Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 11, 1880, Page 16

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL il 1880—TWENTY PAGES. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALEs, A Visit to the Great GraineMart in London. An Institution that Dates Back to 1747 —The Two Exchanges. Busy Scenes in the Cereal Markets—The Wealthy Greek Merchants. Bread Lower in England To-Day than It Has Been for 126 Years. Speetal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, ‘Lonpon, March 26.—I am going to take you to Mark Lane with me to-day, and show you whats busy place the great grain-exchange of England—perhaps of the world—really is. Mark Lane has no history except that which associates it with a corn-market. No me- Gieval scuffle ever quickened its stagnant pulse; no celebrated church hoards cher- ished monuments within its boundaries; and no illustrious person has honored it by birth or death. The world, therefore, has no con- cern in the thoroughfare s PRIOR TO 1747, when the corn-dealers who had been in the habit of assembling at a coffehouse on “Bear Quay” (where now the Cnstom-House stands), moved into the Exchange which. they had newly erected. I can Jearn nothing of the Lane previous to this time, except that it was the home ofsomeof the ancient city grandees. And undoubtedly, had itnot been that the grain-factors of the last century pitched upon the locality for a market-place, it would to- day be one of the obscurestreets, only spoken ot in directories, and commercial lists. A variety of trades are carried on in Mark Lane. Wealthy merchants have reared massive warehouses there; the most casual passer-by cannot fail to notice the printing- offices and wine-stores at intervals; and there fs a fair sprinkling of shops of the better class. Yet nobody ever hears of these. They are as dead to municipal record as if they did not exist. The grain-dealers, maltsters, and milling-machinery engineers hold undisputed possession of the locality they have made famous. As Mark Lane is not bound up with historic memories, the present is always the most interesting period of its existence. When the place was a close borough, however, an event of importance transpired. There were more factors on the market than there was room for, and the proprietors of.the Exchange turned some of them out. The excluded operators were naturally indignant. Resolved not to leave Wark Lane, they established themselves out- side the Exchange, and were presently doing a thriving trade. A new market was sug- gested. No sooner was the idea mooted than they went to Parliament, and got leave to erect A SECOND EXCHANGE side by side with theold one. This structure was completed in 1827. Its interests are identical with those of the old market, and it is the two together that constitute what is comprehended when we speak of Mark Lane, using the name of the street, by the uni- versal custon, to designate the market it- self. : Architecturally the Exchange buildings are not veryimposing. The olderpart hasan open colonnade with modern Doric pillars. In the “Hartridge collection ” there is an inter- esting plate, dated March, 1753, which gives “A Perspective View of the Corn-Factors’ Exchange erected in Mark Lane,” with the following descriptive letter-press: ‘“ This structure is a quadrangle, on three sides of which are piazzas supported by pillars, and under them are sixty-four stalls, with bins, for ecb samples of corn on_ the Mondays and the Wednesdays, which are the market-days. These piazzas have lass sashes, and the open area before em is surrounded with stone ballustres, adorned with flower-vases. Fronting the main entrance is a handsome dial, and on each side of the building is a genteel coffec- house, ascended each by a flight of stone steps with iron ballustres; these steps are thought to be_too steep and narrow, and might have been made more easy of ascent by mending another fault, the too wide entrance at the gates.” The interior court, where the factors have their stands, has been compared to the place of audience of a Pompeiian house. Above is a subscription refreshment-room, per- petuating the “genteel coffee-house” of ye old time, known as Jack’s. All the flour is sold here. ‘ THE NEW EXCHANGE 5 has alow central G: Doric portico, sur- mounted by imperial arms and agricultural emblems, but the facade is so squatty that it does not relieve the general structural insig- nificance of the street. There are over eighty stands inthe new Exchange. On them are placed small bags and bowls, with samples of different kinds of grain; and behind is a desk for the factor or his