Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 25, 1880, Page 9

SILKS. SILKS. Positive Bargains. PARDRIDGES’ We enumerate the following as Positive Bargains, especially wor- thy of the immediate attention of close buyers. BPK Dress Silks, 100 pieces extra heavy Gros Grain Dress Silks at $1 and $1.10. 50 pieces “‘Our Monopely,’’ a fine Lyons Silk, superb finish, at $1.25, $1.50, and $1.75. pieces Cashmere Egyptian, 24 inches wide, superior quality, at $2, $2.25, and $2.50. These three grades cannot be duplicated for less than $2.50, $2.75, and $3.00. : _ Natin De Lyons In all the leading shades; splen- “did quality at $1.90. Bk and Col dSatins. 100 pieces Golden Wheel Black Satins, the best make in the market, at $1, $1.10, $1.25, and $1.50. 200 pieces Colored Satins in Dark and Light Shades, our Own im- portation, at $1 and $1.25. ° 100 pieces Satin Striped Pekins, 30 different colors at $1.10; former price, $1.25. Brocade Silks, 50 pieces Brocade Silks, desirable shades, at $1.25; others ask $1.75. : PARDRIDCGES’ MAIN STORE, 114 and 116 State-st. Send for Samples. Prices guar- anteed the lowest, and money re- funded if not satisfactory. z PIANOS. Triumphant at every World’s Fair; indorsed by the most eminent musical authorities of both hemispheres, and the acknowledged Standard Piano of the World. Special attention is directed to the lately-patented Stein- way Parlor Grand--but six feet long--with touch, quality oftone, and almost the power, of a Steinway Concert Grand; and\to the new Steinway Up-. right or Cabinet Grand, with matchless tone and perfection of action. LYON & HEALY, State and Monroe-sts. PAPER HANGE Joun J, MeGRata, IMPORTER PAPER 25 "HANGINGS. Retail Department, FIRST FLOOR, 174 & 176 State-st. . ‘LO RENT. TO RENT, Or For Sale on Easy Terms, ‘The Large Stores, 16, 18, and 20 Michigan-av., Gx12t. WM. C, DOW, 17 Tribune Building. ‘: PHOTOGRAPHER, 4-79-81 State-st., Chicago. REAL ESTATE. . Kensington the Site of the New ~~ Pullman Car-Works. : Chicago. fo Have the Greatest Car- Works in the Country, - And a New Suburb of Ten Thou- sand Inhabitants. Real Estate Dull—Sales, Loans, and Building~Permits. A New Real-Estate Paper—Steam Heat in Ohicago—Miscellancous, Surveyors went to work yesterday to stake out the site to be occupied by the new Pull- man Palace-Car Works and the Allen Paper Car-Wheel Works, and to-morrow ground will be broken for the most important manu- facturing enterprise that has yet been estab- lished in Chicago. The location of these great works, which has been the most puzzling conundrum the real-estate speculators of this city have ever had to cipher out, will be on the IWinois Central Railroad, half,a mile NORTH OF KENSINGTON, ~ about half a mile east of the Holland Set- tlement, -graced with the aromatic name of Roseland, and between the rail- road and Lake Calumet. The advantages of the situation are commanding. On the one side is water transportation by Lake Calumet, through which an eight-foot chan- nel isto be dredged to connect with a canal to the Calumet River, already authorized by avote of the Trustees of HydePark. On the other the works will have direct track con- nection with the IMinois Central, the Michi- gan Central, and the Belt Railroad, and so with the whole railroad system that CENTRES AT CHICAGO. The ground_is high and well drained, and suited in evéry respect to the requirements of the works and the population of thousands that will hive around them. The tract on which the Pullman and the Allen works will be erected comprises about 150 acres, lying between One Hundred and ‘Third street on the north, and One Hundred and Eleventh street on the south, and reach- ing from the railroad to LakeCalumet. Here buildings will be put up, as shown by the map in the next columns, on which the Rullman Company will spend ABOUT $1,060,000, : and the Allen Company about $200,000. The latter will use 1,500,000 of bricks, and the Pullman 9,000,000, and 3,000,000 feet of lum- ber. The car-works will, when in full opera- tion, “as they. will be in about six months, employ 2,000 men, and the car- wheel works about 100, These simple facts are enough to account for the excite- ment that has been created among real- estate men by the rumors that have got afloat concerning the new enterprise, Specu- lation has run wild in acres FOR BALES AROUND KENSINGTON. Landa mile away has been sold at an ad- vance of 150 per cent.. Probably the specu- lators have overdone it, They always do. Land in the vicinity of the Rock Island ci shops is cheaper to-day than it was before the shops were finished. The contracts have all been let for the Allen Paper Car-Wheel Works; the Pullman. works will be built by the Palace-Car Com- pany itself, and its plans are all ready. Everything hasbeen settled down to the place to be occupied by every piece of machinery. Great attention has been given by Mr. George M. Pullman, President, to whom the concep- tion of the enterprise is due, and by Mr. A. B. Pullman, Second Vice-President of the Com- pany; under whose personal supervision the uildings will be erected and putin rnnning order, to the arrangement of the different departments. They are so situated that the shops have a double frontage, and so grouped. that each has the readiest possible access to all the others. The defect usually so com- mon in such establishments of stringing out the shops in a Jong Jine and setting them down anywhere without much reference to the mutual convenience of the different sec- tions has : BEEN ENTIRELY AVOIDED in this case. ‘The dry-kiln, the