Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1881, Page 9

THE. CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1881——EIGHTEEN PAGES. - ) 9 PIANOS HE ing of 5 OF PLANOS, Hobinsteln, the greatestliving Planist, In the monlal ever given by him, pays the (‘oqu. e e 1o the greatest of all Planos: B PINWAY & SONS— Yot SUES: On the eve of returning to Europe. 1 GESTLENS easant duIY 10 €XDress 100U Ty most eemll BF foks Tor i tho" Kindngss and suuricsy ? e during m i ro HHOXT e ore all. for your unrivaled Aot papofortes, MOO Faputation. both for "excéllence wOrl0- R0 sdurinie the severcst trials. For 4 PO ooz wnd dimcuit Journcss all over L e uciementscuson, | sed and have ameria- 10 8 YO, Jo“gour Planos exclusively in my e ebred 3nd Lo e Tl ct X ure. 3 o sab e most eminent SRR RUBINSTEIN. et catalogue of the Stelaway Plano mailed il . LYON & HEALY, State and Monroe-sts. TAX NOTICES. f0WN OF LAKE TAXES. e Cotlectér 18 mow prepared 16 ecelve ALL #4XES cue tn the Town of Lake on bothy heal Estate and Personal Property _ For the year 180. Pay your Taxes to the mown Collector before March 10th, and save all costs. PETER MURPEY, Collector. & Desrbaru-st. northeast corner Randolph. " Tnefficient salesman fy fake charge of our Dress Goods Department. Ipplications Dy - letters aly. SCHLESINGER & HAYER, Nadison & Peoria WANTED, A PARTNER, With $5,000 o $10,000. ' Prsluess Talloring and_ Men's Furnishing. Located iwone of Chicax's leadine Hotels and on a retall thoroughfare. Business establisbed und paying, and with additional capital can be increased to liberal sroportions. Prefer a practical man with energy and Tiste. Address & 105, Tribune office. Wanted, Ladies Toknow that the Western Azency for Prof. Living- #on's (of New York) celebrated French Combination Entemaf rens-Catting patented Januars 1Siis now esiablisbed 3175 East Mrdison-st., and ' isthe, only piacein Chicaso whera indies can learn the real arc of French Dress-Cutting by square measure, without wing judgment, and withont refitting on any form, «r no charre for Instruction. .During the last year orer W piplls secured tirst-class situations in New Tork Cuty by using this system. G. 1. BORST, Manager. G. Zoom & Take Elevator. - WANTED, sent a lesding staple article of Chl- S T Bty bl & 5t Address W 9, Tribone gg—c:nnm e WANTED IN BUFFALO. . CASPER WITTMAN, JR. & CO., American Block, Jatalo, N. ¥.. want the Catalogue of every one hav- ing 1 86N ibrough Agénts. RAILWAY REVIEW. . "'THE WEARING POWER OF STEEL RAILS Tols relation 1o thelr Chemical Composition and Faysical Properties” By Dr. Chas. B. Dudley. This iper. which 12 to be read and discnssed at the meet- of the American Instinte of Mining Engineers at Falladelphin, Feb. 15 and 17, 13 published in “Tiilway Review, SIXTY-FOUR fllustrations ot rall sec- tons, full size, and six flinstrations of testing ma- ¢iiné and test bleces. This is the most elaborate, ‘Taluable, and thoroughly {llustrated articl on this fibject ever written. ThS issne of the lteview, con- bad nt the pri T it ey Adicess, o ToFUAr price of THE RAILWAY REVIEW, WILLARD A.SMITH, Pub., Howland Block, city. Babscription price. $3 & year. yester- i Py - DENTISTRY. & Dr. Day, . 133 East Madison-st. ; RUBBER OR Best (et $5 Gold, $10. Filling, 1-1 Old Rates. VITALIZED AIR mg:nmam-mxmvxm 133 East ‘Inwntor of Lower Suctlon Plate, which erer loosens while talking or eu(’iug 35 T :E.fl‘:}‘!fit without 2 failure. i FOR. SALE. - THE SUNRISE & ; Rigyiaded). capacity about 34000 pushels, recently 'd redtted, and is in firat-class Lt Ay o - CAPT. JOUN ’finxz\jl)‘il:\"’fh:f:i Or J. V. CLARKE, Hibaratan Baat. : VALENTINES. Ay ®lling of PRANG'S new and beantifal designs Just vecelved at SWITHS, 122 Dearhorn-st. FINANCIAL. w MONEY TO T.OAN “l ON IMPROVED CITY PROPERTY +Pmrates. Bpectal inducements for large loans. 4 WINSTON & DAWES, S Room 3.8 Clarkest. USINESS CHANCES. $25,000. d—flflu Tbousand Dollars will secure for itself T A . e severest nvos: Romg Y2 036 Raving. ihan thut sum need:T d SCALES, "L FAtitontuna’ Twe Ffig’g 111 &113 Lake St., Chicago. Beaarefultobuyonly the Genuine, an, . Eies; but 810 Yonce more have dono full_Justico SONER FORSATE Piamists| REAL ESTATE. Strong and Steady Demand for Property, with Increas- ing Sales, - Advance -in Values—Illustra- tion on Wabash " Avenue. Prospects of Great Activity in Building—Waiting for Lower Prices. The Tunnel Rapid-Transit Scheme Developing—Pressed Brick to Be Made in Chicago. Real-estate agents were not entirely sup- pressed by the weather last week, severe as that was. A sale made yesterday on Wabash avenue shows the drift of ghe market. Mr. B. P, Hutchinson sold fo Judge Van II -Higgins the buildings 210 and 212 Wabash avenue, occupied by the Brand and O’Brien galleries, for $78,000. This property was BOUGHT A FEW MONTIIS AGO by Mr. Hutchinson for $64,000. The frontage on Wabash avenue is eighty feet and the lots are full depth. Although the present im- provements are only temporary, the build- ing will pay 10 per cent gross on May 1, or7 per cent net. When fully improved the in- come will be much greater. The Palmer House stables, on the same block, next to the Matteson House, will be replaced this spring by a fine five-story business building. B.'W. Thomas and Joseph R. Putnam re- port the following all-cashsales forthe week:- 54.4x55.5 feet, southeast corner of Fifth av- enue and Quincy street, $25,000; tha north- west corner of Michigan avenue and Twen- ty-sixth street, 100x179," $40,000; 60x125 feet on West Madison street, south front, 270 feet west of Leavitt street, $6,300; lot on Butte: field street, tiear Tiwenty-ninth street, $900; fifteen acres at Winnetka, 4,500, ‘The fifty feet adjoining the northwest cor- nerof Michigan avenue and Twenty-sixth street is reported to have been sold for $330 a foot. 2 M. C. B. Fapwell’s latest purchases . ON MARKET STREET, at $500 and §700 a foot, complete his owner- ship of the entire block on the west side of Market street from Adams street north to Monroe, except the 1% fect on the southwest corner of Market and 3Mon- roe. Mr. Farwell will build on this property for his own use, and will make over his present quarters into small stores, for which there is a great de- mand. The block on Market street runs to the river, and has depth enough for docks and storehouse on the river front behind the stores. All the recent negotiations between the Connecticut Mutual and the persons who proposed to purchase the southeast CORNER OF MONROE AND DEARBORYN . have been declared off. The sale agreed to ended in a quarrel between agents of the buyer about commissions, whereupon the Con- nectieut Mutual, after making a tender of the deed and finding the other side could not ful- fill their part of the agreement, withdrew the property. This eligible corner is again in the market. It would make a good site for the Board of Trade, if the alley could be crossed and an additional piece secured from the Stearns property adjoining. ’ AIr. R, E. Goodell has sold to L. H. Ea.qes 293¢ feet on Clark street, improved, bemng a part of the Superior Block, for §56,000. ‘The sale of the ORIENTAL BUILDING,: 122 La Salle street, for $140.000 has been broken off on account of litigation by a former owner to unsettle the titleof the pres- ent owners. The litigant claims that his wife did not sign the deed when the property passed outof hishands. Thesalein question took place before the fire; the original papers have been burned up; the Notary has disap- peared; the wife is dead. There are thou- sands of titles in.this city which have been leftin a condition to be the easy prey of blackmailers. 