Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 27, 1881, Page 9

P R D s L i et 4 a é THE CHICAGO 1TRIBUNE FEBRUARY 27, IS81—EIGHI'EEN PAGES. REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. H. J. GOODRICH, 51 Major Bloels, 145 La Salle-st. AL ENTATE, First-class Business, Residence, Manufacturing, and Acre Properts répresented. ‘The attention of cupital secking Investment solicited Exper: {3 fea] Luate Vaientons. GE0. 1. BOGLE, Real Estate Agency, ‘ROOM § REAPER BLOCE, No. 97 Clark-st., Chicago. Property bought and s0ld on commission, Epecial attention given o the care and management. of Real Evtate. Taxes pald und Rents collected. Interests of non-residents carefully looked after. P, . BRAGG & (0, Real Estate Loans, 91 Washington-st. HOLMES & BROTHER Beal Estate and Loans. GENERAL BROKERS, No. 86 Washington-st. 1RA HOLMES, EDGAR HOLMES. H. C. TURNER, W. A. BOND. TURNER & BOND, Real Estate nand XYoans, 102 Washington-st. 10ans negotiated, Kenl Estate bought and sold on commission, Taxes pald, lints coliected, Estates ‘manage J. P. WHITE & CO., Real Estate and Loan Agents. A Specialty of Business Property. 1:00M 4 REAPER BLOCK, No. 97 Clarle-st. Chicago Real Estate Call Board MONTHLY SALES AT AUCTION. CHANDLER &0, Trustees. W. K. NIXON, Manager. 116 & 118 Dearborn-st. BAIRD & BRADLEY, Loan, Real Estate, and Renting Agency, No. 90 La Salle-st. CHANDLER & CO., Mortgage Bankers. LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. Wo. 72 Dearborn-st. Kensington Lots Adjoining the Pullman Car-Works, ¥or sale on easy terms by C.B. SAWYE oo S Takb the Elevator. A Ctoago. E. S. Dreyer & Co., BANKERS, Loans and Real Estafe, 88 Washington-st., Chlcago. "A. J. COOPER, . DEALER IN REAL ESTATE, Rooms 8 and 9, 79 Dearborn-st., CHICAGO., ESTABLISOED 18X Hutchinson Bros., REAL ESTAA}EI DEALERS LOAN BROKERS, 110 Dearborn-st.. Room 15, Chicago. SOME REFLECTIONS, BY CARL PRETZEL. For The Chicago Tridune. * Chicago ves founded a goot many years ago. Aman vos found-dead In ber shtreets yesterday. Some peoples vill get shot by der pound, but dis map vas got shot by der head. Farmers who comed to dis cidy dwo years ago to plant cabbages und lay dbeir own ecks, vas DOw gone avay, on ackound der ground vasso poor dotdhey don'd could efen raise a disturb- ance on it. 2 One of our brominent physicians bafe mofed 10 Roseniil out; und der reason vby he do it vas, 28 he did said, to besser accommodate his pa- tients, Vhile feelin® der itchof der rheumatics, der odder day, wo vas told a doctor dot we felt der pains of der damned. *Vat, already?” vas his pxclemations. - A voomans, whose husband vas pooty sick at bome, vent down town vearing half mourning. She said dot der reuson vhy she dia it vas be- fause her husband vas half dead. _On der fence out by Hosehill 2 sign vas read, Drink *Prerzel's Bitiers’ und keep out of bere.” Some ‘feller vas write under dot, * Und buy your tomb-shtones of Schmidt.” Efers body vas a shtockholder in der rays of ‘l;fi‘-‘r S, but'dhero will be no dittidends declared er. A man made ablication to a Shudge, der odder 5, for a diforce from his frow. It vas found out dot dig feller' bad shtole his frow's false fooths, und oxpected to got der tiforco on ac- ound of her physicle defections: but he Souldn't gumn it ofer der Shudge. His frow told -bim it w45 aooth-in. Der cold vedder shtays by us, und it vas makc People sharp. Dher oxamine dheir coal-piles Bow, und dhey find & coal chisel in efery ton. Asign vas recendly put up ofer a sock foun- fr on Cottare Grofe avenue, which reads, Black shtockins of all colors.” i Dhey did said dot der First Babtist Church vas Joost der same like a_beaver's hut. Dhere vas f,:‘ one entrance to it, und dat vas der vasser D:\Tmnn vas arrested der odder day for forging. Shuge discharged bim on ackound der feller [25a blackshumidt, und he couid dome all de . lorgin’ dot he vanted too. Dervay to got stuck ub in der vorldt is to ik mucitages, o g tou2en 1 vas u leedle boy on_der school-house, T bs:fi'“ meout dot der rule of dree vas provers Ain g¥ing to der coostitution: but now I prs dot’ der rule of onc vas more as I could ot s said dot dhere vas & man in der moon. o o moonghtpg e or 50 may vimmens gel Aman who tri blic vas got & Qeer bogg "ytbr;?. to serf der public got Yoost dhake t care of your lager-bier sa- h;n. :nd dot saloon vill dheice care of Sou. ls by New York gif big dinners, und der “;B Men come und eat dhemselves up. taig e, Politieal ttar dells you somedin, 5005t m, “ Dot's teaf der lye your Wit pogp o, D0FS besser y0u Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar e —— : fi%}flb\m work. Cure your cough thor- doi Plke's Toothache drops oure in one minute, - REAL ESTATE. Inside Real Estate in Demand, but Hard to Buy. Drift of Purchases to Acre Property— Sales of the Week. New Building Enterpri.éas De- layed—Permits Issued. Activity in Hyde Park and South Chicago —A New Road. Abuse of Recording Contracts— Real Estate in the East, Real estate continues in active demand. ‘Transactions are limited by the small supply of the property in most request,—inside lots in good business localities. Recent transac- tions indicate a growing DRIFT TOWARDS ACRES, ‘This is inevitable as interior values rise and the supply grows less. The history of Chi- cago is a record of the conversion of bare acres into improved real estate, and it is not likely that the development is to stop now. Messrs. Isham and Prentice have sold for the Connecticut Mutual the lot just west of Haverly’s Theatre, on Monroe street, 89x70, for $95,000. Mr. Johu C. Dore, with one or two other capitalists, has bought through A. J. Averell, from .the German-Ameriean Bank of New York, seventy-eight acres in South Chicago, in Secs. 3L and 82, 83,15, on the lake-shore, just north of the new Chicago Rolling-Mills. ‘The price paid was $36,000. Property in the same addition sold a tew months ago for $600 an acre. o Receiver Otis, of the State Savings, sold to Mr. John M. Clark, for §34,000, the tract- of ' thirty acres belonging to the bank, and lying north of the new steel works, Henry J. Cristoph has sold to Conrad Seipp 140x180 feet on the southeast corner of Ran- dolph and Market streets, for $115,000, Sumerfield &Co., now on the corner of TFifth avenue and Madison street, have rent- ed the new store, 40x9), built by Mr. Henry Strong on Fifth avenue, near Mouroe street, for $7,000 a year for three years. The other store built by Mr. Strong, 60x8), on Fifth avenue, south "of Monroe street, has been rented to Kuh, Nathan & Fischer for threo years at $8,500 a year. Alessrs. Elison, Flersheim & Co. sold for the Board of Public Works, Tuesday, 22d inst., A THE BUILDINGS, 51 Menominee street for $245 to William No- ble; 53 Menominee street for $50 to C. AL ‘Wheeler; 55 Menominee street for S617 to Robert Karappas; 33 Tell court for $75 to AL Classen; 87 Tell court for $110 to Jacob Sold; 35 Tell court for §165 to George Anfell; 34 Tell court for 8845 to P. Brougham; rear 599 North avenue for $72.50 to Charles Heine- man; 395 North aveaue for $1,900 to B. Roh- bach; rear 385 North avenue for §100 to same | party; and No. 40 Starr—part of building— for $5. . Mr. Francis B. Peabody sold 250-0dd feet atthe corner of Indiana avenue and Fitty- ninth street for §25 a foot. On Wabash and Michigan avenues, between Forty-seventh and Fiftieth streets, Mr. Peabody also sold land at $40 a foot, in a neighborhood that is rapidly acquiring very desirable inhabitants. Mr. John Johnston, Jr., has' just sold thir- teen lots of Humboldt Park property, lo- cated in Hansbrough & Hess' Subdivision, at 6753 piece, and nine houses-will soon be completed there, none costing less than $700 nor more than $3,000. He has also sold six lots three blocks north of Ilumboltdt Park, at the rate of $500 each, and good dwellings are also beginning to rise there. . J. 1. Bissell has purchased for C, M. Hen- derson five acres at the corner of Forty-fifth street and Langley avenue for $13,000, all cash. A cash offer of $15,000 has already been refused for this purchase, W. D. Kerfoot & Co. have sold fifty feeton Michigan avenue, south of Pwenty-fifth street, $12,500; 200 feet on the corner of ington and Iioman avenue, 88,500 twenty-five lots on the corner of Thirty-fifth and Oakley street, $2,500; five acres on the corner of Fifty-fifthand Oakley street, S1,500. 