Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 3, 1878, Page 12

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 3 i 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES, - record, a5 there was Do Wager or compensation depending upon the resuit. but nevertheless the performance was 4 publicand well-authenticated oce. Evervboly thought that many a year would elapse before anything approachbing it would be seen. But stnce 1875 youog trotters have become a8 common as dead leavesin autumn. Last fall, at Lexivgton, there was a preat Jowering of records. Memento, 8 ycarling filly bv Administrator, was driven a mile with 165 pounds on the sulky in 2:563¢, a truly wou- derful performance. Then, in the 4-vear-old race at the same meeting, Red Jim obtained o record of 2:242¢, and So-So, a 2-year-old, won o heat in 2:31, something still more marvelous. In the East, Elaine cut down the 3-year-old record by trotting a milé in 2:2§, which figure eclipsed the 2:29 performance of the telebrated Lady Stout,and still stands as the best on record for that age. There have been wonderfal stories told of the trials given Maud 8. over thehalf-mile track at Cincinnati for the past two months, and not long ago Capt. Stone offered to match her against any 4-year-old in the world for $2,500 a side, Failing 1o et a match, be jovited a party of friends to witness a trial_over the Cincinnati track, she being driven amilc in 2:223{. A visit was then made with her to Lexingion, Ky., where, in the face of a strong wind, she repeat- ed her Cincinpati performance. But ber train- er, W. W. Bair. was not satisfied, and & weck aro last Saturday another cffort was made. SPORTING. THE TURF. THE EILLING OF M'EXEVER. To the Editor o7 The Tribune. Cmicaco, Oct. 25.—Please give a description of he old Cinder Track on the South Side, location, when znd by whom built. ~Also mive an account of how McKeever, the driver of Gen. Butler, was kil at that track in 1860. il Ax Orp SUBSCRIBER. In answer to the above communication, Taz TrIBUNE has grone to considerable trouble to ascertain the exact fucts in regard to the mat- ters referred to therein, and especially the dark tragedy which for so Joug a time 1aid 2 blight and curse upon turf sports in this city. . The Cinder Track was situatcd at the corner of State and Thirty-second streets, being bound- «d on the north by Thirty-second street, on the south by Thirty-fifth, on the cast by Indiana aveue, and on the west by State street. It was a mile track, lsid out in precisely the same munser as is the recently-built one on the West Side, and received its pame because of a cover- ing of finely-screcned cinders.. It was t.mih. by the Chicago Driving Fark Association in 1861, James Van Etta, Milton S. Patrick, William B. Howard, Charles Clarke, aud otbers beig active | All the surroundings were in the mare's in its organization. ' favor. The day was balmy, and, % although there was quite 2 breeze On Satunday, the 22d of Jeptember, 1566, there was a match race for $5,000 announced to take place between the then celebiated trotting horses Gen. Butler .and Cooley, the former be- ing from ibe East and the latter a Chicazo ani- mal. The race was mile heats, three in five, in harness. Both horses haa made a national reputation by their pérformances, and, in conse- quence, the track was visited on the day they came together by at Jéast 7,000 peole. " Cooley, as betore stated, wasa Chicazo horse, being owned by Hiram Hastings, of this city, while the ownmer of Butler was Charles stirring, it was not sufficient to impede a horse. No time. was lost in preliminarfes. and, after Maud had beer jogged twice around the track, she came fiying dowa the home-stretch for the word. The first quarter was made in 331, the half in 1:06, the threequarters in 1:14, and the mile in T3¢~—the Dest time ever made in Kentucky. Right here it may be well to state, for the in~ formation of those who have never seen the Lexinzton track, that itis a peculiar one, and in every way adapted for speed. For the first uarter of ‘tbe mile there is a stight descent. be next quarter rises slightly; the third is perfectly level, and thelast is down grade. In spite of this, it will be scen that Maud S. stop- Revere, a well-known butcher of New 4 2 c L b G ed terribly after passing the half-mile pole, the York (City. vBuflcr s brought 10 K:s: balf of the mile being done in 1:11%, or 5% Chicago . by William McKeever, a young | seconds slower than thé first, while the Jast uarter was in 3634 seconds—a 2:25 gait. Never- fineh:ss, it was a wonderful performance, and no figuring can detract oue iota from tue merits of the mare. Io rezard to her appearance, she is described by a Chicago driver as being not unlike Calla- han’s Maid in volor, conformatior, and eait. She is somewhat higher than Doble’s are, stand- ing 15.3, aud long in proportion. In color, the mares are exactly alike, and have substantially the same gait. After her Lexington trinl Maud 8. was sold to William H. Vanderbilt, of New York, lor 21,000, as aircady aunounced in Tng TRIBUNE, and will be driven on the road by that gentle- man. As her performance will in ali probabil- jty be unequaled for some time, a summary of it isappended: . Lexiveros, Ky., Oct. 26, 1878, —George N. , Stone’s ch. m. Maude 8., by Harold, dam by Pilot Jo. 1man well known in turf circles, although not a professional driver, his owner not accompanying the horse. Sam Crooks, then as now a driver with headquarters in this city, had driven Butler in several of his races, sud wes selected by Mes- Eeever 1o pilot the horse in bis great race with the Western crack, Cooley. e ave the horse his preliminary work, and on the day of the Tace appeared in the sulky behina him when tbe judzas® bell raug for the start to be made. Cooley was driven by Bill Riley, a man who cawe to Chicszo in 1866 from Detroit. The story of this raceis soon told. Cooley won the first two heats easily in slow time, and then the backers of Gen. Butler demanded that o pew driver be put behind him. ‘The desired change was made, Crooks getting down, and McKeever, ju wbom ecverybody had confidence, taking Juis place. The’ third snd fourth beats were won by Gen. Butler in much faster time than the “preceding ones hind been trotted in. When the horses came out for the fifth heat it was nearly dark, the only light being that from the moor, which bad just risen. 1t was between 7 and S o’clock, and the crowd demanded 8_postponement until the ful- lowing Monday. But as the fifth ‘heat would De the deciding one, the judues concluded to have it trotted. Just before the start was made McKeever went into the bar attachea to VANDEKBILT AND WORK. New York papers of a recent date bave con- siderable to say regarding the, rivalry between Willizm H. Vauderbilt and Mr. Frank Work as to which shall have the best road horses. Van- derbilt, it will be remembered, wus not promi- nently known in turf circles until the death of his father, when he a:i once bezan extensive purchases of faststock. His first prize was the the track,-ana called for o drink of dark | D3y mare =~ Lady = Mae whom, — with " ¢ Small Aopes, he sucxceeded in driv- brandy, earing jo Billy Boyle that he “‘}}fl,‘,’fi ine a mile over Fleetwood FPark to Tor it as soon as the heat was trotted. his coat buttoned tightly around his throat, his floves on, and woip in band: in fact, bhe was ready to step into the sulky. These were the Jast words ‘that McKeever is kvown to have gpoken. He mounted the sulky, zud. after a few scorings, was sent away for the final Jjourney of the race and of his life. Alongside of the back-tretch of the track was a wooden buildinz used for the exhibition of nachinery during_the Fair, which at that time was heid annually in Chicago. When the horses disappeared behind. this structure