Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1880, Page 12

rm THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1880—TWENTY PAGES PROFESSIONAL. REAL ESTATE. Good Samaritans Buying Prop- erty—They Are ‘Muss- merised.” Strong Demand for Business and Residence Invest- ments. Sales That Have Been and Others That Have Not Been Made. Tenants Anxious to Renew Leases at Once—Speci- * men Leases. Building Enterprises—Real Estate in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Etc. A brief but brilliant season of opera-bonfte in real estate came to an end last week. _The performers were two deacons of the Board of acres, southeast corner Western and ‘Tracy avenues, in Washington Heights, for S30v per acre; seventeen acres near South Engle- wood at $875 per acre; fourteen lots in their Stock-Yards Subdirision, from $275 to $400 each. They als» imade four other sales, amounting to $109,500, that will not be made public as to location at present. An offer of $100 a foot has beenl made and refused for twenty-five feet on Michigan avenue, between Twenty-third and ‘Twenty- second streats. A member of, the firm of Gray Bros. has purchased the northwest corner of Wood- lawn avenue and Forth-seventh street, known as the Bentley lot. The property was sold a year ago ut $50 per foot, and resold to Mr. Gray for $85 per foot, an advance of $35. It is understood to be Mr. Gray’s intention to build a handsome residence for himself on the site. 2 Messrs. E. C. Cole & Co, have made a sale of 298 fect on Indiana avenue, corner of Fif- tieth street, for $9,500, or $52.50 per foot. The same firm are conducting a sale of $100,000 in city property. Thére is at present some $5,000 difference between the would-be buyer and seller. Mr. J. W. Farlin has sold 122x122 feet on Kenwood avenue, at the corner of Forty- eighth street, for $35 a foot. Forty acres at the corner of State and One-Iiundred and Eleventh streets, west of Pullman, have been sold for $600 an acre. Mayor Harrison has sent to the Secretary of the Treasury for the title to the old Post- Office property. This has never been in the hands of the city, and the First National Bank people are anxious to see this docu- Trade, or, as they are better known, two speculative members of the Tenth Presbyte- rian Church. These gentlemen having amassed immense fortunes in cornering food between Sundays on the Board of Trade have retired from business, and are now de- voting a million or two of the hard-earned savings of other people to ameliorating the UNFORTUNATE CONDITION OF THE LAND POO! They’ have been carrying out their pious schemes by skipping around the real-estate agents and dealing with principals direct. The agents, who are always wicked men, are thus deprived of commissions, which they would waste in riotous living. The owners of property are offered a handsome advance on the price at which they are willing to sell. So delicately have these offers been made that in every case they have been accepted. Oneowner took $145,000 for a block his agent was offering at $125,000. In another case $58,000 was accepted as a compromise on $53,000, Not less than $50,000 has been distributed in this beautiful charity. + Chicago was too small a field for this phi- lanthropy, and the philanthropists went to Pirtsbure. Asthey were on a mission of mercy, the Tenth Presbyterian PAID THEIR EXPENSES. Their ostensible errand was to try a new preacher. In his congregation was the real object of their search, the unfortunate pos- sessor of one of thechoicest business corners that remain uhincumbered and unimproved in Chicago, This corner had been ufferedin vain to the sons of Belial at $120,000, and they had refused to take it, for it was not worth so much. “ We will give you $135,000 for your Chicago lot,” whispered the Chicago missionaries during the parson’s peroration. “T will take it,"ewas the reply; “write your agreement on the fiy-leaf of this hymn-book.” The trade was made before the benediction was pronounced, and the Chicagoans returned home, happy in the consciousness that they had been done again. When Hugh Maher’s project of BUYING UP ALL THE REAL ESTATE in Chicago was brought to a dead stop by his Josses at poker, played in the. Washington style, be was asked why on earth he had been purchasing so much realestate. “The fact is, 1 guess,” he said, “that Honoré muas- merised me.” The “influence” is abroad again. Some one has “ mussmerised” the deacons. Whodidit? Let no guilty man escape. ~ The business centres being scoured for desirable bargains in improved and.unim- proved property. A more hard-headed, UNSPECULATIVE MOVEMENT there never was. “Everything is looked at from the point-of view of income receivable at once, or, upon immediate improvement. What vacant property there is between the = c fe river, the lake, and Van Buren is being rap- | $y ap ®cre-bave.since been sold for $2,800 idly absorbed by strong capitalists. Build- ings that can be bought are being negotiated for, and are rapidly passing into hands tat mean to hold them. Attho present: tate thers will be very little transitory realestate ad fn the business centre by May 1. It will absorbed by permanent holders., Numbers of important negotiations are lt progress, ‘Among other sales consummatef during the week was that of * TUE LAKESIDE BUDDING atthe corner of Clark and Adams streets, ‘This was sold on Monday,4o Mr. Henry C. Rew for $300,000, Mr.“ -W.. Irwin has bought, for $125,000, ‘the sostheast corner of State and Van Buren strees. The frontage on State is 165 feet, and tly average depth is 100fect. This lot was the site of the Orient Hotel before the fire of WL The price just paid, $751 a foot, AN ADVINCE on previous valuations.fhe salo reported of the Ashland Block at fenortheast corner of lark and Randolph treets for $400,000, to Peter Brooks, of Bosyn, has not been made, Premature announcgient has been made of sale of the southgst corner of Dearborn and Monroe streets for $325,000. Mr. J. ML Conley 3s nepoti for the purchase of this plot for Mr. Hiverly, but no transfer has yetbeen made Jr. Haverly has signed a contract with tke,Union Square Theatre of New York to woduce “Daniel Rochat” Sept. 1 next, ing new theatre in this city, ‘The Monroe stret lot has a frontage of 131 feet on Monroe street and 190 on Dearborn, and would mae the best kind of a site for a first-class theaze. ._ RIBIDENCE PROPERTY 4s in réjnest and very extensive building enterprises ae now in consideration tobe put under wy in the spring, Acres remain quiet, 4¥eept in localities where new manu- facturing eshblishments like the harvester works at Clrbourn and Fullerton avenues, the carworksat Pullman, the malleable-fron worksat Ashland avenue and Twenty-sixth wee and -others, give a real demand for 01 . The presnt situation of real estate can be summed u} in the statement that there is NOTA TRACE OF SPECULATION in the marlet, and that those who are buy- ing are payhg only for what they expect to be able to ue at a profit. ‘ A significnt cireumstance is the anxiety of tenants o renew their leases at once tor the year bginning next February or May. Last year tley waited till the last day of the Jast month before saying what they wanted todo. Butthe prospect of active competi- tion for acwmmodations has convinced many of them shat their best policy