Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 20, 1881, Page 7

£y ik R B RS AL AR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. FEBRUARY TE PUBLIC HEALTH. Another Visit to Harrison’'s Row on Marshfield Avenue. 4n Occupant Relates Her Visit to the © " Best Mayor, Etc. 43¢ My Tenants Don't Like It, They Can Move Out.” sple Condition of a Carpenter Street Boarding-House. (untagious Diseases—Small-Fox Slowly on the Increase. ITARRISON’S ROW. ANOTHER VISIT TO THE SEWER-GAS. wHowdo you do? Come in wppacke. THE TRIBONE received a communi- eation, madarn, Asking— wOnl Are you the gentleman who came from he Heslth Department, and, after examining Bouse, reported to Mayor farrison that the Penches Bere Were not sewer-gus, but that they grose from th Aithy condition in which I keep oy rooms? 4N, madam. THE TRIBUNE is not engagred ypsolaudable 2n undertaking. This visit is in to an invitaton given —** . ~*wpy wy buspand. Oh, yes: be was notin avery ble mood when he left this morning. - He 1s congiderably worked up about this matter, and jsdetermined tohave it fixed. ' Let us scc, you - ere Tuesdays well, every day &inco then, T e fepm the L1caith-Oilice have been here, god one of them was rarher ifusolent, too. I don't koow that Lought to suy that exuctly, but $o%ps ratber important in bis own estimation.” “Did these gentlemen muke any concessions o reference 0. the presence of sewer-gas iu Jour part of .tha block?"" WIpe first time they came they safd that they “gere Health Otlicers, and that "Tie TRIBUNE hud Tfearful uccount, & *pack Of lics® were the Jords they used, 08 to the condition of this Fofding, and thoy wanted to look over the premises. and see what the trouble was, i€ an: exised.. Of course, I invited them in, and tol themtoro ull through the -house.. They first seatto the closet: they found the water-serv- jee here cut of Tepair the sume as you did; they #1jd they could rewedy the trouble thomselves jpfive mivutes, aud they tried to. After being inthere about ten minutes they came out, and ted to me that overything vnow was all Ttz but my plumber, who came in about 2 balf bour afterward, - safd that he did mpot know what they had done; that the service was out of repair, and that he would ix it; this he did. Calling the attention of these gentlemen 1o the stationary wash-basin inthe front chamber, toey remurked that they were nol bere to do plumbing, but to tind the geackes. The water here runs all the time, and dripsdown throuyh the tloor and ceiling on to the parlor carpet below.” #Have you made any complaint to Mayor Bsrrison about this?” “No,but we have to Mr. Weeks, the agent, who says that he will make no repairs oa the tuilding until May L™ =well, whero did these inspectors next go?” “Down to the second tioor, futo the library. Hera they found the curpet pulled up and the farpitare moved ouL, a8 you see it now. This is the room where there i3 o much Glth. Do you se¢ any acoumulations of Bith other than whit nisw;x}u down along the wull from the roof abose? .- Itis Just t0 add that nothing fn the way of filth 3¢ noticeable here or in any of the rooms. There were a cuspidore contuining a few cigar ackes and 1wo tubs partially filled with water tharhad leaked down through the roof above. Thefurniture was moved out geveral weeks a0 because of the trouble above described. The carpet. 4 new one, was badly jojured and gave evidence, 15 also did some of the linen, that tho rooms were damp and untenantable, 'The lads wae driven out of her bedroom on the flour above from the same causa. - This was a1so some woeks g % SEWER-GAS. a “Bot you have not noswered the former question In reference 1o the presence of sewer- *Well, 1 will. " After looking at the walls, and remarking that the condition of thiugs ‘was not vocanitary, they said, ‘There IS certainly a bad - odor in- this_room: 1t €mells 8S if there were . dead rats [sewer-gns) beneath the fiour.” They : then asked me what 1 thought caused the odor. The fact 3, they seemed lost to account for it themsclves; and finally said that they could not account for it.” “Did they examine beneath the basement foor for it:™ - “-“Yes, Butthey said they could not discover aoything there. They safd that they would like “me10-keep the door locked for a day or two, and that they would come back, ana then see if they couldnot find the cause. I did this, and they * afterwards said the air in the room wasallright: that there was uo smell there; a rather strange *fact if the odor wos caused from dead rats, I tate & 2 “Has your husband seen Mayer Harrison sbout this trouble?” . . .. . “No. he has not. He does mot want to make ROy unne y_troubfe. He threatened to ‘write 8 communication to TRE TRIBUNE, for he +#ald you reporters did not do justice to the case, 1f he was howe he could teil you more than I can. I know if-he:knew of my morning's ex- _perience at the Mayor's house, he certainly would not like it.” & e “Then you visited the Mayor yourself?"” “E'eae ;nd at first he was not disposed to ses il el “Waited?” *“.Yes, and was informed that this entire busi- Bess was gotten up by TEE TRIBUNE for political effect; that Mr. Hurrison kpew about it buc that his friends bad assured him that it would _imlgo thlmt;ny harm." = “Wel ere i3 pothing apparently very political in the conditions attendant upon his ‘Premises, js there?” : -"“No. But he was very angry though, and I mustsay not very gentlemanly. I was atlast Permitted to see bim and—-" “What did he say?"” “What is your number? Oh! you are thelady %ho invited in TRE TRIBUNE reporters!™ “No more g0 than I did your Health officers. I &lso invited them in.” +The officers report that the entire block is in l"perfect sanitary condition, with the exception ooe house, either No. 24 or 28, where they sey they did discern a little sewer-gas.” * Mr. Mavor. the plumbing in my house is cer- tanlyin a very defective way. The bowls are Ccontinually leaking and dripping down into the B:rlor below, Besides this, the roof is lenklng fi;‘li‘;"md the rooms are: constantly wet an »Well, why didn't you report it to Mr. Foatelh, why you, rep o “ldid. Thave done so over and over again, ut what good docs it do? He says that no fur- ther repairs shail be made until May 1.”