Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1881, Page 9

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY.. FEBRUARY 6, 1881—EIGHTEEN PAGES. /__________———*\ - -7 PIANOS. LIFE INSURANCE. ST ENEN B ANAVEL | THIRTY-SEVENTH ARNUAL STATEMCHT OF THE 4 New Bngland Mutual Lie Tosrancalo For the year ending Dec. 81, 1830, Ledger Assets Dec. 31, 1879.818,064,897.97 “Recelved in 1880; For Prem'nif’81,506,042.59 For Interest andrents.... | §G0,991.57 : 17,880.42— " 2,446,723.58 $16,411,121.56 BaL protit wnd r Partor_ Grand, fany [ oo <G _7-Octave Parlor 3 @CESEING ON en Bzt paymént of Healy Upel dsome e e proved Lyon & Zht Disbursed In 1880 to Pollcyholderss r_:._ g::“muflnufi.s 830,295.00 ‘@ 74-Octare Square Grand, fall | °dowments, mfi?fi?fi scalt, 3 strings, back Dblshed | Surrenapesd S10451.00 szt Bromtely carved e four round cor- | pilidentC 125.618,28 petront i fooking lusurument. Taken in At | Distribuuion of e arer IOt tmproved Fiacher Up- | nbfoluse 515,821.08 o Total patd vol \G 15-Octave Fall Concort Grand, | ~loybolders.. 81, g mfl’gfifila s aronnd 1op und bottom of | Commissions” 1.900,806.50 £nsesle TEe s lews: & purkeons-luoking fnstrn- | to sgents... 96,100.78 + S5l Tukon o e g aghodt e, ey Lo naversing. 91,110.19 pa§E 74-Octave Square ufiaq. mg; Ironnu cor- Pfi:élenfi. s PR3 Faliihed iko srout. rleh cirved fegs, noar- | © Hopery: und ve Square Grand, four round | TuXes o ,081.80 KINDT 0N o front, Hich carved loks, sartfRe” 5 = . 7¥-Octave, Tpright, full agraffe mg}{g{‘flm e hpnboe caos Tofe 109.65— 2,215,850.10 . Netosscts Jan. 1, 1881...81 195, 2 SCHEDULE OF ASSETS. Renl estate owned. 71.45 8 1,312,726. 10,758.00 Pt . ihe proceeds 10 be applied toward | Loans On moriEazss. 21 gw“’ Oy Steinway Upright. &% 101,260.00 e 1,289,231.04 the space for other Instruments, we will 0,101,704.2 N "fflfih ‘2t very small prices, and on lonz time, * RS 1987051.18 2 377,088.10 815,041,870.40 IOV & HBALY, Sfate and Monroe-sts. 25,627.00 " Sato and Monwoests. IETE ASSORTHENT OF THE FINEST T HOOESTRONENTS IN THE WORLD! Jeasisine ok ‘Total Hablities.. 813,352,018.88 LE PRICES. J, 2 ') . 8§ 2,688,060.52 as, ) Incrense of surpius in o \'léh“k“ value of stocks und bonds over cost. 81,378~ Sec'y. - , Supt. of Ager . 0. chux‘kum-u. Genori Asent. - N. W. cor. of La ¥ulle und Mudison-sta. Chicugo. REMOVALS. * 41 TIE LOWEST ROSSID SEHNING, MILLER, o HCAMMOR, - and offers. Baner and New England Organs. AXD TERMS'10 sult all purchasers, Every Ystrumen follg warranted for ive vears. ‘Iparters uf Musical Merchandise. Band Instru- e, fae Violins, snd Strings s specialty. B fahe. Tepsired. and pollshed 1nned. repatred. 3 The est wrkmen éwplored for the different o ) NOTICE Is hereby given that the Metropolitan Business College has removed to its new and commodious rooms at Nes. 77 and 79 tranches of repairing nds of wmusical instru- | Madison.st., where, with more room and B iairated Catalogue sent free. increased facilities, we will in future be able to accommodate all who come. Julius Bauer & Co., 182 & 184 Wabash-av., ACTORT1%, 1%, 4 129 Trenty-ninth-st., corner ’ I eriasiot-av. New Sorm ot Removal Remiwal! A, BAMBERGER, 13323 and 135 Wabash-av. For the next twelve doys. prior to remoral 1o 250 and 252 Wabzsh-av., will close out his immense stock of o First-class FURNITURE at net cost. Our goods are all fresh and of the most desirable styles. Every article warrunted. CARRIAGE ~ REPAIRING. C.P.Kimball & Co,, 370 & 372 Wabash-av., Beg to announce that they have unequnled facillties Tor painting and repairing all kinds . carriages. Wo repuired 1338 Carrluces during 150, und give thls brunch of our husiness special attention. Carrinzes feft with us will be kept in clean, dry ropms, the work Drompily sod well dome, and at (i lowest pomible 3. REAL ESTATE, TICRIVER'S SALE Lats on Soufh Park-av,, Between Thirty-second nnd Thirty-third-sts., west B Lots™0 480 2 Block 4, In Grives’ Subdivizion, B3 Secion st Tuwa 2N, K. 1, cach Shzloi $10 Tursnam 1o 20 orderof the Cireatt Court of Cook County, entered on ke Shb dy of November, 1850, 10 be ease of Meiville C:Eames, €tal., vs. The State Semamasignon stal Lebl o WeSheaar. e 4 A 0 ey 4 :zc%&’.\m:nusnl'{-’n_ licazo, sell the ubpre de- Dalf cash aud lalance on'of before (o Sears, wich tnmmt:ngnbrelfinnhx‘;swb)& 'cml-xn‘nugll a lmgfs‘: hieh £ Ua Is then received. Srest s ighest dag best bia it B accepied ™ Hecolver nf the Stato Savings Institution. Culcago, Feb, 4, 1 8L vy RECEIVER’S SALE 0130 deres at_Sooth Chicaro, North and Adjoin- . Ing New Rolling Mitls, Extending from Baltl- more & Ohio Rallroad Shops East to Lake Michigen, Betne the S.3¢ of S. 3 of 5. W. Fractional i, Sec. 2 Torn®, N. 1L15 except a” smip 155 feet In width Bcroes the west end. Purngint 10 an order of the ‘Cirenit Court of Conk County, entered on the lth day of Norember, 180, in_the case of Melville C. Eamoy €13l va The Siaie Savings Instituuion etal. I shall, o Thursday, the 2ith day of Februury, Lidlat 1i otlotka. m.,ut my office, No. XA La Salle-st., Chicago, sell the above deseribed premises for 1he_sum of i gniess & higher und better bid 1s then received. Io which event the hisbestand best bid wil bo ac- 7% Bossiver of the Stata Suvings Lhsteil trer ‘Savings Insttution. Chlcago, Feb. 5 1551. ENIVES. 1207, PLATED KHIVES, 1have 300 doz. of the best quality Tri- Ple-Plated Knives. Will fill orders this week only at $2.50 doz.3 & per cent dis- ctount in quantities of one £r0ss or more. « W. WHEELER, - 141 Lake-st. MISCELLANEOUS. Row is the Time to Have Your Carriage - Put in Order for Spring. FINANCIAL. GERHARD FOREMAN No. 102 Washington-st., OFFER FOR SALE CAREFULLY SELECTED - INVESTMENT SEGURITIES Paying from 5 to 7 per cent interest. ADOLPH 10ED & BROTIER 129 and 131 La Salle-st., Loan money 4t current rates on Real Estate in Chicago and Cook County. . Buy and sell Investment Securities on commission. MONEY TOLOAN Contractors. JOIN DAVIS & 09, eslers 1n Wroueht ana Cnst 1ron Steam Pipe and . ;}!nn;g-.himu Goods Worlblogton & Knowles m,mi..;;':, AR ATmED. Lo St m ReAINE IN AMOUNTS TO SUIT. ~orrer— | 0 nproved Propertyin Chisago e NOTICTE. I P |t P ) 8 hdersiemed, In pursuance of an order of the | S Courn of the ”léflcd‘mulem nus:s Droposals for AT SIX PER CENT. - Torth two-thirgs (¢ e Ph et prne | Applyte WM. V. JACOBS, U in Fort Deartors Addron. so: Chloace fromias 100 Dearborn-st., basement. m Al ’) fect on Michizan-ay. und extend- HEXKY Pl ISHAM, Receiver, &¢., ¥ Dearborn-ut. WANTED T0 RENT. Bore avos: i, X0, with good roar liht, on any of {26 I0llowing streows: State, butworh. WVasninRion i, Dearborn. be