Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1881, Page 17

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, APRIL- 3, 1BBI-TWENTY PAGES, 17 \fl REAL ESTATE AND LOANS. Plsossnrabmstriorrte St st S GEO. M. BOGUE, BT ISTATR AGNCY ROGM 8 REAPER BLOCK, NO-. 97 Clark-st., Chicago. Properts Fpedial atent o e pald am urht and sold on commission. Pontion Riven to L6 earo b d management a Rents collected, mmi-:xi‘ ‘of non-residents czrefally looked after. S. H.Kerfoot & Co., REAL BSTATE BROKERS, g1 Dearborn-st. Sines 152 we hiave been ongaged In tho Regular REAL ESTATE AGENCY fn tae City of e kind o e Kng i cal s RESON and have atall times for salo perts. o DENCE SOLICITED. Holmes & Brother, REAL ESTATE AND LOANS, GENERAL BROKERS, No. 86 Washington-st. 1RA TIOLMES, EDGAR HOL MES. F.A.BRAGG & CO. Real Estate Loans. [+39 Washington-st. ' H. J. GOODRICH, 51 M1JOXR BLOCK, 145 LA SALLE-ST. - ' Real Estate. First-cinss Bustness, Residence, Manofacturing, snd Acre Property represented. e attonton of capleal seeking Investment soliclted Expert in Real Estate Valaations. PERCY AUSTIN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY, ETC., No. 340 Larimer-st., Denver, Colorado. Reliable fnvestments. Real Estate, Mining, ete. Values reported on. Money loaned on aporoved Realty at hi esences unit ish rates. imited. porove Correspondence solicited. Ret- Chicago Office, No. g¢ Washington-st. HANSBROUGH & ZUSTIN, Real Estate Brokers. 1 T N1 MONEY 10 104 On Chicago Real Estate in sums of $1,000 o $100,000, at Iowest rates. HENRY WALLER, JR,, 97 Dearbom-st. 'TO RENT. Dwellings, Stores, Lofts, and Offices. PIERCE & WARE, 143 La Salle.st. TAXES. Tax Abstracts furnished. Tax Claims settled. Taxes paid. Real Estate bought and sold, and Loans \negofiated. D. J. HUBBARD, 184 Dearborn-st. . A. LOEB & BRO. M lned on Real Bt 129 &\iar La Salle-st. GRIFFIN & DWIGHT, WEST SIDE _ Real Estate and Loan Brokers, Cor, Washington and Halsted-sts. E. S. DREYER & CO., BANKERS, LDANS AND REAL ESTATE, 88 Washington-st., Chicago. HUTCHINSON BROS., REAL ESTAT[];: DEALERS AN LOAN BROKERS, 110 Deasborn-st., Room 15, Chicago. BAIRD & BRADLEY, L, e ot & Rnting Aoy No. go La Salle-st. Money to Loan ON IMPROVED REAL ESTATE, AT SIX PER CENT. B ‘WM. V. JACOBS, 100 Dearborn-st. (Basement). FRANCIS B, PEABODY & CO. LOIRS TPOY. RRAL STATR AGENTS Interest mee, OIS, frercent OF REAL ESTATE. 174 Dearborn-st. MONTHLY SALES AT AUCTION. NDLER & CO. Trustoes. . K. NIXON, Marager. 116 & 118 Dearborn-st. MCHANDLER & Co, ‘ortgage Bankers, _"LOANS ON REAL ESTATE. =NO. 72 DEARBORN.ST. : Kms £tree|; Twg tarior, 101 seives gn 8 for 134z of trampping on thew.” The loto lent wri; rug The Late Czar. Emperar of Kussfa, when a child, ongel-beloved by the oplc, tes thus: “When in Russis in 1S5 ‘hs&ng:oxgn gmc boy, and used 10 walk eopl A corre- ‘etersburg with a_guard or csple foliowing him fn crowds and try: cin of his garments. 1 have seen before him and prostrate them= the pavement, so tbat he badto step re. and use Hop Bitters, and you healthy, and happy. = ' S300; REAL ESTATE. The Market Quiet, but Very Strong. A Boom in Acres Waiting on the Weather. Settlement of Oze of the Obstacles to the Board of Trade Removal. Sales and Building Permits of the Weel ~—The Town of Lake. ° THE GENERAL SITUATION. Although real estate was quiet last week onaccount of the condition of the streets and the roads about the city, everything in the market indicated strength. The traus- fers reported every day were well seattered, and contained very few speculative trans- actions. Lots, unimproved and improved, are in demand in all divisions of the city. Inquiries for central business property are ot as frequent as they were, becauss there is almost noue of it to be had. Sales of acres are appearing more fre- auently on the records. Agents have a good demand for this kind of realty, andas soon as the weather atlows it to be visited a great aetivity in acres will be seen. One of the encouraging features of the situi tion is'the almost complete absence of the speculative element. What is now being done is solid. i SALES. A. J. Averell has sold for Edward J. Brown, of Boston, 50 feet on Prairle avenue, near Twenty-ninth street, for $10,000 cash; for James D. Sherman, of Milwaukee, 114 feet on State street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets, west front, Tor S35 frame house and 25 feet of ground, No, Wabzsh avenue, east front, for $9,000. Ar. Averell has purchased, on his own ac- 3 1318 count, of the Connecticut Mutual Life-Insur- ance Company 40x109 feet on the southwest corner of Wabash avenue and Jackson street, for §52,500, intending to improve it this sume mer. JIr. B. Philpot has sold eighty acres near Seventy-sccond street. between Englewood and Grand Crossing, for $900 an acre. F. A. Bragg has sold 50 feet on Pra enue, between Twenty wenty- seventh streets, for & foot, an advance of 100 per cent since July last. Mr. Bragg has also sold No. 10 Lane place for $9,500. An instance of the rapid rise of values is afforded by a tract of 20 1441000 acves on the Calumet River, in Sec. 5, belonging to the Northwestern Fertilizing Company. This was sold Dec. 28 last for $20,144, and last week $40,83 cash was refused by the purchaser. = ‘The sixth public sale of the Chicago Real- Estate Call Board will take place April 6 at 2 oclock. The catalog for this sale em- braces a good_variety of property, business, residence, and _suburban, both imnproved and unimproved, that_the managers believe will be found on examination to be well selected, and the upset prices on whieh are really be- low market values, C. P. Dore and William C. Fricke report the following sales for the week just-elosed: Two lots on the corner of Wood and Superior streets, for $2,000; a lot in West Chicago av- enue Park, for 56303 house and lot on’ Lin- coln street, near Milwaukee avenue, for SL,400; lot on_Samuel street, near Chicago avenue, for $700; seven lots in Fullerton’s Second Addition to Chicago, near the Marsh Harvester Works, at S350 each; and house :x;nd lot on Chatham street, near Division, for $2,000. E. S. Dreyer & Co. sold 117x100 feet, on the northeast corner of Hurlbut end -Centre Streets, at $65 per foot: five three-story brick houses are to be buill this spring on the above. They also sold 23x130 feet on Dear- born avenue, near Goethe street, at $200 per foot; 100x130, northwest carner of Nortn State and Goethe streets, at 5175 per foot; 50x109, on Cass street, south of Chestnut, for 8115 per foot, for immediate improvement; B lle street, near Goethe, af 5 25x109, on North Clark street, near Centre, at $130 per foot; 30x105, onO: wood street, near Luake-Shore Drive, at 380 per foot; 9:x100, corner State aml Fifty second streets, at $3,005 25x106, on Sherman street, near Van Buren, on private terms; 66 X75, on southeast corner of State and Goethe streets, on which M. R. Berzer, of the firm of E.S. Dreyer & Co., will build his re dence during this summer; and ten three- story buildings on Cottage Grove avenue, i near t street, to Washington Por- ter, for x Grifiin & Dwight. the West Side real estate dealers, havesold during the month of March, s, 311 and 313 West Randolph street for ), No. 975 South Halsted street for S1,- 20, the southwest corner of Indiana: and Armour streets for £3,000, . 