Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 5, 1880, Page 10

10 HK. CeAJAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1880—EIGHTEEN pavement which in its judgment was best calcu- lated to mect those requirements. In all cases where stone bieck has been recom- mended, cither granit, Medina, or Lake Supe- rior stone may be used, but the blocks shall in no case be Iess than four inches inwidth. Where cedar block has been vamed, it 13 understond that the blocks shall rest upon a foundation of hemlock plank two inches thick,and that the gutters shall be of cobblc-stones set in gravel. Where macadam is named,it is understuod that there shall be a top dressing of at least three fnebes ef either crushed granit or of grav- el. Where asphaltum block is spveified, it is un- deratood that it shall be laid on a concrete foun- dation. i INFORMATION, As this form of pavement is somewhat new to Chicayo, the Committee will state for the infor- muution of those not familiar with it that it is the same pavement now Jaid on Michigan ave- nue, between Twenty-first and’ Twenty-second streets, also in the alley in the renr of tho Con- tral Music-Hall. corner of Landolph and State strects, and a small sarnple en tke cast side of State, at tho crossing of Washington, and alt purtics interested are requested tu examine the ment for thomselves. ‘This pavement has in use for eeveral years in many Eastern and seems to be coming into general favor In New York, an Fitth avenue, the block yont of Windser Hotel has recently been paved with it,a granit bleck pavement being removed for that purpose. . ‘This pavement gives good foothold for borses, is but Httle more noisy and certainly much moro duravle than wood, and 1s free from many other objections that are found with the ordinary wooden biock, and the Committee has reiiable nssuranee that Its firat cost will be only from 70 to SY per cent greater than that of wood. “In urder that the property-owners may make for the:nselves an approximate ESTIMATE OF THE COST of tke !mprovements proposed in front of their reeptetive lots, the Committee would state that, bused on tho present cost of materials and Inbor, the several! kinds of pavements would cost about as follows: Stone block, about... a\spuaitunn block é. trig Cabstone. per lineal foo! On a street elghty fect wide there will be two and two-third yards, and on a sixty-six foot strect two end one-ninth yards of pavement for each foot of frontage on cach aide of the strect, excepting on streets occupied by railway tacks. By order of the Committec. Sonn M, Crank, Chairman, IN GENERAZL. VIADUCTS. = * City-Engineer Cregier is making an estimate for a vinduct at Sixteenth street and Centre ay- enue, and aiso for a bridge at Fourteenth street. SORTH SIDE STREET INPROVEMENT. In Nortb-Side street improvements the Com- mitwe on Streets and Alleys have recommended all the improvements ag published with tho ¢x- ception of that of Market street, from Kinzie to Chicago avenue, and of Dearborn avenue, from Kinzie street to North avenue, which were Inid over because of remonstrances received from the property-holders. In addition to the pub- lished improvements they also decided to rec- ommend the paving of Sigel street from Wells to Sedgwick, Chestnut from State to Rush, and Schiller from Sedgwick to Clark. The west approach to the Adams strect via- duct is to be paved with Medina stone, the cx- pense of the improvement to be assumed by the railroad companies. At the last mecting of the Lincoln Park Board the President reported some bids submitted to him for filling the space east of the Pine street drive, but they were all rejected by the Board, and new bids for this work are now solicited. The proprietor of a granit quarry has offered Commissioner Waller te lay pavements for the city with a rubble-stone foundation, and a granit topping three inches deep, for $1.00 per square yard, and it fs highly probabic that the offer will be accepted for a few -intersections, to test the material. The cost is very little more than that of the ordinary wooden pavement. CHICAGO'S DEFECTIVE SEWERAGE has been made the subject of an claborate re- port by the Citizens’ Association. The paper, with explanatory diagram, filled a page of THE Trisune of Dec. 1. Their plan, in bricf, is to cut a drain, indefendent of the canal, from Bridgeport to Lock No. 4 of the Hlinois & Michi- gan Canal The cost would be $12,000,000." There would, when this new sewer was dug, be two canals side by side, one for drainage, the other for transportation. simpler means of drain- age would De to enl: the present canal and muke it carry the double burden of traffic and sewege, as originally planned. BUILDING PERMITS. Very few building permis were issued. Among them were those to Goetz, Busche & Co.. to erect a two-story factory, Michigan, near Kingsbury street, to cost $6,000; one to Belton Hully, to erect a one-story dwelling, Dashiel street, near ‘Thirty-first, to cost $3,500; one to Nelson Morris, to erect four two-story dwellings, Wabash ave- nue, near Twenty-sixth street, to cost $10,000: to L. D. Hammond, for a two-story building on ‘West Adums street, between Oakley strect and Western avenue, ty cost $4.500; to F. Falk, to erecta two-story ice-house and barn, North Tnion street, to cost $15,000; and one to A. Lind- green, to erect a two-story barn, Johnson street, near Fifteenth, to cost $1,000. LOANS. There were no large transactions in loans last ‘week, and the market is about as reported a week ago. The following comparison indicates the amount of business being done: Thia week. || Previous week. Amount.||Nv.| Amount. Mortgages .......- $ 90,8901) 258 45,598 Trust-deeds . 8s TH,867)} GL 160,420 IjS SaTeG]| §6)$ 206,018 9S) 2UT,18T]] OL) 164,355. LETTERS. AN OPEN LETTER TO COMMISSIONER WALLER, CaicaGo, Dec. 4.—The Hon. C. S. Waller, Com- missioner Public Works—Sin: The annual ques- tion of street-paving has been fairly opened for public discussion by your recent report to the City Council respecting the policy of repaving a large number of our city sireets the approach- ing yenr. ~ This discussion is taking in not only the ques- tion of the best materials and methods to be employed for the superstructure, but also the Reveasity of providing a more stable foundation on which to plant a pavement than heretofore provided in this cfty. The past year has been one of keen observa- tion and investigation on the partof yourself,as well asof our several park boards, Citizens’ Association, city-ratiway officials, and a large number of our scientific-minded citizens, with the purpose of qualifying themselves to answer. wisely the popular conundrum, “ What §s the best material and method of construction for our city pavements?” Whito a limited few have thus accumulated a valuable fund of information, which joined to our own experience has enabled them to reach Very