ween iWashington and e Rent Ffih“":“‘;;omme. s pay Is sure. Address K 1§ 2 Heals for $4.00, At LINCOLN'S, : 187 Souta Clurk-st. b SCREWS. Noney to Loan On Improved City Property, at current rates, by LYMAN & GIDDINGS, 101 Washington-st. 6 per ceni. MONEY TO LOAN INSTON & DAWES, On lmproved Hteal Estate. WINSTOX & DAWES, Real Fistate Loans AtlowestIolesmsdedy o, on o pRADLEY, ¥ 1.2 Sulle-s or Mndison, between Clark and State. SCREWS. ’hflflzQOO gross 15 per cent 0})’ factory quotations. PROPOSALS. A. W. WHEELER, 141 Lake-st. - urueke | Hotice to Contractors. Y A~rc~nam~~~ananne | “Sealed Proposals will be received until Feb. 23, 1851, DISSOLUTIQN. at1o’clock p. m., for the wrougntand cast fron work: The. firmy BRUARY & 1851 | also for the nter work, plnstering, painting und o Y . Plans and specifieations can be seen - astiig GEONGE AL MUSGEL, | mers areni.ec: omeo, e Suliding Committes 7o- ; MUNGEIC ELINY 1 MUNGER. g’é?,f;‘}filhn?n of the Iate tirm of G. M. & L. Monger Toder jus D€ Catried on us usun) by, the underslaed o ke und siyie or G, . MUNGEI & CO- Asopay. m“‘*kvl for all duen of the late tirm, und wiil Rave assumed a)} of thelr habilitles. GEOI M. MUNGER, 2 G| ———— PLI VR serves the right to reject any and ali bids. ol (e . BROKAW, Chatrman Butlding Committes. LOCKS. LOCKS. A EDUCATIONAL. b"zl,oo(t; d&z. at 1? to 25 per cent i elow factory cost. ATHENEUN ACIDENY, | "38000ioeisiomepmus son a5 50 Deéarborn-st.- mfi’fu‘.’gflifig’ School of the highest order, . . BABCUCK, Chicago. |} ‘ware at very low prices. A. W. WHEELER, 141 Lake-st. REAL ESTATE. Sale of»t‘he Hale Building.on " State-Street. The Highest Price Ever Paid for , Chicago Real Estate. Heavy Purchases for a Great Tm- provement at South Chicago, Solid and Unmistakahle Appr’ec&nfion of Chicago Real Estate. Corner of Van Buren and State Sold .. Again—0ther Important Transactions. . An enterprise of more than common im- portance to Chicago and South Chicago is connected with the extensive sale of lands in the : - 1 NOTRE DAME ADDITION , on the Calumet River. ‘Tlhe purchases cover- nearly 200 acres on the bauks of the Calumet. Under the direction of the able men who are interested in the Chicago & Western Indi- aua and the Chieago & Eastern lllinois, this tract is to be made the site of extensive lum- ber-yards and manufacturing establishments, with facilities for A TATER AND RAILROAD TKANSPORTATION never before offered. The full and accurate particulars of the purchase of the lands and of the plan for their improvement are now made known to the public for the first” time. Gen. J. T. Torrence has sold for the Notre Dame Institute. to President J. B. Brown, of the Chicago & Western Indinna” Railrond, and. Mr. F.'W. Heidekoper, President of the Chicago & Eastern -1llinois Railroad, Blocks 2, 19, 22, 40, 49, 18, 23, 24,38, 39, 44, 45, 46, 47, 54, and 58, and part of Block 3; Blocks 57, 42, and 41. The price paid ranzed from $600 to $1,000 on aére, and amounted to consider- ably more than $100,000, which was paid over :incash, The sale covers about 100 acres, “lying on both sides of the Cnlumet River and BETWEEN ONE NUNDRED AND ONE HUN- DRED AND SIXTH STREET: Gen. Torrence hasalso purchased for him- self twenty-nine and a fraction acres in the Notre Dame Addition, bemg Blocks 1, 20, and 21 ou the east side of the Calumet River. He has also bought from the Rev. E. Sorin, of the Notre Dame Institute, his undivided interest in the north X of Sec. 7 In James X Bowen’s Addition fo South Chicago. This interest fs understood to be more than half of Bowen’s Addition, the whole of which in- cludes about 180 acres, All this ground will be at once prepared for Y 5 LUMBER-YARDS AND MANUFACTURING SITES. Slips will be dug on both sides of the river, on which the, largest vessels that float the lakes can be loaded and unloaded. ‘Chere will be about twenty of these slips, and each of them will have a track directly connected with the Chicago & Western Indinna laid on each side of it. The Western lndiana now runs to South Chicago, to the new North Chicago Mills now iu erection there, to the Brown Mills, and along the entire river front for a couple of miles, Ifs tracks are to run on BOTH SIDES OF THE RIVER in the new tract just purchased of the Notre . Dame Institute, with branches on both sides of each slip, as described. Ay the Western Indiana - furnishes track accommodations merely, it has nd competitive business of its own to interfers with the traffic of other roads. Its connections are such that lumber- men and_manufacturers using its tyacks and slips will be able to ‘receive and ship their stuff with .unparalieled dispatch. The crowded condition of our river and of the dockage in the city call imperatively for ai enlargement of facil- ities for the business of Chicago. Attention . is therefore- naturally drawn at this time both to the North Branch and the Calumet River. To reach the Twenty-second street district there is a Jong and tedious tow through the river, with limited facilities at | the docks, want of room, costly outlay of time and money to get ., CARS IN AND OUT, rising rents for dockage, and high rates of insurance. Private meetings of leading lumbermen have recently been held to con- sider how to relfeve their business from these disabilities. In the new . district at South Chicago access can be gained at once to the slips from the Inke; ample dockage will be provided. Each yard is to have . FIVE ACRES; AND MORE ’ ifitis wanted. Rail connections will be per- fect, as it {s intended that every road enter- ing Chicago shall be connected with the tracks thatrun to the slips. The Western Indiana holds an open door to all the roads that want to use its tracks. This will enable the lumberman to ship his Inmber southwest or _elsewhere without any extra charge for switching. Between the river and the main tracks are blocks ‘of ground reserved for manufacturing purpuses, and provided with all necessary water and rall facilities. Planing-mills, sash-mills, and other similar - concerns now _threat- ening the safety of the city can find better conveniences here than they now have. Still other pians are in consideration for the de- vetopment of this region, but enough has been said to show how comprehensive and well thought out are the points of this scheme to open the Culumet River front to dockage and_manufactures. Mr, W. E. Hale has sold THE IIALE BUILDING, on the southeast corner of Washington and State streets, to Judge Van H. Hizxins for $412,500. The_size of the lot is 100 feet on State by 90 feet on Waushington, and the yents of the property after May 1 