clerk, with some- thing of the convenience of a counting- house. Lighter-men and granary-keepers have stands, as well as corn-merchants, fac- tors, and millers. The seed-market is held at the farther end of the building. Attached to this Exchange, as to the other, is +a tavern, in one of the upper rooms of which damaged cargoes are sold atauction. I tell you this little in advance, as itis not always unpleasant to know be- forehand something of the sight one is going see. : You are quite ready? Then we'll start from the Bank of England. as that is the radiating centre of city life. First down Lombard street, the home of the bankers; nexta plunge Into Fenchurch stree and Mark Lane is close at hand. There will be a motley company at the market, but you mustn’t mind that. You will find Suffolk yeoman jostling against millionaire shippers, rou may yourself walk plump into one of the merchants who thirty years ago were said to turn over iu a yearsomething like a million and a half (sterling) of money. You will rub shoulders not alone with these—the distinguished representatives of the agricult- ural districts and the great orators oi the town. Ship-brokers of, all classes will hustle you about; masters of small craft will re- gard you with commiseration; and countless orters, millers, and bakers will act provok- ingly familiar. You must have the greatest respect for them; they will have none for you. ‘The largest merchants conzregate in “THE OLD MARKET.” . Let it tempt us first. Each factor is at his d, and_has before him specimens of the wheat, malt, barley, oats, corn,| oil-cake, or whatever he deals ‘in, If you want to be taken for an habitué, you must walk boldly— I might say contemptuously—up, select a few seeds, shake them in your hand, toss one or two into your mouth, and scatter the rest on the floor. Pass on, and repeat the opera- tion, always mindful to dip out of the bags about six times as much grain as you have need of, and attentive that you do not make the mistake of returning the samples whence you took them. By the time the market is over the floor is literally covered with grain, and the sweepings bring in a handsoine sum in the course of the year, which is devoted to the Corn-Exchanze Benevolent Society. Those foreizn gentlemen in the middle space, giving directions to factors who are selling their arrived cargoes, and to agents who are negotiating with country merchants from all parts of the Kingdon for the sale of cargoes shipping at forelgn ports or at present on passage, ‘are ‘the great Greek merchants, Until to-day the Greeks have monopolized the imnportation of corn from every part ofthe world. Itis they, not the English, who buy cup the corn shipped from the ports of the Black Sea, and pour it into the English mar- ket. Mostof these pale-faced Southerners Jhave amassed enormous fortunes; and Lhave ‘often been told that, if you go into their lit- tie church, in London-Wall, on a Sunday morning, you will see their wives and daugh- ters arrayed snare Hetly. than the jlarchlon: ses of Mayfair, and as decorously and gen- {Sfp devout, "Ask a Covent-Garden fruiterer who are his best customers for costly fruit, | swer you, The Greeks. Their breakfast ables, ate jeden sith pines jand nm when pri oS peaeettof the reach of Princes. ‘There isa saying of Eastern origin, to the effect—my memory 5¢! me at a Russian can 0} de robbed by a Jew, 2 Jew by a Greek, and A GREEK BY THE DEVIL. But the Greeks of Finsbury, who control the guatt of Ceres in Mark Lane, are men of re spectability little given to the wiles of their. kin. As a body they are gradually losing their importance on themarket. The wheat trade has undergone many~changes_since these speculators came tothe fore. Thirty years ago it was all Baltic grain that was im- ported into this- country. Now the Black Sea importation is superseded by the Ameri- can, and the bulk of corn we receive grows in the vast fields of the West. Observe how sharply the personnel of the market is divid- ed into classes. How different these fat, red- faced godgers, with their country drawl, seem from the dapper townsmen at the stands. You can almost imagine the for- mer the Inevitable Essex farmers who originated the system of factorage years ago when they left samples of their corn with an innkeeper at Whitechapel and allowed him a commission on sales. ‘The terms of the London factors are one month’s open credit, and the buyer has to lodge any objection as to quality, bulk, etc., at factor’s stand before 11 o’clock the next day or else abide by his bargain, Malt urchasers are usually allowed ninety days. To secure a stand in the