foundry, the blacksmnith-shops, and those in which the wood and metal are shaped, have a location central to that of the erecting-shops, where the cars are’ put together. All are connect- ed by tracks, so that the maximum of con- venience is secured and the minimum of time lost. Nothing that can be shaped, lifted, car- ried, or handled by machinery is touched by hand. Elevators and INNUMERABLE CONTRIVANCES will be used for Saving labor and time. ‘The ideas embodied in the arrangement and plaus of the buildings ARE PULLMAN IDEAS. The architectural designs and the con- struction of the various buildings, including dwellings for the employés, have been in- trusted to S, S, Beman, an architect of New York. The material will be, pressed brick of two colors, with stone trimmings. ‘The structures will consist first of two parallel erecting-shops, 690 feet long and 87 fect wide, The central section, containing the offices and store-rooms, will be 101g feet Jong and 100 feet deep, three stories high, with AN IMPOSING TOWER rising to the hight of 136 feet. Back of these is aseries of four buildings covering an ag- gregate frontage of 1,037 feet, with a general depth of 200 feet, forming the wood-machine shops, blacksmith-shop, varnish-roomt, Te yair-shops, and two erecting-shops. Still ick of these another erecting-shop, 474x 86 feet, In 150x80, and a foundry 180 feet front and 200 fe THE ERECTING-SHOPS will have stalls for fifty passenger cars and 100 freight ears at one time, and it is’ need- Jess to Say that the works will be fitted up with the most improved machinery .and wi turn out only first-class work. “racks run- ning between the various shops will be, pro- vided with numerous turntables, so that cars can be run in and out without switches. One of the features, of the place engine-room. This will be $i 2 square and_ thirty-five feet high, with a oiler-room 100 fect long. In this engine room will be seen at work the beautiful Corlissengine, which was one of the wonders of the Centennial Exposition, where it drove eleven acres of machinery. This greatengine will furnish all the power needed by the Pullman and Allen works. | Its orizinal cost Yas $114,000, It was nominally 1,400 horse- power, but can be run_up to 2,500 horse- pov Its size may be inferred from the fact thata : TRAIN OF THIRTY-FIVE FREIGHT-CARS willbe needed to transport it from Provi- dence to Chicago. ‘The engine-room where this useful monster will take his duily ex- erciso is so situated that its thirty-five-foot fiy-wheel will be in full view from the rail- road or the park around the works. Its front will be of plate glass, with jron columns, 80 its motion. may be as plainly. seen 28 that of a. wateh ma vziass case. The engine and boiler cost $125,000, and the machinery, exclusive of power, pulleys, and shafting, cost $100,000. A Jarge part of the Pullman machinery, hich will be all new, as the Detroit works Will run along as usual, has already been made. All the buildings will be ill ated vith 2 an alee Tbe will be ted with steam. ere 2 and OS cubic feet to be warmed, and to do it will require 536 feet of steam-pipe. Large Tumber yards and miles of standing track will be needed, and they will, be put tither between the works and Lake Calumet, or south of One Hundred and Eleventh street, on the Com} any’s_ property, which runs fo One Hundred and Fifteenth street. ‘The good taste and sense of beauty that Mr. George M. Pullman has faust the pub- lie to expect in what he does will be a char- acteri ic feature, of his new establishment. Around the buildings, which w) be. le ‘architecturally, very attracting, will be laid suta : FINE PARK, F ace under the supervision of the landseape arct!~ tect, Mr. N. F, Barrett, of New York. . From an arched gateway at’ the’ entrance at One Hundred and Eleventh street, the‘park runs north along the railroad to One ‘Hun ed. fnd Third street, 1t surrounds the works, brick louse aud lot No. ol “AS Ub ¥ AI g é § 3 £ £ < & : 9 Ly th UA TMCS DRIVEWAY PLAN OF THE PULLMAN CAR AND ALLEN CAR-WHEEL SHOPS. and reaches to Lake Calumet. The entire area, half a. mile deep by a mile Jong, will be. treated shrubbery, Jawns, serpentine walk: drives in the best style of Iandscape art, A drive two miles long will eneirele the shops. A boulevard 150 fect wide, with 2 lawn in the centre,.will be made of One Hundred and Beierenth street: cacy The len Paper Car-Wheel Compan: ose works adjoin the Pullman works, isa : y nvartant concern. It is a consolida- 10 0: ALL THE PAPER CATR-WIHEEL COMPANIES in the country, Its capita $1,000,000, and two-fifths of it have been taken by. promi- nent Chicago capitalists interested in the new protect, The stock pays 20 per cent div- idends, and there is notenough of it to go around, Its capacity will be 20,000 car- wheels. 2 year. The buildings, work on which will begin to-morrow, have been planned by Mr. It, N. Allen, the General Superintendent of the Company, and the inventor of the wheel. The archi- tecturat work is done by Mr, Beman, and the Inndseape gardening around it is to be a con- tinnation of that about the Pullman works, ‘The materlal will be brick from Porter, Mich. and stone from Joliet. On the front, pressed brick of two colors will be used, and it will be tuckpointed throughout. There will be 1,500,000 brick used, and the outlay will be $200,000. The present work of the Company East will be enlarged and continued in use, BUT THE CHICAGO ESTABLISHMENT will be the head-centre, The contracts for the bulldte have been let to Messrs. Price & Avers. Their work is to be done Se} at which date the Centennial Corliss engine is to be started. The Allen Company y has all its machinery ordered, and will begin opera- & tions as soon as its new quarters are ready._ It will use the electric-light, as its business compels it to run night and day. A population of 1,600 to 2,000 m, and labo men will be at work in this new ceentre of industry before winter, Their wives and children and the attendant popu- lation that will, come to supply the wants of hese workers will swell the total to some- tb thing hanics NEAR 10,000 souLs. This will be the Jargest’ suburb Chicago has, ‘This means a great demand for lots and for houses. All of this the Pullman Company have foreseen. ‘Their plans include the erection of model dwellings for all their working-people.