* he Where {s the £30 worth of plumbing that you Jidnnz 2nd I had to allow you for?"” That expense was not wholly for plumbing. money wasused to clean out the catch- D, and to ventilate beneath the floor to the #treet. and for the mending of bolts, locks, ete.” .mu:lgi:yjdol\ar;wuulr} Yo subielont 1o do the. g in my house from top to bottom Ty tenants are not satisfied THEY CAN MOVE OUT. Xfi’&:’;@ you take tho house if it was not satis- “We 100k it on Mr. Weeks' recommendation. th: certified that it was all in thorough repal 4at it had Intely been thorougbly renovated.” Vel us soon as the show is off the roof I Ul Eend & mu over to fix it.” Mr. Hurricon, would you just step around g:lnspwt the premisesfor yourself? I thivk st vou will find them cqually' as bod as repre- ‘No. Twill take your word for i Appareauls. from the copversation above fiven, tho Maror's tenements on Marshtield venue are not all tha fancy painted them, and m! there is some oceision for compluint, and Satall of the filthin gaseous form does not menate fron a cuspidore. The lndgy in ques- nvery empbaticully reiterated the Statement e Bade in reference to No. 216. She says that € Understands why the occupants now eeck to s[:mm the truth; that the report given in THE VdonSE wus literally correct; and .that ecnial at this time, is in her opinion quite un- ;L Taking everyibing into consideration it 00ves the best Mayor Chicago ever had to m’-‘ up bis filth, and'to put his premises foto a atable condition, tor, in doing €0, he might u‘gfl:& Wworthy example for many of his constit- OTHER INSPECTIONS. A CARPENTER-STREET BOARDING-HOUSE. - The building No. 48 Carpenter street, formerly O¥nedand occupled by Mr. Clem Perlolat, next Jeceived the attention of the sanitary investi- fure. Here it was found that ever slaco the 2ding bad been used for boarding-house pur- "mW& it had proved, in o pecuniary way, unsat- ctory to the occupants; that, on sccount of to 205 and varied odors, parties were obliged mfl"’ Up in despair, and remove 10 & Ore s~ peapoiSQuarter. The present landlady, 8 vers ot matron, Informed the reporter that thero i forty rooms in the house; that most of h;;‘;“lfccumed. but that s{za lmti grea:. abxf; ¥ in kee a_tenantal thpdition. e e M onthig, dad I n&'{;’z‘;‘v amounted to §1,240 a year. of Bewer, s“qulry iu reference to mg presence . *Yoar&as elicited the following answer: iR Fougog e 3re troubled with sewer-gus, and it Sou by aehder us any assistance I am giad tha e come.’ Znpe 70 18 the particular source of amnoy- mfl"’,fi‘ bere 1o the hall is our place; here be- stances have ventilated the rooms in order to Eccure tenunts. But here 2 i ean tell you nll‘;‘xlmut jon *es mpplumber; he akinz up tho tloor beneath the b one general waste, feading from '3;1’\?5“3515?\?' perfect trup, was found to be cemented into the endof a perpendicularly-sct tile, The cement Tous cracked und guve free exit to the guses be- aw, whicht were doubly offensive in this region on account of ety fn elose juxtaposition with e soll-pipe, whick also enters this tile und into Which the wastes from some thirty-six station- ary wusb-basins s emptied. What makes this psxnl In the tile more particularly aggressive i8 the fact thut the soil-pipe bends here, forming fovery ebarp ungle, und the water-service, i three-quurter-inch pine, is inadequate for tho supply of water necessary to force the solid Portion of the wastes oat into tho waln Sewer in the street. Besides, tho same scrvice is made to uct for still another soil-pipe, to which are conuceted four closets. This 18 at the rear of the building, and, ‘like the first mentloned, is unventiluted, and_sn constructed A1 10 syphon with the other whenever tho water i on with suflicient force to reach them, which Is & thing of rare occurrence. THESE CLOSETS ARE A SIGUT TO BEIOLD. ICit was not for the encrectic litle landlady, who carrics water by the pailful from the Luses meat oor to lush them, they would drive the oceupants out of house and home, This state of thingy furaishes a clerr opentng #uto each tloor through which the sewer-gas can PSS even from the min itseif, ** How about tho catch-basin; has that been cleaned out'of Inter " ** Yes, sir; the agent cleans it out regularly threc or four times a yeur, but not since last June. - This was the lust time. but notwithatand- h‘ur that {t smells terribly fn the vicinity of the 5 it en there must be some break in tha line of e?"” , ** Yes, the sewer man sald so. Icomplained, as Totten have before, to the agents, but they would 1ot do unything, and [sent for the sewer man myself. Ife cameund dugup dear tho catch-bisin and found a broken tite. He said that the fllth was oozing out all around the busin, and that nothing now went into it. He lmu’holl it up and t0ld me to tell the ngentabouc t. 1did so.—~this was several months ago.—but i has paid no attention to ft.”" The plumber, who seemed to be thoroughly conversant with the diferent kinds of service entering the premises here, kindly agreed to apen up the various points of interest, and show the infernal workings of tho system, Under- neath the basement floor, In the laundry-room, an open tile was found, interseeting the run leading to the catch-busin. 'This was, without doubt, the source of annoyance referred to in this locality. This open tile was referred to by tha lady when the azent called for his rent, and he prom- ised to attend to it, but nexlected it, 43 he has everything else. - A servant-girl formerly occupled & bedroom on this tloor. and mearly over this place. She was made violently fll. .After sultering for some time, tho lady had to send her away be- cause she was fearful that she might dio ou her bands. Her sufferings were mainly confined to her throat at first, but tinally she became dull and lnngnid and seemed to lose all her strength, ana could no longer peérform her work. Before coming to the premises in question, shesaid that she bad never been sick, - The plumber here volunteered the statement that & lady oceupying the front room on the gecond floor was sick 1ast summer with typhoid fever during the landlady's absence from the city, and the physician nlleged that THE CAUSE WAS SEWER-GAS. The landlady herself bad always been healthy until she came here, since which time she bad suf- fered with a peculiar soreness and smarting of her throat, a feeling that entirely disappeared duriug her absence last year, which immmediately returned upon her resuming ner duties at home. ‘The sume experience had been the rule with all the occupants,—some twenty-elght in num- ber. They bad all cowplained” bitterly, but be- cause of fome unexpluinable force they were jnduced to remain. It should be stated that none of tha stationary basins the wastes of which enter the soil-pipe are trapped, and in these particular rooms the odors are at times absolutely stifling. Tae odors not only emanated from here, but from the tile in the basement they are carried t0 the upper tloors through the box covering tho sofl-pipe, and through the various dividing walls to escupe beneath the buseboard throughout the several rooms. Pointedly, there S no other one piace in Chi- cago where the Health Commissioncr could bet- ter muke the attempt to enforce the revised or- dinance bearing uvon this subject than here. