Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1876, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY OVEMBER 12, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. 9 ANUSEMENTS, The Last Week of the Italian Opera Season. TheKellogg Troupe-—-Concerts and Soirees---Local Miscellany. Art of Getting Up an Attractive Mu- sical Programme. Operatic Notes in This Country and in Europe. Miss Mary Anderson’s Debut at McVicker's. Her Ambition, Her Successes, and Her Hopes---Flattering Recommen- dations of Her Friends. Hotes of the Green-Rooms in Chicago ' nd Elsewhere, HMUSIC. . AT HOME. THE OPERA geason Is over. The second weck has presented pothing to make one very enthusiastic. We have had “Faust,” ‘Martha,” “Trovatore,” s Zemiramide,” * The Barber of Seville,” and «The Bohemian Girl,” which, in point of ex- ccllence, have ranged from a fair success to figsco. Perhaps nothing worse than the per- formance of *“The Bobemian Girl” has ever Dbeen heard in Chicago or the civilized world. It was so bad as to be unique; so utterly wanting in cvery requisite of music and action as to be simply & burlesque, relieved here nd there by occasfonal spasms of intelligence dlsplayed by Mr. Karl. If the people on the staze had just escaped from the mad pouse or au inebriate asylum, they aould hardly have done worse. As a whole, the season has been unsatistactory. It has given us a few enjoyable personations by Mme. Palmier], some good singing by Brignoli, Karl’s songs, and o fairly successful debut as dfar- guerite by Mlle. Martinez; beyond this, nothing. No opera has been prodaced with anything like an ensemble. And yet, so eager bave the people been to hear music that Mr. Strakosch will prob- ably leave the city witlk money in his pocket. Let.us hope that the next time Mr. Strakosch shall come here he will give his audiences some- thing like the real value of their money. Itis rumored that he is going to Europe to organize troupes for English and Italian opera next sea- son, and that he will retain some of the present organization. It is to be hoped he will keep as few of them as possible. The next event of general interest will be THE EELLOGG SEASON, which wiil commence on Monday evening, Nov. 20. Last week the troupe was in Cleveland, and did agood business with ** Faust,” ¢ Martha,” “ The Bohemian Girl,’? and * Mignon.” A dis- sppointment, however, was occasioned by the withdrawal of “ The Flying Dutchinan,” which bad been underlined for Friday evening. It is 1o be hoped this disappointment is not ominous 25 regards the Chicago season. This week the troupe will be in_Detroit, and do * Lucia,” & Mignon," “Faust,” and *The Bohemian GirL.” During the present week there will be several . HOME CONCERTS, occurring in the following order: On Wednes- day evening, the 15th, a testimonial concert will e given to Mrs. Carric L. Babcock, the organ- ist of the Ada Street M. E. Church, upon which occasion she will be assisted by Mlss Mat- tie C. Brewster, Mrs. M. M. Pither, Louis Falk, Fred. Brown, Prof. Prosinger, C. C. Leffler, ilie Blaney Quartette, and the church choirs in a very pleasant programme. On Thumfiay evening, the 16th, an ORGAN CONCERT will be given by Mr. C. E. R. Mueller, at the First M. E. Church, corner of Clark and Wash- ington streets, upon which occasion he will play a Bach passucaglip, Schumann’s famous fugue on *“B-A-C-H" op. 69, No. 6; Merkel’s sonata No. 2, op. 42; and a sonata in D minor of his own composition. The vocal numbers of the programme will be given by Miss Lizzie Hoyne and Miss Marie Mueller, pupils of Miss Flora Mueller. Mr. Mucller_has been absent five years from the city, studying the piano and or- ‘zan at Stuttgart with Profs. Faisst and Purck- Ber, a fact which will occasion considerable in- terest among musicians and musical people to beur him. On Friday evening a COMPLIMENTARY CONCERT, tendered to Miss Lizzic Foresman by the la- dies of Plymouth Congregational Chureh, will take place in the church. Miss Foresman is the contralto of the choir and a young musical student who is making such commendable progress as to warrant the hope that she will take a vers prominent position in onr musical cirdles, As this concert is given her in the na- ture of atestimonial, it is to behoged the benefit will be a very substantial one. The programme 1. V. Flagler Donizetti 3. Solo—** Garden of Roses'. 4. Reading—* Uncle Daniel's " Mrs. Lawra E. Dainty. 5. Trio—*¢ The Mariners " Jirs. Seymour, Messrs. 6. Quartette—** Martna Plymouth .Randegger Bowen 7. Solo.... A Bowen. “Betscy and Iare Out 8. Reading—< *‘Betsey Destroys the »Carleton apers " . 3-s. Laura E. Dainty. 9. Solo—** Tieaven Hath Shed a Tear™..Kuecken Mre. . 0. Seymour. 10. Duet—**Laci darem™.. Aiss Foresman und Mr. Bowen. 1L Trio—**Oi, Happy the Maiden™.... rs. Seymour, , and iliss For 12. Quartette... ..... - Oriental Qi MUSICAL COLLEGE. SQIREE. On Ssturday evening, the 18th, an extra soiree will be given at the First Methodist Church by the Chicago Musical College, for which no ad- mission-tickets will be needed. The programme isan elegant oue, embracing such numbers as the Wagner Centennial March; the Chopin Polonaise, op. 22; the Beethoven trio for piano, violin, and ’celio; and *‘Les Huguenots,” ar- for piano and violin by Thalberg and DeTieriot. The pupils who will take part are the Misses Clara Waters, Ida Buschwah, Alice Lansden, Clara Murdock, Emg Roemheld, Lizzie Foresman, _\2:?- Wishard,*Mrs. C. A. Beecher, Mrs. Leonard Ames, Jr., assisted by Messrs. Buisséret and Eichheim. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mlle. Martinez and Mr. Tom Karl will sing in the Third Presbytersan Church this morning. Sigr. Carozzi will soon resume his operatic and choral concerts, which were such & pleasant fea- ture of last season. Balatka opens his work in St. Louis with a concert on the 16thinst. by his society, the Arion des Westen, assisted by the Haydn Orchestra. Miss Jennie Busk is arranging for a presenta- tion of ““The Magic Flute,” ““Der Frelschuetz,” and “Robert Le Diable,” this winter at Me- Vicker's Theatre. She will bave the assistancé of good soloists and a chorus of 100 voices. Albites, the New York teacher and director, announces a concert in New York for Nov. 11, at which Miss Kate Douglas, of this uty_‘ was tosing. The friends of Miss Douclas will be glfl 0 know that she is making rapid progress her studies. The programme for the Turner Hall concert this afternoon will include Seiffert’s * Eaerther- Sangs March ; overture to * Der Freischuetz™3 finale to Bach’s * Ariele”; C(Jm;di‘;s “,Hu‘lewh esque potpourri”; Menzel's “Soldier’s Wan- %ecfln.fiop&'glotz"; " overtare ui “Strnd{:llnt’; : Reimboldt’s fantasie, “One Evenmg in Forest”; and Strause? ¢ Conferenz Quadrille.” The fand for music in the public schools is ot yet completed, althongh some progress is made constantly. There is at present much to oceupy public attention, but those in- terested ta sca mnsie tsught to anr schoolchildren should not allow this matter to bp cro_wde(l out of the mind by a press of other ::{1‘\: ';-:s l‘l}; b.‘]\;}{I{coL, Nai’é:'rfi State street, subseript; £ music send him $1 c:lx,tl‘:ns‘ RSl Associate members of the Apollo Clubnothav- ing received thelr tickets can obtain them by ap- vlyingat No. 156 State strect during the re- mainder of the month. Those residing in dis- taat parts of the city are requested to_obscrve this.