will exceed $48,000 a year, The price paid puts the State street front in at 84,125 per frontfoot, im- vroved. Thisis the MIGHEST PRICE that has ever’ been paid for any property in this city. The Singer Building.on the op- posit_corner, now owned by Messrs. Field and Leiter, 1s 160 feet - front on State street and 150 feet deep on Washington. It was bonghtby them about two years ago for $650,- 000, improved, - This brings the cost per front foot 1o only about $4,000, althongh the depth is greater and the.building much more ex- pensive than that on the Hale lot. Purchas- ers are now looking to the income that prop- erty yields wore_than to the price per front foot. '{he Hale Building yields & uet in- come o 3 MORE THAN § PER CENT over all taxes, etc, on the price paid by Judge Van Hig\nlps_, TIts owners were Ralph Emerson and William A. Taleott, of Rock- fora, Ill., and L. G. Fisher and V. E. Hale, of Chicago, The land was leased by these parties in 1870 of Timothy Wright at a ground rental based on a value of $3,000n tront foot, a price which Alr. Wright had re- fused. It was buit upon before the fire. ‘The first building was built around the little store of John Ross, and was just compieted at the tiwe of the great fire.” This was one of the first buildings reconstructed after the fire, and was early ready for oceupancy. Ever since it has been one of the best renting pieces of property in the city, It was the first building in Chicago, outside of the ho- tels, to use passenger elevators for the bene- it of the upper flours, and the whole of it has therefore niways been rented to the best ad- vantage. 1n 1875 the recentowners purchased the land of Mr. Timothy Wright for $140,) ‘T'he southenst corner of STATE AND VAN BUREN, recently purchased by Mr. Heury C. Rew, has been sold by imi to Mr. L. Z, Leiter for $147,000. ‘The proverty just conveyed has a frontage of 160 feet on State and 143 on Van Buren, It includes-the corner lot bougljt by Mr. Rew a few weeks ago of Mr. Watsofs, of Pittsburg, for $125,000, and the lot, 48x100, subsequently purchased by Mr. Rew of Pot- ter Palmer ou Van Buren street to give the State street fmntn;r’e a full depth of 143 feet- for the 110 feet north of Van Buren. Mr. F.T. Wheeler and Mr- W. E. Hale have purchased the lot and building No. 53 State street, lot 24x110, now occupied by E. E. Eaton's gun-store. The price paid was ‘Tlie Palmer House stables, with ot 40x170; i ON WABASH Avsx:‘m, E bee z adjoining the Mattison House, have been sold by Ar. Potter Paliner for $45000, .The corner of Fifth avenueand Quiney ntreerixsu feet square, owned: by the Connac- fticut 3futual, nas been sold by that Company toa capitalist from Kansas City for $25,000 net. ] - W. D, Kerfoot & Co. have: sold: for Mr. Ernest Prussing to Ar. James Todd, of Louisville, the property on Wabash avenue, north of Harrison street, 40x160, covered by two new stores with flats above, Nos. 520 and 831 Wabash avenue, The -price paid was §87,000. The same firm aiso; negotiated the s.le of the old gas lot on the corner of Adams ‘aud Market to C. AL Henderson & Co, for §86,500. ' Among other sales !they report are (;%xlao fle‘r;‘:)n ust east of Paulina, on Madison, £9,000; Ninetéentn $2,250:100x1743 fect northeasteor- ner of Orchard and Fullerton, $3,500; also, 50x 174 on Fallerton- avenue, east.of Orchard, $1,900, Campbell avenue, northeastcorner of Vin Buren,45x90 feet, with building known as Campbell Hall, for $8,500; S5-acres in Sec. 16, 17, 14 for $500 an acre, and 20 acres for 5600, both in Pullman, west ot Stateand north of One-Hardred-and-Eleventhstreet; 116feet on Lake street, between Woud and Page, with traweimprovements, for $23,000; land figured at$150 per foot; 99 feeton Lake street, south front, néar Lincoln street, with four three- story brick stores’ and Hats for $20,000; and 155 fect on Grand boulevard, north of Forty-first street, with frame cottages, for $20,000 cash. v 2 1t is reported that Mr. Billlngs, of the West Side, has purchased the northwest corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth street, opposit Mr. Hancock’s .nlnc&l\t $100 o foot. AMr. F. A. Bragg has sold 20 144-1,000 acres 8, 87, 15 for $20,144:-a cottage and {ot ndiang avenue, near Thirtieth street, for $4,000; 2624 Cafumet avenue, frame house, Jot 85x173, for $9,000; and 75X110 feet, ‘south frnnst o;ao Madison street, west of Morgan, for ,500. » X “My. Adolf Heile has sold for-James Das- combe, of Denver, Colo., the stone-front resi- dence No. 613 West Mouroe street for $8,000, casli; also, for the heirs of the late Coarles . Dyer, about 120 acres in Secs. 4 and 5, 87, 14), in the Town of South ;}uzlewaad. for 000. 3 ‘e southwest corner of Lake end Hal- sted streets, 505100, bousht_three weeks ago by Mr. R. R. Cherry for 313,000, has been sold by hit to S P: Parmly for -$20,000, who is said to liave been offered §25,000. This lot was sold in1879 for §8,000. ! The lot 15x175 feet at thasouthwest corner of Fifty-seventh street and Frederick place has been sold, through the_agency of B. A, Ulrich for Nutt & Brooks, for $4,500. " Mr. Ulrich has also sold twenty-six fees on State street, north of Twelfth, with the building coveringit (Nu. 512), to Eli Smith for 85,800, MesstS. Bradshaw & Walt, dealers in sirups, have purchased, through’the agency of ¥, 11, Watriss, the fivéstary and basement building Nous. 15 and 17 Randolph _street, oc- cupled by the wholesale grocery firm of Far- well, Miller & Co. ‘The purchase also jn- cludes the site on which the building stands, 40x168 feet. ‘The sum paid for the property E. 8. Dreyer & Co. sold 'ten Sstory brick houses in a bleck having 200 feet frontage on Cottage Grove avenue, by 98 deen to alley, north of near Thirly-first street, known as the Rigdon Block, for the sum of $45,000,—the seller being Mr. R. E. Kelly, of Versailles, France, aud the purchaser. W ter, of this citv, They have also sold 50x109 on Cass street, 25 festnorth of Portland pinae, east front, for $115 per foot; 80x40, North State, morthwest corner of Mayle street, east froat, at - $57.50 per foot; 100X%i02, northwest corner of Centre street and Noith Park ave- nue, for $10,600; 233x49 feet on Johnson street, 116+ feet south of West Fourteenth street, west front, to the Bourd of Edieation for sehiool purposes. - $10,250; 2-story house and lot, Krie, east of Wells street, $4,850; anc cleven lots in thelr Stock-Yards Subdivision at §250 to $300 eachi., i - Adolph Loeb & Brother have sold during this4veel 157 feet av the southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Twenty-sixth street for $81,400; 50 