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. _ FIVE CASES OF SMALL-POX ‘were put on tho books of the Health Depart- ment yesterday, their localitics being as follows: No. 66 [1inois street, No. 510 State street, No. 2836 Church place, and corner of Madison and Halsted streets. In sddition five other cases were reported, but the oflicers sent out to inves- tigate them will not report until thfs morning, The total pumber for the week was 23, against 18 for the proceeding weelk, and 14 for the one before. The increase of the- discase is slow but steady, and. as before stated, cases are Iocated in evers part of. tha city, 50. people who have not been vaccinated should have the oper- adon performed at once. It will be noticed that another case was reported from the Central TUnion Block, No. 273 Madison street, this mak- ing the third for the week. Mrs. Merrill, the first stricken down, died yesterday: All the people living In the building have begn vacci- nated. and protected as far as possible by the fumigation of tho rooms in which the sick ones were, but it Is the impression that. more of the vecupants will be aflicted. There was nothing of interest in any of the cases, except that the one reported from tho corner of Halsted and Madison streets was that of a woman who had gone Into the bullding to look for a doctor, end was found sitting inone of the windows in the ballway. The Sunitary Inspectors are 5till hard at work vaccinating people in the mneighborhood of where the disease has appeared, and fully 100,000 points have been used to date. The other cases of contugious diseases report- ed to the Herith Department were; Scurlet- fever, No. 1400 Culumet aveaue, No, 91 Delawaro place, No. 243 Kinzie street, No. 299% Indiana street, No. 303 West Lake street, No. 461 West Jackson_street; diphtheria, No. 3518 Dashiel street, No, 30 Gurley street; chicken-poxy No. 128 South Ashland avenue. - EXPLANATORY. To the Editor of Thc Chicago Tridbune. CHICAGO, Feb. 19.—My attoning was called to an article in this evening's News In regard to a case of small-pox in the building corner of Mad- json and Halsted streets, bwhich states that “Last night about 8 o'clock the authorities found a_woman, Ellen Morrison, in the public hallway of a buiiding corner of Mudison and Halsted btreets, suffering with 3 bad case of small-pox. When Officer Merki arrived he found the poor woman sitting on the window- seat at the end of the hall, while all through the building, in front of each door, was a little firc of sulphur, which cast [urid lights and fifled the building with lmost stifling fumes.”” The racts are, the authorities had nothing to do with finding her, as the writer met the woman on the stairs and réported it to Dr.John T, Gray, " who telephoned to the Health Office and kept the woman there until one of the Health Officers arrived. As regards the little fires of sulpbur at ench door, there was only one fire. The Doc- 1or procured some sulphurand burned it in & fire-shovel, and, I suppose, did nat.know it was agninst the rules to fumigate after small-pox or that it would be commented on through the newspapers. Had the Health Officer been as cureful {n regurd to the casc it would probably be better for the publie. He procured an express wagon .to take the woman away. She and the driver occupied the -seaf, while the Henlth Officer sut at the- back of the wagon. Mr. Mintlin (the expressmau) hauled her down, and was not uware of it being a case of small-pox uutil be returned to his stand, on the corner of Mudison aad Halsted streets, the Health Officer- not mentloning it to him. Now Mr. Mintlin’ bas a wife and eeven children, yet the Health Ofticer would let him haulasmali-pox putient over & uile, and not even hiut to him 1hat it was contagious, and had he not come un in the buildjpg and been thoroughly fumigated over the *mfany” little sulpbur iircs, il on one shovel, there_would probably have been o tew more cases on suimll-nux t_:: rEDO{; inntsl:e ncx;)’uge raweek. This is nat written 1o c - re- gg:flo‘fls on. Dr. De Wolf, but that employés of the Health Oflico should be more careful in future,—a little more conspicuous in some Ways, and not quite so consplcuous in others. Any of the purties in the front part of the building will verify theabove, and Mr. Mintlin, the one-armed expréssman, can be found at almost any time at the corner. Astothe scare, the bealth officer "4l these hana-basins. % ..é::d Where else huve you noticed the odors?” \p e where about the housc. I have toget 2y and Ventilute the halls, 2nd in some fo- ut tne worst scared of any. Seecnga aba) SUBSCRIBER. e r———— How Elephants Take Medicine. A quart and n balf of medicine was strategic~ ally rdministered to Hebe, the sick elephnnt at Barnum's menegerie jn Bridgeport, Thursday, she being disinclined to take the dose. The bot~ 1le containing it was suspended above ber, and the Jong rubber tube attached was placed in her mouth. She kept her teeth firmly closed upon the hose until the operation of brenthing caused her to relax ber grip, and then a fittfe of the liquid would run down her throar. ‘This performance was repeated at nearly regular in- tervals until the whole bottle wasemptied. The entire operation consumed about an hour and a half. She isnow out of danger, and is fed on toast soaked in port-wine and other delicacies. The process of giving elephants medicine .in solia sbape is even more amusing than that of forcing liquid down their throats. The pellets, instead of being fed to them in tha ordinary Svay, arc shot into their mouth from & popgun, the trunk being elevated upwards by some trick £o astobeoutof the way topermit thisopera-- ton. Eoaconsfield and America. Detroit Free Press. e Lud Beacousfield, in his aleged novel, « Endymion,” says, sbeaking of America, * A coantry that borrows izs language, jis laws, and its refigion, cannot _have its inventive powers ‘much developed.” Me Lud forgets that Amer- ica onty borrows the Epglish lapguage in order to prepure the dictionaries which Englishmen are compelled to consult whea they really want 10 know what the language is. 20, 1881—EIGHTE GES g WAGE-WORKERS, Some Facts About Their Condis. tion and Present Pros= pects. What the Workshop Inspectors Have Disoovered in Their Jour- neyings. Interesting Figures as to tho Dilreregt Classes of _ Workers, Their Numbers, Ete. The Council to Be Urged to Again Make an Appropriation for the Present Ine spection System. The report of the Workshop Inspectors is nearly completed, aud will be submitted to Health Commissioner De Wolf next week. It contafns a great deal of very foteresting infor- mation, and will be awaited with interest. A TRIBUNE reporter had a talk with one of the In- spectors while at work yesterday, and learned from him what follows: The Councll passed an ordinance in October, | 187, providing for the eanitary regulation and inspeotion of ull placesof employment and serv- ice. Itremained n dend lotter up to April 1, 1830, because the Couueil had ucglected to make an appropriation to pay the Inspectors. This ordinance had been gotten up by T. J, Morgan, in imitation of the British Parliamentary Iaw of 1878, and was o gwlittering geaerality, baving no practical effect on account of the divislon of powers and functions among the different do- purtments of tho City Government. Morgan worked ont, with tho help of one of the Fuctory Inspectors, n new ordinance, the muin points of which ure these: Air-spacae for workers, ventilation, drainnge, plumbing, sufety of muchinery wid elevators, firc-escapes, exits, cte. It requires the monthly inspection of every pluco of employment, and n_ written report taercon to the Health Commissioner. “The Council passed this ordinance without a single dissenting - vore, and it has been in force since October. Among