Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1874, Page 5

R e R R Tt Lo g T O (WG U M| e i THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1874 REAL ESTATE. pmmediate and Remote, of e Tuesday’s Fire. Whst Wabash and Michigan Avennes Will Be- come. Rebuilding of the Rest of the Burned District. Estate in That Quarter En- panced in Valne by the Fire, W s Boulevards Shonld Be Ez- ended fnto the City. the Week, Rents, and the os of Tie Sl Loan Market. Afiscellaneons Matters. EFFECTS OF THE FIRE. important changes of interest to real- O men and property-holders in this city will et from the fire of Tuesday. AS DOIEDIATE EFFECT Py quickened activity in rents. Officos wers fsgen 3¢ 00CO in the rebuilt district by those +io vere bumod oat, and large nambers of s who_wero deprived of their bomea F it refugs in tenoments elsowhere, although e majority of them doubtless found sheler y2h friends, or in’boarding-houses and hotels. Jato the immediste effect of the fire in the wnscf the ground burned over. it is good. iy on State street and the streets parallel it is now worth more, bare as it is, than it was ¢a “improved " with the fire-boxes that have Jabspeily remosed. Every one converasnt with &'ooeds Of this city, and observant of the joa of its growth, bes long foreseen that State oot w88 cortain o become in tume one of the et if mot the YEEY FINEST BETAIL STBEET IN THE CITY. Tt fotore is pow accclerated. Our daily ool of transfers has shown that shrewd busi- {5 men weve buying eligibly situated property iist thoroughfare from time to time, for fa- frimprovement. An instance of this is the fpeckess of a'lot by Mr. Gunther, the candy siadsctarer, on State street, at Quinoy., Mr. ¢oxher's plan was 1o erect one of the finest petories in the country at that place. Does sxos doubt that be is now much more resdy gxabefore to wvest his money in such an im- porement ?. There are many other property- e on State street ,WED WOULD HAVE IMPROVED THEIR LAND 1 piitnot been for the threatening proximity of tts cangerous shiaoties that have too long dis~ gaced the street. These men are snfe in build- kgow, and State street, purified by fire, is yoars mearer 18 manifest destiny. “Asto Visbash and Michigan avenues, the fire of 1871 left that part Of tliese streets that has been revisited by conflagration in aa indetermi- pats position. Some of Sour strongest-hoaded gperty—arnm believed that the business of icago would reorganize itself in that neigh- barhood. Mr. Scammon was the most conspic- wans devoses of that belief. As the current ex- eeesion goes, ba bet oll he was worth that the NEW CENTRE OF BUSINESS would be on the corner of Congress strest and abach sveoue. He lost his bet, as the long s of his empty stores demonstrated, and the fames of last Tuesdsy completed the demolition o histheories. There will be no more attempts o foros business up Wabash avenue sud Michi- pasvence. Those streets will now be improv- sl by the erection of dwelling-houses for per- sms of moderate mosns, Plans lave already bwn mstured by one property-holder near El- &dge court for the erection of four comfort- sbls brick terements on his land, two on the froct of the lot and two in the rear. The course of property-owners generally will be very smmi- lur, for there is & DEXASD POR THIS KISD OF ACCOMMODATION sa the centre of business, and the way has 1% been opened to meet 1t. The development o the commercial interests of the city will inev- iably encroach year by vear along Wabash av- om and Mickigan avenue. This prospective caoge will be taken into consideration in mak- tf new improvements. Houses will be built £3¢ can essily pe changed into small retail Eanewhen the timo comes. After they have performed that otice, it will be profitable to re- Face them by FINER AND MOEE PERMANENT Kruches, The despondent remark bas been often,made Intbelaes fow days that the new burned dietrict wliremsin bare for & much longer time than teformer burned district, and stand a naked s2d repulsive memorial of our misfortune and . Second, sober thought will ahow this to bsamisuke. 'We have slready given our rea- 2out for beljeving that the fire will accelerate the iaprovement of Wabash avenue, Michigan venue, and Statg atreet. As for the rest of the scorched area, Iying to the southwest, there are excellext reasons for expecting it to bo BEEGILT AT ONCE. peilostof tholand s owmed by those who have becu Lving on it, aud they hovd no intention of 1;"“"“ The insurauce companies report that 'y find this to be the state of affairs in that quarter, ead they aze settling 1028es in most cases :Nn the understanding that the owner ig to re- uld at once. No grand structures will be put §oalong Third and Fourth avonues and the in- ;énm and intereecting streets, but every fructure must at least be of brick, and che re- St wilbe thata Gistrict which before was a oy menace to the city, and o blot, will be cov- m‘.‘g’d: Tepectable houses, and with its brick 8 . BULWARK OF SAFETY Iétemhe inflammable region that still remains Vhiching swey to the southwest. iul:f:‘dmg of depreseiou that has been eo no- in differont directions is attributable not 307 6erions Joas in the last fire, nor to any de- nogement of the financial and commercial ma~ fcyof thecity. These are intact, and Chi- Fsfl 8 Dot even been jostled in Ler course of flflf!- The alarm™ aud’, downheartedness o fiom tho sickening ggmtiction which bas - ‘I:Afly :nfiafiz_v one™gince last Tuesdsy, ey af d sl the conditions for a Can gy 0. g of RE DESTEUCTIVE FIRB Oct..9, 1871. It only waits that 02eapplythe torch. That recognition of our st the hes made the* strongest tremble. tony Great Fire, any number of good reso- Tire D ere made for the reorganization of the epartment, the extension of the fira him- increase of the supply of water, and f, mhpmvgm a yepetition of the disas- Dungs ¢y pee of time, dod the engroseing de- tandaof rebuilding and the reliet work, wore resolutions, They have boen the Kflvzn IX ALL THEIR FORCE s A3t Warning. We of Chicago hsve Foteetin Lime and means for this work of self- Gjgaonthat has been postponed too long, tobe hoped that the advocacy of ih oy megtcsures rocommended by the citi- (T e -eung last night will not be sbaudoned Ibm:’m'“ 1ully and successfully in_practice. Sonof Lk W8y can the undenisble indisposi- h outeide capitalists to invest their means Toe 1240 Teal estato or losns be overcome. km"dobnona moral remains to be drawm. fiople who buud houses, and those who Live 4 would recognize the ADVAXTAGLS OF APARTMENT HOUSES, _ of guch fires would be greatly re- d our well-built business contre, fewsmbstantial avenuos we have, ate l miles on miles of village houses. : e houses have no right to stand in & o City should consist of city bouses. If mhl:l_lnd persons of moderate means o o;‘;‘:“l;nlllm wooden houses for their n&.