- Mr. Beman has drawn the plans for 320 dwellin: which are to be built on sixteen blocks, nty iit each block. ‘They will be of brick with slate roofs, in a style architecturally in harmony with that of the works. On the ground floor will be kitchen, dining-reom, aud parlor, and above three bed-rooms. ‘The exterior will be picturesque. Equally tuportant, the interior will probably be heated with steam, and fitted up with plumbing. These WORKINGMEN’S HOUSES will be in the park, north of the works The Pullman Company owns sixty acres south of One Hundred and Eleventh street, run- ning to One Hundred and Fifteenth street, and on the northwest corner of, this, just south of the entrance, they will’ put up a number of Jarger houses for their, foremen and other employés of that class. The Pull- man Company proposes in this way to pro- vide house-ruom for all its people in one place or another. The thousands, outside of these, who must be taken care of have been kindlv thought of by the varlous. gentlemen interested in this enterprise as Directors and stockholders. ‘They are reported to have BOUGHT UP ABOUT 1,000 acres in the immediate vicinity, which they will sel! for a consideration. The speculators, too, have been on the scent, and haye bought other thousands of acres in every direction, which they will be glad to seil for acon- sideration. There is little danger that there will not be land enough to, supply the needs of the landless and the homeless. ‘The old story will probably be repeated here. Land will'sell for higher prices before the shops are built than it will afterward. But it is notto be denied that this is the most im- portant enterprise, as far a$ real estate goes, that Chicago has yet seen, and its effects will be great and lasting. IN FOUR MONTHS the mighty engine-that all the world saw at Philadelphia will begin its revolutions, and a large force of men Will be at work in both the Pullman and the Allen establishments. In six months both will be in full running order. Before winter comes a new town will be planted between One Hundred and ‘Third and One JInndred and Fifteenth streets. A population of thousands witl be growing where not a young, blade grew be- fore. One anda quarter million of dollars Will have _been expended for buildings and plant, Hundreds of acres that are now desert will be covered with factories and homes, It is a great thing for Chicago.” It will bring other great things in its train, which are not yet reddy to be made known. The demand for property was not active. Among THE PRINCIPAL SALES were the following: Mrs. Christian C. Clark, has closed the sale to Judge Galbraith, of Erie, of her vacant lot, 20x180 feet, south front, on Randolph street, between Clark and Dearborn, for $23,000. ‘This was formerly part of the old teson House property. _ We believe this is the highest price paid’ since the fire for ypeagt property on Randolph street, east of ark. The Wood Harvester Company _have ponght twenty-five acres ou the North Branch, in Fullerton’s Addition, for $25,000. ‘They will erect a manafactory on the grounds. ? William F, Lubeke has sold three acres in Block 6, Stave & Klemin’s, Subdivision, Sec. 25, 38, 14, for $2,250; lot_on Monroe street, near California avenue, for $500; lot on Su- erior street, near Sedgwick, for $850; two lots on Wentworth avenue, near, Forty-first street, for $800; and story and basement y North Franklin r cas! on. Clark street, on the a street, for $5,000; al The Rue Buildin north side 6f Arcade court, 40x125 feet, has een purchased on the mortgage by John Borden for $74,000. Jacob Weil & Co. have sold the southeast corner of Cottage Grove aveaue and Thirty- fifth street, for $50,000 cash. The property js 164xS4, covered by seven stores,which after May i will rent for $6,200 a year. + Jacob C, Magill has made the following gales: The southwest corner of Honoré an Jackson Streets, 25x125 feet, for $2,500; the brick house No, 72 West Jackson street, for $4,750; two lots south front on Jackson street, 50x125 feet, 100 feet east of Latlin street, for $5,000; the frame honse No. 3it West Jackson street, with lot 26x189 feet, for $5,500; lot on Douglas avenue, south front, year the monument, for $2,500; ‘Jot on north- west corner Sedgwick id Whit 2 streets, 2434 x19 feet, for $1,500; No, 613 West Congress street, prick, for $3,200; house and lot 1036 West Monroe street, 19x12? feet, for $1,520; Jot on Dashiel street, near Thirty-seventh street, 255125 feet, for $450; No: 103% West Monroe street, cottage an 27x1% feet, for $2,575; 390 Congress Street, brick house, lot Stx110" feet, for’ $4,000; at Englewood, north- east corner of Wabash ‘avenue .and Sixty- third street, residence; and lot 200x150 feet, for $15,000; and lot 46x12 feet, east front on Sangamon street, south of