THE IMPROVEMENTS EFFECTED are: 219 workrooms and 5 water-closets pro- vided with ventilating appllances (one firm spent $H00 to ventilate two tloors, unother firm setup 6 ventilators in a blucksmith-shop and 7 veutilators in an_iron-fouudry); 25 catch- baosing cleaned; 21 dralns Tepaired; 82 open and exposed vaulis removed; 111 new water-closets und privies built, 227 privy-vaults cleaned; 14 fire-cscapes constructed or addi- tionul exits provided; tho walls and ceillngs of 65 workshops puinted or whitewashed; roofs, doors, and sides of 35 workshops mostly car-, penter and repair-shops) put in good repair, 50 43 to Keepout rain, snow, aud wind; 15 staic- ways or wide scuttlos openod or nowly erected; 177 clevators and_hoistwuys guarded, fenced, or boxed in: over 1000 driving and tly-wheels, counter-shatts, belts, pulleys,circular, and band- saws, und other duogerous machinery feuced or guarded. The Inspectors haye visited over 5,000 work- shops, about 8,000stores and yards, and over 1.U00 offices, the ordinance requiring the enumeration of all men, women, boys, und' ciris as divided into the different trades and ocenpations. Thne aim of the originators of the law cstablishing the State RBurcau of Labor Statistics was to provide this Bureau with the necessary informution Ly muking the Factory = Iuspectors also the enumerators of the wage-workers In Chicago. < The ennimera- tion bus been made, and it shows about 12 people eploged in uli kinds of mechunieal, my ual, mercautile, skilled, or unskilled occupnr- tions, Including 20.000 females. It is very difli- cult to gruess ut the ages of young persons cm- ployed. but the guess:is hazirded that there are about 6,000 boys and 2,500 girls under 15 years of aze coguged in manual or mercantile employ- ments. Tne sctual resident population of ' Chicago after the close of navizition 1 1850 was no less thun 625,000, divided into the foliowiuy clusses neeording to age: Under § years, 85,000: from 6 to 16, 100,000; 161021, 40,000: total under 21'years, 25,000. Over 21 years, 300K, Lust yenr the number of immigrants to Chicaro from all parts of the civilized world was unprecedanted, there being an_unusual number espeeially of Bo- beminng, Poles, Scandinuvians, und Germans, who tilled every avuiluble living room in the city, causihg R rise in reats, whick has culiui- nated [nan attempt to organizo An anti-extortion movement against the landiords. The workiuw clnsses cannot move far away from their phices of employment or servic. They like to live ** in town,” and would nut tuke u lot in n Suburb ag a gift, because thoy work in gangs, ana_enjoy themselves lu crowds. A lonely lite !n villuges may suit business-men; worklngmen will tlock into the town and remain there, even if it takes all tho earnings of themselyes, their wives, and their children 1o live. There are 50,000 pupils in the public and 25,000 in the private (denominatiouul) schools of the city, feaving 65,000 persons under 2L years out of school, balf of whom ure under 15 years, and, itis clgimed, should learn the rudiments ot needlework, druwing, mecbanical, und merean- tile trades in industrial schaols conuected with the publicsschool system, a3 pructienlly tested in Puris and other cities. Several thousand boys and girls WASTE THEIR BEST YEARS of growth as errand boys, newsboys, boot-blacks, cushboys, and loafers, their sisters idling awny their time in learning **accomplishments.” They would remain at school, if they could learn something which would enable them to earn a8 Uving in after years. Apprenticeshlp is prac- tically abolished in most of the 330 distinet, spe- citle, und standard occupations: fmproved wa- chinery worked by steam having superceded tho skilled' hands. Boys and girls arc now in tho places which stout men and women formerly filled. One standnrd trade after anotber is belug cut up into minute subdivisions, skilled’ workmen are be- coming superfiuous, and employment getting scarce, cxcept at ceriain scasonsof the year. There are no less than 25000 men and women out of employment in the interval between the several working seasons, aud this nccounts for the fact that 80 mun{ parents are compelled to take their children from school and scnd them wherever thero is a chance to make u doliur. The Labor Unlon ndvocates the employment of the fdle chrough the coucerted oction of the mwnlzamated trades, by compelling those ‘employed to make room for those who ire not, ecither by rotation or by reducing the hours of Inbor. _Wases in Chicigo, are_not intlucnced by Trude-Unions. Since the pusnic of 18 has been able to gitther all of the suwme ocoupu- tion into one union. . Atpresent out of 350 ocen- pations not more than ten are organized as In- ternational Unfons, and Local Unions cannot strike, becuuse Chicago can be fllled with men of altstandard trudes from all parts of the civilized worla upan short notice. An avalanche of immigrants would bury and crush uoy Trade- Union -which is not international. Trades- unionism isantiquated, and has outlived its use- tulness in Chicago. ‘The Factory lnspectors have found families where both parents work, and even children un- der 10 years of ago are ciployed at some work and at any price, because the fatber of the fam- ily isanxious ;to provide against a business crisis which may throw him out of work. The population of Chiczgo Is Increasing at the rate of at_least 100 persons a day by births and immigration, and tho arrivals from ali parts of the civilized world consfst of picked inen and women in thelr reproductive age. 1t is the lower middle class whick omigrates from the Buro< peun Continent, the poor working class lacking the meuns and the courage to cmigrate penniless in -great musses, Dusiness-men and gkilled workmen aro daily opening new shops and stores, and factoriesare being removed from all parts of the United States to this commercial centre. As a labor market, Chicugo i3 the main point tor emigrants from Europe, Canada, and ull States of the Unfun, There arc fn this city settlements of Poles, Boheminns, Scandinavians, Germans, Irish, Cunudians, French, Belgians, and Dutch, und some occupations are taken up mainly by Irish, others by Germans, aud somo by native Americans of mixed purentage. Work in the open air~—in coal, wood, lumber, and stone-yards; teamiog, dr(viu{h street labor, sewer-building, and unskilled_labor of ull kinds is mostly performed by the Bobemlans, Poles, Canadiuns, and Irish. Skilled trades requirivg many years of education and practice, causing great expense ! in braln-work and moncy, are mainly carrird on by mnative Americans, Germans, and Scandinavians. The wholesale business is carrfed on almost exclusively by Amerjcans,—the retail trade by Americaos and Germans. The manufucturing firms are Amer- ican and German. The children of all immi- grants comnEnCe to earn money 25 s00n as thoy get 8 chance; those of the mative Americans quite generaily uvoid manual, mechanical, and outdoor occupations, preferring to becoma clerks, or to study in the commercial colleges, luw schools, and medical colleges, There i3 also in Chicago a large and increusing number of persons who live by rents, interest on money, bouds, ete. ~ ' The action of the Finance Committee in strik~ ing from the estimutes the item for the In- spectors was n great surprise, aud the Trade and Labor Union will use its influcnce to have the amount ($4,800) restored by the Council. The Union has a standing committee whose duty i is to visit every one of the thirty-six Aldermen and tho Mayor and urge the ¢nac ment of the stringent ordinance in Jame- son’s ~revision for the regulution of tenement houses and of 'workshops and other places of empluyment, Of the city's population, 125,000 work in shops, and 100, live in tencment-houses, hotels, boarding and lodging houses. z Last year 10,50 deaths occurred In Chicago, 3,900 of which were from preventable diseases. 