market it is necessa- HAG pay a considerable premium, in addi- Gon 10 mich there is a annual rental that is ir m insignificant! If you are tired of the bustle and feel that it would be a relief to get away from the chaff of the towny agents and their brisk oung clerks and the bucolic airs of the Suf- ‘olk millers, you may visit the upper part of the market, where oil-crushers assemble. Thence to the adjoining market. The new Exchange is thronged with retail buyers, come thither to negotiate with the dealers who have corn lying in their own river-side warehouses. Livery-stable keepers buy largely. The malt of which the Londoner’s eer and porter are made is also offered here, and there are besides a great many country dealers who offer home-grown barley. While the market lasts the spectacle is AN ANIMATED ONE. Though transactions are not so heavy in the new Exchange as in the old, the buzz of voices is just as incessant, and the huge mass of coated bodies equally restless. In the porches: collect the bargemen, anxious for freight. Hore, too, we find the Kent and Essex hoymen, who enjoy special privileges in consequence of their ancestors having kept the city supplied with corn during the Plague. Long ago, the corn sent from these two counties was sufficient to feed all Lon- don, which, in the days of the Middle Ages, was not blessed with the ravenous appetite of later times. Ihave somewhere read that the first importation of foreign corn was from Dantzic, about the middle of the Fif- teenth Century. The Corporation of the city atthatepoch was more powerful than the King himself, who, when he got impecuni- ous, went to it for money. It is written that Lord-Mayor Dick Whittington, of historic memory, advanced one of @ Henries £1,000 upon the surety of subsidies_on wool and hides; and that he inyited the King and Queen to 3 banquet at the Guild Hall, and lung the bonds into the flames of burning spice-wwood, so freeing his sovereign from the obligation. 34 i was asked by an editor not long 980 to write him an article on “Bread.” for ié had just been brought to his notice that this com- modity at the present time was cheaper than it had: been within the compass of average memory. Lwent about the task with only moderate enthusiasm, but soon found there ‘was so much entertaining information avail- able on the subject that my article on Bread Lore might be extended almost indefinitly. In truth, the price of bread to-day is lower than it has been in England for 125 years. «A quartern loaf can urchased for five pence,—a circumstance that should carry comfort to classes who complain of long hours, short wages, and general high prices. It is curious to restrospect so far back in the national history at the period preceding the Roman_ invasion, and to speculate on_ the probabilities of our ancient Briton fore- fathers carrying on the bakery business. Be- . fore the Roman era, if corn was cultivated at all, it supplied food for the few. The flesh of the animals caught in the chase provided for the many. The men that accompanied Cesar brought with them the habits of husbandry that characterized the Romans, and the cultivation of land in Brit- ain must date from their landing; yet it is not till the Saxon period that we have any definit record of the prices of com. Among the details of the disastrous famine that was experienced throughout Western Europe in the Eleventh Century, we find mention that wheat in England rose to 60 Saxon pennies per quarter. The Norman chronicles make more frequent mention of the value of corn; yet itis only when prices were extraordi- narily low or high that attention is drawn to them. Cause for the fluctuations at this time can be found in the periods of famine then so frequent, but happily now prevented by our superior economy and our increased sources of supply. The wars of the Barons also seriously atfected the price of provisions, for the pillage of a district by a victorious enemy was always followed by distress and high puices. So. too, the civil wars in the time of Henry ILL, the wars of the Roses, and the strifes in the Stuart period, by im- peding agricultural pursuits and destroying crops, raised the value of corn. In 1220 wheat was sold for two shillings per quarter, while fifty years _ later it had risen to the extraordinary price of 128 shillings. Another singular fact is, that before the end of the century, the price ha fallen to nearly two shillings again. These prices, of course, were in the money of the time, the purchasing power of which was ite three-fold what it is now,—so that, in e dear season, wheat, upon the present yaluation of