100 feet on Ashland avenue, near Thirt; fifth street, $2,200; 100 feet on Ogden avenue, near Douglas Park, $2,000; leasehold in- terest, State near Congress, $9,850. Hutchinson Bros, sold 100 feeton Madi- son street, east of California avenue, south {front, for $5,000. THE LARGEST TRANSACTION put on record during the past week, was the sale of the Lakeside Building by Mr. Henry C. Rew to Mr. L. Z. Leiter, for the expressed consideration of 5300060 Other sales were 100 by 100 on Fifth avenue, south- éast corner of Jackson, S$42,438; 55 by 175 on _Michigan avenue, southwest corner of Thirty-second street, improved, §22,000; 350x505 ¢cn West Harrison, southeast corner of Loomis, $25000; 25x80 6n North Clark, southwest corner of Michigan, §18,000; 150x150 on State, southwest corner of Fifteenth, and 50x180 on State, south of Fourteenth, £10,000: $32x396 on Forty-fourth, near continuation of Throop. with all bulld- ings, $§9,000; 75x125, improved, on South Ialsted, 3 southwest corner of Congress, $30,000; 150x125 on Dearborn, northwest cor- ner Sixteentl, $110,000; 160x225 on Lake- Shore Drive, northwest corner of Bank, $§31,000; 1 on Fifty-first, east of Cot- tage Grove avenue, $6,000; 25x138 on Twen- ty-fifth, west of Wabash avenue, $6,350; 20x 95 on Superior, southeast corner of St. Clair, inproved, $7,500; 20x62, improved. on Ogden avenue, northeast corner of Washington, 4003 25x149 on Dearborn avenue, south of North avenue, $6,000; 3 on West Lake, west of Ashland avenue, §7, 2 63113 7.900; 40x100 on Michigan street, northeast cornerof La Salle, 88,0007 636 West _Monroe, $8,500; 30x140 on Fulton, east of Ialsted, 5,3 28X127 on Michizgan avenue, north of Harmon cour, $7,700: 20}¢x110 on North Clark, south of Huroun, improved, $9,700; 20x10), improved, on West \Washington, eastof Ada, $6,500; 461 7-10 feet on Ashiand avenue, south of Diversey, S11,667; 402x330 on Cham- plain avenue, southwest corner of Forty- 1ifth, $13,000; 207 3-10x175 on Indiana avenue, southwest coruer of Fifty-ninth, 5,185, i An esteemed contemporary says a quiet ‘movement is known to be on foot, if indeed not fully made, whereby the at present de- pressed lanas north of Division streetand adjacent to the LINCOLN PARK DRIVEWAY - are to be covered in the due future with resi- dences of a uniform elegance, the homes of some of the younger and wealthier business menof the city. There is no need of names in this connection, though they might be forthcoming. The *vhole adjacent region, by nature and accessibility, will clearly be more and more one of the favorit residence sections of the entire city. The State street line of cars has been put in operation justin time to_ assist in developing the importance of this deliehtful section of town. Mr. Ulrich sold to N. Y. Ewing, attorney, the northwest corner of Egandale avenue and_Forty-seventh street, 153 feet by 100 feet on Forty-seventhstreet, with stable lot 8ix 30, with improvements, for $10,200._ Mr. Ew- nz has also_purchased of Mr. C. B, Banton 75x125 feet formerly occupied by building ty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets, were sold for $22 per foot. ‘The proposed road on the s LAKE SHOKE TO SOUTH CHICAGO has started up some slight speculation in the rro erty lving near the lake. Two and one- half acres, nearly a mile from the railroad station, in Westfall's Subdivision, were sold at S350 per acre. . 'T. Knowles has bouglhit 342-100 acres in Biock 1, Warren’s Addition to Wildwaood, ly- ing on the Old Thornton road, for 500 per acre. Property on J HYDE PARK AVENUE, near Oakwood avenue, is held very high, that having an east front belnz valued at $125, with $120 offered. A picce was sold to John Borden on the smme street, havinga west front and running to the Illinois Central right of way, last fall-for $150, and is now held at from $175 to $200 per foot. A letter was sent to Senator Logan this week by a_ number of interested property owners in South Chicago, asking for an in- crease of the allowance in the Ilarbor bill for CALUMET IIARDOL, and for the expending of a portion of the allowance in_increasing the depth of the chaunnel from its mouth to the Calumet Lake as the engineer in charge may direct. Two frame houses, with lot 0x114 feet, on Uunion avenue, near Cottage Grove avenue, ?mth &r%m, were sold during the past week or $55,500. 1t"is reported that surveyors are at work fixing up the way for a new railroad through Park Ridge. R Real estate and rents are looking up AT ROGERS PARK. Since the removal to that suburb.of the Thomas ink and blueing factory there has not been an unoccupied ° tenement there. Rents have materially advanced, and lolders of corner lots are naming much higher prices than twelve months ago. One day last week the above Company re- ceived ten car-loads.of bottles, whichis prob- ably the largest shipment of that particular clags of goods ever received by auy firm west of New York. THE RISE IN REAL ESTATE is helping out the depositors of our defunct savings banks. Receiver Otis refused to sell the real estate of the State Savings during the depression of. the last three of four years, and is enabled to pay dividends to depositors aggregating 85 per cent. Receiver ‘Turpin, of the Fidelity, estimates. at $80,000 the amount lost by the sale of the Fidelity Building, butexpects, altogether, to pay 55 per cent. The RECEIVER OF THE BEE-UIVE thinks the rise of real estate will enable him to pay the depositors a dividend. Ilis bank owns the 120-acre tract in the Westfall subdi- vision by the lake-shore, one-half a mile from the Ilyde Park Water-Works. lle has an offer of $125,000, over $1,000 an acre, and it wasw’t long ‘ago_he couldn’t get an offer of $250 per acre. - Now, that’s an illustration of how it is withithe other real-estate assets,— for instance, the brick building at Eighteenth and Clark streets, well wortn 310,000 cash; a couplegtf brick residences on the West Side, worth $5,000 each, ete. ‘The Receiver does not see why he should not pay a dividend as high 23 20 per cent. If he had sold out the real estate two years ago, he couldn’t have realized 5 per cent. The Rcal Estatc and Building Jowrnal gives a needed warning. It says there are hundreds of houses built i IN THE SUBURBS on.good plans, faithfully carried out, but in the excessive demand 1 existed prior to 187 many others were built in 2 most shabby manner, and this journal is not disposed to aid the sale of such houses unless a price commensurate with thelir defects is fived. Those who think of moving out of town should examiue property closely before pur- chasing. In some towns, also, such risk was taken in selling and buying blocks and sub- divisions that it will be well for every pur- chaser to examine titles with thoroughness. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. ‘The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, Feb. 26: CITY PROPERTY. North Water st, 150 1t w of Pino, s f, 22 ft to Michigan st. dated Feb. 24 (William M. Hoyt to Henrletta Snell). -8 270 Nebraska st, 179X {t w of Loomis, s f, 30x 1063 ft, mproved, dated Feb. 23 (Pat- rick Fitzsimons to Patrick McConnell). Cornell st, bet Chase and Noble, s f, 331 - x128 ft, improved, dated Feb. 26 (Carl g Wagner to N. C. Hansen).. . 2,800 Milwnukee av, s e cor of Noble, tilangie - of 63x37x63 {1, Improved, dated Feb. 23 (Charles Schumana to K. Stiebelner). .. Superior st, 40 st ¢ of St. Clair, n £, 20x35 1t, dated Fob. 20 (Jesse M. Spalding to Anna M. Gibbs).......... Seiiais Johnson st, 116 frsof West Fourteenti, w £, ZT14X94; ft, dated Jan. 12 (Joha F. Northrup to the City of Chicsgo)....... ‘Wabash av, 474 ft n of Thirty-fourth st, w f. 25x173 ft, dated Feb. 17 (A. E. and C. C. Chaudler to Esther Bee). ... ... Michigun av, 50 1t 8 of Twenty-fifth st, o , 50x193 {t, dated Feb. 24 (James Tod to William C, Lobenstein).... ... & Oakley av, 206 1t n of Harrison st, ¢ f, 20X 123 ft, duted Feb. 18 (William H. Brad- ley to George M. VIul)...ovoovvvecuens. . Vernon av, 129 £t n of Thirtieth st. ¢ f, % x115ft, improved, dated Feb. 24 (Willard F. Myrick to Willlam Goldle) e H000 North State st, 0 {t s of Michigan, o f, 25 x40 1t, dnted Feb. 28 (Jaumes O'Eoyle to Daniel"Olsen). 8 Vine fst, 23 ft n of North av, e 1, 253100 ft, dated Feb. 21 (Ira J. Nicholes to W. Gaertner). Vernou nv, n'of 1, 183 x164i5 ft, dnted Fob, 25 J.Stephan 1o B. Winslow). ... ........ Statest, s w cor of Juckson, ¢ f, 3x10J ft, jmproved, dated Feb. 26 (Nathan Cor- with to Barblt Bloom). ais Bismarck court, 32 ft wo st,nf, 24x60 ft, dated Feb. 8 (Benjaniin Lom- bard, Jr., to A. Jucobson) o5 ases _The premises Nos, 56 and 5 Ten nv, dated Feb. 18 (James McCartney to Min- nie M. Freeman) 4 rd st, w (4. M. and 3,820 2,300 1,400 ‘an 00x125 ft, mproved, dated Feb, 25 (Charles J. Duvis to Lizzle 8. Duncan). . 5300 NORTH OF CIT" ITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Clybourn av, W1 [t n wof Fullerton, s w 1, 50x150 £t, dated Feb. 23 (C. W. Fuller- ton to H. Sedler). ... SOUTH _OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Lot3, Bik 3, Kay's Addition, dated Feb. 24, (E. Koch to W. Prestin). South Dearborn st. n w cor of e f, 25x100 ft, dated Feb. 25 (C. F. Kin- nally to C.S. Arnst).... 5 ‘Wentworth av, n o cor of Fifty-ninth st, w f, 69x145 ft, dated Feb. 20 (Nathan A. Brisco to A. Howard) . . 3 saee Barney st, 103 ft w ot Wright, 8 f, 37%x 2124 £t, dated Feb. 12 (H. 8. Huntley to William J. Hoag)........ veee 2,200 WEST OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF BEVEN SILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Heing st, 175 ft n of Wabansig, e f, 25x115 1t, dated Feb. 21 (John Johnson, Jr., to Peter Pela) Hendsburg st, 5 13434 ft, dated Feb. 19 (Same to TFifty-first, 1,160 Hoplking) 250 Morurt st, ) 'y 25x100 ft, dated Fub. 24 (Same to Hugh Smyth). Peve Humbold! or of 100x120 ft, dated Feb. 25 and J. A. Montagzue) 1,300 RUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. ‘The following Is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within a radius of seven wiles of the Court-House, filed for record during the week ending Saturday, Feb. 26: City Sales, 143; consideration, $1,216,838. North of eity limits—Sales, 115 d South of city limits— consideration, 329,892 Sales, 21; consideration, $149,235.. West of city 13; consideration, $6,610. imits—Sales, &m sales, 153, “Total consideration, $1,402,- 0 BUILDING drags a little on account of the season and the uncertainty of prices. Messrs. Burnham & Root, architects, have made the plans for a house for Mr. A. J. Leith on Calumet ave- nue, near Twentieth street, of ornamental timber and brick construction. It will be in the style of the new villas at Newport, and will be decidedly unique. 1t will be of Congregational Church, ,l'oining above on the west, for §3,000, giving him in all 175x 153 feet to alley, with 30881 feet in rear for stable lot, at the moderate price of 13,200, including improvements. Thiscorner’is just east of Drexel boulevard, and is considered one of the handsomest residence corners on Forty-seventh street, which is itself a boule- vard, being 100 feet wide, running from Ken- wood depot west to Grand boulevard. The price paid is less than $30 per foot for the land, im.-ludlnfi buildings. The northwest corner of Woodlawn avenue and Foriy-sev- enth street, the second block east, X200 feet,rsold [2] Mr.L Frank Gray recently for $85 er foot, vacail 2 - H.J. rf;oodricl) reporis_that he has offered for a client $15,000 for the property on the southeast corner of Oakwood avenue and DREXEL BOULEVARD, » $0x190, The property is owned by Miller Bros., and_they ask $24,000, Lots 39and 40, Block 2, Circuit Court partition, having a west front on Langley avenue, between For- three stories high. The same architects hay under way for Mr.~ Walter Cobb, on Rush |_street,—opposit AMr. Cytus McCormick’s, a Tesidence in the Queen "Anne style, 40x30, of red brick and red terrz cotta; two louses for Mrs. Thompson, on Dearborn avenue, near Schiller street, 40x65 each, of brick with stone trimmings; at tne corner of Dearborn and North avenues, for Messrs. 1L H. Shufeldt and the Egzan Dbrothers, three houses, with_an VaFg'regnte fronmg]e of 100 feet, in pure English Gothic style, the fronts beingof Philadelphia green stone, with inserted pauels of red terra cotta carved and some timber work, and with wood finish for the orioles and porches; for Jonathan Brooks, on Ontario, near Rush, 30 X70, aresidence of. old artesian-well gray stone; five stories, 102x70, with flats, on West Twelfth, for Alr. . H. Gage, near _Halsted, of Indiana pressed brick; for Mr. Tappan Halsey, an ornamental timber-work cottage on Lake 'avenue, near Forty-sixth street; two houses, 50x70, three +{ sion; Fifth avenue, southeast corner Fifty- SUNDAY, stories high, for M P-Smith, of red brick and red terra_cotta, on the lake-shore, near Thirty-third street. | During January permiis were issued for the following newbuildings: Four-story, 8: three-story, 8; two-story, 18; one-story, I4. "Their total cost was $336,730. In addition, $4,000 was expended for improvements.: L.~ The most important permit for new build- mgs issued last week was the onetoJ. W. Doane, for a two-story stone-front residence on Prairie avenue, neaf Eighteerh: street, to cost $100,000., 2 A large number of BUILDING PERMITS were issued. Among them iere those to James Breichor, two _two-storylbrick dwell- ings, Eighteenth street, near Blue Island avenue, $6,000; Willlam Gill, two-story brick dwelling, No. 65 South -Ashland avenue, $8,000; Slmeon E. Bears, two-story brick dwemns, Honoré street, near Thirty-fifth, $5,000; John Mochna, two-story brick ad tion, Zion place, near Thmo% su:‘.et,( $1,000; V. Kolacheck, one-story brick dwelling, Throop, near Nineteenth, $1,700; George 11. Lucke, three-story brick dwelling, No. 1011 North Clark street, §5,5003 Union Shoe Com- pany, two-story brick factory, Halsted and Webster avenue, 54,000 E. Dwyer, to erect a two-story brick store and dwelling, 18x48, No. 256 Kinzle street, to cost $3,500; to Charles Vondesheidt, to put up the same kind of a structure at N 265 Ogden avenue, to cost $1,500; to William Nieman, one-story brick cottage, 23x48 feet, No. 636 West Superior street, $§1,000; Jonathan Clark, four-story by store, 30x138 feet, No. 145 State street, S: 000; G. W. Brown, two-story brick