Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 11, 1875, Page 1

VOLUME 28. PIANOS, STEINWAY Py P e UPRIGHT . PIANOS)| suwance Company, ‘Are acknowledged to be the most desirable Pianos for the Parlor or Prawing-room. Over five hundred in use in Chicago and vicinity, each and every one of which has given the most unqualified satisfaction. IL.YON & EHEEALTY, General Agents for the Northwest, DRY GOODS. STATE "AND MONROE-STS. SELLING OFF | ~ SELLING OFF'! SELLING OFF ! OUR WROLE STOCK AT HALF PRICE. 00DS, consisting of $100.000 worth of DRY . 160 pts Dizgonal Beskel and Plain Dress Goods M ) 1l 206 pep TeXd. . 50 368 Kew Platds at 30; per yard. " 5 s A-Waol 64 Suitings 2t 60¢ per yard. 90 s ALIWool 3-4 Snitisgs ot 30c per yard. 50 s Fiae Plaia Suitings 2t 40¢ Ber yard. 76 s Celered shair & 35¢ per yard. 95 s Colored Mehair &t 45¢ per ¥erd. 105 New Shades Emeress al 506 per yard. 50 pes Lyszs Popiins &l 756 per yard, 50 e Japasese Stripes at 80 per yard. " 95 s Japaness Stripes &t 306 per yard. Black Alpacas and Black Cashmeres at ‘yery low prices. A largo stock of Black and ‘Calored Silks st very low prices. Grass Lin- ens snd Grass Cloth very low. Grenadines 1n Plamn Black and Striped from 20c up- arards, Iinen,aswellas Grass Cloth, Suits from 2 upwards. Fans, Corsets. Hosiery, and Gloves, and all kinds Fancy Goods, Rib- bons, etc. Bhawls, Sacques, Liace Shawls, at cstontehing low prices. b ‘We beg toinform our fricnds andl patrons that we are offering abosa Goods 0 Lot to reduco our Ln.mense stock for the purpose of making 3 change 1 our busiuess. “Boing established since 1555, we trust it ia umnecossary 1o aseurs our patrons that we mean what wo say. Come 00z 10av0id the czowd. Shoenfeld Bros,, : 101 &108 North Clark-st, 10 RENT. OFFICES 70 RENT TRIBUNE, BULDING: WILLIAM C. DOW, FOR RENT. Thifour uuper floors of the buildivg 195 and 197 Wa buanav., cormer of AdEmLEL. food 6lsvator,well Lght<d, Wia £o3d sondiclon; will e reted vory chiip. Lhquire “FOR RENT 25 o £0 feet, a splondid Jocstion for a Xind, right near this business centre on Third- <., between Van Buren and Harsisan. E. L. BRAND, 54 Wabash-av. Livery Stae on Madison-t, &t Western-av, FOR RENT. A ., 28 freclzm stable for 50 hovses, 10 mmd_by Em Wil rent a tecm of eate to e, wPUTWIN & CORBY'S, 14 D. e EXCURSION. T TOR LAk SUPERR The Masnificent Low.Pressure Stesmer ‘PEERLESS,” CAPT. ALLAN MCINTYRE, LEATE ON 4 GRARD PLEASURE ECORSION TRIP ntermediate ports. THURSDAY, ‘more deligh*(al tour for pleasurs than thas, on efthor the clecant on the Chictgo, $oadfor Rsoss: Passenger iioais criot routo. BATHS. - P RKIN Lo freatment of scuto and chronic diseases. SRAXD PACIFIC HOTEL, estrases on Sacksonate; m.‘:;'"" Electricly is ap 13 all iis forms. LnSvithaus e g, Open fur geatlemen frum 7 P. m. i =, 106 p. m. Sazdaze, 7t % TheLadies’ D = e Eadlest Deparimsent is uader the persoual - DR. G. C. EOMERS. Pronrietor. B Fop Tree Ermaol asd Bemd -VAPOR BATEHL dwerts fnstitate of its kicd ia the Usited States. Aftar ‘.?’fl‘m mode} insiituto in Ham oot Forales Norvowt, ang Cawaic Lives Dik ot E ‘nraic Liver Dis. 4%, Ceenat DERG, "C"P foriber aferaucion Bt S mote, Oen rom 8. m 107 p. . A3 0 Pitron o ts = 14 273 SOUTH CLARK-ST.. CHICAGO. - E| P P ~ A A PRRMANENTLY-ESTA BLISRED INSTIT! Lar the, azs, cusi a0 ety et e (NSANE, ot ose acfiering frum YPILEPSY. 204 for patients with NEHEOUR BRIATES and ddiored Electro Thermal, Stean, Sulyhar, and Merecurial VAPOR BATHS, A hose & ATTRITION Whole Wheat Flomr Thia 1 3 new product—nceer beforo the market _end is_reado rom the CHOL ST WHITE WINTER WiTiaT: Tt s vo Highly muerilyar, s0d makes amost paiatablo, wholssome, and Beaithful bread, and also for Griddle takes, Mothns, Walles, etc., it I3 3. ralod. Hae Avrated or Cold Alr feature of tho manafacture, tho fact of its ocing the embudimant of all the food proper- -ties of tho highest Guahty of wheat, tho perfect evonness ake thls ‘of Guality, togouhor wizb fts abzolte purity, make rated or Cold'Air Aturition Flons ATehe Tost Perfect Food fn the Werld. MANUFACTURED ONLY BY COLD AIR ATTRITION MILLS, ‘“W. WARREN, Manager, 800 & 302 South Clark-st. FLOUR. 5 Whi 3 7',0 .5 8.50 EVERY BARREL WARRANTED. T ITXCITSON, 167 South Clarkest. F1NANCIAL. 1+ EHFE STATE Savings Mnstiution, 80 and 82 LaSalle-st,, Chicago. AND LARGEST SAVINGS BANK IN OLDEST .., THE NORTHWEST. Paid Up Capital. .$500,000 . 70,000 Dopordts, Three st ‘Business exclusiveiy that of Intarcst paid on D anoum, conponnded half-yeatly. Heventecn yoars of saccossful Eusiaers. Dratia ia sams to eaic o all tne principal cities 2 . o] 5 , Vi . Eual RNCER dent. N 3 eside RH, ViesPresideat. Cashior, CHICAGO TIORTGAGE LOARNS, At cacreat rates of intarest. JTJOSIAII . REED, ¢ . %0 Naswost, New York, roproseatod by JOXN EH. AVERTY &CO. 159 LaSallc-st., Chicago. First-class facilitics for finuncinl nexotintions in Londoo. PIANOS AND ORGANS. We desire to ennounce to the public that we now have at our Warorooms, 231 Btate-st., a large assortment of the HAZLE- TON and otber Pianos, TAYLOR & FAR- TEY and CLOUGH & WARREN’S Orgens, for which we are Sole Agents in the North- west. Extrasordinary inducements wiil be Fiven