in the fifth heat, they were on_nearly even terms, Butler having the pole and beinz & trifle abead. The next thing that the crowd saw was Batler .coming down the home-strerch on a run. It was 50 dark that cventbe gait of ths horse could not be dlainly distingruisked, and as he went fiving under the wire the watch of the timing judge wae stopped at 2:1024. Thkere was a white blauket strapped to the s¢at of Butler’s sulky, and as toc black horsc went flying past the stand it was flapping in tbe darkness, de- ceiving some izto the belief that McKeeyer bad Iost lus cozt during the heat and was driving in his shirt-siceves. As the horse dashed around the firsi time, however, 1t was seen that there was uo onc in the sulky, and the most intense excitement prevailed, as suspicions of foul play wereat onee aroused, Riley, thedriver of Cooley, Laving been heard to utter threats while the seoring for the heat was in progress. In a short time Butler cawe thunaering’ down the home- stretch again, all efforts to stop him beingr un- availing. In the meauntime Cooley had reached the wire, Riley saying that McKecever bad iall- cn out on the back-stretch and been burt. When Butler bad completed three circuits of the track he rac to the gate leading to the stables. and swas stopped by his subber, MikeWard (who died last winter "in- New.York), and John Croker, now a well-known driver. ‘The crowd rushed around to the place where the killing oceurred, and there, just north of ihe haif-mile pole, poos McKeever was found sing ou his back unconscious, his skull having been sptit from the right temple to a point near the base of the brain. The cause of his death was soon made cicar. A piece of the guard-board that formed a portion of the inside fence of the track was lyinz near him, one end of it were clots of blood. and 1t was evident . that the board had been ont by some murderous rascal,who was de- termived that Butler should lose the race, even o fl.:. human lile was sacrificed to attain that en McKeever 'was alive, although unconscious, when picked up, and was taken to the residence of Dr. Gore, then County Physician, corner of ‘Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue,where be received the best medical attention’in the citv, and was nursed by his friend James Con- 1i who is still arcsiGent of this city. He never spoke, however, and died about 2 o’clock in the atternoon of the following day. The question of who killed bim was never solved. The judges of the racedeclared all bets off, and cxpelled Riley, the driver of Cooiey, from all tracks in the United States. There was no Nationul Association at that tune, bat tne action of any track was ¢d and honored by all the others. Riley road wagon in 2:23, a performance that it is not Iikely will soou be equaled. .He then bourht the Illinois trotters Capt. Jack and Little Fred. The former he still retains, but the latrer was too quick for any horse Mr. Vanderbilt could purcnase to mate biwm, and was re-sold to the Higbee Bros., of Canton, 1il, his original owaers. This fall Mr. Vaunderbilt gave the chestuut geldine Lysander Boy, record 2:205, a trial, and was so pleased witQ Dim that a ‘sale was made, the price paid being $10,000. He then entered into negotiations for the wonderful four-year-old mare Maud 8., and secured her 000 after she had trotted in 2:17%. His purchase is the Western trotter Dac latest Lewis, which he intends driving with Capt. Jack. This horse has quite a history, and is un- doubtedly one of the best trotters in the coun- try. Hewas bred by J. C. Deyo, of Michizan, Wwho was also the owner of Small Hopes, and at the time Bill McGerrizan started ou bis famous tour with tbat horse, which ended in_himself and the animal being expeiled from all Natiopal Association tracks, Floyd Deyo was “ringing?’ Doc Lewis under the name of Flexible. Last spriog the horse, then baving a record of 2:30, was purchased by a Wisconsin man, and his subscquent career has been one of almost uninterrupted success. He bas started in thirty races, of which he wou twenty-seven, reduced his record to 2:24, and finally been sold at a Joog price to Mr. Vanderbilt. Doc Lewis is by Marshall Chief; he by Vermont Hero, ason of Hll’s Blackhawk, the eirc of Ethan Allen. Of Mr. Vanderbilt’s other horses, it may be said that Small Hopes and Lady Mac are in uo condition for fast work. Arthur Boy and Mack are being driven by Mr. Vanderbilt's son, aud Rutledge has been Yrescnted to Dan Muce. Mr. Work has only two horses fit for use,— Bill Thunder and Edward, and they at prescat form his road team. The other horses in his stable are Jobn V. Hall, Frank Reeves, Frank Davis, and Modoc and mate. Mr. Work has sent an srent into the country to purchase three or four good horses. He will soon give George B. Danielsa trial with Edward, and if he suits purchase him. REMINISCENCES OF LADY SUFFOLE. Suffolk Driving Park, Buptington, L. L, was the scene recently of a trotting meeting, and a New York Sum reporter who was present gleaned the following interesting faets regard- ing the once famous mare Lady Suffolk. Formerly the Suffolk-Park course was nsed for excreising the famous trotting mare Lady Saffolk. The present manager of the course, Unele Biit Johnson, weil known to all hursemen, resides in the old house on the teack. Uncle Bill is always glad to sceany of **the boys” who are now oid men, ‘and * he never forgets Lo order his hosders to tuke good carc of the horses, and fetch pails of water for them from the green pump. Uncle Bill will often sit down with a party of friends and tell stories of trotting iv days gone by. Uncle Dill says that thirty-five yearsago nearly all trotting was done under the ssddlé, and the jockeys had to Dossces great strength and endurance. Uncle Bill was askeu yesterdsy before ibe trots to zive the history of the famous Lady Soffolk. Ie eaid: **Why, boys, blets you, I knew the mare from a colt. ~ Suflolk, whea elic wus young, was a dark 1ron gray. Dave Bryant, ber owner, trotted her forty years azo, and beat the chestnut mare Kate Horn tossddle right here on this track, “\Dsery k. “locked up on the evening of the race on | Uncle Eliss De Forrest and Billy Jarvis, ~ion of kunowing more than be told about | two leading sporting men of that day, der, but the Coroner’s jury could find | after the trot asked Bryant what he would on which fo Lold him. A couple of | take for the msre. He said $200, and they ¢ were ulso arrested, but | 0ered S150, which was refused. Before goinz 3 home Jarvis sald: **Elias, we kad better by the wmare, ™ to which DeForrest replied, **All right,” But Bryant bad changed bis mind, ang now wanted $300 for the ware. Money was not 8o plenty in those days, and cverybody thought Bryant was crazy ju not selling the mare for 3200, But, boys, bless sor, it waa the luckiest actever Bryast doné c. e ons actively connected with the of anterest to know their pres- Riiey, Cooles’s driver, . is employ of the Hon. Will- it Suw Crooks, who o i Fees ¥ in his heats, sill lives 1 | ™ udy Suffolk was worla beater in her day. St winter in Wew | Shebeac all the. crack trottors in the country, mons them the gray felding Washinzon. the bay clding Dulchman, Americus, Mac; Tacony, Rat- Daniel D. Tompkins, Kate Kearacy, ltipton, n Gdence, aad all the other trottere of note. Uncle Liil saya Bryunt wus a very reserve man, and always had a way of riding of dnving of his Yiving, Butler is 2w York gentle- 1 at bis owner’s *t heat of the \for 1856+ | own. Forinstance, Bryant would never pull or »- Ud“;i‘ "iaq | #tay'ap Sufolk by tue 'bit, but wonld drive her ks oy | with s slack rein, ond mdke her pull the sulky UTY WOras | with her shonldert. Gucle Bll remarked that he tue crowd | had often heard the epectators shout: \Javor of | **Look at that Yaukee fool, he ougnt to be taken wwanded | oot of the sulky, Wy, he 2io't heiping Saffolk T ¥:3t13 g wonder the mare don't fali down, " et But.” knid Uncle Bli), *+it turned out that < ipey | imsteaa of Bryzat being the fool the boot was on S ken | e other Ieg, for Suflolk won mearly all of her 3 the | WOl 8." continned Uncle Biil, **when : ton in a trot of two-mile hests, in harness, in . the fastest two miles ever trotted up io thatdate, everybody thought that the world was coming to anend. Why, I was g0 excited that I sinashed my oew beaver hatdown over my and when 1 pulled 1t off my head, the linen as ‘all tore out of it. The old-time drivers, H:ram Woodruff, William Whelan, George Spicer, fohnuy Hamwili, Dan Pleifer, and all_the horse- ind the age, for they used to sit and twitch, Lift, and shift the bit in the . if he made the least skip. The 9 d to break their horses' jaws, or then pull the sulky with their mouths, Even s rivals. before his death, conceded 10 him rof being one of the best driversin Ameri- Ness nse Tolk's hide was stuffed after her death, oW be seen Jooking very life-like ina ~.7s8 store near {Ionston streer. TRACK TALK. X Bull msre Kiity, record 2: 34, bas W. 8. Brown, of Indianapolis, for ir, of Cleveland, has purchased the otting gelding Roderick Db, by :nmark. nn, dam of the celebrated trotting «d Oct- 9 at Vincentown, N. J., of * was 26 yearsold. £ of this city, bas purchased for ic cray celding Gray Eagle, that -ne 2:31 race av the recent meeting nesetier and Mazo-Manie and Ken- <es-Tekonsta matches, W have been and possibly some other Northwestern cities, and that they arrange a series of games for said Nortnwestern championship. We would be plensed to hear from all ef the above to that effect. Please nddress **President,” care Box 1985, Rockford, 111, DAISY-CUTTERS: H. B. Phillips will manage the Troy team next year, The New Bedfords played 125 games during the past season. The Forest Citys will hereafter be known as the Cleveland Club. Gillespie, of the Worcesters, has finally sigoed to play in Albany next year. Barncs 1s to receive $4003 month from the Cincinnati Club nest season. The latest report concerning Cassidy is that he has come to terms with the Springdeld Clab for next season. Dolan, Galvin, MeGonigle, Exgler, Force, and Libby, of the Buftslos, will remain in Buffalo during the winter. Larkin and Hankinson, since their departure been playing with the 'trotted last Tucsday at the Jockey-Club track, were nostponed trom day to day on account of bad weather, and finally declared off. Nettie, a 3-year-old filly by the imported thorpughbred horse Billet, is a natural trotter, and will be trained at that way of gojug uext spring. Elmore, a 3-year-old_colt by Goldsmith’s Ab- daltab, has been sold by W. H. Wilson, Cynthi- ang, Ky.. to Church & Fuller, of Mlichigan. Price, $1.200. Col. Lewis, the phepomenal California trotter that is beating everything on the Pacific Slope, is by Riffeman, a thoroughbred horse, and sou of imp. Glencoe. Matt Tanner, of Albany, N. Y., has purchosed for §2,500 the trotting siallion Rice Graves. Bald Chicf (2 grandson of Mambrino Chief). has a two-mile record of 5:03. The well-known running horses Joc Rodes, Charlie Bush, and Duncan F. Kenuer, were sold at auction at Nashville recently. Rodes brought $247, Kenuer $174, and Bush S74. Mr. Vanderbilt will bercafter drive Capt. Jack and Lysander Boy together on the road. Their names have been changed, and the team will | from this citv, have hereafter be kuown as Lysander aud Leander. . | Alaskas of New York. A foot-race - will take place at Dexter Park “Terror” Devlin recently pitched for a next Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for #25 a | picked nine at Albany, which defeated the side between Ed .\Iurphii of Engioe Company Albanys by a score of S'to 2, in seven innings. No.1and Nic Pauls, of Eugine Company No. 6. “Candy " Cummings doesn’t scem to_be in Observer, record 2:2434, who in 1675 was con- | grent demand. Tue Albany 4rgus denies that sidered au? og the bes':. horses in the count{y, be is to pitch for the club in that city next year. but was retired from the turf on account of & i bud leg, recently underwen firing in the afllicted Sagc{fi? g:fis!i’g:‘f:‘z;"gfifgr;refi[g\;‘f"' E‘:;:; member, and is expected to be'tit for trolting | pail.player out of o job is considering offers—in next spring. his mind. Mr. D. Swirert, of Keotucky, was recently A certain Balth New York more paper went into convul- offered $10,000 by a New York gentleman for [ siong yot long azo hecansflcthe Jonding ball olab hiis 2-year-old coltSpendthrift, by np. Austra- | or 4yt ciey played agame with nine colored lian, out of Acrolite. The offer was refused, 85 | propyors fiony Waskifgton. the colt is engaged in stakes next year the ag- e ’ From_ present appearances, -‘Troy, Albany, gregate value of which is nearly $50,000. Tt oisent apnestances, - Troy,, Al i s 3 ica, Manchester, Soringficld, Lowell, an o 11115'1: Elb‘l:t]tlr‘tllé o 'é‘}f,fif}’ Mty gg{“fi;’u‘;f Philadelplia will be represented fn the {aterma- chased of Willism Hatvey the bay stalfioy { tonal Associatlon next year, Clinton, fosled in 1872, by Mambrino Eclipse, Sullivan, who played with the Lpwells during out of Maggie, by MombrinoChicf,, Also a pair | the past season, has entered Holy Cross Colleve, of geldings that cau trot together in 2: 50. }3‘%'}‘“'?" Il’e'nns sgreed to play with the New Nettie Ward, record 2:203¢, and Header, reo- | B04£0rds next year, commencing Juue 1, ord 2:25, have been put together by a St. Touis Manager Hollinger, of thisyear’sForest Citys, has been bounced by the mavagement of ihe gentleman, and vromise to do something ex- )y E traordinary next year in the way of double-team | Club, and. Gross and Salisbury, of the nive : -/ were'left out in the cold with_ bim. Hollingor trotting. "They were rccently given a mile and F o 3 has sume thoughts of orgapizing a *snap” repeat over the St. Louis track by Gus Wilson | ha in 2:33%, 2:313, dramwog a 160-pound road- Blgte rélnt.r ‘;:regi g’cnr, making his headquarters at wagon. The value of the thoroughbred stallionsin | The prospects of aclub in Washington next year, which_at one time were very mood, have KEentucky and Tennessee is probably not far r from 1,000,000, and the value of théir brood | Vanisbed. JoeGerhardtwas to bethe nucleusof mares half as much more; and yet. singular to the nine, but, after acting in that_ornamental state, of their produce there was but oné South- Dosition for some time. concluded that there western-owned colt sent to Baltimore to con- | Was more money in taking a sure thing at Cin- tend for the “*Dixie,” one of the most valuable | cinnati, and accordingly did so. In order to relieve the anxiety of several Mil- stakes of the year, aud he went lame. Why is this so! Certainly, we of the West ought tobe | waukee papers which have been in hot water about the matter for some time, Tue TRIBUNE able Lo train & horse as well as we breed him, and we should be able to carry off at least ball | yil} say that there is not one chanee in ten that g} the Eastern stakes aud purses every year.— | the Mi{wnukae Club will be a muember of the nquirer. The recent Blue Bonnets’ mecting over the Fashion track at Montreal. Can., was a very uu- Tortunate one to life and limb. Tenry Murcott, veterinary surgeon of Ottawa, was riding the horse Squire in_ the three-mile ruce, and, when crat. 800n League next year. Al the talk about salaries -for this season having been paid in full is bosh. The Utles Hera’d 1s greatly exercised because the Directors of the Club at that place talk of letting Bushonlr go. ‘This championing the cause of players by newspapers was played out if the outlook was favorable. tiations had bad to be talked, the enthusfastsaliuded to were called o to keep thelr promises, which, if ful- filled, should have petted about $50,000. Only two of them would make rood. sary to add that no further steps were taken to- ward orgzanization. The fraternity may there- fore take this a5 & semi-oflicial notification that St. Louis has quit the business.