store and dwelling, 25x36 feet, No. 3118 State street, $8,000: John Corbett, two two-story brick dwellings, 4}x60 feet, on Throop street, near Congress, $5,000: N. W. Wolf, two-story stone-front dwelling, 231¢x67 feet, No, 3156 Wabash avenue, S$6,000. LOANS. ‘There was just about an average amount of business done in real-estate loans lust week. There was a noticeable absence of large borrowers and an increase of small ones, which leaves the aggreszate of the amount placed atabout the same figures as usual. The mortgages filed for record num- bered fifty, and the trust-deeds 105. The for- mer secured loans for $7L,645, and the latter $210,067,—making a total of 135 transactions, coyering $281,702. Rates were unchanged. Last week the South Park Commissioners took t;pmbms for making the improve- men . ON MICHIGAN AVENUE. Two contracts were let to the lowestbidders. ‘The contract for broken stone was let to Mr. Spooner, of the Chicago Union Lime Worls. ‘I'he price is $2.11 per cubic yard, and the .total cost 586,334, The bids for trees made by P. S. Peterson and P. Chambers were ac- cepted, each to_furnish 17 trees ata total cost of §4,165. New bids are asked for on catch-basins and manholes, and for bank gravel. The bids for eaich-basins aud man- hole-covers were rejecte:d, ‘The Committee on Streets and Alleys, South Division, were to have taken up Fri- day the matter of the y VACATION OF LA SALLE STREET, between Jackson and Van Buren, but Mr. Withrow asked for a further deferment, be- cause the property-owners had not come to un‘y agreement as to the widening of Sher- midn street, Pacific avenue, ete. Action was ostponed until Friday week, by which time r. Withrow and the parties would come to an understanding, if ever. ‘The Iartford Courant puts two facts to- gether. One is that real estate is advancing inprice and taxes are_coming down. This business diagnosis is for the Eastern States. INDIANATOLIS. ‘The Indianapolis Journal reports real-es- tate agents all unanimous in the opinion that atno tume in the last eight years had the prospeets been so good for a lively trade in real estate. BAN FRANCISCO, the Bulletin says, Is now rec verine from long stagnation, and a season of immediate moderate activity is almost assured, that will gradually extend as general business im- proves. Owners of large tracts can safely 1ark out building lots and dispose of the same if willmg to_move slowly and sell at reasonable figures. Imrm\'ed properties do 10t go begging, except in cases where ad- vanced prices are asked.. For investment purposes, there is a very good inquiry for fairly paying properties, but the wore pro- nounced the demand, the'more difficult do. agents find it to secure desirable bargains. IN NEW. YORK the rise in the values of up-town real estate shows that history is repeating itself. ‘The following are some of the prices obtained on first-class property on Fifth avenue and in the vieinity: Plaza, south side, 100 feet west of Fifth avenue, 75x100, three lots, John Au- derson to E. 11 Goodwin, for $141,500. Mr. JacRae resold 40 feet of the westerly front- age of this plot for E. . Goodwin to Will- jam T. Hutchinson, who is now building a costly dwelling there, for $80,000, and the easterly frontage, 35 feet, to C. Vanderbilt, for $™.500, as a site for the garden of his Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh street man- fourth street, house and lot 28x125, Grifith Rowe to IL M. Flagler for §200,000; Fifth .avenue, southeast corner $ixty—thlr«l street, 27.11x100, one lot. D. 0. Mills to C. T. Barney for $65,000; Fifth avenue, northeast corner Sixty- ixth street, 50x100, two lots, H. lavemeyer to George IL Ken- nedy for $125,000; Fifth avenue, 100 feet north of Sixty-seventh street, 25x100, two lots, John Q. Preble to Aug. C, Downing for £50.000; Sixty-seventh street, 125 feet east of Jifth avenue, 100x100, four lots, John A. Stewart to C. T. Barney, §102,000. The first sale of this property was made in February, 1880, and it has just been resold for $134,000. Tifth avenue, northeast corner of Seventy- second street, 127 feet front by 200 deep (be- ing nine full Tots with alley out to Seventy- third street), Jonas G. Clark to John D. TRockefeller for $425,000. These are sample -surprised that the real-estate transfers, as sales, and, accord ing to the New York Even- ing Post, they differ from transfers of the same property in 1871 to 18% in this. that those were speculative purchases, while these are very largely purchases to build. It is to be borne in mind, too, that tlus property has had its break, and though prices are now ahead of 157 they have suffered meantime a tremendous shrinkage. IN BROOKLYN the question of increased rents is exciting searcely less interest thar in New York. While, owing to its ample suburbs and con- stantly expanding boandaries, there is an absence of the sharp and sudden rise notice- able in Wail street rents and those of fash- ionable localitics up-town in New York, Brooklyn rents, in general, may be said to have kept full pace with the ascending scale of rents on the New York side of the river. Eligible property, whether for business pur- poses or residence, rents at a higher rate than in 1880, 1n most cases this advance 1s from 10 o 15 per cent, but in sowne instances as high an increase as 30 and 33 per cent has been recorded, though only for ehoice par- cels, and those in select locations. ST, LOUIS AND CHICAGO, A correspondent sends the following ex- tract from the St. Louis Post-Dispatel with request for * an answer to the insolent and infamous statements.” As for an answer, —well, *we should smile.” Arender sends usa clipping from Tre CRICAGO TRIBUNE giving the total of the real-estate frunsfers in Chicago for the weck ending Feb. 13, The figures'foot up $907,669. In St. Louls the same week the reul-cstate transactions amounted to $40,053. As the two cities are about the same in size, our friend desires to know how ‘we account for this remarkable difference. This 18 not difficult. St. Louls is & settled city, and its real-estate transuctions are steady, like its growth. Chicago is a speculative, foverish town, All the real estate of the. city 'changes hands every month or two. A man in Chicago may own_ forty building lots, to-day. An unlucky gumbling transaction on *Change forces him to sell to-morrow. The followiiig duy the purchaser of tho lots is brought to bankruptcy and he, in turn, Is forced to part with his property. Itis not un unusual thivg fora_ building or a lot to be Fold three or four times a week under such circumstances. ~Recording sales, making out deeds and transfers thus becomes the most prof- jtable industry of the town. Since it fsa curi- osity to find a man in Chicago holding a piece of real estite for mora thun @ moath wo are really ul lished in the paper, don’t foot up two or three millions a week. RECORDING CONTRACTS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. CmicAGo, Feb. 26.