to purchasers, either on time or for Gash. Illustrated Catalogue and Price List sent free on application. “Agents_wanted in every town in the Northwest. Pienos and 229 & e DL ERTATE, $£65,000 Fora Good-Paying Piece of City Property. ‘balance Purchase Money Mortgars. riok Houss and Lot, all modern improva- ments. Suburban towa. 000~—Soction Land, all clear, free, znd unincum- T '&-:uh 11 bod! S A Ik GO 92 Washington-st. . For Sals—-A Bargain. €0x138, with building, corner Stato and Harrison-sts. 4130, Foorth-av. P. O'NEILL, 122 Statost. Residence for Sale. Tho splendld $-story aad basement marble-front house, # Twenty-tithet. Hasall modera improveronts, is in ‘Perfect order, and nmincumbered. We offer a batgaia. L H. &G, ALKER,13 Chamber of 0. FORTY ACRES Finost bigh ground near Washington Heights Depot, and T rovemcnis o it Tvady 10 e, or wale. ™ Ad: drsss OWNER 2, Tribuae office. WANTED. Partner Wanted By a young msn with $5.000 to $7,000 to invest in & profitable, safe business—Lumber Prefacred, MReferences miven and required. RGdress A 82, Tribune ofice. Keroseno ! Kerogene ! Kerosens ! Tmpty Burrels wantcd. 1tighost market price paid. 3 S. LAPRISE, 53¢ West Madison-st. £42.000in 8 TOT, SALE. “SODA WATER. A handsome draught spparatus, with generstor s3d founts, {n perfcet order, for sale chosp. Addraa A €, Tribuae odice. Cc HICAGO, SUNDAY JULY 11, { dence thatthe Natioral LIFE INSURANCE. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON, D. C. CEAB':[‘EBED BY CONGRESS. Cash Capital, $1,000,000. JULY 1,1875. JOHN V., FARWELL.., BRANCH OFFICE, CIICAGO, ILLINOIS, 157 to 163 LaSalle-st., VWhere the Business of the Company is Transacted. JULY 1,1875. Semi-Annual Statement OF THE National Lifo Tnsurance Company ofthe 0. 5. 0f A 435389 , 231, 273,35 jreara-) Promiums in courso of col Deforred semi-anunul and quar BLE2.15 Gross assets July 1, 1875.. H 3,787,58.55 . LIABILITIES. Reinsurance ressrve on policiea in forca. Reservoun policies apssd and i sbie for surrender sad rostor . 14,6990 T ta J I ,386.2: Toul st ik % SRS 1nc of s during tho six i eleibostbon S e $20T,160.94 Surplus July 1, 195 £1.410,816.55 Surplus Jan, 1, 187, 193, Increaso of surplas during the six months. $45,648.35 Namber of policies issuod during the tlx months 1,88 ‘Amount of policies issued during the six montis $3.34,4% TEE, NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CON- “PANY 0P T8E 1. 8, OF A. The Company has, during the last six months, increased its sssets $207,160.94; has puxd to representatives of deceased poli- cyholders +111,684.00, and for surrenderod pohicies $108,881.83. 1t now hassecurelyinvested £3,787,388.35, while its total liabilities are only £3,316,- 530.70, sbowing that it has $183 of asseta for every S$100 of liabilitios, N Tke lozns secured by first mortzage on real estnte, worth more than twice iho fnee of the Toans, are $2,291,673--an amount considera- Lly in excess of its total policy Lability. "4 careful examination of the asseta and liebilitiés, the character or the assets, the pians and the rates, will give_conclusive evi- U i1te Insurance Com. pany of the United States of America_fur- Dishes as re:iablo, 85 complete, and aa_chesp pE:3 “lrdu" a3 apy other Company in the worl i FRENCH CLARET. 150 BARRELS FRENCH CLARET, Per Stenmer “ Dorian,” just now directly re- ceived trom Bordesux, contmning the well- known marks: Montferrand, St. Trolody, Camblane, Bourgogne, Will be sold IN BONDS or free_delivered. The very finest choice of ’74 Moselle and Rhine Wine offered at the cheapest New ‘York prices. G. A. DEWILDE. 149 EAST MONROE-ST. DENTISTRY: Dr. H. C. Magnusson, DENTIST, Has romavod from the North Sido to S, E. corner of Ran- aolph and Doarborn-sts., Reom & 3foCormick Block, vhérs Bo will hereaftor make fall sets of BRST GUM TEETH for SS—Warranted tho same in quallty of TEETH and MATERIAL for which othor Dontlsts charge from £20 16 8. "Testn fillad ot reduced prices in first-clas stylo. All oporations warranted as represented. R. F. LUDWIG, Dentist, REMOYRD from West Side to 8 Clarkst., CHINA, GLASSWARE. &o. (INTIL THE 15t OF AUGDST 10 per cent Discount On Chins, Crockery, Glassware, Plated ‘Ware, Oyglery, and House Furnish- ® ing Goods, at TURNER & FAY’S CHINA HALL, 24 West Washington-st. CALIPFORNIA PEARS. CALIFORNIA PEARS. FIRST CAR OF BARTLETT'S of the season., packed ‘by M. T. BREWER & CO., Sacramento, Cal., will be received July 15 by W. H. PEACOCK, 151 South Water-st. LAUNDRIES, BUSINESS CARDS. WILLIAM M. DEE, DEALER IN VITRIFIED SEWER PIPE AND SEWERAGE JATERIALS, Franklini ' snd Adams-sts., Chicago. - .. SIMEON W. KING, ot St o e D 58 e bty to 3 e a Bibek, corasr Chark 450 Wadhieg: For ltn«mfln ey MONGERS LAUNDRY. OFFICRS—128 Dearborn-st. ;- 138 Michiganat.; 199 West Madison . Lakeside Steam Lamndry. - ‘83 & 85 CANAL-ST., near Madison. ™ Goods oallsd fur and delivared without extrs chage. PROGRESS. The Destruction Wrought by the July Fire. What Has Been Done Toward Re- building the Burnt Districts FErection of Structures Costing Over a Million and a Quarter, . Increasing Activity Among the Architects. - Lists of the Principal Buildings Under Contract Here and Elsewhere. An