1n 1881 the mortality begins at the ratc of 1,000 per month. Diphtheria has been epidemic for the last four years,and the deaths of children are 56 per cent of the ‘total number. Orer 1,4 physicians are supported by the discasc-stricken people. and it is high time " to pass and enforce Stringent reguiations for plumbing, drainage, Ventilation, and other mvansof promoting the blic safety. F‘if‘:fio(}om’l‘cll. sald the Inspector, ‘“‘dares to l trific with the public demands, and the press jg- nore the complaints as the mere outburst of no truade | Communistio discontent, Chicago need not be surprised at the olecan as Aldermen of A LARGE NUMBER OF COMMUNISTIC BLATH- - ERSKITES, under the guise of Ropublicans and Democrats, and theso men will dictitte the policy of the next city Admiunlstration 2 ‘'CANADA. MARINE MATTERS. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tridune. Torosto, Feb. 19.—The Globs says: “The prineipal work done in Toroato Harbor up to the present hus been on the steamers lying hero, The Guelph is the ‘only sailing vessel that ex- teusive work was necded Ou, and ‘that bas been about finished. Tho propeller Bruuo, under the superiutendenco ‘ol Mr, Simp- son, i3 progressing. The City of. Montreal is undetgoing general repiirs, which wil( not he extensive, as she Was thoroughly over- hauled last spring. “The California 5 having u farger awmount of work dofie on her. New water-ways are being laid down from stem to 4tern, and the ontire forward portion of the waln deck will be renewed. The suloon is belng oxtended to troblo its dimenslons lnst year, and will, whon complete, afford accom- modation for sixty- passengers, leaving still n spacious stern-deck for 4 promenade. The Voller is belng put in thorough condition also, with repairs and reuewals. The work is car- ried on under the personal superintendence of Capt. Crangle, the owner, and Wit cost probubly over s5,0. Tho propellers Cubn und A menin ave also being calked aud puired, new water-ways Dbeing laid down, and improvements umde in the saloon departments. ‘Uhese vessels will be muade thor- onkbly senworthy. The steamer Chicora really wants no repairs, but will be generally over- huuled and brightened up. The Rothesay is un- dergomg u general overhuuling, which will nog be extensive, us she waa -comp overhauled in the dry-dock Iast winter—ISsy~'Sl. “The Southern Belte s reported ia first-rate condi- ‘Tion, and only needs brightening up. Her en- gings work Lotter now thiun they did thrco years a0, “Tho Canadlan Lake Superior linesof steam- ersure nfl in progress ot preparation for the season's work. Tho Surnlt & Lake Superlor Compuu'y ure bullding 4 lurger steawer for that route. The other vesscly ure receiving whut general repairs ure required. The Collingwood & Lake Superior boats are #ll in Owen Sound. The City of Winnipeg is at present in dry-dock there, and will submit to an extensive amount of repairs. | A new mujp-deck will be luid down; cabin impfovements will be made, in which there will be u new and considerable extent of cubin-accom modntion for deck-passengrers. The eugine will be converted into & low-pressure. The work on the Winnlpeg is estimated to cost $10,000. The City of Owen Sound is also being overbauled. Tho Frances Smith will be lurgely replanked, und is having 1 new main-deck laid down. These two ves- sels will also zo into dry-dock Lefore thoy go into commission. It may just be mentioned thut the Owen Sound dry-dowk. i8 of funnense benetic to the Ge orglun Buy shipping. The tug Met- mora and ber three timber-barges arc also ut Owulu ;uund Harbor, where they will bo over- bauied. * A new propeller Jine bns been projected for this sumnmer, und Wwill comprise the propelicrs Californin and Africs. ~ These vessels will ply regularly between Clevelend and Montreal, making a boat euch way once a week, Cleve- land people are also talking of 4 tri-weekly line from that city to Port Stanley. = - Cunadiun vessel-men At leust are not praying for au eurly opening of navigation. They suy bere that it will be to our advantage if the Straits of Muckinaw “ore not open be- fore the Wellund Cdual i open. With a_ dilference of three Weeks in the time of opening, the American vessels will pet tho cream of tho freights, which are generally high atthio opening. But, in any event, the vessel- men have prospects of 4 profituble year beforo them. - There i3 more freight vrowiswg thun ever was known before,:and it is impossible that rates should not go up. T BUDGET. Sveciat Dispatch to.The Chicaoo Tribune. KixGsToN, Feb. 19.—The Executive Commit- tee of the Diocese of Ontario, which is In ses- sion,, decided on recommignding that, as over $15,000 of the funds of the Diocese had been un- accounted for by the late Clerical Seeretary, he bo presented to the Bishop for trinl. Spectat Dispatch to The Cliicago Tribune, MoxTiEAL, Feb. 19.—Dr. McEachre, in his report to the Deparlment of Agricult- ure, suggests thatl. a shipping wharf for cattle . be located down the river, neur Longue Painte. where cattle sent forwurd by the trade of the Dominion could be shipped atter vessels had loaded with tho rest of their general freight eargoes. The Harbor Com- mittee have ducided 10 huild the whart. 3 Special Dispatch {6 Fhe Chitcaso Tribunes TORONTO, Feb. 19.=3r, “Edward Furrar, . who :has been-conuected’withthe “Mail ‘almost con- -stantly since {ts startp:and ‘who hus been chief editor since tha pesignation’ of the I Mr. Belford, after the gencral clection of 187 bas lefe the ‘paper, and gone to New York to join one of the dailies” there. His successor ‘will be Mr. J. Grifin, a-Naya Scotinn, who is at present private secretary “to the Minister of Justice. i " A Bu0-page volume of “essays will be fssued shunlf’ by Goldwin Smith! for privatg cireuln- tlon, dealing ehietly with -historical and phblio- sophic matters, s Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. OTTAW., Feb. 19.—The Gbvernment has com- . missioned Col. Ends, of Mississippi River fame, to .examine Toronto Harbor and report on it conditon. . it & F. W. DAVIS. HAMTLTON, Ont., Feb. 1.