detinit couclusions, a very large majority of our citizens who havo not investiated are yet mouch at sca on the vital points at issue. Quite a unanimity of opinion. however, bas becs reached and expressed that we must have A WELL-HUILT AND DCRARLE FOUNDATION before we can have a serviceable pavement of any kind whatever. Heretofore we have paid small rerard to the substructure of our strects—all thought and ex- pense has been absorbed in giving to the public the most temporary structuro with tho most temporary economy. ‘ caer Pumpkin pine bincks and white cedar ends Planted ona grade of sand or mud, underlaid with a strata of hoop-skirts, old boots, and gen- eral junketry, have heretofore been extensively palned off on a forbearing public as a first-class Favement. The public are about tired of this kind of fraud and folly, and are now demanding, first of all, a foundation—then a pavement. The old Roman engincers used to expend Jarge sumson their street foundations, often piling the entire street base to secure solidity, hence their permanency. It is not uncom- mon in London to lay a street base tbree feet in depth. i With us no strect ought to be laid without” having first heavily rolled and drained the carth bea. Upon this should be laid a body of broken stone from twelve inches to twenty-four inches in depth, rolied down in layers so that every cupe shail be brought to a full bearing,—tho cena to depend on the service required of the ‘The upper surface should be grouted for the Purpose of cementing the whole into..a fixed ‘ass, and also for the more important object of providing a watershed to prevent all seepage of surface-water to the carth- base. Such a foundation may cost perhaps 10 to 12 cents per inch per superficial yard, but, once ‘puilz, is eternal in duration. Upon this baso any sortof a surface-pavement may be Inid, with the asurance that it will stand on its own merits, whatever they may be. Having reached a suitable base, the public will require A STREET SURFACE to correspond somewhat with the solidity and elegance of the superstructure of our elty, em~ ploying such materials and methods only 2s combine at onccall that is attainuble in the way of durability with highest servicability, byxieno and cleanliness, econumy and comfort, and af- fording at the same time the gréutest facility of repair. Perhaps no one material or method of struct- ure will Include in highest degree ull qualities sousht for in a pave; yet’some special material or method of construction may secure in mudi- ficntion all the qualities of common desire. Whatever may be said for or against other {nateriat or form of structure, the careful at- tention of the public should be called at this time to the superior and well-nigh all-embrac- ing qualities of x granit surface for all of our important streets in the future. Given a foundation suitublo to bear up any sort of pave- ment, and a‘tfixed granit macadam" wearing surfuce can be laid at 2 cost substantially thet of tha most perishavic wood. The superior economy, durability, and desirability of such a street surface is certitied by the famous Appian Way, built 313 3B. C.,of broken Alpine granit, cemented so as to givea tixed surface, and is in as good repnir to-day as when Scipio Africanus led bis tegions over it near two and twenty centuries a0. The “Cornice Way,” built by the Cwzars along the north seashore from Rouie to Gaul, also of broken gramt, is yet a most excellent street as it was in Christ's day. Tho granit streets of Naples bave been In con- stant use for over 1,000 years, with a loss of but a bare inch by wear and tcar. Tho most elezant strects of Parisare laid of crushed crystalline rock and rolicd to the finest imzinable surface. ‘The very latest report from tho London City Engineers certifies that, all things considered, granit macadam makes the best of all city pavements, having but a single drawback,— costliness of repair, The obvious reason for this is their negicct to cement the surface into a tixed, compact body capable of resisting the dis- integrating action of trafic. This may be se- cured by the use of drastic Homan cement wita- out impairing at all tho sure footing of horses. THE CONTINUOUS EXPERIENCE OF THE fIVIL~ IZED WORLD . for over twenty centuries, under every test of climate and condition, certifies to the following superior qualities of this material and method of strect pavement: L It makes the most durable wearing surface of any muteriai on carth. 2. 1t gives tho best and surest footing with evenest surface of any known form of struct- ure. 3, It is entirely free from dust and mud of its own. 4. It is perfectly sweet and hygihnic, and com- paratively noiseless. 5, With a given foxndation, its first cost fs Iess, and its ultimate cost Infinitly less, than that of any other suitable material for such purpose. 6, It can be more evenly paved and kept up to an even, uniform surface than cun any other material and method of construction. ‘This city is and has been paying enormous sums for paving purposes and getting nothing but sham results in return. Is it the part of wisdom to continue in the same wasteful direc- tion when cheaper and better results are casily attainable? C. B. Kina. “DISGRACEFUL CONDITION OF THE STREETS. «To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cntcaco, Dec. 4.—That tho present filthy con- dition of our streets in the centre of the city is a disgrace to the olficers charged with keeping them clean, and disgusting to every person at- tempting outdoor locomotion, is a patent fact. ‘That the contractor for doing that sort of . busi- ness was always working on the streets in the summertime when there was but little if any ap- parent necessity for it, isa remembered fact by the business places that were dusted to exasper- ation for the accommodation of said strect- cleaning contractor's business. As such work is left undone now, when so much needed, but ex- pensive to the contractor, and overdone in the summertime when not needed by the public, but profitable to the contractor, suggests the query whether the Public Works Department is not much more concerned about personal than the public interests, in view of the fact that it is understood the contract for strect-cleaning docs not terminate until the ist of January next. Else why this neglect? Mapison SrneeT MERCHANT. NEW YORK CITY. ‘THE PUBLIC AUCTION SALES A FAILURE. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tritune. New York, Dec. 4.