Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 10, 1876, Page 12

12 AMUSEMENTS. The Chicago Theatre Twen- ty-three Years Ago. The First Appéa.ranca of Mr. and Mrs, Florencs in This City. Their Recollections of 01d Act- ors and 0ld Plays. !’rogr&mme of Haverly’s The- atre for the Coming _ Season. Pramatic Notes-=-Gossip of the Chicago and Other Green= Rooms. The Succeisfal Concerts Given by the Apollo Club at McCormick Hall, Liebling’s Series of Pianoforte RecitaIS--Beethoven-sod- ety Concert. flp. The Kellogg Troupe---New Musice= eratic Gossip Here and Abroad. THE DRAMA. ) CHICAGO. REMINISCERCES OF TWO OLD STAGEES.. Twenty-three years ago, on the 10th of Sep- tember last, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence made their first appearance in Chicago. They came 1o the city by the line of railroad to Mouroe, Micn., which s then the fashionable means of communication with the outer world. There were otber roads, slower and more humble per- Laps, but more approved by persons of discreet. years, The canal was not rapid, bot it was sure. We read that'in the year 1853 a favorite actor who was coming to play & * star” engagement at the theatre was delayed by a break in the canal, and did not reach the city until sev- eral days sfter the appolnted time. The gilded youth, to whicn flourisning sristocracy the Florences at that time helonged, preferred the railroad. They found.Chicago & ity of 50,000 inhabitants, sprawling over the prairies. The only theatre in those days was the estab- lishment of Mr. J. B. Rice, which stood on the east side of Dearborn street, Letween Washing- ton and Randolph streets, nearly opposite the old Post-Office. Rice’s building remains to merk the site. The theatre was- almost new at that time,snd was a substantial building of brick. Its seating capacity was sbout 1,200, 50 that, &t the low prices then prevaiting, receipts of $500 or $600 at the box-office Were consid- ered larze. The best seats were T cents and the cheapest 25 cents. The portion of the house now kmown as the parquette was the pit, soon afterwerds abolished. Above this rose the circle and the boxes. Still higher was the gallery, - with . its three historical aivisions for boys, negroes, and prostitates. The sudiences varied in number and in character with the prevailing attractions. The Flogences became popular favorites immediately, and the theatre was always thronged when they were playing. Bo strong was their power with the dear people that frequently as many as three or four engagements in the year were made, and ~always with the same gratifying results. Of the character of the audicnces that gathered to wel- come them so much that is favorable caanot. be said. Tha Pressof April 12, 1855, referring to the acting of Eliza Logan, says that attendance % no criterion of merit, and 2dds: ‘“The Florcnces drew great crowds, but who besides themselves would wish to be night- 1y greeted with sach sights s met their eyes, or reguled with such odors as must have rolled up to their nostrils over the, footlights?”” The pushing and crowding at the doors every night was something seriong, and the noise during the half-hoar before the rising of the curtain might cause the inexperienced” actor of the present day to tremble. On the stage there was little confusion, becanse there were few persons to make it. Mr. Rice was omnipotent and omnipresent. Prompt-book in hand snd spectacles on nose, he was the incarnation of discipline and devotion to duty. He regu- lated the gas, rang the cartain up or down, trained sand led the supernumeraries, =nd acted the dignified “iold-man® parts. Hehas been koown to go off the stage as a nobleman and to return to it the mext instant, in the same play (having covered his glittering costume with a rough jacket) as the leader of abost of supernumer- aries. On onc occasion there was an alarm of firc in the theatre. Mr. Rice, who was intrunks and hose, had slipped off bis doublet aud was standing at the wings in his shirt-sleeves, prompt-book in hand. He strode out before the bewildered people, -just as he was, and, frowning over his spectacles, waved - ook oMty &t ihem, cymg e Dmm\e, “Sit down, ye fools! The com- ical appearance ~ of his mixed ancient and modern costume, joined to his odd manner of speech, furnisked 2 diversion and subdued the alarm. Mr. Rice was famous in the pro- {fession for his strict integrity and his industry. The simple earnestness of the man was his gandest characteristic, and it was that which led him liter at Washinzton, when,as a memberof Congrese, be undertovk to discharge feithfully all his duties as 2 commiticeman and those of his fellow-members. The scenery and properties of the theatre were in that day considered ample, but they would now perhaps be thought meagre. There were the regular stock-scenes,—s prison, a_ forest, & cham- ber, =a _strect, etc. These served for every kind vof play. The upholstery drama Was then unkmown, and, as in the greatest theatrein the world to-day.a table and two chairs would auswer every pur- ‘pose of illusion if they were assisted by the art of good actors. The advertising facilities of the theatre werenot of “‘the mammoth-poster show- bill” order. Mr. Rice had four large cuts llus- trating divers thrilling adventures and hair- breadth escrpes. ‘These he clapped into the posters, without reference to the congruity of the drcumstances, as often as three times a year each; and ft was thought the famous cuts never fziled to fil! the house. ‘The acbors with whom Mr. and Mre. Florence associated during their early engagements here are still known to many persons in the com- munity. During their first enzagement in Sep- tember, 1853, they assisted at the benefit of Mrs. Marble, on which occasion Miss Mary Marble msde her first a[%uemnm on any stage as Made- laine in * The Child of the Remiment.” This Mary Marble -afterwards beczme ) Myers, and only three weeks ago she played in this ¢ity with Stuart Robson in ** The Two Men of Sandy Bar.” Jus@before the second engage- ment of the Florences, in January, 1854, M Hart a benefit as Clari in *“The Maid of Mitan,” and Yary Lockwood in “The Farmer's Wife.” She shortly after- wards retired from the stage and pecame Mrs, Foster. Last summer she Jnln_md again, for the benefit of Maggie Mitchell, undertaking the part of Pouline. Among the favorite stock- 2:tors of the day were Mr. J. G. Hauley.’ since dead; Mies Woodbury, afterwards Mrs. L. B. Perrin; and Mrs. Pennoyer, now, it is said, act- ipg inth:Fast. A. city in1856. Mr. McFarland was for some time stage manager, retiring only with Mr. Rice. W. F. Jobnson, Sam Ryan, and Harry Linden con- tributed to the entertainment of the people at various times and places, b=in§ not at all con- stant to cne manager or one theatre. Linden was a farce-actor, apd roused the echoes indifferently at the Chicago Theatre or at XNorth’s Amphitheatre. Amoni the favorite stars were Forrest. Julia Dean (who, afterwards, 5 Mrz. Hayoc, lost her prestize), Mr. and Miss Richings, Couldock, Ben De Bar, Yankee Locke, William ' Wargen, Anderson, Brougham, J. W. Wallack, Jr., Collins, .Susan’ and Rate Denin. ‘The former of these sisters died -last vear: the THE CHICAGO ‘TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. DECEMEER 10, 1876— SIXTEEN PAGEN latter has been plailng at the California Thea- tre within & month, supporting Frank Mayo, and being regularly -cut up by the critics, as though she were a novice. Maggie Mitchell also made bher first appearsnce some twenty- two years ago. he had at that time no plays of her own, but flllflfirlwk the whole range, from “The French Spy” to. “The Good for Nothing.” McVicker wis a star in those days, and & great one. He ust play the whole range of farce, at that time s0 pular, and fluctuated between Chicago and t. Louis. It was his personal success as a star which suggested to him the idex of building a theatre here, and becoming himself 2 local 1mstitation. He and Florence had in those days a piece called ¢ Florence Worried by McVicker,” the idea of which was taken from the Theatre Francais, and Wwhich was first iotroduced to = the _ American public through Brougham sud Florence, at the theatre of the former in New York. It was the familiar old play with the audience rather than forit. Thestage was drawn up to representa green-room, aud all the actors were seated ut the rising of the curtaix, as if awmtini: genuine, distribution of parts. There would be the sly manifestatiohs of jenldusy and spite, of which, it is said, even to-day the green-room is ne‘. alwaysdevoid. Then therehearsal ‘wouldbegin. The plece would bea burlesque of some earth- rocking tragedy, filled with bombast and absurd incongruities. Mr. #lorence would reach, per- ‘haps, one of his strong lines about “‘the red-hot dewy bail of beaven,"” whc:égmfl voice in the lery would be heard aiming, * Red-hot ewy hail of heaven is good; ha, ha. that’s,very good.” 8o the action on the stage and off it woula proceed. The man in the lery would become noisy and turbulent. Ris frony would be turned intosarcasm, and his sar- casm into insult. The audience, greatly excited, would cry, * Shame, shame;” but to no u]]zur— pose. At last, the mock-god of the gallery would descend and climb uponthe stage. Flor- ence would attack him; be would lose his wig and other disguises, and in the end would stand revealed as McVicker. Thus the play of *“Elor~ ence Worried by McVicker” would be sccom- plished. At times, Flortnce, made up a5:8, Granger,—there were Grangers in those days, would take a place in the stage-box, aud would observe the mock-rehearsil with the greatest apparent interest. On the appearance of a certain lady 1n_the company, he would ex- claim, * Why, that’s my wife. ia, what are D. Bradley came to the | you doing here, making a holy show of your- self#’” Theuo, slipping out of view, he would dress up ayoung man in his disguises, and, a] pearing on the stage, as the real Florence would roughly inquire of the presumed Granger in the box, *“What he meant by nismrbing the per- formances.” The altercation would proceed from bad to worse, until the audience would be roused up to a pitch of excitement that threat- ened to become_dangerous, when the trick would be exposed, and all the anary feeling in the house would evaporate in laughter. There were ts in those days, and a serious. ¥Yight in the theatre was by all means to be avoided. Mrs. Florence's most successful achievement in the carly times was her song of “Bobbing Around”: aod both she and Mr. Florence were among the earliest and most suc- cessful personators of Irish character. This tield they have now abandoacd to the weaker variety snd minstrel actors who have assumed possession of it. If it were ever worth occupy- ing, it alwaya deserved better cultivation than I?fis likely to receive from the present de- lineators of Irish cl er. These reminiscences of early theatrical days in Chicago would be comparatively recent in ary older city, and under different circumstances. ‘But heré they date back to within a few yearsof the opening of the first theatre, in1847; and they are worth preserving in view of the fact that the records of all the Chicazo theatres were burned in the fire of 1571. There is not now any complete record of theatricalevents in Chicago, and not cven an imperfect one covering the whole ground. It may be well, then, to sup- plement such records as we have with the ob- servations of those who were here in the old days and were a part of them. “THE MIGHTY DOLLAR.” If the Florences are amoug, the oldest ac- quaintances of Chicago theatre-goers, they are also among the best. Not claimingto be great actors, they have always been faithfuland agree- able ones. When the devartment of the Irish drama scemed to be exhausted. Mr. Florence coneived the idea of making a dramatic type of the American politician of - weak moral percep- tions. For Mrs. Florence he dssigned the val- ar American woman of fashion. The plan was unfolded to Mr. Ben Woolf, the dramatic critic of the Boston Safurday Gazeite, a gentleman of some attainments, a graceful and easy writer. and one possessinm _ considernble experience of stage affairs. Mr. Woolf worked around the two characters suggested by Ar. Florence the story and incidents now known as “The .\l&zhty Dallar.” It is evident on the first view of the play that Mr. Wooll does not pos- sess the creative faculty ina_bigh deeree. As much might have becn premised from the fact that he is so ex«ellent a critic. Analytic power 15 50 different from and, m a_measure, 50 0P posed to the mental aapacity for synthesis .that it has always been 8 marvel when 2 critic has succeeded in_producing an original work of superior merit. * The Mighty Dollar ™ s, first of all, remarkable for the want of invention thit it dieplays. Outside of the two princi- . chardcters—which, it has been caid, were conceived y Mr. Florence—there is not 2 glimmer of originalityin the whole com- ! position. Moureover, tiie construction .is faulty, the plot eoinmonplace, and the characterization feeble. It is ouly not so bad 2 play as Mr. Ray- mond’s ¢ Col. Sellers,” which reservation still allows room for it to be very bad. In the twy principal characters—the Hon. Bardweil Slote and rs. Gen. Gilflory—we find genuine and clever satire, at times delizhttul in'its vein, and agam almost inexcusably coarse. The initfal ** gag and the * sour-mash " fun were weak at the be- ginning, and have become in the course of time Wearisome in the exireme. Yei the truth-that the two characters contain saves them and saves the play. . The satire is not only accurate, but it is useful.. It will convey to any person pos- sessed of ordinary common sense o moral pro- pulsion away fronr hypucrisy, ignorunce, and Fulgarity. One word remains to be £aid of the acting the piece receives at McVicker's Theatre this year. The performance would be, if not artistic in every part, at least always creditable and pleasing but_for ome scrious daficiency. Tire dressing of the characters is bad. Is there nobody at McVicker's Theatre who knows liow Jadies and gentlemen- should be dressed? ‘The subject is a aelicate onc, and Tue TRIBUNE bas patiently forborne reference to it in the hope that there would be some amendmeut. But thereis none. The st:&'e-mnunger does not perform his duty in this respect. He does not tell Miss Tracy that ladies are not accustomed to wear dresses very low in the neck on every occasion, and particularly not at picnics; or Mr. Thorne that a straw bat is not becoming to 3 gentleman at a party; or Mr. Rowe that a dirty white stove-pipe” hat six years behind the style and brown mixed cassi- meres is not an imposing evening dress for one who is personating a gentleman; or Mr. Seymour that a rich young gentleman, however bashful he might be, would not wear clothing