~ W. Davis, brother of J. M. Davis, a well-known member of the ‘press of Chicago, died at this place, to-day. e —————— Climbing Cnlmborazo—DMr. Edward Whymper’s Account of Kiis Ascent— 20,000 Feet Above the Sea Level. Pall Mull Gazette, Mr, Edward Whymper, in his lecture last night 10 the members of the &lpjue Clubon the uscents of Chimborazo und Cotopuxi, stated thut he tovk with him from home two well-known Su guides, Joan Antoine Carrel and Lous Carrel, from the Vue Tournanche. * The hight of Chim- boruzo, which he aseended first, was ubout 20,4 feer, and up to_that timo o one, So fur as he could learn, had ascended bigher than from 17,00 0 18,000 feet. He had to_provide his own fund, about two tons of the most portable condensed provisions being seat out in tins for the expedi- tion. Hfs ascent of the mountain begun on the 2l of December, 1879. The first cump being pitched about 15,00 above the level of the gea, they ufterward ascended to a hight of 16,500 feet, where they placed Dpro-. vislons enough for three weeks, and fucl enough for several days, water belug obtained by meliing suow. At that bight be becume feeble and feverish, and was unable to satisfy tho eraving for drink, added to which he hud & bud headache and o gasping when he was swullowing liquid. -Uunder these circumstances be used with frcnt beuelit. chlorate of potash, which he had obtalned by tha advice ot Dr. Marcet beforé starting. The camp was neara rock of trachyte, which rose 1o avout 18,800 feet, there being on tho east side of the ridge a con’ #picuous glacler, entirely fed by tie ice which fell from ubove. When they agccupicd & new camping place, about 17,400 feet high, his health improved. On the 2d of January, 1880, an at- tempt was made to reich the summit, but owing 1o un intensely cold wind they were obliged to fly back to tho camp. Afterward, enconraged by tine weather and continuous sunshine, they made another attempt. ‘Having at length reached what Seewed to be tho top, about 3:45 In the afternoon, they had the mortification of finding that it was lower thun anothor eleva- tlon. ~There was then no help for it but to umnke for the highest point, and thoy arrived upen it standing up like - men, instend of groveling, ns they had been doing for five hours before, llke beasts. The wind was blowing at the rate of fifty milesan hour from the northeast, aud driving the snow beforo it, and they were all cold, wet. and hungry. Tho temperature wag there 21 degrees Fahrenheit, which, on belng worked out, guve a hight at tho summit of Chimborazo of 20,5(5 feet, They de- scended as hustily as thoy could to the eamp be- fore darkness made descent impossible, and they got back at 9 p. m., having been out six- teen _hours, and on foot the whole time. Alto- getheér he spent seventeen days on Chimborazo, At 15,000 fect of altitude, 16,500 fect, and 17,300 feet, and went up three times as high as 18,500, and when he quitted tho mountain ull trace of mountain sickness had disuppeared. Mr. Whoymper also deseribed tho asceut of Cotopaxt, and suid that it was impossible to conceive more dramatic spectacle than that vast crater prescated, illumimnted /S L was below with ruddy subterranean fires aud above by a briliiant moon. The hight of it was 19,550 fcet, and the camp was 130 feet below. They remained there twenty-six consecutive hours. He ulso described a second ascent which he made at Camboruzo nearly tive months later, and the hight, as tested in tho same manner as before, was in this in- stance found to be 20,489 feet, belng fifty-six feot less than on the previous occasion, the mean hight of the two being 20,517 feet. ——— A Son of Emperor William in the United States, The St. Loufs Tribucne (German) s responsible for the statement thay the former member of the German Parlfament and Counselor-at-Law, Louis Viereck, who hns been forever banished from the German Capital, and who is at present in the United States with his companion, Will- jum Fritzsche, the purpose of collecting y for tho Soialistic cause, is a chip of the Hohenzollern block, being the natural son of the Emperor Willlam. He 8. the only Socialist of Imperial blood. % ‘To this the Belleville (T11) Zeitung adds the fol- lowing: * The St. Louls thuene s perfectly correct. Mr. Louis Viereck is the sonof the well-known actress, Mis3 Viercek and the then Prince or Prussia, the Emperor William. The name of.* Viereck,' translated into English, is *Square,” and the relations of the Prince to M'ss Viereck (Squere) gave tho then King of Prussin, o g brother of the Prince, oceasion to demonstrate that . his brother, the Prinee, was the greatest methematician of the age. - 2791 CASUALTIES. A Farmerand His Team of Horses "Frozen to Death in Colo-, rado. The Steamer. Fairplay, Loaded with Cotton, Burned at Monroe, Lou- isiana, _ Two Acoidents of sn Exactly Similer Obaracter Happen to Two Loco- ‘motives. TWO' JUST ALIKE. * tpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. SANDWICH, TIl., Feb. 19.~Yésterduy afternoon about 5 o'clock while passenger-train No: 12 from the west was procceding at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, three miles west of Somonauk, both driving-rods on engine No. 30 broke, throwing tho_engine off the rails. The broken rods badly smashea the cab and narrow- 1y missed the engineer, who was thrown back into the tender, but very slightly injured. An- othor engineer who was in the cab whistled for brakes, und stopped tho train in a short dis- tance without injury to uuy of the vassengers. Tho train was delayed about four hours. It was almost a miracle that no one wag killed or maimed. P. S, and N. B.—The well-known *tendency ™ of railroad accident dispatehes to get lost on the romlhyr!.'\'cnled ma from sending this by tele- gruph. Special Dispatch to Ths Chicago Tribune. Laraverre, Ind., Feb. 19.~A 4 o'clock this afternooi as the nger truin on the Waubash going west approuched Wild Cag bridge, two miles from the city, n_puralel-rod on the engine broke, hitting the engineer, Wash Curpenter, breaking his toigh, and cutting off tho steam-pipo. He applied tho air-brakes and Jumped or fell down a twenty-foot embunk- ent, sustainiog injuries from which he died here to-night.- He leaves a -wife and several children at Fort Wuyne. Carpenter's presence of mind in upplylng tho brakes probably pre- vented u frightful disaster, as the train was on a heavy down-grade. XILLED IN A MINE. Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunes BCRANTON, Pa., Feb. 19.—At 5 o'clock this aft- ernoon the eugincer at & slope connected with the mines of the Mount Pleusant Conl Compuny, inthis city, found that the wire rope usedto lower tho cars had come to a standstill as a trip was beipg let into the mine. An examination was made, and hulf way down the slope tho cars were found piled ome upon tho other, having struck tho bodies of two men that lay In the track. The badics wera brought to tha surfuce. They were mutilated ualwost Leyond recognition. and un hour etapsed before it was found that the men were two Inborers named Joseph Denl and Michael Worth. They had started to come up the siope after comploting thelr dny’s work. If was in viola- tion of the rules of ‘the mine. They were evi- dently overtaken by atrip of loaded cars and fnstantly killed. = PERISOED IN. THHE FLAMES. MONROE, La., Feb. 19.