—In reat estate this week the auction sales did not come up to the views of those whose entiro mind scems to be given up to the study of this market. Whether it was the gloomy state of the weather, and the consequent inconvenience of personally inspecting tho speculative property that was offered during the week,or another and more plausible reason, that the speculative mania bas not as yet reached the point where sanguine holders of property desire it to be, the fact re- mains, that lots well located in the upper part of the island, though attracting many Didders, were knocked down below the estimate made by excelient experts. First-cluss business property was also withdrawn from sale during the week, owing to the inadequncy of the bids offered. These causes and others had some sort: |. of an influence on the public auction saics, and gave AN UNFAVORABLE ASPECT TO THE MARKET, not borne out by the state of affairs existing outside of the auction-rgoms. An attempt wus maido to sell forty-one fect fronton Brondway, Nos. 354 and 356, at Assignee’s sale, but the sell- er coufd not {overtop the tigure of $190,000 end the property was withdrawn. More than $200,000 was loaned on first-class morteuges dur- ing the week ut 4% per cent, and at tho close of the week two large blocks of money were await- ing investment at4 per cent on the same class of securities. The largest private sale of the week was cight lots on the north side of Seventy-second strevt, between Mudison and Fourth avenues, for $20,000 each. These lots formed part of the Lenox estate. Since the sining of the contract tho pur- chasers have resold thom at an advance of 10 |, Percent. A broker here has recently closed OSE OF THE MOST LMPORTANT TRANSACTIONS EFFECTED THIS SEASON, having consummated a partial trade of property. for Mr. Abram C. Hewitt and Peter Cuoper, who jointly purchased seventeen houses and a hotel Jocated on Lexington avenue, Forty-second and Forty-third streets, from Thomas McManus ‘The cash vgluation of this property is placed at $500,000. The purchasers conveyed real estate valued at $210,000 in part payment. A good deal of Californis money is being invested in reality here. Such men as D. O. Mills, Mr. Crocker, J. W. Mackey: W. H. Belden, and other prominent capitalists, are buying a good deal. It is the re- sult largely of the new Tax lnw of California,. which the moneyed men of that State deem un- precedented and unreasonable. POILADELPHIA. ° INDICATIONS OF INCREASED ACTIVITY. Spectal Dispatch 29 The Chicago Tribune. PRILAvELTIA, Pa., Dee. 4.—Indications of in- creased real-estate activity in Puitadelphia are noticed. Prominent real-estate dealers and con- veyuncers report indications of increased activi- ty in the real-estate murket, consequent upon the plethora of enpital eeuxing investment in channels that will yield the largest returns. The ruling rate’ of interest upon. morteases is sald to be 4 and 433 per cent, while real estate for business. purpases, for which there is areat demand by capitalists ut present prices, will net 6,7, and 8 percent. As a consequence, within the past week one prominent troker sold three properties, ranging from $15,000 tu $£0,000, which will net 7 per cent, and within ten days the large property of T.C. Love, on tho north side of Chestuut street, above Tenth, was sold for $100,- rd ie pear ciety on Broad street, for 135,000; and the'gid Philadelphin Saving Fund “Building, ao Waleet street, for $60,000 to an in- surance company; which purposes erecting an elegant and costly structure on its site. Houses and stores in the centre of the city are searce, eithor for sale or to rent. NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER are said to be usually comparatively dull sea- sous, when business-men are engaged in settling up thelraffairs and indisposed to begin new operations, but in January and February they begin selecting localities either for building Stores and dwellings or making alterations, and in March and April the increased number of conveyances shows the result of their search. At the present time prices are said to be still Jow, and those who buy now can reap the ad- vantuge, sellers being reported a3 disposed to make all reasanable concessions. On the whole, the market is said tobe in an expectant state, with good indications, as shown by tho sale of the lurge properties previously mentioned, and which had been awaiting a favorable turn for a brisk spring business, One large estate in the yicinity of Belmont, which has been held back to meet such a senson as that now expccted, is about being put in the market, divided into twenty-eight building lots of desirable size for elegant suburban homes. RENTS are also sald to be stiffening under the scarcity of moderate-sized houses and the greater abil- ity and willingness of tenants to mect the views of owners. The greatest inquiry for from $20 to 80 houses if in West Philadelphia and the northwestern section of the city, though there is a good deal of activity in the Nineteenth Ward for houses renting for from $t0 to $20 per month, for the accommodation of the persons employed in the bumcrous manufacturing establishments of that loculity. As un evidence of the scarcity of houses in all parts of the city, ‘ono igent, who this time one year ago bad 400 houses to rent, now reports to bis principal that all are occupied but two, while others, who had several vacant In different localities, now report thut thoy are all rented. THE PRINCIPAL REAL ESTATE AUCTIONEERS also say that the indications point to a rising market and more deinand for real estate, both for investinent and occupancy. They reportthoe bidding at sales unusually brisk, the prices ren- lized much in advance of previous sales for tho past six months, and generally sutisfactory to both buyers and sellers, They say thut the only properties that may not be considered in active demand are large, elegant, and costly resi- dences, but that small or medium-sized proper- ties are much sought after and sell readily. CLEVELAND, O. ., - A WEALTHY FEELING MANIFESTED. Spectal Dispatch to ‘The Chicago tribune, CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 4.—While this city can hardly be snid to enjoy that measure ot prusper- ity in business and real estate said to existin Chicago and New York, there is without doubt a healthier fecling than for several years past. In every branch of inaustry this Increase is noted. Real estate is rarely sensitive of any chanzo in the condition of the commercial world. It is rc- Juctant to follow the depression of valucsin other property consequent upon # panic, and ikewise when trade in all departments is fairly Looming it is lust to fcol the effects of the botter times. DEALERS OF LONG EXPERIENCE have learned to estimate the duration of a panic asit affects real estate at ten years. <As tho present depression began in 1873, they therefore reason thit three yeurs will elapse before prices will assume the relative position they ecoupied prior to tho former, date. However, there is noticesdle a decided improvement. ‘That thore is more inquiry to- day for property of nll degeriptions no one will deny. A considerable amount of money Is scek- ing investment, and people are asking about residences and business that will pay 4 or5 per