Van Buren street, $125 per foot. Stone & Karnes have sold fifty feet on Michigan avenue, 100 feet south ot Forty- third ‘street, for $3,750—$75 per foot. The second sale was 100 feet on Michigan avenue, 135 feet south of Forty-fifth street, for $5,750-—$57.00 per foot, Charles Reitz & Bros, have purchased a tract of land at the northwest corner of Union and ‘T'wenty-second streets of 417 feet, running to Dupont Slip. The sum paid for the property was $55,000. ‘The Calumet & Chicago Canal and Dock Company is selling at $400 to $600 each lots at South Chieago to men who are to be em- ployed in the new steel works there. Edward Goodridge ‘has sold for Abel F. Jones, Esq., the buildings and lot No. 91 South Peoria, street; consideration, $2,150. ‘Also, for William Caulfield, Esq., the build- ine and lot No. 25 North Irving place, to David G. Fraser;- consideration, $1,250, William N. Stokes has sold for Dirs. M. F. Jarvis the northwest corner of Kinzie and Elizabeth streets for $1,425, John H. Ohlerking sold for Albert Hutt No. 20 Courtland avenue, $850; for Agnes Haase two lots on Hoyne avenue, $1,250; for John Richardson No. 324 Wabansia avenue, $1,100; for Hans Nelson lot on Wood street, $500; for Mrs. Lebell cottage No. 95 Lewis Street, $700; for E, Maynard No. 749 Milwau- Kee avenue, $3,500; for James Newton sixty- five acres in Town of Worth, $9,250. In the OTHER SALES OF .THE WEEK were 475 feet on Laflin street to Arnold Canal, $60,000; 24x120 on West Monroe strect, west of Morgan, $5,000; twenty-two feet to alley, improved, on Lake avenne, east of Thirty-seventh street, $3,620; 105x120 on Leavitt, southeast corner of Van Buren, $5,000; 60x19 on Dearborn avenue, north of Schiller, $25,000; 80 on North Water to the river, west of Clark, $52,000; 80 feet adjoin- ing the above, $38,000; 50x1173{ on West Ad- ‘ams street, northeast corner of Honore, im- proved, $6,150; 514 West Lake, $3, 26 on West Randolph street, west of Ada, $3,000; 936x180 on Wabash avenue, north of Twenty- eighth street, $8,750; 18x1100n Hoyne avenue, north of Harrison,$3,000; Lot+on Schiller,east of North Clark street, with building, $5,000; 20x110 on Indiana avenue, north of 'Thirtieth street, $5,250; 48x125, improved, on Centre, northwest corner. of Dayton, ‘Twenty-eighth street, $4,400; 54x nut, west of Robey, ‘$4,000; proved, on Wabash Thirty-second street, $7,000;°25x191 on Wa- bash, south of, Thirty-first street, $3,000; 24x 300 on Fifth avenue, northwest corner of Jackson, $11,500; 80. feat on. Fifth avenue, adjoining above, $23,750, and 20 feet adjoin- ing, $8,000; 36x125 on West Adams, east of Latin, improved, $12,000; 20x178, improved, north of Twenty-fourth re Ss gan avenue, north of ‘Ywenty-sixth street, $7,5 75x179, improved, on Indiana avenue, south- west corner of ‘Thirty-fifth street, $12,000; 39 feet to alley on Vincennes place, north. of Thirty-eighth street, $5,000; 709x269 on North Clark, north of Centre, $6,000; 214x167 on Archer avenue, comer of Waver street, $18,870: 20x55 on South Water street, west of 24x100, improved, on Blue ‘west of Sixteenth street, 000; 20 acres on Jefferson | ave- east of Lincoln avenue, 1,000 5 861g feet on Wabash avenue, north of ‘Fwenty-fifth street, $2,750; 30x100 on Ohio street, near Pine, $3,000; 25x143¢ on Mil waukee avenue, east of Cleaver, 33,500; 50x 120 on Wentworth avenue, south of ‘I'wenty- fourth street, $4,100; 24x10 on Chicago ave- nue, west of Sedgwick street, $3,200; 44x150 on Jefferson avenue, north of Fifty-fourth street, improved, $6,000. Perinits were issued last week for NINETY-TWO BUILDINGS, to cost $550,000. In the permits issued were those to George Armour to erect 2 five-story store, northwest corner of Franklin and Adams streets, 184 feet front and 160 feet deep, to cost $170,000; to H. Schaf- froth to_ erect a three story dwelling, No. 369 East Twenty-second street, to cost $6,000; to Joseph Vestein, to erect a_two-story store _and dwelling, corner of Fisk street and Eighteenth place, to cost $4,000; one to Conrad Scipp, to erect a four- Story store and dwelling, corner of Lake and South Water streets, to cost $12,000; to A. W. Adeock, toerect a two-story dwelling cor- ner of Monroe and Loomis streets, to cost $4,500; to the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company, to erect a depot building corner of Canat and Madison streets, to cost $2 3 Walter Calill, three-story store and dw at No. 750 West Madison street, to cost § A. Mass, two-story dv ge at No. 232 'T avenue, to cost $2,300; Stewart & Dougal, jron-covered elevator, 13x36, corner of Dear- born and Sixteenth streets, to cost $30,000. Ground has been broken at the northwest corner of Franklin and Adains streets, for MR. GEORGE ARMOUR’S NEW BUILDING, which will cost $170,000. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company have abandoned THE MILLION-DOLLAR PLAN for a depot, and will content themselves with building a modest structure to cost $175,000, on Kinzie street, at the corner of Wells. The joint depot at Canal and Madison streets will e built as projected. A permit was taken out last week by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to erect # passenger and baggage depot at the corner of Canal and Madison streets, at a cost of $225,000, Comminsioner Burling, Chairman of the Joint Committee on Buildings, gives it as his vpinion that the county wing of the Court- House will not be ready for use this year, and perhaps not till the middle of next year. LOANS. Following is a comparison of the transac- tions in real-estate loans for the past two La Salle, $10,000 Island avenue, Ss; hing 500: weeks: Tha week. ||Previous week. No.