is to secure their quarers at once. An advance of 10 per cent or sois no stumbling block in their way. M. Petrie has sold the southeast corner of RANDOLPH AND MARKET STREETS for the Starkweather heirs to IL J. Chris- | toph, being 60 feet on Randolph street by 180 feet deep to alley, with two-story brick build- ings, for $75,000; also 18x100 feet on North pels pia near Oak, for $1,200; also 31x40 feet on North State street, near Walton for $1,000. ‘ me E. S. Dreyer &Co. have made the follow- ing sales: One threestory marble-front house, No. %59 North La Salle street, for $7,250: 508100, southwest corner of Indiana and Noble streets, with three-story brick buildings, for $10,500; No. 144 West Ran- dolph street, $6,000; northeast corner of State and Twentieth streets, lot 293x100, with three frame houses, for $10,000; cottage and lot, S18 West Van Buren street, $1,600; uventy ment before expending a large amount of | money on the improvement of the property. Boston capitalists are among the most act- ive explorers for bargains in Chicago real A movenient has begun on NORTH CLARK, north of Division. This is in anticipation of the benefits from the junction of the State street and Clark street car lines from Divi- sion street to the park. Several sales have been made at prices ranging from $100 to $125 a foot. The southeast corner of Clark and Division, 59 feet, has been sold fur $200 a foot. ’ ‘ IN THE OTHER SALES of the week were 148x218 feet on Erie, north- east corner of Kingsbury to Huron, $16,291; 251x100 on Huron, southeast corner of Kings- bury, with 148x100 on Erie street, in same block, $21,466; 264 Michigan avenue, $11,000; 72x150 on Calumet avenue, south of Thirty-third, $5,400; 25x01 on Third avenue, north of Harrison, $5,000; 25x100 on West Madison, east of May, $9,275; 426x161 on Michigan avenue, northeast corner of Forty- sixth, $25,560; same, $27,690; 25x120 on Wa- bask avenue, north of Twenty-fourth, $5,500; 25x1S0 on Prairie avenue, south of Twenty- sixth, $6,000; 36x191 on State, north of Six- teenth, $5,580; 214x110, improved, on Canal, northeast corner of Wilson, $5,000; 20x124, improved, on Irving-plsce, north of West Harrison, $5,000; 39x110, improved, on Rush, south of Huron, $11,000; 2434x100, improved, on Fourth avenue, north of Harrison, $8,000; 600 feet to railroadon Hyde Park avenue, northwest corner of Fifty-seventh, $24,000; 5535x177, improved, on Prairie avenue, north of ‘Twentieth, $30,000; 21370 on North Clark, south of Wster, $5,000; 79}gx141 on West Madison, southeast corner of Clinton, $30,000; 2063¢x130 on North State, northeast corner of Burton place, $25,750; 45x60 on Market, south of Randolph, $18,750; 90x60 on Market, southeast corner of Kandolph, $37,500; 50x180 on Drexel boulevard, south of Brook, 35,000; 923{x199 on Hyde Park avenue, south of Oakwood, $9,300; 4244x177, improved, on Prairie avenue, north of Eighteenth, $23,500; 25x177¥, improved, on Prairie avenue, south of ‘I'wentieth, $10,000; 25x177}4, improved, north of Twenty-first, $10,000; undivided gne-half of 924431774 on Prairie avenue, southwest corner‘af Six teenth, $11,500; 1839 Indiana avenue, $10,600; 659 North La Salle, $7,250; 5894x306 on Wrightwood avenue, norébeast corner of Ashland avenue, $7,500. INVESTMENTS 1X ACRE PROPERTY have been fabulously profitable in Chicago. ‘The Blue Island Land & Building Company put $35,000 into Wasngton Leights in 1s¢s. ‘Their sales have eralized $850,000, and there are still 109 ses unsold. Eighty acres bought in 465«n Cicero by W. B. Ogden for pe are. -Eahd'ibout the Northwestern car- “shops, in’ Sec, 10, 39, 13, that was bought in 1872 at $1,000 an acre, bas sold at $750 to $1,000 ‘a lot. Twenty acres south of Thirty-first street were sold in 1865 for $54,000. A few months later it brought $108,000, The Chicago Real-Estate Journal gives the following as an illustration of the profit that can be made by retailing acres by the lot: About the lst of January iu the present year Messrs. S. H, Kerfoot & Co, subdivided and put into the market @ ten-acre biock belonging to a lo] .bounde irOOp, mn | West Eighteenth, and ‘Nineteenth streets, and having a cornet frontuge on Biue Island avenue, was subdivided into niuety-six lots, cach 24x125 materially inereased in amount over what ! was offered at the first sale. agents are becoming much more in favor of the new project, as they see that It will be a benefit to the general trade, in increased sales more readily made, when Call-Board prices can be quoted from each monthly sale. about tobe made through the Real-Estate Auction Exchange, and there seems no rea- son to doubt but what it will prove of great advantage to administrators, executors, Ro- ceivers, and even Trustees, to have a central gathering place like the Call Board to dis- Reai-estate In Philadelphia juditial sales are pose of their property, where the greatest number of buyers can be called together at one stated time. With a low upset price as a protection, and a fair, square, and open competition, every sale would be promptly contirrced by the courts, and people who bid would have an assurance of getting what they bought, without weeks of time lost in procuring a confirmation of . their purchase. Ifthe wanagement of the Call Board can bring abvut such a desirable result, they will be entitled to great praise. The attendance atthis second sale promises to be-much Jarger than at the first, which was very en- couraging for the preliminary effort, and the result will be watched with great interest by all engaged in real-estate operations, BUILDING OPERATIONS are being ecatried forward as rapidly as pos- sible, notwithstanding the severe weather. New plans of importance are being prepared at the architects’ offices for both business buildings and dwellings, The unimproved property now being purchased on State street, Fifth avenue, Third avenue, Wabash avenue, will almost all of it bo built on, and as many as possible of the buildings will be done befure May 1, in order to catch the ADVANCED RENTS EXPECTED next year. Brick is now selling at §9 per thousand. Among other new strictures ‘to be put up are a three-story factory, by I. C. Goodrich, at 6S, 70, and 72 Smith street, to cost $10,000; six dwellings by Jerome Beech- er, Esq., on Indianaavenne, near Thirty-third street, to cost $30,000; athree-story warehouse by J. Zangerle, at the corner of Weed and Dayton, to cost $5,500; and a store and flat building, 48x72, on State, between Thirty- fourth and Thirty-fifth, for Mr, D. H, Ham- mer, to cost $15,000. There were twenty permits taken out last week for the erection of new buildings. Fol- lowing are the only ones worthy of note: Patrick Enders, two-stery brick building at No. 271 Mohawk street, $2,000; Charles Miller, one-story brick dwelling at No. 346 Indiana street, $1,500;'H. C. Goodrich, to erect a three-story factory at Nos. 68, 70, and 72 Smith street; Jerome Beecher, to erect six two-story dwellings on Indiana avenue, near Thirty-third street, $30,000; J. Zangerle, three-story warehouse corner of Weed and Dayton, to cost $5,500; A. Sowka, two-story store and dwelling at No. 181 Cleaver, to cost $3,000; M. Hagerhorst, to erect a two-story dwelling, No. 541 Twelfth street, to cost $3,800, Ground has been broken for a block of four houses north of the northeast corner af Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth street. JACKSON STREET between Loomis and Ashland avenue proves that street improvement pays. This may be’ a somewhat exceptional case in consequence of its peculiarly favorable location and the fact that it is entirely clear of wooden houses. One year ago lots were freely offered here at $80 per foot. Since that time Jackson street has been thoroughly macadamized through- out nearly its entire length, which has at- tracted most of the West Side driving on to it, and all lots for sale’ upon it have been sold for $100 per foot and upwards, and itis now impossible to obtain any more at these prices. Fully a dozen fine houses will be built there during the coming summer, most of them for homes for the gentlemen building them. Mr. Wheelock proposes to erect an unusually fino rosidenoo. Mr. Jouuttutn Clark is pre- paring to do the same, Mr. Lawrence will build a fine house upon two lots just east of Ashland avenue. Mr, Furst, of tho firm of Furst & Bradley, is expecting to erect a block of seven fine houses. Mr. Patterson is “preparing to build himself a home there, and two wealthy Eastern gentlemen have just Purchased three lots with the intention of erecting themselves fine houses there. Street improvement pays. , About Jan. 1 the new police station now in course of erection on West Madison street, just west of Western avenue, will ke com- pleted and ready for occupancy. Its erection has been going on quietly for the past four weeks, and the walls are now up and the roof finished. A commodious barn has been built in addition to the station. LOANS, Loans are slowly coming Into request. The surplus of money is very great, About 6@7 per cent is now being pald for Joans when good security is offered. The following isa record of this week's tran: ations:. i feet. In the six months ending June JO, ult, this firm sold eighty-four out of the ninety-six lots. This entire block could have beea bought in bulk lust autumn for $45,000. The following statement of the retail prices which tho lots bought will show what a handsome profit there would have been to any one who had purchased the block at the bulk price above named: THE RETAIL PRICES were as follows: 28 lots at $600 each. + $15,600 32 lots at $700 exc! + 22400 5 lots at $500 en = 4,000 12 lots at $900 each. - 10,800 5 lots at $1.00 eacl 5,000 1 lot at $1,100... 1, 8 lots at $1,500 eacl 4, Making amount already realized Add to thia lots unsol 6 lots at $1,000 each. 1 lot at $900... 5 lots at $300 each. These figu: exactly as thoy were furnished by request of the Ieai- Metate Journal, by Messrs. S. H. Kerfoot & Co., from their sales: book and selling-map. These gentlemen on tho 2ist of June opened another block of the same size adjacent to the above, and owned by-the same parties, out of hich, up to the 30th ultimo, they have sold fifteen lots at prices a: ting $15.050,0n which basis the entire block will bring them at retail 7, BUSINESS RENTS. J.C. Sampson & Co., of No. 171 La Salle street, have negotiated the tollowing leases in the last few days: The five-story’and base- ment building Nos. 144 and 146 Wabash ave- nue to Shoyer & Co. fora term of years at ‘$5,000 per annum; for Haskell & Barker the buildings Nos. 187 and 139 and 141 and 148 Wabash avenue to Warner Bros, and C. M. Linington, at a rental of $5,000 each for a term of three years; the building No. 105 Lake street, temporarily, to Lord, Stouten- burgh & Co.; thestore and basement No. 137 East Madison street to William S, Golsen, at $2,000 a year; store No. 103 East Madison street, temporarily, to Pratt & Co., at the res This week. || Previous week. 0.) Amount.||3No.) Amount. Mortgages ........} 45/$ 81.868]! 391g _ 90,899 Trust-deeds - 85] A61;6u5)] 83] 131/807 Totals 30/§ 2 rieils 295,706 In isi, Ws goratsr|| ‘oll? esse The South Division Committee on Streets and Alleys on Thursday afternoon met the property:holders and. other persons interest- edin PAVING THE STREETS. Arguments were heard on the recommenda- tions of the Committee in their report print- ed in full last Sunday, and several new streets Were named for improvements. As the re- Sult of the conference, the Committee at the special meeting of the Common Council rec- ommended, as covering the whole ground of theirreport and the suggestions of property- owners, that the Commissioner of Public Works be instructed to prepare ordinances for the improvementof the following streets: TO BE PAVED WITH STONE BLOCK. Franklin from Lake to South Water, Twelfth from Wabash to Clark, La Salle from ‘Lak South Water. as es CEDAR BLOCK. State from Taylor to Thirty-ninth, Thirty-first from Cottage Grove to State, Sixteenth’ from State to Clark, Cottage Grove ‘from Thirtieth to Thirty-ninth, Twenty-sixth from Cottage Grove to Halsted, Wentworth from Archer to Twenty- second, Wentworth from Thirty-third to Thirty- Sifth, Hanover from Archer to Twenty-ninth, Market from Van Buren to Congress, Twenty- ninth from State to Wentworth, Oakwood from Ellis to Iitinois Centrai Railroad, Congress from Market to Fifth avenue, Charies from Franklin to Fifth avenue, Rhodes from Douglas to Uni- versity pluce. ASPHALTUM BLOCK. Twenty-second from South Park avenue to State, alley in block bounded by Twenty-second sod Ewerty third streats and Michigan and In- ana avenucs, Twenty-cighth from Mi avenue to Wabash. fae ‘ehlsan CADAM, MA\ Prairie avenue from Thirty-first to Thirty- fifth, Thirty-seventh from Lake toGrand Boule. yard, Fourteenth from Indiana avenue to Stato, Twenty-elghth front State to Wabash avenue, Mabash from Thirty-fifth to Thirty-ninth, Dhirty-second from Stute to South Park avenue, ‘Thirty-third from State to Ilinois Central Rail road, Phirty-fourth from State to Indiana, Culu- met from Twentieth to Twenty-first, Twenty- rate of $3,000 per annum; lofts of building Nos. 137 and 139 Wabash avenue to Beek & Bucher for $2,500 a year; store and basement Nos. 257 and 255 Wabash avenue to Dwight Bros. for wholesale paper business; the five-story and basement building ‘Nos. 255 and 257 Wabash avenue to the Singer Sew- ing-Machine Company for a tenn of five years at a total rental of $25,000; for Rand, McNally & Co., the stores and basement Nos, 152 and 154 Monroe street, to George H. Sanborne & Son at $3,000 a year; and lofts of same building to Eastern shoe house for $3,000 a year. THE RRAI-ESTATE CALL Boarp, We are in receipt of the catalog of the second sale of the Call Board for Wednesday next, Its typographical appearance is much ii t one, the upset prices i More clearly marked, and a prominent viptive heading placed to each piece of property, The aggregate Value, the number first from Illinols Central Railroad to’ Michigun, Indiana avenue from Fourteenth to Fifteenth. CURBED AND FILLED. South Dearborn, from Sixteenth to Twenty- second; Butterfield, from Sixteenth to Twenty- second; Seventeenth, from State ta Clark; Nino- teenth, from State to Clark; Twenty-first, from State to Clark; Thirty-ffth, from Michigan to Halsted; Michigan, from Thirty-tifth to Thirty- The Committee also recommended that the Corporation Counsel be fustructed to apply for Judgments in accordance with ordinances pre- viously passed and assessments made for the paving of Twentieth. from State to Archer; Zwenty-second, from Wentworth to river: Hub- bard. from