5 A large tract of 600 feet, between Forty- seventh and.Forty-eighth streets, on Cottage Grove avenue, has been sold to an Eastern capitalist, through the agency of Gamett & Thomasson, for $15,000. The tractwas owned by S. C. Enggs. The purchase is said to be an excellent one, as the property is worth far more than was given for it. AMr. Barnes, the retired lumber dealer, ‘bought a few days ago the northwest cormer of ‘Fifty-seventh street and Hyde Park ave- nue, 75x113 feet, paying therefor §2,500 cash. He has now sold the property for $3,400 cash. One hundred feet on Lake avenue, between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets, has -been sold by Mr. B. A. Ulrich, for A. W. Rol- lins, for $5,500, §55 per foot. The same agent has also sold 50 feet on Monroe avenue, north of Fifty-seventh street, to Jeremiah Slocomb, for $1,050; also the following: Thirty-three feet southwest corner of Fifty-firStystreet boulevard and Woodlawn avenue, 150 feet southeast corner of Walnut street and Green- wood avenue, and 50 fect on Worton avenue, 150 feet south of Fifty-first street, all to one party, at $20 per foot cash. . The owner ot the tract of land lying be- tween 9 VERNON AVENUE AND TIE LAKE SIORE and Twenty-ninth and Thirty-firse streets, Tas remodeled the old subdivision, and di- vided the property into lots of twenty-five feet front, with spacious strects and alleys intersecting each other. The sewer and water system will be perfected and the streets paved the coming season, contracts for a portion of the work having been let, and assessments made for nearly all the re- mainder. In addition to these improvements, the owner proposes to erect NUMBER OF DWELLINGS near Twenty-ninth street, and Dessrs. George R. Clarke & Co. and IL ML Bacon have lately sold for him several lots in this tract, which are to be immediately improved. One lot of 100x9¢ feet on the northwest cor- ner of Groveland Park avenue and Thirtieth street was sold to City Treasurer Wt. C. Seipp, who will commence the erection of an elegx’:t residence on it to cost $26,000, assoon asthe weather will permit. Aunother lot40x118 Teet on the southwest corner of Cottage Grove avenue and ‘Thirtieth street, to Mr. August Newhaus, who has Iately taken out a permit for. and will erect thereon. a two-story and basement dweliing; and 100 fect on Grove- land Park avenue, near the above, toa well- known capitalist, who is perfecting plans for several very desirable uwenmf;s to be begun as soon as the ground can be broken. H. C. Morey and W.D. Kerfoot sold to Ci:arles IL Nix the brick dwelling and lot 125x125, south L}sc ch;n?)ao of Washington and Morgan streets, for $25,000, ng Dreyer & Co. have sold the house and Jot, No. 54 LaSalle street, for 815005 & fouse and lot on Clark strect, near Huron, for £9,700; and house and lot on Blue Island avenue, near Polk street, for $5,700. Griflin & Dwight have sold the premises known as No, 420 West Washington street for 513,500; three houses with 66 feet on West. ‘ashington street, near Halsted, for Q11,5005 house and lot, No. 111 Ewing street, Tor $3,500; No. 312 Congress street for $1,700% two lots on Thirteenth street, near Robey, for $930; cottage and lot on Archer avenue, near Halsted street, for $2,000; premises kpown as No. 114 Ewing street, Tor. $2,000; Tiouse and lot No. 41 North Carpenter street, for 32,400; two lots on Harrison street, near ‘Ashiand avenue, at $45 a front foot; two lots on Armour street, near Indiana street, for 52,0005 one lot on’ Hickory street, near Deer- ing, for $450; five lots on Thirteenth placs between Hoyne and Robey streets, at 3:53 each; and the premises known as Nos. 528 and 528 Warren avenue for S3.850. Mr, S. A. Ricker hassold hispacking-house . I roperty at_the Stock-Yards to Mr. John C. El:x!ely for £90,000 cash. " A Sixty doJlars a foot has been offered for g;operty in Hyde Park, opposit the old Hyde ark Hotel site. As an instance of the appreciation of val- ues, Receiver Otis, of the State Savings, men- tions that the thirty acres in Soutl'Chicago to be sold by him next Wednesday at $1,100 an acre, if no more is offered, were worthi a year or two ago but §200 an acre. IN THE SALES OF THE WEEK ‘were 203 feet running to riveron Grove street, southwest corrier of Nineteenth, $53,000; 35x ‘115 feet on Fifth avenue, northeast corner of Quiney, $33,000; 6ix188 on West llarrison, east of heech, $15,000; 24x100, iinproved, on Cr:‘nal street, northwest corner of Twelfth, $22,000; 120x87%¢ on Prairie avenue, north- east corner of Twenty-third, improved, $25,- 000 31, 33, 85, 37 East Sixteeuth, $25,0005 50x 178, improved, on Pmi\;i; avenue, soué}u o)f ) ark Twenty-first, $30,000; 25’ oI street, south of * Mad on; with an 1 on _ Madison of 50 4 in rear : feet, with the building known as the Golden Eagle Cl(_)tl_)lnszIe,lélw 0003 seventeen lots and undivided 3¢ of five Tots in Sub-Blacks 1 and 2 of Qutlot A, Wrlzhiwood, 330,000 100¢x100 feet on West Twelfth, Southeast corner of Brown, $9.500; 188x125 feet on Burling strcfi)f6 northeast corner of Webster avenue, $6,500; 67x115 on Sebor, east ot DBeach, $8,375; triangle of 141x141 on North Halsted, southeast corner of Clybourn ave- nue, $11,700; Lots 54 and 57, Brighton, §12.- 5005 24x110, improved, on_ Superior, on Mil- waukee avenue, east of Rucker street, @ $6,400: 5ix100 on itt street, north of "West Lake, $5.0005 X161 on Indiana avenue, sou urteenth, ) of §7,500. Charles H. Curtis has sold to Eliza:, beth A. Bournique the_lot on Twenty-third street, 100 feet east of Prairie avenue. north front, 109x135 feet for $§14,170. A. J. Averill has sold to the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicazo Road the lot on West Polk street, southwest corner of Beach street, undivided one-half of 16} feet, south to I'orquerstreet, also from Taylor to De Koven street, for §13,310. ‘The Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad has sold to_the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Road the lot on Harrison street, 234 feet east of Canal street, north front, undivided one-half of 55 feet runniny south to within a point of 120 feet of the northwest corner of Polk and Beach streets, for $27,525. B. P. Hutchinson has sold to A. E. and S. A. Kent the lot on Vau Buren street, 100 feet west of I'ifth avenue, south front, 53 5-12x86 feet, for $15,000. A party of capitalists recently started out from Maine to buy lands in Kansas and Texas. They visited Chicngo, and a number of them have concluded to, go-no further West than this city for the’investment of their money in land. : A sale of the buildings and improvements standing on the line of the OPENING