—During the years 18649, while we had an active real-estate mnrke%i complaints were frequent that unauthorizes contracts, made by irresponsible agents, were placed upon record. As the law then stood, while a contract affecting real property was required to be in yriting it might be executed through one héving only oral authority. This led to numerous embarrassments; and in 1869 a statute was enacted requiring such contracts to be in writing, siz-ne3 by the par- ty to be charged therewith, or by ‘‘some other person ‘therennto lawtully authorized in writing signed by such party.” This, however, has not sufficed. It is still acommon practice for parties calling them- selves real-estate brokers to take some trifling ayment, about enough to cover their al- eged *‘commissions,” from Tom, Dick, or Harry, and to give such person a *contract,” although the broker signing the same has no authority from the owner. If Lie has received an offer to *“divide com- missions” from some other breker, whose own hazy authority comes from a third agent, it is quite suflicient color of title for him to act upon! A The receipt or contract is at once recorded, and .the unsuspecting owner finds that his title is clouded by some one of whow, per- haps, he has never heard. hese and like practices bring disrepute upon an honorable occupation, and injure its worthiest members. Timid owners aré afraid to deal with any professional agent because of such tricks by the bummersand camp-followers. It is, therefore, for the in- terest of the reputable agents, as well as es- sential to the ,protection of property-owners that a remedy be applied. A palliative may be found by a statutory requirement that no land-contract signed by an agent shall be entitled to record unless his written authority shall also be recorded. But it also ought to"be made a misdemeanor for any one to execute such a contract with- out authority. The present looseness and inefliciency of our laws in this respect offer a premium to the dishonest and render biack- mailing an easy and safe operation. WiLLtay C. ReyNoLDs. PUBLIC ABSTRACT-BOOKS. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, Cmicaco, Feb. 27.—Your Springtield report of yesterday says the bill allowing the people to look at the tract-indexes to the public rec- ords here which they have paid for and which are now being _used to runasort of side-show abstract office. seews to be worry- ing Recorder Brockway. Several Senators have received letters from him on the sub- ject, ete. Now the influence of these letters may not be so, very great when the_cause of this worry is understood by those Senators. It is, that the said Recorder now gets an allowance (over and above his salary) of $1,000 a year for superintending the private abstract business that these books owned by the public are now being used to earry on. As to the history of these tract-indexes, the money was gotten outof the Treasury to pay for them on the plea that their use would be of very great benefit to the people: and as soon asthey were paid for by the people the County Commissioners and Lecorder fenceil off a part of the Recorder’s oflice and started a private abstract office, nonnally running it in the name of Cook County, but really to furnish = soft places and fat salaries to be paid out of the Treasury to a dozen or so of men to be appointed by the parties running the said private abstract business. The?' are now engaged in sell- ing to the people who own them the informa- tion furnished by these index books at the same rate per transfer as is charged by the regular abstract oftices which own their own books. No wonder they worry over the bill now being passed by the State Legislature allowing the people to examine their own indexes to the -public records. Another feature of this matter is that when public records can be taken hold of and used for private purposes by anyi one tney become dangerous as records. The only real way to prevent forgeries and mutilations of public records is to have them mways open to pub- lic inspection? then forgeries and mutilations become almost impossible and of easy detec- _This impudent attempt of these coun- ty oflicials to sell to the people who own the books the information contained in these in- dexes should be properly understood by the public and legislators alike. - Davip WrLrrases. _According to Superintendent James 1lar- rison, of the New York Board of Unde: writers, there Is no city in the world where buildings are carried up to ., SUCH GREAT MIGHTS asin New York. The Equitable Building is 113 feet to the deck-roof. John Sherman’s fortress will be 120 feet high when com- pleted. The Boreel Bnilding is 115 feet to the cornice. The New York Life is 129 feet Lo the deck-ronf. The dry-gzoods store Nos. 345 and 347 Broadway is 100 feet to the cor- nice. The Morse Bullding, on Nassgu street, tops them all, and is eight stories high and 146 feet to the cornice. The building at Broadway and Fourteenth street is 115 feet to the cornice, with a_dome nearly 40 feet high. Thereis a new building at Hud- son and Duane streets which is 130 feet to the deck-roof. A. T. Stewart & Co.’s store, at Broadway and Tenth_street, is 8S feet to the cornice. At first Mr, Stewart would not al- low our surveyors in the building, but we finally took the measurement. Clarlin’s store is 8) feet to the cornice. Ar- nold, Constable & Co.’s is 95 feet to the deck- roof.. Among the hizh hotels is the Gilsey . House, which is 100 feet to. the deck-root. ‘The Mansard, a frame building with a slate roof, is a house of itself, 23 to 30 feetin hight. The Grand Central H is 123 feet to the top, of which 30 feet is Mansard. The Fifth Avenue is 90 feet to the cornice. As to flats, they don’t come into our category of rates. ‘The one at Fifth avenue and ~Forty-second street is nine stories above the street, and 120 feet in hight. Just think of it. "There are several flats and tenements hizh enough to burn down before a man could get down stairs from the top story. Sixty feet is the estiwate of the proper hight of a building. A description is given by the New York Sun of - J A MAGNIFICENT RESIDENCE to be built by Mr. P. L. Stuart on Fifth ave- nue at the north corner of Sixty-eighth street. The front will extend perhaps 200 feet along Fifth avenue. The side on Sixty- eighth street will measure 100 feet, and_the garden behind the house, also bounded by lvfxe liz\me street, will extend 10 feet further ik, Upon the space to be inclosed for this gar- den are several fine old trees, which have stood there ahundred years or more. These will dignify and adorn the miniature park, which is to be made the most perfect and charming city garden in America. Six architects have prepared plans for the house. The porch and main stairway have received particularattention from Mr. Stuart, who wishes these parts of his residence to surpass anything of the kind yet built or de- signed in New York. Polished Aberdeen granit columns will cluster about the en- trance. 5 The block bounded by Fifth and Madison ayenues and Sixty-eizhth and Sixty-ninth streets was formerly a part of the old Lenox farm. Mr. Stuart bought it more than ten years ago. He has sold three-quarters of it at such a profit that the remaining fourth, on which his new house is to be built, represents no actuat outlay whatever. e =2 Mr. Stuart’s” collection of paintings will make the house agallery of art. A state- ment recently made by Mr, Salem II. Wales at a meeting of the Park Conumissioners in- dicates that Mr, Stuart may some time give the building and its contents to the city as a museumn. 