‘g; oy ey showld live in subur- T AXD ACCUMULATED INTEBESTS ‘::Y- s banks, churches, warchouses, “:flifimn‘ libraries, elegunt reidences the ; &re £00 precious to be endanger: neighborhood of these wood-piles. Feoources cannot be gathered in & day, I il £ F ndhuhon!dfizot be held lit an hour. 18 simply supreme folly tha made the largest part of fuel fo: lt:;:z consumption of its best part. The brick walls, ::%dmg back m‘gwklonksah street and Wa~ avenue in the blocl twe and Jackson streets, Y Bt DID MORE TO BTOP THE FIRE than all the efforts of the Fire Department. These two walls stand in the block between Jackson and Van Buren streets and Wabash av- enue and State streot, sod form the northern sides of tho furniture warehouses of C.C. Hor- ton & Co., on Btate street, and Sampson, Gil- bert & Co., on Wabash avenue. They stand al- most back to back, and, at the most critical mo- ment of the fire, presented a sheer incombusti- ble barrier o tho fizmes. Whon the 8t. James Hotol and the buildings around it were making the most furious and dan- gerons blaze of the ovening, every one of tho undred thousand epectators knew that the su- premo moment had come. If tho rest of the block succumbed, the Matteson House, the Gardner House, the Exposition Building, and nobody kmows how much mere of the business centre, were doomed. The flamas swept them- selvos again and again upon these walls. TLEY COULD XOT PAS THEM. Through 8 barsted iron shutter in the rear of Sampson, Gilbert & Co.’s store the fire gained an entrance, but this was a mere eddy, and was easily controlled. Those two walls stopped the fire, a8 overy one can testify who watched the contest, or will go nowsnd look over the ground. Themoral is: If the wooden houses that do- faco and endanger the city could be instantane- ously converted into substantial, well-built brick apartment-houses, adaptod {0 ihe use and convenience of every elass, . THE CI7Y WOULD BE VIRTUALLY SAFE- This Aladdin-like magic is impossible, but o far a6 apartment-houses are substituted for strag- gling rows of cottages, our safety will be in- creased. They conld be built near the business- centre of the fown, and would present innamer- ablo advantages over the present system. The occupants would be within easy reach of the markets, smusements, business, protection, aud society of the city ; they would BAVE RENT, CAR-FARK, BHOE-LEATHER, TDME, TAXES, and countleas other things; their homes would be actually more private aad secludod than now, and the bealth of the women, and consoquontly that of tho childron, would be greatly helped by baving the house on one broad floor, and not as now, in several patrow floors connected by steep stairs. lestruction in SALES OF THRE WEEK. Following ure some of the sales of the week: H. W. Eldred & Co. have sold 80 acres in Sec. 85, 88, 18, for 880,000, to M. E. Collina. W. A. Travis has sold 140 lots in Washington Heighta at $200 each. 3 D. S. Taylor has sold, in his addition to Bouth Chicago, Lots 24 and 25, in Block 8, for 3800; Lot 18, in Block 28, for €500 ; Lots 1 and 2, in Block 8, for $850 ; Lots 40 and 41, in Block 18, for 3700 ; Lots 26 and 27, in Block 4, for 3900 ; Lots 49 and 50, in Block 4, for $1,000. Total consideration, $4,750. E. C. Cole has sold three marble-front houses betweon Ada and Sheldou streets, on Randolph, with lob 62}¢x126 feet, for $26,000 ; nlao house and lot No. 411 West Washington street, lot S$7x 183 foet, for $1,500. B. W. Thomas & Bement have sold the north- west corner of Prairie avenue and Twentieth stroets, 75x158 feet, a 3450 per foot, cash. William H. Condon has sold the triangular lot corner of Milwaukee and California avenues for $1.100. B. W. Eroff & Co. have sold 200x140 feet, south front on Forty-seventh street, just west of Stewart avenus, for £8,000. Ira Brown has sold 23 lots at Park Ridge for £100 each;; 2 lots at Desplaines $200 each ; lot at Evanston for $500. Campbell Brothers have sold the store and lot No. 935 West Madison street for $5,500; cottage and lot on Congress street just west of Western avenue for £3,800. Morey & Msgill have sold the two-story frame houss and lot at No. 627 York street for £4,500; house and lot No. 629 York street for 84,500; Iot on Fourth street, corner of Diller, for $1,000; lot pext west to above for $Y00. Morey & Dagill also exchanged a farm at Lacrosse, Ind.. for a brick-yard at Racine, Wie. The farm was valued at 8,500 leys incumbrance of §2,500; the brick-yard's value was estimated at £6,000. Tho exchange was an even one. E. Ashley Moars has sold st Highwood: A ‘house on Highwood svenue for §5,000; a house on Morgan avenue for 340003 & cottage on, Everts avevue for $2,000 ; 390 feet on Elm ave- nue for $3.900. Mears & Co., report at Lakeside new buildings, 1 residence costiug £2,000 ; 2 residences costiog $9,500 each ; homestead for Simeon Moars cost- ing 813,000. Noble & Richmond sold at South Englewood 100 feet on Halsted street, one block from depot, for £2,400. George H. Rozet haa sold 530 feet frontage, by average depth of 120 fect, on Noble stroet, 8. W. corner of North avenue, for $21,000. J. P. Pfanner has sold a cottage and 3 lots in the town of Melrose for 2,800. Larkin & Jenks sold the Lincoln Building, No. 161 State street, to A. B. Hartis, for 823,000, all cash ; also, an octagon marblo’ front resi- dence on Indiana svenue, near Thirtieth street, for $11,000. L. A. Gilbert & Co. have sold 141 feet on the correr of Wabash avenue and Fortieth street for $18,000; also, cottage and two lots at South Englowood for 82,500. J. C. Cadwell & Co. have gold the fine stone front building, three-story and basement, Nos. 196 and 198 East Wasbington street, for $10,000. L. A. Gilbert & Co. have purchased the Angell farm st Lisle Station, on C., B. & Q. R. R., near Naperville, contaiuins 141 acres, with a frontage on DuPago River, and an eligile sito for sub- urban residences. The tract will be subdivided into 5 and 10 acre blocks aud placed in thoe market. Warren, Keeney & Co. have sold at South Evanston to John F. Mendsen, 150 feet on Wheeler avenue, for £6,000. A J. Averell has sold 80 scres in Sec. 13, in the Town of Jefferson, for $40,000 ; 100x177 Teot on Calumet avenue, with east front, north of Twentieth street, for £37,500; 30 fcet on Prairie avenue, near Twonticth street, with mar- Dle front house, for S27.500 ; a first-class mar- ble-front house, with 42 feet of jround, on Prairie aveuue, south of Twenty-first street, for §41,000. g R CORRESPONDENCE. THE EXTENSION OF OUE BOULEVALDS INTO THE crry. o the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sin : The South Park and boulevards are now in the full bloom of verdant beauty, and the crowd of vehicles with which the drives are thronged on every pleasant evening gives evi- dence of the general appreciation of their at- tractions, and suggests some reflections, which in the light thus aflorded need po longor be ro- garded as visionary or theoretical. Let us con- sider first the simple facts of the case. Theso ornamental grounds are still in A COMPABATIVELY CRUDE CONDITION. Bearcely eighteen months have olapsed since the first work of grading. tree-planting, and prepar- ing the ground for grass was begun. A good deal has been achieved, it is true, and the work has been go well done that the whole area presents ‘the attractivo appearance of well-dressed and well-kept groands, snd the 4 or 5 miles of | driveway are in excellent condition. Btill, the whole thing is, as it were, in embryo, With & tery new look, and mome bmt tho eve of & professional landscape gardener could judge, in its present stage, of what will bo tho final vesmlt when the irees have attain- 5a their fall growth, ond the general as- t is mellowed down to the tome of har- monious besuty which age slone can confer. No artificial decorations in the formof conserva- tones, fountains, etatues, or even rustic