OF NORTIL FRANKLIY, from_North avenue to Menomoneg streets, will be made by the Department of Public Works on_Tuesday, Feb. 27. The st is as follows: No. 51 Ménomonee street, on Sub- lot 19, north half of Lot12, North Addiuon to Chieago; No. 53 Menomonee street, on’ Sublot 20, north halt of Lot 12, North Ad- dition to Chicagzo; No. 55 Menomonee street, on Sublot 21, north half of 12, North Addition to Chicago; No. 33 Tell court, on Sublot 1, southwest quarter of Lot 12, North Addition to Chicago; No. 57 Tell court, on Sublot 19, part of Lots 12 and 13, North Addition to Chicago: No.35 Tell court, on Sublot 20, and t of Lots 12 and 13, North Addition to Chicago; No. 34 Tell court, on Sublot 21, and part of Lots 12 and 13, North Addition to-Chicago; rear of No. 559 North avenue, on Sublot 17, Lots 23 to 25, North_Addition to Chicago; No. 39 North avenud, on Sublot 1, Lots 26 to 25, N th Ad- dition to Chicazo; rear of No. 895 North avenue, on Sublot 1, Lots 26 to 25, North Ad- ‘dition to Chicago; No. 40 Starr street, on cast seven feet of Sublot 41, Lots 29 to 31, North Addition to Chieago; No, 42 Starr street, on Sublot 42, Lots 29 to 31, North Ad- dition’ to Chicazo. The sale of the abuve property will be made for cash, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Public ! The_buildings are to be removed within sixty.days fron the date of sale. Some interesting figures us to values of ACRE TRACTS ON THE WEST SIDE before the panic and now are given by the Reul Estate and Building Journal. Forty acres west of Kedzie avenue, lying south ot Twelfth street, sold in 1869 at $500 per acre. itsoldin 1873 at from S$4,500 to $5,000 per acre, and is now _ worth 30 per cent more. Lying north of Central Park and_west of Central boulevard, in 11, 89, 13, arefive acres which sold in 1869 at $400 per acre; later, in the same year, at .$1%50, and again in.187L. at $2,500 per acre. Fifteen acres i the same quarter section sold_in 1869 at §1,600, in 1870 at 52,000, and in 1873 $3,300 was refused. It is worth 5,000 now. Atract in the northwest quarter of this same section sold in_1869 at $1,(00 per ucre, again in 1871 at'$2,000, and Is now held at §5,000. 3 1n October, 1668, fifteen acres in the north- east quarter of 11, 89, 12, sold for $10,000 to- tal. Sevenacresof thisfifteen soldin 1871 for £6,000. By the way lots were sold the land has shown a value of $2,000 per acre. Twenty acres on Central boulevard were ‘bought in 1872 for §5,000, sold in 1873 tor $68,000, and is now held at $109,000. In 1569 Judge I W. Blodgett bought twenty acres on the boulevard for $12,000, was afterwards sold for $20,000, and it is now wortl $60 per front foot. Over fifty.acres fronting on Central Park sold ten years ago at $1,000 per acre. In the following year it brought $3,000 per acre, and is now worth double thatamount. A tract adjoining the above brought $5,000 per acre in 1870, and is now held at $9,000 per acre, . 3 ‘The southeastquarter of Sec. 13, 89, 13, sold in1869 at 51,000 per acre. - Its value will now average §5,000 per acre. ) i A tract of forty acres fronting on IIarrison street, sold in 1868 at §1,000 per acre, is now. worth $8,000 per acre. _ At the northeast corner of Humboldt Park lie 100 acres, which sold in IFebruary, 1822, for 514,000, in 187 for $35,000, and its’ pres- ent value is from $60,000 to $70,000. ‘The subdivision made in 1869 by A. . Picrce of eighty acres, being Pierce’s Addi- tion to Holstein, sold in 1869 for -$20,000. Within a few years $2,000 per acre, or S190,- 000, was refused. Its valug now is immense- ly greater than that. Mr. Pierce owned, for thirty years previous to 1872 a guarter sec- tion in See. 35, 40, 14. 1le paid $320 for theen- tire piece. Of course the inerease has been fabulous. 1t would bring an average price of £4,000 per acre. In other words. its value has in forty years become one thousand times greater than the original purchase money. Sixty acres, with two fronts on Humboldt Park, sold in 1869 for $1,000 per acre, is now worth §6,000 to $7,000 per acre. A portion of 100acres in Sec. 1, 89, 13, sold in 1863 at a price which would bring theaver- age value about.to $3,000 per acre. In 1873t was valued at 6,000 per acre, and the subdi- visions opened up in it are now worth from §20 to S40 er foot. "The controversy between the city and the railroads as to who shail keep the viaduets in repair brings forward some astounding TLLUSTRATIONS OF THE GROWTIL of the city. The principal roadsnow cen- tering in this city, they say, were builtata time when Chicago wasbut a small town. At that time it was_believed that they were “far enough away from the business centre mot to inconvenience the traflic on the street for half a century to come. The Gen- eral Manager of one of the oldest and most fmportant of our railroads said that when the so-called St. Charles Air-Line was con- structed through Sixteenth street he had to take his buggy and ride across the prairie to reach it. A nian whoat that time would have said that this road would ever inconvenience the traflicof thiscity would have been looked upon as a lunatie. But, as if by magic, the city has lrept on expanding until these roads, which when they were located terminated on n_xte prairie, were in the very heart of the eity. 3 tl-:\'ery day strengthens the indications of an TNUSUAL AMOUNT OF BUILDING. to be done this spring. Building permits.are already showing a great increase. Afr. Con- rad Seipp will spend $100,000 or more on five four-story brick stores with stone trimmings on his property . ON FRANKLIY STREET. E. S. Dreyer & Co. will build a store with three_stories of flats above on Lake street, near Franklin. Mr. C.P. Thomas, architect, is completing plans, for a residence on Chi- eagoavenue for Johin Winer, Esq., of Ham- ilton, Ont., and also for two_ large blocks of French flats on the corner of Elm and North Church streets for Hugh T.Bireh, Esq. The lot is 100x150; the buildings will be four stories, of briclk and stone, in first-class style. Mr. Thomas is also_at work on a block of flats _on _ Ellis Park for Mrs. Her- ald, 30x80, four stories. The TIrwin Block, on the corner of Wabash avenue and Harrison, street, by the same architect has been retarded by the vweather, but will be ready for occupation by C. P. Kimball & Co., the. tenants, by the 1st of Mayv next. This building bids fair to be one of the finest com- mercial buildings in the city. There is a noticeable disposition on the part of . . CAPITALISTS TO WAIT A before completing their plans and making 4 their contracts.