Extensive Sale of South Park Bou- Yeverd Property--The Biggest Thing of the Year, THE JULY FIRE. WHAT IT WROUGHT, A YEAR AGO NEXT WEDNESDAY Chicago was visited by & very disastrous con- flagration. It broke ont in the afternoon of July 14 in the honse of & Pole living on Fourih avenne, not far from Twelfth streef, and wae supposed to have been the work of am incen- dsary, though the arrest immediately afterwards of several suspected fparties and 2 searching iu- vestigation” failed to estabiish this, The at- mospheric conditions were favorsble. to s large fire. The air was hot and dry, no rain had faflea for & number of_days, and & strong gale prevail- cd from the fateful southwest. Add to tbese ‘tho fact of acres of ground on every side of the place where the fire originated covered With ihaterial as inflammuble a8 tinder, and the fact ot an insufficient water supply, and it must Le geen that the fire started under tho most favor- sble auspices. A cload of dense, black smoke, erising from the burning oil in an .oil. factory with which the flsmes scon. communicated, told ‘that the fire was one of no ordinary maguitude. The full Btrength. of the -department w8 called out --before: -1t had been long in progress. but 8o violent. was the wind that, with tho narrow streets, and above all a short supply ot weter, it was impogsible to check its progress, .and successively Third avenus, State Atrect, Wa- bash avenue, -and -Michigan wore reached and devastated to s large extent before 1t was at Iast conquered. As night setin. add the light of the flames illamined tha whois city : THE BCENES OF OCTOBER 9and 10, 187}, were to a'grest extent repeated. People left their homes by thousands, “and ro- paired to the scenes of ‘the conflagration, and the consternation and confusion of tne other thonsends retresting from their burning homes could be undesztood by noue but & buint-out Chicagcian. As the flames swept out of and beyond the inferior buildings which they bad been devouring 8!l the aftornoon, and lowards might began to attack the edge of the rebailt business district, there were not a few who bs- Iieved that the now Chicago was to follow tlie fate of the old. But the sotid character of the new buildings in the confines of tho rebuils terri- tory, and several . vacant spaces which insetvened, sssisted to' stay ' tbe filo, and it was finally checked near the corner of Michigau avenue and Juckson street, after having devastated a terriiory three-quar- te18 of & mile in length aod fully haif & mie ia wiath, aud entailed a loes of about 81,500,000. The details of the events are easily recalied, and it 18 not the purpoee to go into them here. losigpificant as_this fire was when compared with the cestruétive and unprecedented cou- flagration of Octaber, 1871, i produced A DEEFER FEELING OT INSECURITY sgainst firo, and wrought moro mportaut and val- aable reforms. The great fire was looked upon ze purely of an exceptional character. No 0ue wes wild enough to believe that Chicago could again be similarly visited. - The fact thas it ‘had once been destroyed was-aavanced as an_argument in favor of its future immavity from conflagrations, on the same logical ‘grounds on which people maiotain that lightning never suikes twice in the same place. The lessons of the great fire were therefore disregarded, and it inducod tbe adoplion of no special safefustds. Tue July five yroved that great fires were cot exceptionalzoChi- cago. It demonstrated-the truth thattihe cayses which produced_the fire of 1871 wore suli in active force, and that the séme conditions were ready at'any time to produce a imilar devasta- tion. It arroused psople to a sense of this asnger, end it was ot loag before VALUABLE PRECAUTIONS apsinst fire bad been taken. The Common Council made tbe fire limits coextensive with those of tho city. Larger Water maius wore placed in the streétawhicn bad proved to be crim- inally deficient. An attempt, but parlially suc- cossfnl, however, was made to recrgauizetho Fire Department. - Reforms in insurance matters were effected, and people arged by underwrters to exerciso more ndividaal precauticn. Hence Chicago in geveral Lias bencfited largoly Dy ita last fire, and i considerably boiter prepared against fiery visitations than ever beforo. Y THE REBUILDING of the territory burned over has protected its splendid business quarter with a durablo dé- fense of brick and stone, sad has largely im- proved that territory iteolf. It 18 morc in referonce to this im- provement than anyihing elso thas this article has been written. An accurate iden of the extent and quality of tbe rebuilding cnu be pained by thie iuformation produced be- low. As the annivereary of the fire is mearat hand, it will be interestiug to note the changes which-tho year has’ wrought. They bate beed many and valuable. A large extent of territory has been redeemed from a most " ed de- scription of buwildings whose presenee contiou- ally threateved the safety of the inside architec- toral _:Elondar. and hag rebaitc muck of it wil commodions,.. substantial, and often elegant structures, Wkile the ne- cessity for sn unnsuel acuvity was not 80 groat, the same energy and enterprise seen after the great fire have boen shown. 