Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 14, 1880, Page 9

Any Price, $2 to $50. Any Size, 2-years aby a This places Harvey’s Reputable Overcoats within the reach of all. We can show the Finest Overcoat money will produce.. old to size 5O Breast. We have a Corps of most efficient Tailors who perfect the fit of each garment. REAL ESTATE. Large Purchases of Avenue Prop- erty by Solid Nien. The Market Moderately Active,- Without Speculation. Hyde Park Hotel Property—The linois Central and the Lake Front. New Buildings Projected—First Sale of the Call Board. THE GENERAL SITUATIO’ Beal estate has been moderately active during the past week. When it is considered that this 4s the season of the year during which in the Food old times real-estate dealers used to go off ontheir vacations, it must be acknowledged thet the present condition of things is susp!- ious of a profitable business this winter. In- quiry is active fur all kinds of good business and realdence property. Buyers aré not capfning themselves as strictly as they have been to improved. property, and are, taking eiigible pieces with a view tq build- ing themselves. No signs: of speculation are visible, and great efforts are wisely being made by agents and owners to keep the move- ment within reasonable bounds. Chicago real estate is far too low in price as compared either Withother eccurities or the valuation of reat ‘@xate in other cities. When real estate can be ‘ought on the outskirts of the present business Quarters,"improved with the most substantial Yulldings, aud then rented so as to net 9% per gent a year over everything, as has been done Mr.’ Geo Armour, it is Inevitable that talltuad ‘stocks producing 5 and 6 a year ould cease to be attractive tocapitalists. The ndency of investment now is to go into real Sate rather thun into bonds and stocks. ‘The Fnlame of business is not Iurge, but a great ny Bales are: neon and there is every ‘TEaten to believe t by the middie of January. Pereal-esture market will have fairly omensed ice, the unhealthy torpor of its seven-yeurs’ BOITe ON THE AVENUES. Pererined Property on the avenues is engag- Fla ‘attention of solid buyers.. Mr. Marshall bbe has purchased 600 fect un Calumet avenue, t ween Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth streets, at 3280 afoot. This pert of Culumet avenue Tau B nelehborbuod of its own. separated by per inthe street from the avenue north and ‘ding at the south in the boulevard. All the Me te Stone-tronts with one exception. N. EK. Fairbank has bougnt the ia Pina aitn e CHURCH PROPERTY, Ks utheast corner of Prafrie avenue and peel street, 140x150 feet, for $65,000. It is the prey vod that Mr. Fairbank bas also acquired is fate ces lying east of the church property rade columet avenue. aud will build a sine eence Upon it that stall be worthy of the 1o- RL Puinain ne, ‘nument to the city. Mr. Joseph bene. otiated the purchase for Mr. Fair Miclaity. ther considerable purchases in thd same eluded: are in uegotiution, but not yet con- The purch: ’ ME ‘ase reported to have been made by wes BY Cobb on Michigan avenue was made on second veuUe, between Forty-tirst and Forty on he szeets; |The amount bought was 6) feet foot, side, end the price paid was $50 a Pec Brice paid by the Keeps for thelr purchase Become rner of Michigan avenue and Forty- then 25 foot pene, Hunt, Was $1 a foot. Since heraass onthe same avenue, wo blocks Tourth, Peden] between Forty-third and Forty- weet frome (ui the middle of the block, with a Ingan cat 2N¥e been sold for $75 x foot, show- a at aU Stl later, #20 fect have been Mich:gn@) 8 foot at the northeast corner of Hnce thon Nenu’, and Forty-sixth strect, and Hellgan G Teeton the southwest corner of brougnt #65 oe, and Forty-seventh street bave } ot 4 foot, cash. ‘The northeast. corner icbigan av in? avenue and Forty-sev Brak eae was Bougne just Fear wee Site! Fe Theda Bfo0t. twas gold last week to Meaney gore Wadskier for 865 a foot. the normanee? Brothers huve bought 391 feet on Fopy-second eres foc _ilichiman