- Prices now average about 25 per cent’ more than at this time last year, The cut-stonecontractors have received no- tice from their men that taey shall demand 50 cents additional per day after the 1st of MMareh, and the carpenters that their men will ask $3 afrer that date; but the general lxqru among contractors is_that the resuit will be that all mechanies will be glad when the season opens to work for the saine wnges as last year. Thereisa coustant influx of new men from other places, and, although there will be consideruble work done, it is hoped by builders that neither materials nor wages will remain_higher than last. year. Brickmakers are already willing to contract Tor new brick at $6.50 and $7. but lumber av- erages SL30per thousand higher than last year. e wills In the city' are generally busy in filling country ore ders _for finish- ings for residences . and {)ublic build- ings, although several of them are slucker than at this time year. In view of the uncertainties about wages and the price of new brick and other muterial, builders are holding back, and new enter- prises will not show themselves in any num- ber for several weeks to come. But the number of | NEW RUILDINGS. to be put up will be very large. There is every reason. to beligve that there will be more building this sprifg than in any other in the history of Chicago, exceptimmedintely after the great fire. Last week permits were issued to the Western Warehousing Company to build a two-story brick \rml‘l:hause. SOX3L feet, on North Waier, between| La Salle and Clark streets, to cost $9,000; to'P. J. Maloney to erect a - two-story brick. dwelling, 24x58 feet, Wese _ Indiana, near Rubey street, to cost $2,500: to Andrew Kivasinock, to put upa_one-story brick cot- tage, 2:x teet, Blackhawlk, and llalsted streets, to cost $1,600; to Josc)}h Mureha, to erect n onc-story dwelling, 21%46 feet, on ’.l'hroo}) street, to cost $7093 to L. C. Riggs, to build a two-story and basement brick dwelling, 2tx4t feet, 173 Liuncoln street, to cost $4,000; to M. Lane, 10 put up a two- story brick dwelling, 24x34 feet, Lincoln and Sedgwick streets, to cost §2,8003 to Charles Ruppert, to build n two-story and basement brick dwelling, 26x60 feet, at No. 102 Sher- man street, to cost 52,0005 to Clark & Wise, to erect a twao-story brick axle-grease factory, 37x74 feet, on Illinois street; injKinzie's addi- tion, - to cost $2,000; to John T. Cross, to erect a two-story and basement brick dwell- ing, 24}¢x100 feet, No."300 Indiana street, to cost $5,000; to John T. Davis, to build _a _three-story dwelling, = 28%(x%0 feet, 256 Michigan avenue, 1o cost $6,000; Conrad_Seipp, five four-story storos, No: to 973 Franklin strect, S102,000; Ieades & McAuley, = two-story * brick at the corner of Indiana and Fi in streets, $7,500; Louis Deitzt, 2-story store’and ingon Larrabee und Sophia ptreets, $5,000; Frank Stearbora, three-story store: and dwelling, at the corner of Lake and Leavitt streets, 35,0003 11 Melleys, onestory cottage, at No. 184 Twenty-first street, 1,000, The Illinois Central Railroad Company will add to its dock improvements at the foot of Randolph street during the present year a pier, 800 feet wide and 1,000 feet long, at a cost of $75,000. It will run paraliel with the pier built by the Company in 18S0. Chicago 1s soon to be relieved, in part at lrcnst, from her dependence ;on other cities ora SUPPLY OF PRESSED BRICK. A firm_of brickmakers, with a capital of $75,000, has just coneluded uegotiations for alarge tract ot Jand on the Nurth Branch, north of Fullerton avenue, where they pro- vose to establish the manufacture of pressed brick. The clay will be brought from the in- terior of this State, and the manufacturers expect to be able to produce as good an arti- cle as the Baltimove or. Philadeiphia brick, at e_rices which will meet the market. Workon the % NEW GLUCOSE-FACTORY. of the so-called Chicazo Sugai-Refining Com- pany has procceded so fur that all the piling and capping has been done, and the masonry is now being laid. It is calculated that all the foundations up to the'water-table will be finished by aarch 15, About 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 bricks are in the yard, and the men are lmuling more 1n_every day, so that, as soon us the weatner will permit, work on the building can be puShed forward., In order that the present weather may be’ taken ad- vantage of, all the dimension-stone being received from Lemont by the car-load. A large number of important building en- terprises are waiting for the settlement of the new site of tue Board of Trade. i RENTS > “advance: sion men have been. made.aware’ o the past week or fortnight,when they have learned that for the coming year they nust pay an advance of 10 per cent on this year’s are very firm, W . Tl May no refusals are entertained by owners; the'advance nust be consented to at once or the commission man runs the risk of learn- ing any day thiat his store nas been leased to otlier parties. W. D. Kerfoot & Co. have rented all the upper floors of . THE BORDEN BLOCK, at the northwestcorner of Randolph and Dearborn streets. The tenauts are mostly lawyers, and the rents range from S360 to S1.200 LOANS. A large portion of the loans from week to week is sums borrowed for purchase money, and is obtained av 6 to 7 per eent. During the week: there were forty-six mortgages rec- orded, securing loaus_for S84, and 110 tal of 156 loans of $503,186. Petitions for the VACATION OF LA SALLE STREET south of Juckson street for the new Board of Trade building have been presented to the Common Council, The first petition is signed by Charles and D. D. "Tracy, of Erie, Pa., and, after praying for the vacation of La Salle street, it oes on to state that the peti- tioners are the lawrul executors of the Trucy estate, and the owners of - most of the lots on the east sideof La Sallestreet, between Jack- son and Van Buren streets. Next comesone half-dozen petitions from La Salle street property-owners, with the followinz names, and property represented, attached: James W. Paxton, owner of 56 feet front: George L. Otis, 60 fect; B. P. Hutchinson, 80 feet; L. B. Otis, 217 feet; R. Schlogsser, 130 feet; L. S. Major, 112 feet; Martin Andrews, 53 feet; C. C. Peck, 133 fect; Benjamin E. Gallup, 52 fcet; Charles itcheock, 52 feet; James Otis, 105 feet: G, M. Dodge, 80 feet; Mortimer& Tapper, 189 feet; Leopold Meyer, 38 feet; Page & Phim, 51 feet; John Mason Toomié, 105 feet; National Life-Insurance Company, by J. A. Ellis, President, 80 feel; Couch estate, by William H. Wood, attorney, 150 feet; Charles . and S. Leonard Boyce, -by 8. Leonard Boyce, 100 fect. The petition from Sherman street property- owners is signed by John D. Parker, owner of 75 feet; llenry Schoeltkoff, 50 feet; S. W. Ransom, 75 feet; Edwin Brainard, 43 feet; liram helli}w feet; George 1. Leonard, 25 feet; . B. Mathews, 11 B. 10, B. Mathews, 2 feet each. ‘The petition from Pacific avenue property- owners is signed by Fred R. Sears, owner of fifty feet: J. S. Farlow, fifty feet; 1. and A. Keep, 100 feet; Edward Mendel, ninety-seven fFeet; Malcolm JMcNeil. fifty feet. ‘Thie Common Council Committee on Streets and Alleys, South Side, took up the whole question on Friday. The Board of Trade, the hotels, railroads, and property-owners interested were all represented. The Rock Island and the Michigan Southern Railroads 4and the Grand Pacitic Ilotel had spokesmen present who .were willing to have La Salle street closed for the Board of Trade, provided that if the street was vacated Sherman street and Pacific avenue ¥ STOULD BE WIDENED to seventy feet each, so as to keep the fronts of the block on a line with those uf the depot south of Van Buren