State to Michigan; Park, from State to Michigan. : ‘The West Park Commissfoners have re- solved that no money be expended by th Board for the improvement of i i WASHINGTON STREET as a boulevard unless the money is recelved frorf the property-owners on the ‘street. They have also instructed the Improvement Committee to prepare an ordinance immedi- of ivet frontage, und the square feet all ately, according to law, for the assessment and collection of the amount of money nec- essary to make the boulevard improvement on Washington street, from Halsted street to Central Park. The Improvement Committee were also requested to submit an ordinance embodying the action necessary forcondem- |, nation of lands for the opening of the South- west boulevard connecting Douglas Park with the South Park boulevard system. The width of the boulevard fs to be 250 feet. OUTSIDE ACRES, according to the Real-Estate Circular, are not much looked after in severely cold weather, and, recognizing this fact, the man- agers of the Real-Estate Call-Board have ad- vised owners of such property not to list it earlier than for their sale of Jan. 19. Some agents, however, report more inquiry for acre property than a month ago, and there can be no doubt of large transactions and a great improvement in outside lands in the very early spring. NEW YORK. The New York Real-Estate Record says that “‘a very large number of the wealthy and influential men of California are taking up residences in New York, to avoid the ex- tremely heavy taxation meted out by the new and quite extraordinary Constitution of the former State. Several wealthy men, after having paid a general tax of 50 per cent high- erthan in most other States in the Union, had to submit to a special tax also of great magnitude. Among those to leaye California are Mr. D. O, Mills, a millionaire, and Mr. Crocker, who is the largest taxpayer of San Francisco, having paid tax on $19,000,000 there. He considers the tax imposed upon him in California unwarranted, and regards the laws in that State as they now exist unprecedented and unreasonable. The special tax levied upon him last year was over $500,000, both on his personal and real estate, and the result is that though, as yet, heonly makes his headquarters in one of the up-town hotels of New York, he will ere Jong be known as the owner and occupant of ons of the grandest private mansions on one of the city’s Jeading avenues. Mr. Crocker’s house tin San Francisco was one of the largest and best-appointed houses there, and he does not intend to be eclipsed, even by the Messrs. Vanderbilt, when he begins to build in New York. Mr. William H. Belden has within a year and a half disposed.of so much of his property in California as he could find a market for, and since that time he has pur- chased several parcels in New York~all ex- cellent business property—in Greene street and Spring street. Not only from California COMES THIS INFLUX But people from Colorado anu Nevada are flocking here also, Even in other Western. States there are a large nuinber of people dis- gusted with local laws and anxious to come and settle in this vicinity. Of the eminent California firm of Stanford, Crocker & Sharon, as we have shown, those who are able to get away do so .as soon as they possi- bly can. Even Mr. Chaffee, from Denver, Colo., has bought in Fifty-eighth street a fine residence for $53,000. Mr. J. W. Mackey, it will be remembered, made an offer for the Bonner Block on Fifth avenue, between Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh streets, last yeas, but owing to the interference of others the purchase came to naught at the time, but when he returns from France with his family he will, no doubt, secure avery eligible block for his private residence.” AT TOLEDO last week negatiations were completed for the purchase by the Connecticut Life-Insurance Company from Mrs. H. O. Holmes, of this city, of property valued at $325,000. The property inciudes the celebrated Hall Block, at the corner of Jefferson and St. Clair streets, the finest building in the city, a busi- ness block on Ottawa street, and fifty acres of land in the Fifth Ward. This is one of the largest land sales in the history of the city. Mrs. Holmes is the widow of the late Jumes Hall, formerly of Cincinnati. BOSTON REAL ESTATE is advancing. The Commercial Bulletin says: ‘“ The average advance in rents of de- sirable store property of which the leases are now expiring is 25 per cent. Ih some in- stances a much greater rise is obtainéd, but this is where the previous leases had been placed on short time at very low figures. ‘The enhancement in values of city property, however, is by no means confined to dwell- ing-houses on the back bay, or to stores in the leading wholesale districts. There has been a corresponding improvement in rentals of desirable retail stores and tenement houses at the South End, and in other quar- ters of the city.” IN SAN FRANCISCO, according to the Chronicle, there is acon- tinued activity in real estate and improve- ments which is very gratifying. A railroad, which has long been needed, is projected from Third street to Twenty-fourth, om Har- rison, connecting with the ferry from Third by way of Folsom and Spear streets. The district which will be benefited is rapidly growing, and will receive an additional im- petus from-the establishment of cheap and rapid conveyance. Property on Golden Gate avenue is coming into demand, and several recent sales of some magnitude are recorded, The Directors of the Me- chanics’ Institute are seeking a good location for the erection of permanent buildings in which to hold their annual ex- hibitions, and they announce their desire to purchase a tract of not Jess than six fifty- varas inextent, Andrew J. McCreery, the prominent real-estate operator, has author- ized his architect to prepare plans for a large edifice to be built on the fifty-vara lot at the corner of Pine and Davis streets, and it is Tumored that contracts will be signed and the work of coustruction begin at once. Sey- eral artesian wells are being sunk. Jndgo Hastings intendssinking one, with a capacity of 25,000 gallonsa day, on Harrison street, near Fourth; the owner of the Nevada House, on Sixth street, is said to contemplate similar action, and a livery-stable on Brennan, between Second and Third, is also to be supplied. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The following instruments were filed for record Saturaay, Dec. 11: CITY PROPERTY. Mather st, 244% ft © of South Halsted, 8 f, SU4XUB Tt, dated April 2, 1878 (humes J. Falls et Nobleay 5 tb3) it, Wf 2 ft, improved, dated Dec. 10 (Wenzel Majowski to Martin Pinderski).... Indianu ay, 143 ft s of Twolfth st, ¢ 385 rt, dated Nov. 18 (L.C. P. Freer to Thomas Primross).... dee Necevas Nebraska st, 50 ft o of Loomis, n 1, 5x18 ft, dated Dec. 10 (Muster in Chancery to John Twerenbold).............. oe Lytle st, 262 {ty ot West Taylor, e 1, 50x 455 ft, dated Dee, 7 (Johanna Mackey to Annie H, Clarke)..... al. to the American acer West Thirteonth st, 100 ft ¢ of Robey. nt, $SxLA Th, dated Dec. 10 (C. H. Kehl to West Thirteenth st, w of +O 1, 25xL% ft, dated Dec. 10 (same to Jo- seph McMaster) wees, ‘The promises No. 363 Grove! 