build- ings and arbors, 'have yet been introduced, and the'whole area is dm far out in the country, surrounded by wild prairie er unimproved fields, and ONLY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE CITY by drive of 3.or 8 miles through manot- onous and uninteresting strests. Under theso circumstances, the most zealous advocate of parks sad boulovards, as needfl works of Preparation for future wants, would hardly havo dresmed of the possibility for years.to come of any inconvenience being experienced on account of the throng of carrisges. Yet the simple factis that it has been found necessary to adopt very stringent police regulations in order to prevent confusion and disorder in the continuous procession of carrisges which appear upon the drives on every pleasant evening. By actual count on & recent occasion, taken at w0 or three different points, and avoiding, 88 far a8 +as poasible, the double-counting of the same equipage, the number of carriages which passed over the boulevards between the hours of £ and 8 p. m. was 4,600. In single fils this pumber Tould have extended at least 18 miles, and, when it is recollected that few if any of the carriages could have ?xumo 15! ’thm 2! or 8- mxil::K:e reach the place, i g eurely Do necesswry $0 zcply to those ¥bo saeered at the extramagance of the scale om which ese works wero bogun, since it is already obvious that they are inadequate to the demand ; and it must bo equally obvious, to any men of :mfliment liberality to grasp the idea of the fa- ure necesities of the city, that there is VERY PRESSING NEED OF SPACIOUS AREAS OF OB- 4 NAMENTAL GBOUND in the region between the boulevards and the city, and that this need can inno way be 80 ef- fectively met as by the extension northwardly of tho boulsvards. A very cursory glance at the map of Chicago will serve to convince any one of the urgent necessity of relief. From Twelfth street to Donglas place, a dis- tance of 21¢ miles in length, i averaging more thau a mile in width between the lske and the Bouth Branch, NOT A BINGLE BLOCK IS LEFT VACANT for public use, and not a single avenue has been 1sid out of esuflicient widthto admit of appro- priating any portion of it to garden ornamentsa- tion for public recreation and refreshment. This whole area must of necessity become ono of the principal residence districts of the city, though much of it is etill unoccupied or covered only by buildings of little value compared with those which must replace them in & few years. The difficulty and expense of securing space for public improvement will not only never be less than it is now, but will increase in such rapid ratio that in a very little time it will become vir- tually impossible. ‘We ought, therefore, to examine very carefully the present condition of proporty in that region, to 860 if any opportunity s offercd for rolief, If improvoments csn be introduced, and tho expeniment proves pecuniarily profitable by in- creasing the value of adjacont property, it may serve as an example to the other divisions of tho city, and stimulate them to make Chicago as fa- mous for the elogance and beaaty of the avenues and public ornamental grounds which everywhere relieve the monotony of its flat surface, as for the energy and entorprise Wwhich have called her into existance. E TIERE ARE TWO WATE in which the natural craving of the dwellers on city streets for the relief of broadar areas and the refroshing verdure of grass and _trees may e gratified. ~ One is by the appropriation at oo casional intervals of single blocks to be reserved as public ornamental squares. This ia st best in each case only a local improvement, which adds to the comfort and consequent valuo of tho es- tates which bound it, and furnishes a pleasant resort for the neighboring rosidents, but is rare- 1y known or thought of by inhabitants of other parta of the city, snd ia for the most part utterly ‘unknown ta strangers. The other method is by means of avonues of such width a8 to admit a broad ares of orna~ mental grouud in the centre, with & roadway on each side (as in Drexel avenno), or with similar ornamental grounds on each side connected with the sidowalks, and & single broad rosdway in the centre, A little redection will soow that tho avenus is incalculably preferable to the series of public squarey, from the fact that it provides for tho wants of & far groater number of people. to whom 1t is_easily sccessible at any point on either side of the districts it divides; thatit mecessarily becomes a thoroughfare in which the zeat of constant active life with all its attractive features of drees and cguipugu is combinod with the graceful forms and refreshing verdure of patural beauty ; that property on its sides, whether for residences or sites of public build- ings, botels, or magnificent shops, speedily scquires an’ enormons value, and no display of ‘wealth in any other form contributes #0 much to impress strangers with the idea_of magnificence 88 such gencrous provision for the comfort, Lieslth, and esthotio tastes of residents and vis- itors. If proof were wanted of this we have it at band in the boulovarde, although as yet they have little to boast of except A PROMISE OF FUTURE BEAUTY. Already they prove’ inadequate to the domsnd upon them, and every one mow becs that they ought to begin far within the city limits and form part of a 6ystom of great arteries through which its daily tides of life should ebb and flow. The most natursl and obyions course for the creation of such avenues as are needed in the direction indicated would be by wideviug the streets which form thenoithern extensions of the boulevards, viz.: Cottage Grove avenus, from ita junction with Drexel to Twenty-second street, and South Park aveaue, from Douglas place to Twenty-sixth street. where it unites with Cot- tage Grove avenue. Neither of thiese aveaues within the distances named have any buildings of sufficient importance to affect seriouxly the cost of the undertaking, and say ono Who Lss once driven down to the Park will appreciato _the immense reliof that would afforded if such an improve- ment were consummated. The tedi- ous monotony of the'long drive throngh the strects ia ot fully reslized till the boulevard is reached, and the feeling is at once experienced of refreshing relief on emerging into the spa- cious avenus, with ita inviting verdure of leaves and grass. It is obvious that all that renders the boulevards_ sttractive and desirable where they are, would tell with accumulating force with every block of THEIL EXTENSION TOWARDS THE HEART of the city, and, on the other hand, the necessity for the relief they afford will increase with the growth of the city and the gradual occupation of the territory which is now vacant. However for- midsble tho oost may appest to-day, it is trifling compared to what 1t will be when alf the now va- cant spaces are filled with costly buildiogs. The only practicable method of dealing with the ‘matter wonld be by the purchase outrigut of all the lots on one side of the avenue for the whole extent which it is proposed to widen,—ssy, the east side of Cottsge Grove avenue, from Twenty- second street to its junction with Drexelavenue, and the west side of South Park avenue, from Trenty-sixth streot to Douglas place, whers the. Grand Boulovard begins. The whole extent of frontage on the two avenues, excluding cross streets, is abont three miles, the value of which may be roagbly estimated at $1,500,000. Wheth- er the increased valuo of adjacent property would be suflictently increased to warrant such an ontlay by a tax pon its proprictors, is & ques- tion for financiers and real estate men to an- gwer. There can be no doubt in the mind of any- one who considers the subject seriously thatone of the worst EVILS WHICH THREATENS CHICAGO in the future is the want of such open areas as can only be provided by such mosos a8 have been deseribed. The quarter alladed to is_the one which is most immediately in need of relief, and in which the experiment could be tried with best chances of succees, since it would at once onlist the cordial sympathy of & very large por- tion of the residents ou the South Stde. If suc- cessful it would establish s precedent which would be sure tobe imitated in other quartors of the city in which the same Decossity existsin anly less urgent form. . H. W. S. CLEVELAND. P.8.