avenue and es street, 7U a foot. ta se igor Keith hus been offered, and has re- Brent ey ont, for the 1.20) feet on Calumet elehth street oP orts-seventh and Fort B38 toon ich he bought a week ago Ablock for Of 45 feet cu Calumet avenue, be Gree ‘bonds yielding 3.47 per cent and | South Parks, with a beautiful outlook on the je Purk avenue: tract contains about twe two neres, undi- fded, adjoining what is Known as the Reform Senbol property. ‘The value set upon it wus $250,000, or about $11,361 per acre. HYDE PARK HOTEL PROPERTY. _ The sale by Mr. H. W. Jackson, Receiver of the Third National Bank, to Peyton R. Chandier of Block 30 in Hyde Park, with the ripuriun rights, the steamboat docks, and the débris of the old hotel, for $39,000, has been confirmed by Judge Blodgett, of the United States District Court,‘and the money paid over and the deed put on record. After the confirmation there was a motion ably argued by attorneys for # rc- hearing before Judge Drummond, but the sale wus not alluwed to be disturbed, so it is now an accomplished fact that the property has actual- ly changed hands. Considerable advance bas been offered for a resale to parties desiring to build a hotel, but nv action bas been taken. Mr. W. L. Carroll, architect of the old hotel building, has presented pluns to rebuild, by which much of the old walls now purtially standing can be util- ized. It is estimated thut on an expenditure of $70,000 in uddition to the cost of the lund a very creditable hotel can be erected, to be kept open the entire yeur. This would represent an invest- ment at cost of $100,000, but no ditlicutty would be apprehended {n ‘leasing for ten years, free of taxes und repuirs to the owner, for 810,09) per annum, thus guaranteelug: a net 10 per cent in- vestment. This would, nv doubt, be better than disposing of the property at a bonus xt the pres- enttime. The present bigh cost of . brick and the lateness of the season will prevent any active measures from being takeu until ne<t spring. One thing seems ussured, however, that by the summer of 182 Hyde Park people will have a botel, whoever decides to build it. as it is considered the most eliyible site for oue, being accessible by lake, by railroad, and short cur- riage-drive from the city, and near the grest lake, and in the midst of a fine suburban neigh- borhood. _ Phe highest bid’ that could be obtained for this property when it was offered at auction a year agu was $13,000. i, € THE LAKE FRONT. © ‘The negotiations have been renewed for the sale by the city to the Illinois Central of tho three blocks on the lake front between Run- dolph and Monroe strects. The Innd isto be used by the Illinois Central for a passenger de- pot, to be used by itself and three other rail- roads now entering the city slong tho luke front. Eight hundred thousandjaollurs Is offered for the land. All the objections of abutting proverty- owners have been removed, except Inoue in- stance. In that caseit is believed the relin- quishment by the Ilinois Central of any claim to fiparian rights will overcome tho opposition. The general sentiment of the peo- ple. and. tho press is in tavor the sale. The formal terms have been substan- tially agreed upon by the representatives of the city of the railroud. This agreement will have to’ be approved by the Council, and tho title must be contirmed by act of Congress. ‘The only part of the proposition now beitg discussed that meets with serious criticism is tne stipula- tion that from the $80,009 to be prid by the rail- rond is to be deducted, whether paid by the cit: or by the railroad corporations. such sum as will cover the costs nnd ‘expenditures Incurred by the property-uwners fn the previous iftizntion. Sugpicions have been expressed that part of this gum Will be used to, buy the approval of the Coane. At any rate, the Council should ascer- tain in advance thoexact sum to be withheld, and should make it part of the ordinance. —_— OTHER SALES OF THE WEEK. Inthe sales of the week were 25x100, Improved, ‘on Sedgwick street, South of