706 and 705 Centre avenue for 000, Twenty-first street, near Leavitt, for & two_luts on Twentieth street, near Leaviit, Tor $5C9, six fots on ‘Thirteenth place. near Robey, for $2,530, five lots on Thirteenth street, near Kobey: for 32,573, No. 111 South Green street for 3,000, No. 9L ITubbard street £ 20, loton Armour street, near In- for £1,100, twenty-seven foot lot on ana avenue, near Eighteenth street, 85,500, No. 516 Congress street for S1,500, on Congress street, near Loomis, fo foot, No. 19 North Green street for 53,75 No. 19 South Green street for $4,00, South Peoria 600, No. 134 Ewing street. for 52,5 706 Superior street for $1,609, and No. beth street for 55,700, and report a [arge demand to buy. The same firm have made” over 400 new leases for the coming year, in their renting department. The demund for houses is greater than the su (qnlv & Dwight report the Inquniry to_buy v large, and many more sales coutd be made if owners would stick to their prices. ¢ with a large i nd 2t 10 to dvanee on la: z‘gig\ ates. ALES OF Tilg WEnK avenue south S ) 15 fect, on Prai tieth street, improved, $29,000; 80X on Ciinton. north of West Lake, $16,036; 3 acres on Assland avenue, southeast corner of Eighteenth, $26,000; 23 29-100x150 on Clin- ton, improved, $16,009; 23x150 on Lake, west of Dearborn strect, $50,0005 1205150 on avenue, soushwest corner of Jaek- the - Gardner House, $220,- $ ichig: son, \yl(l: % on Twenty-second, southeast on corner of Huron, east State, £146,000; 255100 of North State, improved, 3! -10 on Twent; I, southwest corner of Stewart avenue, §6,000 Northh Wells, north of Division, ved, ,400; 24 acres on Oakley avehe. south west corner of Laughton sireet, 37,6303 1iG Ashland avenue, 38,0003 27 25-100x170 on Wi @ avenue, south of Twelfth street, 500; 5 acres on Filmore street, northwest corner of Francisco, 500; - 25x125, im- proved, on Sangamon, north of Fulton, £8,000; 40x100 on 1luron, east of North State, £6,000; 335209 on DI . west of North Wells, improved, 35,0003 2734x124, improved. % avenue, east of on Warren st $10,000 78 on Prairig_avenue, north of T inth street, S10,0003 $4x86 on Di street, east of State, $6,000; triangle of 36 on Archer avenue, northeast cor- neruf Twenty-sccond street, S'fi.whfl; B .-?{ improved on Sopbia, of Sedgwick, :"T),pm:?l% feet m:l Franklin, north_of Van Baren, S14,812; 100x211 on Ilyde Park a enue, north of Forty-ninth street, Si i 168 feet on. Clybourn avenue, northeast cor- nerof Division street, with irregular depth, 520,000, " “Cliazles Forster, of Huntinzton, Indiana, bought at Recciver’s sale the west half of James 1. Bowen’s Addition to South Chicago for £15,000. A few days prior to this sale, Ar. Charles 1. Nix, of this eity, offered for this same Prupeny 520,000, but the Court thought it should sell for more money, and hence would not order Mr. offer to be accepted, and ordered the Receiver to advertise for further bids. Butthis time, Mr. Forster’s bid of 513,000 "being the highest, it was acceepted and the deed made to him. Weare informed 3fr. Forster is an Indiana capitalist, and intends to immedi- ately improve this property preparatory to placing it on the market to be sold in-lots. Ira Brown sold house and three lotsin La Grauge to W. B. Dobson for £1,100;- four Jots at Thornton to S. P. Garner for $4005 three lots at Luke Side to J. H. Ohlerking for lots at La Grange to Johu M. Sechrist for $2,000. 5 - 7. P, Larkir: lias sold at Humboldt” Park on‘é hguse and lot for SL900, and four lots from $350 t0.5700. S5 per SALES IN MARCH. Ducing the month of March the sales were more nuwerous thian in April, but there Were fewer singletransfers of Iarge amounts. The number of transfers was larger, but_the agaregate consideration less. The record for the first quarter of 1881 shows ‘n handsome increase over the corresponding period in 1880, when the weather was far more favor- able: for a large business. Following.is comparison_of the months of Mareh and Febnmr)i,ségsl, ang of the first quarters ot -18SL and Locatton, Xo. Consideration. City property. . ) $3,518,00 South of tho ety imits. ... 117 54,950 West of the city limits. North of the city Mmits. Total... Previous months First quarter, 1881.0. 0 First quarter, 1850 i SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS, The following instruments were filed for record Satnrday, April 2. B CITY PROPERTY. ‘West Lake st, between Asbland av and St. Jubn plaee, s £, 24x150 £t, fnproved, dated Mareh 21 (Johu L. Parwell toJohn Mullin). 5 6,700 av, 147 ft n of Twenty- 30 £t, duted April 1 orgin Parsons) 9,000 4,100 f! i dated March 22 (C, v to F. Zdunowski) 625 1 Ilsurriwn“\\' 1, 50x100 2 (Sophla Wagner to “e aen aee o 3125 Central Park av, s ¢ cor of Twenty-sev- enth st. 10 ucres, dated e\g")r!l 1(J. F. und E. F. Richmond to Josepa Mattesoni.... 10,000 oven st, 150 £t w of Desplaiucs, s T, X101 ft, fmproved, dated Feb. 2t (Lew- Js Barck to Matus Toman). . 1,30 Wilinot ay 24109 £ 500 20x109 £t, dated Mare! four togoln J, P. Odell) 6,500 The prefiises No. 18U Milwaukee av, dnted April 2(Augnst Hinsche toCharles D. Lusk). en .. 5,200 Clybournay, n e corof Division st, s f, 165 ft, with Irrezular depth, dated March 25 (Howard G. Grey to Churles;F. Grey). 20,000 State st, 180 fLn of Fourtcenth, w 1, 114 1713 £, dated April 1 (Jumes D. Sher- man to Charles H. Ferry).. 28,500 Aohawk st, 1621t 8 of Menomonee. w 24x120 {t, improved, duted April 1 (Frang Progpo to Karl Brichle). . 105 iz St 200 {0 w of Syath Halsted, n 1, 25x1036-10 t, dated April 2 (Alfrea J, Bignal to Amede Alie).... ... 1,500 Brown st, it ft_n of Wright, W I, %ixi00 1t, hnproved, dated April2 (John Keed to George Lederer) .. 1,400 Rawson st, 50 £t ¢ of ight, 8 T, 30x115 ft, ated March 20 (John -Wadington, Jr., to D. J. Ryun)... 1,600 Dearborn av, 40 8- 1 XI10 ft, dnted April ® (Aavon M. MeKay to Witlinm_C. Gulinway).. 