~The steamer Fairplay, with 800 bales of cottum, and the wharf-boat Katie, with 300 bales of cotton and a large lot of merchandise, were destroyed by fire this morn- Ing. Thefire is supposed to have been incen- diary. Loss, $80,000; insurance, $40,00. The officers of the Fairplay barely escaped with their lives. Most of them had to leuve the bont in thelr night-clothes. Capt. Rabun and Thomas Aber: Clerk, had their faces and hands badly burnt. Eddie Hancock, a printer, perished in the flames. Pt RUN OVER AND:; KILLED. Special Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, KANKAREE, IlL, Feb. 19.—John Kane, u rail- road laborer, while shoveling snow from a side- track here this moruing, was run over and fo- stantly killed by an Iilinols Central freight-train which wus backing in onto the side-track. He Jbad worked for the railroad cowpuny about twenty-tive years. Ile wasabout 63 yoars old, and leaves a wife and three children, the young- est 14 years old. “THE DEPOT ‘ DISASTER.” . " Burrsro, N. Y., Feb. 19.—The jury to Inquire into tho cause ot the recont nccident at the New York Central Depot find that the persons named came to their death by injuries received by tho falling in of the roof of the New York Central Depot: that sald roof feli in consequence of tho parting of the iron cords which held tho trusses of the roof In pusition; that suid cords were broken .from cause or causes UBKROWA to the Jurors. SERTOUS EXPLOSION. Specicl Dispatch to Thue Chicugo Tribune. DUBLQUE, Ia., Feb.19.—An explosion occurred in the iron foundry owned by the Hon. C. S. Burt at East Dubuque this afternoon, resulting in the serious injury of Theophilus Dawes and big son, n lad ubout 14 yearsof age. It is thought the latter cannot recover. . FROZEN TO DEATH. DEER TRAIL, Colo., Feb. 10.—~W. A. Middle- mos, & well-known and wealthy stockman, was found twelve miles north of River Bend yes- terday frozen to death. Also twoof the four- horse tenm which ‘he was driving were frozen, and the others are in a bad condition, having been there since Mouday-. KILLED BY A TREE. Speciat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. ForT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 19.—Allen Archer, farmer, residing four miles from this place, while felling trees to-day was instantly killed by a.tree fullng on him. "Hig wife found bim when she went after him for dinner. He leaves u family. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. ERIE, Pa., Feb. 19.—John M. Justice, & promi- Dent citizen, accidentally shot and killed him- self to-day. He was crossing the bay to hunt on* the peninsula, when he is supposed to have slipped down, discharging the vun. The charge entered his right side below the ribs, and ranged upward through the heurt, killing him instantly. A FATAL ACCIDENT. Coruxsus, 0., Feb. 19.—L. D. Green, of Sun- bury, was instantly killed to-dny while at work in a planing-mill. The saw broke in pieces, one 31:1!5:'0: entering his breast, causing instant lea 7 Tusical Servanis. The following strange advertisements are taken from anold Euilish work. They speak volumes for the .abject standing of musicians 150 years ago: - “Tf any young man that pla violin and ‘writes o good hand ship I can help him to £%) o year. *Lwant n complete young man that will wear livery to wait on u very valuable genticman: but he must Kknow how to play oo a violin or tiute. “Iwant a genteel footman that cun play on the violin to wait on & person of honor. “If Ican meet with a sober man thathasa counter. tenor volce, 1 can help him to a place worth £40 the year or more.” This continuul_demand for musical servants grose from the fashion of making them take part In musical performances, of which custom we find frequent traces in Pepys. Altogether, the most varied accomplishmentsappesr to have ‘been expected from servants. well on the esires a clerk- Outrage by a Poliveman. Galveston News. Sam Johnsing was up agin yesterday, * What ‘brings vou here this titne?’ nsked the Recorder. “De pliceman, sab; de same what brung me beal’ last time.” **1mean what did you do? “1 was jess passin’ a grocery store, when I struck my hend agin n ham what wus hungiog by de dore. 1 tuck de ham down to put it same- whares whar It would be safe from folks bust- ing their bralns out agiu it, when de fust I knowed a plicemun tried to get de ham away from me, and bekase I wouldn't let de ham go ho jesa brung me along, tod.” o Sulcidal Premeditation. A melancholy man at Dayton, O., for ten years constantly carried the means of suicide in his pociset, 50 a5 to be ready for sclf-destruction whepever he felt like it. “Sowmetimes the thing was & dose of poison, the druxr being either arsenic, lnudanum, or hydrocyanic acid; some- times jt was a pistol or knifé; and not infre- quently it was a neat noose of rope. At length, when misfortune crushed him entirely, he found that the relief a% hand was laudanum, and he dsed it effectivels. s e —— Zola. Mr. Swinburne, Intho new number of the Fort- nightly Reclew, describes M. Zoln 83 the owl- eyed head of the sect of bestinlists in whose nioses stinks are as sweet odurs, and whose ears {ind harmony in echoes too horrible for heil. Those who huve witnessed the death-scene of the heroine in the dramatic version of * Nana will not be disposed to quarrel with the vigor of Mr. Swiuburne's inveetive. It i3 deseribed by one who witnessed it as a ghastly and revolting exhibition: * Nana comes forth en chemise from her bed and reveals the ravages of the diseasé over her {uce, smirched over with pus- tules. Her death agonies were far more hori ble than those of ile. Croisctte in the *Sphin: orof * Adrienne Lecouvreur. 1t would seem from the reception of M. Zola's play thut he bus this time carried * realism ™ andience of the Amblgl:n ik e T. W. KEENE. His Reception by the Press Club. A reception was last night tendercd the dis- tinzuished tragedian, Mr. Thomas W. Keene, by tho Culcago Press Club ot their handsome rooms on Clark street. Thé affair was of ths most pleasant character, -and the attendance embraced, besides the leading journalists of the city. the following professional people,— tho guests of the evenine: Mr. Thomas W. Keene und wife, Mr. W. R. Hayden and wife, DMiss Henrietta Vaders, Mr. Harry Thompson, Mr. Charles Kent, Miss Grace Roth, Mr. Frazor Coulter, Mr. Harry Pbillips, Mr. Harry French, of Boston, and his troupe of Hindoos; Mr. R. Fuiton Russell. Mr, Thomas Burnside, Prof. Samuel Kayser, Mr. Will J. Davis, Mr. J. J. McNally, Mr. OpertoyMr. J. B. McCormick, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, John Mackay, Mis3 Lizsio- Mulholland, Mr. A, W. Matlin, andu number of others. The reception oceurred after the performance at the Grand Opera-House, and, after an hour had beeu spent in conversation and singing, Mr. Sullivan, of the “Juurn the ‘President ot the Club, jntroduced tho distinguished guest of the evening, who, in respouse 10 a call for a speeeh, said: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I am well aware of the continual agony endured by the press owing to