1Lhe work has gone on with marvelous celerity, and the buildings heve sprung up witha rapidity little ghort of magical. Each street in the burnt district has been canvassed, and every building, ite character, cost, and every vacant lot are mentioned below: e CLARK, STREET. A SURVEY CP THE DISTRICT BUBNT OVER should properly begin at Clark street, and follow a8 nearly 28 possible the course pursued by the conflagration. On Clerk street, at a point near- 1y midway between Taylor and Twelith strects, if this direction is followed, commences the dovastated territory. A low, two-story frame ‘building No. 533 marks the extreme south- western limit of the fire, its ecorched roof and charred sides still bearing witness of tle flames. It waa almost directly in the rear of this stwuc- turs that the conflagration broke but. "It will be recollected that it started in the dwelling of & Polish Israelite livmg on Fourth avenue, and rapidly assumed daogerons proportions by com- municatiog with a0 oil factory just in the rear. The direction of the wind urged the flames to the portoeast, but 80 intenss was the heat from the turpiog oil, and eo bighly imflappmsble was the swrounding materisl, that ihe fire worked back in the oppozite direction, and at & very earlv stage made 1ta appearancs on- Clark’ streer. Tiso courseof thewind, howevar, ren- dered it easy to check its march on that thor- oughfers, Dotwithatanding the combastiole char- acter of _the buildings. Hence Ciark sireet was bat slightly mjuored, and presents bot little chaage 10 appearance. ABOUT THIRTY HOUSES WERE DESTEOIED, and with but few. excepions they bave been re- stored. They occapied the exst sideof the st, the fire not at aoy time crossing to the 1875.—TWELVE PAGES, otber side, and were of tho dirty, cheap, dilapi- Guted " charscter of - those ko - bo " seon either above or below the territory now occupied by their more respectable and pro- tentious successors. They were “temanted largely by prostitutes and rum-gellers. The fire hae not redeemed it from thess evils. The pros- titutes and hquor-dispensors have returned to ibe new quariers, and possess extended facili- ties for their vocations. Probably that portion of Clark street will slways be occupied by these clasges, and & fire, whils it would undoubtedly rerult in 8 botier class of buildings. can never lead to its moral punfication. lnesmuch as the conilagration hus greatly improved all of the streets which it has devastated, it is a misfor- tune that it did not also take the Clark sirect rookeries, . IT DID GOOD WORK in_consuming buildings of the must squalid and wretched description. # A largs portion of the burned district bore sa bad a reputation for its buildings as it did for its ‘morals, and the fire facilitated an improvement which otherwise would bave been long delayed. The shantiea thst still encumber Clark street are almost as wretched as any of those destroyed, and it was really an unlucky cbauce that pre- servod them from destruction. They are mow gimply an incumbzauce, and a cause of low valoes in the real estate they occupy. They are tenanted by elasses who pay high rents, and theiwr owners sre not Likely to make any improvemont except in the event of their destruction. The tendency on tho street, as far as tho fire gave an opportu- nity, has beon to improve as well as ucon tho other. thoroughfares. The thirty buildings de- stroyed are, in the main, replaced by . VERY GOOD SUBSTANTIAL BIICK BTRUCTUBRES. No. 593, tho building at the oxremo south- western limit of the territory, bas not been re- moved or replaced, and it stands, an uaoccupied relio of tho fire. No. 531 wag partially destroyed, and has been reépaired, and supplicd with a brick front. ‘Nos. 523, 525, and 537 are robuilt, the e struct- udy being commodious three-story and base- ment brick stores and dwellings,.erected at & cost of about $4,100 each. ‘Nos. 519 and 621 have not yet been rebuilt. A’good two-story and basement block occupies tho atreet tram? . 511 to No. 519, Its cost way £11,000. . Two new two-story and basement bricks, worth 87,000, are at Nos. 507 and 503. From No. 507 the fire made & detour to the southesst, and the portion of the street to No. 495 esczped ipjury. No. 459 was the northern limit of the fire on’ this street, and the space frgm thérs to No. 4 is filed up mih a fine block of three-story and basement buildings, costing $50,000. ° (ST . FOURTH AVENUE. : THE BT STREET ; to be glanced at is Fourth aveoue, It was reslly the first one attscked by the fire, It was here that the miserable hovel in which the flames originated was ‘located, and here they gathered tho,strength to carry forward théir widespread destruction. They made extonsive havoc on this thoroughfare, snd licked up the fragile tindor- | boxes with which it..was lined with frightfal rapidity. They swept slong both sides of the strcet, ' copsuming about fifty baildings oo the west side, and & much lsrger nomber on the other. At No. 183on the west mids of the street tbey were checked, and from that p Harrizon street .the old teements romained, while the