6,440 Ogzden uv, L1410 ftn o of zton st, n w f, 20x6) it improved, dated Mareh 81 (Benjumin Besamger to Rose Muarks) o aeens ! G500 West Division st, 153 ft well av, s f, SUX2 ff, dated Fob.21 (Henry Schmidz 10 Amnlic BINZ)... wosvrevuere 600 West Washington st, 14432 £t ¢ of Ogden av,sf, 22 ft to alley, tmproved, dated Marcn 14 (James D. Smithto Jewett E. Ricker) . 8400 The preinis 3¢ Norih "Hobey st, dated Marc) (H. A. Hangan to Peter- son & Gurdcel . . 2,160 ‘West Vun Buren st, 30 £t wot Centre av, s f, 22 10-12x178 {t, dated March 30 (Charies A. Spencer to J. P, Atwater)... 1,712 Marshfield v, 145 £t n of Congress St, w 1, 100 £, dated March X (estute of Ul R. Huwley to John Johnston, Jr). .. 3,622 Blue Islund av, near Ewing st, ¢ f, 2ix1% it, dated March 17 (Jumes Symiugton to L. Lebmana) ... ... 500 Torest. av, between whirty-" "Thirty-fourth sts, w f, 20%xI: proved, duted April 2 (G. C. und’ Dodge to Orrin Thomnson). 5,250 Cottage Groveav, near n ¢ cor of ‘Fiven fifth st, w f, 2135 ft to alley, improved, dated.April 1 (Courad Werner to Chris- tiau Senmidi.......... . 10,000 Congress st, 1i6 {t ¢ of Hoyne av, 5 £, 50x132 11, dated Sept. 3, 1650 (Julia 3. Burnett to' Mary O'Brien), 2,000 South Dearborn st, 69z u of 3 o f, MxI23 ft, dated March 8) (E. G. ._Patling to C. Stater). 1,000 Oak st, 18 ft w of Pine, n f, 25y 3 dated March 14 (John H. Moss to Jobn Nygsen). S Sis Hurlbut st, 225 ft s of Bluckbawk, w f, 255124 fr, dated Mareh 31 (estate of W L. Woodberry to M. Feilen). 155 The premises No. 537 Grand ‘bouievard, dnted Marck 25 (Edward Southwick to Will H. oore)..... 7,500 State st, bet Twents-nincl and Thittietd, w £, 86x183 ft, duted April 1(Aaron Gibbs o Willinm R, Walker)..... Ualon st, 20 1t of Canniport iy 100 £z, impraved, d; E. Brennan to C 3,300 950 £,8215 fte of Wes it, nnproved, duted Apri Lggett to Albert B. Mitler)... 6,400 ( Rush st, & ¢ cor of Chestaut, w £, 28xi 1t, dated March 23 (Connecticut Mutual Life-Insurance Company to Marcus Kobn). Sy i i Peoriu st, 88 Tt n of ‘West Congress, w H0X1IS £t, dated Feb. 1 (M. B. und H. Collins to Laura Furns wererins Ayres court, 174 1t n of West Huron st, w £, 24x100 ft.dated April 1 (J. und T, Glass to IL Albrightson) o - 1200 NORIN OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A BADICS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Commercial st, 117 ft w of Paulinn, ne 1, 25x125 tee duted Aprit 2 (C. W. Fuller- ton to W. and L. Sebramin; North Halsted st, bet Di 3 Wrightivood av, e £ 25x124 ft, dated udrew 0. Butler to N, Busch- 6,000 n av, 109 £t s of Fifty-sccond st, e, ft to'atiey, deted April 1 (Franets Dunca 1, , near s -ay and Muaple st, duted March 25 (Irn. 3. Nicboles to 1T Bevans).. .. . L0 of Lot in Packer's neif V. of See, 5, 33, 14, improved, duted Murch 31 (Solomon P. Hopkins t¢ Sloran & Healy) .- . 1333 Undivided *{ of the above lot,duted April 1{Tabor & Bengek to same)., ..o 26,060 ne v, 195 Pect w ot Aberdeen €. S £, X125 £t, dated Mareh 20 (P. and A. Cis hill to E. 0'Donnell... .. 6 i av, M1 ttn of Forty-second st, ¢ 51 {1, dated March 15 (Mary C. eill to . J. Hubbard). Lo 3500, na v, adjoining the above, e f, 50x t, duted Mareh 1S (same to sume)... 3,600 ighth st, betwesn Wallnce und « f, lot 3%, ‘improved, dated K. M. und J. C. Barnes to Will . 1030 3 L WA, 25 (W. H. Stevens . 500 ST OF CITY LTS WITIIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF TIE COURT-HOUSE. Iumboldt st, 200 {t s of Wabausia, w f. 50 X12J f1, dated April 1 (John Johnston, Jr., to Andrew Nelson), .. $ 00 Jetcrson court, 105 1t w of Western av, § 1. 5x114s 1T, dated Murch 29 (John to James Milier). 450 ft sof Wabansia, e f, %x115 13Qohn Johuston, Jr., to J. C. Dabi 350 SUMMARY FOR TIHE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suourban transters within a radius of scven miles of “the Court-Iouse filed for rec- ord during the week ending April 2: ]Sulu. Amount. .| 182 151,271,425 | PR En Lacation. City sales.. Notth of City Limits South of City Limits . West ot City Limits. .. BOARD OF TRADE REMOVAL. One obstacle to the removal of the Board of Trade tothe southern end of La Salle street has been taken away. An agreemeut has - been reachcd between -the parties interested in property there as to the widen~ ing of Sherman street and Pacific avenue, and other matters in dispute. These parties were the heirs of the Tracy estate, owners of the narrow blocks between Sherman street and Pacific avenue, south of Jackson street, n’nd & the represenintives of the Grand acific Paci Rack Island Railroad Companies. ' The own- ers have agreed to add 233 feet to Pacific avenue and b feet to Sherman street, making the former 673 feet wide and the latter 66 feet. The sidewals on the west side of Pacific avenue will be 183¢ feet wide, and that on the east side of Sherman_16 feet wide. It is also agreed that if the Board of Trade Building shall not be erected within a cer- tain time, La.Saile street shall be reapened by dedication, znd the strips added to Sher- man street and Pacific avenue shall go back to the heirs. 'To make up, for the ground “lost by the widening of the streets, the Board ! ture. south end of the lof, ‘which will give them a -building .175x240, - instead of 200x200 as at first planned. 'The cost of the additional land . is .estimated at ‘The Board of Trade is to pay $30,- sted street structure at § Milwaukeo avenue and Desplaines_street structure at $259,857. He estimates the cost of a viaduct over the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Burling- 53; and the 000, the owners of adjoining properry $100,- | ton & Quincy Roads at Centre avenue, with 0309(5 3:1 the estate is to stand the remainin; 70, value of the rest.of the land. Ten thousand dollars has already been paid. The building is to be erected by a building association com- | 5 posed of Board of Trade members, with a capital sutlicient to put up a $1,000,000 ‘struc- t The.consent of the_Committee on Streets and Alleys, South Division, and of the Comumon Councif and Mayor has to be | this amount’is the buildings to grade. obtained to this scheme. Those who are in 2 position to know say the erdinance will unquestionably be passed. Then comes the litigation by opposing interests, and how Iong this will last no one knows. The Chamber of Commerce people appear to have given up their opposition to the removal of the Board of Trade. ‘They are -certain to re- ceive satisfactory terms: in settiement of the Iease to the Board of Trade, and they believe that with the Board’s new building a few Dblocks south all La Salle street property will be worth more than ever. An opinion bearing on the proposed va- cation of La Salle street for the Board of ‘Trade has been rendered by the Corporation Counsel in the case