money, was worth ABOUT 400 SHILLINGS PER QUARTER. Atthe time of the Black Death, in 1348, prices rose considerably, but two years after- ward relapsed to about 15 shillings. In 1463 we have record of the first Corn law, for an act was passed forbidding the importation of wheat, unless it was more than 128 shillings athome. The Household Book of the Earl of Northumberland, bearing date 1512, men- tions that five shillings was the current price of wheat, and that there was-no important alteration until thereign of Elizabeth, Forty shillings was the price in 1574, and at the end ot the century it had advanced to 70. Money had probably at that time twice its present value, _ During the Seventeenth Century prices. fluctuated -considerably, but, con- sequent upon the disturbed condition of the country, were for the most part high. Dur- ing the Eighteenth Century the average price was about 10 pence a quarter. In 1812 the figure was two shillings and three pence. In 1511—the year of the bread-riots, I believe— it was 11 pence; and in °46, when the famous Corn laws were re- pealed, it was eight pence. The price now is five pence,—less than it has been at any time since 1755. A fact that is peculiar in this connection is, that the size of a penny loaf seems never to change, no matter what the price of a quartern of bread may be. How this is to be explained, I could not for the life of me tell, How often have the chroniclers chanted the glories of the good old times when ap- prentices called “What do you lack?” at the stalls in Cheapside, and the bakers con- gregated in Bread street! The bakers were looked after strictly then, and could not even make their own prices. The Assize of Bread regulated the price of a loaf according to the price of corn, and offenders were strictly punished. > A baker found selling loaves smaller than the assize was put in the pil- lory, or, as Mr. Thornbury records, drawn on a hurdle through the streets with a fool’s cap on his head, with a string of his meagre loaves. dangling round his neck. Oven Pike, in his “History of Crime in England,” tells that sometimes, when a man asked for bread he was not exactly given a stone, but something quite as bad,—a lump of iron in- closed inacrust, But here I am chatting about what our greatest of great fathers used to pay for their bread, quite fotgetful that you are ready to TURN YOUR BACK ON MARK LANE. - At 2:30 the beadle will ring 2 loud-sounding bell, and no more will be allowed to enter. Business will be hastily. finished, samples tied up, and stands cleaned. A half-hour later and Mark Lane is as quiet as the grave. Before departing, my shadowy friend, let us not forget to buy 2 Liliputian bag filled with raisins and almonds of the old woman who sits by the market-door. The dame is always here. She has sat contentedly at the entrance for to Mark Lane as long as I can remember, presiding over a stall whereon is an elaborate display of oranges, nuts, choc- olatesweets, figs, and tiny-bags such as we have invested in. I cannot say who are the customers .of this al-fresco purveyor of foreign fruit. She has-a Jewish cast of countenance, and it is possible ber patrons are the rich foreigners who rule in breadstuffs. Who knows? In many parts of the city one drops upon the members of her sisterhood beneath porches: and at the entrances to bustling alleys. I suppose they make sales. I can understand the swarthy Neopolitan-ice men of Fleet street flourish- ing, for the newspaper-office boys: are great upon those dainties; and it isa treat to; see -them flock around a barrow, and polish off -penny ice-creams without the aid of a spoon. ‘The venders of Brazil-nuts, Tangerine oranges, overtipe pineapples, cream-candy, and other dainties, who muster in Lombard street pst about closing-up time, in order to catch the young clerks on their way to the ice, have extensive patronage. ButI ane Hs nist asto who support the ladies whose specialty appears to be little bags of almonds and raisins, and particularly should I delight to see some one sides myself pur- chase of her who waltsat the porch of pie Temple of Ceres. . ns MARRIAGE LICENSES. The List for the Week—Almost Too Young to Wed. The number of marriage licenses issued Jast week was 110,—about the same number as the week’ previous. The lst published below embraces a larger number of young- sters than usual,—no less than eight of the licensed-to-wed people being under -mar- risgeable age. In two cases girls of 1% were licensed to marry boys of 19 and i elit vely. old couple of the week had at tained a Teepectableage,—he 60 and she 53. The list is as follows: Z MONDAY. Residence. 