—Globe-Demo- READER, CittcAco. —Will you please lot me know throngh yoar paper who wus pitcher for the Chi- cago Clibpers Gore play last year? Ans.—Oran pitched for the Chicago Clippers in 1877-'8. the New Bedford Club during the past season. . SubscrisER, Cnircaco. —~Have the League field- ing averages been made out yet? If have not been r:omilcclcd by Secretary Young, but when they arc will not give opinfons regarding the respective merits of players. . M., Cnircgao.—~Will you be kind enough to inform some infercsted parties colnmns to-morrow (Sunday) whether the *All England Eieven ' crickcters were not defeated in agume of Cricket by the American cricketers (the latter under the management of Harry Wricht, when the Boston Club went to England, I think in 1875, to introduce the game of base-ball)? Ans.— The members of the Boston and Athletic Clubs who went to Europe in 1875 defeated every cricket club with which they played. were made to zet a game with the All England Eleven, but every ime tne Englishmen would fenve out a man or twa of the original Eleven, supplying thefr places with substitutes, Americans could not say they had beaten the Al England Eleven, GEORGE E. WHITE. J. 8, Tampering with a Juror to Screen Affidavit of Ex-Ald. A. H. Smith-Some- est. Itis made by Mr. A. H. Smith, formerly of this city, who for two years represented the vresent Tenth Ward in the Council, and now doing busivess w Milwaukee. ‘made by him under cath deserve the considers- tion of the clectors of the First Senatorial Dis- trict, to most of whom he is personally known: MILWAUKEE. Oct. 31, the Firat Senatorial b H. Smith, being first daly sworn, ubon his oath deposes and says: in the year 1878, to-wit, ot the time when sev- eral of the County Cominissioners of Cook County, who, ‘in counecifon with une Clem Periolat, had been mdicted before a Grand Jury within said county for defrauding the people thereof out of ceriain ‘sams of money, were beinz tried before the Criminal Court of Cook County, he (A. I Smith) was a citizen thereof, and was duly served by order of said Court for a special venire of jurors, and responded to hie nanic when called; whereupon he was questioned by the Assfstant Prosecuting Attorney, the uand accepted as a juryman, after which the at- torney for the defense, Mr. Trade, put among other questions to your deponent the following: REAL ESTATE. When the nego- rogressed so far that * pusiness ™ It is - Aken to. provement on Wabash Avenue. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Singer Building. uring 1875-'6-'7r Where did Gore played with Other Parts of the City. how They 0, aro” they 1o be published? -ins. Months Past—Real Estate Bonan- zas at Leadville, Col. published.. 'This paper dogs throngh your the erection of what is promised to be the LARGEST FRENCIL APARTMENT tractor, who built the State Arsenal ana St. Several attempts in_order that the ‘Wabash Hubbard 160 165 feet fect on on of and court. Clem Periolat. thing for First District Voters. speclal . features of the house are to re— be a laundry, where all the laundry The following sffidavit will be read with inter- | work will be dome” for the inmates at cost, s restaurant where meals may be taken, and private dininz-rooms scparate from the The statements keeping. The rooms will hgve an average di- mension of 15x16 feet. Therent will range from $25 to $30 a suite. ‘The cost of the building will be $165,000. Tae ‘property it will occupy is the site of THE COUCH LOMESTEAD and the adjoining 112 feet on Wabash avenue, s0 long the site of the First Baptist Church. 1878.—T0 the Voters of istrict, Chicago, Ill.: A. That_some time during the fall the southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Hubbard court for 318,000, and Gillet & Divight sold the adjoining 112 feet on Wabash avenue for $300 a foot. The sale was negotiat- ed by B. F. Jacobs and B, A. Ulrich. The ar- chitect is H. Rebwoldt. The bhalls will bave fire-proof stairways, and there will be Won. 3. F. Tuley, jumping over the secoud and Jast hurdle, the | Jong ago. - There is no fandumental reasoa why | Ot S 3 E iH he horse stumbled, throwing bim to_the ground nreporter should know auy more about the i,,",,‘;{{’ ',‘J{,i‘;’,‘;a{"d?”%‘.finc‘\’?:r‘d’»:' u;f“‘\y{;“ escape from every floor. N.R. Warwich. who with great force. Galatea was following close | necessities of a ball club than the oflicers | White your colleagner—all of iwhich were huilt the Board of Trade Building, has charze behind, and, it is supposed, jumoed upon Mr. | thercof. answered in ‘the afirmative, - whereupon he | Of the construction, and the mason contractors are the icc Brothers. Murcott. His head was terribly injurea and one of his eyes was about gouged out.” He was im- wediately removed to the hotel at the track, and Dr. Hingston was called in. He did all in lis power for the injured man, butto no avail, as be died in half an bour after the aceident. Mr. Murcott was an Enclishman, about 23 years of age, aud was widely known in sportiog cir- cles. Andrew McLaughlin, a professionai jockey, was on Fusileer, when the horse bolted and ran across the flelds at a terrible rate. The horse_stumbled and threw McLaugllin off, breaking his left arm in twy places between the wrist and elbow. A gentleman rider, Samuel Penniston, was riding the horse Rival in a race. On jumping over a stone wall the horse fell, throwine his rider on the ground and breaking bis left arm in two places. - The following motices affecting Western horses have been issued from Scerctary Vail's office during the past ten days: Suspensions— By the Chicago Jockey and Trottig Club: Witliam Canifl, Kalamazoo, Mich., aud the br. £. Bashaw; R. C. Pate, St. Louis, and the b. m. Lucille; C. C. Lawnead, Washinzton Court- House, O., and the br. m. Nettie C.; 1. W. Kendall, Chicazo, and the bik. ¢. Black Doc; C. T. Lewis, Almont, Mich., and the b. ¢, Fred Hooper. By the Cnester Uriving Park Associa- tion, Cincinnati: J. Ketzmiller & Sous, Canton, Q., and the br. g. Banker; John Shoenbe=zer, Cincinpatl, ana the b.m. Rose; Joseph Reu, 3fadison, [nd., and the ch. m. Katie Middleton® J: P. Thompson, Delaware, O., and_ the b. g, Frank Sloan; A. G. Short, Coldwater, Mich.,aud the b. m. Lady Beach: George W. Jamison, Clevelana, O., and the ch. . Honest Mary; Thomas Evers, Chicazo, and the ch. m. Jessie; 8. A. Brown, Pentwatcr, Mich., and ‘the blk. m. Lady Turpin. Reiostatements—D. B, Hubbard, Jackson, Mich., and the br. s. Tekonsha, sus- pended by the Quincy Fair Associations Quiney, I, have becn temporarily reinstated; John Croker, Cleveland, 0., aud the gr. o Gray Salem, suspended by the Zanesville (O.) Driv- ing Park Association, bave been temporarily re- instated. Dehlman, ex-umpire, has filed a petition in the Common Pleas Court, setting forth a claim of $15,000 against the Sunday Voice for alleged damnge to character by the publication of an article in August last charging that he had been dabbling in pools, on a game between the Torest Citys aud Uticas, in which the snid Dehl- man was umpire.