of the petition of A. I Sweet and others for the vacation of fifty feet £ in width of Tywelfth street from Ashland av- ollows: Late fn tho year 185 the marlket for real es- of thecities where the Company en n enue to Ogden avepune. The Corporation | tate in some Counsel hoids that the City Council has power to vaecate, but that the city is ifable for the damages. Sec. 1 of “An act to revise the Iaw fn relation to the on of streets and alleys”” approved March 24, 1874, providesthat *when property lamaged by the vacation or closing of any street or alley, the same shall be ascertained and paid as provided by Iaw.” The Corporation Counsel says: There is no statute preseribiug the manner in which damages which may be oceasioned by the va- catlon of a strecet shall be ascertained, and it is clear that they cannot be ascertained until mated cost o over the track ern Road at ¢ago avenue is given at $135,055.15, and to West, have_recommended for ordinance for the Madison to West hus larre amounts_ invested, and has tuke good deal of property by foreclusure, began to : 0 approaches thereto at Cent venue, Fif- Jin consideration;.of the enhanced | teenth, Sixteenth, unfl si"‘,-;:‘;?te::xu: streets, at $156,996. Of this amount, it is understood, the Railrona Company will’ pay 38,740, leav- ~xpense at $118,256. The esti- ihe city’s portion of a viaduct ihe Chicago & Northwest- orth Halsted street and Chii- iniz the city’s to be added” $8,000 for raising The Comunittee on Streets and Alleys, 2 assage the B _opening of Union from I 0! Thwelfth street. The improvement of Morgan street from West Washington to West Harrison has been postponed until holders decide on ment which they wan! sueh time as the property- the tf*.lu\rmmar of the pln"tr PROFITABLE PROPERTY. At the annual meeting of the Connectient Musual Life-Insurance Company, just held, Secretary Taylor in his report referred to the real-estate investments of the Company as ad the Company sold_property o tho £ SO10E2 T Tany Of thee Sxlos. brg ISDOSH the property acquired un- ne loun, leaving & balance to be sold to close the nccount. [n these cases no account is made of profits. But twenty-four acconnts were closed by sales, amounting to &3 L. d thesc pareels had cost the Company yieldine n net profit of £59,570.3, or over tontof tholr cost. Yyalued o year ago by tne Commissioner of this State nt £289,038 91, gr $6,555.53 to the Company. Severslof the bestsales no- zotiated during the year were not closed in time These parcels had been less than the cost after vacation. The statute ?ilctl, however, | 5 entor the aceount, clearlv contemplates that if any damages shall be occasioned by the vucation of any | .AIuch of the property above referred to is of iel situated in this city, and is among the very street the municipality shall be liable for the choicest of Chiicaze' tenl cstate, Yy same. Such being the law, it is my opinion that in every case in whicli a vacation is peti- tioned for, which. if made, may damage pri- te property, either all own of property likely to be damaged should join in the peti- tion, or, before ordering the vacation. a sufli- cient bond shonld berequired of the petition~ ers to indemnify the city against all dnmages on account of the vacation, Another point also pertinent to the La Saile street vacation is thus touched on: What is the public interest in relation to the matter? ‘Streets, in contemplation of law, arc opened and vacated because the public convenicnce and interest require the opening or tion, as the case may be, and the main question in this, and in other ltke cases, is whether the public interest and con- venience require that what is now a public street shall continue so to be, or whether, on the contrary, the public interest and conven- ience will be subserved by vacating it. BUILDING. The Board of Education, at the request of the First National Bank, has directed an ap- praisement to be made of the old Post-Office property, so that it can be detennined wheth- er to pull down the old walls or to repair. Proposals are invited for the erection of a new school-house, witlt twelve rooms, at the corner of Wright and Johnson, ‘The Illinois Central Railroad Company will build a fine depot at Seuth Park Sta- tion, corner of Fifty-third street and Hyde Park avenue, The main building will be in the form of a Greek cross; 41x90 feet, and will be constructed of brickand stone, with slate roof. At each end there will be n.wait- T an underground railw Central Tunnel Railway Company incorporated,with acapital o underaround from the City-Hull to the Grand Central Depot, The lower terminus will be at or near the City-Ilall verted into steam by mea Freight will be carried as we especially during the night hours. Such fu’ cilities will meeta want by reducing the pense of trueking, and will secure quicker transportation. IN NEW YORK. New York City real-estate brokers report business very active in thatline during the past fortnight, and the property changing -hands—eéspecially that on the up-town ave- nues—shows a hea tofore ruling. are said to be for investment chiefly; specu- lative operations are inf advanceon prices here- ases for the most part Pu @ g requent. Chicago is not the only city that is_to have In New York, the has been 00,000, t0 run Square. Thence the road will extend fo Chambersstreet; through and under the block to Elm street; through Elm street to Spring street; under the block to Great Jones street: thence througzh La- fayette place to Ninth ?Iock to Tenth street; and up Fourth a o against smoke and cinders will be made by supplying street; unier the the Graud Central Depot. Provision nz the engines at the ends of the ith water sufficiently hotto be con- of a coke fire. I as passengers, oute! . BOSTON. ‘The Boston Herald notes a great rise in the value of lots on the Back Bay, especially on Commonyeaith avenue, Exeter, Fairfield, ing-roont, 25x85 feet, which will be connected | Gloucester, and Ilereford streets, and Hunt- by anarched corridor twelve feet wide. On the west side of this corriddr will be n re- freshment roowm, and on _the east side wilt be the ticket-ofiice. Extendingto the north and south will be two pagoda-shaped sheds, $6x 73 feet, and at the extreme ends will be two s; 10523 feet, entire structure will be an pight-foot hood, sheltering passengers whilegoing to or frout the cars on one side, and carriages on other. The extreme length df the structure will be 267 feet. Over the ficket-office will be a tower eighty-four feet high, and show- ing three full stories, while jon the opposit side of the wain building there will be 2 pa- vilion tower fifty-five