116 Monroe. Margaret Putt.. | Christian Krause, ret Mussel! 836 Michigan av. 1076 Indiana av. Millie Lockwood....1! Michael Hannagan. .86. Catherine Dorgan. Bernhard Widme: 110 West Fourteenth. Snell. : Louisa _Geidec! e4 33 Snell. { Henry W. Goodman.}9....Chicago. Maggie Plamonden..18....Montreal, Canada. Stephen Hawkins...21....Ashland av & Polk. Annie Mullan. 20. Huron. William F. Hyan.. Margaret Cook, John Zahora.. Mary Zabeko Morris Harris. AT Banat . Dupere... Susan Wilco: Ai ..471% South Clark. 301 West Lake. 301 West Lake. 432 South Halsted. Caleage: Blue {sland, DL Blue Island, Ti. | | { | | George Hoffert.. Charles A. Willita...19. Gertrude J. Green...17. "70 Arbor place. HS West andotph. {anes wiceel: A TUESDAY. Byron S. Allen......26....Chicago. Jane Judges........-22....Chlcago. Frank EB, Vosburgh.23....467 West Taylor. Nora Griffin... .....21...136 Forquer. Andrew MoDermott.27.... Chicago. Mary Montelius......27....Chicago. 19, George Jacob Erler.21. Maria C. Sorn. -18,...119 Brown. Frank Miller. ++ 31,... Hyde Park, Hyde Park, rs. Louisa Barstow#0 Albert H. Kleinecke23. EllaRyan....... +-419, Erick W. Lundgren.33. Annie J. Johnson. Chicago. 70 O'Brien. 33.../Bouth Chicago. 90,..1366 West Taylor. Mary Ingiesby.. FranciszekPachol Lemont, In. * . Lemont, Ill. 157 Ellis ay. Lagh W. Foster. 28....Chicago. Lillian Goodwin.....18,...Chicago. Edward Heffernan. .25....78 Eugenia. Mary Ennis..... 20....119 East Indiana. Wm. Frankenbe! 342 Fifth avenue. Se an On ROE Cn ORE OO CO One COE Cae One ST Oe CT OT OT nT aT 4 ee ra er nS, is} x ing i 3 Philipine Atzen.. 21....272 South Morgan. Josephine Heintz... .60....555 South Clark, ‘irs. K. Kolmetz. 213 Eighteenth, James Bailer.. 302 S' Mary A. MeFa Gustav Nadler. Bertha Kuehl. 18 West Eighteenth. dake, pil Philip Biron, Rosa Susan, Frederick Fletcher. Timothy O'C B. O'Sbaughnessy...34 > 2B 3 5 fa 3 3 3 ....18 Barber. 2....37 Finnell. - .2309 Hanover. .877 State. RosieSmith.... Frank W. Cran Hattie E. Elston. Harry Gold... Frederick Katz. Mary Raabe... berll Mrs. Caroline Witko.40. 28 | Heinrich. F. Sicloff..46. jaan Nathan.. { Burling. - ‘Worth, HL. orth, Il. Green. 2101 ‘Third av. : ‘305 West Bizhteenth, 123 West Nineteenth. 1 State. | Joho Rump.. Mathilda Anotzki.. Claf; Pasquale Sc! vent Si aia fohn ‘Thompson. Tokske AMUSEMENTS. HAVERLY’S THEATRE. J. 3. HAVERLY:.............Proprictor and Manager REMEMBER, REMEMBER, THIS SUNDAY NIGHT, Last Chance This Season! LAST OPPGRTONITY To See this Grand Affair That has attracted hero htly densely crowded “audiences, and delighted everybody present. RALFY BROS. Grandest Spectacle, with all its Original Splendor, as Pro duced 121 Nights in Niblo’s, New York, Entitled Enchantment! ASTONISH YOURSELF By Seeing the Gorgeous Scene, THE PALACE OF ENCHANTMENT, AND THE Resplendent Scenery EUROPEAN ARTISTS KIRALFYS’ ENCHANTMENT! EMBRACE THIS LAST OPPORTUNITY To See the Grand Ballets of Grace and Beauty! IN THE KTRALFYS’ ENCHANTMENT. LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE JOLLY STAIRCASE BAND It’s fun for the Million, to-night and this week in KIRALFYS’ ENCHANTMENT. LAST WEEK FOR ALL TIME IN CHICAGO, Commencing this Sunday, April 11, KIRALFYS’ ENCHANTMENT ! THE WEALTH: of ATTRACTION. ‘Wednesday and Saturday Matinees at 2. CENTRAL MUSIC-HALL, DER cnalONDAY BY ERIN, APH i ae 1. Piano Duet—Overtnro * ‘Misses Colla Stowe 4. Arla—Non fu some trom * Lombard” ‘Mrs, Clara D. Stacy. 5. Plano Solo—" itigoiotto”. seseeeeeDlszt 6 Quartot—"Waerethe Bee Sucks Ame & Jacks aa ere the Bee Suc! . jackson Wannonta .Quartet-Mrs, Farnell, Mrs. Johnson, lessts. Howard 7, Song—I Fear no Foe 8.{ Were fa Big of Ali re. r Ke Jo! 9, Piano Duct—from “ Belisario Donizetti ‘Misses Sarah and Mamie Phillips. ‘s PART I. & 1. Piano Duet—" Concert Stueck,”.... . M. Webor Mr. Christian Balatke and Prof: Breyteprank 2. Recitation—“Wounded.” Introducing the Lord's Prayer... +. Watson “Prof. Ht. Sf. Dixon. 3. Song—The Exile. Kerter 4. Duet—From “Martha”, Flotow -" “Mrs. J, A. Farwell and Sirs, Oliver . Johnson. bove in Her Chamber,” with Violin obli- ae ++-Blehberg, ‘Flotow irs. Ciara’ i, Sie; 6. Quartet—Spinning Wheel, from “ Martha,”. ‘Harmonia Quartet. 7. Recitation—Humorous......... rs. H, Mf Dickson. 8 "Simon, the Celingory/ by request... ‘Mr. 