Twobey, $40; 5x 324 on Sedgwick street, south of Blackhawk, $5,400; GJx125, improved, on West Washington street, west of Woo: $10,000; 75x150 on State, southeast corner of Banks, $9,375; 60x18) on ‘Wabash avenue, south of Thirteenth strect, im- proved, $12,000; 48x170, improved, on ‘Wabash avenue, south of Thirteenta street, $15,090; 2534 128, improved, on EN¥s avenue, south of Egan, $5,000; 25x125, improved, on Luflin, west of West ‘Afonroe, $5,000; 3238 Calumet avenue, $6,000; 25x 152, improved; on Michigan avenue, south of twenty-sixth Street $9,500; five acres northeast corner of Robey and Fifteenth streets, $7,250; same, $15,000; 110x102 on Canal, south of Sixteenth, $5.00; five acres at, the northeast corner ot | Ashland uvenue.and Woitram, $7,000; ten acres at the northeast corner of Beers: street and Thirty-seventh, $13.00: 74igxl0i% on Her- mitage avenue, north of West ‘Harrison, $8,000; mproved. on Wabash avenue, south of dest street, STUN: ox1h tte. north of Sixteenth, & luox2l4s; ou Drexel boule- vard, norinwest corner of Forty-cigbth, Siw; 25x125, improved, on Miwaukee avenue, north- 53,00 % west of Houston Dougias Paric, «10 Sw; xB on Fitch avenue, south of Jack- Sul, SZ tA; uvenue, south of 77 on Pruine avenue, 340x153, improved, Brook street, i north of Bichteenth, , $9.05 on West Iandotpli, 18) on Monroe. 9214 south front, Wi 5 tn proved, on “North Suite, south of Michigan street, $12 undivided one-third of 19 acres on Western avenue, northeast corner of Suany- ‘Mr. J.Q. Adams*hus bought the property on Michigan avenue formerty ‘occupied’ by’ tha Prussing vinegar :factcry, Nos. 18, 2, and =,° wet feet. FOr SERN. HF r. B. F. Jacubs‘has sold forty acres, the cast of Ww. 34 of N. W. iy of See. 17, 38. 14, fronting on the F:fty-titth street boulevard, aid running to Fitty-ninth street, for % Z feet west of Fif southeust corner of North Site aud Banks, Mr. George Sturges “has bought 254 feet on Twelith, west of Chirk, for 17.475. Mr. Andrew Crawford bas bought for $20,000 tat the southwest corner of Purk avenue and Surf street. Mason, of Cleveland, 0., the brick house and lot’ No. West Oakley street tor $2.50, e following iustraments were tied for rec- ord Saturday, Nov. 13: Pre CITY PROPERTY. South Halsted st, n w cur Thirty-third £, undivideu 4 Uf % 6-luxIsv Ye dazed Suv. 10 (Grahan & Mesarney to alenadi O'Day, 2,000 West xied Bers, Tt, dated Sept, 18 canine to 3. Bere State st, lev fen of Bldrkize court, wf, Vit to aliey, duted Nov, 9 (Guerze Scuwelaturch te Jun EL Clough)... s+... Gon Wabush ‘ay, 5 w cor Juckson “st. of, di: a viued ced (alusor in Chancery to the Con: trout Mutual Life-ineu 27,000 j War duced Oct. 4 (ame te ert Pauiing st, 23; Zixt2oss Th, duced Nos 93,000 av, iow tw J. Krause) ~ 800 Lineoin st, idl fee of Adhinis, 0 f, 3x135 tt dated 7.6 (LF. Valleiie wv James Stenson)... 2450 ft n of duckson, © 4 2x1 Tt, ‘Leavitt - 2250 Wor Tinvty-sixa, ees ¢ (rank Wells to Ie 20 West Twelfth st. 4224 ftw “Axio tt, dated Now. 13 (2 tor Kourke)... 2875 Astor st, Ne C0: Nov. 3 (B. Lund CH ier) cnee, 780 Fitth nv, 10 ts of Monroe sto Wh Wid 16, v.18 URegnie & Conlo to Henry BPS e OF Hariburst st, We Oct. 6 (June G. Patterson to eS Glado).. 1,000 ‘Washingwn st, ft, with other property, dated No: Solomon to ienry i. Frank) , 11,000 Mohawk st, 162 ftsef Menumbuce, of “Sixt ft, improved. «uted Nov. 13 (_lrlstopt’ Krew- ef to fen . 1,600 Rendail st, ft daced Nov. Graves) 7 Michigan av, Ey iy-fourth ae git, daved Uct. 15(Van H. lig, nC, Seen, - 11,500 F Wallce wt, 2i0 tt 3 gr bins sik Ww Be Iss ft, dated Oct. 2 (B. Shurilef to Join Smith). SOUTH OF CITY LIANTS WITHE u MILES oF THE CuttT-noU! 1 st, 24 tty of Piity-tirst, o 1.30 ft to alley, 2 (Jubn Kacky to Michael ORe- Oswe! seine “sue £25 SW. Kennedy ta The following is the total amount ct cit: suburban trausfers within a radius of a tniles of the Court-House tiled for record dur- ing the week ending Saturday, Nov, 13: Clty— Sales, 148: consideration, $705,020. North of city limits—Sales, 5; consideration, $2220. South of city