—Since the above was written we lhave gone through the horrors of another conflagra- tion. (By the way, we may as well begin to die- tinguish theso visitations by names, 35 we do comets. Shall we call the firet Mason's and the 1ast Colvin's conflagration, or will the honor ba claimed by the Fire Marshals 7) On the 218t ult. you published a letter of mine in which occars the following passsge: *Is it not obvious that the division of the city into sec- tions, separated from each other by avenues of such breadth (as the boulevards), planted with contipuous rows of trees, would furnish the best possible safeguard against wideapread conflagra- tions, of which we are to-day in little less danger than before the experionce which cost us 8o dearly 2" The application of the above to the experience we have since had is easy. If Harrison street had been s boulevard 200 feet wide, there would have been no difficulty in utopging the fire on that line. How much would the cost of widen- ing it exceed the value of the property north of it which was destroyed Tuesday night? At all evonts, cost what it may, our only safety is in action. The danger is imminent, and can only be averted by such means as have been sug- gested. e 4 Wo wonder that poople are willing to live on {he sides of & volcano, yet we expose oursclves to oqual danger, for which wo are personally re- sponible. A mensure which would contribute very large- 1y to the safety of the richest portion of the city, and would, at the sams time, create a ** Champs Elysees” in a poution where, in & very few Jears, it could not fail to compare favorably with 1hat of Paris, would be the opening for public ornamental use of the whole area between Third and Fourth avenues, from Jackson streot to Fourteenth. The effect upon the value of adja~ Cens property will o obvious to any one who thinks of 1t. Other similar improvements conld easily be suggested; but whatever may be said or done in regard to existing evils and their rem- edies, let us not farther stultify ourselves by persiating in follies which must result in reveat~ ed disaster and final ruin. et MISCELLANEOUS. THE LOAN MARKET. There is no change to report in the condition of this market. Itis dull, and aoy evil effects to result from Tuesday’s fire cannot makeit much } duller. Of course the calamity referred to does not tend to make matters plessanter to borrow- ars, but at this season of the year the wants of this class are not excessive, and when businoss rovives capital will no doubt have tully recover- ed from the blow. The tabular statement below showa the loans ltlmlnn ‘bean made matier of recoxd thoe past weok. There are fow instruments of sny large wuaidenfi%n, &le m::e lmtpfimnt %eing o mort- e given 0 esl of Henry W, Kingsbury Foihe hode Teland Hospital Trust Company to esecure 40 bonds of §1,000 each, drawing 10 per cent interest, the principal payable Aug. 1, 1884. Besides this, there is one instrument for $30.- 000, three for £20.000, andtwo for sums between $20,000 and $30,000, but more than one-third of the aggregate number is for amounts less than £1,000, the smallest consideration being $66, while the average is $2,238. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR THE WEIX XXDING oLy 18, oLy, 1671 || 0L, 160, Instrumentss Convider—,| __|Conatder- No.| ation. || 3o.| ation. Trust deeds.. 155 ooz es|| Zi3ls T3,100 Mortgages. 1| 12806 “eni 20,208 Aggregata.. 36205 810,171)( 355[3 993,464 Relenses......cocenen| 204 28 COMPARATIVE STATENFNT FROM JULT1 70 DATE, T suLT, 1874, || JULE, 1678 Tnstruments, | Constder Conider No. | etion. ation, 76161,976,648]| 655152,116,114 TN o e AgGregate.........| 896$2,249,635) l 862/83,810,863 RENTS. Messrs. Morey & Magill have rented the stors, No. 513 Wabash avenuo, for 81,000. The second &nd third floors of this building are being con- verted into French flats; the second-floor has already been rented for $750. Messrs. Korr, Davison & Welch have sent a lettor to Mr. Trusdell, the Superintendent of the Chicago Itelief and Aid Society, offering him the ten seven-room cottages which they are just now completing on the corner of West Madixon. and Forty-eighth street, nesr the Northwestern Railroad shops, 8t a nommal rental or free of charge until May 1, to any oue he would recom- mend as worthy, and who have Leen distressed by the late fire. Mr. Truadell Las thankfully accepted the offer, and has already recommended. two or three parties. THE CHICAGO & BOUTHERXN RAILROAD. The Chicago & Southern Railroad has com- completed their track as far as Soventy-first street, and thero are cars running that far. There is a large force of workingmen a4 work on the road, completing about_three-quarters of & milo a day. It is expected thot the road will be finished to_the junction with the Chicage, Dauville & YVincennes Railrosd, this side of Thornton, inside of sixty days. ‘WELLINGTON STREET. Wellington street is being paved from Halated street to tho lake ehore drive, by the property- owners on thas street. E TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for record on Saturdsy, Jaly 18: CITY PROFIRTT. Conaideratron, Burling st, 267 ft s of Webster av, o f, 22x70 {t, dated Jly 16 .'$ 3 on st, 50 dated July 17 ... 1,800 Calumet av, 93X £t 0 of Twenteth at, e f, 100x 177 ft, dated July 7 (William F. Tuckerto Frinkiin F, BPRncer)....ersev:vrcscerioer s 31500 West Taylorst, 198810t 6 0f Campbeil av, & 1, 251124% ft, dated July 18, 8,000 Flournoy st, 167 7-10 ft 6 of W 48x125 1t, duted July 1,500 Indiana av, bet Twenty- "hirti o8, o f, 37 141005170 1t, dated Jwy 17....... 7,400 ‘Buddan st, 281 {4 3 of Thirty-Afth, w?, 25xi35i 1t, dated July 1 o L. 2200 Vorhon av, 264 ft 8 of Thirty-third st, w f, 60x ft, 'dated Jan. 13... 5,000 50x 1643 Vernon av, 214 ft 8 of Tiirty.third st, w f, 1643 1t, dated Jan. 13, NOBTR Q¥ CITY LIMITS, WIT! OF COURT-ROUSE. Wrightwood av, 92 ft of Racine av, o, 124 ft, dated July18.. 3,000 Same as the above, dated J S, 3,50 Lots 33 and 33, in resubdivision of Block 2, in Davisetals 6 0 i & ¢ X Sec20,40,14, dated July 15... b 1,200 BOUTE GF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADITS OF 7 MILXS OF COURT-HOUSE. Lot 3, Block 3, in Day’s part 1 ¢ X Sec4, 14, dated Oct. 8, 1573.. 3% 250 12,500 Stewart av, 171 £t 1 of Forty-socond at, w f, 25 31233 ft, dated July 18... .