feet on Wabash avenue, near ‘Thirty-fourth street, at $7,500; cottage and Iot on Wentworth avenue, near Twenty- ninth street, at $2,150; two lots on Winter street, near Forty-fifth, at $830each: corner Wallace and Forty-fifth streets, two lots at 81,000 each; lot on Fuy street, near Pratt, at £i75; twelve lots on Califomia avenue, near Jilwaukee, at. $300 cach;.and -four.lots on Leavit and Hirsch streets ‘at ST00 each. In‘the other szles of the tire block, 895x300,'on the” nirtheast corner of Hickoryand Haines, aud 827 feet on the North Branch, near Haines, to river; $83,000; 504x100 on Sedgwick, southwest corner of Si;i'el. im proved, $15f 40x168 -on_Ran- dolph, east of Wabash avenue, $35,000; 50x100 on West Luke, southwest corner of lialsted, 15,000 the same, $20,000; 130 fect on Drexel boulevard, north of Fort-sixth, $15,000; 50x 108Y on State, south of Harrisou, $25,000; 189x80 on Clinton, northeast corner of West Adams, $25,000; 50x43%¢ on Dearborn, south- west cornerof South Water, improved, §50, 000; 538%x496 on Central Park boulevar & southwest corner of [loman avenue, $18.400; undivided half of 99 feet runuing to river on _ Market, north. of Adams, SI7,609; 203{x80 Lake, southenst corner of Fifth avenue, $17,0005 2¢x188 on_Adams, east of Clark, $30,000: 127x118 on _West Madison, southeast corner of Seeley, £45,000; 100x22 on North Braneh street, west of sted, to river, $10,000; 150 feet on Washington avenue, north of Ht!y- sixth, $5850; 93x on_ Frederick place, northwest _corner Fifty-seventh, £6,595; 24x152 on North La Salle, south_of Schiller, $8,000; 50x125, improved,- on Tiwenty-fifth, east of Portland avenue, $6,600; 150x125 on ‘Twenty-second, southeast corner of Usdon, $12,000; 22x122 on West Washington, east of Puge, -improved, $5200; (0x175. on Lake, south_ot Thirty-seveuth, improved, $6,000; 293 QOak street, $5,500; 22173, hmproved, on. North Wells street, between Division and Goethe; $5,000; 163x123 on State, between Thirty-fifth and ~ Thirty-seventh, $9,500; 21{x106_ou Fifth avenue, north of Polk street, $14,000; 618 West Monroe strect, £8,000; 50x151, improved, on Thirt; enth street, west of Vincennes avenue, $12,000; 236, 233, and 240 North LaSallestreet, $25,000; 5914140 on Cottage Grove avenue, south- east corner of Forty-eighth street, $15,000. BATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. , @ The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, Feb. 5:- CITY PROFERTY. Mobawk st, 48 ft n of Centre, wf, 25x 1:239-10 £t dated Feb. 3 (Michaol Reich 10 Lenu C. Johnson), : -8 2 West Twelfth st 130 T Bench X £t, duted Feb. 2 (B. F. Fleetwood to on w. Albert J. Averell). .o 2,600 West Van Buren st, 100 it w of Francisco, n f, 255100 £1, dated Feb. 3 (Miona Free- nan to Somers Keene).. ... 1,600 Charlton st, 73 2 & of Thirty-third. e 1, X123 1t dated Dec. 2 180 (Albert W ner to Richard McCarty) 450 Ciybourn av, near Perry’ . Ir. duted Jan. 25 /1. S Phillips to Poter Veis) . eveerss ne o North av, 72 £t e of Larrabee 6t, 81, 24x 10 tt, improved, dated Feb. s (Peter Schacider to Henry Brado).. ... .o... - 8,800 ‘West Vain Buren st. 75 £t w of Lafiin, u £, 87x123 ft, dnted Feb. 4 (Elisth Ruthbun 10 Mary Schwatbert). .. 2,767 North La Sulle st, 87 {t50f Gaetho, 1.2284x162 £¢, duted Jun. 19 (Churles Mitlier to Annn Todd). 8,087 Charles place, 0 ft ¢ of A 2)x107 £, improved, dnted Feb. 5 (3ary Clark to Willlam H. Fercy). i 4000 State st, 200 £t sof Thirtieth, e f, 25x118 ft, dated’ Feb. 5 (K. and M. Ruben to Spirl- ; «_dione Leonl). ... ... 6,800 West Vun Burcn st, 112 ft w of Laflio, n 1, 8ix1% ft, dated Feb. o (Elijah Rath- bun to C. H. Marteus).. .. 276 West Lake st, s w cor of itobey, o f. 100x 12¢ ft, dated Feb. 4 (L. H.und D.R. Fraser to Henry M. Sherwood).. 12,500 Pruirie av, near Niuetcgath St wf, ik ft, dated Teb. 4 (M. W. and O. R. Kelth to Juha W. Doane).... 1,800 Loomis st, near Blue Isiaod av, w 1, 3% 130 ft, dated Jun. b (estate of David Lee 10 David Mach).. .occevezaiees Sonainns 200 North Water st, 121 fs w of Kinzie, s e f, B 25x100 {t, dated Feb. 4 (George C. Aude~ regy to Willlam M. Hoyt)... ..+ 1,460 West [ndinna st, near Bickerdike, n f, 22 x03% _ft, improved. dated Juu. 28 (Wal- ter Lester to M. Schwurtz)... 4,000 s West Indlana st, Iz rear of_the above, x51 ft, dated Jan, 29 (Snwe to Seme). ... Burling st, 315 {1 s of Willow, e f, 24x104 ft, fmproved. duted Feb. 3 (John E. Bos- < ler to Frank Schroeder). ... o Randolpt st, 136 £t ¢ of Wabash av, 81,40 , x168 ft, with buildings Nos.19 and 21, dated Jan. 11 (Charter Onk Lifc-Insur- ance Company to William Stewnrt). Ewlnyg st, 215 {t e of South Halsted, n X113 ft, duted Feb. 2 (Catherine ] Murget Lorden).. . Desplaines at, 8 w cor of Boston av,e 1, 27%x100 ft, improved, duted Feb.5 (3L 2,000 aand J. Nipf to Muegiec R Ryan)......... 4,000 Larrabee st, 356 £t 5 of Elm, w £, Sxi00 1, improved, dated Feb, 4 (. N. Crowbolum 10J. and B. B. Anderson).. e 4800 ‘West Adama st, 8 w cor of re. n f, 48 X195 ft, dated Nov. 20, 1850 (Muster In Chancery to Benjamin Fisher).... Wood st, £ e cor ot York, w £, T63{x] dated Dec. 7, 1880 (George Haizh - to B. Delamater)......... 2900, u f, 25x 12 ft, improved, dated Feb. 5 (Mary feet on Wood street, north of | ashington Por- were the'en- Kelly 10J. and T. Baxa).....eeoveznesnss 75 Lot #°4n Coll and Kraft's part of n % b Biock 15, Unjon Park Second Addlition, dated Noy. 12, 1830 (Sarsh C. Sloss to B.&M Lydin F. CORIOr)...vevnoe o -ue Vaun Buren st, 10 ft w of Wapash av, uf, 48x110 ft, dated Jan. 31 (David W. Irwin 1A -to Lavi Z. Leiter) s i . 20,500 Btateet.se cor uf Bure A - 122 and 170 ft, dated ‘Feb, hMurk W. Watson et at. to Levi Z. Lelter)... 15, West Madison st, 60 £t w of organ, s f. .. T5x100 ft, dated Feb. 2 (Aura M. Holton - 10 Charles T. TregU)......vv .oun . Rebecea st, 43 fr e of Paulina, s f, S4x1%4 ft, jmproved, dated Feb. 3 (H. H. C. - Ackermann to August Steffan) ... .. ‘West Thirteenth st, 138 ft d ot 51 and av, s f, trisogle of A7xX72x87 ft,dated Jun. 5(W. D. Kerfoot to Anne Nash)... Groveland Park av, i w-cor of Thirtieth - 8t, 100x04 ft, dated Feb. 5 (W: F. andJ. A. Mysick to Emmu A. Seipp). :. G750 Mohawk st, 123 ft nof Centre, w f, 25X 139-10 ft, dated Feb. 2 (M. Reich to John_Fischbach). .. o szaes o West Fiftesnth st, n w cor of Laflin, s f, 200X ft, dated Jan. 26 (A, E.and J. N F. Nichols to ‘fhomas A. Johnston)..... 