limits—Sales, 16; consideration, $23.231. West of city limits—Sales, 3; consideration, 2,250. Tot sales, 172. Tol consideration, S758,70L, YE REAL-ESTATE CALL BOARD. The catalog of the Arst sale of the Chicago Real-Estate Cull Board, Nov. 18, bas made its appearance, and the quantity and quality of property offered, and the prices at which it will‘ be upset, the manugement believe, are sufficient to excite a lively interest among fnvestors. The managers stuté that every piece of prop- erty cataloged hus beeu thoroughly examined by them to make certain the fact thatits upset price is really below its present uctuat value {and fn some cases as much as 25 to Xper cent below), and that in every case the price uffixed would be positivly and peremptorily refused at private sale by the owner. Those low upéct “award Goodridge sold for Mrs. Catherine J. east of Union. '31u,009; Sux" sell hese pre ‘templated for Dee. 8 to show the public, if p 000. ‘Mr. Abram Poole bas paid $125 a foot for the prices do not representarhat the owners woul erty forat private sale; but they L e that the publicity given to v ivtl sales will bring Together many Lovers, whieh will secure tuem_ pri 3 pe at teust | sornewbat nearer to the trae value of the prop- i of its and tuerefore they take the nig at the upset price 10 the first didder. ny one desiring evidence beyond his own knowledze of the property that the upset prices are really below ita acral value will please call previous to the sale and ascertain the data upon r 3 ‘which such decisién is bused. Arepresentative of ‘te Trrpune was in- formed that the wanugers of the Call Board ‘were specially desirous, that any errors m the upset prices should be pointed out,—or, in other “Words, tat if any property in the city or county 13 now offered for less money relatively than the entalog list, they would» thank owners or agents to Inform them, Such owners or ngents will buve un opportunity'at the uext sitle, cou- sible, still lower figures. Alt * by-bidding” at these sales fs positively prohibited, and any one who thinks he sees evideace of such action will oblige the managers by promptly stating his suspicions, und the auctioncer will demund the ame and for whose necount all such bids are made on that special piece of property and an- nounce them to the audience before the prop- erty is struck off, ‘the services of George P. Gore & Co., auction- eers, have been secured. for this sale. It ts certainly nn qgditional guaranty for tha con ductof tho busfess on fair and square principles. Many leading real-estate ayents have niready commended this new project as certain to bene- fitthe trade Iurgely in increxsed transactions, and in keeping the market in good, healtay con- dition, the Cull Board acting as a balnnce-wheel with its weekly index of prices, showing the exuct state of the market to both buyer and seller. The sale of Thursday next is therefore awnited with interest by ull concerned :n renl- estate transactions, and the management of the Real-Estate Call Board sntcipnte a seneral co- operation after the first sales ure demonstrated asuccess. ——_ x BUILDING. The scarcity ot houses and stores in Chicago ig well illustrated by the experience of an Oimn- ba firm who wish to remove to Chicago. One of the partners hus been in the city for three weeks louking for store in which to put their stock, and for houses in which the partners might live, and hus failed to find the one or tne others. The firm deal in tea and tobucco, and have a capital of $50,000. They wish to make their hexdquar- ters in Chicago instead of Omaha, and the dilfi- culty of finding necommodations only serves to increase their Lelief that Chicago is the pluce to do business in. The following new buildings are being erected from pions prepared by the well-known archi- tect, George O. Garnsey, Howland Block: For B, P. Hutchinson, Esq,, two blocks of stores on Wabash avenue, near Vaa Buren street; three stores and six tlatson Clark street, near Van Buren; four stores on Lu Salle street, adjoining the Marine Building; two stores on Fiftn avenue, udjoining the Briggs House; a block of eight stores on Franklin street, adjoining Field, Leiter & Co.'s new warehouse. Several other new buildmgs are m contemplation by Mr. Hutchinson. ‘Che cost of builimgs commenced will be about $200,000. _Mr. Garnscy is ulsu pre- paring plans for four English modern dwellings tw be erected on Prairie avenue, near Twenty- ninth street, for Mr. Churles L. Hutchinson and others.