feet high, while four swmalfer towers, fisty-three feet in pight, will omlmu mufi_ COTTIIETS u?fl thej main l:uih;}{u:, and pavilions at the extzeme ends will be. ¥ forty-two feet high. The dgno\: WL Do (- | ished June 1. i Alr. Warren Leland took formal possession of the Gardner Ilouse—now changed to the Leland--on Thursday evening, Mareh$t. The house Is under the fresco and painters’ hands, and will be refitted -and. furnished in elesant style. wn_evens in Chicaga his- tory that one of this famed family, so well known to the publie, has located i this city, —a fact which thie public will not fail to ap- preciate, 1le has tome “io stay.” and thus another will be added to our first-class ho- tels. In this regard Chicago is confessedly onapar with all the leading cities of the country, and many assert that she fer sur- vasses thew in the size, elegance, and, in all, I cts, the superior manner in which her immense hotels,are kept. Our proprietors know how to make everybody verfectly at home. IN THE BUILDING PERMITS of the week were those to Mrs. Kleinart to build three three-story brick dwellings, Nos. 147 to 149 South Halsted street, to cost 510,005 M. Bellsky, for one-stors cotfage, 20x40 feet, Blackhawk street, near Elstonavenue, to cost $1,000; L. J. Lamsan, for two-story and basement dwelfing, 29x6) feet, Grand boule- vard and Thirty-seventh street, to cost $12,000; to Henry Rehum, for twe-story and basement dwelling, 22t feet, 62t North Welis street, to cost 35,0005 to August Dethman, for two-- story and basement storé and dielling, 25x75 feet, No, 1126 Milwaufee avcnue, to cost 5,000 John Bartels, fo build a two-story dwelling, 221<xa0 feet, No. 175 Rumsey street," to cost 3 Vanderkiout & Son, to put up a t\vu-;'for_v shop, 250 feet, at 'T'wenty- f & 1 P b houses being erected in that which cost from $39,000 to seems tobe a manifest den which can be purchased for 10,000 to 315,000. and ing the sixth story of a model tenement- louse that covers three sides of a quadrangle 200 ington avenue. Land on any of the above- nawmed streets. which three ye 1o bidders at the low price of has recently bean turned over at from 35 to $10 per foot. ~About one-half of the land be- tween Ifereford street and Chester Park, on Rurining around the | the North Side, wassoid in 1550 at $:3.50 ago found .50 per foot, er oot, and since that time the most of it has beep resold at from $5to S6.50. In 187778 the | houses built on the Back Bay, and sold for $40.000. . The class of ction are those 0.000, and there and for houses 000, now bring 50, RENTS IN NEW YORK. Landlords in New York have gone too far - in-raising-ronts—An advaiice of 10_ner_coent.| —thealmost uniform.rate decided upon by the Astor, Rhinelander, and other large es- tates—has been easily maintained. In e: ceptionnl cases an advance of 50 or even 1 per cent has been obtained; who attempted to get an advance on dwell- ing-houses of an amount in excess of 10 and 15per cent are. in most cases, without the im- mediate prospect of temants after May ’ll'mslms Dbeen particularly the case in Ilar- enl. from 15 to 30 per cent, but,as there have been new buildings enough erected to accom- but landlords nced in that distriet Rents were ad nodate 10,000 more persons than now there, the landlords find it next to impossible to maintain the advance. Hents have been advanced in Brooklyn and Jersev City, but not so mueh as in New York. They are con- smernbl{lnwur in those places than in this city. and conscquently the tide which had set in toward Harlem has been diverted to those suburban districts. _s]qlve the rent problem for small fam- ilies An attempt to is being made Dby the Im- roved Dwelling Company at First avenne Seventy-second street. 1t is now finish- feet on each side, divided into setsof three and four rooms with all improvements, which will be rented for from S8 to Si0a nonth. Many real-estate dealers regard the advance in rents for dwellings made this sp city. secking homes here. In 187 the assesset ring as detrimental to the intérests of the It has checked the intlux of persons ton of property in the city was S83,- , and the total amount of taxation was 2 sixth and Halsted streets, to cost $1,500; alsp, | S32367,74. In 1850 the assessed valuation, to W. Wenzel, two-storydwelling, Wentwortft | had risen, even at a lower relative valuation/ avenue, near Thirtiethistreet, to cost §5,000; | to $042,571L.6%), but the total tax was reduced to Durham Iouse Dminage Company to | fo $28,957.212, due to the reduction in the build a two-story shop, $0x30° feet, at 567 Illi- nois street, to cost 51,505 Rudolph Schmidt, for three-story dwelline, 2 feet, 225 Wentworth avenue, to icost 22,500; C. Jag ish, to put up a two-dory dwelling, 23x feet, T'wentieth street, 1ear Ashiand avenue, to cost £2,500; John Hirtman, for two-story and basement dwelling, 20850 teet, 49 Thir- teenth street, to cost ;32,000; ¥. Deppe, for Ty and basemert _store and dwelling, 3ix7 feet, 545 and 547 Sedewick street, fo cost 514,000; A. Klingd, two-story and base- ment store and dwellixg, 50x38 feet, on Bre- mer, near Eln streetito cost $2; Dake Balkery Company, foir-story and basement sg‘)]m, X180 feet, 180 'Adaws street, to cost The growing nom‘lnrlty of apartment houses in American dties is shown by the statistics of building 1t New York. In the seven years ending wih 1874 there were two snch struetures erecta in that eity. In the succeeding six years including 1850, there were 1,260 Freneh flats built in” New York, 516 of them in 1880, sil tl LOANS. Thefollowing indicates the amount of busi~ ness done in real estate loans last week : Nwmher. . Constderation. Mortgages . 5 Iy $HLI5T Trust deeds. 2 Total... STREET TMPROVEMENTS, The practical and capital suggestion has been made by a correspondent of Tme Trin- UNE that a bridge be constructed over the river at Washington for the use of light ve- liicles only, which could be drawn over it at atrot. Ileavy teaming could be excluded, and the damages to adjacent property greatly lessened by making the approaches steep. The present tunnel should be used by pedestrians onty, who would enter Dby a descent from the sidewalk on eitherside ‘of Washington street.