more suggestive of the cleaner’s art than of the tailor’s; or Mrs. Murdoch that stoga boots and party dress are not to be worn together (the ac- cusstion les with referece to s pre- vious performance, if mot to the pres- ent); or the utility people generally that *‘the apparel oft proclaiins the man.” The habitual carelessness in respect to this matterat McViek- er's indicates a want_of discipline somewhere. If Mr. Rainford and Mr. Lee can dress properly, as they do in this piece, there is no reason why the others caunot do as much. In the case of Mr. Thorne and Miss Tracy, at least, the fault is never one of the poverty of material, but rather of the improper use of fine clothing; and of the former 1t must be said alsothat his errors are very infrequent and not of great conse- quence. % THE SEASON AT HAVERLY’'S THEATRE. Mr. Chapman, the manager of Haverly’s The- atre, bas cut out his work for the season, and now authorizes a formal announcement of what he proposes to do. This week the favorite Sals- bury Troubadours—an original Chicago institu- tions-will fill an engagement. They give an entertainment in the style of ‘that made famous by the Vokes Family, and have themselves m\u;ved much success in a1l parts of the Union. ‘Their last engagement here was satisfactory. After them will come Adelaide Neilson for one zcck only. She will play Julief and Viola in Twelith Night.” The production of the last- named play will be an event in_Chicago theatricals, and will probably draw to- E:fism::, :;m‘@!e of th:h bc?; Saudiem:es of the racing the old Shakspearean play- rs. She will have the suj um'lze of Alr. go?n Isler’s company from Cleveland. Other prominent actors to appear at this theatre during the season are Charlotte Thompson, supported by Miies’ company from Cincinnati; Efile- Ellsler,” with the same support; Frank Mayo, Sothern, Daly’s Fifth Avenue company, Soldene; the*Evangeline comic-opers troupe, Janauschiek, Mrs. Oates, & travelingtroupe with Boucicauit’s “Forbidden Fruit, the Georgia Minstrels, the Hyers Sisters, and many others. . NOTES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. «The Mighty Dollar ¥ will be given at Mc- Vicker’s Theatre all this week by Mr. and Mrs. Florence. JThe performance of the Salsbury Troubadours at Haverly’s Theatre Wednesday afternoon will be for the benefit of the families of H. S. Mur- doch and Claude Burroughs. the victims of tha — Iate Brooklyn fire. Authority to announcesuch & benefit has been received from New York, and this will be, 5o far as heard from, the first per formance of the kind in this country. A fresh variety bill and a new drama entitled « Christmas Bells * will be presented at the Adelphi this week. Tne New Chicazo Theatre is_closed, and will remain so until the holidays. It is probable that John Dillon and his compiny may soon be seen there in * Our Boys.” The management of Wood's company has suffered its weekly change, and the usual new campm*vlt‘us bren securcd. Every nigkt this weck “The Colleen Bawn will be presented, with George Gaston as Afyles na-Ca; +, zeorge W. Walters as Danuic 4fann, and Miss Dollic Peake as Eily. At the off-day matinees ¢ All that Glitters is Not Gold " will be presented, This (Sunday) night * Uncle Tom's Cabin” will be played by the Georgia Slave Troupe. “The Lacky Star* perhaps deserves to be damned fn balf a column, but, for want of space, a paragraph must suflice for the purpose. Itis, then, 3 not inconscquential drama of busfimg incident and romantic story, interrupt- ed by spectacular effects, and most akomounl}y manpled by bad acting. The Messrs. Kiralfy having themselves made a fortune by their legs have arrived at the erroncous conclusion that the charm of all actiug lies in the same useful members. They have engaged for this play, therefore, a nuwmber of gentlemen and ladies with most symmetrical extremities, but with 1o more conveption of dramatic art than 80 many mud-turtles. There were not above two persous in the_cast—the King and the Queen- Mother—£it to be heard on any stage. THE OUTER WORLD. NEW YORK NOTES. “ The Shaughraun ' continues at ‘Wallack’s; « Miss Multon " at the Unfon Square; Lotta at the Park. e George Rignold {8 coming back to play in Fawcett Rowe's “Fifth Ayenue” at Booth’s ‘Theatre. ‘ ‘Edwin Booth played Richard IZ. at the Lyceum Theatre last week to slightly diminished audi- ences. This week he uudertake Othello. Leslie Gossin, formerly leading-man at Me- Vicker's Theatre in this city, i3 now playing a small partin an Irish drama at the Theatre Comigue in New York. % Mr. Bayard Taylor fotices thatall the theatres are dolng a prosperous business, and he rejoices in the fact. The theatres furnish a safe vent for the suppressed eXcitement of the times. « Queen Mab,” a new play by Mr. Godfrey, in- troducing Miss Claxton in a new character, was announced for its first representation at the ill-fated Brooklyn Theatre on Saturday after- noon. Miss Beatrice Stafford, a young California girl who was to have personated Cordelia in_the re- vival of *Lear” at Booth's Theatre, withdrew from the cast because, she said, *‘Mr. Barrett bruised my heart at the rehearsals."” Mr. Barrett's impersonatfon of Learat Booth’s Theatre is said by the criticsto be neithera great success nor & failure, 1t is objected to as cold- Iy intellectual, and the physical proportivns of the actor are inadequate to the requirements of the part. The New York ZTribune says, how- ever, that Mr. Barrett has passed the severest test of his xrotesslonsl life without the least discredit. - All the appointments of this new Shakspearean revival were magnificcnt, and the scenery_ beautiful. The silence of the news- papers in rezard to Miss Boniface’s conception ot Cordelia is significant of a serious mishap. ‘The revival of the ‘“School for Scandal ” at Daly’s Theatre Tuesday might was 2 notable event, and, as the cast is likely to be historical, it is worthy of reproduction here. .It is as fol- lows: Sir Pefer Teazle, Mr. Charles Fisher; Sir Oliver Surface, Mr. Jobn Brougham; Sir Harry Bumper (with a song), Mr. William Cas- tle; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. James Lewis; Charles Surface (as acted by him 200_nights in London), Mr. Charles F. Coghlan; Josgph Sur- face, D. B. Huarkins; Crabtree, Frank Harden- berg; Moses, Wiltiam Davidge; Careless; George Parkes; Rowiey, 3. H. Ring; Snake, Mr. Smith; Trip, F. Bennett; ZLady Teazle, Fanny Daven- port, Mra. Candour, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert; Lady Sneerxelt, Mary Wells; Waria, Georgie Drew. GENERAL AMERICAN NOTES. Leonard Grover’s play, ‘“Our Boarding House.” has been successfully produced at the | Graud Opera-House in San Francisco. The largest fortnight’s receipts ever known in any theatre' in Philadelphia were those for Miss Fauny Uavenport’s recent- engagement in “Pique.” . Aona Dickinson dresses Anne Boleyn in the prettiest French fashion of that day. For the Maid of Honor had been in France, sud must have brought home with her the latest fashion. * A neyw adaptation of “Bleak House* by Mr. B. E. Woolf, of Boston, is soon to_be. lymduced at the Boston Musenm. Itis called * Poor Jo,” and is said to much resemble the version played Dy Miss Jennic Leeso successtully in London under the name of “Jo.” 3 The Memphis people seem to have the Mary- Anderson enthusiassm badly. The Avalanche priuts anotice over a column in length of her performence