- The sane architect is also preparing pling for the Inrgest building scieme yet proj ected in Chicago. Mr. Joseph Exstinan und several New York capitalists ure about to erect 150 two-story brick dwellings in the northwest division of the city. They will be built in Q suustantial manner, with all the modern im- provements. -Work will be commenced as soon ug the contracts can be let. The upproximate cost will be $250,000. ‘The Marsh Hurvester Worka, designed by this architect, the largest inanu- facturing establishment erected in this city tor some yeurs, are approaching completion. The works are building at the junction of Fullerton avenue and the river, sud cust $75,0W. The plans submitted by this architect for a new hizo school to be erected -for the City of Joliet have been adopted. Cost of building, 825,uu. Mr. Garnsey is preparing pinos for several buildings in various locations of thecity, of which mention may be made herenfter. ‘A Cincinnati disputch says that the Emery Brothers, of that city, propose next year to build in’ Chicago 400 feet front of business blocks and t5U feet of dwellings. Thev can get here $75 a month for a bouso that briuys but £50 8 month in Cincinnati. The Emerys are de- scribed by the Cincionari Enquirer with enthusi- asm. Itgays that there are probably fo two resident Cincinnatians whobave done more for the !mprovement of the Patis of Americu thun Messra. Thoms J. and Joseph J, Emery, proba-~ bly better knowg as “The Emery Brothers,” or, again, in mercantile life, as “Thomas Emery’s Sons.” The many handsome and yulu- abic buildings they bave added to the city’s cat- ‘alog within the past few years well substantiates that assertion. Io the buiiding permitsof the week were those to Tobin, Hamer & Co. to erect a boiler factory, Nos.. $09 to 875 South Halsted street. to cast $2,000; one to the Newberry estate to puta Wate-covered mansard roof on Nos. #7 and | estimate for a Viuduct on Centre avenue, with Dearborn avenue, to cost Beers to erect @ two-story dw Ni avenue, to cost $4,000; one to Jobn Scholl to érect a two-story dwelling corner of Warren and Stanton avenues, to cust $7,vW; one to G Gibson to erect a two-story dweiling, 9 una 71 Randall place, to cust ER) vue to Mr. Delano, to erect two two- story dwell.ugs corner of Centre avenue, and Motiroe street, to eost $8000; one to F.C. Vie Img, to erect’ 2 two-story tenement, No. 2si Dearborn street, to cost $2,000; one to the Chi- caro Malleable’ Iron Company, to erect a foundry and annealing house, corner of Twent, sixth street and Campbell avenue, to cost $4.5 one to Robert Vasey, to erect a two-story dwell~ ing, No. 636 West Juckson street, to cost $4.00; one to the Chicago Orphan Asyluas, to erect tive two-story dwellings, Wabasa avenue, near ‘Ywenty-second street, to cast £4,300; oue to L. Prussing & Co., to erect a two-story factory. No. 41 La Sulle street, to cast $54 one to Huir & Odiorne, to erect « ona-story box-fac- tory, coruer of Lovnis and T.venty-tirst strevts, ‘w cost $2, und one to ‘Tnomas Pond, to erect a two-story dwelling, No. lus West Harrison street, to coat $3,00). STREETS AND BOULEVARDS. Chicago needs nothing so much to make it a respectuble city as some wholesale strevt-pav- ing. It is not only an offense to the eye and an obstruction to business that there should be streets in such a condition as Adums, between Wabash and State, but it is x perpetual menace of destruction by fire. West Twelfth street Is in such 2 condition that serious delays would in- evitably occur in getting the Fire Departmentto work in the alstrict south of it,—delays