2 dated May 18 (Cutherino E. Hunt to Marle G. Merrill)... see ceececee cece eeee Grant place, J ft w of Hurlbut st, nf, wixby ft, dated Dec. Ht (Charles N. Hale to John Sehaub)....2.... stzeszs * 2,000 Larrabee st, n w cor of Grove. e f, 73x100 ft, improved, dated Dec, 6 (Thomas Huber to Michael Wehret).......... 2. arrubee st, same as the above, dated Dee. 9 @lichuel Webrer to Thomas 24 24 ft 8 ty fifth. wf Sox 123 ft, dated Dec. 10 (frunk ‘Wells to William Bourke)... . wegtiee sees Superior st, 10) ft w of North Weis, 8 f, 2x19 ft, duted Doc. 11 (Daniel Carroll James Stack)... ieee ee 4 Ashland av, 140 ft sof Nortn av, wf, 8x 1H {t, dated Dec. 11 (William W. Myers to Frederick Krumsieg)..... see Milwaukee av, 255 ft n w of Sangamon st, 8 w f, 25x150 ft, improved, dated Dec. 11 (Jobn G. Esher to Elizabeth Kling)..... ‘The premises No. 318 West Van Buren st, eae 7 (Catherine E, Hunt to John Chestnut st, 135 tt w of North Market, 8 f, 295x109 ft, dated Dec. 9 (John Royle pe AB: Waldo) ayeneee _ eo Phe rairie av, @© cor of Eighteenth st, w f, jerusalem to Nathaniel Falebank) .... 12. sscseccssssersvecese sone 6,100 250 65,000 of Aberdeen, West Harrison at, 115 ft (Daniel Gor- 8 f, 25x140 ft, dated Noy don to William MeCoy) : SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Forty-third st, 8 ¢ cor of Murray, nf, 75x150 ft, dated Dec. 7 (Igaac Waixel to William Geagan).... ace Atlantic st, 310 ft 3 of ¥ , Of, 26 4-lux1% ft, dated Dec. 4 (I. A. H.'and J. Rt. Prinale to John Morrissey, Deaplaines st, 175 tt n of Forty-tifth, wf 25x125 rt. dated Nov. 23 (Henry Cook to H. F. Ketcham). sececostsershassea Desplaines at, 250 ft_n of Forty-fifth, ef, oe it, dated Doc. 7 (same fo G. B. Desplaines st, 25 ft n of Forty-tifth, Wt, 75x125 ft, dated Dec. T (same to Phebo Bouchard). aricece Michigan av, 33% ft's of Forty-fourthat, Ww f, 534x161 ft, dated Nov. 2 (J. E. and D. J. Hubbard to Lyman _E. Howard). Emerald st, 200 ft 3 of Forty-fifth, ef, 50x115% ft, dated Junel (Joho H. Bangs to Louis Swift).. The premises Ni a Qct. 1s (Stephen G. Swisher to William Stein)........... ebasen oak Tho premises No. 1333 Bowen av, dated Sept. 4 (James Eddy to Willlam Stein).. e premises No. 1537 Bowen av, dated Sept. 6 (James Eddy to Heman Spaid- SUMMARY FOR TUE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for rec- ord during the week ending Saturday, Dec. 11: City—Sales, 108; consideration, $574,573. North of city limits—Sales, 3; consideration, $15,000. South of city limits—Sales, 27; con- sideration, $129,381. West of city limits— Sules, 3; consideration, $2,700. Total sales, 140; total consideration, $721,659. IS HE SHORT? Unpleasant Rumors in Regard to Mr. Henry Enderis. * The chargeis made that Mr. Henry En- deris, who was for some time Swiss Consul and conducted a flourishing book and pub- lishing business at the corner of Clark and Lake streets, is short in his accounts. As Swiss Consul, Mr. Enderis was in the habit of holding considerable sums of money, either belonging to Swiss people living in this coun- try who had Inherited something from rel- atives who died abroad, or for persons living in Switzerland who had in- herited money from persons dying in this country, These amounts were often con- siderable, being as large, in one instance at least, as $15,000 or $20,000, ‘The assertion is nade that Mr. Enderis has in his hands these collections to a large amount, perhaps as high as $15,000, and that he is unable to turn them over to the parties to whom they right- fully belong. Mr. Enderis, who went into bankruptcy some time ago, remained as Consul for a short time atter his failure, and it is alleged that many of these collections which have not been accounted for were made subsequent to that time. One of the cases mentioned is that of three boys named Roethlisberger, whose uncle died in Switzerland about a year ago. is said, that he also owes $1,500 toa French Swiss living in Kankakee, and_ $2,000 to still another coun- tryman. Mr. Enderis, who should be best able to give information on these points, is unfortunately out of town. He left week before last, stating to hisclerk that heshould send ina statement of his trust-funds. That, however, has not been received, put the clerk is working on the books and expects that by Monday he will be able to give some trustworthy figures. A Mr. Enderis, who worked himself up from the proprietor of a small bookstore on. the West Side to the head of a large establishment, has always enjoyed a good Teputation, and his friends are es unwilling to believe that he has been guilty of any offense. Ie is represented by Mr. ‘Theodore Schintz, who, declines to say any- thing on the subject. Some of the other par- ties are represented by a Mr, Thompson, who says that the suspicions of the persons for whom he acts were aroused about six weeks ago. He has been unable to find Mr. Enderis, although he has searched for him assiduously, . Not long after the failure, Mr. Enderis was found very sick at the Revere House under circumstanees which might, had he been out of his mind, have indicated attempted suicide. Only a short time ago it was re- ported, that, while stopping at.a Milwaukee hotel, he was nearly suffocated from having blown out the gas in his room. It was pos- sible, therefore, that mental rather than pecuntary troubles may have something to do with fis alleged faifure to settle. CENTRAL CHURCH. An Active Demand for Seats. The sule of seats yesterday to the present holders of sittings in Prof.Swing's Centra! Church reached the handsome sum of $9,713.50, althouzh only those who desired to rétain thelr last year's seats were permitted to make a selection. To- morrow morning and afterward tho sule will be unrestricted, and all who aesire to secure sit- tings for next year’s services will have an op- portunity to engage their places. The income from the seats itis expected will this year be considerably in excess of the sum realized last year, because the permancnt congregation bas greatly increased since the church has been holding its services in the Central Music-Hall. ‘The boxes for the next year have been taken by Herbert Ayer, W. _E. McHenry, Potter Palmer, David Swing, W. S. Henderson, J. C. McMullin, Perry H. Smith, John Wentworth, C.S. French, E. C. Fisher, H. Rice, FP. B. Stone, and J. W. Wadsworth. Among the large list of nearly one thousand seat-hulders who have taken thoir old seats are to be found the names of many of our prominent citizens, including N, | . Fairbank, George Sturges, George L. Duniap, Hi. T, Earnes, O. F. Puller, D. B. Fisk, W. 3S. Henderson, William 31, Hoyt, N. Ludington, J. . Lyon, Lattin, 5. |. Phelps, Ferd W. Peck, John G. Shortall, Wirt Dexter, J. Mf. Walker, C. L. Adama, A. H. Andrews, ‘Georza Adams, W. W. Boyington, 'T, M. Barrett, G. S. Bullock, K. F, Booth, J. H. Rell, W. A. Buldwin, William Brewer, C. W. Barnes, G. Brownell, F. M. Blalr, Willtum Baker, Robert Brown, S. R. Boardman, Gen. A. L. Chetiain, A. S, Campbell, H. 8. Carter, A. S$. Cook, C. P. Coggshall, George Chandler, L. L. Coburn, J. K. Conrad, #. R. Chandier, P. R. Chandler, Ernest Cuthbert, C. H. Chapin, J. O. Cottrell, Eugene Cary, L. P. Conger, A. C. Cody, J. W. Cochrun, C. C. Chase, W. H. Colvin, J.C. Duolevy, Asa Dow, William De A. Dibble, E. F. Dycke, J. 8,000 adge, C. W. Dowd, N.C. Draper, Dr. Dyas, C. N. Deitz, Mrs. M.A’ Dickenson, J. S. Duoham, D. W. Eldred, J. W. Elsworth, R. E. Farnham, F. L. Fake, A. J. Gosa, C.E. Gorham, Frank Gilman, L. Gou! Hughes, C. J. Hambieton, W, L. Hubba . Hoyt, N. C, Hills, N. B. Harrison, Reuben Hatch, G, M. Howe, Dr. ishum, and Dr. Johnson. One of the features of ‘the sale of seats which is notable is the purchase by severul of the large firme in the wholesalo trade of the city of seats for their clerks, wo are thus provided with church privileges for theyear. The fashion ‘wus set lust season by Phelps, Dodge & Palmer, and this year it is being followed by a numbor of other firms whose principal. members are regular attendants. bi $a A CARD FROM COMMISSIONER WALLER, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Curcaco, Dec. 11.