* The Secretary’ has beea called East on business of the_Club, and the delivering of tickets and receiving of names will be left in charge of Mr. George H. Broderick. The pro- gramme for the opening concerts of the season Will shortly appear. The St. Louis Aepullican says: ** All lovers of rood music will be sorry to_hear that this well-known contralto singer is about leaving the city for a permarient residence in Chicago, where she has been engaged for the chois of the Clweh of the Unity—the Rey. Robert Collyer’s. During the last four years Miss Curtis has deservedly hicld a prominént place among the vocalists of 8t. Louis, and has esrned the weil-merited repu- tation of bing the foremost of our contraltos. Both n the concert-room and in the splendid quartette of the First Presbyterian Church ner beautiful voice has become €0 familiar that her departure irom among us will cause many re- grets and will leave a void in musical soci t casily filled. Miss Nellie Uhl will take Miss Curtis’ place at the First Presbyterian Church.” TIIE OPERATIC GODS. To the Editor of The Trivune, CHICAGO, Nov. 11.—In your issue of to-day I notice with no lurge degree of satisfaction the t criticism o’ the rendition of ‘* The Bo- n Girl ™ by the Strakosch troupe at McVick- er's Theatre last evening. While the article ais- plays much kindness and estended zenerosity on the part of the critic, I feel very sure it cannot meet with the unbiased commendations of the audience who were present. ** The audience took the affair, however, in the best of hamor, laughed at the numerous mistikee, and presceved its pa- tience, with the exception of cne of the * rods’ in the f?':\llury. who emphatically requested 3ir, Karl to go for’ the oflicer who was about to arrest 4rline.™ In the first part of the foregoing quotation I heart- ily acquiesce, but to the chiuse in refercnce to the **god™ Iiaustoer objection. When Moresfcin (Mr. Wilkie) was offer.ng to Arline (Miss McCul- loch) his admiration and praises through **Fair creature! fur creature!™ drline eecmed **stuck® on her liges, and instead of edging up to the prompter 1o obtain her ¢*cue,” or swaying abont as if offended, to distract from the tao patpable Dlunder, she stood stark still, and allowed the mis- take to puss over withs grim smile of careloss- nese. " ‘Then it woe that a.** god ™ in the gallery, w! patisiice \as thoronghly Gxhauted.: i 5 Toment of thoughtiess fecling for Mr. Wilkie, requested Miss McCulloch to ““goon,™ go on™! Mr. Wil- kic's role was in itself one liable to cast upon hig-really fine abilities, ns he was neverin- tended for euch a character, and it wonld have been much to his interest if **indisposition™ had caus- ed his non-uppearance. In regard to 3 XKarl, it can be said that his singing wa ingly finc, and bad it not been for the abominable per- formance **the *gods’ of the gallery” would have called him before the curtain at the end of the last act and tendered to him one of Chicago's enthu- siastic ovations. ONEoOF THE **Gops.” Our correspondent is both fight and wrong. ‘The god to whom he refers did request Ariine to ““goon,” and there was another god at an earlier stage of the proceedings who requested Mr. Karl to “ o for ™ the soldier about to carry off Arline. The one god was impatient; the other was indignant. PROGRAMME-MAKING. THE ART OF GETTING THEM UP. Tu the Editor of The Tridune. Crrcaco, Nov. 1.—Every professional musi- clan who is truly devoted to his art soon learns that the natural mind is hostile to the best usic. The question then presentsitself whether heé'shall bid for popular applause aud patronage by lowering the standard of his music, or hold tast to his high ideal, trusting to the cducation of the public for ultimatc success. This ques- tion is presented in a similar way toall artists; but its auswer seems to be more_imperatively demanded of musicians than of-any others. A great ideal picture can pass over the whole World till- it finds an appreciative pur- chaser. But a pianist or organist ap- peals only to his immediate audience, and the eficet of his music is instantancous. If people like it, they go again; if not, they stay away. Aond, moreover, people do not take home with them the music chey have just heard ; generally they do not cven carry away a vivid recollection of it. Their impressions are vaxue likes and dislikes. It is the duty of every pro- fessional musician to contribute his share'to the genuine cducation of audiences that listen to fim. This cannot be done in a spasmodic Wy, but must be the resalt of constant thought and much tact. Balatka was an illustration of low not to do it. Occasionally his orchestra would play in_ a half-hearted way a symphony ~ by Beethoven to scant and dwindling _audiences. Then despair would seize him. For long years, concert after concert. would be given, all badly performed, all well down to popular taste, and all on a dead level of merit. At last (for the “dyrupu]nr-musiu“ audience is fickle) he abandoned thic ungracious task and left ns. We do not_suffer, however, for lack of good musicians. There are, for in- stance, half a dozen thoroughly good orzanists here,—men who, like Mr. Eddy and Mr. White, Dave the nerve to play good music only. But let any one go tothe excellent organ recitals Mr. White is now giving at St. James® Church, and I think the trie difficulty will be apparent tohim. The programmes.are too good. Itis just here comes in the art of programme-mak- i«:t us take organ musle as a good example of all the rest. As music written for the organ rises in merit, it passes beyond popular com- prehension. Indeed it is the most ditlieult mu- sic to aporeciate. The best work of great organ composers has its beauty in such refinements, in such nice techoical adjustmeut of parts, in such scholarly finish and perfection of detail, tiat it is appréciable only by educated musi- cians. It is safe to assert that to ninety-nine cople ont of a hundred Bach’s ““St. Aun’s ‘ugue ” is unmeaning noise. So that, when a man goes to an orzan concert even prepared to be taught heisstunned and dazed by music utterly incomprehensible to him. Nothing could be more ludicrous than the position oi the average intellizent man, doing his level best to look highly entertained tnrough the performance of a long variation by Thiele or Merkel, that bristles with the beau- ties of double countcrpoint. To such suf- ferers let our organists make some concession. This docs not mean that they must abandon their high ideals and yoke their Pegasustoa plow. Iisimply means that they shall start on the plane of popular knowledge and soar aloft as unaccustomed eyes get used to the ‘¢ azure fields of air.” From the works of every com- poser & judicious organist, in arrangine bis pro- mées, can select such as are marked by Stronr melodic flow, by simple form, and by varied coloring. Or a programme can be first arranged in which prominence is given to such composers as Wely and Batiste, kc(gclng the beavier guns in the background. By small, slmost, imperceptible degrevs, this tlass of music is withdrawn, and works of a higherorder substituted. Our first acquaintance with -Bach 2nd such noble composers ismade through some simple prelude, when they are in their lighter, 1ess awful moods. We are not frightened away by lessons too hard for us, but learn to love the best music as men learn the Caleulus, by de- grovs. For an organist or_orchestra. conductor to do this requires paticnce and sowe time; but fhe demand on cither patience or time is by no e Gemiight be fangied. Tiwo Win- s < e Atals, or “orchestral con- ters given to organ recitals, or “orchest ccrt.s?with programmes arranged in this ascend- ing scale, would work wonders. Take the m ammes of any series of concerts we have Bere, except Thomus', aud the different selec: tions might be murrznficd so that cach would reinforce the other, and the entire effect be very atly increased. gmHuw" short has been the time since Thomas, a genius in programme-making, was giviug up his splendid orchiestra to Strauss, and Suppe, and Nicolai? Does auy onc lmow at what time, and by what mysterions process, these program- mes have so chianged their complexion that Chi- 0 people now o and listen with some intel- Jigence and pleasure to an_cntirc programme of Waguer or Beethoven? This is a subject to wluch our musicians should giveserious taought. A series of historical concerts, such as Osgood 2nd Petersilea have given in Boston, would a¢- complisn this result in some mecasure, but not ‘The best, indeed the only, Way to lar completely. 