- This arrangement would leave the strees clear, and enhance the | t value of property on. Washington street on | f both sides of the river so greml y that the in- creased tax-revenue wonl 3 item to the city. Itwould undoubtedly draw | i the carris every description, which would relieve the ear-irack streets of at least 25 per cent of their travel. As things now stand, the tun- nel is useless for heavy draft purposes, being 00 steep, and that it i avoided by the light class of vehicles condemns it as far as they are concerned.” Another great advantage of this bridge would be the connection it would gnve between the West Washington street oulevard and the South Division. City-Engineer Cregier has made estimates for viaducts on North Halsted street; on Biue Island avenue, nedr.Sixteenth street: and on Milwaukee avenue and Desplaines street. Mr. Cregier gives the cost of the Bine 1sland avenue structure at $98,717.75, which of Trade are to have 40 fect more onthe ) dogsnot include the Paving; the North Hal- State to 83,571,322, Notwithstanding this reduc- tion in the burdens impo: rents have been ereatly a fxwin" and every gou dant success,- tax Jevied on the city, from $5.010,000 upop real estate, vanced. CORRESIONDENCE. To the Editor of The 90 Tridune. Cuteaco, April 2=l you be kind enough t0” inform ' Us why it is- that the - county abstract books cannot be Zot posses--| on of by the eounty or ¢ity, as well as a lot of ground ean be condemned and taken from itsowner for public benefits? & Co., who have charge of hooks, they please wi charge just what they please, and make us wait for_an abstract just as long as they please. I would like 'some_information on Messrs, landy the abstract control a big monopoly. They doas h the titles to our property; his matter. Can’t a price for these books be fixed by a_jury and the county buy them, as well as to fix a price on a man’s house and lot and compel him to take %ust whata jury or Court wili allow him? W abstract and not getit for sixweeks, and some times .two months, when ten days is ample time, if the books were in proper hands. © may order an REAL ESTATE. . THE TOWN OF LAKE. If the men who lave managedto elect themselves officers of the Town of Lake. for several years past had a particie of shame left in them they would bury themselves out of sight forever. The report of Commissioner Waller has proved them arrant thieves,—a fact which the suffering vacant and farming land-owners of the town haye known for years past to their sorrow. ‘Thes have banded togcther and siolen themsel rich from the pockets of the people. Were it possible to mete ont justice to them they would spend the balance of their rascally lives in the Penitentiary. Now that the facts have been prq\l'led \l!pon them by legal in- vestigation, will nof D e iony eless for o Taity honest ofl cers and send off these remorseless thieves lains selves the peopie of the 0 live at ease on their robbery, It is really or the Interest of the great corporations whose tools these thieves have been to join be_aconsiderable | with the land-owners and secure honest men ce. Taxes would in the end cost thent :sgmumu they gain by compounding with Sion el WoTs oot thg It.heso knaves. And, besides, the time will come when for their oflicers to raise the taxes 300 or 400 per cent on the vacant and {nrming, lands that these ringsters may steal themselves rich, will recoil on the corpora- tions themselves, and cost them more than they hav% s:wer#u lgl\(rltehe rs have made. ggfi-‘emxed out of lands, and these rapacious vagabonds vum::inns whose tools they are. false returns the town Values -hava largely will ere long go for the very cor- . Telian, as agent for the Taxpayers’ \ssuc!lnltcigu‘ has'done splendid worl in ex- the rascalities of the town officers, d citizen will ‘wish him abun- Go on With the good. ‘\'fi s 3 | huques, Is in Chicago, and open to engagement. BASE-BALL. The Champions of (88! keport for Duty to the Chicago Club. All the Players in Perfect Con- dition and Full ot Con- fidence. The Outlook Never Better in Chi- cago for First-Class Ball- Playing. Silly Assertions by a Brace of News- paper Nincompoops—Ball Talk in General. ON TITE GROUND. Last Friday was the day set by all the League contracts for pinyers to report for duty, and out of Chicago’s cleven wea ult but four put in ap- pearance prowptly at the club-house, and spent the afternoon pleasantly in canvassing the situ- ation and exchanging ylews and expericnces. There were present Gore, Dailrymple, Burns, Kelty, Willinmson, Quest, and Pfercy, and tho ubsentees were Auson, Flint, Corcoran, and Goldsmith, all of whom were presumed to be'on their way to headquarters, but were very likely snowbound iu different parts of the country. Their failure to arrive was of no consequence under the circumstances, as the weather was fn- tensely cold, the ground frozen hard, and the Lall-fleld covered with fce and snow. It will re- qQuire seven or eight quys of the most favorable conditions to put tle xrounds in order such as to admit of practicc work. A warm rain, followed Dby bright, sunny weather, would help matters amnzlgly. The interval of time, however, will not be speut In idlencss. - Arrangements bave been made to put the play- crsthreugh a systematie course of gymnasium work. and it will be wark, too, and no nonsense. Anson iS a firm bellever In bard work as o prep- aration for good ball-playing, and he will seo to it that every man gets his full share of it. The first momeat the weather and condition of the fleld will ndmit the men will be sent out ot doors to earn thelr sularies by able-bodied excrtion, and the understanding is distinct that a fallure to practice vigorousiy and assiduously will subject players to unpleasant cousequences. Amore jovial and congenial setof fellows than the champlon team ot 1831 it would be hard to get together. *Noone among them all scems t0 be imbued with an overweening sense of his own importance, but each is evidentty impressed with the wholesome iden that he is but a unit th a whole which isnot tomplete without all its parts, and that he is of no greater value than any other of the units. Good feeling relgns supreme, and confidence in the superiori- tyof tho White-Stocking team over all otners in the League 8 shared In_an equal degree by all. Withuul a single exception the eleven men are In perfect physical condition, ready and anxtous togo iuto training for the season’s work, and haviug no doubt of their ability to improve upon last season’s splendid record. Thelr first foes for the season will be the Cleveland team, whicn appears here May 2,3, and 3. Tho Cham- pions are free to rccognize the increased strength of the Cleveland team ns compared with that of lust year,and they are on that ac- count all the more determined to make it warm Torthe Forest City chaps. In Cleveland an in- tense ambition prevalls to make a good begin- ning urainst Chicago's crack team, and the con- test will be @ stubborn and spirited one: The Chicagos this year are the only team amoug the efzht Learue organizations who will appear on