—Cieveland Leader. The series of three games between Boston and Providence, in which, as Harry Wright ex- pressedit, the brize was to be *‘the pride of superiority in our national game,” resulted in favor of the Bostons, they winning all the games. The scores were: 8—0; % Accoraing to Harry’s idea, Boston now has a large stock of ‘““pride of superiority » ou hand. The Utica Club has invented a cast-iron, rock-rooted contract which all the players for 1879 have signed. It gives the Association power to lay off a player any game or games for areagonable excuse, nud to deduct from bis salary so wuch pergame, as the number of frames not played by him are in propertion to tue number plased’by the Club during the season. - Sullivan, of the Ciocinnatis, over whom ftho Enquirer slobbered so dreadfully when the bor- rible romor got abroud that he was to be Cap- tain of the turnstile next year instead of play- ing in the nine, is looking around for another job. It is to be hoped that he may get it apd reticve the gloom that has hung over the - quirer office since he was made s sub in next year’s nine. Educational circles have been in 8 flurry dur- ing the past week over the announcement that the Facuity of Harvard College recently made 2 base hit by suspeuding Capt. James Wright, of the College nlue, from the institution until vext Jupne. It wasamomentous step to take, but the question of whether bramns or ball-clubs hall run otd Harvard might as well be decided oW as any time. This scason the Stars, of Syracuse, have played 100 games, winning 86 by play, 1 by for- feit; losing 84 by play. 1 by forfeit; tietne 4. They have’ scored 631 runs o opponents’ 419; earaed 166 to opponents’ 97. They have white- ‘washed opponents 13 games, but have escaped any Chicago themselves. For tho season the batting average of the team is .261, and the fieldine averace .853. Eigchteen men have played in the team. Says the Elmira Gazette: It takes a quarter of a column for the Curthage Gazette to tell its Teaql ‘What a Flv Did.' Now, if that man had joined & base-ball elub wheu a boy, he would have found out thata flg’ will double up a fat third-baseman quicker than the colic; split a piteher’s nose fn sections; lame a lazy short~ stop for lite; and, if well loaded, will take the first bascman’s measure for a coffin and lay him out ready for the funeral service. Thesc are but a few tbingsa fly can do. If you want to kunow auy more, join a base-ball club yourself.” Secretary Willinms, of the International As- sociation, in bis monthly circular to the mem- bers of that Association, announces that the Tecumsehs_bave hired F. D. Emelie, Thomas Gillean, J. H. Ross, George Steeds, George - El- dridge, Thomas Welch, John P. Smith, J. P, ‘Thompsou, and Hugh McLean. These men arg all amateur players, living iy London, and this scheme is provably a part of the plan started by the Tecumnsehs toassist theStars by claiming that they wished to finish their Internatioual series of games with the Springfields. The Judiciary Committec Will demde whether such a ¢ drammed-up nioe * ds this will be allowed to stand for the regulur Tccumseh team.—Buffalo Ezpress. A meeting of some of the best basiness men of Dubuque was held Oct.19 to complete a base- ball organization for 1579 that can compete suc- cessfully with any club in the Northwest (out- side the League)” Toe meeting was large and enthusiastic, and it was wooderful to see what interest the people have taken here in their club for next scason, and the great desire is to beat Davenport. The amouut of stock is placed 46 $6,000. At a meeting beld Oct. 29, the fol- lowing officers were elected to govern the club for 1879: Charles 8. Dean, Fresident: W. Peasly, Vice-President; 1. P. l‘farle, Correspond- iog Secretary; H. E. Wilson, Recording Secre- tary; J. McArthur, Treasurer; T. P. Sulltvan, Manager. © Only men that ure noted for sobricty and reliability will be engaged. Devlin, the crooked pitcher of the Louisvilles, is in town, aud will remain here for some days. The story of his wanderinzs and sutfering since his expulsion from the League is pitiful in the extreme. He has played most of this sca- son in the champion amateur club of Canada, and, after winning the penant for them by bis superb work, he was cheated of a liberal’ part of his salary, and was obliged to leave his_wife and 3-year-old boy in that country. He claims thut if’ he can obtain the signatures of three out of the five members of the Judiciary Committee of tae International Association, he can be re- instatad. Devlin is in Utica now for the pur- pose of prescating his petition to Mr. Lynch for Lis signature, and promises, if he is successful, and the Association allows him to play once more, that he will come to Utica for next sea- sou at a nominal salary, notwithstanding the libera: offers he has received from otherclubs.— Utica Hepublican. While there arc s few stanch supnorters of the national game in this city who rearet that the days of base-ball are pumbered in St. Louis, the fact is not generally deplored, for the rea” son that a pastime which affords 50 many oppor- tunities for rascality does not deserve to exist in any community. With the possible exception of Philagelphia, St. Louis has turned out more first-class ball-players than any other city o the country, which is one reason why people would naturaily suppose that there is Do reason why a professional club should not have been’ or- ganized for 187Y. Oceasionally an cnthbusiast is met who wants to koow why St. Louis will not place a team in the field. He would put his hand iu his pocket and give $1,000 toward the scheme, if necessary. Not only that, but he knows others who would do the same thing. Gentlemen of this ilk have on several occasions button-holed a base-ball celebrity who was prominently connected with the Brown Stock- iugs. He concluded to get up a team for 1879 Smith NOTES FROM ABROAD. Lauzun brokehis off forcleg while running in the Bunters’ Handicap at Burges, recently, He was by Gladiuteur, and onc of the beat of that Thorse’s get. Barnes, a well-known English jockey, had his collar-toue broken while riding Kirtlingin the International Steeplechaseat La Marche, France, on the 7th inst., the horse falltog at one of the jumps. Lord Lonsdale, one of the best known of En- glish turfmen, bas disposed of his racing stud to Capt. Machell for $90,000. This sum was firecd upon by Lord Falmouth and Mr. Caledon exander, who acted as arbitratars. Caot. Machell bas already sold Pilgrimage, one of the lot, and winner of the ‘Two Thousand aud One Thousand Guineas this year, to W. Sterling Crawiord, for $15,000. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. . G. G. S.. Cuicaco.—Is Rarus o_stallion or s elding? Please answer to decide a bet. Answer— Rarus 18 & gelding. BASE-BALL. OLD-TIME NEWS. ‘The St. Louls Spirit of a recent date contained a four-column article on base-ball, it being com- vosed mostly of reminiscences furnished by Ed Cuthbert. The following estract is about the only interesting part of the screed: ‘Thereare some facts connected with base-ball which are yery noteworthy, Almost all of the ““big" nines have proven failurer. This was notaoly the case when the Mutunl management, by large offery, cot hold of the flower of the Atlantic teamn, and got Ledly broken up before the scason had progressed far. 'The Olvmpics of Washington a similar experience, and the Troy Club of 1872 was 2athered at an expense of many thousand doilars, but succumbed before the season wes half through. The Balumore Club In the foilowing year, hended by McVey, was doomed to a some- what similar experience, aithough the nine was drawn from the best individual talent in the country. Ou the other hand, the Chicago Club of 1870 was composed of the poorest kind of odds and ends, with the exception of three or four of the nine. Yet they beat the Cinciunatis twice, and broke the heart of Porkopolie. In the year following they pressed the Athletice and Bostons for the nennant, snd wonid have won had it not_been for the great calamity which overtook the Garden City in the fail of that year. Inalike wanner the Philadel- vhia Club was orzanized in 1873, the nine being a good one, but composed in partof players wao were Dot noted for their efficiency. In succession they defeated the Athletic, Boston, Baltimore, and other leading clubs, and_won iwenty-seven oimes without losing one. This was a terrible [ead, and Lad ft not been for the presents and hos- piafities utiowercd upon tho elub'they would have. ad no trouble In winning the champfon- A .two weeks' sojourn at Cape May, its attendant dissipations, broke down their training and zood form. Immediately after this injudicions business they lost six games in eight days, not winning one. Their suceess was very varied from this point, although they con- tinued to defeat their local antagonists, the Ath- letics. They closed their season with $10,000 in the Treasury, their arrangement of tours and games helx]ng ea'uedxlly good anl Judicfous. ne of the largest salsries cver paid to o base- ‘ball player was that paid John c]“%a“m 152:3:213 2go by the St. Louis Club. Clapp was to meet Mesars. .