east was completely devastated. - 1 _THE CEARACTER.N? THE STEEET, both:in material-and moral aspects, is well known. Numerous honscs of prossitation still perpetuate tie ove, and tho nretched struciures remainiug stil tall of the other.. It waa nosori- ous: as a thoroughfare cccupied, almost to the exclasion of other classes, by prosatates. Prob- ably the majority of its bulldings destroyed ware houses of ill-fame, in which the rickest 22d ‘most attractive phases of the ewil were illus- iiated. The bumidings..nor devoted to this use wero occupied by negroes -and _impover- ished . half-starved | foreigners. With the exception of an occasional” brick or stane structure, ° occupied by prostitutes of the mors. fashicoablo clsss, the bmildiags were one and*ivio-story frames, clicap, combustible, sud uninhabitable for anv other peopls thao those who tenanted them. The sircet was unpaved, badly sewered. recied with filtu and noxious odory, and seemed diseassd with crime and pov- orty. Apparently it was desiincd to remain an ulcerous wpot, and_no thought was entertdined of improvingit. It is_probsble ttat it would Bave aliways preserved its_ odious reputation, its wqualor and naxtiness, bad it not been for the fire. Jhatevent turns out in its effects upon this streat to have been . A GUDSTANTIAL BLESSTNG. b A large shers of it has apparently besn Te- deemed, and it will not be Joag bafore it will as- sume the appearance of a fair business street. Tho lames that reduced its buildings to ashes operatod as a valuable purifier.. They drove oub the prostitutos, and the cbsnged character of the build ings bas not permitted them to retarn. Nearly sll the moat Dotorious ones have found now quarters farther down the atrest, and the caet side, at Jeast from near I'meitth to Har- rison streot, can be < UBED FOR BUBINESS PURPOSES. Andit s being . quité rapidly turced to such 2n account. A goodly number of suustantial brick buildmgs have been erected during thie vear, the most of which aro used for stores. Starting where the fire first 12ade its sppoar- ance o tha avenue, a few vaczent fois intarvene Dbefoio auy buildings are reacbud, buu afterwards they occar frequently. . by Nos.. 262 aad 264 are rebuilt in good etyle, with three-story and basement brick buildings. Cost, $14.0000 Nos. 256, 238, 260—Vacant Iots. No. 254—A handsome two-story and basement brick. Cost, 3,500, - 7 From this point to Taylor street, on tha west side, and on tbe east from No. 231 to No. 239, the lots are still covéred with ruius, though a considerablo part of the space wul be rebuilt this year. +Nos. 230, 292, 234, 23({ and 238—A row of sube stantial two-atory and basement bricks. Cost, abont $8.000. < 3 No. 223—Vacant lot. Nos. 224, 22414, 326—Two-story sod basement bricks. Cost, $3,800. - From No, 234 to 204—Vacant lots. i Noa. 202, 204—Two-story and Easement brick dwellings. Cost, $4,000. No. 200=Vacant lot. No. 198—Five three-story marble-fronts. Cost, £81,000. = % 5 From 186 to 198—Vacant lots. . No. i86—Three-story and basoment brick. Cost, $7,000. . - This- wes tho northiern limit of the fire on the west side of this avénue. OX THE ¥AST SIDE the buildings are more Dumerous. e “No. 239—Three-story and basement brick. Coxt, $6,000. ) From No. 239 to 207T—Vecant lots. Nos. 205 and 207—1Lhree-story and basement brick fronts,—stores, aud dwallings above: Cost, §12.000. - ‘. From 205 to 171—Vacant lote. - No. 171—Two-story and basement brick store. Cost, £3.000. From No. 171 to 163—Vacant Jots. Nos. 161 and 163—Fine_three-story and base- ment brick stores with dwellings sbove. Cost; E2 13,000 From 161 to 141—Vacant lots. L Now. 189 aad 141—Good two-story and base- ment bricks. *Cost, £5,000. No. 1837—Thres-story and basement . brick. Cost, & 6,000. Fronr 137 to 120—Vacant lots. No. 129 ~Handsomo three-story and basement brick. Cost, $7,000.: No. 127—Substantial sixagtory building otwned afl: o Religio-Philosophical Publishing Socfety. t, 825,000, From 127 to 119—-Vacant lots. No. 119—Fine three-story and basement brick. Cost, 36,000. ° . Nos. 119 to 111—Vacant lots. N Ncs. 109 apd 111—Three-gtory sod basement bricks. ‘The buildifgs oo the east side of this strest, are built throuzh to the live Dearborn strest ill pursue when it i8 opened, and are wupplied with'two fronts. When the laiter street 18 car- ried through, it will be but 66 feet east of Fourth® avenue. Henco the buildings aro rather shal- low, but bave the advantoges of enirances from both streets. e RSN S P THIRD AVENUE. W BEFORE THE FIRE. This street, before the fire a year.sgo, mad considerably grester pretensions to architeciural digmity than Fourth avenne or Clark ‘street: A govd rasny’of its buildings were of an Interjor order, buf thers were not infrequently among them others quite respectable in appearauce,. ond commodious.” A number of years ago the street had some claims to note as a boarding-house quarter of not s low degres of respectability. It had largely Jost this repnta- tion, however, at tha time of the fire, snd in & Iarze measure it had baen given up to the colored population. In the fire it sulfered to_sbout the same oxtent as did Fourth avenue. It waa not