4,000 SOUTH OF CITY LIMITE WITHIN A RADIUB OF u SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. orty-seventh st, 25 ft e of Bishop, n f, 2x120 £t, dated Feb. 4 (W. V, leypm H. D. Parmenter). .3 Lots1to 4 iu Blod 450 2,200 400 South Denrborn st, &5 ? ninth, w 1, %5x110 ft. duted Jun. 12 | -,and V. Horaby to Martin Doaavan) ... Blxty-first st, L2 ft w of Stewart &v, 8 f, 25x120 It, dated Feb. 4 (D. J. Hulburd to E.R. Clark) .......... rovaverse 1100 ‘WEST OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF BEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Powell av, 8 of Edbrook place, w f, 50x185 1t, dated Feb. 5 (John Johnston, Jr., to Jobn Jenaen). --$ 1,000 SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. 1,825 ' The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven millés of the Court-House filed for vec- ord during the week ending Saturday, Feb, 5: City—Sules, 132; consideration, $1,019,081. North of_eity Himits—Sales, 4; consideration, $2,200. ‘South of city limits—Sales, 253 e sideration, $69,728, West of city I(mfs-—Sult‘s 63 counsideration, $5600. Total sales, 1 Total counsideration, $1,084,699, % THE, REAL-ESTATE CALL BOARD, The fourth public sale of the Call Board takes place Feb. 16, and the advance sheets of the catalog handed us indicate that the call will be of unusual interest. Some very desirable and quite novel features have been | udded. The property has been classified as follows: Class A—Judicial sales.. In this list the Hon. L. B. Otis, Receiver of the State Savings 'Institution, by order of the Circuit Court of Cook County hascon- tributed several pieces, prominent among which is some Some choice Park avenue property. Clnss B (guaranteed sales)—The upset price is bid in advance before issue of the catalog tor property in this class and will be struck off to the starter unless higherbids are received. This promises to be a very popular method of disposing of real estate, a ositive sale alwavs being assured. Class C (absolute sales)—In this class property isput ap without any reservation or upset price and sold to the highest didder. rcm?s D (conditional sales)—Under this head several pieces are offered to the best bidder subject to the approval of the ownerbefore the adjourn- ment of the cull. In other words the public fix what the price should be in their opinion, and the owner has Yo THE OPTION TO ACCEPT OR REJECT the offer ‘before the eall adjoitrns.. Among sellers sucha method will no doubt be very popular, while buyers will often’ have oppor- tunities in this way to secure* bargains, Class E—The regularcall; where-the upset prices are-approved' by the management as mucl under the market and offering good inducements:fo purchasers, . Finally, Class F—The supplemental call, where property is handed in too Inte for examination and the owners’ ypset prices permitted to be listed. ‘The management seem _quite determined to make the Real Estate Call Board one of the most popular marts of trade in the city, and despite, the_severe weather, the earliness of the season for real estate transactions, and the reluctance of holders to sell at actual bargains, they have pushed their enterprise forward with such perseverence and earnest- ness that it has already zained the contidence of the public and met with sucli encourage- went as to put 1ton 2 permanent paying basis. * - AYDE PARK TRANSACTIONS are small. ‘The Receiver of the State Sav- lmi Institution sold a piece of land north of Fifty-Seveuth street, at South Park Station, havig 258 feet “frontage on. Fifty-seventh street, and Jefferson Hyde -Park ,nven}lg3 _ for $3,400, and 50x150'on Washington avenue;east front, between Fifty-sixth and Filty-seventh streets, and 50x130 on. Madison avenue, north front, “between Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh streets, for..$26.50 per ‘front foot. Both piéces sold for cash under com- petition; after due advertisement. The south- east corner of Fifty-second street and Jeffer- son avenue, 50x125, to an alley, was recently sold at 330 a front faot, T within two and & half blocks of Lyde Park Station. Excavations are now being made for . A NEW STORE on the southeast corner of Lake street and & Fifth avenue. to be -built by Mr. J. B. Mal- |- fers, It will have a frontageuf sixty-one tesy on Lake street and 115 on_Fifth avenue, and will have five stupea and a basement. A speclal feature will be the awmount of light given_the interior. Although not a large store it will have 161 windows. The permit taken.out i3 for a building to cost $20,000, It Is expected to have the stare ready for ten- ants May 1. It has not been rented, but Mr. Mallers is constantly recelving applications. IN THE NEW OFFICE BUILDING now being erected by Mr. Grannis, the well- known builder, at Nos. 111 to 117 Dearborn street, after plansdrawn by Messrs. Burnham & Root, especial attention has been given to light, heat, and ventilation, Its front windows are immense in size, be- ing six feet in width to the top of the build- ing,.while the rear portion,. being but two stories In hight, gives ample light to the back roouas.. ‘The Hawley system of stenm-heating has been adopted, making a hot-air chamber of the space under eacl floor. In connection with this arrangement js alsoa cold-air chest, conducting fresh air lo the air-chamber of each room, and the heating and ventilating registers are al! under the control of the en- gineer in the boiler-room. Among those who have closed contricts foroitices are the Na- tional Bank. of Illinois, who have secnred the large rear banking-room on the first floor, and one of the very finest banking-rooms in the country; Mr. . Kiunsley, who has taked the rear-basement to be connected with his Washington street establishment as 2 raw oyster-room; the Mussachusetts Mutual Life-Insurance Cowpany, which has a_suite of beautiful offices on the second floor; and Messrs. Burnham & Root, the urchitects of the buildinz, who have taken five spucious fiuu beautiful rooms on the upper or sixth loor, E NEW ELEVATOR. The building- permit Issued to the Chicago & Paclfic Elevator Cowmpany is for the erec- tion of a large addltion, which will have 1,000,000 bushels capneity. The building plans are now complete, and work is tg be commenced at once. It is the intention to have it ready for. receiving grain in the en‘rly part of next June. ‘Theextension of the Chi~ eago & Pacific_Railroad to a connection with thé Western - Union at Lanark, and thence to a connection with the Chicago, Clinton, Du~ buque & Minnesota, all owned by the Mil- waukee & St. Paul, has given the latter Com- pany a pew through route from Chicago to St. Paul, and has had the effect of largely in- creasing its business, and, elthough it has just completed an fmmense elevator near the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Chicago River, yet it finds jtsfacilities for handling grain at this point insuflicient, and has therefore called upon the Elevator Compuny to build an additional Jarge house to add to their capacity. % N THE DUILDING mmgrs A of the week were those to Dr. Leonard for improvemen ts on the residence at 992 No. Waest Madison _street, to cost $2,500; to the Chicago'& Pacific Elevator Company to en- Jarge its present building to 100 feet by 200 teet deep at_the North Branch and Haines street, the improvement to cost $150,000; to Peter Labbe for o two-story. brick dwelling, 21 by 40 feet, No. 75 Frank street, to cost $1,%00; to Conrad_Seipp, to ereet four two- story (}\\'ellmgs. 