- eaeaee 650 YLota 33 to 35, 1n Wisner's Lots 35 to_ 38, Orig- ‘inal Town of Brighton, dated July 10....... 600 Lot 1, 3nd e17 ft of n 351t Lot 9, of Lots 16 to 18, ete, Block 4, Cleavervilla Addition, with butlding, dated July 16....csvwerenenres 4,000 SUMMARY OF TRANSFKES FOR THE The following is tae total amaunt of city and subur- ban property within 3 radius of 7 miles of the Court-House transferred duning the week ending Sat~ urdsy, July 18: > Consideration, A5, eales. 3 $4909,022 11,200 $640,617 1,001,137 For the week ending July 3.. 991,518 Weekly average for the month of Weekly average for tha month of ay. 191 1,434,128 OCONOMOWOC. . Arfivals at the Oconomowoc Hotels During the Past Week. TOWNSEND . HOUSE. A, J. Howell and wife, 8t. Paul; N, . Todd, il- waukes ; Dr. O. H. Manh, Evanston ; A. B, Hopkins, Dubuque ; J. B. Reemo and wife, Chicago ; Miss E. B TReeme, do ; Hugh Adams, do ; Mrs, Charles V, Marsh, two children, and servant, da: C, D, Lathrop, doj Jobn H, Jewett and sons, do ; Charles V. Marubi, do Joseph H. Spear and lady. o} George D, M 1ady, do ; J. K. Tlisles, ilwsdkee Cliazles Tlsley, do; Miss Angie Tllsley, do; Miss Nellio Ilsley, do; Miss Nellie Goodrich, do: Miss Minnle Goodrich, do; Miss Beusle Brigham, do;. Mise Mary Emmons, do; Miss Mary Cramer, do; John Van Dyke, doi Charles Moses, do; John M. Taylor, do; B. F. Stafford, do; ’Alexsnder Cameron, do; Louis S, Fisk, Philadélphia; Frederick Fahnioy and wife, Indiinapolis; Mus Fahnley, do; Bliss Soebner, do; H. C. Oliver, doj I W. Kenns, do; J. 1.’ Fugate, wife, four’ chfidren, and purse, do} Gen. Anson Stoger, Chicago; Miss Anna Stoged, Qo; Miss Jeesle Orton, New York; George H. Fas- sett, Grand Pucific Hotel; J. P, i go; N, B. Ream, do; E. B. Springer and wife, do; 2Miss Ada Couch, do; Miss A.‘C. Cummins, do; 8. H. Wheeler, do; Jobn Wallsce, do; Thomas Wallace, Thomas' B.' Childe, do: ' W. L. B. Jemne rs, Jackion, do: Abrah 8. McCormick, do; JFames H. Reee, do; Geor Wilmarth, do ; T. G. M. Jaury dall, do; EA dos Miss Nettio Roberts, do: F. D. Gray, do; M. W. Gray, do; Miss Bell C. Gray,do; Miss Clara L. Gray, do; Dr, J. N. Eldridge and servant, do; £4 TRogers, do; George Armour and wife, ; Miss Anpa P.' Trimble, New York; F. Hamlin, do; S, W. L, Bianchard, Milwankee; Mrs, C. children, and servant, do; Mrs. D. Jones, do; Frederick Yogle, do; Miss Grace Kirby, Qo3 Mrs. Dr. Dudley, do: W, B. Hibbard sad do} Mies Hibbard, do; L. E, Bond and wife, Cincin- Datl; Maj. Enos-Hopkina and rs, Hopkins, Nash- A do do} Lafiin, éo; H. ville, Tean.; Maj. R. L, Hopiins, “Evergladea”™ Login_ D. Dameron, 8t Louis; 0. A, Hart, do; H. A Chodwick, Grand Pacific Totel: Joseph Hart, Chicago : J. Heas, do; A. G. Burley and wife, do; Mre. Tyrrell, do; H. Schodel, do; Charles E. Brown, Boston ; Mrs, Scott_and daughter, Massa- Chusetts ; F. S. Van Alstine, Louiaville, Ky.'; James 8. Hibbon, Indianapolis; C.' B. Pattison, do; J. D. Hgmilton, do; J. M. Shcpard, Shawncetown, IU.; B AL Woolcott, fomity, and scrvant, Fort Wayne; . 8. Manefield, wife, snd dsughter, Washing® ton, D. C.7 W. J. Norris, Henderson, KY.; 3. Brown, St Loui Mason, do; 3., W. Barry, fl:fl)dl“lll.;l% B Notts and wir G. . Barry, Springficld, IlL; John £, Noble and wife, - vibal, o W, £ Humilion, do; Dr. 8. H. Lyman, Vincenbes, Ind.; . M. Bezch, do; '3, 8. Preston and family, Houston, Tex.; W. C. ‘Whiting and family, do; W. H, Cowles end family, do; D. B. Hunter, Omaba: M. W. Bush. wife, and three children. Cincinnati; 2.’ D. Hall, do; Jon T. Winchell, do; Alesander Furgoeon, 'do; C. D. Allen and sop, doj 8. W. Upham, 3 ) ¥, R, Farrington, Chicago; A. oy ‘Danville, TIL v. Francis, e Miller, do; . D. McDonald, ble, Latayette, Ind. ; Samuel W, Turner, do; M. B. Youngs, Frankfort, Ky.s T. H. Palmer and family, o3 Alexinder McDonald, Coving- ton; W. 3L Fox, Lexington: A. C.French, Htlubnr?; H A, Whit- Duncan McGregor, Colmnbus, 0.5 P. ‘taker, wife, and four children, do; A. 0. Loomis, do; C. H. Bentley, do; W. W. €5, Terre Haute ; Preston Davis, do. ALLISON IOTUSE. J. P, Bastings, Milwoukeo ; A._R. Simondson, Mil- wankees 3. E, . Chicago; Palmer and brofhers, Chicago; D, Noyeilea'and wife, Chicago; 8. Stone and Sife, Chicagos 4. Bage, Dubuque: A. G, Farille, Mil- Tatkeo: Busic Parsons, Marshall, Tex. ; Charles Miller, Jiwaubee; I, K. Phillipe, Milwaukee: W. Kinney, Milwankes? . Case and family, Milwaukee: Miss E. Van Brant, (Ottsws, Wis.; J. Frank, Milwaukee; mbold, do: F. D. Onderwood, do; Jonn do; Miss Cook, do; Miss Stoldard, do; George Stoddard, do; Mies Daily, do; ~Charles Mc= J. C. Quiner, do; Bartlett Lingley and fecretary Monitor Mining Company, Cal.; the ‘Allison, Tows; James Murshall, Milwao- ot ; Miss Fess, Milwaukee; —The head of the familyis about to eat an ap- ole. Mothor—"5ay, father, give us & piece.” Danghter—* O, father, give me a piece.” Son— O, father, I want s piece.” Niece—*! Won't you please give me a piece, t00.” Father (disgusted) —{Here, the rest of you take the apple and give e bepgar in New York saye (i pant —A strect beggar in New York says the panic Las roined bim. ~ His collections, he says, hava dropped to 8 a day, but he wouidn't care 8o much about that, bot rents had fallen 30 per cent, and he had two houses and three stores empty, cven at thie reduction. THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE What It Accomplished in the Way of Setting the Chicazo Post-Office on Its Foot After the Fire. The relations betweon the Railway Mail Ser- vice and the local mail department of this city are but little understood outside of postal cir- cles. Mr. George 8. Bangs, Chief Superin- tendent of the Railway Mall Bervice in the United Btates, holds his office 1n Washington. His department is divided into five divisions. Capt. James E. White is Buperintendent of the Fourth Divigion, which is much the largost of the five, It comprises the following States: Tilinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio. Michigan, Minne- sots, Missouri, Wisconsin, Eansas, Nebrasks, Now Mexico, Arkansss, Indian Territory, Dakota, and Colorado,—a total of fourteen Btates ind tho Indian Territory. Itisa it work for any one mind to compre- hend Anci control the vast amouut of postal ma- chinery necessary to carry on this intricate_and elaborate distribation #o that each day, week, or ‘month finds & solution in perfect barmony be- tween the Buperintendont, his multitude of aerka, and the goneral department in Washing- n. ‘There are stationed at different points throughout these five divisions chief head clerss, who control and direct a certain number of mail routes, and who report from time to time to their Division Buperintendent. These men have served from the beginning. thoreby attaining their positions throngh merit alone. IN THE FOURTH DIVISION, (Capt. James E. White, Superintendent), these gentlemen are located as follows : William B, Thompeon, Chief Hesd Cler] C. G Weitich, Chier Tread Clork, afixfiofifif‘gfi w X, W. Alexander, Chief Head Clerk, Latayetie, Ind. G. W, Lambert, Chief Head Clerk, Idisnapolis, Ind, J.D. Wilder, Chief Head Clerk, Milwankes, Wis. M. L. Sullivan, Chief Head Clerk, Kansss City, Mo, E.W. Warfield, Chief Head Clerk, 5t. Louis, 3o, . Eerr, Chief Head Clerk, Fort Scott, Kan. Van Dervoort, Chief Head Clerk, Omaha, Nob, C. 0. Ingersoll, Chief Head Clerk, Cleveland, 0, B, L. Terry, Chief Head Clerk, Columbus, O, The abovo