1 2 high standard cducate ular taste to a Db From conCessIon. is by system of n those musicians, especially organists, who Dave been well taught, and know 0od music, and who at the same time spend fbcir lives playing trash, nothing is to be ex- ccted. But may we not hope for gteps in the right direction from mcen who love their art well enough to make sacrifices forit? ‘There is also a matter of detail in programme- making I would allude to—the paper on which they are printed. At every concert thereare oliituaes of people who must continually refer to their programmes during the dger!armnnm of each piece, to divert their minds. With pro- mes printed on paper thai rattles the noise Secasioned by this divertissement is at times in-~ tolerable. Why caunot soft paper. De ased, or better still, 8 stiff card? The card would be very convenient, noiseless in use, and its more durable form would more likely insure its being kcpt,—san excellent thing. J.W.R ABROAD. MUSICAL NOTES. Mile. Titiens is very ill. _ Ml the planist. bas called Eagel, the eritic, ). a blackmailer, and Engel, the critic, calls Mills, the pianist, a liar. Charles Adams, the Boston tenor, has taken Hamburg by storm. _ X Mr. S. B. Mills will be the soloist at the first Cluncinnati Orchestra Concert. Minnie Hauck has made a brilliant rentres as Marquerite and Alda at Berlin. Mlle- Aimee is going to marry M. Darcy, a member of her opera company. Campanini, with Moriami and Castelmary, has been singin i Lohengrin® ot Trieste. " The Bayreuth performances have, it is of- Gclally statod, resulted in a loss of nearly 53,055 Schumann’s *Genoveva ™ is to be shortl duced at the Berlin Opera, with le: %fllflfg:; in the principal part. It is announced that Mme. Anna Bishop is to give a series of twelve concerts at the diamond- diggings of the Cape of Good Hope. 1t is stated that Offenbach’s next opera will be r!iound!e& 91%‘ J ullgls]\«'e;m’s tale, Dr.p0x's Ex- criment. e princi] tis to be Riz\damc Judic. prictipelonsis to.be plavel by Mme. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has earned fl,nooo {r&\vg f:;: ;.hoi Stoclfll,olm Academy of erel Arts, which is to applied ¢ benefiz of needy students. e et Albani is to sing at the Theatre-Ttalien, Paris, in January and February, 1877. She will appear in_ “Lucia, *Linda,” “LaSonnambula,” “Rigoletto,” “I Puritani,” and * Don Juan.” At arecent soiree d'invitation given in Paris by M. Le Marquis and Mme. Lu Marquise de Caux, me:ui)os::;s :)l;‘o fr(;m the ¥ Matrimonio” was sung by the three sisters, Adelina, Amelis d Corlotta Patti. R i ha The literary .works ‘of Robert Schumann, translated by Fanny Rayinond Ritter,—who has done so mucl service of this sort to music- al literature,—are soon to be published simal- tancously in England and Americs. Lucea’s concert tour in Germany is a total failure. She has applied to the English courts for a new trial to st aside the verdict of $25,- 000 damages to which she was condemned for the violation of her engagement with Gye. Offenbach’s “Voyage en Amerique,” with o Er'ccfm:e by Albert Wolff, the musical critic of Figaro, has been completed. It has, says Parisian rumor, been purchased by a foreign (query, Amcrican?) paper, which will publish it as a feuilleton. Gounod has promised to M. Carvatho the score_of “Georzes Dandin.” It Is, properl speaking, a musical sketeh in two acts, In whic) the greater part of Molicre’s dialozue has been retalned, as in the case of the ““ Medecin Malgre lul,” adapted by the same composer. The two weeks' season of the Kellogg En- glish—O?uns Company in Philadelphia was a re- markable one. The receipts for eight perform- ances reached the high fizare of $22.300, of which the *Bohemian Girl” may be credited with $3,500 and the “ North Star ¥ with $3,000. The production in England by Mr. Carl Rosa’s ‘English-Opera Company of Nicolo’s old opern, “Joconde,” has recalled a once very popular ballad, “We have lived and loved together,” the melody of which was stolen bodily from Nicolo’s work. The air in *“Joconde » is called “Dans un delire extreme.” Some little excitement has been caused in dra- matic circles in London Dby the refusal of a so- vrano songstress to sing in Verdi’s opera ¢ La Traviata,” on the ground that Violelta is an im- proper character. ~This is rather a serious mat- ter, for if our songstresses and actresses should become thus prudish, how would it be possible to put ““Don Giovanni ” on the stage? Gye, of Covent Garden, has been spending several days in Paris, and an arrangement has been concluded between him and Ullimau, as the representative of Mme. Materna, by which the latter engages tosing in London next May and June. Sheis to make her debutin the *Tann- hauser,” and will then appear successively in “ Lohengrin, *Iidelio,” and the * Africaine.” Mr. Carl Rosa’s’ speculation in English opera at London is still remunerative, although the revival of “Zampa” has not been as great a hit as.was expeeted. Mr. Santley is not iu very food voice this year. It is said that he bas been suffering severely from quiosy. ‘‘The Bohe- mian Girl” was presented ricently for the debut of Miss Cora Stuart, a_young~ lady who promiges to become a valuablc addition to the limited number of operatic singers. THE DRAMA. CHICAGO. DEBUT OF MARY ANDERSON. The first public appearance of Miss Anderson in this city will occur to-morrow night at Me- Vicker’s Theatre. Slie will essume the charac- ter of Evadne. The event is one of considerable importance in a dramatic scnse, and we view it as such, rather than with any reference to its bearings on the good or ill fortunes of the de- butante. There is not now on the American stage a woman who fills, or begins to fill, the position to which Miss Anderson aspires. Clara Morris is an exponent of what is known, in the technical slang, as the emotional drama; and even in this ficld her efforts are ham- pered by continued ill-health, which prom- fses at mo distant day to close prematurely her stage career. Rose Eytinge, whom we consider in her department the best living American actress, is past theage at which juvenile tragedy is for her a possibility. Fannie Davenport, who can act sometimes in modern society comedy, does not claim to be adapted for tragedy. Miss Anderson makes this claim. She attempts the whole range of tragedy short of the heroic creations, like Lady Macbeth. Her Meg Merrilies has been, in some cities, the part in which she was most admired, and in this she had not the advantages of youth and beauty to assist her, but had them rather to struggle against. Elsewhere she has played only a num- ber of parts, such as Julic, Evadne, and Parthe- nia, in which charms of person were cssential, but