attacked so far eouth, as the high wind from the sonthwest caused the lames to make a detour in a northeasterly direction. Dut the same cause urged them further down it to the northward. Hence, whereas the fire left Fourth avenue at Harrison street, ic purened its wav along Third ;venue some distance north of that thorongh- are, $ Third avezue has not been very fortunate in o 115 HSBUILDING. Building operstions here have progresead very elowly, and a great share of the ruin3 that mark the courss of the conflagration are still un- disturbed. The few buildings, howaver, which have been orected are of a good class. Quite a oumber of them are three-story dwelling houses with Englieh basements, from which it would soem that there is a tendency to restore the street to a residencs quarter, The rebuilding cao be briafly described in its dnn:xer and extent. The fire, here, started at No. 254 on the west side of the street, a point great way north of Tweifth swroet. From @ to the corner of Taylor streot no bufldings bave repiaced thoss destroyed. At the junction of the avonue with that street thers 18 a little clusier of two-story brick dwellings, four in number, the cost of which is abouc 312,040, Betweea Teylor and Polk streets, on the west sido of the avenue, there have been e five wo-story und basement brick dwellinga. wotth probabiy sbout $10,000, The rest of the burned m:;;:llcb onthis side of the street has 'not been ebuils. £ ON THE EAST SIDE " considerable open tarritory intervenas between tlo point where the fire began to the first naw buildings. Beginning at No. 201 and extending to No. 181 inclusive, thera are five very subscan- tal two-story and Logiiah basement brick resi- dences, erected at a cost of €12,500. They are separated by a vacant lot between each. rom No. 181 to 173— Vacans lots. Nos. 169, 171, aud 173—Fine three-etory bricks; cost, $20,000. . From 169 to 157—Vacant lots. No. 157—1'wo-story marble frout ; cost $4,000. From 157 to 147—Vacant lots. Nos. 145 and 147—7Three-story and basement bricks ; cost $15,000. From No. 145 10.117—Vacant lots. Nos, 115 t 117—Two-story aud basement bricks ; cost $7,000. At the coruer of thisavenue and Harrison street the Jones Sohiovl hag been restored. The building is & fine four-story brick, much after the same style a8 the old one. aud cost $50,000. On the northeast comes of the same streecs proparations are miaking for the rebuilding of three buildinys there destroyed. iy} e ity STATE STREET. | BAPID YROGRYSS. Itison this thoroughfare that the most rapid strides in'Teconstruction have been made. From end to end of the burnt district the work of re- building bas been going forward with the greatest nctivity almost from the moment that the heated debria was cool encugh to remoie. Tna autumn months succeeding tbo July of the fire saw buildiug operations well under way, and.the sovere winter was not sufficent to stop them altogether. . Duriog ‘the lust spricg they were vigoronsly ronewed, and cow are stil going oo, the activity being less only because thera1s left _préportionately o hitle to do. The street, asthe vesult of this yaar of work: hos pesumed gaite 8. compact appearance, and had it not been for the marvelous rapidity of build:ng operationsdirectiy after the gread fire of 1871 its translormation Wwould ba something to excits unbounded won- der. By far the greatest amount of work doze in the burat district, has been concentrated hore, nnd consequently the .nnmber and the yaluo of 1ta new buildings is much in oxcess of those of ull the other devastated sircets combined. Iis prominence 83 a centrallice of travel, and its value as o business sireet, led fo thia bmaty restoration. The ‘property-owners cou'd nct afford to_retain. unprodsctive rewl esisia -on thewr hands, there was 3 good demand for bmild- ings in every sec:iog of the burnt portioa of this street, and everything urged a speedy recoa- struction. Those who were bold ecoush to begin rebuilmng at once, confident that basiness would return to tha street a3 eoon a8 thera were accommodations for it, were rewarded by gaod rentals. and the more timid ones profited by their example. As a conssqueace THE GREAT PROPOBTION of the street has been rebuilt. With a trne Chi- cago spint the property-owners tutced the fire to'a good account by greatly improving the char- acter of their buildings. 'The fire also saisled in tho aftirmative the question, which 8 long time before had been pressed somewhat by interested owners of State atreet prooerty. cf wideomg the gireet. The spirit of improyement thus sctat Liberty ‘has wrought s wondrous chaoge, Zand State stvest, from Yen Buren to Twelfth, is worthy to be compared with the gplendor whick disunyuishes it further north. 