18 by 72 feet each, Calumet avenue and Twenty-sixth- street, to cost £8,000; to J. G. Lobstein, one-story shop, 100 by 50 feet, Twenty-fitst and Loowmis streets, to cost $1,500; to ] Harry Ham- mer, to erect ‘two - threestory - stores -and’ dwellings, 46 by 90 feet, Nus. 3410 and 3412 State street, to cost $12,000; A. New- haus, two-story and basement dwelling, 23x 68 foet, swovCom;?e Grove avenue, to cost $6,000; Theresa Mallers, to build a five-story and_basement brick store, 60x114 feet, 1§5 to 189 Lake street, to cost $20,000; to Frank Ze- zermacker to build a two-story_dswellin 'Jflx 40 feet, 28 Margaret street, to.cost $2,000: to Henry Morgan, to build a two-story and basement dwelling, 22x30 feet, “Dearborn, near Thirty-seventh street, $4,000. . ‘BLAIR LODGE AT X.AKfi Ponmr.wm_ _The good taste and the good mouey o cago hss beautified its suburbs \vlqfl 5 0% condition, and cut down aj many | fine villa<, Geneva Lalke, Lake Forest, Ocon- omgwac, and the other F‘lums of m‘—%mwge‘ sort contain country howmes that are well worthy the name of villas, The ideal of & true villa is 2 fine country .residence with ample ‘accommodation for guests and for social enjoyment, beautifully:sitnated and surrounded . by tastefully-decorated grounds, containing the numernus accesso~ rles, such s green-liouses, bowling-alley, 2 large stable,"an_ice-house, with “dairy- and larder within;a paddock-'for some fine Jer- sey cows and Southdown sheep, a boat-ho and boats. Oneof the most complete of such villas, designed by W. L. B. Jenney, archi- tect, of this city, was fimished .and ocenpled last summer by Mr. L. Z. Leiter, at Geneva Lake. Another vilia, that promises ‘to be without a rival, has_Dbeen designed by Mr. Jenmey, and is now- in rapid execution under his immediate super- visfon, for Mr. John L Blair, of Blairstown, N. J., who is buifdin; as_a homestead for his granddaughter, Mrs. W. C. Larned, of this city. - The site is at Lake Forest, on the shore of Lake Mlchizgan, on a bluff some eighty feet above the lake. The place con- tains some twenty-five acres of ground, bounded on 'the morth and south by deep ravines. The principal buildings are located upon the ‘eastern_portion of the place, and scarcely a glimose of any of them canbe bad upon entering the gate, so large and numerous are the 3 SUPERB WIITE-OARS erouped about the place, which, mingled with other trees and shrubs, form .a belt along the street giving privacy to the grounds. To the northeast {s a promontory projecting well into the ravine, on the point of which is a picturesque little pavilion well shaded by large trees and’ commanding &’ view down. the ravine to the lake. A drive winds down this ravine to the shore, whichis to be widened by means of brush- giers and’ a revetment similar to the Lake- hore drive at Lincoln Park. This drive will run along the lake-shore to the south 1imit of the property, and from its southern end is a view up the south ravine which ig wild and picturesque. A footpath will wind up this ravine, and crossmg it on a rustic bridge leads into the southern portion of the grounds, which are left almost as Nature de- signed them. The entire face of the bluff, some eighty feet liigh and 1,050 long, is cut {uto terraces approached by footpaths, and the sodded slopes ornamented with vines and groups ot trees and shrubs. ‘The house isin the English half-timber, villa-gothic style. The basewent is of stone; the first story of . briek, with hollow walls; the second story of timber, filled in with brickand \ SHOWING THE CONSTRUCTION; the attic story of wood, covered with red tile; the roof covered . with biack slate from AMr. Blair's own quarries at Bangor, Pa. There is' a broad veranda overlooking the lawn, and a2nother upon the other side commanding a view of the lake. The hall, ten feet wide in the vestibule, extends entire- ly across the house, so that the. mowent one enters the house from the c:\rrk\%Enmh on the west he can see out onto the lake on the east. To the north of the hall near the west entrance is the retiring-roonr or smoking- room; opposit to this is a guest-chamber. East of these, at the centre of the house, THE HALL WIDENS OUT in octagon shape some-twenty-four reet in dmg{fter with the grand staircase on the north. large bay-window- overlooKing the lawn and the drive from the street. To the northeast is the dining-room and to the southeast the parlor. These’ rooms are connected ‘by very large draped openings with the octagon hall, 50 that at pleasure the three can be one great roow. The hall is finished- in. white oak, with- ‘wainscoting, an open-timber- ceiling, and an oak tloor, and embellished - by a large open fireplace, to burn cordwood sticks without cutting; the. mantelpiece spreading out on the octagon so -as_to contain seats for two persons very comfortably on either side, —the seat-ends being - winged griflius, -like caryotides, supporting on’ their heads the columus earrying a canopy above. ‘The most interesting room, as it always should be, is TIE DINING-ROOM. 1t is finished in cherry with a plain oakfloor. ‘The interesting .objects within the foow are a great mantel, with shelves and canopy above to the ceiling; a recessed” sideboard, a cabinet - for. glass, - the high-paneled wain- 3scoting, and the great rectangular bay-win- dow aceupying - the -entire east end of the room. ‘The location of this room has been carefully chosen, that ~the views might be the plznsal]nest -the -place affords, ‘The interior view; through the wide, openings, is across. the hall jitto the "par and down the great hall in foll' view of the, great hall mautel and fireplace, and out through the west doorway onto the lawn and garden; while to the east the eye can roam averlfa e Michigan and 'witch™ the passing vessels. e The other parts of thé house are all Spa- cious, very convenient, with every regard ‘to the comforts and enjoyment of the family and guests, but architecturally very simple. ~ .