corps of Chief Head Clerks control in the sggregate mbout 1,500 men. Thore are also about 2,000 Route Agents, whose work is also under the supervision of Division Superin- tondents. Route Agents' work ditfars from the postal clerks, in there being less detail in throw- ing nnd making up—by maseing their mattar, wiiile tho poutal clerk goes through his entiro mail, letter by letter, and places it in direct com- munication with ita destination. Thess lien~ tenants sttend zealously to their several depart- ments and ‘roport in person at headquarters. Tence, thero is the sharpest activity manifested among them concerniog completeness of work, efficiency of clerks undar them, and gonoral ad- ministration in their several departments. Possibly there are future P. M. Gerernls or R M. 8. Superintendents smong thom. If 8o, their training will not have been in voin. Supt. White visits all those points occasionally, and looks in upon them when least expocted. Favontism in appointing incumbents to these positions of prime responeibility is said not to bo in the vocab af the ~railway mail service, It will be readily scen what valoabls aid conld bo rendered by this efficient arm of tha service on such an occasion s our late fire. This is what thoy did and are now doing: Immediately on the night of the disaster, arders were issued to postal clarks who were home on off-runs, and also to incoming clerks, to open their mail-cars for the reception of both letter and paper mail. The ratlroad companies generously responded by bringing in extra postal-cars and placing them in favorable positiona. A strong force of efi- cient sad active men have been at work night and day to stem the tide of accnmulating mail which “otherwise would have fallen upon oar overtasked city departmont. Gen. McArthur and his assistant, Mr. Ce8. Bquires ; his Chief Clerk, Capt. M. J. McGrath, with_his deputies, Measrs. Patton, Vreeland, and Hilliard ; also Capt. Jobn M. Hubbard, with hus energetic carrier force, in conjunction with Capt. White, of the R. M. S., and hix assistants, Mesare. William P. Campbell and 8. 8. Foster, are entitled to great credit for devising and carrying out mensures to meot all demands grow- ing out of the disaster. The result of this co-operation of the two departments is proved in the regular delivery of the letter mail by the carriers on the morning after the fire; the after- noon letter-delivery at the general office ; the prompt delivery of exchanges to the various newspaper offices, & regular and com- plete shipment of the entire mail by the local agont, J. M. Hubbard, and his sssistant, William C. Walsh. ‘Such, in brief, are the facts_concerning » dis- aster which, but for quick judgment and sctive work, would have involved ferious inconvenience 2nd irreparable Josa to the postal service and the commaunity. ANNEXED GEESE. How the Pate de Foiv Gras Is Pre- parcd---The Pic Factories at Stras= burg. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Then the Prassiaos annexed Strasburg they gained something moro than a city of 80,000 in- habitants, a first-rate cathedral, and that unique steeple clock where a cock crows over the heads of twelve sposties, a skeleton, and s pagan di- Vinity, overy day at noon. They acquired some 150,000 Freach geess, who every year waddled solemnly into the city througn the seven castel- Tated doors, and, like patriotic fowls a8 they were, offered up their livers on the altars of their coun- try's greatness. 1t was no slight present. These livors, cased with Perigord trufflo inside block tins or terra~cotta pots from Sarrexéue- mines, wera scastered ovor the wide world as pates.do foie gras, cousing the name of France to be bleseed by all natives and foreigners who had a taste for good things. Nor can it be con- tonded that Strasburg derived less than half her fame from the sale of these pies. . . . The Freuch, who deal with history as it suits them, contend that the pate de foie gras; was woll known to tho Bomans, for that thoso sscred geeso who were nourished in the Capitol, and Sho warned Manlius, were nothing but geese Kept st high dict, ik those of Strasburg, that their livers might be enlarged. Without dis- puting that statement, One may ay that it is only in very recent times that the process of reparing geose for tho pio market has been Pronght to perfection. 1f the Roman sugnrs dealt in goose liver, they must have had recourse to those barbarous iron coops wherein the bird was kept imprisoned all but his neck, which protrud- od through an aperture and could not be with- drayn. A lively fire was kept up in the neigh- borhood of the coops; aod the goose got on 88 he could with three meals a day till the time ar- rived for killing him. Bat this system was dis- carded some thirty years sgo, because it was oruel—not to the goose, but to his owner, who generally saw four birds out of five dio prema- tarely of exhaustion. Supposing we enter into one of the most famous foi-gras factoriesin a rotired stroet of Strasburg, we ehall seo how these worn-out methods have beon superceded by modern improvements. A cool yard greets us, and o bland Frenchmsn, who has become Germevized, like his goese, bi the force of cir- cumstaoces, points to some hundred feathered bipeds huddled together in a corner and hiesing & chorus with despairing oner- y. En former days they woald have been singing *Dulce_et decorum est pro patria mori ; but now it is evident they are indulging in s dirge over tho customs duties which they will be obliged to pay_before being allowed to reach the breakfast-tables of their own people. Their proprietor explains that they are all nine ‘months ofd, and have cost him, lean 2s thoy are, about 2 francs 50 centimes apiece; ho then makes asign to half a dozen bare-armed girls, Who spesk no French, and amid_considerablo commotion and protest from tho remainin, ninety-four, Bix geese are collared and marche: away to a cellar half underground, where wide and sloping stone tables are arranged in tiors so far as the ey csn see. In the murky light thrown in by somo twenty sir-holes one can st first distinguish nothing ; but by and by it be- comes spparent that hundreds of geese are al- ready lying strapped on their backs on the upper tiers nnd gasping bysteric things—probably words of love and encourngement—to ORO an- other. Our business being for the moment at the lower tables, the six girls tako each a goose, lay him gently but frmly on the stone, so that his tail just projects over tho ledge, and thon tie down his wings, body, =nd legs tight with plaited Whipcord., tho legs and wings being well ‘epread out to paralyze soything like vigorous gym- nastics. The bird's neck is left free, and it seems that during the first three days ho makes & violent use of 1t; bus, toward the fourth day, he arrives st the coneciousnes that by strug- Pliag and crosking ho doos notling to smend fiis Yot, and from thst time he may be trusted to lie still for tho next saven weeks; that is, till the hour of release and killing. Without paus- ing toseo all the hundred geese tied down, we oy g0 on at once to the upper tiers, where tho birds who have been lying for three, five, or six Weeks rospectively, are taking their ease and Waiting to be fed by half & dozen other Alsatian Al laden with large wooden bowla. Each of these bowls i filled with & thick white