'F. Lefie d Self and Tickets ot . ibe., “ani ickets a Lewis & Newell: Roor& Sous. Lyon & Henly. Bratn- ‘ard Sons, John Moltor, 179 State-st., and at the Box- Office of Susic Hall, 5 NoTE—The benediclary deems it but just to both the audience and Mr. Lumbard to state that there {s a, pos- sibility that the latter may bo prevented by business demands from sppearing.in which case his number will be omitted, but the expectation is that he will take part as assigned above. HAVERLY’S THEATRE. J.H. HAVERLY Proprietor und Manager. Preliminary notice is given of the FIRST PRODUCTION ON ANY STAGE Monday Sienings Avril 19, Of an intensely romantic and absolutely ORIGINAL OPERATIC DRAMA By Mrs. Alex. Kirkland, of this city, entitled the RIVAL. .Hatton LAST WEEK LAST WEEK CANTIN EERS.. (MUSIC BY PROF. JAMES GILL. Introducing the favorite Iyric artistes MRS, LOUIS FALK SRIVALS, as ‘and 3 MRS. JESSIE BARTLETT Davis) te Supported by a strony musical und dramatic cast.a grand chorus of.6) schooled voices, and an efficient ‘orchestra under the baton of Mr. Louls Falk. New and briliiant scenery, costumes, military uni- forms and appointments. ‘The engagement tn limited to six nights and two matinees. SEATS MAY BE SECURED ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE. WYVICKER’S THEATRE. POSITIVELY ONE WEEK ONLY. ‘The great Comedian, Ar. SOTHERN! Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings and Sat- urday mutineo as LORP- DUNDREARY nf: OUR.AMERICAN COUSIN. ‘Thursday, Friday. and Saturday eventngs, Double inl, ‘Pwo Characters, DUNDREARY’S BROTHER SAMf DUNDREARY MARRIED AND SETTLED. Wednesday Matinee tho Celebrated German Trage~ dlonne MAGDA IRSCHICK in her great role, MEDEA. ELOCUTION. HI. M. DICKSON, Pike Building, 70 Monroe-st.) Room 25. University of Chicago— GES Ue SAE Stn tela orontngs, Serre Naan ae nOR sonra er god Taursday. LYDIA HASTINGS, 'e wa Ws seqycelts received at her residence, No. jashing- SS HOOLEVS THEATRE. Laughing .Room Only at 8. LAST WEEK OF THE COMEDIANS, ROBSON CRANE, IN THEIR NEW PLAY, SHARPS FLATS! By GREENE AND THOMPSON. CUTLER SHARP.... «Mr. STUART ROBSON Of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. DULLSTONE FLAT.,......Mre WILLIAM H. CRANE rospective owner of millions, Ex-Parson, the wanting to bea Bull ora Bear, und ever ready for aPut or a Call. TEMPTATION. EDUCATION. - - SPECULATION. REALIZATION. ACT 1—AT SANTA MONACA, The First Smoke. ACT 2—ON THE BEACH. The, Duel on the Sand. ACT 3—OFFICE OF SHARP AND FLAT. “I Have Seen the Editor!” ACT 4—FLAT’S HOUSE ON NOB HILL. “Balloon 140 and Still Jumping!?? 2"Dtr. continuance of the engagement of Messrs. ROBSON and CRANE in their new play, “SHARPS AND FLATS.” The success of these very popular artists in “Our Bachelors” and “Tae Comedy of Errors” is completely oclipsed by their present effort. So great has beon the demand for seats during the past week that the musicians have been turned out of the or- chestra, their sents occupled by our patrons, and thou® sands turned from the doors, unable to reach even the lobbies of the Theatre. ‘This triamph is phenom- enal in the history of American theatricals. Under these circumstances Mr. Hooley would ad- viso an IMMEDIATE PURCHASE OF SEATS in order to avold tne crowd and confusion Hable to oc~ cur on the opening of the doors and the nightly rush at the Box-Oftice, MATINEE WEDNESDAY AT 2. MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2. Monday, April 19—Henry J. Byron’s Comedy, OUR CIRLS. OLYMPIC THEATRE. Clark-st., opposite Sherman House. Z. W. SPRAGUE. Proprietor and Manager TO-DAY (SUNDAY). April Il, Positively Last Performances, i MATINEE AT 2:30, 7 NIGHT AT § O’°CLOCK, Of the Peorless American Prima Donna Comedienne, ALICE OATES, Supported by the Oates English Comic Opera Com- pany, and the new Comic Opers, FANCHETTE, THE GIPSY. MONDAY, APRIL 12---ONE WEEK OHLY OF THE MARVELOUS KENTUCKY EIFLE SHOT, FRANK I. FRAYNE, OP by BLANCHE DE BAR. from New York and Philadelphis Theatres, GEORGE 0. MORRIS, a Great Star Cast, and the world-famous Dog, “JACK,” In the new Sensational and Emotional play, written expressly for Mr. Frayne, entitled MARDO, THE HUNTER. Admission Every Evening and Sunday Matinee, 75, 35, and % cents. Boys under 1? years, 15 cents. member, the admission to Wednesday and Satur- day Matinces is only 50 and % cents. Children under Lyears, 15 cents. HERSHEY MUSIC-HALL. Thursday, April {5, FRANK FE. BROWNELL Will dellyer a Lecture on the Life, Character, and Patriotle Services of Col. E. E. ELLSWORTH Including the thrilling circumstances of the death of this favorite of the American People, ‘under the nuspices of the ‘CHICAGO > UNION VETERAN CLUB. Highly recommended by Rev. Arthur Edwards, edi- tor Northwestern Christin Advocate, Rev. EL W. ‘Thomas, pastor Centenary M, 1. Church, and others. ‘Hon. Emery _A- Storrs has kindly consented to in- troduce Capt. Brownell in n few appropriate remarks. Tickets c., including reserved scats, for satoat Jansen, McClure © Co.'s, lI? and 