in_Evadue, giving her the highest praise. - The attendance at the theatre during Lier engagement was large. George Rignold says that StuartRobson, as an actor, was never understood in London. Nor was he .ever understood here. He was simply liked for what was supposed to be his eccentric good-nature. When he was dispossessed of this {ep&xtafion, he lost his professional stock-in- rade. Rose Eytinge and Henrletta Chanfrau will be at Cincinnati this week; Adelaide Neilson will continue at St. Louis; Jane Coombs and Daly’s company _in **Pique” will be at Milwaukée; Mary Anderson at New Orl¢ana; John Raymond at. Lonisville; Soldene at Baltimore; Emma Waller at Philadelphin. £ There was no change of importance at any of the Philadelphia theatres last. wee% unless the appearanceof Stuart Robson as Col. Starbotile may be considered one. Anna Dickinson re- mained at the Arch Strcet Theatre, and the run of “ Twelith Night”” at the Chestout was con- tinued. The spéctacle of . ' Azurine " gt the Kiralfy’s Palace is still given. Miss Neilson was at St. Louis last week; John T. Raymond at Cincinnati; Jane Coombs in &Pique” at Detroit; Janauschek at Cleve- land; Maogie Mitchell and the Salsbury Trouba- dours at Pittsburg; Jobn E.Owens at Rochester; Sotherp and Mrs. Bowers at New Orleans; Em- &son’s Minstrels and Kate Putnam at Indian- apolis; Henrletta Chanfrau at Louisville; G. " Rowe and Louise Pomeroy at Boston; “Sardanapalus,” from Booth’s Theatre, on the New-England circuit; Chaufrau at Brooklyn; Fechter at Baltimore. FOREIGN NOTES. “Qur Boys” has passed its 600th night ab the London Vaudeville. Fifty theatres in provincial France are playing « Fromont Jeune et Risler Aine.” Bartley Campbell’s * Virginian™ is doomed to failure at the St. James Theatre in London. Irving has become a favorite of the clergy and the lawyers. Bishops and Judges delicht to do him honor. ' Salvini is wealthy, and now that he is married plays for money no more. It is only charity, or good comradeship, that now brings him ocea- sionally to the stage. * The Revue et Gazelte Afusicale states that it 1s decided to build an international theatre in connection with the Paris Exhibition of 1875, at r;hécéh qerlo:m_nncgsminddlflerent languages are given twice daily during th i of the Exnibition. & e wholeperiod The first public representation of Erckmann- Chatrian’s new play, “L'Ami Fritz,” was to take place at the Theatre Francais last Monday. The New York Herald correspondent, who attended the grand rehearsal, writes of the play: “The piece is really rather dull, and the sensation-hunters will be disappointed. It does not contain a word about the army, nor could I discover anything that would be offensive to the Germans.” P MUSIC. AT HOME. THE APOLLO CLUB CONGERTS. ‘The only events of interest in the musical world during the past week were Mr. Liebling’s ‘piano-recital and the two concerts given by the Apollo Club,—the first on Tuesday. evening and the second on Thursda® evening,—which more than tested the capacity of McCormick Hall, 25 on the second evening many were obliged to stand. We have already recorded our impressions of the first performance. The second was an improvement upon it ‘so far as the Club numbers were concerned, with the ex- ception of the Schubert number, *Die All- macht,” in which Mr. Barnes sang his solo off, dragging the chorus off after him also, al- though the latter showed its fine drill and study by speedily recovering itself. There ‘was but one drawback to the concert , and that wosin the extroardiparv action af the Kiokel L. brothers. It s well known that these St Louls prodigies travel upon a specialty. They make 1o pretensions as individual players, but, having made great attainments in the muscular school of musig as duet players, their performaaces are devoted to an exhibition of strength, and force, and mechanjcal precision, obtaincd by long prac- tice, rather than to grace, delicacy, sentiment, or the poetry of the art, and nearly all their se- lections are consequently of the slam-bang style. This ‘has been their recognized specialty gm- years, notwithstanding which some of the city newspapers were exacting enough to expect impossibilities of them, and to 80O EXpress themselves after tne frst concert in return for which they proceeded in genuine St. Louis style at the sccond concert to avenge themselves by occupying the major part of the evening. For the encore to iheir first number they gave a concerto of Weber's of great length, and in answer to the applause which fol- lowed their second number, which was not a de- mand for an encore at all, they immediately re- Léppearud and played an interminably long ‘hamber sonate of Mozart’s, their programme pumbers and the encore occupying about one hour and fifteen minutes, thus cutting oft the Club encores and Miss Thursby's _second ‘encore, 8s_ Mr. Tomlins’ intention is not to prolong the concerts over two hours. Neither of the pieces performed was fitted for encores, and would not have been played by any one laying claims to musical taste at such o time. Again, the Kunkel brothers, Iike most other concert performers on the piano, travel in the interest of o certain house, and during the day sent their tuner over to the hall sud tuned the pianos above the organ, which Is sufficient 10 aceount for Mr. Barnes’ discomfiture and the Club’s temporary misfortune in the Schubert. number to which we have referred. This does not include all the disagreeable feats of the Kunkel brothers. It is now broadly cha ed that the Marche Heroique, ** Greeting to Chica- 0,’! set down upon the programmie as ‘composed y one of them, was boldly pirated from Spint Saens, . whose work could be stolen with comparative impunity, as his music is un- known here. Taken all together, the conduct of these gllayers, which may be correct in 8t. Louis, will not do_for Chicago. It has earned for them & reputation which, to say the least, will obylatethe ncuess;?' of their sppearing here again. St. Louis hereafter yill be a more fit- ting fleld of usefulness for them than Chicago. In all other respects, the concerts of the Club were splendid successes, and give eloquent promise for the remainder of the season. THE BEETHOVEN SOCIETY. On Thursday efening of this week the Bee- thoven Society will make its opening bow to its members at McCormick Hall with an elegant programme composed almost cxclusively of new music. The following is a list of the num- bers to be performed: 1. Joggenburg. (Cycle of Ballads).....Rheinberger FECHONTE. (G50 d Chorss - ° {Soloy by Are. William A. Bond, Mrs. Frank Hall, Mrs. Balfour, and Messrs. Bergatein and Dex- ...Popper ter.] 2. Concerto for'Cello........ c.cot g Afr. Eickheim. * 3. Chorus—**Landingof the Pilgrims...F. W. Root . ‘Beethoten Society. 4. Piano Concerto........ .