\synllonifl of Boston. Bulkley of Nartford, and Graffen of St. Louis, at Earle's Hotel, New York. He did so, and staled to them that he was on the auction block; that he had a surety offered him of $2,500, and that the clob paying him the lorgest amount over that sum woujd secare hig £ervices. He then left them to make their **sealed proposals,™ and the result was that John opened tlic envelopes in their presence, and said in a mo- ment, ‘‘Gentlemen, I will play in St Louis.” The offer accepted was in the reizhborhood of ‘&'.’J‘.&DO. bat what the others were it is difficalt to . Dear peciROSEECTS 1 BOCKFOND. . ‘orrespondence of The Tribune. - Rockror, Ill., Oct. 31.—Base-ball prospects for 1579 are looking up here with considerable activity. At a meeting of the citizens held last Alonday evening it was decided to organize a stock company, snd put astrong nine in the feld at the befimnmz: of the coming season. 1t waus suggested by Manager Chapman, of the Milwaukees, during their recent visit, that s Northwestern Leazue be formed by Alilwaukee, Dubuque, Davenport, Peoria, and Rockford, ten (Trude) informed the Court he would accept Mr. right to challcnze him before being finally sworn in'to try the case. further savs that next morning upon his arrival at the Court-House, and while in the act of stepping out of his buggy on Michizan street, near Clark street, in the City of Chicago. Ald. George E. White, of the Tenth Ward, aporoached and ac- costed him. not as a good and lzw-abiding citizen would have done, but as traitor and verjurer.—~us 2 traitor to the Copstitution of the coantry and State, and as a perjurer as Alaerman of the City of Chicago, in which position he so lately had taken a solemn oath t0 uphold the law and pre- serve the peace to Lhe best of his ability, that the ccho therefrom wae yet ringinz fresh upon ur ears. “*A fricnd of mine called ou mo last cvening., and wanted 1o kpow if he could reach you 1hrough me; that you were on_their jury. +him 1 myself had not Couneil, but I would try. ‘want you to do is to hanyy out- for acqnittal to the end, if the only onc in the lot. Iamon Periolat's bond, you know, and iy pecunisry ntercst in this matter is suca that I canuot afford to hare these men convicted, and, knowing that you were op- oged to the Commiseioners’ conrse in the Court- Tonse stone mntter, they are afraid you might tukc extra pains to have them convicted.” Your depo- nent assured him he would do no such thing, and departed for the Court-Hovse a wiser mun n crooked wugs. o shortly afterwards informed the Hon. M. F. Tuley and others of this incident, and repeata it now for the penefit of the electors of the First Senatorial District of the City of Chicago, on learning throuzh the daily Chicaro press that eaid Georze E. White, {nrouzh some hocas pocus or mistake, has securcd a place on the Repablican ticket in said district, and Is arking through the suffrage of an unsuspect- mepublic o be sent to Springdeld, whereas his superior 88 1 candidate for the half-way station (Jolict) wonld be hard to find. And aeponent said not. A. I Swith, Sworn and subscribed to before me this 31st day of Qctober, 1878. G. W, Notary Publfc 3ilwaukee County, Wisconsfn. ——————— PARTING LINES TO THE TRIBUNE. I Dear TreBUSE, cre I take my leave, A few it words I fain wonld weave In simple song, -8 best my mind Can designate, Herein you'll find Weak words, I know; yet from the heart They come, “No studied speech, 1o pretest vain, No vile conceit to mar.the strain; Bat, like some river's gentle flow, May they a8 gently come and o, And leave no trace—loave naught bebind o clog the heart or cloud the mind. ‘This done, I'd thigk my life content— 1'd deem my days were not misspent. 1L Long have I wished for ome dear friend; Loug have I toiled for such an end; Long have I felt some secret power Grow strong within. in that Jone hour Py ‘When night begins to greet the day— When stats were none, nor glimpse of they— When_Esrth secmed dark, and Heaven scemed When wild winds swept with mighty tread— When Natare sizhed, and zroancd. and burned: In that lonc hoor my Jone thoughts turned Above, beyond Earth's rayless sphere, When. lo! one pood, dear friend 1s near— The pensive maid, none elsc than she, The meek and gentle Poesy. : Spake thus the maid: ** Thou scckest me. " **And thon hast heard?” ¢ Thy fervid plea; . And as you live, as live you must, In God put hiopc, in Him pat trust; And this will be your daily prayer, ‘And God will bless you everywhere. Behold this gitt Hle gives to me, That T might kindly proffer thee.” 3 Soake thus the maid, when soon there came Within my breasta flood of flume, That glowed and burned~—I cannot say, Nor never can define its way— I know it came, aud with it bliss; No more, no less, it was than this: The first inception of the Mnse— A trust that I must ne'er abuse. Charpred thus, my lite grew stont and strong: By night. by dov, 1 sang my song; No lordly Iy, but simple rayme: No soul-felt Gense of song divine, Yet for that same I hope one day— My Muse must never '+ 58y me nay." Sweet spirit, now I theeinvite To teach me sinz my song aright, To pay the debt thai's due to those Who kindly did my Afuse disciose, To weave one thread of silken sheen, And Joop thereon, my Falry-Queen, One link of TripuNE. turn I now to you, And thank you much for what yon've dons, Farewell, kind, Inends—ali—cvery one, Cuicago, Oct. 31, 1858, Oct. 30. 1y refused all invitations and stays quietly at home, altogether engaged in nursing an old con‘li};:nlon, ill and very blind. Work on Doane’s new block on the corner of Randolph ana Wabash avenuc has been began. Negotiations are in progresss FOR THE IMPROVEMENT of the property adjoining on the west, cither by lessees or gy the owners, the Sears estate of Boston. " As the Singer Building approaches completion it shows itself to be THE FINEST STRUCTURE ever pot up in this city, and is said to be the handsomest dry-Zoods store in the world. The for the present, reserving the Your deponent upon his oath large mor so well built. The cost of Ile gaid to your deponent the following: | &, BT V' GGNE and from saved from the fire, will be 3500,000. This, of course, does not incinde the round. The whole stracture is ab- solutely fire-proof. The fioors are of brick, laid in arches between iron joists. Over the brick there are layers of cement, felt, and cement acain, on which is laid the floorinz of Georgia pine. All the openings in the floors for clevar- ors, light shafts, etc., are so_prozccted that any oue tloor muy be fluoded with water to the depth of several inches without spill- ing over on the floors below. The roof, a most important point, 2ud onc too often the weakest in buildings that claim to be fire-proof, is built like the ceilings, except that, instend of the flooring of Georgia pinc, there ia oa the topa pavement of brick. Wherever one steps on the roof his fect touch brick. Thercis NO FIRE-TRAP in the Mansard roof. This is built of iron fille@ inwith brick.. All'the iron colmnus are covel- oped in cireular fire-brick, between which and the iron an air-space of two_inches Las been left. Outside of the firc-brick, plaster is pat on and molded in the style of fluted Corinthiap pillars. Two noticeable dif- ferences between the former aud present build- ings are the addition of a story, und the removal of the skylizht towards the north wall, where its light is needed most. The building is 150 feet on Wasbington by 160 on State, and stands 127 feet from the sidewalk to the top of the tower, six storics hizh. ‘The interioris to be decorated and frescoed at a cost of §10,000. Who arg to be THE TENANTS OF THIS business palace! That is one of those thines that no fellow can find out, because it has ot yet been settled. Newotiations are in _progress in two directions, both with Chicaco dry-goods houses. 