19Stato-st; West Side Library, 24) West Madison-st.; the Chicago Music Company, 153 State-st. HOOLEVS THEATRE. THIS SUNDAY EVENING, DICKIE LINGARD! AND HER SUPERB COMEDY COMPANY, In James Albory’s world-famous comedy, THE TWO ROSES! ‘This charming comedy had a run of £00 consecutive nights at Wallack’s Theatre, New York. CHICAGO ATHENEUM, Dearborn-st. FRENCH CLASSES (DAY AND EVENING) For all grades. ‘Most thorough system of tenching, acknowledged by all puplis. Terms, $3 for 20 Hours. Every Saturday at 3 p.m. a special equively conducted in French. Poon navances class Spring Term April 2. Prof. L. EDOUARD, Teacher. NORTH SIDE TURNER HALL. THIS SUNDAY, at3 p. m., GRAND SacRED CONCERT! GIVEN BY THE ‘CHICAGO ORCHESTRA, Under the direction of Prof. A. ROSENBECKER, Admission, 15 Cents. "2 Office of the Chicago Orchestra, 113 East Ran- agiph-st, Kingsbury Block, Room ELOCUTION AND DRAMATIC ART. Samuel Kayzer, DRAMATIC READER. CLASSES AND PRIVATE INSTRUCTION. Room 9, 83 Madison-st., HERSHEY HALL, opposite McVicker's Theatre. Residence, Gardner House. HOOLEY ts much gratified to announce the’ “ELISON, FLERSHEDM & C0., 84 & 86 Randolph-st., THE LEADING AND OLDEST GENERAL AUCTION HOUSE IN THE CITY. BULLETIN FOR THIS WEEK. Y—At 15g N. State-st, at10 o'clock. La Pierre MOND ike, con Washington ald Halsted-sta. at 1 Pam TDESDAY—AtSl6 State-stentire Furniture of house. WEDNESDAY—At Store, & and & Randolph-st. THURSDAY—Aat 7A West Monroe-st., Furniture and Lenso. FRIDAY—Special Sale at Store of Furniture. Fami- ly going to Europe. SATURDA ¥—Our usual Clearing Sale at Storey Parties wishing to make sales during this month please notify us early. At No. 15 1-2 North State-st., Monday Morning, April 12, AT x0 O'CLOCK, “We sell, without lmit or reserve, the entire Furniture of 80 Rooms, ALL GOOD, MEDIUM FURNITURE. Also, Beds and Bedding, Parlor and Chamber Sets, Dining-Room and Kitchen Outtit, Stoves, Crockery, Giass and Plated Ware. : POMEROY & 0., ~~~ AUCTIONEERg | Manufacturers’ Avents, 78 & 80 Randolph-st The Oldest and Only Levit; Furniture Auction a IN CHICAGO. REGULAR SALES AT 79) Tuesdays and Fridays, We do not buy second-hi but haveatall times, direst fore ene al om sors, esha Tptace combined eats Gay age mabined. itor Peter Funks to work our sales g” 2° OY-blddey Ontelde Sales WIM Recolre Special Attent Col. MeMILLEN, formerly with Colby & vrine DAN LONG.formerly of W. oa Row connected with our house” PUCes & Co. oe TUESDAY’S SALE, April 13, at 9:30 a. m, Another Tremendous Salo of New and Second-tang FURNITURE Our store crowded with Goods whi mals Poot For large lows coming Ince MUSE De sold tg No Favorites. Fair Show for an ‘Marble and Walnut Chamber Se and Bedding, Carpets, Caromos. ete, eee See Bete E ELISON, FLERSH ET oneers. Auctioneers, 73 and 4 Shad Oa a ‘ GAATTEL MORTGAGE SALE. | No, 155 W. Washington ENTIRE Near Halsted. FURNITURE AND OUTERIT | Thursday Morning, April 15,2ti0an, : as oF THE ; 2 es be sold id = La Pierre House, | EntireFurniture of ThirteenRooms 80-ROOM HOTEL, All Good, Serviceable Furniture, consisting of Cor. Washington and Halsted-sts., (aeaier ct iaiantarn ‘ ; ” jining-Room & Fi : Poecilehyaaclebs tana ahitilg PM Bols Bedding, Grocere Sold by, OGOM FLENSHEIM & CO., Auctioneers. - | BY ete POMEROY § Cored wetgnees Tuesday Morning, Apri 13, at Il o’clock, 516 STATE-ST,, We soll, under Administrator’s Order, the Entire Fornitur OF ABOVE NUMBER. ONE ELEGANT PIANO, THREE RICH PARLOR SUITS, _ EIGHT Marble-Top CHAMBER SETS, REAL LACE CURTAINS, HAIR MATTRESSES, PILLOWS, Bedding, Dintng-Room and Kitchen Furnitare,Crock- ery, Glass and Piated Ware. ‘Everything in the house to besold. First-class sale. ELISON. FLERSHEIM & CO., Auct'rs. WEDNESDAY’S SALE, April 14, at 9:30 a.m., AT POPULAR AUCTION HOUSE, $4 and 86 Randolph-st. Parlor and Chamber Suits, | Splendid Line Carpets, General Household Goods, &e., &e. BLISON, FLERSHEIM & CO., Auctionders. FURNITURE, CARPETS, And Lease of 2-story Brick Houso, 774 WEST MONROE-ST. AT AUCTION, Thursday Morning, April 15, at 10 o'clock. Parlor Suit, Marbie-Top Chamber. Sets, One fine Walnut Sideboard, Hall Tree, Splendid Range, Bras- sels Carpets, Lace Curtains, Lambrequins, etc. Entire outfit for housekeeping. Also Lease of House for one rear from Hay L ELISON, F! SHEIM £ CO., Auctioneers. By GEO. P. GORE & CO0., Sand 8 Wabash-av. RECULAR TRADE SALE RY GOODS, CLOTHING, STRAW Coops, RIBBONS, HARDWARE, PARASOLS, PEARL BUTTONS, HATS, ALPAGAS, TRIMMED BONNETS. Tuesday, April 13, 9:30 a. m. GEO. P. GORE & CO.. Auctioneers. ANOTHER VERY LARGE AUCTION SALE OF CHOICE CUSTOM-MADE BOOTS, SHOES, AND SLIPPERS WILL BE MADE BY GEO. P. GORE & CO., 80 & 82 Wabashc-av., On Wednesday, April 14, COMMENCING A'T 9:30 A. M. Nothing larger or moro varied in assortment has ever been shown in Chicago. Catalogues and goods ready for inspection Monday. Thursday, April 15, at 9:30 a, m., ‘RADE SALE CROGKERY AND GLASSWARE, 60 crates English W.