paste, Tade of parboiled maize, chestnuts. and buck- heat, most nourishing ; and the mode of ad- Tiaisterimg the dinuer is for_the girl to catch the goose by the neck, open hia bill with & litilo squoeze, and then ram three or four balla of the paste down his throat with her middle finger. ‘The goose having becn thus refreshed. resumes his slsoting position and digests till the next time for feeding, which arrives about two hours _after, the meals being abont six a day. Butnow we have done with the women, for a pensive man—a connoissour of the obesity of geese—bresks upon the ecene, climbs npon the topmost tier of all, and procceds to oxamiae the birds who may be *ripe.” He has an eye 13 judicious as that of a gardener inspecting mel- on8; and his is the responsiblo task of pronounc- ing what birds would die of natural death mthin twenty-four hours if not dispatched beforeband, If a goose dies of natural death he is good for nothing. He must be unstrapped and executed at the precise pshychological momentwhen na- tare is growing tired of supporting him, and the knack of detecting that moment can only come of long practice, and fotchea the possessor wages 88 large 18 thoee of adiamond-valuer. Our pou- sive functionary has not been s minute on the table before he certifies four geose ready for the slaughter. Al four of them have stomachs of the size of pumpkins, and from what one can gather of their brokon remarks, it is o sincere relief of these when s couple of male acolytes climb up, locse their bouds, snd bear them outqof the cellar to s pent-house acrues the 'yard, full of knives and chopping blocks. A click with the chopper on the neck of each, a rap with the knife, and, in less than five ‘minutes nftor their transfer, the carcaases of the four victims are lying in ahesp, while their livers are being conveyed with all respect and care to the truffling-house. The carcasses, shrivelled out of all knowledge, are sola for about eight- pence apicce to pensants, who make soup of them; the livers are first cieaned, then put to scale, and our four geess are declared grand birds all of them, for their livers weigh from 21 to 3 pounds each. The noxt step is to tako each liver and to Iard it with traflles in the proportion of ome-balf pound of trufiles to 1 pound of liver, and then to con- vey it to an ice-honse, where it remsins on a marble elab for s woek that the truflle perfume may thoroughly permeate it. At the end of a week, each. liver, being removed, 8 cut into the gize requured for the pot which it is to ll, ana introduced into thay pot betiveen two thin layera of mincemeat mado of the finest veal and bacon fat, both trufflediike the liver itself ; andlinch's depth of the whitish lard ia then spread over the whole, that none of the savor may escape in baking. ‘The baking takes about five bours, and absorbs all the energies of four iatelligent Freachmen in white, who reluy each other, to see that the fire never blazea too high or ei low. When the cooking is over, nothing remaius but to pack the dainty either in_ tin, or wood, ar earth, according 88 it may bo nceded for home or foreign consumption, and to ship it to the four poiuts of tho compass. A question may bere anse 2a to how many geese die naturally bofaro the above processes can b carried ous to 8 happy eud ; but it is 8 pleasing fact that few ease die, and those only ill-regulated birds who gbd unsound constitutions or no ambition for high destinies. It is on record, however, that a momber of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals once arrived b Strasburg armed with the Larochefoucauld law, and en- deavored to cope with the pie factors; but he was worsted, and there are strong reasons for suspecting that ho was & Socialist. MISCELLAREQUS. There are & lot of Utes with Piah at their head now lying on the other xide of the Platte beyond Villa Park. They aro in special high feather be- causo they were lucky enough to fall foul of three unfortunate Sioux near Fremont's buttes, whose scalps they took with facility, being fifty 10 ome or thereabouts, and they are goiug to have & scalp-dance over it all.—Denver News. — ‘y. W. Ricks left Lerned, Kan., six weeks 2g0, on a wild horse hant. He returned yester- day, and reparts both good and bad luck. He bad succecded in getting fourtoen head protty well tamed down. Among tho Iot wers two mules, which had_evidently strayed off and be- come wild by herding with the borscs. He thinks the mules were worth $400. When he had got within & couple days’ trip of home, some buffalo hunters stampeded his stock and he lost every head. Mr. Ricks says he will try again.—Larned (Kan.) Press. —At Meyersville, DeWitt County, Tex., ashort time since, two colored lads, aged 12 and 16, were caught racing a couple of ponies belonging to a white boy. They were taken before a Radi- cal Juaice of the Peace, tried by & jurv of their own sclection, aud fined §5 each. Having no friends, it was agreed on all sidcs, the father of tho boys and the boys themselves suggestiog the alternative, that they should take twenty lashes each, which were duly administered. Little Del- aware must look to her lsurels.—Galveslon News. —Every ovening hundreds of swimmers may ‘beseen all along tue river in_front of the city. A number of courtesans and their associ- stes have beon visiting the river late at might when other people were at home. They genor- ally chartered s _furnitarecar and a dozen or more would go to gether. They sclected 3 point near the Towhead, where they were not likely to be disturbed and interfered with by the police. Monday night about 13 o'clock they repaired to the landing, and while frolicking in the water the Horses galloped awsy with the furnitare-car containing their clothing. All efforts to stop the team were unavailing, and the wuole party were left 6tanding on the bank, arrayed in the closo-fitting garments of nature. Obtaining clothing was out of the question. There was no slternative but to welis home, and, after waiting notil the first gray Light of dawn crept up from the east, they started off. Several policemen got a glimpse of them, but the gay swimmers proved swift of foot and outran the blue-coats. —Louisville Commercial. “Won’t Do So Any More.” From the St. Louis Republican. ©Old Willetts, of Washington, has found out how to bresk & boy of disobedience, especially swimming in forbidden waters. He thinks he has discovered an intallible receipe to produce that state of moral health, the motto of which is, **Won't do so any more.”