cent, and for such there isa good market. A man buying real estate to-day at the figures of- fered caleulates that in a year’s time be will be able to realize a good percentage on his invest- ment. During the last decade Cleveland has increased in population from 93,600 to 160,000, and to mect the demands of this large growth considerable building nas been carried on. Despite the se- verity of the panic, according to official re- turns, THE VALUATION OF PROPERTY within the corporation limits is much greater then it was ten years ago. New residences con- tinue to spring up in all directions, the laboring classes especially seeking tor cheap lots on which tocrect little homes. Two lurge allot- ments of residence property have been made within tho Inst six montbs. One wasa portion of the Case estate, consisting of thirty acres in tho vicinity of Willson avenue, and all were readily sold, the, purchasers in many instances reselling the lots at an advanced fig- ure. .The other allotment was the Chambor- Iain property, forty-six acres, fronting 1,500 feet on Willson avenue, with Cedar avenuc on one side and Garden strect on tho othor, and the line of the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad form- ing the boundary jn tho rear. This property inet with the same demand as for tho Case allot- ment. Though the winter seuson is upon us, there is A FAIR AMOUNT OF BUIDING going on, principally of residences. The archi- tects of tho city huve bad their hands full all along. One is now engaged In erecting thirteen houses on Perry street, where the Hon. H. B. Payne owns an extensive tract of unused land. ‘These houses, when compicted, will cost on an average from $3,000 to 33,500. Prices of lots on Prospect strect have increased within a year or two from 50 to 75 per cent. Several fine residences are being erected, two being for prominent stockholders of the Stand- ard Oil Company. The cost of many of these will not be sbort of $10,000, Two or three very large buildmgs for manu- facturing purposes are now in process of con- struction, one of which will be occupied by the Cleveland Telegraph Supply Company for the manufacture of the Brush Electric Light. E. J. BALDWIN, one of the leading dry-goods merchants, {3 put- ting upa fine business block on Bank strect. But a few weeks ago the dry-goods business of Messrs. E. M. McGillen & Co. was reopened in an elegunt new building five stories in hight, said to be one of the best equipped business-blocks in the country. Then, too, there are at least halt a dozen commodious churches being erected in fashionable localitics, giving employment toa lurge number of men. Before many months it is expected that work will commence on the new buildings for tho Western Reserve College, whose removal from its present site at Hudson to Cleveland bas been decided upon by the Trustees. As the Caso School of Applied Science is to be opened before the cluse of another year, it is thought the old homestead willsoon prove inadequate,fand that the cou- struction of more commodious buildings will be necessary. To revert once more to THE REVIVAL IX BUSINESS, @ good indication of its growth is,the fact that the Café ndsor, a handsome ding on Eu- clid avenue, near the Opera-House, costing originally $75,000, was recently sold for $10,000, since which time the purchaser has refused an offer of $10,000 for his bargain. As proof of tho botter condition of the laboring classes, the re- turns made to the’ Hon. I. J. Walls, Commis- sioner of Labor Statistics, may be cited. A mouth ago he sent out a serics of questions to all important points in Ohio, to ascertain what change, if any, had taken place in labor since 1879. From Cleveland the reports indicate that there is more work and that prices are 15 per cent better. Tradesmen say tnoy will this year do 25 percent more work in umount of money than in 1879, BUILDING MATERIALS have advanced 10 per cent. Good stonecutters now receive $3 per day. and since one year ago the wages of stonemasons have advanced from $2.5) to $2.75; bricklayers from $2.25 to $2.50; carpenters, plastercrs, and painters from $1.73 to $2;.and laborers from $1.25 to $1.37. Of course Cleveland hus had ber share in the revival of lake traffic, and the difficulty of all railroud companies to supply cars enough to meet the wauts of business shows conclusively that the reaction for the better is a fixed fact. Every one is hopeful, the optlook is most prom- ising, and the return of another spring will find every one on the top waveof expectation. DETROIT, MICH. SIGNS OF ACTIVITY MANIFESTING THEMSELVES Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Detnorz, Dec. 4.—For some weeks pust there have been signs of unusual activity in the real- estate market here. The number of transfers recorded in the office of the Register of Decds fur this county bns been almost daily inereasing ever since Sept. 1. This represents legitimate business, and i in no way forced or unnatural. Inquiry skows that at various points in the State the same facts hold good. A representu- tive of Tne Trroons to-day interviewed a num- ber of the more prominent real-estate dealers in Detroit, and obtained their views concerning TRE PROBARLE FUTURE OF THE BUSINESS nee: the next twelyo months, One dealer “One year ago the business was practically dead. City lots were in less demand than ceme- tery lots, and no degree of urging would avail much. Now this bas all changed, and men are constantly buying Iand as an investment who formerly loaned money on mortguges.. They say they find Me lind more profitable than the money. would be at interest, with the presont rates. They have not had the opportunity to foreclose us many of the mortgages as they did have a couple of years ago, This cuts off alarge share of the profits.” “In what direction is nounced?” “In business property. There has been more inquiry for land on whick to locate stores, facto- ries, ete. Dwelling-house property is just be- sinning to feel the influence of the increused demand.” “Tow DO PRICES RANGE?” “Tho value of property in Detroit has been steadily increasing for a number of years. ‘The increase was not noticed so much during the dull times, but ft ‘continued, and now the effect ig a little surprising to some people who did not fully realize what was going ou. So far, how- ever, there has been no shurp and sudden ad- yance,-and I seco no reason why there should be.” What is the prospect for tho futuro of the business?” 