—Several articles have ap. Peared in your paper within the last few days concerning the question of private sewers, al- leging that there was a conflict goingon. between Commissioner De Wolf and City-Attorney Grin- nell on the one side and Commissioner Walleron the other. I desire to say, and feel called upon to say because of these repented articles, that what Commissioner Do Wolf and City-Attorney Grinocll may be doing, or may have done in the matter referred to, I do not know; neither of these gentlemen has spoken a word to me on the subject, aud if there be any such confilct £ have not been and am nota party toit, being con- stuntly engaged—indeed, nearly overwhelmed— with the pressing legitimate duties of my oflice. Let any oue look at tho proceedings of the City Council and he will see what a large Proportion of the city work is allotted to the Department at Dreseat under my charge, In au article in your Paper of Friday last the following appears: Mr, Ellers' views generally, h 5 eater cane BET UTG® fe ory of eWer-Kas, no! 2 struction of privute drains undor exiatinz ordinances, Dut says that since his attention bus teen culled to tho Jaw be bas been enfurcing it the best ‘The task, however, Is w larxe one, ay “sine ae a Waller cues not agree with him en- we. ghanges in ‘their. phruseology—-whic das handed tho saudieiary munities len now going on. were yester- ‘Comumitteod| vis- fh “eed addiional ney 4 thoroughly do the work, whicu will be usked of t Council in the making of the annual appropriation: dir. Ellers ts the present Superintendent of the Sewerage Dopurtment. 1 clipped so much of ourarticle as is quoted above and geat it to ir. Eilers, witn the following note: CuIcago, Dee. 10—G, Hinvard Bl [- Pa ae Rettentge Sim: T clip the abare ane 7 TWIBCNE of this morning. Will you please examing and state whether or not this is true, or it any part ofitis true, and if so, what part? Plows: ii isaton also maton thie ranertele fom, hick Hotta cuves se ave ordered a change iz wi 1@ questions reforred to. W’ stato whether this Is true OF Dot? Rese Tu yours of this morning, and note contents. The ne paper excerpt which you inclosed and referred to, and whieh fT attuch hereto, 13 not true in su far as am personally concerned; neither amt the purty re- ferred to as disugreelug with you in togard to" the construction of existlug ordinances, and for the very simple reason that Ihave never had any converan- ton with yow gn tho subject. You also say that the article from which the excerptis taken “states that ‘ou have ordered achonge from the custom of the epartmentin dealing with the question referred ty," and you ask me if such is the fact, ete. I answer that I don’t know what the custom of the Department was previous to March, 180, but Ido knuw that since that period you have issued no orders on the subject, nor bave lever heurd you say 9 word in, relation thereto. Yours, etc., G. HOWARD ELLEI, Talso sent the following note to Mr. Daven- port, who bus immediate charge of the work of the Department which touches this question: CHICAQO, Dee. 10.—B, P. Davenport, Esq., {n Charge of Devartivent of Private Drams-Sim: Will you please reply in writing to the following questions: (i) How long lave you beon engaged In the Sewer: Byo Deparunent of the city? (2) You have especial charge of the Dopurtmout of Private Drains, and is- suv all permits for connecting same with the public Sewers, have you not? (3) When were the rules un- der which vou are now acting mude, and by whom, x0 far as you know or beilevy? (4) Has there been any change whatever In these rules during the presont administration, und sro you uot now discharging the same duties under the same rules und restrictions prucliely that you have always done? Pleas answor und explicitly. He: 2 Blas eesti ut ena Sage eR, To which I recetved the following reply: CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Charles S. Waller, Esq., Commis- Honer uf Public Works—DEAN Sit: In reply to ques- tions propounded by you ina communication o| present date, the folluwing ls respectfully submitter WD My services date from Aug. 1, 101. (2) 1 have under the directiom of the Superintendent of the Seweraye Department. (3) In the year 1853, when the State Loxgislature passed the Sewerago law creating u Board of Sewerage Cummissioners. ‘The tirst Board of Seworsye Comumlysioners uppotnted by the Gov- ernor selected Mr. H.S. Chesbrough (ex-City Engl- neer) to prepare a plun of drainage for thls city, which was subsequently adopted, ‘To Mr. Chesbrouzi was charged che duty of devising rules ‘and regula- ons governing private druinuye to protect the public sewerage system. After carefully comparing the rules and regulations in force In various cities having practical experience on this wabject, the present rules and regulations were ado and. I believe. have en materially altered. (4) There has been no change or alteration of the rules und regulations during the present udministration, und to the best of iny ubuity fam discharging the duties of ofice undor the existing rulesasin former years. Very respect- fully yours, B. F. DAVENPORT. From the foregoing I think you should be sat- istied that your urticle of Friday does me in- justice, The pith of the entire article as against me isin the statement that the Department of Public Works “had always exercised absolute control in such matters unui Mr, Waller was put at its head, who had ordered @ ingé lest there might be trouble or the giving of offense to some one.” It is seen by the statements of tho officers in charge of these matters thut I have ordered no change whatever fo the long-estub- shed rule of the Department in this regard; but there Is cleur proof of this outside of these statements,—proof showing that whatis the rule and practice now has been the rule and practice all along, and that if I am to be blamed it ts not tor departing from the rule or ordering q change io it, but for adbering to 1t as I found it, and in construing the laws on the subject as my predecessors did, which I do. In the report from this Depariment for tho year 1878, Mr. Beazette Wijliams, who was tho chief of the Sewerage Depsrtment. and who had been for eeveral years under Mr. W. H. Clarke, the former chief of the Sewerage Department for fifteen years preceding the appointment of Mr. Williams, says. It is preaumabie that Mr, Williams understood the custom and prac- tice of the Department concerning thisquestion, and the proper coustruction of the Inws under which be was acting and under which Mr. Clarke had acted und under which lam now acting, for they are the