-.. Mendelssohn Arrs. L. 1. Wal 5. Aria—*‘Ahl rendimi quelcor censnsea.RoOSEL . Migs Ella 4. VR 6. Dramatic Poem—"*Comala”. <eene.Gade Solos and Chorus. [Solos by Mrs. O. L. Fox, Mrs. Balfour, Mra. Tharston, and Mr. Bergstein.] THE LIEBLING RECITALS. Mr. Liebling’s series of (three) piano-forte re- citals was inaugurated at Reed’s Temple of Music Friday afternoon with an exceedingly ap- preciative and thoroughly delighted audience in attendance, and the following well-chosen pro- gramme: Fantasie and- Fugue, G' minor, by Bach; Sonata, Op. 39, by;Weber; Nocturne, No. 4, by Field; Intermezzo, Op. 9, by Seiss; Scher- 20, Op. 125, by Kullak: Feux Follets (Will-o’- the—“fixps , and Rhapsodie Hongroise, No. 12, by Liszt; and Concerto, Op. 21 (with second piano m:com}:miment), by Chopin. b Of Mr. Liebling’s playing we have heretofore expressed our opinton, in which we are still more tully confirmed by the entirely esceptional crformante referred to. Inthe larger works, ike the gigantic Prelude and Fugue of Bach, Which abounds in climaxes requiring amid the most exacting complications a carcful husbandry ofresuurcesfl]mnved in a masterly manner, In the very original and melodious sonate of Weber and the grand and poetic concerto of Chopin we were alforded & more extended in- troduction to his §¥le. which is fully adequate to the demands of the hizhest order of piano- forte writing. Indeed, it.fs not too much to say of Mr. Lieblthg, that, tothetruly musical ap- prehension, his playing gains by comparison with even such a periect mechanism as Voun Bu- low cxhibited, in the same ratio as the human element commands a sympathy ncarer than any admiration extorted by mere intellectuality, an it is all-the more creditable in Mr. Liebling’s in- stance in that he has resisted successfully the temptation to make awell-nigh irreproachable technique paramount. In the concerto, the see- ond piano accompaniment to which was very handsomely furnished by Mr. Ledochowski, we found the pianist at his best. This composition js the most intensely poetical of all the con- certos and the Canasn of all pianists whose in- clinavions lead them into the romantic scnool. Tt fs evidently & favorite with Mr. Liebling, as jts performance ~showed minute aften- tion to details, and_ it .was played con amore throughont. Miss Baker and Mr. Brodgrick furnished some vefi azceptable vocal numbers. The second recital takes place next Friday afternoon, upon which oceasion the pro- mie will include Bach’s “Third English uite;” Beethooven's Sonata, Op. 81, No. 2; Schumann’s * Fantasie Pieces,” Op. 12; bhopin’s Preludes, Op. 23, and Scherzo, Op. 39; snd Rei- necke’s Coneerto, Op. 72. ] KELLOGG ENGLISH OPERA. ¢ Mr. Hess has wisely decided to give the South no opera until the Presidential question is decided and the bulldozers are gt rest. Her Southern ‘trip has been abandoned, and, Carl- perg’s © Flying Dutchman ? Troupe having been disbanded, the time of the latter in this city has been taken by the Kellogg Troupe, and on Mon- «day eveéning, the 18th inst., they will commence a two weeks' season of opera at McVicker's Theatre, the details of which we shall give Thereafter. At present we can officially announce that “Trovatore,” “The Marriage of Figaro,” “Fra Diavolo,” ** The Star of the North,” and «The Flying Dutechman® will be given. ‘The troupe did a sIJlendid business in Cincinnati last week, and will be in St. Louis this week. . THE NEW ORCHESTRA. The new orchestral organization, under the direction of Mr. A. Liesegang, formerly ’cellist in Theodorc Thomas’ orchestra, has so far ad- vanced that the orchestra is already an accom- plished fact, the scheme of concerts has been out, and subscription-lists are already in the music stores. The orchestra will include the following pieces: Ten first violins, eizht sec- onds, six violas, .four ’ccllos, four basses, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two fagot~ tes, four French horns, two cornets, three trom- bones, one tuba, and tympani and droms. A foretaste of the eycellence of ‘this organization may be had in the announcement that,such ex- cellent players as_Lewis, Fehl, De Clerque, Allen, £iuhhcim, Broun, Wiesenbach, Zeuch, Holm, Helms, and Ulricel are in the ranks. The scheme incindes three grand concerts, the first of which will be given Jan. 12, and general re- hearsals Wednesday afternoons at McCormick Hall, admission to all of .which will only be & 5, .the ticket admitting two. At the first concert, Beethoven's C minor (Fifth) Symphony* will be given; Miss Buerger will play Chopin's F major con- certo; and Miss Jennie Busk will sing. Asa good orchestra is an absolute essential to mu- sical success in Chicago, this effort ought to meet with the hearty patronage of our musical people, and the_subseription-lists ought to be filled at once. We have now excellent vocal or- izations. but the work will not be complete Sithout an orchestra to go with them. NEW MCSIC. Prof. H. S. Perkins, the well-known musician and conductor, who has recently returned from Europe, has just issued his new choir and class book, * The New Century ” (New York: William A.Pond & Co.). It contains a complete ele- mentary course, giees, and four-part songs, hymn tunes, anthems, chants, and a voice-cul- ture department, and has been arranged and compiled with exceilent taste and judgment. «Christmas Joys” (Weihnachts Freuden), 2 new waltz, by the suthor of the *Schuetzen March,” Georize Schlieffarth, will soon be issued by the Root & Sons Music Company.: It is full of pretty melodies, and will not fail to become ‘popular. LOCAL MISCELLANY. There will be a full rehesrsal of the mixed chorus of the Apollo Club on Monday evening at the new rooms of the Club in the American Express Building at 8 o’clock precisely. A full attendance Is requested by the managers. A concert for the beneflt of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Peoria and Jack- son streets, will be given st the church on the 15th inst. under the direction of Witlis J. Peck, the organist. The programme, which is a very popular one, will be.performed by the choir of - the charch;-also by Mrs. O. L. Fox, Miss Lizzie Foster. Miss Fannte Haocox, Messrs. CharlesT. | Barnes, A. George H. Broderick, ¥rank T. terfan Churches. - The Smith-Whitney combination will be here early in January, includiog such well-known art- Soprano; Miss Abbie Mrs. H. M. Smith, ists as Mrs. f. Smi P R rsaenden, tenor; o wm‘}."('\llm\%’fi‘xl e Rasso. The leadiog and Mr. % toe; 1850. ing and N . i concest will be the production for the first time in_this city of Mendelssokn’s L.- Goldsmith, D. L. Holbrodk, REAL EST ATE. aird, and the choirs of the Westmiusterand Third Presby- The Business of the Loan Market Swelled by Renewals. No Loans Last Week at Seven Per Cent, and Few at Any Rate. pleasant little operetta, ** Son and Stranger.” o I 11 concert The programme for the Tusner Bl March, this afternoon will be 28 follows: fa “King John,” by Hanschild} gveruu'e to “Tri- u The Sales of the Week Include Only One Noticeable Transfer. coche and Cacolet,” b ; finale to 5 #Lucia;” grand_potpourr Jourgefij‘y Thro%%l; Europe,” by Couradi; waltz, “Hrem. [0 outh Park Condemnation Suit Vieuna Woods,” by Strauss; 1 3 Schuminn; overture to **Maritana;?’ fantasie on [ra Diavolo;” and Stasny’s «Jolly Brothers Galop.” . g ‘T'hé Madrid journals announce the appearance of anew lyrical star, the beautiful Mme. Olza Olgini, the professional name of the Countess Glaublez-Sabiuska. After the third act of @ Lucrezia Borgia ! the public, enraptured with her maenificent voice, made her quite an ova- tion.Mme. Olginl will pretty and rosy little alto who sang here in the Crosby Opera-House eight years ago, with one of Grau’s troupes. . The Boston Philharmonic Club will givea concert at McCormick Hall on Tuesday cven- ing, Dec. 12. The organization includes Bern- hard snd Fritz Listemann, violins; Adolph Hartdegen, ’celio; Alexauder Freignng harp; Eugene Wetner, flute; Adoiph Belz, French born ‘and Miss Dora Wiley, soprano. The programme will include the foflowing instrumental num- bers: Overtare to * Mignon™; Lachuer's “Fan- tasie Slavonic? forhorn; Ernst’s ** Nocturne and Bazzini’s “Fairy Dance” for violin; Al- Vars' Fantasie for harp; Saint Suens' “ Dance of Death'; solo for flute, b{ Boehm; Braga’s Xdieux a Varenna ” and De Swert’s ** Mazurka Funtastique® for ‘cello; Haydw’s variations from *The Emperor Quartette”; and Rafl’s «Polka de la Reine” Miss Wile will sing «The Prayer,” from Der Treischuetz, and Bishop's **Bid Me Discourse” sad “Deep in My Heart.”