street. This would give a width of 173 feet, which was enough for the Furpuse of the Board of Trade. The Tailroad companies had expended alarge amount of money to_put up_their passenger depot, and wantéd frec access to it. ‘They were willing that La Salle street should be closed if given the cquivalent of forty feet on the side streets, as all the transfer busi- ness would come down that way. “The Bodrd of Trade representatives took no part in:the diseussion. The Comumittee referred the watter to the Corporation Counsel for an opinion as to the rizht to vacate the street. Over half a million dollars has already been pledged to Mr. E. C. Cole’s scheme " FOR RAPID TRANSIT rom the South Side of the eity to Lake For- est, and satisfactory assurances have been received that the balance will be forthcom- inz when wanted. In answer to the eriti- cisms made on the plan for a-tunnel under the river and throngh the North Side, on the ground that it wifl be very difficuls to keep the water out, Mr. Cole shows that the ex- treme depth needed is sixteen feet, which in- cludes all the foundations ‘for tracks. The practical depth of the tunnel itself would be but fourteen feet. ‘Che road is to be exclu- sively for passenger business, not for freight at al?,’xmd copsequently will use small en- gines” and cars. Good Progress has been made in securing Gl THE RIGHT OF WATY. The route will run west of the dummy road athews, Jr., and tental. Evenat this date before 'the Ist of - trust-deeds, securing $230,310,—making a-to- into the rear ot James Waller’s-property, east of Graceland, and then between the Northwestern Rpad and the Lake Shore to Lnke Forest. Persons interested in the neighborhood of Evauston have alread: given the right of waY' for two miles nortl of Evanston and a mile and a half south of it. The great feature of this route is that it starts from fhe centre of the city, on the south side of the river.~ g Mr. W. C. Goudy is at work securing the right of way for the Chicago, St. Paul, Min- neapolis & Omaha line ¥ . INTO CHICACO. The route this Company have laid out crosses the Northwestern at “Evanston, runs east of Graceland, and then bears southwesterly toward the Chicago River, then runningiuto, fi:g gxty ‘:.lu\\'ruélmcvltporue :‘ie’“lll(fi mfll.us{nz » tracks of the Chicago & Pacific Division of the St. Phul, g BOULEVARDS AND STREETS. The project has been revived of connect- ing the North and West park systems. This isto be done by completing the 1Iunmboldt boulevard jts entire length, An important meeting of property-owners interested was beld last weck to promote this work. Itnet at the office of John Johnston, Jr., No. 80 La Salle street. Some thirty persons were pres- ent, Mr, S. I1. Kerfoot being chosen to pre- side, and Mr. Johnston, Jr., scribe. A peti- tion was put in circulation that has been drafted by the owners of .property on Ilum- boldt boulevard, in the Town of Jetferson, asking that the thoroughfare be at once lad out fitty feet wide, the road-bed covered witlr broken stone, and such other work dune at once as would make the boulevard suita- hle for use. President Wilcox, of the West Park Board, explained that the Snow estate lay in the line of route and the heirs refused 10 donate or _sell their land, even for boulevard purposes, for less than $500. This w asnag the West Park Board was now riving against, and had made no headwa since his connection with the Commission. It was proposed to run the boulevard north of the Snow estate, leaving to_the heirs the entire ' river-front “intact. This appeared agreeable to the heirs, and would probably ‘be the line of the boulevard, though it had not as yet been located. ‘The Lincoln Park Commissioners propose to ask the cousentof the Legislature to an extension of the . LAKE-SHORE DRIVE from the foot of Oak strcet to Chicago avenue. This will make it necessary to con- demn two blocks for the right-of-way. ‘The West Park Commissioners have agreed on the following line of boulevard for the conneetion between the WEST PARK AND THE SOUTH PARK systems. Starting from the centre line of the south end of Douglas Park, 20 feet in width, rufning south to within 1,000 feet of Twenty-sixth street; thence east, 250 feet wide, to the east side of California avenue; thence south along and parallel with street, on_the north side thereof, to the east side of Madison avenue; thence south to the Lilinois & Michizan Canal. The West Park Board figure out the cost of making West Washington street a boule- vard at $316,878. ich has passed the State Senate ‘The bill w providing that hercatter whep a street mn Chicago or any other city of the State shall ved or *permanently improved,” by special assessment it shall be repaved as often as may be necessary at the general cost of the city, meets with a great deal of con- demnation in this city. It is urged that its effect will be to throw on the entire pri- vate property in the city, most of it owned by persons of very moderate means, the cost of repaving and repairing the miles of streets near, adjoining, and surrounding railroad depots, warahouses, and adjoining wholesale houses, manufactories, and’ business proper- ty, where the hauling is heavy and the traflic destructive of street mprovements. It is a bill to tax the many for the benefit of the few, ‘e Committee of Streets and Alleys, West Side, have recommended_that the ordinance for the improvement of West Adams street from Robey to Iloyne avenue be passed; also, the ordinance for the ovening of Cali- fornia avenue from Lake to Fulton street. ‘The order for a viaduct over Polk street from Canal street to the river w mended referred to -the Commi Public Works to have plans prepared. It was stated by City-Engineer Cregier that -this work could not be commenced until the middle of May, and that the Harrison street viaduct would be completed about that time; the Sangamon street viaduet will be completed about the 1st of June. The name of Smith street, between Madison and Mon- -yoe, running west from Ogden avenue to Waood street, was ehanged to Ogden place. A petifiof for tire~widening-of: Fairfleld -ave— fiue from Twelfth street to Ogden avenue was recomuended to be passed. THE CHICAGO SUMMER-BESORT ASSOCIATION is a company forined by some Chicago gen- tlemen who have purchased a larze amount of land at Charlevoix. They have organized a stock company for the necessary improve- ment of the property. A charter has been obtained. ‘The capital stock has been placed at $10,000, in shares of S100 eachy, subject to call. ‘The land hus been paid for and the title secured. Assoon as spring opens the place will be improved and made as beauti- ful as the situation demands. IT 1S THE INTENT OF THE COMPANY to spare no pains or expense to make the re- sort attractive to sunmner visitors. “They havea fine location.high and dry,between two lakes, fronting both of them. “T'his will fishing and fine bonting opportunities. resort is, besides, but a few miles from three of the best_trout-streams in the State of Michigan. The oflicers of this Company con- sist of the following gentlemen, well known in Chicago: President, Albert ¥. Gates; Vice-President, Silas M. Moore: S¢ Ty, Harvey Den 5 Treasurer, Brayton Salton- stall; Directors, Robert M. Cherrie, James . Scoville, James II. Moore, Caleb F. Gates, Silas M: Moore, Cuthbert Strong, J. K, Harmon, I. M. Avery, and the Rev. J. W. Dinsmore. Among the real estate transactions 1IN EVANSTON of late are the following: n Morton Xull, of Beloit, Wis,, has pur- chased of Mr. Arch Winne 150 feeton the cor- ner of Forest avenue and Dempster street. He hias already taken up his residence there, Mr. Albert Hall has purchased the iot on the corner of Forest avenue and Grove street, on whieli he willsoon reside. Mr. . E. Stockton has bought 150 feet on Hinman avenue, north of the Congregational Cuureh, on which he will build n home. There is a decided ad- vance of real-estate values in the village, and the buyers mie more numerous than those who'want_to sell. Itisquite probable that the opening of spring will witness more building than there has been in a number of years. ST. LOUTS. The present season, the St. Louis Globe- Democrat says, will be the busiest ever ex- erienced by builders and architects in St. Euu[s. ‘Although the continued cold weather has thrown the outdoor mechanics out of employment, they are only waiting for warm days to become as busy as bees. NEW YORK. i 4 Gath ” writes to the Cincinnati Enquirer from New York that Mayor ‘Ely and associ- ates, of New York, have just bought one Dlock of thirty-two lots at Fiftieth street and Madison avenue for $500,000. Good building Jots between Fiftieth and Eightieth streets, about Fifth avenue, 100520 - feet, bring about 320,000 not. and there is some slight activity in real property. In the Wall street district several large buildings are going up, includ- ing a large addition and an entire new front on Brond street to the Stock Exchani or one building lot on Wall street William B. Astor recently gave 5156,000, and for two more his brother, John Jacob, gave $500,000. A piece of ground, one square {rom the Tribune oftice, was just bought by Eugene Kelly, with a_ plain” building upon it, for $200,000. New York is decidedly feeling the booin. R LASDLORD' AND TENANT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. i CmicAGo, Feb. 12.—Legislation is necessary to destroy the injustice of the present laws ot Hlinois regulating the rights of persons between whom exists the relation of landlord and tenant. These laws are unjust to the tenant in_retaining the landlord’s remedy for the collection of rent in arrears by dis- traint. They are unjust to the landlord in roviding mweans whereby, in cities at least, he ean be deprived not only of the use of his lands and tenements, but also of all income therefrom for an indefinit period. i “The practical operation of tiie- Jaw of dis- tress inflicts injury on the poor. The,statute provides that, *when any distress warrant has been levied, the person whose property is distrained way release the sune by enter- ing into_bond, in double the amouut of the rent claimed, payable to the landlord, with sufficient sureties, to be approyed Dy the per- son making the levy, if the bond is tendered before the diling of a copy of the warrant, or, if after. by the Clerk of the Court or Justice before whom the suit is pending.” It must be apparent thatainrge, and by far the larger, numberof tenants find it difficult, If not impossible, to avail them- selves of the benelits, real or sunuosed‘ con- ferred by this section. -lts preseuce in the statute has in either view resulted in a legis- Jutive division of tenants into classes. One gg mle_se. {)y m:lsw of reties, is made to suffer; w! by the fact of ability to tind thal:fxl,e e?c?igeus“;& and remains. in possession of the landlord’s premises quietly awaiting the “trial of thi cnlt to euforce payment they do not continue to give the useof their property to their debiors, but they cut off the snpplies and 8 | stop the indebtedness from growing larger. cause in the court to whiich its appeals are | Not so witls, the landlord; he continues, be- taken. Fix your_ attention on.the section which gives the rizht in legal proceedings to a laintiff or his agent, the person making the evy to decide as to the qualifications of sureties. g With reference to that class able to furnish abond the operationof this statute might cause compelled by the law, to afford protec- tion “to his tenant, while he might with as much reason be compelled to supply the smne tenant with food; in other words, he is required to allow the indebtedness due hin: to Emw by the addition of the install- ents of rent yet to accrue. The result of this enforced warfare be- possibly be as follows: When a levy I3 made | tween landlord and tenant is straw bonds on under the warrant, the -property is either re- moved from the premises, or it Is permitted to. remain in charge of a custodian, the former course is followed, and the bond is ‘tendered -before the warrant is filed, the “person waking the levy” may sim- ply declinc to accept it because of the insufticicney of the sureties, no-matter who they are. If the latter, it is a sure sign that there is a humane landlord in the case, and that, in all probability, the .tenant’s rights will not be ruthlesly trodden upon, but that he will be given a reasonable tine to pay his rent, or furidsh a_bond. If he pays his rens le is charged with the custo- dian’s fees, illegally exacted, of course, which he also pays rather than have his property carried away. Suppose the prop- erty has been removed, and the bond is_filed after the warrant is issuned, where I3 the power in the Court or Justice to order, a sur- render of the property and to enforceits order? There 1s none whatever. The tenant is driven to the action of replevin. Here, beforz he can obtain the execution of. his writ, he must give a_bond in double” the value of the property to keep harmless the ofticet called upon to execute it. Whether, therefore, the tenant wishes to avail himself of the provisions of thestatute, orto resort to his remedy by replevin, he finds himself called upon to” give a bond, failing in which he must defend him-- self in the distress proceedings, while the landlord holds the property, ~Wwho, if " defeated, is, as . a rule, able to give a bond, and, therefore, appeals. An appeal compels the tenant—and that, t0o, in a strictly legal manner—to await the trial in the court to which it is praved, “while his proverty is storea,—heaven kuows where or under what circumstances. . . So far, the assumption is that the warrant is levied on property not exempt. Consider now the possibilities where the levy is made on exempted articles. Let ns assume that the tenant has no _estate beyond what is de- elared as exempt from the process of distress. ‘The statute provides that the . debtor against whom au warrant has issued must, it he wishes to avail himself of the exeuption, make a schedule of ail his personal property, of every kiud and charaeter, including money on hand and debts due and owing to hiu, sworn to; and any property not. included shall not be exempt. ~ ‘The officer is then re- quired to summon three householders, who, being sworn, are to * fairly and impartiatly * appraise the property of the debtor, and place a fair valuation on each article. Then the debtor may select from the schedule the articles he . may wish to retain, the agaregzate value of which shall note: ceed the amount exempted, and the remai der is to be delivered to the ofiicer. 