3 Owners of real estate have a serious ques- tion to .consider in the rights acquired by the telegraph companies which are tastening WIRES TO PRIVATE 1OUSES. ‘There 'is, says the-XNew York Journal of Cuwninerce, a period ot time after the lapse of which, under certain_circumstances, the statute of limitations will deprive the real- estate owner of any remedy against' an oc- pant of his property. . . . Itisa sel ous question whether the real-estate owner is not responsible to any person injured by the falling of posts whi he or his tenant has erected on the housetops, which prove insuflicient to hold weights attached to them. 1t is time that owners ot houses looked into this matter. ———— Divoree in France. The attempt to puss u Divorce law In France failed In the Freoch Assembly Feb. 1, by volo of 247 to 216. Curiousty enough, the ’Moderate Liberals were opposed to it. on the simple ground that it would be dangerous to familiarize a people so mobile and restlessas the French even with the idea that the marriage-contract was capable of complete dissolution. They insist on the strong intluence on the imagination of tho murried of the old tradition that nothing but the death of one of the parties 10 a matri- moninl contract cun enable the other to marry agulu. Nobody who hus paid much attention to tho subject can doubt that thereisa good desl in this. In the relationsof the sexes nothing has such u depressing cffect on the imugination ag.a sense of impossibility. The desire to be divorced, in_fact, niay be sald to grow in the ratio of tho facility of getting divorces. ik Another _argument produced by the Temps ‘was _more _recondite—viz.: _that it there wera _ divorce in _ France marriage contract, where the wife had money, would wrenerally be drawn_under the *régime otal.”—that is, the wife's dowry would be tied up to ber separate use, and could not be used by the husband. At present most macringe con- tracts among the industrial bourgeoise are drawn under the * régime de 1a communaut which enables the husband, with the wife’s cot sent, to use her money as capital 1n bis business. 1f there were divorce, says the Tempe, people would be afruid of tho *régime -dela com- muaguts,” and would confine themselves to tho “régime dotal,” which would lead to the *im- mobilization™ of *incalculable amounts of capital,” and * introduce great confusion into the financial situation.” Another stroug polnt made was that divorce has not us yet been ju- troduced among any Latin race, and thut the exumple of the Teutonic races on this point is ot no use for Frenchmen,—ut all cvents as long: 23 the education of the French girls is so differ- ent from the *éducation libre et yirile dela Jjeune Miss Anglaise ou Américaine. ——————— Remember Hop Bitters never does barm tothe sinallest child, but good, always and cvntinually. THE LAKE-FRONT. County Commissioneré Protesting Against Its Sale. B. F. Ayer’s Protest Against Anouymous Attacks on the Senate Bill. The Position Taken by the Tllinois Central Railroad, Commissioner Knopf yesterday took a great Interest in the Lake-Front matter. Mr. Jobn B. Lyon came into the Commissioners’ rooms dur- ing the day and obtained signatures to his petiton agninst the sale of the Luke-Front property to the Illinols Central Railroad Com- pany ns at present proposed. Mr. Lyon Is very anxiousjthat the ripurian rights and vatusble nccretions and submerged land shall not be given ‘away. In this conoectlon it was stated ‘that there was a syndicate now forming, which proposed to lease the docking privileges ut that point, and create there i har- bor.and pay for it annually nearly enough to run the City Government. A careful investizu- tion revealed nothing tangible in this regard, but it was apparent . that some New York capi- talists have their eyes on the Lake-Front prop- erty, and would like to get hold of the dock privileges. The following preambie and resvintion will be presented at the Bourd session to-morrow atter- noon: WHEREAS, A bill i3 now vendinz before Con- ess, known us the Lake-Front bill (Senate bill No. 1035, which purports. un its face, to grant tho lands therein mentioned to the City of Chi- cago, but which, in fact, is 1 scheme to transfer to u powerful corporation the entire riparian rizhts of Chicago, south of the south picr; and WHEREAS, Such u grant would place the en- tire outer harbor, south of suid pler, in the hands of & powertl monopoly, and the city and county would be deprived of the right to tax such property; therefore, be it Resvlred, By the County Commissioners of Cook County, that we protest aguin3t the puss- ago of suid bill, or of other bills which deprive the city or county of its riparian rights -or of taxazion; and, further, that we concur in the ]nsrso!'.‘sl of the Illinols Legisiature, of February, JR. AYER'S PROTEST. There appeared In yesterday’s TRIBUNE the closing puragraphs of the protest of Mr. B. F. Ayer, Attorney for the Jilinols Central Rail- roud, aiainst the anony mous attucks with which the Capitol at Washington has been tooded aguiase the passage of the Senate bill, now petid- }ng in'the House. Following is the protest in ul s or several days the House bas been flooded " with unonymous attacks upon this bill. People who bave no eurthly interust in the roperty seem totake great interest in the question. These anonymous writers charge that the Ili= nois Central Railrond Company is about_to steal forty acres of United States land; that the bill 18 solely in tho interest of that corporation; that the lund sought to be taken s worth all the way. from $5,000.000 to $100,000,000; that the real object is to cut off communicution between the City of Chicazoand Lake Michigan; that the rights of individunls are_ disregardeds that the object of the Railroad Compuny is to devy toll on every pound of freight that enters the Chicago harbor; that the swindle is so cnormons und so gigantic, that it has aroused the indignation of tho great Northwest: that the City of Chicago Is gomy to scll the land for one- tenth is value, simply to enrich a railroad cor- poration that js exempt from taxation: that tho press bas. been silenced, und that Congress itself hes become — dumb in the presence of this mirhty —rull- way power. It is further asserted that the bill pnssed the Senate without_any opportunity ot explunation; that it is goinyg to be rusbed tarough the House without going to u committee, and that nobody is to be given time or opportunity to examine its provisions. TILE ANSWER TO THESE CILARGES IS SIMPLY THI 1. The object of the bill is to authorize the City of Chicago to sell n_pleco of land west of tho roadway of the INinois Centra! Ruilrond Com- pany and east of Michigan avenue, to all rail- roud companics that may, on equul terms, join in the purchase. f 2. Between this lond and the lake 8 the land alrendy vccupled by all of the tracks of the Tilinois Contral Ruilrond Company. The land propased to be sold bas mo water front, no riprarian rights, no harbor privileges. No contract hus beeu mude between any railrond company and _the City of Chicngo for the pur- chase of the land. After the bill becomes o law, the Clty of Chicupn may or may not sell, may or muy not make i contract with any rafiroud com- ‘pany, and there i3 nothing in the bill that cou- -fers the slizhtest right upon any railway eorpo- ratlon in the world. 