useless without the complement of true tragic power. Nobody who takes any interest in the stage can fail to view with interest the laudable ambi- tion of Miss Anderson, or to wish her success. Her success is to be desired, not so much for her own sakeas for thatof the public which delights in dramatic entertainments. Lf she has g and shows it, she will open up new possib. on the American stage. If she is conscientious and industrious, as well as a genius, she’ mna; bring back to the familiar repertory plays whic have been long banished for waut_ of com- petent actors to represent them. She may ustablish a new school of acting, or revive an old one. She may gather about her a num- ber of carnest wonien who will help her to purify the profession, or to_separate more dis- Binctiy the respectable portion of it from the disreputable. She may become o leader of thought, and by her uacting revivify the Amer- ican dratns, which first gave signs of life under the fostering care of Mr. Forrcst. She may do any or all_of these things—if she has genius and conscience. It would be extravagant to say that she will do_them, for we have as yet had no means of judging what her ability may be. The probability is, of course, that we shall be disappointed. Pretensions so great are seldom estabtished in solid work. But the fact that the pretensions are made, and that competent judges are found_to allow them, gives unusual intcrest to the debut of Miss Anderson in this city. {\'hat her friends say of her may not be bad reading at this tiwme. “A gentleman from Louis- ville, who admits being 2 prejudiced witness, writes as follows: % She was born July 23, 1559, 1t Sacramento, Cal., and_is now consequently in ber eightecnth year. Her family oceupies a position in what is called the best society, and Plie is in easy pecuniary circumstances. ~There is no need of her going_upon the stage. She carries with her nearly $30,000 worth of ward- robe and jewels. She is ive feet scvenand one- half inchés high, weighs 140 pounds, and pos- sesses great physical strength and endurance. She has never been tired m her life. She is graceful, casy, and remarkably handsome—ber Face and form of the Grecian type. She has light brown hair, dark gray eyes, fall ogfim. Whatcver she does, rhe does with all ber might. Wherever she plny;} she attracts the great_and lighly cultured. - Her voice isa decp, thrilling, magnetic contralto. This and her intense and realistic style of tragic acting cause her juvenile parts to be criticisedy but in the heavy parts she has never received anything but ungualificd praise.” An officer of high rank in the army, for whose judgment and sin- cerity we havethe greatest respect, speaks of Miss Anderson in a private letter thus: has youth, beauty, and accomplishments,besides the “spark of genius, somewhat rescmbling Julia Dean in her day, and em\flatingh the char- acter of Charlotte Cushman. e must be an entire stranger in Chi- cago ; bul as she is an Ameri- can all m'ur,t’I feel sure she will receive there the enconragement to which sbe is eatitled. I know her to be grorthy and most honorsble. After afair trial she can rest on her own merits.” The encouragement herc asked for we are sure the press and public will be most willing to extend, while still reserving for them- selves the 1 to judge whether, 10 the last analysis, Miss derson_ can be conceded the position which is claimed for ber. THE TRIBUNE will endeayor to ba to her fanlts & little blind, -900 tickets), and to her virtues ves kind nor so blind both to the yourg and to the public: 3 * NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. A dramatic agency bas been established at No. 155 Fifth avenue, Chicago. . Mrs. M. L. Cummings'’ benefit has been post- poned to Nov. 23, at Plymouth Church. Prof. Alfred J. Knight, the elocutionist, is to fill several engagements in Michigan this week, Mr. Edwin Booth reached this city Thursday from San Francisco, and has been resting quiet- ly at the residence of Mr. McVicker. Tuesdny evening, Nov. 21, *The Great Divorcee Case®? will be produced at McVicker's Theatre, aud will run on the off nights with the opera, The th has had a great success in the East. 1t will be represented with a cast sup- posed to be adequate. Haverly's Theatre will pc devoted to the usual round of excellent minstreisy this week. Saturday night Mr. Davis, the doorkeeper, has a benetit.” He is a very useful gentleman. Next weck Stuart Robson will nxgmar with his revised “Sandy Bar.” Dec. 1S, Adelaide Neilson be- gins an engagement. Oliver Doud Byron is to appear in an eatirely new and original drama writtcn by George Con- quest and Henry Pettit, entiticd Plenty of Money,” at the Adelphi this week. There will be nlso the usual varicty attractions. A week trom Monday, the Kiralfys with * Around the ‘World ” are to appear aguin. “ A Case for Divorce,” a translation of * Le Proces Veauradieur,” will be played at the JMuscum this week. The picce is another, but very different, version of *The Great Divoree Case” announced for representation at Me- Vicker’s. Itisabad omen for the success of the Muscum performance thut the printer has not been made to spell the name of the Freoch original correctly, but has trazsmogrified it into “Le Proces Vemdrieaux.” At the off-day mati- nees an operetta entitled “ The Twin Sisters,” from “ Girofle-Glrofla,” will be given. o Mrs. Laura Dainty will give o reading at the Plymouth Congregational Church next Thurs- duy evening for the bencfit of Trinity Parish, Highland Park, . Among other selections will be apicce written: for Mrs, Dainty by Mr. F, B. ‘Wilkie, of the >Chicago Zimes, entitled Our Baby on Shipboard.” - This will be the first ap- pearance of Mrs. Dainty in Chicago since her recent Boston successes, and her only appear- ance on the South Side this season. Tickets can be obtained at dansen, McClurg & Co.’s and at the door. Theentire proceeds will be devoted to the charity mentioned. Miss Anaerson’s full programme for the week will be as follows: Mondy, Tuesday, and Sat- urday evenings, Bvadne; Wednesday and Thurs- day, Parthenia ; Friday cvening aund Saturday afternoon, Jullet, The statement in Tue Tris- UNE last week that she would not play the last-mentioned character was, it seems, er- roneous. It was made on what was supposed to be the best authority. During the present cengagement Miss Anderson will have the sup- port of Mr. J. 'W. Norton, of St. Lonis, who will assume the parts of Colonna, Ingomar, and Komeo. Mr. Thorne will play Mercutio. THE OUTER WORLD. ¥EW YORE NOTES. Mr. Lawrenoe Barrett and Mr. E. L. Daven- port will reappear in New York, Dec. 2, at Booth’s Theatre. Willlam Wheatley’s funeral took place at the Church of the Messiah last Monday. The pro- fession was well represented. - ‘W. H. Crane has been confined to his bed by a severe attack of pncumonia, but is now up and playing Baba again at Niblo's. Mr. Edwin Booth has commenced proceedings inst Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer in reference to'the use of his name as applied to the theatre. The Count Joannes says that when he was on . thé stage he found life a burden on account of the large number of billels d'amour he re- ceived. Lotta is.to play at the Park in November and Owens in December, supposing the present management remains. Amy Fawsitt will prob- ably join the Park company. In consequence of the election excitement the run of “Life" at the Fifth Avenue has been E‘olunged till next Saturday, when “As You ike 1t,”” with Kannic Davenport as Kosalind, will