same: ‘The present method of private drain superviston, while vastly better than ‘none, really amounts to lttle more than keeping a recurd of where drains are Jald, and to n purtiu! enforcement of some genoral rules governing the matter of laying. In both its in- tent and uccumpliahment It ls mainly a protection of the publéc sewers neniout the admission of substances which tend tu deterturate their quality or obstruct the Sow of somara, mather than a kunrantes to thie prop- erty-owner that the work in tts pln and execution is such as to Insure linmunity from the escape of sewer- as. Itty evidently a physical impossibility for four rita inspectors to persunally inspect in one sear the laying of from 1.50) to 2.0 drains spread over all parts of the city, ..nd especially s0 a8 probubly four- Bfths of the number are luld during six months of the ear. Kvenif it were posable to have an intelligent, faithful Inspector on the ground during. the Quole time the draining und plumbing for eaeh bulld~ ing wus being done. unless the city exercised more gontrol over private atfuirs than it has done hereto- fore. but tittle would be gained In the interest of health. ‘The custom is to allow the owner, or drain B; never laser. as it practiontly amounts to. almost free exer- else of hls discretion inside of the street ines, except so far as relates to the exclusion of certain sub- stances from the sewers. The above isa plain statement of the truth, exactly as Lunderstand it. This {s the Depurt- ment of Pubic Works, and it exercises nofurther control over private drains thun is necessary to protect the public sewers from injury. That there is necd for legisladon and a better system for the laying and ventilation of private sewers to escupe the evil effects of sewer sas in private | residences is perhaps ‘rue, especially with houses and blocks built with the intention of being rented. But the system has not yet been devised, nor have the necessary laws been passed to uphold and enforce it. When such system shall be inaugurated, that it will be a sanitary measure I presume no one willdeny, and 1donotthink it will be assigned to the Department of Public Works to attend to, unless it shall hereafter be determined to put all the work of the city in this Department. Cuantes S. WALLER. THE MIGHTY DOLLAR, For The Chicago Tribune. Col. Fair carried tho day in Neyada by what is known in that primitive region as a ‘coin cam- paign.”” Ormsby County was the only one 10 the State in which the Republican ticket pulled through. In Eureka County a Republican ma- jority of 20 wns reversed by the open and ‘profligate use of money. Men of some standing in the Republican County Committee sold out to Fair, and wero expelied from their party assecia- Uons after the election. The churcoual-burners, mostly Italians, were bought up like sheep. The San Francisco Cnromice saya: “Most of the miners st firm, and would not be tempted. Woodchoppets received an average of €vapieco to come in and vote for Fair, and the suma puid to outsiders in ¢! ty i bed for Fair rated E CO! ig to the Carson Appeal, “Fair gave his agent instructions to ascertain what Sharon was giving, and go $10 higher. Voters in remote mining camps were paid from $30 to $100 each to support Fair.” It is said that the ultimate object of the campaign is to tight the ratlroad monopolies in the Legis- Tature; but Fair of course has his ambition tired, and intends going to the United States Senate. An investigution of the means by which his election was obtained might be dmong the possibilities when a Republican mufority is #3- sured in the Senate, but for the tact that he is not chosen directly by the ple. The Senate will hardly go buck of the action of tho Legis- le toinquire how that body was chosen.— deaqn Tribune, Behold the King, the Tyrant of the Nation, Whom millions worship at the present time, Who ruins honest fame and reputation, And stains men’s souls with crime; ‘Whose power destroys the noblest resolution; Who puts a'stain upon the soul of youth; Who tills tho world with wide and wild confusion; ‘Who warps the sacred truth. Who makes men prey like beasts upon each other; Whe anes the friend untrue, the judge njust; Who makes tho merchant all his manhood smother, ‘The statesman lick the dust. He comes into the study of the pastor, eae Us Bs soul with roridlingas. and pride— ‘or him the traitor once betrayed el ‘The rabble crucified! me Maar Greats the King! His charfot wheels now rum- le, ligating the mighty }onarch, day by day, ver che poor, the helpless, and the hi . Who fall within his way. eee ae yet mon follow, honor, Nor pause to think, ner count the f ful cost; They bend, they bow, Semaulv they throw themselves be- fore bim, And svon are crushed and lost. Our stern forefathers fought and bore privation With patriotism pure and conscience clear, To found the grandest and the noblest Nation ‘The world hus ever seen! and obey him, Their hearts were brave; no British gold could bind them; Leaving their bloody footprints in the snow, They puarched to glory, with no foe behind em But thot was long ago! For men, to-day, at sight of gold will barter mee, manhond on el wl, in the slough. e Spartun spark is des Hare is the mart ‘To patriotism now! ee . Be Gold is the King, and to the Mighty Dollar Our ep horn nies ike caterpillars crawl; places on their necks his iron collar, And leads them like a thrall. Up to the ballot-box he boldly driv And his dishonest bidding they aye Of freedom, truth, and honor, he deprives thém— O whata sight ‘are thoy! Where to the world is manhood greater, grandor, ‘Than that with moral courageto withsand The gout, Corruption, falsehood, fraud, and slande That vilify the land? Honor to those, of every clan and factio! Who saved the Nation from the wreck of Time; Whose virtues kept our people from distraction; ho helped to crush a “crime”! Bone ts Freedom! Down with Fraud and Gam- ont Let Virtue grace ber pedestal again! While Truth and Manhood triumph over Mam- nD, Our Country shall remain! But, when the Money-King shall be the master— When all mankind shall bend beneath his sway; The world, and all within it, In disaster Shall sink in shame awuy! ‘Then‘svon the light of Freedom will In the dim darkness of Etertat Frau Unless the Earth is purified by fire ire apecttul CHARLES 8. WALLER, To which he very prompt - lowing repins Ty promptly returned the fol: CHICAGO, Leo 10~C. 3, Waller, Eeg—Srn: 1 have L MILLARD AVENUE STATION, And sanctified through Gud! Evoese J. Batu, Chicugo. FIVE WEEKS ON HIS BAGK With Sciatica and Lumbago Unde the Treatment of a Prom. inent Physician With- out Relief, With the Aid of To Men Reached Dy 0. Dodge Phelps’ Parlors, 243 State Street, And with Ten Minutes’ Treatment Walk Down Stairs Without " Help of Any One, And in Three Days Went Home to Peru. The Gentleman’s Name Ig Warren Sweety, Mr. Wm, P. Lockwood, of 153 Henry-St,, Wag Present, and Will Certify to th . Truth of the Above Slatemeat, NO MEDICINE GIVEN Except in Those Cases Where, : on Examination, # It May Be Found Necessary to Prescribg a Certain, Blood Remedies Which, : Combined with My Peculiar Magnetig |. Operation, Accelerate a Perfect and Radical Cyre, Dr. O. Dodge Pheips, of New York, Practica} Physician for Chronic Diseases, Late of Philadelphia, New Orleans, 