4 “ We look for as heavy, if not a- greater, de- mand for real estate than the city has seen for twenty years. I doubt whether thore will bo asudden or unusual advanco in price, except, perhaps, in special quarters. The face that money cannot readily find profitable investment in loans makes capitalists desire to invest thgir money in buildings and business enterprises re- quiring real estate, us well usin the real estate itself.” : wae wy. “Doyouattribute this change in the volume of the business to any local causes?” “No, oxcept us tho starting of new enterprises here inakes a demand for residence property. I do not ever expect to seo so high rates of inter- est nyguin, owing to the facilities tue country now hus for learning where capital is needed. If there is any special demand for money any- whore, every man who reads the papers can find it out, no matter in what part of tho country ho lives in. This prevents any onc being able to get vory high rates of interest, and capitalists are turning more attention to acsirable invest- ments in real estate than formerly.” . ANOTHER GENTLEMAN who has paid special attention to the buying of property uffered for sale nt auction snid ‘that there had been much Drisker competition this fall than he had known ina long tine before, and he was compelled to bid 25 percent higher in order to secure purchases. Detroit, 23 originally platted, was lafd out in long, nurrow strips, corresponding to tho French farms, which ran back indefnitly trom tue De- trolt River. Some of these plats, or portions of them, remained fora long time in the possession of tho.French families who originally owned them. Tnose people were pecullurly conserva- tive about parting with their possessions, and so much yuluabie reat estate has been kept out of the market. These. FRENCH FATHERS have the faculty of living for an indefinit num- ber of years, and‘ thotr obstinacy increases with theirage. There aro a number of lots in the contra! portion of tho elty that remain unim- proved, though large sums are offered for them. Nearly all those old settlers and their immediate descendants have dicd, and so most of the property is now out of their hands. The balf- dozen who remain are well advanced in yours, and their departure to the other shore is longed for by capitalists and real estate agents who wish to buy certain desirable pieces of property. These features form, of course, no important part of the business a3 a whole, only serving as incidents, the like of which it would be hard to find in many cities of the Union. WASHINGTON, D. C. GREAT ACTIVITY IN THE MARKET. Special Dispatch to The Cutcago Tribune, Wasutnoros, D.C., Dec. 4—Thore is great ac- tivity in the Washington real estate market. Prominent dealers report the sales ten times as much as they were two yearsago, There has not, however, been any marked advance in prices, but it must uot be forgotten that real es- tate in this city never was so depreciated as it was In commercial. cities. The etfect of tue panic, and of the subsequent period of commer- cia! depression, upan Washington reat estate was to cheek gules,,but not to greatly reduce prices. The reason was, undoubtedly, that the improved property. was, for the most part, held by large dealers, capitalists, and wealthy non-residents, whg had purchased with : A VIEW, ZO SPECULATIOZ, or for ultimate improvement, When tho de- Dressing times came improvements were tem- porarily suspended.**Saies wero as frequent, but large holders kept. their property for better times, not needing to scil, and unwilling either w incur the actual loss that would have resulted from forced sales, or to forego the speculative profits which were anticipated, and which can now be realized. °° ° The portion of the city where there is tho. greatest activity in real estate is at the * West End,” especially in the northwestern portion of it, generally well known throughout the country as the tract of land selected as the basis of the operations of the so-called “* Real Estate Pool.” Results have shown that the large operators who planned “ the comprehensive system of public improvements” for which the District becume famous, and in connection with which so much corruption was charged, were VERY SHREWD PROJECTONS. This section was once a barren tract, 2 sort of “swamp poodle” of the West End, which was in part marshy and in mavy places below grade. An extensive scale of improvements was planned, and In part executed. Broad ave- nues were extended, with costly wood and con- crete pavements, into a region which, then was a wilderness. The pioneer bouse in that locality was the huge castle butlt by the then wealthy the revival most pro- ‘ Senator from Nevada, William L. Stewart, which” becaine kuown, and is\till known, as “THE HONEST MINER'S CAMP.” ‘The vast structure still stands there a monu- ment to the folly, anda reminder of the mis- fortunes, of fits builder. It cost an immense sum of moncy, and has for years been empty. The next houge on alarge seule built in that locality was the’ mansion of the British Embassy. This is a large, substantial structure built in ac- cordance with the English idens of solidity and comfort. These two structures were practically tho only ones in all that region during the years of depression. With the renewal of business prosperity, consequent upon resumption, there bas been great activity in this favored section of the city. The finest houses in Washington have been built there, and real estate has advanced from 20 cents to $1.50 and $2 per square foot, ac- cording to the location. REAL ESTATE IN WASHINGTON is sold altogether by tho square foot, and the lots are not of uniform size. Owing to the pecul- jar manner in which the eity was laid out, and tho fact that the streets running at right angles are bisected by avenues which traverse the city in all directions, building lots are of a great va- riety of shapo and size. A valuation by tho front foot would be scarcely practicable, as it is in cities which are originally {nid out by square and compass. The range of prices in this new section of the city isa fair index of the move- ment in Washington real estate. Good building Jota cannot be purchased for less than $1.50 per square foot, and choice lots Command $2, It is in this quarter of the city that a DON CAMERON 1S BUILDING HIS GREAT PALACE. Agreat many retired army and navy -olficers, most of whum fre the husbands of rich wi¥es,— bought by buttong—are building fino houses here. Wealthy non-residents, who regata Wash- ington a3 asort of wintering water place, are erevting houses in large number iu this locality, and intend to make Washington thelr winter homes. Onc of these capitatists, who came here two years ago to spend a few weeks. has decided to spend all his winters here, hus builta fine house for himsetf, and is just completing at a cost of $159,000 the finest apartment house in Washington. His example is betng imitated by others, and the wonder is that in acity which has such a transitory’ population, which isa sort of a fasbionable winter camp, capitalists should not have sooner selected this form of invest- ment. UPON CAPITOL HILL, not far from the Capitol Bujlding, good -build- Ing-lots can be purchascd from 75 cents to SL per squnre foot, but the sales are the most act- ive