which might threaten the business portion of the city with a repetition of the catastrophe of 187} and 1874. The safety of tho city demands a viaduct over the railroads crossing Twelfth strect. It ig stated that the Department of Public Works is preparing a recommendation fur the jinprovement of bout thirty miles of streets next yeur, including Ashland snd Went- worth avenues, Michigan sirect, Clybourn ave- nue, und Twenty-sixth and Thirty-Ufeh streets, in the vicinity of Halsted. The onty fuult to be found with this recommendation is that it is not extensive cnough. ‘The South Purk Commissioners have completed ¢he special assessments for the improvement of ‘Thirty-tith street from the exst line of the Grand boulevard to the east line of Slichigan avenue; for the Improyement of Michigan uve- tue from the soutd liné of ‘Thirty-tftp street to the north line of Lake Park place; and. ulso for the improvement of Michigan avenue from the north line of Luke Park place to the soutt line of Juckson street, and have bud the assessment rotis, properly certitied, tled in the Circuit Court. ‘The Council bave passed un order directing the Department of Public Works to send in an approucbes alsvon Sixteenth street, and for lund damages. In the case of the Western Indiana, the Judi- ciary Committee of the ‘Council hold that, by not laying its tracks within the limitauion of one year. the Company had torfeited its priv- fleges, and thes reported adversely ou the amended ordinance, for the pDussige of which the Company agreed to give up all thelr rights north of Harrison strect, and recommended tho repealof the original ordinance. ‘The Council wil take this up this week. West Jackson street property-holders have complained to Commissioner Watler that io paving that thorougofare the contractors were ‘hot putting in as much filling us they should. one. thoy said, the work was beng duce right, ‘Coninisstoner Waller bas declared forfeited the contract of Ray & Whituey for paving Des- Inines street from Madison street soutn, and Bas let the work to T. B.Smith. This contractor+ bas begun operations, and will bave the paving done this winter. The Fire Department fosist- ed on immediate attention bemg pale to the street. ‘Nitorney Buntleld, of the South Park Com- mission. bas decided that its authority to im- prove Hyde Park avenue, Fifty-seventh. Fifty- Pinth, wad Sixtieth streets, and purts of Ranka- Roc and Westero avenues, did got impose on it tho duty of keeping the streets ta repair. The matter is one of ‘discredon. ‘the Council at # special meeting Friday even- ing pave permission to erect an exhibition ele- see raltway track fn Dearbora Park, con- Garred in recommendations of committees for fhe repoul of the ordinance for the paving of Dearborn street from Monroe to Juckson. an the passage of anther providing fora pavement Petween Adums and Jackson like that put Sowa by the Government, and against the im- rovement of Pacitic avenue south to Van wren. ‘The Hyde Park Trustees have adopted an or- dinance for widening Forty-seventh street from Cottare Grove avenue to Langley avenue. MISCELLANEOUS. The Michigan Southern bas decided to ran a passenger train over thelr Stock- Yarfl track on Fortietb street. The trains will start from the vicinity of Drexel bouletard. and land passen- gers in thelr Van Buren street depot, making trequent stops at convenient points. This will give property ln the neighborhood facilities it j of the cit, bus long needed for spec ‘A new district of great importance Is being opened up in the southwestern part of the city, near the Stock-Yards, und along the South Brunch of the river. It 1s proposed to dredze out this fork, or. ns it might betier be called now, this slough, til it empties directly into the caaul, This improvement is of vital importance to the puckers at the Stock-Yurds, who cannot much longer empty their refuse into the South Fork, and tho proprietors of the packing estab- lishinents stand ready to subscrite hundreds of thousand: of doilars to uid the city in this