certainly be produced. The Shanghraun was revived at Wattack’s on the 10th inst., with Rose Wood, Josephine Baker, and Mr. Stevenson in_place of Jeffreys- Lewis, Ione Burke, and J. B. Polk, and with the old cast otherwise unchanged. The New York Sun of a recent date says: There has never been but onc season of theat- rical prosperity at all comparable to the pres- ent.” - It i5 too soon to crow until the close of the Centennial shall reveal how much of the business has been due to its influence. The cast o*‘ Hamlet,” as arraneed for Mr. kind; but nefther so it caunot render justice rant for dramatic honors Booth's rea ce: as follows: % Clara Jennings, late of Wil- lack’s Theatre, as Ophelia, Miss JennieCarroll a8 the Queen, Mr. Milnes Levick as” the Hing, Mr. J. 3 Hardie 15 Laertes, Mr. Hart Conway as Horatio Mr. F. Pierce as Polonius, and Mr. Fred Robinson s the Ghost. **The Fool’s Revenze,” with Mr. Booth as Bertuecio, will follow * Ham- let.” Mr. McVicker has begun o mizhty war with the ticket-speculators in New York, as the fol- Jowing extract from his advertisements will show: *The sale of tickets will commence at the office of the Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 15, at 9 8. m., and continue till 6 p. m. dai- 1y. The manager notifies the publlc that no tickets will be placed in the hands of specula- tors, and no speculation will be allowed at this theetre. When the ticket-oflice opeus the din- sram will be clear, with the exception of a lim- fled mumborof seats placed at 111 Brondway and at the principal hotels (in all not excecding they will be withdrawn trom these placesif an exorbitant advance is demand- cd. The manager receives no_share of the ad- vance, and hence it can be_made liberal and pay well for the accommodation rendered. Every facility will be offered the public to purchase tickets at the theatre at the regular rates, 31.50 for secured seats, and the manager hopes to re- celve the aid of his patrons in protecting their interests.” It is well understood that the New York managers who employ speculators recefve two-thirds of the profits accruing from toe ad- vanced sales. Mr. McVicker has shown much cournge and self-dental in stampirg out. this in- iquity. GENEBAL AMERICAN NOTES. Olive Logan’s *Surf "’ was not much admired by the people of New Orleans. Mr. John McDonough is soon to play Falstaff at the Walnut Street Theatre. Pluladelphia, Mr. Dion Boucicanlt is said to have made from “The Shaughraun? the pleasant sum of £250,000. Sothern and Augusta Dargon will be at Cin- cinnati this week, and Adelaide Neilson at Pittsburg. “The Black Crook " reached its 100tk repre- sentation at the New National Theatre in Phil- adelphia last week. The next attraction at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, will be “Money,” with McKee Rankin a5 ifred Fvelyn. The Boston Globe says that Miss Lillie El dridge lns made 2 hit in the role of ignon i Chicago. Not within four years. J. H. Stoddart_gave his excelient impersona- tion of Aoneypenny in *The Long Strike” at the Brooklyn Theatre last week. P. A. Fitzgerald, the actor who hung himself in Philadelphia, was considered onc of the bes impersonators of Legree, in ,*Uncle Tom’s CaEIn," in the country. 9 Mark Bates hias taken the place of Theodore Hamilton in_the *“Sandy Bar company, of which Stuart Rubson is the head. Mr. Humil- ton’s geparture was very sudden. The following amusing paragraph is floatiog arounds *Fragkc Mayo o obtatied a new play dramatized from George Eliot's * Danicl Deron- da,) which he will shortly produce at the Cal- ifornia Theatre, San Francisco.” We are repared mext to hear that somebody E«ns ‘dramatized ten chapters of genealogies from the Bible. Among new American pleys, whose early per- formance in various cities is appounced, are: ¢ Destiny ” and “Only a Woman,” both written by the athors of * Conscience;”’a new comedy by the veteran John Brougham upon the peren- dramatic topic, “ Slander; ” ** Old Titles,” by a California playwright, Thomas Fitch, which will be bronght forward in San Francisco. . Fur;'b %hcmm-m Was atc:;nhmm last wi?;:t;i the Company at_Ci nati; Rose (3 at Buffalo; Lucille Western at Detroit; A Raymond at Toronto: Mary Anderson and Sothern at Pittsburg; Fechter in _cities on the line of the New Y‘:)Ir%{ Central Railroad; Ben De Bar at Waal n; Genevieve Rogers at Balti- more; Adclaide Neilson at Philadelphia; Rob- sou and Jansuschek at Boston. Itissaid that Mr. Boucicault contemplates adding another and a last plufiw his series of Irish 85, of which the * Colleen Bawn®’ was the first, and *Arrah pa Pogue,” *‘Daddy 0'Dowd,” and “The 8haughraun " are more re- cent examples. His new plsy, which was sug- fested by the recent esczpe of the Fenfan pris- oners from Australia. will be in four acts, the first-oceurring in Dublin, the second in Boston, the third at the Australian Convict Colony, and the last aboard a ship at sea. The New York Tribune says: * A private let- ter from Mr. Edwin Adams, in Australia, states that he has been shipw ed and seriously ill, but is very much better and playing to crowded houses.” ” Per contra, the Dramatic Vews has positive information that Adams is dead. POREIGN NOTES. Mr. Irving is to have a historical play written for him by Mr. Wills. ‘ A company of French actors is now perform- iog French comedies in the Royalty Theatre, London. They have alrcady produced “Le Pa- nache” and “Les Vieux Garcons.” Mr. W. 8. Gilbert says of modern dramatic literature, through the mouth of Tom Cobb: ¢ Like a provincial Richard II], it may not be very good, or very strong, but it takes a long time dying.” Miss Bella Pateman, a well-known American actress, was to bave made her London debut as Lady Clancarty at the Olympie Theatre Oct. 23. Mer. Barry Sullivan will next appear as Macbeth at Drury Lane. The French Minister des Beaux Arts has for- bidden the production of- & new play by the au- thor of ““Kome Vaincue” at the Odeon, not wishiag to have both the important subsidized u‘xfia\-es of Paris occupied with the works of an n. M. Duvert, the French dramatic author, who Qicd the other day, though a writer of fively comedies, always wore an extremely melancholy appearance, which so_strangely contrasted with his brilliant and playful imagination that witt; Henri Burger said he resembled a coffin witl cap and bells. ) +Mademoiselle Didier” at the Paris Gymnase has failed. The dependence of the managers now is on Alexandre Dumas’ new piece, which is to be called ** La Comtessc Romani,” instead of *‘Le Mari ¢’un Etoile.”” The plot treats of the misadventures of 2 nobleman married to a prima donna. The new Court Theatre in Dresden, of which the first stone was laid in 1871, is now fast ap- proaching completion. It will be, the German papers assert, the finest edifice of the kind in all Germanyy as wetl for its size for the magnifi- cence of its decorations. "It is:/8¥finzed to seat 2,000 spectators. i Paul Nicart, director in his time of many of the small theatres in Paris, is dead. Heusually dated his correspondence from the Debtor’s Prison_of Clichy. One day Dumas called on lim. The turnkey said that M. Nicart had lefv the prison that morning. * Well, I.will wait till be returns,” answered Dumas and took a chair. The London Times pronounces the new drama of “ Pecksniff” at the Folly Theatre a failure, and says no writer of fiction whose works have been adapted for the staze has been treated with more persistent ill-fortune than Dickens. This seems u pretty sweeping assertion to make, in view of **David Coppertield,” *“Littic Em'ly,” “All for Her," “Bleak House,” and *“Nicholas Nickleby.” . The leading idea of ‘Pjerrctte et Jwbnot,” the last farce of M. Gille, to which, M. Offen- bach has sug:;ied music, is droll. A" man, who by mistake been awarded a medal for hero- ism in saving life, finds his conscience trouble him at wearing an unearncd distinction, and lays himself out to merit his honors. Impatient of delay, he plunges at length into a torrent after an imaginary victim, and, after extricating himself, finds bimself worthy to bear his decora- tion. HUMOR. It was a 8-vear-old who remarked that she didn't wantto kiss her papa because he had ¢ fringe on his month.” ¢ Have I not, my son, given you every advan- tage? © Oh, yes; but I couldn’t think of tak- ing advantage of you, father.” At the volunteer camp: Sentinel—* Who goes theret” Officer "of the Day—** What? Not know me? Your tailor.”