+ Articles of incorporation of the Cotpasy to carry out Mr. E. C. Cole’s scheme for UNDERGROUND RAPID TRANSIT through the North Division have been fifed for public record in the Recorder’s office of this city. @ persons whose names are mentioned in connection with the movement are E. C. Cole, J, 3. . Jones. Frank M. Staples, Gen. L N. Stiles, and James Wil- mott, all of Chicago, and Frank . ( of New York. Mr.Cole states that his plans have beén examined by as good engineers as can be found in the West, and are stated to be perfectly practicable, and the railroad contemplated comparatively inexpensive, | The water will be kept from' the tunnel by means of asmall horse-power engine, and no sewer will be required. £ 1t is reported that Mr. Vanderbilt intends 10 switeh the passenger’ business of the Michigan Central into the Lake Shore Depot on Van Buren. instead of the Illinois Cen- tral Depot. With tuis purpose he will ex- tend the Michigan Central from Kensington along tie ) B _WEST BHORE OF LAKE CALUMET to South Chicago, where connection will be made . with Lake Shore tracks, over whiclt It can then come_iuto the city. Some of the grading for the extension was done some years ago by the Chicago & Canada Southern, which now owns the right-of-way, and as Vanderbilt owus the Canads Southern he ean complete the extension without any further trouble. ¥ STREETS AND BOULEVARDS. The Committee on Streets and Alleys, North, have determined to recommend that Dak street, from Clark. to Larrabee, be curbed, graded, and paved; Cass, from Kin~ zie gtreet to its morthern terniinus, be curbed, filled, and paved: IIuron, from Clark to State street, curbed, filied, and paved; and. Supe- rior street, from Wells to Pine, curbed, graded, and paved. The Commissioner of Public’ Works was ipstructed to have the State street - vinduct repaired, to advertise for bids at once, and take the amount neces- sary~some §7,000—from the Dredging Fund. _ "faxpayerg are inquiring whether tne Iili- nois Central is_to have tiie Lake-Front free of taxation. This question, which affects every taxpayer. in the city and_State, enters Jargely iito this question of sale, should the legal title of the entire Lake-Front from Chifcago avenue to Twelfth street pass into the_Iilinois Central Railroad Company, and o' harbor improvewents as contemnziated will exceed $50,000,000, which will be forever free from taxation by State, couuty, or eity. If sold ‘to the other roads, the annual tax- Javy of 5 per cent will_go to relieve the bur- dens of the- people. If sold to the Illinois Central, the 5 per cent goks annually to swell the overflowing coffers of one of the wealth- iest corporations in the country. . The problem of s Glved. % h teristi has been solved in a manner characteristic oftits founder’s -intellizence and euwrpxifi ‘The sewage of the fawn and the car-worl will be pumped though pipes to 2 sewage farin three wiles distant. ~Bids have -been recelved for a large quantity of cast-iron pipe to be used in this work. . - . Commissioner Waller- is in faver of a tear- ing-up, leaving the approaches to the viaduet, on Van Buren street as they were before they were paved. e i:in? lh:z ‘%x?gl}gg::g 2 n restore.the stree Company cal G pr ll” fi'l" “g‘:ln for less than §300. This will cost the élllg‘lc:;thlnz, but it-will not_have the benefit which it is recelving now. The Commission- er caunot see‘pu,w gy o‘xt:e is going to obtain damages from the city. s “;{ meeting of propertyholders interested in property on Humboldt”boulevard and vicini- ty will be held at the office of John Johnston, T.,80 La Salle street, Room 4, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at8 p. m. It is desired to take steps for the improvement of this bouleyard and its connections with Lincoln Park. ..~ * - The South Park Commissioners have re- quested the Common Council to make an ap- propriation of not more-than -§46,000 to pay the city’s proportion of the cost of makinza boulevard - oi Michigan avenue' slong the Lgke-Fropt Park.:” * -~ - - + - The Committee ‘on Streets and Alleys, West, has voted -for the laying of water On the first landing of the stairsisa | service-pipe on West Taylor street from - Canal-street to Blue -Island avenue, as wetl as the-improvement of Hoyne avenne from Madison street to Warren avenur, oy privata im“?oue" uné :hta i;pcmt the nr;lege tor the uiprovement ol es) es streel een Hubbard and Ohlo. s i One of the signs in * NEW YORK of the rise iu real estatg is that there iy 8 great demand for New Jersey Land & Im~ provement Company’s stock.- This associa- tion hias no bonded debt, and the shares were originally sabseribed for by holders of New Jersey Central stock at 70 cash. Present quotation S2@40. > = “ 1In New York. according to the Commerclal Bulletin, there was a noticeable activity in real estate last week, at public -auction as wellas at private bargain. ‘The proverty changing hands is both improved and unim- flmved‘ and as a rule prices are what would ave been considered extravagant a few €ars ago. The World's Fair must ere long g:j«:fln J‘?;Esa'fi {: imémn a speculative tone extent airendy. at is not the effect to some RAILROADS ARE BUYING REAL ESTATE In the vieinity of New York, Some very im- Portant purchases and trausters of refi es- tate on the Harlem River have been recorded for terminal facilities for the use of the New York City and Northern_and the Yonkers and West Side Elevated Railronds.. Each of thase roads will conneet with the AMetropoli- tan Elevated Road at Eighth avenue, whers the briage Is now erecting over the- Harlem River: “The West Side and Yonkers Com- ?nny bas purchased in the Twenty-third Ward efght and a half acres of land for S76,- 000, and the New York City and Northem has bought and taken up twenty-six and a oW Sevupied by Gher ey utler water v A uyten Port Morris Company, 1§r arms.mmfl z;mc‘mo 'VALUES OF LEAL ESTATE are far below those of New York, as shown by the following report of s{fma n‘: cent sules in that city: ‘The book-manu- facturing firm of Corlies & Macy has pur- chased for §185,000 the premises an the south- west corner of Liberty and Nassau streets, a portion of which they have occupied for a * number of years, and which are ktown ns Nous. 87 and 39 Nassau street and Nos. 56 and 58 Liberty street. The General Synod of the Reformed Church in America loaned them §140,00 upon the property for a period of . five years. Four lots,ench having a frontage of twenty-five feet upon_the sputh side of Sixty-fifch street, east of Fifth avenue, have been” acquired by Rosanna Spaulding, who obtained