euterprise. The channel bus been alrendy dug out as far us west of Robey street, und brick-yards are al- ready establ.sbed us far west as Western av- tcnue, through the Beers farm. lmportant developments are being made in the district iyipg suuth of the Uulon Rotling-Mills and north Of twa Stock-Yurds, between ‘Thirty-Urst ‘and ‘Thirty-nintn streets, and on evch side of the south urm of the South Branch of the Chicazo Tuver. A rattroad 13 buitding on the eust running from the Stock- Yurds north to the Alton Road, and a track is being laid on the west sie from tho | Stock-Yurds th to the Uuion Kolling-Ziils. of the best pieces of manufacturing proverty in the southwestern purt of the city. Cars re- eelved here loaded with cattle can be reloaded with luinver and shipped out the same day on any road enterizg Chicago. Yn connection with the dredging of the south arin of the South Branca, it is proposed that the city shail ereet the pu:mping-works at Lhe point where the fork unites with the canal, thus giv- ing the South Branch perfect drtinuge. State street property-owners nre eluted by the victory of the Western Indiana, which hus at Just succeeded tu crossing-Sixtecoth street. A single line of truck now connects the Western Indiana tracks south of Sixteenth street with those north of that street, aud Ina few days the passenger trains of the Grand Trunk Raliroad of Cannda, the Wabash Raifroad, and the Cai- engo & Eastern UWinols Railroad will be running: w the depot at Twelfth street. The travel that will come und go by these tines will udd a great deul to the business of State street. e ‘Mr. L. J. Gage, the Cushier of the First No- onal Bank of this city, tells a reporter that a greut muny Investors are custing wbeut tor per> manent investment. Of this class nut » few arc buying reul estate along the nvenues, ex} voting elther to build or to let their property lie and get their Interest {a the nacural rise In values Which they think is sure to follow. Others ure buying productive property to hold, und I among tho industrial classes there is a xrow- ing disposition to buy little houses. Those whose suvings ure small will not soon recover their ‘contidence in savings-banks, and to them invest- ments in houses have a look of sufcty and per- manency. 5 BIBLIOKLEPTS. Amusing Account of Book-Stealers. London Spectator. e Many eminent churacters bave been Biblio- klepts. When Innocent X. was still Monsignor Pumphilio, be stole a book—30 says Taliemant des Réaux—from Du Monstier, the painter. The amusing thing is that Du Monstier bimself was a bouk-thief. He used to tell bow be prizzed a ook, of which be bud long been in search, from a stallonthe Pont Neuf; “but,” suys Talle- mant (whom Janin does not seem to buve con- sulted), “there are many people who don't think it stealing to steal a bouk, unless you sel itafterwards.” But Du Monstier took less Nberal view where bis own books were con- cerned. The Cardinal Barberini came to Paris as Legate, and brought in bis suite Monsignor Pumphillo, who afterwards became innocent x. Tho Cardinsl paid a visitto Du Monstier in hig studio, where Monsignor Pamphitio spied, on a table, *L' Historie au Conclle de Trente "— the good edirion, tho London one. “ Wnat a pity,” thought the young ecclesinstic, that such amon should be, by some accident, the sor of so valuable a book.” With these featiments, Monsigno. Pamphilio slipped the work under bis goutane, But little Du Monster observed him, and said furiously to the Curdinal thata holy man suould not bring thieves und robbers in hig company, With these words, and with others of a violent and libelous character, he recovered the History of the Council of ‘Trent, and kicked out tho future Pope. Amelot de la Houssaie traces to tbis incident the batred borne by Innocent X. to the Crown and peuple of France. Another Pope, while only a Cur- dinal, stole a book from Ménage.