? ABROAD. - MUSICAL NOTES. . Herr Wieniawskl is getting up a tour in Ger- many. It i thought likely that Mme. Nilsson will pass part of the winter at Niece. Raff’s new symphony, © In the Intely hissed down at the Leéipzlg Gewandhaus concert. 3 The great ** Musfeal Conversations-Lexicon of Herr Mendel has reached the end of the sixth volume. Gl 3 1t is believed that Mme. Lucea will sing next season at Covent Garden. Mme. Patti is also likely to appear there. Paul Viardot, son of that once exquisite singer, Pauline Viardot, is, fithough only 20 years old, a delightful violinist. ¢« Paul et Virzinie” has bein given at the Paris Gaitie with immense Success, Capoul in particulzr having won new laurels. Lust week the score-of Corinne - Young’s American opera was_performed at Brusscls. The journals of that city speak well. of it. M. Gounod is _composing the music for a libretto by M. Poirson and L. Gallet, called «Cing Mars,” for the Paris Opera Comigue. The Continental critics are raving about 8 newly discovered baritone of Trieste, Moriani by name, who is said to be to-day t Faure was fifteen years ago. Mme. Annette Essipoff will make her first appearance in Boston at Music Hall on Monday evening, Dec. 11 She is announced for three nightsand one matinee. - The English provinclal press continue to speak in the yery highest terms of the singing of Miss Emma Abbott, who has reccatly added Gilda in *Rigoletto™ to her repertoire. Afme. Murska, who has been traveling 275~ 000 miles since she was here, and made a dollar on every mile, will return to New York by New Year, and sing in Italian opera in the Academy of Mausic. The ‘number of musical cafes in France, and elsewhere on the Continent, has opened such a demand for sinwers, and especially for songz- stresses, that almost anybody can secure an en- gagement from them. When the *Flying Dutchman™ Comgnny started on their ill-starred journey to the West oneof theartists was advised, in case of o financial crisis, to seize the Dutchman’s ship and come home via the Erie Canal. Herr vgn Hulsen, Intendant-General of the Berliu thEatres, is oreanizing a festival in honor of Mozart, to be given next year in Berlin, ub which all the artistic celebrities of Germany will be asked to co-operate. Is this intended as 2 demonstration against Bsyreuth? Adelina Patti recently sang at a Paris soiree the “ Connais-tu le pays,” from Ambroise Thomas’ * Mignon,” in the suthor’s hearing. He actually cricd as'she sang, and is now deter- Tmined that no other one shall first sing the part of the heroine in his new * Francoise de Rimini.” A great deal has been sald of late respecting the lugh rates chnryhed for seats at the opera in the larger citics of Europe. The first practical step in the matter has been taken in Vienng, where it has been announced tifat the price of & subscription for the season has been reduced oue-third, including the nights when Mme. Ade- iina Pattti sings. A cable dispatch_from London to the New York Herald, Dee. 2, says: * The final perform- ance of Rosa’s scason took place to-night. The opera was Cherubini’s ¢ Water Carrier.’! Mach cnthusiasm was manifested. On the playing of the * National Anthem ' Mr. Rosa was twice recalled. This closed the most successful sea- son of English opera ever kuown in London.” Mr. Theodore Thomas has lately signed acon- tract to condact the coming wmusical festival 2t Cincinnati in 1878. It will be the oceasion of the ina ation of the new and bandsome 1music hall provided by the generous citizens ot the Queen City of the West. Mr. Otto Singer is still at the head of the chorus which did so ,superbly two years ago, aad will co-operate with Mr. Thomas in making the arrangements for the festival. A cable dispatch, Dec. 2, from London says: «“Ata matinee on Wednesday, Manager Carl Rosa tendered o benefit to the Society for the Relief of Distressed Americaus. The artists volunteered their services. The opera of © Faust *? wes performed, fhe affair beiog under the patronage of Mrs. Pierrfpont and many other American ladies resident ii London. The cast as asTollows: Marguerie, Mme. Van Zandt; éhnu;f,,, Fred Packard; Mephistopheles, Signor elli.”” —— WATER. - Water! the sparkling wyter! Water from the epring! Not for me the ruby wine, ‘But water is the thing? ‘Wine calls for extra money,— Money badl. :gen!: MZ drink shall then be water, o pure ana freely sent. ‘Were I to rule a palace, Calling it my own, Not a single drop of wine Wonld mar my peaceful home. And if, instead, & cottage, Brown and very small, 1'd not let a drop ofsrum Come into it at all. Should some oue blandly ask me: For a glass of wine.. 7'd boldly say, **I have none, But water bright ie mine.* For once we haa a neighbor, Rich and in his prime, Who sometimes went a-visiting, And took & drop of wine. ¥ He visited too often, " The drop increased to cup; The victim of this poison Drank all his riches ap. . Before, his wife was happy, . - Robed in silks so fine; But now, in a dark alley, ‘Wears calicoes of mine. ‘Her days are 6ad and weary In that tearfal den, For she cannot any longer Give comfort to her Benl— Her only darling, Benny: Once a favored boy. %t now compelled to euffer, — Her only pride and joy. Behold bis father, denscless, Once so good and troe, Now eeen in tattered garments - 0f broadcloth black and biue. Now, therefore, do yon wonder That I'll banish wine, And rum, and gin, and brandy, 1f 2 palace e'er is mine? .- Then water! eparkling water! Water from the apring! Not for me the ruby wine, But water is the thing! - B, be remembered 8s & , Alps,” was ---New Subdivisions: The was considerable activity the past week, the demand for small loans being quite brisk; the aggregate amount, however, makes but 8 poor showing. Building Joans are scarce, and the few latge sums negotiated are ot with auy such purpose in view. Commercial difficulties must be credited with the main part of the week’s business, in the way of securing in- debtedness, or renewals and extensions of old loans. ‘One borrower has obtained an extension on $640,000,0f the past-due mortzages. This has been granted at the ‘old rate, 8 per cent. This amount swells the total in the tabular state- ment below, but Is not a new loan, and ought therefore to be deducted fn forming a fair esti- mate of the week’s business. For the first time in many weeks no loans are noted at 7 per cent, Which shows that the pressure on the class of property commanding this low rate is not ‘so great as it was. Many capitalistsare still offer- ing money at 7, but there are no fnvestors. There is & gradually growing complaint as re- gards payments, and mutters are not so satis- factory in this direction as they were some weeks ngo. Recorded releases compared with lust year unfortunately give some color to this complaint. As compared with incumbrances there isa falling off of 10 per cent from the figures for 1875. %nch facts have a bad influence on the market, and if continued will tend to stiffen the rute of interest, and to deplete the supply of Joauable funds. The following are among the more important transactions of the past week: — Ontario etreet, 194 feet south front by 100 feet, ‘between Pine and St. Clair_streets: also 36 by 131 feet, sonthwest corner of Dearborn and Sixteenth strects, $7,000, three years at § per cent. ‘Carroll avenue, 50 feet north front by 123 feet, between Lincoln and Robey streets, $5,000, three yeans at 8 per cent. “Acre property, in Sec. 28, 38, 13, Town of Lake, $5,000, five years at 9 per cent. Clark streét, 24 feet east frout, between Madison and Monrog streets, $16,500, three years at 8 per cent. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR THE WEER ENDING DE ). [ — LS 1876, 187: Testrument S Gaideratal| No. | Geideran. Aggregate..| 1Al 975,508]| 224 803,950 Releases .. 201, 3 COMPARATIVE STATEMEN DEC. 170 DEC. 0. 1875 Instruments, S (Y No.| Csideraln. Trust-decds 3018 1,133,888 Mortgages.. 63 17977 '$ 1,315,863 Aggregate..| 1025 908, 606 | 364, ceesessneasetl 3171 SALES OF THE WEEK. The real-estate inarket was quict daring the week. The only transaction of more than ordi- nary interest was the sale by A.J. Averell to Jobn Taylor, of New YorK, of thesiteof the old Secoud’ Church, on Wabash aveaue and Washington strect, which is to be immnediately improved with a handsome store building, ~The Iot is 97x166, and the price paid was $97,500 Releases ... casl The principal sales of the week were, besides that above: A. J. Galloway sold premises No. 890 Prairie avenue, lot 355178 feet, with fine dwelling, to ark Kimball, for $18, 390. R. B. Clancey sold 40x106 feet on the sontheast corner of State and Twenty-eighth streets, Lo Peter Hobler, for $12.000. Willfam Saliitt sold to E. L. J. Smith 25x168 fect on Jackson street, near Desplaines street, and 25x116 feet on_Green south of Adums street, both improved, for §15,250. Leonurd Hodges sold store and lot on Madison strect, west of Jetferson’ street, 20137 feet, to Dennis Eelly, for'$:21,000. Ulr.ch & Barnes sold to Joseph May, of Chicago, the three-story brick residence, stone front, owned .| by 0. G. Bryaw, Esq., und built for himself in the niost modern style and with frst-class finish, at 1yde Park, north front on Fifty-third street, 110 fcet cast of Madison avenus, lot 40x150 feet; con- sideration, 39,500 cdsh. H, A. Cards sold house and lot 24x180 feet, on Madlson street, near Qukley street, south frout, to Samuel Hull for $13.¢00. - Charles Miller purchased forty lots in Block1, Davis' Addition to Norwood Park, of F. B. Mc- Glincy, for $12,000. J. M. Graham sold a lot on Clinton street, north of Mather street, 855170 feet, with buildings, to + Abraliam P. Smith for $10,000. . David Bradley bought of W. Lew 83143165 feet on Morzan street, south of Madison street, for $10, 000. » Frank Wilke sold 60x73 feet on North Carpen- ter street. 200 feet north of Erie street, west front, to D. W. Eldred, for321,000. . W. Garso rold house: and 40x118 feet on Di- n streetybetsween State and Astor streets, 10 William D. B&bson. for $14, 000, S. M. Moore sold cleven lots in Block 11, Sam- uelJ. Walker's Dock Addition to Chjcago, with 1morovements. to George Wilshire, fo? $10,000. George Wells «old Sub-Lot 2 of Lot 4, Block —, ,Frac:iunnl Section 15 addltion to Chicago, for "Ashley Mears cold at Winnetk2: fiouse and lot to George W. Skidmore, $3,000: house and lot to W. J. France, $2,000; house and lot to J.- AL D Cushiag 1 iam T. shing purchased of Geo M Archibald for H. It S eFle. of New Orlcans, No. 235 South Leavit street, near Jackson, with seventy- five feet front, for $30,000, $7,000 cash,’and a aotton plantation in Louisinna, clear. SA\TU.KDA.‘."S TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for rec- ord Saturday, Dec. 9: 8..... ‘West Twelfth st, 06 ft w of Kobey st, 8 245130 ft. dated Aug. 2! 1,200 Wg;’t ;r';tv)e;mfi s, dTT‘A it 24x130 ft, dated Aug. 21, West Taylor st, 163 Tty of g 1, 53103 6-10 fect, dated Dec. 8. 3,000 Toynes conrt, 314 fi's of Archerav, ¢ f. 1023073 ft. with 48x97i¢ ft ndjoining on Arch st, dated Dec. 8. 10,000 West Erie st, 699-10 ftw of Woodst, n f, 243128 t, doted Dec. 8 vovrveennn e 675 Canal st, 5% ft 8 of Sixteenth st, w1, 21x120 ft, dated Sept. 91 5,500 West Polk at, 44 {t w of Irvi * 130 ft, dated Nov, 2! . 7,000 .| Washington st, 100 1t A 50x110 ft, dated Oct. 31. (Timothy - Wright to Jola R. Waish)...... ...... 60,000 SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within u radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for record during the week ending Siiurday, Dec. 9: City sales, 73; consideration, $479,633% north of city limits, sales, 1; consideration, 33,000; south of city limits, sales, 11; consideration, $39,700; west of city limits, sales, 1; consideration, $4,000. Total sales, 86 total constderation, $526,333. CONDEMNATION SUIT. s Tv the Editor of The Tribune. Carcaco, Dec. 9.—It will be remembered that about two vears since a suit was instituted by the South Park Commissioners to uscertain the amount _to be-paid for the condemuation, for park purposes, of eighty acres of land in the southeast corner of thg lower South Park, ex- tending from Sixty-third to Sixtr-seventh street, north and south, and Iying from half 2~ mile to a mile east of the Illinois Central Rail- road. Those who have been on the picnic grounds in the park east of Woodlawn Station will, recogmize the property as that east and eouth ' of the grove given' by the Com- missioners for the above -purpose. No trial of the kind cver occurred probably where: there was §0- great: difference of opinion, aud it is rather a matter of wonderm:nt that the jury were able to arrive at any agreement. The award xt,tpnr..n_me made, however, was at_the rate of $57.50" per acre,—which multiplied by cighty made the oblization so unenjoyable to the South Park Commissionérs. that they made application for a new trial, which was granted. ! The new trial will come up during the present I week, I, iu fact, it has not aiready Been reached 1t is not known what latitude wifl be given b} the Court in the examination of witnesses. Much freedom, however, has gencrally been allowed in these cases, especially in those involving the value of suburban property, and g,[ will be interesting, in view of the present con- fition of the market and the uncertain news which all. dealers have, to notd the different :fi:;l:gzs &hlm the trial will doubtless disclose, T the present cas] m?:!dercd orpm)‘. h value of the landis is understood thst both parties are =4 every preparation for the cogtcst. I{ealm:sklul;g gpemtors whoze long connection with that ranch of business would naturally entitle their uoinions to conslderation, huve been reauested to visit the locality and thoroughl i “property, and have in manr;g mysgnzbnexlnne he Dlicd. It may confidently be belieyes that if the) trial b Ie Efiiifi;fi;’ all or muny of the questions’ pertaining’ property which have arisen since lsg t:l‘n:thlet ‘will be a resume ot the history of suburi'nn rea] estate since that time, both a3 re; the gen. eral appreciation or depreciation of values ang the effcct of the South Park enterprise y pr;:pelny wlthin its infll:im:e. Pflll t 15 not proper at this time to opinion or the opinions of others ngffis‘ b eLt value of this land,—nor for wiat itis noyw or prospe tively available,—but