} Amount.||No.| Amount. Mort; x 46\$ £9,028)| 651$ 143,439 eust-deeds Jot] 238;z2]} 16]” 200,30 ‘Totals. $ S27250]| IS1}$ 344,269 Ina. 303) 230,720] U2] 138.285 BOULEVARDS. ip ‘In order to test their authority over West ‘Washington street, the West Park Board has instructed its engineer:to examiie Washing- ton street, from Halsted street to Central Park, and where, in bis judgment, he imay find the same in’a condition demanding re- pairs, he proceed at once to have the same repaired. : The Lincoln Park Commissioners are try- ing to Increase their supply of water. Their first effort will be to get it from the city and Lake View at a trifle sbove cost. If thiscan- not be done, they will build water-works of their own at a cost of about $25,000, costing about $4,250 a year to Tun. DEARBORN-STREET OPENING. ‘The finding of the jury in the case of ake finding of ‘of C. C. Copeland, that the city was responsible for property it had con- demned for the Dearborn-street extension, has roused the city authorities to new exor- tions to throw off the liabilities that will be fastened on the municipality if this verdict be sustained by the Supreme Court. The jury in the condeinnation suit in August, Be. awarded $111,207 for the value of the whole property from Jackson to Fourteenth Street, of which $39,720 was for the value of plaintif’s lots. After the property had been condemned and some money paid for it, the Common Council in 1873 repealed THE ORDINANCE FOR THE EXTENSION. Under this original ordinance the city had a len on the property for the judgment for the cost of opening the street. “Tne Ci- CAGO TRIBUNE at the time warned the City Council against the dangerous’ consequences of such a repeal. One effect pointed out was, that the property having already been: taken by the city, the city, ‘ine already. taken practical possession and exercised the right of proprietorship over the property, ~ MADE ITSELF RESPONSIGLE to the original owners for the amount of the fRgment an rded them, and released the liens held by the city under its judgment for benefits, ‘he Corporation Counsel, Mr. Adanis, inaclear presentation of the case, advised the Council- against repealing the original ordinance, but the Council was deaf toreason and passed the ordinance: At the same time it passed another ordinance for anew condemnation of the property for the opening of the street. ‘The: Mayor vetoed both of these — ordinances, but — th Council passed them over” the veto. The verdict in fayor of Mx, Shepard is the first response of the Courts to the stupid action of the Common Council. The Mayor and the Corporation Counsel have determined to appeal the case to the highest Court. We have received the first number of A NEW PAPER called the Chicago Real-Estate and Butld- ang Journal. The Journalis aneat eight- page paper, devoted to the interests of the real-estate business of this city, and will have He pues : it Meer, The bids opened. last week for supplyin the cit: ith 3,000 tons of water-pipe dant} rom $37.50 to $47.20 per ton. ‘The lowest bidders Were A. H. McNeil & Bro., of Bur- lington, N. J., and if they, comply with the terms the award will be made to them, Lust year pipe Prope street, ui ‘avenue, ete., have petitioned the Common Council that no privileges be granted toany reilway conipany ruet and operate a road between Clark street and the tracks of the Illinois Central. If good faith required that the Western Indiana be protected in the invest- ments it had made, the Company should hot be permitted to come north of Twelfth street. ‘The Common Council have adopted the ordinance giving the Chicago Steam Com- pany the right to lay pipes in the STREETS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF STEAM and hot water. The ordinance provides that the alleys shall be used instead of the streets wherever possible, and that the Company shall first obtain a permit from the Commis- sioner of Public Works, or other authorized oflicer af the city, before laying down their mains. and shall conform to all rules and regulations made by the city concerning the use or opening itp of any alley, street, ave- nune, highway, or public place, It is also directed that ‘no street, avenue, highway, alley, or public place shall be éntered’ upon, opened, or used under the authority hereby ranted until a Notice thereof shail have been given by said Company by publication at least “one week preceding such entry in. some newspaper, to be designated by the Commissioner of Pabtic Works or other authorized officer, as afore- said. Commissioner Waller does not look with favor upon, the ordinance allowing the Chicago Steam Company the right to.tear up the streets, notwithstanding those who tear up the thoroughfares are required to put them in.as good conditionas they were found in; the fact is they never have done it, and cannot. Jle suggests, as a remedy for the evil, that, instead of persons tearing up the streets agreeing to repair them, they deposit enough With the city to insure the work be- ing properly done, and he proposes to reconi- mond the passage of an ordinance to that effect. * ‘THR SCHOOL LEASES. _ Judge Blodgett refused the motion for, in- jpnetion. in the case of Chandler ys, The ward of Education, which was a bill to restrain the leasing of the school property on Ilalsted and Madison streets to Crilly « Blair. After the decision was announced another attempt was immediately made to prevent the lease being made to Crilly & lair bya bill filed in the Circuit Court by Lewis Dodge, lessee of Lot 8, Block 1, in School Section, and asking for the same in- junction against the above varties. The bill was taken away, so that the particulars could not be learned. A temporary injunction, how- yer, was granted under a bond for 25,000. TAXPAYERS AND TAX-EATERS, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cmicaco, April, 24.