-G. Ware. 60 casks American W.@. Ware. 40 casks Rock. and Yellow Ware. 1,800 bris. Glassware “assorted.” Fall line Lamps, Lamp Fixtures, Tab! Goods packed for County Merchaneas Cuuery ete. GEO. P. GORE & CO., Auctioneers. cocmoll, LEXBY & HATCH, uccessors . 0 GOS I Wabaseage” Suctoneers, Extra Large Auction Sale Boots, Shoes, & Slippers, TUESDAY, April 13. 500 Sample Lots REGULAR AND FIRST-CLASS GOODS, To the Retail Trade: We shall sell a splendid lot of Gents’ Hand-Sewed goods, consisting of Strap shoes fags Oxfords, English Walking Shoes. Button Boots, Gatt- ers plain and foxed, Alexis and Opera Boots, all caus- tom-made, In good sizes, and they willbe solid in small lots to suit the retail trade. No such goods were ever seen on auetion. Goods can be seen and examined SPECIAL NOTICE. FINE DRESS SUITS AT AUCTION as pnettesdary April 14, at II o'clock a. m. pleces Black Gros Grain and Sati 5 pleces Garnet Gros Grain and Sutin de Lyons ais, Just received trom New York, with instraccons to sell, HENRY & HATCH, Auctloncers. M’VICKER’S THEATRE. IRSCHICK MATINEE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL THE GREAT GERMAN TRAGEDIENNE, MACDA IRSCHICK, In her principal role of MEDEA. Prices of sdmission—15, 50, and 23 cents. ATHENEUM ACADEMY, HLH. BABOOGR e DePOm AL Prinelpal THOROUGH CLASSICAL & SCIENTIFIC TRAINING, Summer Term bacins April 12: . 3 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, REGULAR TRADE SALE Dry Goods, Clothing, Fur and Wool Hats, Straw Goods. Also 20 pieces Di =} itt, HORSSP odin Svetes Bebroteres At 10 o'clock a. m. J.EMERY, Jr, Maausor.© HATCH, Auctioneers. FOR SALE. 41 and 43 Fifth-av., Have for sale some fins Black Bank Joon Conmters: Bank and Grice Penne Dank Rnd Sao ters and Ofioe Wurniture of every Kind. Goveral dee> QUR REGULAR FRIDAY SHE ® April 16, at 9:30 a.m., i FURNITURE OF ALL KIS | : Must be sold to make room. as onr larg ; storee are losded with auodessad musthavetheres | for Furniture of several houses coming in. fallline of Parlor and Chamber Sets, New im | Fea E are Ol edst Is. TeSSeS, Ctc., il POMEROY & C icueer CO., Auctioneers, Sand 9 Randoiphes, By GEOHEGAN & REVELL, 191, 193, 1% and 19 Randolph-st, corner Firth-ay, (0-AGAIN & RE-VEL AT THE STORES OF (0-AGAIN & RE-VEL In a tremendous stock of New and Used Fumiture, Carpets, and Household Goods of all descriptions. Go and see GO-AGAIN & RE-VEL, Cor. Fifth-av. and Rendolph-, By H. FRIEDMAN & SONS, Auctioneers, 199, 201, and 903 Randolph-st 1,000 LOTS, A first-class stock and fine assortment; GROCKERY AND GLASSWARE = Wednesday, April 14, at 9:30 o'clock. Sales at Private Residences Promptly dt! tended to. H. F. & SONS, Auctioneers HIOUSEKEEPING GOODS. THREE IMMENSE FLOR Each 50x180 feet, filled with a splendid assortment of FURNITURE, Carpets, Oil Cloths, GROGKERY, STOVES, ETG., |i: For Cash or on Easy Payments, at GORDON’S, 202, 204, 206 Randolph-st., Hale Building, half block west of Fifth-ave It will pay you to examine these gools: before you purchase. You will find prices lower, and goods to turn out as repre sented in eyery particular. N. B.-A fall line of Counters, Bar Fits, tures, Show Cases, and Shelving. _" LOTTERIES. RSTO ad $70,000 = $e IN THE KENTUCKY STATE LOTTERY’. WHICH HAS REGULARLY DRAWN LN PURE! ANCE OF AN ACT OF THE GENERAL ASSEM BLY, OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY OS) FF WEDNESDAY, % PRIL 2i.. LIST OF PRIZES: §27- Out-of-town ordors of $5.00 and upwards alvsi®: made by certified check, drat, or sent by e: orton particulars and orders address x . |. J. RICHMOND, A be ey G.UPINGTON, G09 Trosdwag New ork FEED ERBY, 87 & 89 Washington-sty List of drawings a} lished in the New Fors Herald, Sun, Suaats-cettuns, Philadelphia Become Philadélphis Sunday Dispatch, Pittsburgh Dispstety Cineinnat! Enquirer, Cincinnati Commercial, Louisville Commercial, All out-of-town ticke Poe! ers are mailed a copy of the official list as soon celved. a: SCALES. FAIRBANKS’ STANDARD SCALES ‘OF ALL KINDS. - M FAIRBANKS. MORSE & OO e& F311 & 113 LakeSt., Chicos Be carefulto buy only the Genaings Be rchl to boy nal et EDUCATIONAL. 5 ALLEN ACADEMY, ‘The most elegant and thoroughly equipped Behool in id. Prey ‘for best colleges oF Sate ab recived tanat acm ae, AW. . LL. Da, President, 1d and 168 Twenty-second-st, near Michie ty, & good time fornew pup