3. If any railway company purchases the land, 1t will not gnin any _riparian rights nor any har- bor privileges, for the reason that the land has definit boundaries, and the lake is no part of these boundaries, and it is im- possible to couvey any ripurian rights by the simple sale of this lnnd. 1. The bill was not hurried through the Sen- ate. It was introduced by Senator Logun, of Tilinois, and referred to the Judiciary Commit- tec. Inthat Committee it wus thorouxhly ex- amined. With the exception of Senator Ed- munds, every member of that _(ommitice reported In_ favor of its passage. When It was Dbrought up in the Senate it was thoroughly dis- cussed. Scoator Edmunds made his objections and they were answered. After such discussion it was almost unanimously passed. Both of the Senators from Iilinols were 1o favor of it, and both gave their reusons at length &y the bill should become a law. 5. Ample oppurtunity has been given in the House for_the discussion and_examination of this bill. It was first referred to the Committeo on Public Lands. A hearing wus hud before that Committee, and a favorable report WAS ALMOST UNANIMOUSLY ORDERED. Afterwards representatives of the Vulenting and Portertield scrip usked for u rehearing, und & rehearing was granted.. Gentlemen opposed t0 the bill were heard at length. and after such hearing tho Committee unanimously directed their Chairman to report in favor of the bill. A Dill had also been introduced into the House in substance like the Senute bill. differine only, I believe, In authorizing the City of Chicago to lense this land. 'This il was iutroduced by Mr. Davis,, of the House, who, at that tume, was opposed to the Semate bill, because it did not nuthorize tho leusing as well as tho sale of this property. ‘This bill was referred to the Committee on Public Lands. ~A hearing was Bad before that Committee. After tho benring 12 motion was made to substitute the Senate bill for tho bill that had been referred to that Com- mittee, and the motion “was unani:nously ndopted, and [ am inforned that all the mem- bers of thut Committeo, with possibly one ex- ception, are still in fuvor of the passize of this bill. No effort hns been made to prevent ex: amination. On the contrary, every opportusity has been given that In the nutare of things was ossible. P Tho proposed sale to the railway companies canoot affect the present communication Le- tween the City of Chicago and Lake Michigun, one way or the otber. 1t will neither decreuse nor Incrense the number of tracks that huve to be crussed. 7. The United States does not propose to con- vey to the City of Chicago any right or title to this land that” is not now vested in the United States._ If the land really belongs to the owners of the Valentine or Porterfleld scrip, this uct can in no way atfect theirtitle. Theonly interest they can possibly have in opposing this bill is tho hope that the City of Chicago, or some one i ed i its passage, may be induieed to con- th them to withdraw their opoosition. ALL PRIVATE RIGITS ARE RESPECTED BY THIS BILL. 8. The paseage of this bill cannot fu any way affoct the rights of tho [ilinols Central Ruflroad in the Chicugo Harbor. It can neither add to nor take from the powor of the lilinois Central Rail- rond Compuny over the commerce of Chicugo. All such: chargps ure made cither by persons to- fally ignorunt of the situation, or by persons whiling to tell any falsehood for the sake of suc- cess. 9. It has also been stated that tho Illinois Cen- tral Raitrond Cumpany IS a_corporation exempt from taxation. This Statcnent §8 a8 tru¢ u3 avy other that hus been made. The fuct is, the 1Hli- nofs, Centrul Raflroad Compuny pays, bas paid, and must foraver pay to the State of Tllinois 7 per cent of its gross earningd,—n greater tax, in proportion to the value of its property, thun is paid by any other railway corporation in the United Stetes. It will thus be secn that all these charges arc utterly without any foundaton in fact. Inor- der to show that the Illinois Centrul Railroad Compauy Is not endenvoring to obtain any ri- pariun rights, or uny control over tho hurbor, that Compuuy is perfectly wiliing that the first section of the bill be amended as follows: * “wand provided further, that no lease, sale, or conveyance that inay be ~made by the City of Chicago of any part of the sireets or public grounds herein relinquished and granted to said cityshall opcrate to trunsfer toor vest fn the lessee or vendee any ripariun rixhts appurtenant tu the fand so leased or sold, it uny such rights exist, nor any title to the land or water lying enst of the west line of the 1ilinois Central Kailroad Company’s rizht of way.” THE PEOPLE OF CHICAGO deem it of grent importance to have a raflway depot to be occupied by several ot the most fin- portant lines of roud terminatmg in that city pulit upon the land In question. The United States has but a burren title, without the right %0 use, and the City of Chicaru has the right to use. This bill seeks to confer the right upon the City of Chixngo to change the usc, by selling the plece of land described, for the public purpose mentioned in this bill, Not a cent will be taken from the Treasury of the United States, not a private right invaded, and nothing is to be gicen to any rallway curpor- atdon. The only question i3, whether a great public_interest can be defeated by the repre- sentatives nf the Valentine and Porterticld claims, both of which have been decided agnin 2nd agnin to be utterly and impudently fraudu- lent. and whether the statements of gentlemen afraid to aign their names shall be re; d as 9 satistactory evidence by the members of thig House.. BENJAMIN F. AYER, Attorney for the Ilinols Central Rallrond Companys ———— . COUNTY AFFAIRS. Extravagant Rellef in Evanston—An Lnormous Bill for Cicaniung the Court-House Walls. The Cominitfee on Town and Town Accounty of the City Board hadan interesting session yes- terday afternoon, with Commissioner Knopf in the chair. 3{r. Chamberluin, the County Visitor, was present. On motion of Commissioner Fu- rington, a resolution wasudopted instructing the Visitor to preparo u list of those persons obtain- ing thelr entire subsistence In the varlous towny from the county, who, in his judgment, should be trunsferred to the Poor-House. THE ABUSE OF THE CHARITY OF THRN COLNTY by many famities and individuals led to this res= olution. The Visitor stated that there are many persous recetving outdoor relief who should be in the Poor-House: yet, if this were attempte especiully with . some persons In Evanston ane Lemont, there would be a t outery agninst it. Tliebillof 201 for the Support of poorin Lemout for tho month of January was aliowed, 305 for the Town of P'atos.” The bill of & 0 Leonbyrdt, of Evanston, for $208 wus presented, und” Max Finbn, tho Supervisor, wus present to explain. In tho investigation, of this bill, which is for the month of December. it wus shown that perhaps tot over 3 percent of thostull churced forwas delivered to poor people There were instunces quoted where 1t hnif-bar- rel of tlour und balf u ton of coal wero charged for. nad oniy the balf-ton of coal was delivered. This was In the case of u Mrs. Holt. In ‘another cuse—Mrs. Stewart—half aton of coal and quarter-barrel of flour were charged for, and thero was only a quarter of aton of very pour coul delivered. Mr. Chamberlain stated thats Leonhurdt cluimed that he thought he was ta deliversoft coal, yet he Sold for $2.50 to otbers what be charged the county $5 for—namely: a quurtec of u ton of poor coal n- bardr, be alleged, changed an ale tered the orders to suit - himself, thongh Habn, the Supervisor, had instructions that he should himself deliver the orders for fuod and coul to the persons getting relief. Mr. Chamberlain said that 75 per egnt would bu s iiberal allowance on the 'bill. “In regard to a Inundry being supplied with coal by the county, Supervisor Hahn said that he was forced ta zrant the order, becuuse three taxpayers had demanded it, and the person obtaining it was a poor widow with ne child, conhardt's bill, to the extent of 75 per cent, vas allowed by u vote of 4 to 2, ne follows: Yead nopt, Clurk, Rheinwald, and Albright—i. s—Purington uud Ender—2. Dr, Thorpe sert i a bill for $3¢ for medical services in