1t isnot didicult to recsll a6 *THE OLD APPEABANCE. of the State street district barped over. The giranger can obtain 3 very cocrect idea of it from an inspsction .of that por- tion sonth the restared torritory. Ite builliogs were generally ome and two- story frames, tuough euch buildings as the Conuinental Hotel, Wood’s Hozel, the St. James, and O’Neill's were exceptions. They were oc- capied by ail classes,—Americans, Germaos, Itaiians, negroes, Chinsss, and every other natiénaiity ; some given to prostitation, liquor- selling, and other employments not of the best repute, while the majority wero engaged in small trades. Most of these pursuits Lave been resuwed, and in & largo measare by the same peppla who followed them beforo the .fire, but under more digaified auspices, on acconnt of the improved character of tha buildiogs. LiyaTs. The firs made -its firat appearance on State streat in the house No. 514 and extended thence sorta to Van Baren streat, the St. James Hotel being almoat the laet: building on tho stroet destiosed. The terntory consequently which :as been rebailt is sometbing over half a mile in length. The following isa list and brief descrip- tion of tho structures newly erected: EAST BIDE. . Noe. 511 and 513—Bennett Medical College, a fine four-story and Manssrd roof, ornato marble front, erected at cust of 40,000, . 303—A two-story and basement brick. 32 No. 57—Vacant lot. . Nos. 495, 497, 499, 501, 508, and 505—Good sub- staniial threo-story and basement bricxdwellings and stores. ' Cost. .000.. v Nos. 493 and 401—Vacaut lots. Nos. 430 and 487—Fine throe-story bricks. Cost $14,000. " ° From 487 £o 478—Vacant Iots. Nos. 473 and 471—Fine fony-story brick dwell- ings and storea, Cost $20,000. From 4171 to 457—Vacant lozs. Nos, 455, 455, aud_457—Threc-story and base- roent bricks. Cost $21,000. . From 453 to 447—Vacant lota. Noz. 447 and 445—Tiree-story and: bisement marble-fronta. Cost 218,600, Nos. 415 to 431—Vacant lota. - Nos. 451 and 433—[hree-story aud ick: Nos. 429 and 427—Four-story marble fronfs, Cost $32,000. Nos. 495 sod 423—Fine three-story marble- fronta. Cost 18,000. . From Nos. 423 to 413—Vacaat lots. No. 413—Fin6 four-story and basement brisk. Coat $9.000. * 3 Nos. 413 to 405—Vacaat lota. i . Noa. 405 and_403—Threa-story and basement bricks. - Cost £13,500. N Corver Hubbard conrt—Corrigan's fine fgur- story and basement oroate-frozt, to'be used 88 & hotel. ‘Frontige 75 feet. Coat $50,000. No. 393—Fine three-atory and, basemient mar- ble-front. Cost $10,000. £ Nos. 551 and 389—Three-story and basement basement’ NUMBER 321, Nos, 503 'and 301—Tivo-story and basement brick-fronts, Cost, $7,500. . Nos. 516 and Sli—Th:mL ConB15000" ee-story marbls front. gu. 5121;“:‘:1“ lot. 08, 5! 508—Fina. fronts. Cost $22,000. {oms sy Rimle gmm fgii to 3‘91—,\\“1“ lots. o8, and 492-Threp-gto basem hr::J-l‘ ‘g:ll SdlS.OOO. v i Nos. and 483—Four-stol ement bricks. Cost $20,000. r’ b o From 433 to 480—Vacant lots. Nos. 480 and 473—Three-story and basement bricks. Cost $20,000. §o AT};de it lots. 08. 472 and 470—Three-st is. Cos Sisom, ory marble fronts. Nos. 463 and 466—Three-story marble-fronts now erecting; cost, $16,000. * No.464—Fine three-story and basement mar~ ble-front; coat, £13,000. . Noa. 462 aad 460— Vacant lots. gn. 453—456’1\“5::;?_ ‘marbla-frout ; cost, 83,000. 08, a0 “['w0 story an ant bricks; cost, $6,000. Si7 g basets From No. 454 to 448—Vacant lots. Nos. 446 to 430—Row of three-story brick and marble stores and dwellings; cost, 356,000. 03, 426 and Three-af and ent bricks ; cost, $13,600. il e From 424 to 406—Vacant lots. Nos. 406 o898 inclustve—T'wo-story bricka. Cost, $13,000. - 1 Nos. 396, 394, and 392—Thrae-atory and base- m!\gt bn;;:n. st, $20,000. Nos. s—g - fronl .00, ur-story marble t. Cost, Noa. 336—Vacant lots. 4 Noa. 38:+—Two-atory brick front. Cost, 34,000. Nos. 832, 880, and 378—Throe-story and biss- ment marble froote, now erecting. Coat, $24,000 -. No. 376, 374; and 372—Three-story and base- mene bréi:ka ll’;é);i Cost. $20.000, ° o8, 379, , and 356—Throe-story mach! fronts, Cost, $24,000. = ¥ e From No. 366 to 356—Vacact lots. * Noa. 353 and 356—Three-story and basement marble fronts. Cost, $18,000. Noa. 354 and 852—Vacant lots. Nos. 330, 8483¢ and 348—Three-story snd base- ment marble fronts. Cost, $22,000. Noa. 346 and 344—Vacant lots. Nos. 842 and 840—T\ it agem btk st Ooate S0 T paImnt ')l;n. 3;{4—“?;:: lots, Nos, 814 and 312—Thres-s ta. Cost et a0 tory marble fron! —_—— WABASH AVENUE, BCARCELY ANTYTHING can be 83id concerning rebuilding on this strent. 1t presents almost the identics] appearaaco that it wore ths day after the fire. Broken walls, twisted columns, henps of fractured stope and brick, still bold andisturbed possession. Afora- over, there seems po disposition to dwplace these unsightly ruins byaoy building operations. The avenue, in fact, is evideotly dead for tha presest as far, at" least, u3 its burnt discrict is concernod, and will not be movad until the best use to make of it csn be batter de- termined than now. At present its fotnra is s matter of great uncertainty. Lxperience gatoed after the fire of 1871 taught that it was not desirable as.a businesastreotsouthof VanBuren, and it is yet questioneble if it is valuable 28 3 residence district. Its palmy days ate gono. and at o plece north of Twenty-second street ‘doos it possees ils old-time valus and respectabilicy. Hence thero bas been _ NO DISPOSTITON TO RERTILD. The pricea of its real estats have 80 groztiy’ declined, and the probsbility iz 8o strong thad buildings, if erected. will stand untensated, tlrat