in the West-End. Yet Capitol Hill was the section of the city which George Washington expected, when he Inid out the District of Co- lumbla, would become tho fashionable quarter. Real estate greed, however, destroyed his ex- pectations, 1 a sort of ring was" formed in tho building-lots of that section, which resulted in the.perioxnent improvement of the western and lower portion of the city. Real estate on some portions of Capitot Hill, particularly near tho river front, to-duy will not bring any higher prices than the same lots are shown by tho record to bave commanded in George Washing- ton’s time, REAL-ESTATE MEN THINK , that Washington real estate has entered upon a period of permanent prosperity. Tkey look for f continued advanco, particularly under tho Garficid Administration. Tho fact that tho General Government by law has provided that if will permanently contribute to the support of tho District, in which it is so largely interested, practically tho same amount of money that is collected from the citizem® by taxation, has given greater stability to prices. The Govern- ment annuaily spends here some $20,000,000 in its ordinary transactions, and this constitutes the practicat extent of the busineas of the Capital. CITY-HALL, Tur Mayor contioues. sick, but is rapidly re- covering. 2 ‘Tie contract for tug-service to the Crib for the wintcr was perfected yesterday. A Repates are ready on the improvement of La Salle street, from Quincy to Van Buren, and ‘Wood street, from Van Buren to Harrison. Tue proposed viaduct at Sixteenth street and Centre avenue, the City Engineer ostimates wilt cost, including land damages, about $. Tie pumping-out of the shore falet at tho North Sidg Pumping-Works was commenced yesterday. This is preparatory to commencing pumping-out at the old tunnel. ‘Tre Trensurer was yesterday cnshing the 1880 serip held by the junitors and engineers in the employ ot tho Schovol Bourd, The teachers should be served the same way. ‘Tite State-strect viaduct is In need of repair, and itis estimated that the cost will be about $7,000. ‘The matter is to be Inid before the Coun- cil, and it is not thousht safe to defer the com- mencement of tho work much longer.” AN Interview between the members of tho Roard of Education, tho Controller, and the Treasurer yesterday resulted in_an agreement to pay the School-teachcrs for November and December iu cash, They will get their Novem- Der puy in a few days. ‘Tix time in which Ald. McGrath was to take testimony in the Stauber caso expired yester- day, and the Judiciary Committee will report to the Council to-morrow cveuing recommending an extension of fifteen days, and that the whole matter be turned over to 4 speciul committec. A NEW nsh-box bas appeared, a sample of which was on the sidewalk in front of the rook- ery yesterday. It is of cnst-iron, and mixht be mistaken for a cook-stove. It vontains recepta- cles for both ashes and garbage, and is also in~ tended to serve the purpose of a hitching-post and step tu a carriage, aud ought to be popular in resident districts, Dr. De Wolf thinks. CossusstoxeR WawLer will send 2 communi- calion to the Connell to-morrow evening sub- mitting tho condition of the streets in the South Division north of Harrison strect. He will go. into details, showing when they were last paved, and the material used, and will recommend that granit blocks or Medina stone be used in future improvements, and that asphult biocks be used in improving the alloys. Tur death report for Tlovembon stows the deaths to bave been, 702. he cau were as follows: DipHtheria, 91: croup, $2; consumption, 59; infantile convulsions, | 583 IetNON La, sr meningitis and enteritis, 19 euch; bronchitis, 10; inunition, 3 typhold fever, 14; scarlet fever, 12: svand railroad accident, 12 ¢: 10; congestion of the lungs, 9; congenital di bility, 6; scrofula, 3; and strect car accident and poisoning, leach. ~ A CASE of small-pox was yesterday reported on Sixteenth street. Tke source of Inicction could nor be learned, nor the name of the un- fortunate. Tho case will be taken to the Small- Pox Hospital this morning, and would have been tnken yesterday, but for the fact that the Great Western Railrond’s empty’ enrs so surrounded tho Hospital grounds that it was finpossible to fet the umbulance out. Such blockades should not be ullowed to occur. WAR OF FACTIONS. There isa nico Httlo war going on in certain’ Aldermante cireles_over ‘tho. Burlington & Quincy ordinunee. There are several factions among the Aldermen, and cach one has its lead- er, and gomchow tho idea has gotten out that there is “something” in the ordinance. An ex- Alderman {s championing it on the outside, and ald. Jawier is trying to take the lead upon the tuside, and thore ts no end of jealousy. Both of them hive their enemics, and while the ordi- nance, provided the city’s interests are properly protected, bas no outspoken opponents, there is trent deal of whispering going on, and the air is full of rumors. The fate of the ordi- nance will be watched to-morrow evening with considerable interest by the Aldermen who are notin the deal, and especially by the public. Yhere is scarcely n doubt, however, but it will pass in some for. —— EVANSTON, The Trustees will meet Tuesday evening. The boat club will meet to-merrow evening in the University office. . ‘The annuul meeting of tho Evanston Benevo--: lent Society will be beld Wednesday in the Methodist Chureh parlors. The second concert of the Conservatory of Music will occur in the auditorium of the Meth~ odist Church Friday evening. Tho program will bean interesting one. An orchestra will be present trom Chicago, Tickets arenot sold, but can be had upon application to Prof. 0. E. Locke. The Rev. A. J. Seott will preach this morning and evening in thé Congregational Church. Communion services will be held in St. Mark's Church at 12m. to-day. Preaching by the Rey. F. 8. Jewell this evening as usual. Communion services will bo held in the First Methodist Church this morning; the Rev. A. W. Patten will preach this evening on tho * Peni- tent’s Creed." Tho Rev. George C. Noyes, D. D., will preach this morning in the Presbyterian Chureb, The Rev. George R. Pierce willpreach as usual in the Baptist pulpit to-day. § WEEK $25,000 FRENCH AND GERJIAN FANCY GOODS Basement and 2d Floor, The above lot of Toys and Fancy Goods, comprising conplete lines of all kinds of Holiday Goods import- ed, bought recentiy for Spot Cash at the large and peremptory New Yor auction Sales by order of several importing houscs, we will sell LESS than BANKRUPT SALES or any contpctition prices. Prices guaranteed Lower than the Lowest, or money refunded at ait times if goods are not satisfactor 5.00 Wax und China Limb Dolls at Je to $3 0) Albuns at 2a. 1340 Shell Koxes from de to Te, 2c to 30. ge. urated, Zc, a0: ynttur Hox at 4e. ‘Vin Express Waxon and Horse, 80. Pen Pins, We. Larze in H-inch Wax Doll, with hair, 190, ‘rin Stove, complete, 130. 