1f this had been entitled *An-act to pre- vent the'operation of the Exemption law in large citics,” it could not have been more in- geniously framed. It provides means whereby the most impertizent inquisition into the affairs of individuails may be had be- fore a court composed of a landlord, his bailiff, and his tliree convenient household- ers! Such a summary Creditors’ bill was never heretofore devised by a Legislature. It confers power not exercised by a courtof chancery. . Before a judiclal termination as o whether the tenant owes the landlord one farthing the tenant is compelled to discover his property and to_submit the question of its value tu nl]ur v of three householders se- lected by the landlord if he would invoke the aid of the Exemption laws! Details are nbt necessary to be pointed out. A broad fielid is here presented wherein_un- serupulous landlords, collectors, and bailiffs can excreise under the formsof law themost cruel oppression. The officer is empowered to administer the oath to the, appraisers; he is not required to do so. e may refuse, and when the tenaut is in search of a notaryd his property disappears. At the trial the land- lord elaims non-eXemption, by reason of the absence of a sehedule when the levy was made, All this is within his power “under this rickety statute. Perhaps, too, the per- son serving the w t is not an ofticer. and declines to adminjster the oath because g;ais nat;doa i{ h‘e ‘sl an-officer, ‘[llpcllne's on e ground that he has :no ;aushority save e o denves FrobhtS pkt Hirte: ok Instances of ‘oppressigi™ e Thws have been brought to the attention .of the public through these columns, and yet, -in most eases that oppressionavas strictly legal. It results that, when “courts so- declare, the arguments which should be usedl to .induce the law-making power to create a sensible law are turned into wkapons of abuse and used against the Judges for declaring what the law is. . SRS 9 These defeets giveé rise to suits in trespass, for an. illegal and -excessive distraint, in trover for the conversion of property, nllezed to have been taken and not returned, and are strong inducements to the comunission of perjury when there is the slizhtest pretext for a recovery against a wealthy defendant. as the landlord no grievances? With Lim it is simply & matter of ehuice . whether he will embark in litigation to compel the enforcement of the covenants in his leases to be kept by his tenants, or whether he will yield to the constant exaction of those ten- ants, until ultimately he derives no income fromw his realty. Ifa water-pipe bursts, im- mediately the landlord is notified that no rent will be puid uptil it is repaired. and that damages will be claimed against him as an offset. Now, there s, it is ‘safe to say, not a lease written in this city which does not contain the tenants’ covenant to _repair, and especially to keep water-pipes in gucd condition. Even in the absence of such a covenant the common law casts the burden of making generakrepairs on the tenant, and he is legaily required to restore the premises inas good order, reasonable wear and tear excepted, ns he received them. Notwith- standing these express covenants, the com- plaints and the demands on the part of . ten- ants would be absolutely ludicrous if they were not so vexatious and unreasonable. A case in point i3 within myknowledge, where, because of the freezing of water-pipes, the tenant refused to pay the rent, ‘and the application of a small quantity of hot water to a Iaucet rtemoved the cause of complaint. For every just reason why the payment of rent should be sus- pended nine are frivolous, and of the nature of threats. Not one-third of the demands made on landlords for repairs have any legal foundation. ‘The landlord wmust accede or litigate. If he does the Iatter,” it must be, first, by distraint, and it has been shown that in the hands of inhuman landlords it leads to persecution—in those more humane, it is no longer an effective remedy.; second, by action for the rent, with the delays and possibly worthless judgment; and third, by proceedings in forcible detainer,”with” its “straw-bonds” -system appendant, during the pendency of which the landlord gets neither rent nor possession, And at the end of the term both principal and surety are waorthless, x : 5 What is the remedy ? Simply abolish the right of distraint, and witir it” will fall all that long - lists of pretexts for litigation so ‘common in our courts; and second, in any action for forcible detainer, whereby the landlord recovers a judgment ot restitution, let tne writ dssue “in ten or twenty days, whether the tenant appeals or.not. the tenant appeals, reqiulre' the lamilord to give bond to cover all damages to his ten- ant, in case. of -failure to- Secure the affinnance of their judgment in the Ap- pellate Court. Make all bonds a lien on real estate, and provide that when final judzment is rendered, whether for the landlord or against him, that judgment shall also be en- tered in the bond against the sureties, with- out compelling suits to be brotghit thereon. An observance of covenants, on the part of both landlord and tenant, would be enforced by such a statute. i Ts there any reason why possession should not follow the judgment, whether the tenant prays an appeal or not? Itis diffteult to dis- cover any of great weight. The theory of the proceeding is, that the landlord is “enti- tled to the possession; just as itisinan ac- fion of replevin, that the plaintilf-is the own- erof and entitled as against the defendant To the possession of personal property. In the latter case the plaintiff gives his bond, and, if the property can be found, takes it into his possession and holds it until the liti- gation terminates. In the former case, when abond is given by the tenont. it suspends rent, and deprives e landlord of the possession he claims—the - very source of his_ income. Why this. incousist- ency? In iwhose hands' will the prop- erty . be Dbest protected, and. who would hava the greater security,—the tenan whose boud would be no lien- unless he ha real estate, or the landlord. whose property, by the very act of his obtaining posstssion, would be incumbered witlt a lien for the pro- tection of the tenant? _1t isno answer to say, Abolish distraint and leave the landlord to the same remedy as the butcher, grocer, or - Peabody to Jobn Weisbuechery......... the one hand and ** cast-iron ” covenants re- quired on the other, such as that the land- lord ‘may enter with or without force and expel the tenant, a covenant that has been construed to mean that the land- lord may use “not ton much force, but just §ar_ce enough”;a waiver of all exemption aws, in some States held invalid, as_against ),"ublic volicy; and, lately, a covenant for the coufession of judzment in forcible detainer, Whereby the ‘tenant waives his right of ap- peal, and consents to be ejected on_the spot, for a default in the covenants of his lease. 