—Under the new Revenue law the Town Collectors are re- quired fo turn over their books on March 10 to the County Treasurer, so that he can collect the taxes until May 1, before the penalty of 1 per cent per month attaches. But in practice the County Treasurer does not receive all the books until after the Ist of April. Consequently the bulk of the taxes have to be paid during less than thirty days’ time. The consequence is that the crowd, anxious to pay their taxes at the County Treasurer's office, is so great that many have to be hurrivd away when 3 o'clock p._m., theclosing time of the ofiice, comes. Something ought to be done to relieve this great pressure, py extending the office hours of the County Treasurer’s office until May 1. a = Many taxpayers will experience: another hatdship in this: that their property will be sold for special assessments which do not get into the hands of the County ‘Treasurer for collection until after the ist of May. They go and pay their taxes before May 1 and think they have paid all their taxes, ant afterward find, to their sorrow and, expense, that such is nob the case. A remedy for this state of things ought to be devised for the future. ADOLF Es REAL ESTATE. ‘The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, April 24: ‘ CITY PROPERTY. North Clark st, 814 ft n of Grant placo, ¢f, 31 ft to alley; dated April 20(M. Buckinghum to June M. Lucke).... ‘Muplewoud av, 25 ft n of Hirsch st, & 1,05 wf, 95x16 410 ft, improved, dated April 23 (3. N. Bell to Niets Olsen). - 21,100 Shurtleff wv, ne corner Th ty 25x100 ft, improved, dated April % ‘(fenry K. Bond ct ul. to Minnie Loos)... _ 2,000 enty-second st, 150 ft ¢ of Wood, 25 ft, improved, dated April Stephan to Andrew W. Joba- West 81,95 (onn J. gon) West ‘iweitth st, 20x13 ft, impr und Hf. Buschin ft wof Jefferson,n f, d, diated April 24(E. yer to Wenzel Wunsch) 2,000 Milwaukee av, 266 ftn Wot Paulina st, 3 wf, undivided % «f 24x10, ft, dated April 23 (Antoni Menturevicz to Jennio Shaffner) a Hols st, 563 f West Division, ¢ 1, 48x Joy &-10ft, dated April 24 (Robert T. Lincoln to Albert Jendrzejek et al.).-.- Hubbard st, WL fte of Asbland av. Box150 ft, dated Murch 2 G. G. son to Mucy Riordan)... ..- Blue Island ay, 48. {ts w of Oakloy, sc fy 48x100 ft, dated April 2 (Edward C. Waller to verry Kenealy oi Cottage Grove ‘ay, 306ts fis of Twenty- seventh st, e £, 215x150 tt, dated April 23 (Muster in Chancery to Babette Wein- bers). S fe ‘Trumbull av, se corner of West Eight- eenth st, wf, 0x15 ft, dated April 2 (WV. B. Race, dr., to H. H. Stoddard)... ‘The premises No. 156 West, Randolph st, dated April 21 (Benjamin F. Miles to Henry Ruesch). 1er Bt, 36 foe of Despinines, sf. Pat ft, inh roved, dated April 14 Jobo Pierce to Frank Nose! nasessereeses st ‘Twelfth, ¢ f, (W. HL. and G, Brown st, 18 tt nof W ‘25x100 ft, dated Murch. $V. Thompson to C. F. Schumucber).... West Ohio st. ne cor of Hulsted, s £, 25x N10 It. dated April 24 (le J Charles Sperain) The Pp April 23 (H. and Syke). - beeseseeeee None hi lin st, 177 {tn of Menomonee, wf, Z75xlw Tt, ‘improved, dated April 24 (Richard Zellner to Arnold W. Esch- enburg)...+..- Perret yornon av; i13) fen of hirty-se t, WE WxLY ft, improved, duted April 25 (Master in Chancery to Hiram Hyde) .. west Juckson st, Det Aberdecu and Morgun, nf, 19x190 ft, Improved, dated ‘April 23 (Master in Chuncery to trustees of Mary C. Barnes)... peeeiaes ‘West Jackson st, bet Aberdeen and Mor- min, nf, 194x190 ft, improved, date K pril 23 (game to samc)... S ‘West Jackson st, near the above, dated ‘Troost to Esther M. 16,176 r, 19x 180 ft, improved, dated April 33 (same to same}. West Jucksor ‘180 ft, impro' vd, dated April $3 (same 3 car the above, n ‘Jo%xls0 ft, improved, duted April (sume to suine).... Sess Lincoln av. s ¢ cor of and near Centre st * ne f, Gl ft, to Sedgwick st, | 1- proved (with other property), dated April 2a atuster inChancery to Harmon +, 1 himpelly)..-.« -- Lincoln av, near 48 ft to Sedwick ‘st, improved, dated April 23°) 4) (Master in Chancery to sumc)....--+.+-+ pes TH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADI = SEVEN MILES OF THE cee rariana st, 247 ft w of Seminary av. mf, Marat fe dated April 2 (Albert Wisner ag to Porter N. Bkinner).......-.-e-ereee8 Le r at no time was there any lagging, The bid- George st, e of Dummy Roat f, 33x! ft, duted April 23 ( cure = fraueke mun to Adolph Vieser). ae 500 George st, near the above, nf. 33x125 ft dated April = (Adoiph Vieser to! Conrad Gehrke) . i 500 SOUTH OF ADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Forty-ninth st, 200 ft w of Stewart av,n f, ‘woclss ft, dated April 2 (J. Kineado te “the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chic Baltroad Compauy).....