8, Louls, Cincinnati, Hartford, Springs field, Boston, and Baltimore, Md, Has Taken Parlors In the Singer Building, 243 State-St., Corner Jackson, for About Sixty Days, ‘Where Those Who Are Able and Willing to Pay ¥sp Come from 10 s,m, to 6 p. m. Each Day. No Surgical Operations Performed—Chrestg Diseases Cured—Acate Pain Instantly. Relieved—The Lame Walk—The Bind See—The Deaf Hear, Tho Doctor's practice s rostiy diseases of x chronlé nature, and cases given up as incurable. Although § radoste of » medleal unlversity.bls method of teat= trent is peculiar to himself, though there have been men in allages who have bud Power over thos disease of the body and mind. Some call it the “GIFT OF HEALING,” yet few nave poe sessed it to such an extent over, nearly al) diseases and persons. Itis life and vitality passed from 8 strong. healthy body toa weak one that restores tbe lost or unequal circulation of the vital or perros Huld. | Su powerful ta this influence thut persons who have for many years suffered frum diseases whlch have been pronounced incurable, und to wpom medi cine has been administered with no suod efec tae been restored to health in an Incredible short space of time. lt will not restore a just member o! body, of perform «ther impossibilities, but it will ale ways relieve pain, from whatever cause. based upon the most strict principles of sciences there is nothing miraculous or supernsiural about if, it isin harmony with all nataral laws, By this treatment tt takes but a few minutes for In- veterate cases of almost any curgbdle chronic disease and so sure ts the elfect that but few diseases requint & second treatment, except Deafness, Broken Bunes Dislocation, Bad Curvature of the Spine, and Suppar ating Tumors. ‘The diseases which yield most readity to the curs tive uxency of this method as practl ry me are: Dyspepsia, Constipation, Asthma, Ansina, Pectoris Chlorosiy, Loss of Volee, Rheumatism, Rheamalls Gout, Liver Disense, all kinds of Sexual Weakness, ‘Diabetes, Headache, Nervous Irritation of the Bafa, Bronchitis, Carr, Diseases of the Heart, Erupiive Diseases, Convulsions, Hysteria, Neurnigia, Thrush, Congestion of spleen, Irritation Of Stomach, Ulceration and Displacement ot Spine, Nervous Depression, Diticuls Breathing, with pain in the Lungs, Wear and Sure Eyes of every description, Noise th the Head, Dis barges from the Ears, Cancers, Tumors, Tapeworm, Piles, Stuttering, etc., etc. ‘The Doctor bas, in’ cunnection with bis peculiar treatment, discovered a pecs for that terrible dis- ease, Epileptic Fits, und particularly invites thust afiicted with the Spasms. Paralysis, Consumption, and General Dropsy are st stow und uncertain with this treatment Par tents ufticted with these have rarely been restored: they are. however. always benefited, Deafness, wien ependent upon the destruction uf Tympanuin, and {oral Blindness. dependent upon Paralysis of Opie le. Nerve, are, in most casos, inew READ THE FOLLOWING AFFIDAVITS : ' Ni Bis Ne.cosee are publishoa except by permission REMARKABLE CORK—Tals is 10 cority that have not spoken one word above a whisper since seven yeurs ao list August until I came to the rooms of Dr. &. Dodge Phelps, at the Trumbull House, 1p ths City of Hartford, when by one treatment, not ex ceeding one minute, by the Doctor, my voice was perfecily restored. Mrs. KOBENT A. MITCHELL, Hartford, Conn. We.the undersigned citizens of Hartford, bemg tinted wit Mra. Mitchell, ‘bereDy tate ments are ti irs W. st: Henry W, mond, Parke, Jand, Matn-st.; Nob 31 Risley, 71 Alban} Bartiott, propriezor Trambull House. THISIS TO CERTIVY that. have not sokens loud word for two. years and five munths anil! | went tothe American House, in the City of Boston, and was operated on by Dr. 0. Dodge Phelps, when, with- out medicine or instrument, he resiored By volce in less thun une minute. JOSEPH A. TUCKER dynn, Feb. 21, 187 Commonwealth of Massachuaetts—Essex, s:—Fete ‘1, Isi0: }Personally appeared the above-named Joseph A. Tucker, und sutweribed and made oath that the above certificate ts true. Before me, N. INGALL, Justice of the Peace. A Springdeld Lady Hears a Sermon P od for the First Time tn Thirty-three Years. MES, SAMUEL PURINGTON, No. 3 Hancock-ay— Dent thirty-three years; used a trumpot ears; BOUL ONO Week egu received treatment ad jast Sabbuch attonded three different churenes, sod heard the sermon for the Hest tmo in thirty-three years. TAPE WORM. Dr. 0. Dodge Phel arantees to remove Tae Worm in from forty, minutes te two hours, WIT THE HEAD, and waless tho head is rymoved 28 worm will grow again. es PILES. This painful diseuse wilt be treated by tho Doctor without the knife, caustic. or Mature, and withoal pain or luss uf time in business. A cure guarait ST. LOUIS TESTIMONIALS. JOHN HART, %% Hownrd-st, St, Louts-Deat wa ears. Tried niany physicians and found no relief Jured by one treatinent and presersptlua given by Dt Phelps.” Will answor ioguirtes. Maurice Durkee. WS Mursan-st.:_ Asthma 7 years Recetved no benefit from any treatment until treated by Dr. Vholps. Could not sleep nights; bat could sleep well after first treatment. fis: Charles Lepper, corner California-ay. and Keokdl St. St. Louis: Lame back 3 yuars. Came to De Phelps one sear ayo: und bave beon well aver sizes ‘Will answer ingutries. ae L. Metze, 1814 Closey-st, Pt. Lonis: Suffered wil Fheumatism ¥ montis, “Could get no reltef nett treated by Dr. Phelps, Was cured une year basinever been troubied since, Will answer lagult- Sie B garten, G41 South Fourth-st.: Boffered? ir. Baum . uth Fourth-st.: years with rheumatism, “Went to Dr. Phelps one year Ago; In two treatments was cured, and has had nore turn of it, Will answer inquiries. Charles Helistein, corner Prim and Second-stt: ondelet: Littie’sun totally deaf 4 years {rot spinul menincitis. After one treatment in the tem Je one year ngo by Dr. Phelps, he can, now hear te Ehotch bell aad the clock seike. ‘Will suswer quiries. ae ‘Wm. Stewart, Davis-st, near Benton, South Lonls: Peat ts years. Constant noise in the Bnd could not hear noise. Instantly relieved hearing rostored. Will answer inquiries. Jobn Fiatvery, 1253 South Seventh-at: Paralyzed, leg: no feeling in it: could bear to have it pinched oF cut, and not feel it” After two treatments have a ® perfect sense of feeling, Will answer inauiries. Wa. Fostor, ie North Sixteonth-su: Doat 10 12 1 years in one ear: could not hear anything in tt He plored by one treatment by Dr. Phelps. il answe quirtes. Mrs. Graham, 98 Biddle-st, was treated one Year ago for chronic diarthoes. Suffered nine months. Wes cured by Dr. Phelps tn one week, after bailing SkiLof many physicians. Will answer iuguiries. Mr. John Messinger, Troy, IL, came one yeat 20 with his little son, 4 vears old, whuse bead wus Cone ered Fibs sad (called. scaldnead) snes Peete ‘rented by several physicians, bat fal ceive any benett. until treated by Dr. Phelps a4 Cured In three weeks. Will answer inquiries. Air Hoary Holirsh. 1012 Fapin-st., was, treated on ear ao dy Dr, Pholis Tor deafness, tminuter ule fhoaring was reswrod.” Will saswer 12 Quirtes, samot Mrs, Shulds, 1513 O'Pallon-st.: Little son. Io! eyes ISyears. Cured by Dr. Phelps one year $8 5 y Fa" Letters of inquiry are frequent. { cand $5.12, he probability of success unit see the pales inquiry must contain stamp. Consultation Free.