'il‘lhe Legislature could correct all these g‘ s if city and country members could once T‘i: rought to view matters in the same light. e‘ l:{t.ter do not observe the operation of the law in densely populated cities, but are satisfied, because with them it has no_cum- k}g:rs:élx_xeh:m;;\e;d o!\;emtlog. while with the 1 en| no fe: Vi ) atures worthy of i SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. he following instruments we record'Saturday, Feb. 12: oee led e Wi CITY PROPERTY. ‘est Superlor st, 72t5 ft w of Wood, S e, datcd Feb, 7o(Wilam W, Wright to C. Halinan)..... s 630 Lincolu st, 1593 tt 5 of Ha; L € f, Bix 100 ft, dated Jan. 31 (Thomas Corlett to J. and M. MeDermott).... ... b Michigun av, o w cor of Twenty-sixth st, e 1, 030-100x191 96-100 ft, Tmproved, datgd Feb. Ii(Ephralm Addéms to Mosed Owasco st, 133t w of Western av, u f, 241x10 e, dated Jun. X (Thomus M. Howe et al. to Edward Baggov)...... Twenty-eighth st, s 0 cor of Hunove 1, 25x1540-10 ¢, dated Jun. 28 (L. . . 1,300 A A Groveland Park av, s e cor of Thirtleth 8L, w £, 224 x42 ft, improyed, dated Feb. I ((y}corge I Clatke to Joseph Pfershe Cossitt st, 203 n of West 3 12 ft, improved. dated Nov. 22,18 (Master in Chancery to Florence Wi 3 i - Nort y 12252 West . e f, 40x ated Feb. 4 (William Amer- son to Edward L. James) . . 5,500 Buurerncm st, 1% fr s of Thi w 100 f¢, dated Feb. 11 (J. T. Sime han). to C. . 5 Rice st, 212 Lincoln, s f, 25x125 ft, dated Feb. £} (C. M. Thombs to Mary Steele).... 5% o West Superio & of Nobie, nf, (L. "J. and W o4 T st. 129 1 2x123 fr, dated Feb. 11 _Lister to Jokin Redman). . 5 North Market st, 19133 {50 £.235x108 fr. dated Feb. 9 (C. M Bucher to W. und_J. Cawtbornie).... Throop st, 96 £t s of iVest Nincteenth, £, 4123 fr.duted Feb. 4 (estate of David Lee to M. and 4 Vrba).. Eldridge courr, 813 {t ¢ of Statest.n f, 30x40 £t, mproved, dated Feb. 13 (Isaac Marks o Maygie M. Whelan). .. & Peoria st. 70 £t n of Jackson, e f, un a 5 of 25x125 ft, improved, dated Jan. 22 (Lou- i3 Adums to Leon Schlossman Archer av.gi £t ¢ of Joseph s, 8 ft, improved, duted Feb. 12 (Edward Hogan to E. J. McGinty)-.... .. .... Western av, n e cor_of Ilwaukee, tri- angle of 139x100x107 ft, dated Feb. 12 (E. L. Gillette to Stephen Pribyl). ... North Clurk st. n e cor of Elow w f, 130 ft, dutea Feb. 11 (E. L. & C. H. to Francis H. Root). 3,70 Stanton av, 9 fr 66180 ft, dated ta C. A. Johason). Milwaukee av, ft s ¢ of Fontenoy place, n e f, 50x150) ft, dated Feb. 12 (Peter J. Asklund toSeegers & Lansten) 3.000 NORTIL OF CITY LIMITS ‘WITHIN A RADIUS OF BEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Clybourn av, 39 ft n w of Hoynest,s w , 50x125 £t dated Feb. 7 (A. J. Weekler to A. Schubrke)... SOUTH OF CITY LINITS WITHIN A RADICS OF SEVEN MILES.OF THE COGRT-HOUSE. Ashland av, 29 ft s of Forty-cighth st, w 1, 21x121 ft, dated Feb. 12 (E. Koch to J. Draunan) A . i Vincennes ft n of Forty-sixth s w £ 100x L2 ft, dated Feb. 11 (F.C.B. & J. W. Macfarlane to James 1. Walker). 2,500 SUIMMARY FOR THE WEER. +The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of urt-Flouse filed for rec- cok2fiding - Saturday, Feb. 31; consideration, S8%,075 nof 3 Feb. 12 (I, Johnson 12: City- North of city li: S$141,718. South of ci imits—Sales, 17;-con- sideration, $39.875. Total sales, 138. Total consideration, $907,169. B SUSIE RAE, For The Chicago Tribuné, 1+ Tong years hiey. come an’ gone, ddar Tom, Sence you un’ I were boy Sence we together went to schogl Az’ fussed about our toys. The old brick schoolhouse yit remaias, With whittled seats. Its'hulls - Still bear our badly-written names Upon ‘th'er penciled walls. The Master long Sonce passed away— Al! menhy a eare hed he! No more we laugh at his ol *With counterfeited glee.’ ‘Heow cross he looked! heow fierce his frown! An’ yit his heart wus kind. The lossons that I learnad from him Hev- never lett my mind. : 1gee bim yit—n grave old man, With wise an’ knowln’ 100k, Still holdin’ In his stumpy han's His !Erule. watch, an’ book. Istill can hear my mother sigh O'er muddy clo’s, nn” rents Torn in my trowsis when we played . “Atsec-saw on thefence. The old white church, the mossy mill * = Bestde the waterfail, The pastur-lot upon the hill The chipmuncks in the wall, The shudy baak beside the stream, The pebbles on the shore— All puss hoforé me, like & drenm, Au’ make me yOung once more. My Icetle sweetheart, Susle Rae, 15 now a womun grown; She hez her snare o, worldly care, An’ children o' her own. Heow often to ber humble home, Thro' snow-drifts decp nn* white, =~ - Idrew her on my old bluo sled, . An’ thought the load wus light. ‘You, Tom, were jealous o' me then— But that wns longz ago: Our youtnful feuds au’ eamitles, Hev melted like the snow. ‘With envious eyes I nsed to see Your clothin’ new un’ fine; But what wus your disdain to me - When her young heart was mine? 1 cared not for the stones you threw, ‘When, passin’ your stbode; 1 rid the 0l white boss to drink, ‘Adown the old stage-road. I thought o' lectle but o’ her, * . An’ o her pritty ways; Furshe wus all the world to me In those bright, boyhood days. The birds sang sweetly in the lane, “The squirrels ran almbly by, An' this wide world did not contaln A huppler boy thaa I. Alns? 't was but a boyish dream! ‘Heow soon the old love died!. But O heow sweet it used to seem To hev her by wy stdel 1t might bew. been "—What words ars these Fur husban’s or fur wives: What leetle surcumstances form An’ fashion all our lives! . EUgeNE J. HALL. MILLARD AVENUE STATIDN, Chicago. = The Blooming Sahara. The well-known African axplorer, Dr. Ger- hard Rohlfs, shows how recent explorations bave altered the fdens formerly held regarding the sterility of the Sahara Desert. Some sixty yeursngo it wis believed that only the eustern und emaller balf of the Sutarn was broken up into fruitful steppes. Now, as Dr. Rohlfs points out, we know that it is the Libyan Desert whick 13 the grextest seut of barreoness und desoln~ tion. though tho wide waste §s _dotted with nu~ merous oases. The extreme west of the Sahura for a distance of from 400 1o 500 kilometres from the Atlantic i3 no desert, buta highly productive country. t year Dr. Rohifs visited the Qusis of Kufra, in'tho Libyan, und found it to be ono of the lurgest and most frustful portions.of the Sahara, instead of n spring surrounded by a faw paim-trees, ns hitherto_reported. - Ho reports the cuitivatable land of Kufra 10 huve anares greater than in the country of Switzerlund, and inhabited by only.L0J0 persons. From the Doc- tor's most intensely interesting - article itup- pears that the popular idea entertained upto the present time cuncerning the greut deserts ot the world is altogether erroneous; and that even the great Australian ;desert is not 8o desoisi and barren.as was feported & few yeursagv. tailor uses to enforce elaims against debtors, | when it was drat 8,000 - ts—Sales, 10; conideration, Inability to_ procure | Whenever thisclass of_creditors find it diffi- * Mz,