>- rom htt Ww of Stewart Lot on Dumm; av, Sf, 25xi5 ft, dated April 2% (J. R Carpenter to Chicigo & Western In- Ginga Wallrond Company)... SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. ‘The following is the total number of city and:suburban transfers within a racius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for rec- ord during the week:ending Saturday, April 2: City—Sules, 160; consideration, Sb89,677. North of city-limits—Sales, 7; consideration, $14,050. South of city-limits—Sales, 21; con- sideration, “$38,885. “Total. sales, 188; total consideration, $742,112. ‘There was a great sale of real estate IN NEW YORK on Monday.” It belonged to the New York Mutual Life-Insurance Company. The prop- erty ‘sold was situated in the Boulevard, Fitth avenue, St. Nicholas avenue, Third Eighth, and Tenth avenues, Fifty-first, Sixt; sixth, Sixty-ninth, Seventy-sixth, Sevent, seventh, Eighty-third, Ninetieth, Ninety- sixth, Ninety-seventh, One-hundred-and- twenty-first, — One-hundred-and-twenty-sec- ond, One-hundrec-and-twenty-third, One- hundred-antl-thirt, hb, One-hundred-and- thirty-seventh, — One-hundred-and-forticth, and One-hundred-and-fifty-eightli streets, and micluded_the house No. 180s Fifth avenue. between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth streets, In the salesrooms a great deal of ex- citement’ in, consequence partly of a curiosity to see how the market would sustain the “unloading” of so much property, and partly of an eager desire to purchase such desirable property as was offered. Long before the hour appointed for the sale a throng filled the rooms almost to suffocation, many speculators, real-estate men, bankers, and brokers being present. Throughout the bidding was spirited, and i ding was even more spirited toward the end than at the opening. As integesting for purposes of comparison with Chicago property, we give the prices brought by some of the unimproved lots in the upper part of the island: z Tot se cor of boulevard and Sixty-ninth, At, 28.626 x25. 5X LZ. BXI6.B4 8 Lot adjoining, 28.124x25x110.9% x133.8,with two adjoining lots, same width, ono | & 97.11%4x110.9% in depth, the other 110.14 | * vy + 9,000 5,100 1 8t, 272x100. peseesee 6,100 Lot's e cor of Tenth uv and Seventy- 4 Seventh Sty Z2X100....-...scesserensene 45150 ot se cor of Tenth av and Ninety-sixts St, 25.2%4x100,... . 5,350 Four lots on nw cor of boulevard and One-Hundred-and-Thirty-ninthst,each 25x75, with stable i2xu6, whole....-..... 11,000 ‘two lots on s wcorof Bighthay and One- Hundred-and-Twenty-third st,each 25x 100, each... -- 5,100 Lote on 8 wcol a ‘Hun- dred-und-Third st, 221x100, seo. 9,250 Lot on n ¢ cor of Third av and One-Hun- dred-and-Sixth St, 52.22110...........005 7700 Lot next adjoining non Third av, and ‘similar to above.......-...- ; 5,100 Lot on Fifth nv, fuoing Contrai Park. 50.5 feet from One-Hundredth st, % 3535. ‘Three lots on Fitth av, 75.8 ft Hundred-und-Fifteenth st, euch 23.3% ‘The total amount reatized from the. sales was $005,677. ‘ MARRIAGE LICENSES. The Becord for the Week Ending April 24, About the same number of licenses were’ taken outlast week as the one preceding— 122.) The greater number of the licensed were foreigners, and among these the Bo- hemians and Poles make a good showing. Yesterday no fewer than seven licenses were | granted to persons whose names were chiefly made. up of consonants, and ended with o “ski” or.“ska.” Only one ot the licensed was under age, and one man was 50 years old. The man in one case was more than twice the age of the woman,—he 43, she 20, ‘The record is as follows: .375 Carpenter. i Chapin, 0... 18 Ontario. } Chicago, W*iam Fox. De Kalb, L. Hattie L. Til McHenry, UL { James Feevy. - Chicago. Rose Bulger. “Chicaxo. Franz Sperk 118 Broadway. Barbarn Kramer. 18 Broadway. 4 Bominico Muresti; 173 West Harrison. angelina Barnieri aah Kinzi § Michael Butler. } Annie-Lund. § dames Harri: \° 1 Mrs. B. B. Crosse Edward G. Buck. {Hertha ¥. Morri Patrick Hassett. Annie Burns. John Schmitz Christina Leanertz, TUESDAY. A. G. Dietzsch.......29. Laura Heisterbagal Culcett.... ahs Sein eks! ane 3 {Rosetta O'Connor. J Albin Haters. 7 Louisa Bentysot ichols: aus. 12 Larravee. = Larrabee. picago. .Chicago, Take. th. ++ Lake, Til Uitiverside, TL . Riverside, Wl, iChiengo. Chicago. i ‘Bloomington, TL. ‘Bloomington, UL J Nick Minik {Mary Svein. Joba L. Werlein. {Carolina Windisch ‘Chienxo. ‘Blue Island ay. Frank Schws } Josephine St Indiana. SOW. GP. Zelss Chicago. {Amy 3f. Bathe hicago. ‘WEDNESI $Emil O. otmann..31. 1 Mary L. Jobnson....28. J Martin Bouke... {Juliana Hebel. {Guris Dune 89 Sixteenth, au Nineteenth. Harry 3. 8 {amily E, i a. { Mrs. M. Zeithammel.i {Avilbelm Hudvulizen2s. [Maria Anderson... jJucob H. Furst. Clara Byrne y Bischot 7 Louse Sehunt 4 Williata 7. Cooley { Permillia D.Eldridge23. jJobn B. Wachter. . { Elizabeth M. Doerr. jdohn Krauss...., } Elizabeth Foerster. AT 0: 25. Shieugo. {28 South Dearborn. 288 Twenty-second. 729 Ashland av. ‘98 Fisk. chicago. or wile oko’, Ms ea j Vaclov Jausky Cecilia Jnckseown { Sucob Bulzhuusen. {Mary Yerrill.. ‘THURSDAY. a Dourke.....--.25.--.42 East Chicago av. Oramet carro ‘gee West Fourveenti ii i i. TL 1Emma Lambrecht. h Champain. i veny Wingta Fourteenth. #4 State. Leo Ki 2 7 Charlotte Hadas. Stephen Sack, Tako ‘Thirteenth-pl. 20 hiinots. 86 La Balle. -of the Japane: 38. Job’na Van Willigaa2t Franz. Droir. 46. it 4 geGrvesy 20.12.4418 Butterfield. Michuel Ryan, Jennie Keuro: Ernst Gelnold Enilie Rabens' | | 40. John W. Alexander. 24. Mary A. Montague. .23.. eciects FRIDAY. arles H. Stebbins.0...-Chicago. Rachel Wes oe Henry Rochester. Mary Duane. Peter Quinn. Kate Hearty Peter J. Wi Katie Heed ‘unto C. Casperson.2. john C. Holtenhof . 31 Mrs.CarolinoWagners: Dunict Bergmann. Minnie Schraeder. Henry Hametster Lina Seheefer. Henry Nace.. J. P, Anderson . { Bertha S, Brown . 4 Christ. Lange... { Minnie Zimmerman 5 Cornelius Mabony. + Ellen Wutker.. 