there is op query which will force itself upon any mg ‘who, in these days of depression, examines uu,n property, and that is, the object the Sonth Park. Commisgioners had in the selection of tie lang a5 remotely " situated from the City of Chicago a5 this piece, or all of that south of Sixty-thirg And seven breadths of Brussels were street. The conundrum is as unanswi rhaps, to the Commissioners mem"f-vr:zlu 4 is to the people of South Chicago, Lake, and Hyde Park, who decided b( ‘popular vote that they wanted it. It wasn't ditticult, then, to picture the entire territory taken for park pur. })osex, diversified with groves, lawns, fiw fountains, hills, retreats, and studded wity marble or bronze statues of all the Commis. xgg{uem and the rest of the great and good of icago. But no man can work up his imagination to such a height mow, as he endeavors tp appreciate ® the depression i the values of property, and the embarrassmens which that deprecistion has caused 1o the cgrem. mass of the.owners.of real estate in Cook County, and attemptsto figure the time when the citizen of Chicago will enjoy the luxury of a walk about thisJand after it shal] have been duly ‘prepared for that purpose, Those persons owning ground taken for park purposcs, and who preferred to submit the mat- ter of award to a jury, have, it is believed in many cases received a hizher price than {| offcred by the Commissioners. It will there. fore Temain to be seen whether the present case will develop the fact that it would have been better for the owners to have sold the landats price whieh may have been proposed since the time it was selected for park purposes. : w.o.c AUCTION SALE. Nex£ Saturday, by decree of Court, there will pe sold at auction, at 2 o’clock, at the corner of Adums and LaSalle streets, 338 lots in what i known as the * Dobbins Tract,” bounded north by Twenty-sixth strect, south by Thirty-first street, east. by Waullace street, and west by Dashiel avenue, formerly Winter street. This sale is under decree of Court, upon foreclosure of mortgage made by Thomas 8. Dobbins in May, 1871, so that Emrchusers will acquire flg{:u dating back of all judgments against him and conveyances by him. 3 SUBDIVISIONS. A re-subdivision of parts of Blocks 17 and 18, | Sheflield’s Addition, frouting northeast on Chi- u:rgeoetmver, pounded on the south by Ramgon street. -iOAI lat of part of the N. E. ¥ of Sec. 27, ] ————— THE PUTTING-UP 0’ THE STOVE; OR, THE RIME OF THE ECONOMICAL HOUSE- HOLDER. The melancholy days had come that nohouseholder - loves, Days of the taking down of blinds ysiof ‘;"‘; g of and potting op The lengths of pipe forgotten lie in the shadow of the she Dinged out of symmetry they be, ard all with rust o re red; The husband gropes amid the mass that he placed there anon, And swears to Gnd an elbow-joint, and ekealeg, are gone. So fared 1t with good Mister Brown, to whom his spouse: *‘Behold, Unless you wish ns 21l to go and catch our deaths of cold, d Swift be yon stove and pipes from ont their stering- ‘place conveyed, And to bh.:k-,!,e and set them up, lo! I will lend my ai - . This Mister Brown he trembling heard, —I trowhis - heart was ggre,— ° For he was married many years, and had been there before, And timidiy he said: ‘*My love, perchance the ‘betterplan the tsmith's shop and bid*him *Twere to hie to gend & man?” To whom his spouse, imdignantly: **So you would: have me then To waste onr, substance upon riotous tinsmith's Jjourneymen? -Apm}ymw is twopence earned,’ rash prodi- zal 0! s % Go, ln?:e ofle, 2o, and I will black and set it up yelf, " ‘When thus she I%tg:e the husband kmew that she had sealed his doom: **Fill high the bowl with Samian lead, and gimme dowu that broom, ™ He cried; then to the onthouse marched. Apart the doors he hove, = And closed in deadly conflict with his enemy, the® stove. Rownd 1.—They faced each other; Brown, to get an opening, sparred Afl.rohlyl.rd.llll antagonist was cantions on its gu Brown led off with his left 10 wherea length of stovepipe stood, And nearly cut his ingers off. (7he atose aliowed First Blood.) Round 2.—Brown came up swearing, and m Grieco-Romun style Closed with the stove, and tugged and strove at ita weary while; . & At ]utl !fie‘;lez he held gave way; flat on his back ell Broy And the stove fell on top of him, and claimed the First Knockdown. » * . « . Thefightis done and Brown has won; &is hands are rasped and sore, And perspiration and black-lead stream from his every pore: suml_v)l trinmphant, 88 he gives his prisoners shove, Hecries, **Where in the angel's name shall I pnt this blessed stove?” And calmly Mrs. Brown to him she indicates the ot And bids Rim keep his temper, and remarks that »_~ he looks hot. And now comes in the sweet o’ the day; the Brown holds in his gripe And strives to fit a six-inch joint into & five-inch . pipe; He hammers, dinges, bends, and shakes, whilehis wife scornfally Tells him how sne would manage it it only sbe ‘were he. At ln‘z the joints are jolned; they rear a pyramid n air, A tub upon the table, and upow the tab a chalr, And on the chair, ‘sapporters are the atovepipe sad e Brown, Like the lion and the unicorn, s-fighting for the crown; JBrown she cheerlly says to him, While Mistress 41 expec *Twould be just like your clamsiness,to fall sad break yoar neck.™ Suua‘ mere the piteons accents eaid before she wad or what might be called & miscellsneous musicia Ay And in wild crash and confusion upoa the feof Chairs, tables, ‘Tabe, and stovep! themas ubs, anal There was a moment's silence—Brown had fallen on the cat: ' She was too thick now for & book-mark, but 109, thin for a mat; And he was all wounda and bruises from his hesd unto hie foot, = the soot. **0 wedded love, how beantifal, bow sweet 3 thing thon art1" S Up from her chair did Mistress Brown, 28 she 8% him falling, start, And shrieked alond as a sickening fear did her i o 5, MO8t heartstrings gripe, Jostah Winterbétham Brown, bave you goneand smashed that pipe?” Then lhxn and stert dhe Mister Brown, as one tht on wode. And big his bosom swelled with wrath and red bis visage glowed; ‘Wild rolled his cye as he made reply (and his voiee ‘was sharp and shrill), -**1 have not, madam, bat, by—by—by the Nine Gods I will:™ He swang the pipe above his head, he dashed it o2 oor, Azd that stove-pipe, as a stove-pipe, it aid exist 0 more : Then he strode up to his shrinking wife, and 28 face was stern and wan, Y A8 in a hoarse, changed voice he hissed: **Send . for that tinsmith’s man1* 3 —@. T. L. in New York World. ————— The Dove of Peace. Detroit Free Pre: o A bootblack ;os:"k dore zm%‘nw cot abant, 8 week ago, and yesterdsy, while crossing Campus Martius, he discovered the missing bird. Seizing a bandful of mud be gave its - throw just as the birdarose. A man-was stanc: ing on a box, selling some sweet oil, aad the mad struck him flat in the face. He got down, efcd full of mua, and, fecllng around him, called out: 1 want it understood that this bold attempt to crush out free speech does mot maks me quafl in the least! Some oneslide uphere with* in reach!” Several persons slid the other way, taking large part of his stock. When he had cewed his eyes and discovered bis loss he monnted the box and said: i * Gentlemen, tyrants and usurpers. I take all back. Trot up your state of unarchy, brinZ out your red-handed bastiles, snd let me liear the siren voice of monarchy?! ' Who'll have ths next bottle” "