the fleld in precisely the same posi- tions nS those occupied regularly during the preceding season; It is the only team in which every position was satisfuctorily filled. and i which no _improvement was deemed possible. The only change is in the cleventh man, and_here & decided improvement as been mude. Plercy, the substitute, s a oung player with o reputation yetto make, but enougt is known to justify the anticipation that De wiil prove uscful and eflicient whenever his services shall be needed. He hns had experi- ence in California both as inflelder - and out- flelder, and is a pitcher of no meun capacity. His presence will be » continued spur to the other pluyers tokeep up to their work. Ine pitoners this yeur will be Corcoran and Goldamith, who will e alternated from game 10 gamne, with Flint and Kelly as thelrrespective catebers. Anson, Quest, and Willlamson will his first perlence in the position; ana Dalrywple, Gore, and_ Keliy will ‘attend to the outtield, with Fiint and Plerey for a change in rizht-lleld when necessary. Should Plercy de- velop good butting powers he will probably bave frequent opportunity to play, unless’ Flint should recover his grip on the stick. Altogether the cutlook is very fuvorable for a season of slorlous sport. . mr il il uadortako. o dm- |- ¢ prove on his short-stop record of 1550, Wnich'was will be_amused to sce what poor prophets- they’ were. To place Cleveland a&‘i‘x‘.&'g ‘Worcestef next to the last is absurd. The oflicinl. League avernges published 1 Spaiding’s . “Guide™ place Gore. Auson, ans Dalrymple as the (eading batters of the conatry: Burns belog fifth. Four players in tho irst nping batsmen of the entire country, together witd, better base-runmuog than was ever seen before’ tf;'!]s how and why Chicago won the champlons ship. President Hulbert and “Capt. Anson have gof a whole month In which to_study up new wrinkles for this year's play. ~ Last season the Chicagos showed the world somethi new i1 base-running and In backing-up work in_thr field. There will be no falling off in thes features this season, and jmprovements will b made in other brunches of the game wheneve an opportunity. is perceived. “Spalding’s Base-Ball Guide and Officla Tengue Book " for 1881 was issued [st week and its appearance will be warmly welcomed b base-ball renders, who bave come to look upoi it us the only authority us reg rules, etc. The chapters on pitching. fielding batting, #nd base-running will be read with in terest. Spalding now has the fleld in Americ: atl to himself, and the fact that the frst edito: renchies 0,600 Is proof of the interest fel throughont the country in base-bail. An ordinance s pending in Detroit which pro poses to exnet a license feeof & for cach game of base-ball.” Considerne the large sums o mouncy which the supporters of League club arcobliged to pay cut of thelr pockets cac year In order to make up- deficiencies, it woul Seem that tho Detroit Common Council migh beln better business than taxing n popula sort like base-bull, But ns the Mayor of th city is President of the Detroit Club, the ordi nance. If pussed, would stand little chance of es caplng a veto, . “Everybody knows that when the Chicago hnd the champlonship well in hand last seaso thoy gnve mumes uway to attract gate-money. —Iiashington Capital. Everybody knows that this assertion is a sil} Talsehaod, without a shadow of basis infacta reasonable probabllity. So far from losin pames to uttract gate-money, tho Chicago Clu finds that nothing uays $o well as towin® games and lose none. If such a thing were not possible, the Club that should go through th ireater part of u season without once suffer ing defeut would attract more patronage & ngke more money than any club ever organizet Reason and fuirness are, fowever, wasted upo two such hopeless fmbociles 83 the fel lows who butcher base-ball in the column of the Washington Capital and the Cincinpat Engulrzr. The Capital man has been standix on his head ever since the League was impelle by geographical reasons to refuse the Washing ton Club’s apolication for admission: and th Enquirer man has been similarly inverted bot 28 10 body and brain ever since the Cincinna Club was kicked out of the Lengue on accoun ok its refusal to abolish Sunday games and beey Jjerking on the club-grounds in Cincinnati. ———— DREGS OR WINE. For The Chicago Tribune. ’ An open door [ saw one duy, J{f{d l.-mx(;rctl 1ll‘L Be!ulrehme lay o0, A long, broad room, with carpet sp: nd frescoed ceiling overbead; While deeply framed on either sido Were vaulted windows, high and wide, i Through which the light so darkly fell 1f day or night Lscarce could tell. ,1 Islowly crossed the threshold o'er, And paced with noiseless step the f1oos But loitered oft, as if to hear ‘The sound of fantom footstep near, And almost thought from either side T'» see some ghostly figure glide. * I knew no danger lurked, and yot’ 3y nervaus fears coutd not forget. Aug altar-miling stopped my feet; A cushioned footstood offered seat, Op which I sat; when throuzh the alr Thero foll sound so sweot and ra ouxht perchance an Angel- Was hovering near on efther mfid i sgopt o And through the room the wasic cropi=~ «New swelling with triumphgat cry, Now sinking low, like plainive.sighe A blissful hour bnd then been mine, An bour I could have cullg divine, A skillful toucn the organ 1uad my cholce, and cf Agbalf the worid uce nd now this tru The wine of life seemgtale or sour. Beenuse with willrul yart \we think We may perhaps iny#dress to drink. T've ever found in w3 0 mine The one 1 sought xaldfl!!' Gravine. der o'er: i JacqQurpa, - LET ugLooK UP. Delication to Joseph fo7i of the First Volume i o votuctas arek Einde, it Barors E-esciacy €. 7. Hunsen. Translited/pthe German Ty Mrz. N. 8. G. it down on earth we s -if-up. we_look to aft years have one by one WYy Avd e ono ‘alone enshrines thole silent clayg’ - Lot us look upfowhere Efernliy now bock'ning 7 A\ - ive 'midst eartyly days, Walle e expands, GOSSIP OF THE GAME. The Detroit Club has fixed the price of season tickets at $15, and decided to asicss the stock 1n full. ‘The League clubs pay ont about $100,000 for salarics, to say nothing of railroad and hotel bills. J & Sutton, of the Boston'Club, hns sulfered an Afliction in the loss of alittle daughter by diph- theria. 