopa of velvet at the back. with feathers and roses. Since every one noarly bus wreaths of flowers paesiag in front beneath the brim, thote who can afford to indulgo in limitless illinery are discarding them, aud using norely cluster on the rolled up brim, or soletimes merely a bow of silk or ribbon. _All sorts of OUTRE DESIONS < are shown in ornanients, eapecially in ear-ringa. Is your huebaud an ofticor of the arms, you mast wear his sword and epaulcttes o sour esrs snd at your meck- 14 he muscular Christian, then You will adopt what- ever be conkidery his specialty,—a pair of sculls, boxing gloves, or somothinz of thai sort. Should he kecp s circus, you might adora your- self with a whole miniaturo menagerie. If a clergyman, your ornaments will represent the bands he wears; and 50 oo ad intinitum. There seemms to be no cud to tho differcut articles made, but sn_immense lack of tasto in the use of them; but there i8 no accouuting for Fashion's ¥agaries, nor for the folly of thosa who accept suything she soes fit 0 offer for their approval. St A Homcopathic Joke, To aronse the wrathof a homeopathist, just hins to Lim that he caanot make you sick or kil o with bis indinitesimal sugar pills, 2s & regu- ar allopathist can do 80 neatly with his drugs. An apothecary in Stuttgart, Germany, baving o patural comempt for the Eugar pillsof Dr. Hahoemann, was, thereforo, quite sarprisad re- cently when the ** Hahnemaouia,” a society for the advancement of homeopathic _treatmeat, of- fered a prize of 220 to any one who, npon tak- ing s certan homeopathuc medicine, should nos experienco the reanita_predicted by the Habne- maunic dociore. Desirous of maintaining the supremacy of his own drags s the destructive agencies of the world, he offered himself to tho Society as a viclim to scieuce. The homeopath- 1sta smiled and gave him a_drop of a glassfull of water, in wiich they had dissolved a tiy glo- bule, upon a lazge piece of sugsr. The tiny glo- bule, however, had, it soems , abont a millionth grain of some subsiance in it that is generally used to raise blistera, and the ualacky spotle- cary, 8 fow houra after swallowing the drop, had 2 mouth that looked as if & whole swarm of bees bad been trying to suck honey out of it. He could not even whistle for his $20, Andnow the Btutsigart bowmeovathists triumpb, sod the allopathists hang their heads in shame; but ths common poople look very sober, and wonder w;ltec{hsr thera is rny school of medicine that is safe. —_— ¥ THE WOMAN QUESTION. Zothe Editar of The Chicago Tribune: Sir: Since entering upon our daties in busi- Dess-life, we have given to that business onr strict and undivided attention, and our oaly sm- bition has boen to be truly and honorably suc- cesefal. Therefore, we have refrained, hereto- fore, from any public oxpression of our ¥iews on the *‘woman question,™ hoping that our daily action and work would speak for ue, and for women gonerally. We have no roason to regzet our decision, and efill bolieve that, generally, example is more valuable than procept. W, at the ssma time time, hoped that, among the large number of women of loisare who hava opportuities for thoroughly informing them- selves, and who are relieved from constant ex- ertion for s livelihood, & fow, at loast, might e foand who would be willing to enlist themselves in this all-important *woman question ;” who would consider it ot only a daty, but s ploasure, to advance the real aud trne interosts of woman; who would, by gonerous and womanly words, urge ’har political and social equality; defend bor from unjast, illogicat, and 8weeping assertions ; edn- cats public sentiment through the press, by the organization of societios and conventions, snd by candid, clear, and logical lectures. In Bos- ton, the Iadies bave organizod and supportod a »* Woman's Club,” which is now a recognized power, and wields a powerful influonce towanl gmmnf and controlling public sentiment in that city. 1t stands upon a broad and liberal basis, and is doing a gravd work. The women of Chy. cago hava thus fsr shown nothing bat indiffer. ouce to this question. And, whife thers ia no Inck of material fora “ Woman's Club,” there i4 & very preat lack of exocutive ability; o, if it does exist, it is undeveloped. The ladies of our city are second to noua in cnergy, intelligence, aud culturo; bu the great difficulty scems to ba o Ick of organization and syscematic work. Altkough we are reluctant to turn aside from our usual routine, and to ignore the strict com- mands we liad Iud upou_ourselves with regard toany publicagitation of this **woman ques- zion,” in justice to our womanhood, in justice to the hundrods and thoussnds of girl-graduates who are now coming npon the etage of -action, and are now to take their place in the world, we foel that we are no looger justified in remaining silent. With this view, ‘we have penned this article, and wo sincerely hope that the publi whose attention we now challenge, will read an criticiso with the same candar aad liberality which dictates our wniting. The ** woman question ” has pessed throngh two of the stages incidental to overy reform. 