1 Chose fe Medaliion Toilet Soc, # Plush Doll Huts, te. Brass Trurmy c it Large Wood ‘Train, complete, 70. Doll's Fur Sets. ite. japanese C Larze Toy Uni Wax Doll, wi Mouth Organ, E-Ruitie Pinted Fancy ink Stands, WW Vases for te. ‘aise, BSe. Horse, 7c, Shoo-Fly Rocker, te. 5.00 Pocket Knives at Ge on the dollar. 2.00 Pocketbooks from 3e to $L30, 10,00 Fancy Hoxes from le up. SPECIAL SALE OF 5,000' BOZ. HANBRERCHIERS, Consisting of Large Lines of Plain White Hemstitehed, Printed aud Fimbroidered Lawn, Printed and Plain White Embroidered and Ini- tial Hemstitched and _— Printed, Printed and Scolloped — Fritial Cambric. Full lines of Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Hemmed and Hem- stitched Linen Handkerchiefs; atso, 2,00 doz. Ladies’ and Gen: Ik 1 Potka Dots and Brocaded at 9 Bie, 1 sie, Whe, $1, SL. tie, and éLak "Elegant xtrmordinary bareains, Gents’ Imported wid dowestic Cashmore and Silk Muttion; very cheap, WILL OFFER MONDAY, DEC. 6, 1,000 IN MEMORIAM J. J. S. [WHo DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV. 29, 1880.] For ‘The Chigaco Tribune. - Why did he die whon life seemed fair, And no dark clouds were near To dim the brightness of our lives, Or start the bittcr tear? We thought not, at the close of aay, ‘When night veiled carth ana sky, ‘That one so full of life and hope ‘Would breathe a last good-by. We saw not on the Silent Sea The bout that neared the shore; The boatman pale we did not hear Dip in his mufiied oar: We only know-be softly came, - 3 a\nd closed his beam ing eye. With bitter tenrs und anguished heart, We usk, Why.did ho die? _ No Angel-whisper met our car, From that bright land afar, ‘That there were loved ones waiting at The grates tbat stand ajar; We did not hear the rustle of Their garments round his bed: We onty suw his pallid free, And knew that he was dead. The Summer, with its bnds and flowers, ‘Will their sweet fragrance shed In soft and mournful silenco Above bis lowly bed; While we, in grief and sadness, \ _, Will watch the days go by, And usk, in tearful silence, Alasi why did he die? . We know that God’s mysterious ways ‘To our frail sightare dim; However sharp the pang may be, We cannot question Him, ‘Then Ict us feck His dealings. just; His love let none deny; Nor ask within our humble hearts, Why did our loved one dis M. McDonouan. MY GIFT. For The Chicago Tribune. ‘When T was a child nt my mother's kneo, She oft wonld say ‘That 2 beautiful gift would come to me Some future day. gave no heed to her whispered word, And searce 4 thought, ‘Pill with downcast cyes one day I heard ‘The gift was brought. Again T knelt at my mother’s knee, And gq that tho gift had nd said that the gift had come to m She had foretold. - me She placed on my flushing face her hand, My eves to lift, And snid, “ My child, you must understand "Tis a priceiess gift. “A gift you must hold, while life shail last, All gifts above, In your inmost henrt you must hold it fast With tender love.” ’ Though many years that have come and gone Before me range, . Ikeep my gift—'tis the heart of ono Who cannot change. JacquiTa. + All the evil consequences of a deranged liver so seriously affected me that during the year 1975 I contd scarcely drag inyself along. I used many inedicines, but without any jnaterial or fasting results. The piles also troubled me gregtly, and I despaired of ever getting well again, when Mr. A. C. Adams told me about Hamburg Drops, and what it had done far hin. Ipurchased some at once. The first bottle produced an_etfect on my system with difficulty, for it had already become accustomed to many kinds of medi- cine: but continuing its use I grew better daily, and svon regained wy former hezith. Lhave ever since been thankful to‘Mr. Adams for his invaluable information: regarding the Hamburg Drops, and whenever I hear of similar enses I cheerfully put in a word for so useful an article. ., JAcop. Hess, Normanyille, Kas. 7a Wieces Black Brocade Sik Velvets At Si; former price, $2.50 ALSO, 300 Samples of Berlin Cloaks, 200 Samples of Boston Dolmans, AT FIFTY CENTS ON ‘TTTE DOLLARL L000 SETTS OF FURS! At an Awful Sacrifice, COMPRISING SETTS REAL MINK at $10, 913, a $18; 300. orn 215, $13, #23, und $0 5 ey SETS FRENCH SEAL, Satin Lined, at $150 300 id orth Sand #10. 100 SEnTs FINE CAPE SEAT, at $0.50; worth 300 wart i FOX, at SKA, SETTS, SQUIRREL, RACCOON, AND BLACK $i, MH, $40), ana $5; worth CHILDREN’S FURS. at te, Te, 1, 2000 “SUNN: and g250" Sobs very cheap. SPECIAL CASH DRIVES! 500 CHENILLE GIRDLES, at 65e; worth $1.50, PIECES REAL TORCTION, LACES, at Ts 3000 He Be, Je, 46, bo, up to Bic; leas than batt 1000 CARTONS: atusthe RIBBONS, at 11 3 ‘es 3, Ue, 76) 80, nnd Wes from ouedON, awial cheap. 500 LACE BED serrs, at #50; worth $150. LOTS MEN'S, ¥ 300 ULST iS, AND OVERCOATS, New York retail deater, recently retired from business, whieh we will suil at Half price. 2000 PIECES COLORED DikEss Goons, Immense Cheap Sale Colored Cashmeres, At 12éc, DeBezes nt Ihe, ‘I'yconn Reps at 12t¥¢c, Momie and Crape Cloths at Ive, t-1 Deitezes at 2e, 6-4 Col- ored Cashmeres at 2c, t-4 Enulish Mohalrs at sc, ‘7-4 Sxtra Quality Cashmeres at We. NS. YOUTH'S, AND BOYS’ SUITS, Special Mark-Down of all Rem- nants to Close, to Make Room for Holiday Goods. RIONEY REFUNDED AT ALL TLMES, If Goods Are Not Sat- isfactory. BOSTON STORE, LS & 120 State-st. & DIARTES, LOOL GEO. E. MARSHALL & Co, Btaticners and Printers, 1@1 & 163 MADISON STREET: J. W. MUDBLETON, BLANK BOOKS, STATIONERY, 55 STATE-ST. Order immediately for January. MESCELLANEOU Ta d rhe 9 . WORTHY OF ATTENTION. ‘To Gardeners or Florists, Green-Houses with»ut rent, and ftoct withont cost. Toa partyaf correct habits und. reliable, L will give the ase ny Groun-iluuses fri mt rent, sud the stuck, which is urge and in event variety, and koud conditien, without cust. For farther particulars calt ad examine the Stock and Howes, LEWIS ELLS- WORTLE Propriowor, Naperville, Ili, STOCKHOLDERS NOTICE. : ho reguins unuual mooting of Biyckbollérs of th Chieaxo Bry-Dock Company will bo heid at tho oflioe Of the Dry-Doek, 34 Futh-uv., Chicago, Thursday, the Gth of Jannazy next, ath o'c.ock p.m. for the elec Uon of Directors dud the transaction” of such other asiness £3 nny cume bafore the Stockbolduen at auld meeting. Wal W. BATES, Sucrowry.: bec. 4-10, = NO MEDECLYE cag Except in Those Cases Where, on Examj. nation, it May Be Found Necessary to Pre, scribe Gartain Blood Remedies, which, Combined with My Peculiar Magnetic Opera. tion, Accelerate a Per. fect and Radical. Cure. pt Dr. 0. Dodge Phelps, of ben |. tothe American House, in the York, Practical Physi. cian for Chronic Diseases; Tato of Philadelphia, New Orleans lis, Gineinall, Tt, Sag “field, Boston, and Balli-- °. more, Ml, = i Has Taken Pavlors In the Shiger But > 243 State’ Street, Comer plage