none of the property-owners will Liazard aa vestment. How long this state of things will oxist, azd how loug_its rnius will conunae to cumber tho ground and distress tho eye, are dificals questions fo zuswer. Ubless bueiness shows =a atronger disposition 1Han now to drifc southward the avenus may nof* be rebuilt for saveral years. Thers s, Bowevar, a slight feoling in favor of building it un with residences anitable for boarding-houses, which, being convonient to the business quariers, it iy thonght wonld be pstronized by clerks and busi- ness men. If this sestimant gains the dsy. il may resuolt ia restoring this portion of the ave- nue in very much the same style it presented before the fire. THE LAST CONFLAGRATION began its work oa Wabash avenue, st No. 473, and was not stayed until it reached Van Baren street. In certsin portioos of its path tiere were eome fing residences, and tho streot wua still pervaded with an_aristocratic air. Lower down, where businces had pressed in aftor tho fira of 1871, the buildings, ouce 1esideuces of some pretension, had been tarned into stcres and offices. Many of them had been desested by the firms that occupied them while tho re- building of the city was going on ; bu at_tho time of the July fire a business savor still clung to them. Between Hubbard court and the stari- ina-point of that firs, however, several nota- ble charches and stylish dwelling-louses lent considerable dignity aod respeciability to the sireet. This fact is responsible, no doubt, for the want of a disposition to rebulld. The streot had lost muok of its caste as an aristocratic resi- dence quarter; and, after being barned out, the property-owners wers at liberty to seek mor2 fashiopable neighborhoods. There is, therefora, scarcely auy rebuilding to note. Most of the work haa been in the way of REPAIRING EUILDINGS )l Cout, $18,000. mi{:.bs—;;fl*mea-swry iad basement marble- front. Nos. 379a0d 377—Fiae five-story marble-fronts, now erecting. Cost, 825,000 "Nos. 875 and - 373—Two-story and basemesit £4: hrf\":g: sToxo:n‘h 869 —Fine three-story ornsts mar- Ble-tront. _Cost, $25.000. s Corner Harrisoo—P. O'Neill's building, & fine five-story brick. oet, $20.600. K No. 343—Three-scary and basement brick.: Coat, €7.000. - - g oocupied formerly by the St. Jémes Hotal has not been rebuw.lt. . “The space Nos. 329, 327, and 325 Three-gtory marble- tronts, Cost, $34.000, ~ - - : “Nos, 821-ond 323—Two-story and besement ‘brick-fronta. Cost, 87,030. but partially destroyed. At the corner of ‘Peclkt court s chesp row of brick residences. three- story and basemant, ara erecting. At thecoxner of Harrieon & fine five-story business block is puttiog up. These copstifute the etire baild- Ing operations on the street. Saveral busndss blocks st the lower end of the fire, which wets damaged, have been rapairod. i — MICHICAN AVENUE. THIS STREET SUFYERED LUT LITTLE, the southwes: wind camrying tho flarses away from its buildings ovar ruins of tho 1871 fireand the lake front. The most notable building on this thoroughfare destrored was the Michiysn Avenue Hotel, at the corner of Congresa strect. Tt has not been rebuilt. The residonos o J. ¥. Scammon and the Inter-Oceanic propesty, direct- ly north, also perished. . Thence to the pomt near the Gardner House where tho flimes wera at last subdued, thy ground was still covered with_the -ruins ieft by the great conflsgratiou. South of the _hotel meotiooed tha remdences in the line of the fire were saved aftor s determin- ed fight, the damage being confined to tho due- struction of 3 dozen or more hoases in the rear. Thess have beon rebmit. peadums S THE CROSS STREETS. BUT LITTLE DONE. The main thoroughfares Lave absorbed so mich attention that the croes streeta have been almose entirelv neglected. Scarcely an effort L:as been made to rebuld thers, and on nono of them is there hardly anything worthy of vole. Taylor strost. except 8t the junctious of tho ctreets montog sorth and south, bus sot been touched by tne rebuilders, and it is still siromed on both sides with tho rums left by tha ilames. LXK STREET. is fa the same conditioa. It is probably an wa- wolved question 43 to what bad Lest be done with tbess otreots. Thoy meze formerly lined with the wretclied hovels of the most indigent and vicious classes. The fire hay complozely altered tho character of ths neigbbasLood. but whether they can be best uged for smali retail pusiaceses ot for cheap tecements has ot been determined. HARRISON BTREZT bas becn untouched savein the erection of & three-atory ted basement brick dwelling-bodde betwwean Stato -troet and Wabash avenie. Nothing hzs been done oo HubWrd ot Peck courts. Thers seems a disposition (o zesiore Cougress_etrect, aud Al it up east from with remdences of a 1espectabls style. Several three-story marble-front dwellings baie besn erected, and archizects are’ prepanag plsos for othera. . 5 gty H SUMMARY. TOTAL VALUEZ OF BUILDINGS. The following is & summary. showing the total ~velue of she buldinza M daring the year : In coneliion it may b said, while Lhe fire up- debtedfe destroved matry obd bulldmigy, suckr 25 the First Dapisst Ciirsh the charohee ¥ 18