. Itis printed for tHe benofis of purents and boys, and may be sug- gestive of hints which can be zpplied to any bad aso of disobedience, with the certainty of cure. 0la Willetts, starting for his oflico one morning, told his 11-year-old * Saramy " that as mad dogs and bad boys sbounded be a8 mot to go out of the house that day, but stay at home and help his mother. Old Willetts was scarcely out of sight before Sammy ran away from Lis mother, with his thumb to his pose and his fingers _ wriggling, making signs which the old lady did not understand. Sammy ran into & neighboring alley and _escaped the mater- nalelutch. Sammy went swimming with some of thoee bad boys sgainst whom the old man bad cautioned him, but he kept away from tho mad dogs by staying in the water all day. OId Willetts was at home when his dutifal son Sam- my returned. He was waiting for his darling boy at the gate. He opened tho conversation: i Samuel where have you been 2" The truthful Semauel, having tho fear of his father before bis oyes, and the example of the fathor of his coun- try in his guileless heart, gaid: ** Father, I can't fell a whopper, I've been over to gee Charley Myers' new .goat.” Then that indalgent father, filled with honest pride for his off- spring's _integrity, took his boy by the buir, and _esked: ** What makes your hcad so wet ?” The boy was getting ready an answer to delnde the old man, but he had not time to pro- nounca it beforo his breath was gone. There was 8 hogshead of water standing in the front yard. The father took his son by the hecls, and with a heel in each band he plunged him into the hogshead of water head-fore- most. ‘Thus he was several times dipped and lifted up like the old-fashioned way of making tallow-candles. Tho boy only got breath encngh to splutter, * Won't do go—." The remainder of the sentence was alwars drowned out, and he found it impossible to make himself thoroughly understood. This Dbaptismal process for the remission of sins was continued until the officiating minister got tired, and then he nbdded to the old woman to como and take Ler abused boy’s part, sccording to a proconcarted understanding between the cou- !.fle. She came, did Mrs. Willetts, and said : . Ain't vou ashamed of yourself, to treat your boy in that way.” Sho pushed the father away and took charge horself. It was o hot day, and she had a hot fire built in the Litchen to dry the boy off. Bbe was atraid he'd catch a heavy cold by exposure, and had two mustard plusters pre- pared. Sho siapped one on the boy’s back and one on his breast, and made him sit closs to tho fire, with his bare feet on & warm brick, while . the. spplics- tions worked. The hLottest of hot springs was nothing to it. She aleo gave tho littlo fellow 2 drink or strong ginger tes to keep the cold out and calm auy irreverent feelings be might be cherishing towards his poor old father. At Inst he said pemtently : * Indeed I won't do 50 any more.” 'The pitcons tones fell upou the mother’s cars liko a prayer. Sha took him off the epit and dressed his blisters, snd let him re- tire to the shades of the cellar tocool off. Summy Willetts has reformed, and does not know which of his parents to honor most. Mo has never uxpllmes to his father how his head got wet that day. That hogehead of water still ptands in the yard, and Ssmmy mey tumout a first-class Washington boy yet. He lived throngh it, and_Lis parents think for some good purpose—probably to be President when he grows big enough. PIANCS AND ORGANS, N REED'S Temgl of Mo, Dearborn and VanBuren-sta FINE, NEW ROSEWO00D PIANOS At prices from $300 to $700. ‘Terms--$50 cash, balance $35 per month. FIRST-CLASS ORGANS With six stops, $125. Terms--$35 cash, balance $15 per month. OCEAN NAVIGATIOX. GUION LINE. FIRST-OLASS TRON STEAMSHIPS, Between NEW YORK and LIVERPOOL, calling at Queenstown, Carrying the United States Mail. SAFETY AND COMFORT. £ P s booked to and from the - i e A S ; and Baners throaghout Burope. - HENRY GREENEBAUM & CO, FIETE-AV. FOR EUROPE. CUNARD MAIL LINE ESTABLISIEED 1840. Four Sailings Every Week. From Now York every Wednesday and Ssturdag. From Boston every Tuesday and Satarday. Cablu Passage, 3%, 3100, and $120in gold.. Round-trip Tickets at rednced ratos. Etoarnge Passage at lowest rates. P. H. DU VERNET, N. W. cor. Clark and Randolph-sta. NEW YORK TO CARDIFE. ‘The South Wales Atlantic Steamship Com; 's New Firsiocianss. Rull-powered, Clyde-buily Steamships wil sail from Pennsylvania Railroad Wharf, J City: GLAMORGAX....... Carrying goods and paseengers at throush rates fr ailperes 0 fho Dalied Htatos and Canads to perts is the Biribtol Chanel, and all othor pointa in Kogland, These steamships, built expresaly for the trade, ars pro- vidrd with all the latest improvements for tho comfortand’ Zoavenience of CABIN AXD STEERAGE PASSENGERS. First Cabln, $75and $80 currency. Second Cabla, £ g carrency, Stborage, 430 curreac. Prepaid Steerage cortificates from Cardifl, .. DO in Cardift, at the Dratts for £1nd upmards. Gom- ‘s Otices. Xo. | Dack Ghambers) 3nd 1n New Yorkio AROHI [ o. For forther particulars, apply BALD BAXTER Acen 0. = 1 Yiradmay. AMERICAN LINE. Thg Culy Line Carrying the Uitad States Flag, Salling weekly betwsen Philadelphia ind Liverpool. Cabin, Intermediate, and Steerage ACCOMMODATIONS UNSURPASSED. RATES GREATLY REDUCED “Lower than New York Lines. Excursion Ticketa st roduced rates. Drafta oa Great Britain, Ireland and the Continent, at low rates. ice, 138 LaSalle-st., S. W. cor, Madison, Chicago. J.H. MILNE. Westorn Agent. National Line of Steamships, INOTICE.- Tho most southerly roate has always been adopted by this Company_to avold ice aad beadlands. S from New York for LIVERPOUL xnd QUENS- TOWN overy SATURDAY. Sailing from N. York for London (direct) every fortaight. ‘Cabin passsge, $10, 38, currency: steorage, at grestly reduced rates.. . Kotumn tickets at lowost rates. Draits for £1 aad, upward, P. . LA RSON, Westorn Axent, Northeast corner Clark and Randoiph-sts. (opposite now Sherman House). Chicazo. CARRYING THE UNITED STATES MATL. The magniicant new and full-powered Steamshios Rer public, Baltic, Adrlatic, Britannle, Oceanic, Celtic, eto., mail from New Yo on Saturdays and Liverpool a3 Thursdays. Raululn'nlnltgml<lm . Draitron Greac Hrialn and frolaad from £1 apwacds, ce, 9 South Clark-t., Chicago. 'ALFRED LAGERGREN, Agent. ALLAN LINE MAIL ST EANERS botiroen all pats of Frops ANDSTEHRAGE TRAR forent classen of pas s e EMICT, Hic AP ships. Best Im'smmn:e. ALTY. Thres weekiy sallings. Saperior rates. ‘sccommodations. Lowest Bhortest Apply to MISCELLANEOUS. OperTy-Owmer Who bavo been damagad by'the constractlon of the tracks of the followiag-named railcoads aro notified that sald Fatlruads are roquirod, by the oralnances giving them right of way In the city, to commence and prosecuto {a & coust of compatant jurlsdiction, withia three yeses from The time of laying down their iracks respectively, pro- coedings for the ascertainment of, and makiog compenta fioa for, all lexal damages causod by tho laying down or construction of such tracks, but the benefit of this pro- e d ¢ S icaro Hallrand, M ; Lasille & Ghleaxo Mallrtd, ML sy :2; Chicago & Canads Sou’bern and Chlufiv & fiacts River Relironds, Noy. 11, 162: Chicage, 310 S oakies & &t Paul Raliroad, Sept, 22, 16:3; sad all other railroads ldl[lfl&»tllnc!t\n&f l'g !: . Common Council "By order of the Com PO Cr1cAQO, July. 3 Comptroller. Situation Wanted Aw salemmas for Sash, Doors, and Blinds: nine sears' ex- rionce 1o Chlcago, with & cozresponding cily and coan- B tuatatances - Unexceptionaile raferences given zequired. dd: T &. Tnbune office. PROYFESSIONAL CARDS. DR. A. G. OLIN, t. ‘Thelongest engaged aad most suo cian In the city ia the special treatment of 1l Chronic, Nervoas, and Spocial Disesscs, Dissases po- cullar to femal=s speedily cared. Intalids pmflg with Srivate apartments, board, attendance, &c. Send 2 stamps. Juna 12 1 ce, rons for treatise. Patlel s 8t & distanca trested by mail. 8¢ Dr. Kean, 360 souTH CLARK-.;'T..“EI’H(:AG(), B pall mall, fres of charge, May bo consulied; porsontly 30 b7 o ek EA s sicin o tho city WHo warrenLs Cres of 0o pay.. O 34 . 16 8 7. . Sasdars fram$ o