7The building will be_tinished by Jau. 1, and will then be occupied by whichever house can see the most money in it, and, prob- ably, pay the most money for it. = The improvements in the neighborhood of the Stock-Yards continue to stimulate real estate in that vicinity. W. D. Kerfoot & Co. bave sold twenty acres there, and other newo- tiations are pending. The same firm have sold six lots in their new subdivision on Seventeenth aud Eighteenth streets, between Fish and May. ‘T'he purchasers were almost D ;“(iomf}f MEN, - D. Kerfoot & Co. have also sold 55x125 {x:lei 08“ Halsted and Thirty-fourth streets, for §1,700. oJ. Weil bas sold 50x100 feet on southeast cor- ner of Rush and Indiaua strects, to C. Mears, for §5,500, allcash, to be improved immediately, and reports an offer of $165.000 refused for property for which the owner wants $173,000. Adolph Locb & Brother sold this week throe lots on Union street, near Forty-fourth strect, for §2,000; two lots on Bissell street, near Ceu- tre, for $700 per lot; one lot on Forty-seventh slrel:{.', otm(ags’m: Dexter Park, for $1003 100 fect on West Chicago aveuue, near Call - e, a5 5,000, y Californis. ave- 8. W. Krotl s0ld § lots in Block 2, Harding’s futnflmX a, nlu;:r Ccut\rvul Park, for SLOX): also wenty-nine lots -ut Washington EHeigbts, Lyuch & Woli’s Subdivision, for 88,700 " Mention was made some time ago of the pro- posed sale of the block of unimproved property on Forty-third street and Indiana avepue at the extremely low price of 325a foot. Nearly all this property hus been sold W brql&.;suhuurzr.s who intend to build in the sprinz. The sncee: of this sale shows the wisdom of bringing prices down to the level of the times, and proves that cheaj property in zood localitivs will sell well cvcln in these days. Amonyr the sales of the week bave been 40x 100 feet on Chicago avenue, wear Rush street, £3,000; 150x125 feet.on Alton avenue, south of Sixty-first street, $1,800; 50x100 feet on John- son street, south of West Taylorstreet, $1,600; 24x125 feet on walnut street, west of Leavitt street, §1,100; 72x175 feet on Flournoy street, east of Washtenaw aveaue, $3,200; %6100 fect on Larrabee street, near Hobbic street, im- I told did pot koow about that, 2s Smith ana been very friendly in the Now, Smith, what I Your deponcnt further says that he further your CLAsON, 1 trust devoid of art. ead— TIL ure poetic thonght— One simple flower, ** Forget-me-not ¥~ proved, $1,700; 22x165 feet on Ve im v : 2 2 o Sov when Llcavo this friendiy shore, near ‘Thirty-fourth street, S2,5005 S7<172 fou Tl mn; RISk of thore i Isfi on Wabash avenue, suuth of Sixteenth street, Have kindly spaced my humble sonz, §5,000; 90x124 feet’ on West Washinmion Who gave me more than was my due, gtreet, ~ mear Leavitt, $5.000; 23xl00 fect, improved, on West Indiana strect, near Hoype, $3,000; 24x116 feet on Sta'e szrcct.; pear Thirty-first street, $2,2003 26x125 feet im proved on Throop street, between Congress and Harrison, $6,9003 22140 feet on West Lake street, east of Leavitt, $2,500; on Desplaines street, corner of Pearce, the undivided half of 119x100, belongingz to the M. O. Walker astare, 2,850; T5x126 feet on South Park avenue, southwest corner of Thirty-second street, ST: 500; North Clark strect, sozth of \Webster avenue, 36x122 feet, $3,500; Blocks 9 and 10 at tie corner of Paulina and Forty-seveatn street, Joseru D. Tupser. ——— ALL MINE. **The Preeent only is thine,” The teacher cries; The Present 15 all mine, With tremnlous signs My beart replies. The Past may be forgot, The Future pale— Nay, Timne itself be not, For Life may fail, L Arnd Death prevail. $10,000. The loan business was quict. Some of the NOTADLE TRANSACTIONS were $42,000 on lots in Walcort's Addition for five years, at 7 per cent: $6,000 for five §ears on Jots in Evanston, at 8 per cent; $6,000 on a Iot in Sheflield’s Addition, at 6 per cent; 86,000 on alot in Walcott's Addition, at 7 per cent. Toe business of the past two weeks faots up: Thix week. But kisses, and Jove, and pain, All gifts divine, ‘The Present makes my gain, Oh! rich hife’s wine To-day is mine. . A. P. STEVENS, ————— |ifTeus weer g e ZLady Burdett-Contts. e, (20-1 Amount. | No. Amount. Lady Bardett-Couttsis a good and kindly | Mortzases. 165 22.996) 243 & woman, as well as a wealthy one. She has latey‘ Trast decds s 15*.}?)&65 84 ¥ lgtlh-’mng Total .. 202/ 5276, 590 E( $164,900 THE REPORT OF TUE BUILDING SUPERIN- TENDENT for October shows the building doge as fol- who, after many vears’ faithful at- ce on the good Baroness, has become very Ground Broken for a Handsome Im- Particulars of the New $500,000 Sales at the Stock~Yards and in Building Done in October, and in Ten Ground has been broken at the southwest cor- ner of Wabash avenue and Hubbard court for house in the ¢ity. The projector of this enter- prise is Mr. T. L. Kempster, a well-koown con- Paul’s Church at Syracuse, N. Y., the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Belleville, Ontario, and the Asylum for the fosane in the southern part of this State. The apartment-house Mr. Kempster proposes to put up is to have a frontage avenue, It will be six stories high, and will be of brick, with stone trimmings, in the Queen Anne style. There will be twelve suites on each floor, each suite or apartment containing from four to nine roums, according to position. The house will be heatea throughout by steam, according toaplan of Mr. Kempster's own devising, in successful operatiou clsewhere. Some of the restaurant for those who desire greater retire- ment. All the apartments, however, with the exception of some rooms to be fitted up for -single gentlemen, will be arranzed for house- The Couch estatc sold the 48 feet by 165 feet on Hire- " at $60 a foot, and residence property at 37 to stores of Yaris, while eore ornate, are not so the oew building, allowing for the value of lows: Buildings erected—South Divisiop, 3 frontage, 1,305 feet; cost, 331,000, Norrh, 437 frontaze, 1,090 fects cost, SIB300. “Wesr: . frontage, 1,143 feet; cost, $151,000. Tota] 110} frontage, 3.533 feet; cost, $612300. To gy this year the fizures are: Buiings frontame, 27,312 cost, S5.08,700. Last g they were: Buildines, 1,269; frontage, 3[-55:'_ cost? §5,414,500. The total ' cost of bajdorss and improvements to date this year was. 35.75;“ €003 Jast }'c:;lr. ?,}9]-:»’(",%. v Among the building permits fssa thie week were: . W. Reldy, three store fo0r i1 at 85 and 91 Illinois street, to cost $7,500; Home of the Good Snepherd, four-story building Eln, near Market street, to cost $7,000; Char H F. Grey, two-story store and dwelling m§ Wells street, to"cost $3,000; W. J. Thele, tw story store and_dvellloz at 205 West Tweirgy strect, to cost 33,000; C. F. Lindsay, two-sto dwelling at 733 West Chicago avenue, to cost, 81,5005 Peter Fox, two-story store and dwelling at 114 Archer avenue,to cost $3.000; D, ki MeDanield, two-story store at 45 and 43 Dear. born avenue, to cost $5,000; Hannah Mary, clght two-story dwellings on the northeast cor. ner of Western and Park avenues, to cost 86,0005 Bernard Baum, saloon, musie. Im.h. and _dwelling, corner of = Cot Grove and Indiana svenues, to cost $10,0: H. P. Smith, two-story and_basement brict. dwelling, 25x50, No. 195 Fourth avenne, $2,500; Jacob Gramer two two-story and basemen; brick_dwellings, 23x5¢ each; Twellth stree near Lytle, $5,200; Thomas L. Racker, two. story and basement brick dwelling, 20x34, Cop. gress strect and Winchester avenue, 32,400, Bass & Co. are creeting a building og Rotk Island car-shops grounds, just north anq adjoining the main buildings. "It will be 2y fect long and sixty feet wide. The structurn is far advanced. and will be pushed forward 1p completion without delay. 