2 R R Smith, the Califorvian engages-0y Cle: ' bas been reteased,/ang w ttm,mfi‘x"m- playmg. Cleveland-wirbe niformed the same aslast year, Spn%{?g raving already received an order for the ouf e Lo i 6 bias been conching tho coliege M’}Q“""‘fimmvcn . IT., will ‘ol tho Detroit todm #New York, r, of Washington, now under contract to (ience, wants his release, so be can remain the Nationals. - : ity Taytor, last year 8 member of the Bay |(ys§f Sx{n Francisco, and in 1879 of the Du- Wi J. Ford Evans, the eflicient President of the Cleveland Club, will resign his position in Au- gust, intending to visit South America on busi- Dess. Whitney, Boston's new pitcher, is safd to be very swilt In his @elivery, but extremely wild so far. The seven-ball ruld will tone him down, or els¢ relegute him to obscurity. 8¢ n tickets to WhiteStockZng Park willbeon saloat the clih-house, No. 105 Slichigan avenue, ‘on Tuesday of this week. The price will be $15 Tor the forty-two games, and the tickets will be transferable. T i who is to umpire the Buffalo- o etrojs 0 tho btb, 0t and Tth of May. it eometo Chicago in order to be present s a spectator at the Chicago-Cleveland games of May % 3,and 4. Nichots, of Rockford, has been engaged as twelfth man ‘to_nssist the Chicagos in thefr practice work. The plan will be to have a full nine in the fleld, with three mon at b&, and to run bases and play 13 though In a regular game. ‘Washington willbe repregented by a fair team this )'m?r? the nine including Buker, Trott, Pawell, .\hmsel;. ‘Vnrr:[\gll;l WnltehFurrfell',nBa{_‘L?:é Wise, and Gardner. e expense of this season_will aggregate about $3,000; last vear it was $12,000. ng the new-comers in the League teams who Bet reparded a8 Ukely, 1o make valunble Teputations this yeur are Morrisscs, Bullalo's third-vasctnan, and Derby, Detroit’s pltcher. Both are fooked upon as players of exceptional abli'ty and promise. Keefe, s chango pitcher, has been trying u;%nnyv foot rule ull winter in pitehing for the Hurvard College ning, and his judgment is that only the in-curve will Le found effective nt that distance. e pronounces the out-curve useless with the addition of five feet. salaries paid to the players of the Provi- dcTnl::i Club m'cp sald to be as follows: Ward, §1700; Start, $1.600; Gross. $L,500; Farrell, $1.400; Hines, $1,400; McClellen, $11 Mat- thews, $1,100: Baker, $%0; Denny, §%00; Gllli- Zun, £575; and Houck, $700; total, 313,11 e Detroits are to play six games with the Mglhr?)puliwns in New \%r , commencing this week, snow and mud permittiog. Bradley and Iteilly uod Sweeney and Brown wiil alternate as pltchers and catchers. Derby and Bennett will report at Detroit on'the 10th, and work together, Til the season opens. 4 *Chub " Sullivan, the model first-baseman of the Worvesters, is said to be_wasting away with consumption, and it fs understood correspond- ence has begun with McVey. It would need just this to make * three of a kind,” the Worces- ters airendy haviug Mike Dorgan and Pete Hotaling to ** draw t0.” ‘The opening series between Chicago and Cleve- land will- be umpired by Doscher,.one of the most efficient umpires on the League list. He is very popular {n Chicago by reason of his prompt- ness, fairness, and clear manner of announcing his decfsions, and it 13 to be ho) he can be se- cured tor the entire month’s play In this city. * At the special meeting of the League in Buf- falo predictions were made by delegates on tho champlonship coantest for 188L Five out of elght named Chicago for- first piace, the other three being Boston, Providence, and Troy, cach of whom felt sure of beading the list. A major- ity of the delegatfs seemed o be of the opinion that the relative mank of the other clubs would bo us tolluws ut the end of tile “season:’ Prov- jdence, second; Buston, third: Buffalo, fourth; Troy, fifth; Cleveland,sixth; Worcester, seventh, and Detrolt, eighth.—E: nge. And, av the close of the geason, & mAlority of the delswaves ), .+ _tothis Ami :m,‘;l)lg" worship's [nmspm‘\mnd. of fate 4s this, 3 And ot i loul within us try to ¥ on wings to blss For th 0 good hn?cfl,os:q for praise, c_gm Thosd el who ight the Soul wifs Hell, that u;fl;flam%mwmm the {wilight tato ‘darkoess gone, 14 & od ' v reversed, and Thought now Awarfe ol At Sraall worid alone. 7 + fot spirit higher soar, 2nd Live witd nt— - 3 For glor s Siiees horoes bean i God’s transincent I Who hitve. thoagt Louns by earthly bonds, with Godlike courago fougnt o counting ' ace to gain for man, e’ex Boxy Fisana 155 a8 e Tnsullied in its pureness shines dow;thmugh = There Ronds that bind this poor, fralltrame of" clny‘ .v; “e‘fi'fl}fi“ ‘welcome y to-blest ngode on high. . — ——— ALONG THE SHORE. For The C'anvku T‘rflmfc ne. Brightly beams tho lake of Cora, é)ovm llcnuuthdthek m:géi' u ever, darken 3 T g ond wivos are lavghing stk On tho shore, 5 1n the SGaIIERE, In the shade, 1 D the suniigl 3 i Buried halt-beneath the sand, & “Precious stones and shells are lnld.[,‘ Some to sea inships godown, ii Some have braved the ocean’s foa Some have sourht the mariner’s craf#1, Ieaving friends, and wealth, and hano. Othiers stand ; Dpon the sand, » } Searching long the lone beach o'er, , Gathering gesus of rustic hue 1‘ As they're washed along the shore. g‘ So upon the shore of Time i1 Wonn gatber fewelstare; . I we only seek the good, s We can find them everywhero; y 1 Bat, alas! ; How many pass, Heedtess of the golden oro Scattered all BID&E Life's way— Preclous stones along the shore, Y CHICAGO, LIl D. 0. Taxwi * e e——— LIFE. For The Chicago Tribune. Life 1s a symphony, Jife is a song!— gmke mf’&oxm cnnerzlly. Sing it In tune; Spite of its misery. spite of its wroog. ;%erc 1s melody still in the grand old runel © Fnint-bearted mariners, toss'd on the tide, Lo! the dawn brightens, the clouds disappes Soon in the haven at rest shall ye ride, And the sxuul.lgh( of Heaven shalt banish your fear! Grief-stricken mourner, thy sorrow give o'ers Freed from Earth’s sull'ring, temptation, and sin, . o ‘Where tho c';m.uhu of Death drape the ever- green shore, . Thy loved one is waiting to,welcome thee inl A } Life is a symphony, life is a song— Strike the ch(‘z’rds cheerily, sing it in tunes et Sy i o araad oid rumol ‘There I3 mejody t o THE SOUTH WIND. : For The Chlcago Tridune. Of =il the pipes that Heaven can bring, The South Wind rogalest doth siag. It fills tho skies with T'ropic balm, 1t brenks the North's gigantic arm; The spow-banks melt, swift pass away, Tefore its mild and genial sways Tho starry flowers sweet blush and bloom ‘Where lato was Winter’s dreary tomb. 0 South Wing, come and freshly blow? Drive, drive away: these realms of snow! Make' thou the world in beauty glow! Come with-tho Sp: '3 mild, warming light, And il the lands with joy, delight! 1 . Come, and o'cr taountain. hill, und vale, With thy sweet breath creation bail? Stamp thy broad seal g’fiflg&gflfl mg\!‘nl 3 Spring’s palmy hours br! P B Py O e We B BLARGHARNY g6 rds statistics ~