—so SM. Janin reports,—but we have nut been able to discover Meénoge's own adcount of the larceny. The nnecdotist is not so truthful that Cardinw need flush a deeper scarlet; like the roses in Blon’s Lament for Adonis, on uccount of scandal resting on the authority of Ménage. Among Royul perwons, Catherine de Medicl, according to BrantOme, was a Bibliokicpt. * The Marsbal Strozzi bad a very fine library, and after his death the Queeo-Mother seize” it, promising some day to pay the valuc to bis gon, whe never gut u farthing of ‘tne money.” , The Prolemtes, ‘too, were thieves on 8 large sonle, A depart- enemies sabes hah dl aie pte ie TRE $$$ $$$ ment of the indrian Library was called ‘The Books be Ships,” and was filled with rare volumes stolen from passengers in vexsels { touched that port. True, the owners were ren copies of thelr ancient MSS. but the ex; Counge, as Aristotle says, was an * involuntary” one, and not dis! from robbery. ‘The wrent puttern of Bibioklepts, a man who carried his passion to the most regrettuble ex- ce: ‘was a Spanish priest, Don Vincente, of the Convent of Poblu in Aragon, When the Spanish revolugoa despolled the conyenot libraries, Don Vincente established himself at Barcelona, under the pillars of Los Encantes, where are the stalls of the merchants of bric-u- Duc, and the sents of them that sell books. In a gloomy den the Don stored up. treasures that he hated to sell. Once be was presentat an auc- tion where be was outbid 1n the competition for a rare, perhaps a unique, Volume, Three nights after” that the people 0: reelona were awakened by crics of “Fi ‘The house und shop of the man who hud bought * Ordinacions per los Glorioves Reys de Aruzo 43 were bluzing. When the fire wus exting isbed the body of the owner of the house was found, with a pipe in bis olackened band and some money beside him. Every one gald, ** He must set the buuse on fire with a spark from bis pips.” Time went on,and week by week tho police found the bodies of stain nen. now in the Street, now inn ditch, now inthe river. Thero o und old, all bad been harintess citizens in their lives, und—all ies, Adagger in an Invisible bund had reached their hearts; but the assasia bud spred their purses, moncy, aud rings. Ad orgunized search wus made in the city. and the shop of Don- Vicsente wus exain- ined. There, in a recess, the police dis- covered the copy of “Ordinacions per os G 103, Regs de Arexo,” which ought by rights to have been burned with the bouse of its pur- chaser, Don Vincente was asked how he ot the boox. “He replied ina qguict voice, demanded that his¢ollection should be made over to the Barcelona Library, and then confessed a lon array of ‘erimes. He bad strangled his rival stolen the * Ordinacions,” and burned the heuse. ‘The slain men were people who bud bought from bin booky which he really could uot bear to part with. At his trial his counsel tricd to prove that bis confession was false. and that he might buve grot bis books by honest means. It was objected that there was in the world only one book printed by Lumbert Pulmact in 142, and that tho. prisoner. must bye stolen this, the only copy, from the library where it was trensur. ‘Tne defendunt’s counsel proved that there was another copy, in the Louvre; that, therefur: there might be more, and that the defendant's might huve been honestly procured. Here Don Vincente, previously caltous, uttered an hyster- feat ery. “Suid the Alculde: ™ At last, Vincente, you begin to understand the enormity of your offense?” “Ab, Signor Alcalde, my error was clumsy tndeed. ‘If you only kaew bow tniser- blefam!” “If buman justice prove inflexible, there is another justice whose pity fs Inexbaust- ible. Repentance is never too lute, w Ab, Shgnor Alcalde. my copy was not unique!” With the story of this impenitent thief we may close the roll of Biblioklepts. ———__- 2 FRESH AIR. For The Chicago Tribune. [Forty-eight deaths from diphtheria last week in Brookiyn,—whieh means the increased box- ing-np of peopie in their bonuses full of bad air, by renson of the increasing severity of the weather.—New York Grapitic, Nov. 8.} Write it in Jetters of tire. 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