Lemont, notwithstandiny the fact that Dr. Skelly was being puld $1U a month for such Service. Thecnse that Dr. Thorpe attended Dr. Skelly refused to look after after his fitth visit. ‘The bill was ullowed, less $23.50, and will be deducted from Dr. Skelly's puy- O’BRIEN W. $2,040 FOR WASHING DOWN THE WALLS OF THE NEW COURT-LHOUS The Committec on Public Butldings held & matine yesterday sfternoon, "at_ which Archi- teet Egan, Contractor O'Brien, the junlor Nel- W son, and Contractor P. J. Scxton were reSent, Commissioner O'Neill presiding. t wad stated that the Upfon Bruss Foundry Company, which bad the contract for the barilware for the new Court-House, had not come to time, and thut work was being delaved. Mr. Sexton stated that he had all the doors fitted and rendy to be bung, and that they were liable to be knocked down and injured. ~There was no contract for the water-closet and other hinges, and these should be secured at once. A motion was adopted recommending to, the CO\H’:!); Doard thut they be purchased in open market, Mr. O'Brien, the plastering contractor, then rode into the arena with nlittle bill of extras for £2,040, for washing the walls. 3Mr. Egan, the architect, did not favor any such charge. He had n scrious doubt in his mind as to the charge being at all legitimate, and, granting that (it was, $2.000 was un enor- mous p He never issued any order for cleuning down or washing tho walls before they were plastered. Mr. O'Brien said that he obtaioed his order from the local Superintendent,—that he would not let him o on with the plastering until he had washed down the wall. Mr. Egun—Isn't §2,000 u pretty steep price for washing down the wulls? Mr. O'Brien—No, sir. There was no water above the second toor, and it don't pay for cur- rying up to the twenty-foot platform. Mr. Ezan—We gave you the water for noth= ing. You didn't pay anything for. that. Mr. O'Brien—1 know {t. But I had to pay for earrving the water. Mr. O'Brien's cluim was fndorsed as legitimato by Archicects T. V. Wadskie, C. P. Thomas, Wheelock & Clay, and A. Bauer. € J. H. Anderson, of Itoschill, Architect L. B, Dixon, and Peter Wolff will be recommended to the Board for granit expertson the Hinsdule- Doyle contract. = TLAINING-SCTIOOL FOR NURSES: ™~ The Committee oo’ Hospitals of the County Bourd bad before them vesterday afternoon Mesdames Luwrence, Flower, and Wrigkt, a3 1 comumittec from the Tecbuical School for Nurses, wo wanted toshow their usefulness in the County Hospitat. It was decieed to give them exelusive nursing-control of Ward A. Pa- vilion 2 (male medical), and Ward C, Pavilion 3 (female mixed), und to hold the Association re- sponsibie for their care and management. All the detalls were amicably arranged, and, if_ear- ried out, the plan will prove a benefit to Cook -County. IN MEMORIAM. Testimonial of the Bar to the Memory of the Late Yoseph F. Bonfield. Ameeting of members of tho Bar was held at the Luw Institute yesterduy afternoon to take action with reference. to the death of ex- Corporation-Counse! Joseph F. Bonfleld. Among 1hose present were Corporution-Counsel Adams, City-Attorney Grinnell, Judge Moran, Pliny B. Smith, Charles L. Enston, Senator Adams, Judge Tuley, John Muttocks, Jesse Barton, W. J. Dunne, W. J. English, J. R. Doolittle, Jr., Henry M. Shepard, Heory K. Steele, F. W. Forche, Jr., Robert Hervey, J. .H. Bissell, Jumes L. Hizh, Judge Dickey, Judge Roge udge Williams, E. O. Brown, George W. Sinith, Adlai Ewmg, Judgo L G. Wilson, J. Q. Bal . W. 1. Culver, J. P. Barker, JoLn,P. Wilson, Thom as Withrow; Judge Gurnum, R. L Tuthill, and E. B. Sherman. , 3 The gathering was called to order by O. W. Brown . and Judge Dickey was chosen Chalrman and Henry M. Shepard Sccretary. M. Bissell stated the object, azd the following Comimittec wus appointed to draw resolutions expressive of the sense of the mecting: Messrs. Bissell, Mattoc! Adams, Burton, and High. Judze Dickey z#i he had not known Mr. Hon- fleld previous to his appointment as Corporation Counsel, and, being a .young man, he felt that Mr. Bonticld was hardly adequate for the posi- - tion: but he was plad to Le able to say that his goorehensions were entirely dissipated. Few members of the Bar presented tteir cases to the Supreme Court more ly or wore forcibly than Mr, Bouticld, and in losing him the profes- sion had lost one of the men who had con- tributed his part in sustainingz the charucter of the profession, being known for his sterling and incorruptible intewrity us Well us abitity. Mr. Brown made o few remarks, speaking of Mr. Bonfield a8 un hogest, high-minded, earnest man.—u true, loyal, and devoted frieod. Mr. Bissell, from the Committee, presented the following: Wao deem it fitting that the Bar of Chicago should glve public expression to thelr sorrow over the deatt of one of their wust Honored members. For manliness of character, for ibllity of purpase, and for professional Integrity Juseph F. Bontuld was Tuust esteemed by those who knet him best. aln wis always high, bis motives pure, bis dovoulun fo truth und quty ever supreme, and euzly In life hy had utzatned protessional honor und ‘personal repu= tation fur besond his yeurs. i orbein] rikion his judiment proved equ! to the most trying emergenclés, und i krest city bas reason 10 be thuuaful for his counsel and wisdom. in pro- Tossionul 1its his avilities insured him many and de- vated clients. while his unvarying courtesy endeared him 10 his nasoclutes. In privatolife he bore nn un- biemished reputation, and leftnn untarnistied name. We knew him 2% n man of many Iriends, of diversi- fled facultics, Of £ified nuture, of decp earcestness and sincerity, and wo shall bear constant.testimony 10 the purity aod clevation of bis canmeter. 'We ihstrict the Secretary of the meeting o present coples of tacse resolutions to his famlly and to the and request thut they also be presented by rep~ Fosentatives of this mecting to the Supreme Court iind the varinus cogrts of record In this clty. Judge Willinms spuke of Mr. Bonleld as an excelient lawyer, but he thought of bim more us a warm-hearted friend. "While he felt as If lifo was not quite so plensant now that Mr. Bonfield was gone, he felt that, even though there wero. many yeurs between, he had a good deal tolearn from his life. R. S. Tuthill, Henry ). Shepard, J. H. Bissell, and C. C. Kohlsaat al3o paid their tributes to Mr. Bontleld’s memory, and the meeting then ad< Journed. _ sweet Revenge. “Cutting ” treatment Is so often applied ta marble that, when it gets the chance to **cut back,” it uses it. Mr. Wm. Will, 1613 Frank- ford avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., furnishes. this example in u late communication: Some time since I received 2 severe Injury to my back by falling azainst the sharp edge of a marblé step, the stone penetrating it at least a half-inch and leaving 2 very painful wound. After suffering for a time I concluded to 2p- ply St. Jucobs Oil, and am pleased to siy that the results exceedsd my expectations. It speedily allayed all pain and swelling, and by continued use made a perfect cure. I really think it the most efficacious liniment-L everused. Ho Found Out. Cincinnati Gazette. An over-anxious Lafuyette provision buyer put his foot into it yesterday when, jmaping into u farmer’s wagon to as¢ertuin if he had any eggs or butter for hiw, he stepped into aud mashed -pine dozen eggs, which were covered with straw, and in extricating himseif killed five chilzens. He bad to pay the Granger 35 cents a dozen foF the eggs, and 30 cents each for the chickens,