1t is designed to by _used as a foundry, and Wil have two cupolas | The foundry work of the Rock Isl:mlllho;u) will alt be done there, als2 some for the Fory| Wayne Company and the American Bridgy( Company. The will cmploy aboat 100 men > | ‘The imyroved fecling in” real estate which Tug TRIBUNE bas reported fo Chimohmnkmg[ itself FELT IN NBW YORE. The Times, of that citv, says that the tornop and stagnation which so long prevailed in unim. proved property in New York has in ceral | [ cholce locatities, given way under an increased ; B demand, taused by renewed actisity in specg. .. ulative- building. ~This has been bronght abogt . @ partly by the accomplishiment of rapid transt, | B and partly by tl wencral revival of business ,! throughout the country, tow commencing to bs felt in New York. At notime since the starg: © which the country tuok on recoverin? from tae ' § great crisis of 1837 have tle conditions affecting the future of business pointed more clearly toy new era of material prosperity thun at preseat, Building operations in New Y ork ARE MORE ACTIVE than they have been for several sears. Oy noticeable fact, however, is that the speculative builder will not go_outside of the puilding dis. tret. He contines himself within comparative. 1y parrow lmits. The choicest tield for im. mediate operationlies between Sixty-third and Seventy-niuth streets, Fifth and Lexinaton avenucs. From present appearances this areg will before two years be sol id}y ‘built over with brown-stone houses, running from 15 to 20 fet front, and varving in price from $14,000 ¢ $30,000. Leadyille, Col., has . REAL ESTATE BONANZAS, - as well as silver ones. The Harrison Rednction Works of that city bave sold for $2200, s twenty-five foot lot™ for & bank on the principal corper of the main street. This Jot s partof 8 ten-acre tract that was given them asan i ducement to bring their works to Leadeville Business Jots are selling In the centre of the vity $100 a Jot. Almost all of this land was bonght of the Government at $2.50 an acre. Some Chicago real-estate men have made 3 handsome thing out of the emigration into Ksa- sas. In onc town site citablished in a couniy which bas recefved o Jarze share of the new ‘population land is being sold for business pur- poses at $25 to 375 a lot that cost]lessthan §1an acre; and much higher prices are got for the de- sirable corners. ‘The baa results of the blunder of marking up REAL ESTATE TOO HIGH pave been seen in. many cities. \Washington affords un_fnstructive example, for there the higher and paturally more desirable parts of the city, surrounding the Capitol, were origin- allv held by owners at such exorbitant razes a3 drove population and business to lower lands. Thus Pennsylvania avenue, originally a swamp, became the principal business street, the bulk of the population wathered in the lower parta of the city, and the highest parts remain to this. day low in price and withoat a market in spite ot all their patural advantages, and in soite, too, of many cfforts made by capitalists to draw residents to them. ' SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. 5 The following instruments were fled for record Saturday, Nov. 2: E CITT PLOPERTT. Ward st, 2633-10 {1 a of Deldenav, ef, 24x124 ft, dated Oct. 1 (ienry Aklers to Sprague $. Stetson Herndon st, 184 810 ftn of Websterav, e f, 24xivt ft, doted Oct. 4 (Charles 1.inn 10 Sprague S. Stetson).. «: e-vee Ward st. 191 3-10 It s of Beldenav, wf, 24x124 ft, gated Oct. 5 (Mathias Klein to Spraguc S. Stetson) North Deurborn st, 118 ft n of Kinzie st e f, 24x77 ft, dated Nov. 2 (Asron Gibbs to Danlel II. McDaneld) . 3,000 West Indizna st, 110 ft w of Desplsines st, 8_f, 20x70 {t, dated Oct. 23 (Will- ium Moody 1o William Moody, St.).... Peoria_ st, 70 ft 1 of Jackson st, ef. ta- : divided %5 of 25x125 ft. improved, dated Nov. 2 (Louis Adams to Leon Schioss- - mAD). .ot o e North Lasalle st, w I, 25505 ft) Staab to E. B. Mack) Maxwell 8¢, 135 ft ¢ of BI 8 £, triangle of 76 4-10x107x128 ft. dated Nov. 1”(Jobn Schumacher to ichscl RUTIRger) orseenneninaeene - Michigaa av, 124 f¢ n_of Thirty-seventh 8%, ef, 25x1748-10 iz, dated Ocr 12 (S, A. Shaw to William MeKind- ] 1% (Louis 13).. von oes . M]{\flll‘lk!c av, 101 ft nwof Wabausiaav, 8w f, 22x100 ft, dated June 8§, 18 (John J. Chase to §. J. ITznna).. . Erie st. 30 ft w of North Marketst, nf, 253100 ft, dated Joly 1 (Jonn J. Chase to ilila M. lanm)........ o Wainut st, 189 ft cast of Sacramento 3v, nf, 248-10x150 (t, dated Nov. 1 (James D. 'Smith to John W. Contoy) . 248 Randoluh st, 180 ft w of Site § 90 £t, dated Oct. 31 (C. aod. er to Edward A. Small), 2 27,00 Western v, 1k tenof Fuliow e vf 24x125 Y, improved, dated Nov. 2 (leury Thurman to F. H. 11 Dlaedel). %500 South Park av, near 'Thil 24x124 9-10 1%, improved, dated Oct. 31 (C. G.und D. 8. Mugrldzs tolisse ooy Beers) SOUTH OF CITT LOMITS MILES OF THE COUKT-HOUSE. Pifty-6fth et 25 {tc of Sacromentoas. B S, 243135 ft, duted April 27. 187 (Anderson & Urson to Inila B. Hanua).§ SUMMARY FOKR THE WBER. od The following s the total amount of ¢ity an suburban trupsfers within a radios of seved miles of the Court-Hlonse tiled for record dur- ing the week endi Snmrd;{, Nov. =2 Cnyl sales, 62: consideration, S1Si.i20. South u:x city limits, sales, 9; consideration, 315§ West of ity limits, sales, 3; - consideratioo, $2.025. Total sales, 74; total cousideration, $201,75L 400 TO “ALCA" - . [Giving der **Soirit-Name.") Just now it 1s oaly :bng—mch anome You may sec any brizht Summer-| s The petals have parted therr moss-covered (hatch, And the bud will soon bloom {nto fower. What s flower that will be! 1ts fragrance 80 pare Vill flll every nook of her hvme, And be borne miles away on the fresh moraing breeze, Taviting the wand'rer to come. . *Tis a delicate flower; no rude band may enstch Or pluck it with nnseemly hastes Only the soft tonch of Heaven-born love Alay come near its beauties 80 chiaste. 1t is Joy o the e¥e, and brings peace tothe earte "T13 tne costliest ilower that blows:' It can only be bought with the love of 8 Life, And they call it the ** White Moas n?(fé ——————— No Great Difference. Detrols Free Presi. Just after dinner tne other day, 23 8 cmze:_ i ‘was about to cuter the City Hail, he was ‘uw ; served to come to a sudden balt, slap b3 le% g acd wefl heard to call m{vt’: ** Well, I}l pe banged ! ¢ Lost your wallet{” inquired 2 man 0D the steps, who kuew him. E *No," repiied the first, as bis hand wcnth‘nz to his breast-pocket; “ I just happened to 2 Ee of something. 1 went before 8 Justice o‘m e Peace this morning and wade aflidayit U x hoard a certain borzuin berweea Siith an donc‘z‘iv' nlt:out l‘mxlding A; Ienhce;",’ ell, isn’t that atl rieht! “ Al Hght? No! 1jusc bappened to thiok | that it was a bargain between Erown and Davis about a Wagon tbat L heard.” o “Well, it's al} the same thing I supposed carelessly remarked the 1nan on the steps. i “~Oh, jes; 1 supbose so; but ft sore o’ burts me to find that I'm gestinz & little abseat- minded—just a lttle forgetali”