the prevalenze of the prolilc speechmaker, zod would not for the world add my mite to the agony with a long- winded orntion. [Laughter.] T won't’ make a speveh—Idonbt it Teould were 1to try. But Ishould like tosuy a_few words. I sheuld like 0 express us well 1s I can do so my deep scnse of gratitude not ooty for the honor you have conferred upon me by your tender of this re- cepuon, but for tho “many, the very many, kind ana encouruging words wi tho gentlemen of the Chicago Press Club have said of me since I = made my début us o star In this clty last October, en- denvoring as well ns I could to present the noblest dranu,—the crentions of the intellectunt ginuis of the pust. I need not tell you of the hopes and rears that filled my “breast as I caome before the footlights upon that—to me—ever memorable night, nor will I attenpt to analsze my feelings as I Jooked upun the columus of your great news- papers next morning, and there found that haig my battle hud bevn won, for I—and I wus @ compurative . stranger—felt . that the loving, ~ strong hund of warm West- ern generosity. was oustretched toward me, and in that knowledge the hope became stronger and the fears melted away, That I may continue to merit the good will of my many, mauy friends, I sincerely trust, and rest assured that the spur you buve given my ambition~most of us bave u littie in Some corner—ls more deeply appreciated than expressed. To the ludics what shall { say. I ooly hope. that you will stund by me,~I noticed some of you standing in the theutre to-night for me,—and if you do so, L have no fear of the future. {Loud applause.] Several othor gentlemen made briet remarks. The affafr was in cvery way a success. . LATE CITY ITEMS. E.W. Beek, of No. 304 Wabash avenue, while on his way home at 10:35 lust eveanlng, was as- suulted by two men at the corner of Thirty- second street and Wubash avenue. They made no attempt to rod him, and from this tho asseult 8 supposed to have been a malicious one only. Mr. Beek could furnish no accurate description of his asspilants. and only knows that they were about2 or 2 years of age. He was quite:badly wounded on tho buck of the heand, by a blow with some biunt {nstrument. Henry Cullen, employed a3 foremfin of a gang of men in the Union "Iron & Steel Compuny's wills at the .corner of "Ashland avenue and Thirty-secand strect, whily taking a belt off o wheel at 10:30 last ovening, uccidentally fell to the ground, a distance of ‘about twenty feet. He landed on his head, and, besides receiving a evere cut on his right hand, ‘was 0 badly bruised about the head that it_is feared concussion of the brain will ensue, He was taken to his home at No. §7 Fuller streot, and was there attended by Dr. Stubbs, who thinks he will recover. . 3trs, Sulllvan and son and Frank Loomls do ot appeir to bave been so deeply implicated 1n the robbery of Mrs. Porter as waa sup- posed when they were recently held to the Criminl ° Court in $L30 bail each by Justice Walloce. The police huve kept on investigating, and last night Thomas Cole and Edward Gerst were locked up at the Arwory. Sergt. Dully hopes to'be able to prove thut these two men are the ones who escorted 3rs, Porter to ber home ln acarringe, and robbed her on the route. Officer Auhoney arrested in the same case D. B. Honan, in whose posses- sion was found the stolen watch and chain. 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Oolong and Basket J: apau, G0c per pounds H Above Teas are Gireat Bargalns, i TEA IMP/G CO.. 88 STATE'STnynFiem,O&?::Y?:: Co. i BEAL BSTATE. RECEIVER’S SALE OF 30 Acres at Soath fhicazo, North and Adjolne Ing New Rollinz Mills, Extending from Baltl- more & Ohilo Rellroad Shupy East to Lake Michizan, Belne tho 8.3 of S. 3 of §. W. Fractional kg Roun e By uxt-gepr. 2’ sirip 1 feot o acrosy tho west end. Purruant to an order of the Cireuit Court of Cauk County, entered on the th doy of November, 139, {n_the cade of Malviile C. Enmes etal vs. The Stule Savings Institution ctal, | shall, on Thursday, the 2ith duy of February, 1L at 10 o'clock & m., ut my ofiice, No. 201 La Satje-st., Chleago, sell the above described premises for tho sum of 1,000 unless o hizher nnd better bid 1s then recelved. n which event the hizhestund best bid will be no~ epted. UCIUS B. OTIS ecelver of the State Savings fosutution. Chicago, Feb. 5. 1 s THUSSES. " $100 RUPTURE] =2 Reward i Indicates CDI},fldenL‘E in holding an: bad case of Ru ture with PARKEWS RETENTIVE CUMMO SENSETIRUSS putented Julyy 1508 A ngr prin ple which positively cures the uptare, A£improve- ment In the vefebrated Common-Senso Truss, adopted by the Baard of Medicul Officers und_upproved by tha funseon-General of the T.S. A- o the best Tross 36 Manutacturers, * BARTLETT, BUTSLAN & PARKER, 53 State-st., Chicago; TIL. FOLDING BEDS. The Burr Felding Bed, Handsome and camfortable. 15 from $22up, § ‘alade only by Andrews & Co.. 195 Wabash Ave., Chicago. PROFESSIONAL. DR. PEIRO, Devotes, a8 for years past, exclusive attention o the Homeopathic treatment of CATARRH, THROAT AND LUNG DISEASES. Offices, S3 Madlson-st. (opp. MoVickers Theatre), Hours. Y10 & Chicago. EDUCATIONAL. -ATHENEUN ACADERY, 50 Dearborn-st. An English and Classicnl School of the highest ordor, , for puplls OFbOtR LEXESy 1 b L BCoCK. Chicazo, ; " APER. CGEO. H. TAYLOR & CO,, Successuts to Clevelund Paper Co., 163 & 165 Dearborn-st. PAPER MANUFACTURENS AND DEALERS, Wedding Goods, Advertising_ Curds, Dance Pro~ grammey, and noveltles in this line a speclalty. OCEAN NAVIGATION. INMARN LINE QOcean Steamships, Carrying the British and United States Malls, ‘New York snd Liverpuol, via Queenstown. "Piekets 10 and from the principal English, Scoteh, Irish, French, German, Italinn, and Scandinaviazm ort teamers no live stock of any kind. TS HROWS, Gon: W entern Agoat, 2 $outh Clark-st, Chicago. &P~ DRAFTS on Great DBriwin, Lrélund, and the Continent for sale. DIRECT FOR GIBRALTAR AND MARSEILLES. The followinz steamers will leave New York direct for Gibraltar and Marsoilies, taking Treight and pas- h CALDERA, March 2, 1p. m. FERDINAID DE LESSEPS, March 2. noon VILLE DE MAKSEILLES, Cahours. . April §, 11 2. m. ez First Cabin, $100; Steernge, 55t Cabln Agent, EM, Steernze Al STATE LINE ToGlasgow, Liverpool Dublin, Belfast. and London~ derry, fro N, ¥., every Thursday. ¥irst Cabin, 84 10§13, accordiag W sccommadauon. Becond Cabin, o }mn:a n!:llw,l.lrd;'fi _‘.'J'heau Steamers earry iroadway. B 10do)p! 'h! SO ST W etorn Manaces WHITE STAR LINE, Carrying the United States and_Hoyal Matl between New York and Liverpaol, For passuo apply 1o Come pany’s ofice, 45 Youth Clurk-st. ALFRED LAGERGIEN, Gen'l Western Agent. £ Drafts on Great Britain und Trelund. & Clark-: nnn} it Only From -~ - $32.00 IRELAND, o CHICAGD. plaines-st., near Monroe. Ofiice open until ¥ 0'cloek . CUNARD MALL LINE. Salling twice s week 10 and from Dritish Ports "Tickets from Liverpool, Queenstown, Giaszow, Dabiin, Belfast, nnd Londsuderry at lowest: med. Company’s Office, corner Clark and Rundoiph-sta. Chicugo. - Drafts {or £1, and upwards, at lowest rutos. P H. DU VELNET, Gen'd Westerm Agens, g