1t hios boen first ignored, then ridiculed and bur~ lesqued ; it has now arrived at the third atago, aud challenges thought and investigation on tne part of our representative men and women, John Stuart Mill pronounced Limself distinctly #ud unequivocally in favor of woman-saffrago, Gen. Julian, of Indiana, dofines woman's polita ical condition as slavery. Cbarles Samner said: ¢ Iusert the word ‘wonian' wherever you find slave in my written specches, and you will have my argument on the woman question.” Gov. Leveridge, of our own Stato, is an ablo advocate of woman's political oquality; and so we might coutinue to add to the list. Nearly every intelli- geut man says, ‘‘Itis just,—it is right;" but adds, perhaps, *Is it policy?” The times aro Tipo for this reform. Evon tho most stern and rigid procoss of reasoning cannot establish that the disfranchisement of women is right. All liboral aud enlightened persons must acknowle odgo the gross injustice dono women a4 a claea of our citizens. We insist that our clsim is based upon reason aud common justice. From this platform do we proposo to discuss it, and from uone other. Wo will consent to no lower ar baser view of it. We wish to ses tho subject fairly and candidly discussed. We hope to héfar from the women, and wish them to giva the question earnest and_thoughtfal considera- tion. We are determined to push this question to s final issue; and that issue sball be sul- mitted to tho peoplo of tlus State, men and women, and by them decided. Q. Jal’s ¢ Subjection of Women.?” Eau Crarze, Wis., June 18, 1874, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribine: Sin: Your correspondent, John H. Becker, does not state John Stuart Mill's position on the woman question quits corroctly. Mr. Mill knew well enough (not being & fool) that somo differ- ence between the eexes must have proceded the subjection of the female to the male, His pr sition ia, that that subjection has reacted on the character of Womsan to such an extont that it is now impossible to tell whether, withoat it, thers would o sny mental differenco betweon the caxes, and, a fortiori, impossible to toll what tl:at differenco would bo. ~ This error qnite viti- ates Mr. Bs argument. G. H. Jasps. Movixe, IIL, June 13, 1874, To the Eiitor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: Inyourisaue of tho 17th inst, p cor- reepondent (John H. Boecker) essays tg give a brief synopais of the views of John Stuizt Mi as enunciated in the *‘Sabjection of Women,” in soswer to “ Radical” Ithink he misander- stands Mll's position, which is, 38 T undegatand it, very different from your correspondent's viow of it. I understand Mill's position to be ihis : not that woman is the equal of man in phssical strength, or ever was; but that, by nature, she is his equal in moral and intellectual force; that originally governments wero foundod on force,— i. e., plysical power; that, as woman was in- ferior in that kind of power to man, she fell under Lis dominion, 88 & matter of courso; that, 24 the human race emerged from barbarism, the intellectual and moral qualitics became mors prominent in society and government ; that, ns tho intellectnal and moral alemeuts in human naturo become, with, the advancement of the world in civilization and humanity, more and more thé controlling forces in social and political affairs, woman began to acquire 1n- fluence, and began to rise from a_mero beaet of burden'and slave of man towards her true posi- tion by tho eide of man; that the all-poworful influence of tradition, custom, sud prejudice, was still sutliciently strong to prevent her from eccupying her true position as the oqual of man, with oqual political and rocial rights; Lut that, if sho onco obtaned theso rights, and bocame traiued to the exercisc of them, as men havo been, sho would soon show that she was fully equal to man iu capability for the exercise of them. E.L. é To the Fdilor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: InTue TrisuNe of June 17 appeared an article on **The Woman Question,” in which thg correspondent either carelesly or intentionally misioterprets Jobn Stoart Mill. He haa failed to grasp the argument of Lis celebrated essay, the “Subjection of Woman.” Ho assumes as Mill's poeition, *That'the pecaliar qualities of the female sex, a8 contradistinct from the malo 8ox, are the result of education ouly,” ete. Mill is not so illogical. He has written this essay to show that woman, since the dawn of history, has struggled nnder disabilities which had their onigin in peculiaritics inerent m ber physical coustitation. The traditional struggles of the Titaoa were physical. Lorenles and Diana might well stund as types of the primitive man sod woman. Lut as, gradually, muscu- lar force is displaced by the power of the omnipotent intellect to” organize and use the forces of Nature icstead, womsn emerges from the shadows of the background, and such philosophical minds as Mill diecover that she, tao, holds this divine gift of intellect, which, if permitted the freedom of development that moa bias secured to bimsclf, must inevitably make her his peer. And Mill iotimates, in his para- graph on the true marrirge, that the one sex not ovly supplements the otter, but each, in differ- eut ways, and still harmoniously, assumes the Jeadership. 7 Y hends, with Mill, the poseibi man mill gracionsly crown ber, not alone ss con~ sort, but as eer. B, Cificaco, June 18, 1874, g s = salt in Sickness. Dr. Scudder remar *Iam satisfiad tha t I have seco patients die from deprivation of com- mon malt during > protracted illness. It is s common impresrion that the food for the sick should not be sessoned, and whatover alop may be given, it 15 almost innocent of this essential of life. 'In tuo milk diet thatI recommend in sickuess, common salt is used freely, the milk beiug Loiled aud given hot. And if the patient canuot take the usual quantity in Lis food, [ bave it given in Lis drivk. This matter in 50 important chat ic cannot be repested too often, or dwelt upon too loug. ample of thi» wans of common slt I havo ever noticed has_Leen in surgical disoase, especiaily in open wounds. Without a supply of salt the tongae would become broad, pallid, puffy, with 2 tenncions. pasty cost, the pscrations arrested, tha circalation foeble, the effusion at the point of injury serions, with an unpleasaat watery pus, which at [ast bocomes a mere sanies or ichor. A few daysof a fceo allowance of sali wonld change all this, sod the patient get alcng ell.” s The most marked ox- -