—~2aris paper. ' There is nothing more truly insinuating and deferential than the waggle of a little dog’s tail in the presence of & big dog with a bone. . 1If Mrs. Brooks, the ¢ Butter-Woman,” takes to sculpiug in stone, she will be a sort of lapi- duiry, won't she—Philadelphia Bulletin. It’s all for the best,” remarked Blinks, with asigh, as e paid for the hat he had lost. “Nay,” interposed the lacky man, **’tis all for the better.” First Chiffonier—* Why don’t you pick up that bundle of papers?” Second - Chiffonier— «Why should I! They are Turkish bouds.” —Paris paper. Ole Bull is the fine violinist; but his brother, Sitting, can just knock the socks off any of the family in the dexterous handling of a blonde scalp.—Burlington. Hawkeye. An old gentleman who is getting ‘“ thin at the top? says, ' Always pick out .o bald-headed ‘barber to shave you, because he can’t consist- ently ask you to buy any hair-restorative.” It is related of Dr. Garth, in his last illness, when he saw his fellow-doctors consulting to- gether at his bedside, tnat he raised his head Trem bis pillow, and said, with a smile: * Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.” A Georgia colored debating society was lately discussing, * Which is the best for the luborinF 1an, to work for wages or part of the cropt’ Anold “unce” spoke the sense of the meet- ing when he though * Bofc was de best, if dey could only be brung togedder somehow."” “ Frank,” said an affectionatc mother, the other day, to s promising boy, “if you don’t stop smoking and reading so much, you will get so after awhile that you won't care anytbing about work.” “Mother,” replied the hopeful, leisurely removing s very long cigar, “Ihave got 50 now.” ! An elderly darkey was inquiring \of a police- man if he knew anything of his son\Pete. The policeman replied that there wasa young darkey in the lockup for breaking up a _prayermeeting with an ax-handle. “ Dat's him,” exclaimed the overjoyed parent: ‘‘he told mene wusgwine to ’muse hisself.”” On a side street. Some one is hurling “chairs, pictures, casels, lay figures, tables, ‘vases)- an the like from saupper window. Passer—* Great heavens! What unh:sb;:ly painter is this_whose picture has been rejected?” Porter—* Wait a, moment and we’ll see. He'll throw himself out "} shortly.”—Paris paper. “Things is getting slouchways in dis country, T declar 1o grishus of dey ai't,” sald an old negro, the other day. ‘‘Fust cum de catty- piller, den de chicken-kollery, an’ now here cum de grasshoppers; an’ I hear talk de udder day dat’s nigger was pisencd with a mushmillion. Looks like bard times,—you heerd my horn.”— Savannah News. . ! s there an opéning here foran intellectunl swriter? said a very red-faced youth, with the corl-of a bottle sticking out of liis breast pock- et. The cditor ‘with much dignity took the man’s intellect in and said, ** An'opening? Yes, sir; a kind and considerate carpenter, foreseeing your visit, left an opening for you. Turn te knob to the right.” . Hosts and Guests.—Gnest: * Good by; en- joyed ourselves sa much!? Host: “So sorry you are gomng. Now, can’t we persuade youl ~}iow the time has sown! Hope we shall see ag—" Coachman (confidentially): * Will Of make em too laté for the thrain, sor? I can asy—» His Master (in dumb show): *If you dare, sir! Drive like the —1"'—Punch. Saturday vight an_ enthusiastic Democratic olitician returned to his_home at his usnal hour, 1:30 2. m., aud_found devery door in the house lucked tight, while a_transpareucy in one of the up-stairs windows brightly beamed on the night with the legend, * We must have a change.” He mercly remarked that that was a little too much usufruct for him, and weat and slept in the woodshea. - Levi, to man.with second-hand coat to sell: “Do you know how much I wouldn't gif for dot goat? I gif twelve shilliogs.” Owner: “It's worth five dollars.” ¢ Fife tollar? . Shust wait till I gall my wife and dell dot we haf a lunatic in der store. Why, mine goot frent, you must haf been sunstroke by der heat last summer.” And he got it for two dollars. Same man in the evening to Levi, while examining same coat: “How much for this old coat?” "“Old goat ! why, dot goat was made only last weck, and worn_to one party.” «I'll give you two dol- lars.” “Two!. Here, wife, hurry up! Put up der plinds, lock, der doors. Shust tink of dot man offering me.two tollars for dot goat what %ou”lymnght of a great alderman yesterday for ve! - A MUSICAL GLUTTOS. He waited for his oyster-stew; ‘And drummed upon his plate A solo with his plated fork, And thus did meditate: <1 think one plate will not suffice; 1 think I would not rue It 1t 1 sbould take another dishl T'11 do it,—yes, T'll duet.” He took his stew, he took his two, And then he heaves a sigh, O, U8 ear, ** Another dish I'll trio. Another, and another siil; In fact, whe had be . This human oyster-depot bad A quartet at the Jeast. —HBoston Tronscript. REAL ESTATE. The Loan Market, Like Other Business, Suffers from Election Ex- citemént. The Sales of the Weok Not Numerous--- Some of the Principal Trans- ' actions. Interesting Exhibit of the Net Income from Some of the Ohief Business Blooks of Chicago. Real Estate in San Francisco and New York--New Sub-" divisions. The past week was a dull one. The Presl- dential election, with its after-anxicties as to who was the successful candidate, affected all classess of business, and the real-estate loan market, chronically suffering, appears to have been more than proportionately affccted. The volume of business is very small. Some good loans have been placed at good figures,—we mean for the capitalists,—for no money has changed hands at a lower rate than 8 per cent. Seven-per-cent toney cau still be had on good improved business property. Building loavs are generally to be bad at 9 per cent, and there is but little disposition to shade these rates, loan agents consideringz the trouble connected with them scarcely sufficient compensation. Payments were only fair, and were not quite up to the mark of previous weeks. The number of releases filed for record shows a falling off. Many incumbrances are paid off without going through the regular routine of a release deed, ‘being merely noted on the margin of the record- ed instrument. These are more in number some weeks than others, and }:encmlly escape notice. This fact mey account for the compara- tively small number foted, us loan agents do not make u.n;rlom! complaints on the score of defaulters. The jmportant transactions of the past weck were o5 follows: Indiana strect, 80 feet, north front, southeast corner of Dearborn street, $18,000, five years, at & per cent. * i Same property, $10,000, one year, at 10 per cent. No. 519 West Adams street, $7,000, three and one-half years at 8 per cent. Edwin ‘Walker's stone quarry_at \Lemont to se- cure $30,000, payable within 150 dayg from June 23, 1876, with 8 per cent interest. Indiana avenue, 76 feet, west front,\north of TThirty-sccond street, 7,000, five years\at8 per cent. Four acres at Pine Grove, $10,000, three years, at 8 per cent. 5 North Water street, 80 feet, north front, by 104 feet, between North Dearborn and North Clark strects, $15,000, five years, nlfl{)er cent. ‘West Washington street, 57% fect, ‘south front, by 124 feet, northwest corner of Hoyne street, $14,500, three years, at9 percent. \ COMPARATIVE STATENENT FOR THE WEEK ‘EXDING Nov. 1l. 1876, 1875. T Instruments| —— — No. ) Csiderat'n| No. i C'siderat’'n. Trust-deeds| 140 206,847!