4 Christ. Karste: ) Mary Ranloft. §C. Joseph ‘Tai { Bteonora Coron. j John A. Harth, {Emilia Brosheem, Charles Mueller ? Mary Bach... Frank Lzurko Paulina Berndt, j John Heuser. {Minnie Ingris 24 Goethe. Waukegan, DL | et Emme” Mary Gorinun.... j Vincenty Olbinski... Annie Grysezynska. j Michael J. Rawan Elizabeth Kelly, 35 Wright. 1352.0 lChieago. Priscello Harvey....18.... Norwood, Dl. Jj Wn. C. Hildebrandt 25... Despluines, ML. (Christina Senne....-19.-.-Desplaines, 1. Fred Boom 20% Cottage Grove ave Grovesv. Bh { Alice E. Towne: { Wilhelm Jahnke... Mrs. Johanna Kubn. Luke Pendergast. Katle Sweeny. James O'Brien. Pani Bassi. P. Briccolura § Peter Hielmann: Sophia Reinwol J Jacob . Harper... 1 Eliza Grimes... W. Lewandowski. { Antoniu Skalecka, } Cordelia Alord. 3 Ernest L. Pazani Annie E. Bruder Peter Duda... ‘ Katie Batschineica: 4) Peter Bell.. (Gertrude Heluzar Itis stated that Lieut. Bove, who accom~ panied Nordenskjéld in the Vega, hay gone. to Rome to submit to the King of Italy and the Cabinet a plan for an Italian expedition to the South Pole. ‘The Italian Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has decided to present to Parlia- ment a project for executing a xreat geulog- ical nap of the Kingdom. The expense calculated at 6,000,000 francs. When 2 pen_ has become so corroded as to be useless, it can be made good as new by holding it in the flame of 3 gas-Jet for half a minute; then drop in cold water, take out, wipe clean, and it will be ready for use again. During. the year 1879, 10,981 horses, 329 asses, and 36 mules, giving 4,135,700 pounds of meat, were sold for consumption in Paris; and on the Ist of Janury last seventy-elght butchers’ shops for the sale of that article of food were in fuil operation. Prof. Curtius, delivering the usual speech on the eceasion of the birthday of the Em- Peres of Germany, in the University of Ber- jin, said that, owing to fhe liberallty of the Eniperor, the excavationsat Olympia can now be brought to a worthy end. The Emperor of Germany bas granted 80,000 marks out of his private purse to complete the enterprise. Dr. Carter says the entire absence of sun- light on the deep-sea bottom seems to have the same etfect, as the darkness of caves, in reducing to 2 rudimentary condition the eyes of such of their inhabitants as fish and crus- tacea which ordinarily enjoy visual power; and many of these are provided with enor mously long and delicate feelers or halrs, with which they feel their way about, just as a blind man does with his stick. ‘The Japan papers state that the Russian Government have determined to dispatch & man-of-war to make a bydrographical survey 1s and the Seaot Okhotsk. ‘The Geographical Society of St. Petersburg have been invited to send a representative with the expedition, and it it 1s believed that Prof. Amanteyitch will be selected on ac- count of his knowledge of the Japanese Tanguage, and the dialects spoken on the eas& coast of Siberia, Dr. H.C, Lombard 1s the author of an atlas published in Paris, in which he endeavors to show the geographical distribution of dis- eases in,their relation to climate. Itis very instructive, not only as showing where cer- diseases do, but also where they do not, At aglance one sees that on cer- parts of the earth’s surface there is her cholera, malaria, nor consumption. nel This will lead to the study of the causes, which produce such an exemption. Dr. Phipson has proposed a new method of solving the question of a cheap household light. He has succeeded, with a compara~ tively feeble electric current, in perceptibly inereasing the phosphorescence of certain bodies which are made faintly light by the: rays of the sun.. He incloses in a Geissler tube, containing a gas in a inpre or less rare- fied condition, a, phosphores:ent -borly, the sulphuret of barium, for instance, By caus- ing a constant current of a certain intensi to pass through the tube, he obtains a uni- form and an agreeable light, at an expense which he estimates to be less than that of gaslight. . ‘Anew metal called Spence’s metal, ‘con- sisting of lead, iron, and zine sulphides, is expected to take the place of lead and bronze. It costs one-third less than lead, melts at 100 degrees above the boiling point of water, and expands instead of contracting—like most. inetals—on cooling. It is also capable of ahigh polish, is said to resist climatic in- fluences, and is scarcely affected by the strongest acids. Ina sanitary point of view its uses would seem to be very important, since it is not acted on by water, and may therefore be used as_a_ lining for cisterns. Lastly, it is a bad conductor oftheat, and may be used for the purpose of Jining water-pipes: in order to prevent them from freezing. Some remarkable transformations in the character of the Algerian-Sahara have been effected by irrigation. Under, its operation Soil has been constituted, ep wich the intertropical plauts: grow w! ¢ vigor. A cultivator at Ouargla recel ed several medals at the Parisian. Exposition for plants which he had raised on a soil thus prepared. Fertility is not limited to any one point. Is js exhsbited’ wherever water has becn brought to the surface of the sofl. Sfost of the Saharan valleys and the beds of the sub- terranean streams have water in abundance, and only a small effort is needed to bring it to thé surface. Sahara Is not ‘all a desert, but contains many considerable tracts which are already fit fér cultivation. The success which has attended the efforts so far mado to introduce tillage renders it nearly certain that a like reward may be gained from similar applications of labor in other part |