o loan of S145,000 from the New York. Life-Insurance Company- upon the property. The buildings, with” plot of land 75 by 105, on the northwesterly corner of Broadway and Duane street, and known as Nos. 307, and 309 Broadway, havebeen sold by John Gemmel and_others to Ezekiel dJ. 3L Hale for $250,100. William Noble and wife, for 864,000, transferred to James H. Darrow the plot of fand 150 bf 1022 on the southerly side of Seventy-third street, 160 teet east of Third avenue, and took in part payment five mortgages azgregating $60.000, due in five years. Thomas Moore and Ber- nard Wilson and their wives have mort~ gazed the premises on the westerly side of First avenue, extending from Seventy-ninth. to Eigntleth street, with a_depth of 109 feet otu Set:r%gt '»Rn;tthnd 100 ?u on Ig%num streef ebe Pearsall, for $107,000, = able in 1883 SIORE T IN PHILADELPHIA. - : ‘The Philadelphia Record states that there are fewer houses to rent in that city now than at any period for many years, and the demand has not been equaied since the panic, Many owners have increased their rents 10 to 15 per cent for houses on which the leases have expired or are about to terminate. Others have notified their azents to ask a Ligher figure on the lease-expiring properties for the balanee of the year. ¥ Rents in New York “are -to be moved up- ward_aloug the whole line, according to the New York Real Estute Record: **'Theagents of the Astorestate have awnounced an ad- vanee in rates of 10 per cent, but 15 per cen ‘and even 20 in good locations, has been aske for renewals of [eases of first-classresidences, while in some choice locations near the Stock Exchange remts have advanced to figures which cannot very well be represented by . percentazes. ‘Time wus when the stock- broker did his business in a dingy office, his only furniture being a safe, a desk,anda couple of chairs. But the businessof the brokers has grown so much that large offices and suites of rooms are in demand. Asall wishto benear the Stack Exchange, it fol- lows that - rents.in .the district bounded by Broadway, Broad and Wall streets, and Ex- ange place, have witnessed a nnp.um““nnl . ise,’ # 3 . THE NATIONAL GAME. - Xtems that Will Probably. Interest RBase-Ball Plasers and Their Ade mirers. & Jones has opened a laundry in Cineinnati and is competing with Chincse eheap lubor. Jobni O'Rourke has accepted a position in the Government postal service and hasquit the ball- fletd forever. 5 The Worcester Club will commence {n March a . serfes of amateur walking matches for the ben- ' efit of its treasury. 2 Thomas J. Keefe, of last year's Troys, i3 cleimed by Detroit and Troy. Keefels unde- cided which to pitch upva. The Boston Cominercfal Bulletin says - that & gume of- base-ball 13 like a buckwheat cake,—a great deal depends upon the buster. i Hankinson is sald to bave signed with the Troys for 18SL . e will probably play third base, &nd Connors will b put on flrat. 3e The question of ibandoning ' the name “base- ball” in order to ndopt o more euphonious title 13 being agitated by the League monagers. Filmer has decided to remafn i Phifadelvhia, and will organize o professional team for- the coming senzoii to be known us the Athietics. ‘The professfonals under Williamson and ama~ teurs under Guth played n_game “Friduy after- noon at Lincoln Purk, which resulted in a tie— 21 each. 5 Anexchange says that the game ot Lase-ball i8 notanew one in this couatry. Capt. Jona Smith was appointed “catcher” for: the Pow- hatan club. Richmond, of the Worcesters, {3 another of the pitchers who is c¢onching students-fa the pndomul gume. Hels "L:nmqr Professor’” in Browa University. A The exodus of professional players from San Fraucisco will seriously interfere with tho {nter- est in the game there the coming seuson. Nearly all the best pluyers have faced Eastw: McKelvey, the céntre-fielder of the old In- dianapolls Club in 1877 and 1878, has sued the Directors of that organization to recover $i ‘ulml \hl:rae years’ interest, which he claims to.be ue him. Denny, the Providence third-baseman, was given a benetit in Sun Francisco, Jun 2, prior 2o his departure for the East. The Troy Club threnten to huve Denny expelied from the Leaguc for violution of an agreement to play with the Trojans. _ s Itls thought thatat the meetingof the League {n this eity Feb. 25, a propusal will be made to do away with the rule muking five inningsa gumein case of rain, and substituting a pro- vision permitting tho Captain of the teawn be- hind to sny whether the gume shall pruceed or not. 1f he stops, he forfeits the inune at what- everstage {t may be by the score of even inn~ {ngs up to that time. The Cinciunati Enquirer of last Sunday de- voted several columns to what it pretonded to believe were some damuging_disclosures con- cerniug base-bull games fu 1878. A careful reading of the article wavld show that {t wa3 about the thiooest kind of a sensation possibie, apd proved nothing mure than it a certaln young man pretended that he **stood in™ with certain playors in the League, and was thus en- nbled to pluce bis money on the right club. The Foung mun visited this city ana Cincinnati, und was fortunate for & time 0. his pool-room bet~ ting, but notnore so than uthers who bet on tha strongest clubs winning games. The Enquirer can find nothing in the conduct of the players 10 fasten suspicion upon them, and as the mat- ter was brought to the uttention of the League mansgers a year and u half ago, and then in- vestiguted, proving notning crovked aguinst players, it shows how hard vp the Enquirer man Is for something to say against the Leagne and League ployers. Both 3essrs. Spaldiog and Hulbert say there was nothing even to arouse suspicion a3 tu the Yln}‘cl!. and If therehad beea certainly none would have been hired even for aday by League managers. . i - —— . “Wonidn’t Be Warned. Honroe safd to Sparks, at East Bernard, Tex.: “Come over to my house to-morrow to dinner, but don’t bring sour brother Frank, for Iwiil shoot bim if.you do.” Frank. defiantly went, hawever, and got shot jmmediately on eutering the house. ! Battle Creek (Mich) Dafly Journal. It shall always have my -bighest recom- mendation, 'says: our fellow-townsinan, Mr. Theodore Wakelee; when spoken to concern- hlzl(: St. Jacobs a(:)zg Ibba‘d b‘fe& suffering ‘wl th rheumatisin. obtained the greatest re-. lief from the- use of St. Jacobs g{f t? has. also been used in iy family for some time, and has never been found to fail in giving prompt relfef.. . - - Bt * e . Cold snaps, wind, or sun roughen the skin./ Healand wvt,'un it with Glenn's Sulphur Scap.