| 231i8 ©80.405 Mortgages. .. 30| 40,048)| 42| 108,946 Aggregate..| 170§ 337,796i 2735 795,351 Releases...| 124l .cooeeni] 2481, COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FROM NOV. 1T0 Nov. 11. 1876. | 187 Instruments, ] b | C'sideral’n| No.| C"siderat’n. ‘Trust-deeds| 'S 546,154 406!5 1,134,209 Mortgages. .| 82,633\ 75| 261,707 Aggregate..| 200(S 628, 787|| 481'S 1,396,068 Releases ...| 211f............]| 399].... wane SALES OF THE WEEK. The transactionsof the real-estate market during the weck have not been important, as ublic attention and the interests of capitalits have been diverted to- the political sitnation. Some of the sales of the weekwereas follows: Ira Brown has ‘sold 4 cottage and lot at Des- plaines for 31,000, and thirtcen lots at La Grange for $1,300. Timothy Wright sold 400x250 feet on the southwest corner of Clark strcet and Dewy court ta Charles Hitcheack, for $18,000; also, to same party, lots on Wrightwood avenue, near above, for $10,000. Robert Morris sold to C. H. Walker the undi- vided one-third of 596x532 fcet on the southeast corner of, Drexcl boulevard and Forty-seventh street, for $33,338. James Soper sold house and fifty-foot lot on the northeast corner of Centre aveuue andJack- son street, for $10,000. Charles Stein sold the northeast corner of State and Twenty-fifth streets, p0x119 feet, im- proved, for §22,000. B William C. Snow sold building and lot 48x 903¢ fect on Washington street, 40 fect east of Franklin, for $55,000. 7. M. Frenchi sold the 3story and marble front house, No. 1 Langley avenue, for $10,000. Benjamin E. Gallup, trustec, sold two lots in Block 4, Butler, Wright & Webster’s Addition to Chicago, to John T. Dayis, for $14,000. Tenry Horner sold to J. ht}gcrm\m 1195119 fect on La Salle street, south of Division street, for $18,400. William H. Woodbury sold to Charles W. Baker 95x125 feet on West Madison street, one 1ot west of Lincoln, north front, for $21,000. _T. & M. Kneale sold premiscs No. 164 Ash- land avenue, a fine residence, to William A. Baldwin, for $11,000. SATURDAY'S TRANSFERS. The " following_instruments were filed for record Saturday, Nov. 11.: GITY PRUPERTY. Tlinsche st, 148 fus w of Cl{houm av, ns w {, 20x70 3-10 ft, dated Nov. 8.. 1,000 De Ralb st, 312 {t s of Flonrnoy st,n w{, 48x100 ft, with improvements, dated Nov, ... weoee 9,000 West Jackson st, 8 e cor of California av, n f, 20x100 ft, dated OCt. 27..0..vvevens 850 North State st, 50 1t n of Schiilerst, e f, 453132 9-10'1t, dated Nov. 1%..... 6,750 North Lu Salle st, 65 fus of Chestnu w f, 44x101 ft, drted Nov.1I..... 18,000 Homin av, n W cor of Sixteenth st, 148x195 ft, dated Sept. 1,000 Homan av, 475 ft » of Fiftee: X125 ft, dated Sept. 20 1,000 “Milwaukee av, 18 fu s ¢ of Oakley at, s w , 22x100 ft, dated Oct. 3.. 1,000 NORTIL OP CITY LINITS WITHIN A BADIUS OF SEVEN 1, North av, 49 ft ¢ of Davis st, 1t, dated Nov. 11.... MILES OF THE COURT-BOU:! Lincoln av, near Marianna st, nef, to allcy, dated Nov. 10. 1,000 S0UTIE OF CITY LDNITS WITRIN & RADIUS OF GEVEN M(LES OP TITE COUNT-HOUSE. State st, 723 1t n of Forty-eighth at, wf, 25x160 7-10 ft, dated Nov, 4 1,500 State gt, 4745 ftn of Forty-eig] 25x160 7-10 ft, dated Nov. 6. 1,500 Wentworth av, 192 ft 8 of Fift, w{, 24x137 ft, dated Oct. 28 500 SUMMARY OF TRANSFERS FOR TIE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within s radiusof seveniniles of the Court-House filed for record during the week ending Saturday, Nov. 1l: City sales, fifty-four; consideration, $296,506; north of city limits sales, 6; consideration, $1%550; outh of city limits sales, 8; consideration, $75,29. West of city limits sales, 1; consider- ation $1,416. Total sales, 69; total consideration, NEW SUBDIVISIONS, There are bt few subdivisions made for the purpose of placing property on the market these days. Since the beginninz of the month one only has been filed for record,viz. : a sabdivision of Lots 7J_and 50 of Thomas Stinson’s Sub- division of Block 54 in the E. 3¢ of 3. W. X Sec. 7, 39, 14, situated at_the northwest corner of Hoyhe and West Washington streets, making two lots (mnung east on Hoync street and three lots south front on West Washing- ton strect. There is perhaps nothing so sigoificant of the dullness that pervades the market as the scarcity of ncw plats filed for For tbe corresponding period last .year there were six boma fide new sub- divisions, in 1874 there were nine, in 1878 the same number, and ten in 1872 Demand must bave fallen to the lowest possible point when owners are indisposed to g0 to the expense of subdividing the many blocks even within the city limits, "which are inviting im- provement, and sleep comfortably on_ thelr su- urban territory in its primeval vakedness,with- out fear of being roused by importunate buyers. 'PROPITABLENESS OF CHICAGO REAL ESTATE. To the Editor of The Tribune. Chc‘:gcmo, Nov. 1}; I e l]tluaineas centre of 0, DOW occupl )y the principal busi- ness houses of this city, rebuilt ]u)inlz the great firc in the most elaborate, conveaient, and ar- tistic manner, has gained for itself a wids reputation, and should be classed as belonging to the most substantial and profitable realty of the United States. When men irom New York, Massachusetts, Peonsylvania, and other Eastern Btates come here to invest thelr unemployed capital, instead of asing pearer home, Fresier broporton, 1 spcaks.Joudy o tator of T D) , ouc yor of this wonderfnl centre of mmma%e. and indi- cates its superiority over the older Eastern cities. Oneuqfixzrlanmrmfimndx months $4232,000-worth. of | property here, and our resident capitalists are buying u; bargains in this class of property constantly. Enough has already been smd about the significant movement of A. T. Ster- art & Co. in coming to cmmz?