for About Sixty Days, ” Where Those Who Are Able and Willing to Pay May Come frem 10. m to 6p. m. Each Day. .No Surgical Operations ‘ Performed Chronic Diseases Cured---Acute Pain Instantly Relieved. The Lame Walk---The Blind See---The Deaf Hear. Over 100,000 Pa. tients Treated in Ten Years, ‘The Doctor's practice fs mostly diseases of a cbronle nature, end cases civen pus fiicurable. Althousha dnrulunte of a medical untversity, his method of trea ment is peculiar tv himself, though there have been men in all ages who have had the same Magnetic Power ov Lsenue af the body and mind. Some OF HEALING." n ne: vitality pass Gnu that restores the and p mnt strong, healthy body toa weak lost or unequal circulation of the vial or neryoos itula. So poi fal ls this influence that persons who ars suifered from diseases whieh proaouncedineurable, and to whom ned- {eine has been aduiinistered with'no good effect, have been restoggd tu health In an tneredinte short oftime, [gwill not restora Fe loxt mapihar_of 69 body, or prforai uther tmoussibilittes, but It will ale Ways relteve pain, from whatever cause. ‘Thi ice is based upon tho most strict principies of ce; there 1s nothing miraculous or supern: 3 itis in harmony with all natural laws. By this treatment it takes but a few minutes for ine te cases Of almost any curable chronic dh and xo sure ls the elect that hut few diseases require # second treatment, except Deatnoas, Broken Bones, Dislocation, Bad Curvature of the Spine, and Suppurating Tamuzs: ‘The diseases which yield most readily to tho cura- Of this method ay practiced by me ure? 4 ia, Consi{pation, Asthma, Angina Pectoris, Cuiorosis, Loss of Voice, Rhoamatism, itheumatc Gout, Ltver Disense, all kinds of Sexual Weakness, Diapetes, Heauluche, Nervous Irritation of the Brain, Bronchitis, Caturrh, Diseases of the Heart, Ernptive Discases, Convulsions, tysterin, Neuratuts, ‘Thrash, Congestion of Spleen, Irritation of Stomach, Diseases ot Kidneys, Ulceration and Displacement of tke Womb, Morbid Appetite. Wakefulnuss, General Da- bility, Weak Spine, Nervous Depression, Difficult Breuthing, with pain in the Lungs; Weak’ and Sore Eyes of evory description. Noise in the lead, Di- chares from the Ears, Cancers, Tumors, Tapeworm, Piles, stuttering, ete., ete. . ‘Tho Doctor has, in’ connection with his pecniiar trentment, discovered a Specige for that terrible disease, Epileptic Fits, and ¢ particulurly invites those aillieted with the Spasms. * Y Varalysis. Cgnsumption, und General Dropsy are the most slow and uncertain with this treatmont Patienty afflicted with these have rarely been re stored: they are, however, always be: ‘Deat ness, when dependent upon the destruction of Tyne anum, ind total Blindness, dependent upon Parse lysis of Upc Nerve, are, in most cases, incurable. READ THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVITS: N. B.—No cases are published oxcept by permit jon. si REMARKABLE CURE—This Is to -cortify that I ave Hut spoken one wurd above a whisper ance seven years ago last August until I came to the rooms of Dr. O. Dodge Phelps. at the ‘Trumbull House, ia the City of Hartford, whan bs one treatment, not er- ceeding one minute, by The Ducter, my volco wat perfectly restored. Airs. RUBEXT A. MITCHELL, Hartford, Coon. We. the undersigned, citizens of Hartford, deine personally acquainted ‘with Mra, Mitchell, hereby cortify that the abuve statements are true. |. John Hubbard Hsq., Samuel 4, Butler, No.1 Hick - st; Henry W, Richaiund, Purest: Geo. B. Suriek- lund, Main-st.? Noah M. Risley. 71 Albany-av.; HB Bartlett, Proprietor ‘Trumbull House. ¢ THIS IS TO CERTIFY that I have not spoken ® Joutt word fur two years und tlre months until Lwest ty of Boston, smi was operated on by Dr. O. Doge Phelps, when, Witte — out medicine or instrument, he restored my ‘voice 1 lees than one minute. ‘SUSEPH A. TUCKER. ‘Lynn, Keb. 21, 1370. : Commonwoaith of Massachusctts—Essex, s—Feb Péergorally apponred the above-named Joseph A. ‘Tucker, and subseribed and made outh that the abor® certiticate fs true. Before me, —_'N. INGALL, Justice of the Pesce A Springfield Lady Hears n Sermon Presehed for the First Time in Thirty-three Years MRS. SAMUHL PURINGTON, No. 3 Hancoctav> Desf thirty-three years; used o trumpet ote yeary: about one Week ago received treatment aot st Sabbath uttended three diiferent churches, 96 rd the sermon for the first tmu in enirty-t “TAPE WORM. “Dr. 0; Wodze Phelps guarantees to remove tape Worm in from forty minutes to two hours, WIE THE HEAD, and untoss thy head ls remored oe worn will grow again. : . ° PILES. ‘This painful disease witl be treated by the Doctat without the knife, caustie, or lyasture, and wine pain vr loss of ime i bosiness. A cure guarantee ST. LOUIS TESTIMOZIALS. JOFIN ALT, 20 Mowari-st. St. souls Des te ears. Tried many physicians and fu Cored by one treatment ond prescription given DY Ur. Phelps, Will answer inquiries. Maurice Durkee, a Mongun-st.: Asthms 7yesry Recelved no beneiit from any treat@pnt until reset by Dr. Vhelps. Could nut sivep nights; but 09 ate. ep thi tive usen h ye answer taqu! 5 . iets Isll Closey-st, St. Louls: Suforod with iu S pinnths, ‘Could get no rellel » ir. Phe! Vos cured on Leon troubled since. Will enawer.t 2 ‘Mr. Haumearten, (I South Féurth-st: Saitered > - years with rbcuruxtism. Went to Pr. Pretps ona res : agu: iat two tetatments was eured, and bas 55! return o} answer inquiries, Hoeltstein, corner Prim snd Seconds totally deat 4 years from spo i je troatment, in the fempledes ae by Dr. Phels, he can now hear the ob the clock strike. Wil aswer Inquiries, gy, Win. stewart, Dariest. near Benton, Sath Teat 2'years, Constant nolée in the & and could not hear nowe, Instanuy rellevt herring restored. Will answer inquiries. syaed John Flattery, 2M South seventh-st: Paraliteg les; nv feeitny in it; cuald bear wo nave it plo, orcutund not fecwit. Arter two treatments Mi how, a perfect sease Of foeting. Will ans puries, Win Voster, 1324 North Sixteonth-st: Dost 20132 years in ony cary Gould not hear ansthing 0 sper stored by oe treatment by Dr. Faelps. W' Lo Graham, KS Giddle-st., was treated one 3 fe chroni¢diarcliwa. suicred nine mynine. Nee eued by Dr. Phelps in one wees, after Date skillor many physicinns, Will unswer inauiries, Jolin Messinger, Prov. dl a0 Feat Ae Afr. Jol with his tittle son,4 vears old ith w soub -cculled sexta ‘Treated by severat phystett ans benedtuntii treated by D bree weeks Wilt unser inquiries, ted 008 Mr. Henry Bollea, luk? Papin-xt., was) WOE hse Yenr nyo dy Dr. Phetgs for deafness, and in ain g ia Zyminuces bis hearine was restored. Wil gpswer quiries, ‘Mrs, Shuids, 1513 0'Falion-st.: Little son. es . exes years. Cured by Dr. Phelps une eat 220% sett 27 Letters of inquiry ure frequent. 1 OA egy ns to the prodabiiity of auecess unul 1 see ‘Letters of inquiry must contain stamp. Consultation Frees | |