}. Tn,h bi'.:g spoken cloquently throughout the United Ststes in favor of - this metropolis. A consideration of the size and rental of fome of the largest business blovks will show that Chieago even in these dull times has a centre of trade maguiticent in its proportions, and elegant. in its azebitecture, for which her business men mzy an anuual rental of from 7 to 10 per cent on a fair valuation now of the property occupicd. Forexample take one building on Wabash avenue, tive stories hizh, situated on the curner of one of the principal streets runming cast and west, covering the cntire lot, 145x160 feet, aud payiog now a rencal of $45,000 per annum, or x net income of 10 per cent'on 400,000 over all expenses, which are light. Another pruminent building on State street in the neizhborhood of the above, 100 fect front by 90 fect deep, with an elegant five-story building covering the entiro lot, titted up for stores ou the wain sturies and coutaining a tine passenger water-clevator and artesinn well, under leases made durinyg the pres- ent year, rents for $13,000, and after taking out expenses and taxes Will pay the owners nearly Y per cent on 3 valuation of $400,000—or $400 nnually per square fool. The_ property recently sold to 5. Crozer, Esq., Nos. 149 and 151 State streer, J0xLHM and five-story building, for SWU5,000 cash, pay $11,500 ber annut, which, arter deducting all taxes and insurunce, will leave & net income of 8¢ per cent or 9 per ccut oz the investment. ‘fhe Major Block, a fine five-stors stone front, covering G6 fect on Madison street dy 135 feet on Ladalle street, and purchased only six months ago for 325,000 by the same party, pays now a net anaual reveaue of 7 per cent. ‘Another building of note, veeupyin the principal central business corners, a five- story stonc building of fine architectury, cover- ine a Jot (6x105 {ect, pays a gross rental of Fk- 000, leaving an income of 8 per cent on $300,- 00U after deducting al! taxes and other expenses connected with the buildiug, or $3.46 1-10 per square foot. Still another elsborate and substantial stone- front building, coveripg & coruer lot 80 fect front by 120 deep, and five storfes hiygh, not far south of the above-meutioned building, on Statc street, pays $42,000 per annum, leaving 3 net 8k er cent on an investinent of $00,000, or $3.5¢ -10 per square {0ot. A substantfal four-story office builling on South Clark street, on the Court-House square, covering a lot 4363160 feet, paysn ow 15,500 per annum gross rental, which leaves, after deduct - ing all taxes and_¢Xpens¢s—which are lizht, as therg is no elevator in building—S8 per vent net on $200,000. Anotler office buitling, with storc below, on Clark street, r tly sold for $65,~ 000, pays & gross rental of $5,700 per anzum. A tire-proof four-story and basemnent stone- front block on Dearborn strect, occupying a cor- ner ot 40 8-10x90, now rentsin the ugguregato for $26,700, with light expenses; insurante only 3§ per cent, and o’ clevator; with taxes of $2,000 per annum, which will leave S per cent income per annum on $300,000. Another build- ingon Washiagton strect, cast of Deurborn street, 40x170, five stories high, with lot 40x190; is rented for 4 term of years for 510,000 per an- num over all expenses, Which s over 10 per cent. on its appralsed value. Large amounts of money areoffered at_7 per cent on such buildings—30 Der cent on fair valuativns. ‘These are onty o few of theinstances I have had my attention called to in looking about the city for partics secking investments in this class of ‘property, where the interest on a fair valua- tion of individual blocks amounted to 78, 9, and even 10 per cent nct. If thisis common in cther citics throughont the States, let St. Louis, Cincinnati, New York, Boston, and other prominent citics put in an appearance and show cause why Chicago central business property should not be considercd among the best paying realities of the country. 3 B. A. Urmich. REAL ESTATE IN NEW TORR. ‘The shrinkage in thevaluc of unimproved lots in various parts of the city differs widely. For instance, the shrinkage on Fifth avenue lots, that is to say the tew that are in the market, does not generally exceed 10 Hur centum; and on houses in the same nvighborhood not more than, 20 per centum. Thesc estimatcs are on lotsand. houses situated on and in the immediate neigh- borhood or the avenue, between Washington Square and Flflg’-nintll street. North of Fifty- nth street and up to Onc Hundred and Tenth street the shrinkage has been more heavy. On Harlem flats, above the park, the shrinkage has been fully 50 per centum, and in many cascstha enormous assessments have confiscated the pmpv:niyl which the Assessors very facetiously say in their reports has been benetited thereby. ‘Untown property-owners say that tnese boule- vard improvements arc twenty years in advance of the wants of the city, and they assert that a greater wrong was mever perpetrated on real estate owners. These so-called improvements are still going on, and_property-owners of mod- erate means are the immediate sufercrs. The -présent effect of the improvements has been to Tetard_the uptown growth of the city.—New York Eveitng Post. v REAL ESTATE IN SAN FRANUISCO. Two hundred and eighty-tour real estate sales were made in October; value of $1,040,211. The sales of October excecded those of September by twenty-seven in number, and by #507,667 in value. Despite this increase last month, thera was uo_general improvement: indeed, greater complaint of real estate dullness was made in. October than in any one month for a long tume past.—San Francisco Jieal Estate Record. ———————— - OUR THURSDAYS. . The dressing-room is crowded; did You ever hear such chatter? -~ **Who'sgotapin’ **Oh, that's a deari™ **\Why, Susan, what's the ntter!” » “*YWhere's Nell to-night?" **Is Charlie here”, *+ Now, Polly, that's my slipper.™ ** How lont May Jenkins' pul lback is— Tl warrant IV1L trip her!™ **Say, Annic, how's my hair to-nigh **Jost lovely.” **Why, here's Bella. **Ma, hal . Iold yonso, nu e *+Come here a minute, Ell The young malds emilc and shake thelr carls; The old maids frown and spotter— “*They'd like to know the reason for This everlasting flutter." Ah, well! They're cross, and sour, and grim; And is it any wonder, When Swect Sixteen comes crowding in, With, ** Please to stand from under™'? 441 hear the masic, one, two, three; Corme on, girls—are you ready ? Be carefal how yon walk atound, The floor's like glass—so, steady ™" “+Good cvening, Mr. Jones!" **Mis Kate, You're lively as a crick ¢+No compliments. Oh! where ou earth Can 1 have left my ticket!™ Says Will to Dick, ** By Jave. old boy, 1 wish that I— O Thander? Timow I never can get throngh That waltz without a blander! + Here comes 3iss K—. O Heavens! she Just sends my bea ing. Do holdme, sumeon " ** Pabaw, " saysDick, *“You can't learn withoat trying.* 1 say. girln, look, here's Mr. M—: B B eart thoee Flovea £0 charming? (He weara a dozen pains a week, O nearly—how alarming?™) ¢+ \hat did yon say? Excuss me: yes, ‘All three are lovely dancers. 1 like Misn B—— tho best. AhY here's 3y partner for the Lancers.™ ++ Join hands and circle half-sroun ¢+ Grana right and left " comen afters While some goright, and some ** getleft,” And then such gules of langhter! ¢ Al waltz.” **My patience. how we spint Tle don't reverse—I'm :hnklnfi: 1f we don’t stop "*—** Join hands again™ **11as near dead—no joking.™ Bat there's an end to everything, And now the notes entrancing Of **Home, Sweet Home, " pesl thro’ the hall, And end, alas! our dancing. Lou. e e—— AUTUMN FANCIES.e *Twas not Fancy, bat 'twas Chance, he Drew my heediess footsteps here, ‘Where, self only, yet uot lonely, Mase I on the waning year, "Neath the nmbrage of the foliage,— Scarlet, yellow, brown. and sere. Some welrd fancy does entrance me, Making, as if in a dream, Leafy clusters, rick in lustres, Like small featal fairies secm. Dancing, leaping, timed-step keeping ‘To the music of the stream. Strange the fancy, trees they dance, seel With the zephyrs loose and light, the rarest and the falrest Garb of Natare all bedight, Fall-timo's glowing beauties sh Fall and froely tG the sight. - Bright in fancy may their glance & aves by saft winds lig‘x’:uy -o?g’ Aatumn's goiden charms nufolden, But at what » sorry cost, For, though shining, they sre pin; "Neath the touch of blightiag This sad fancy docs sdvance Joys are leaves of golden That when living, lustre Berve a cheering shads, Bat, whea bi é]t Crushing all v, Y & R