Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 28, 1881, Page 9

rie THE CHICAGO, TRIBUNE:. SUNDAY, 5 Z AUGUST. 28, 1881. MIGHTEEN PAGES MILLIONS IN THEM Some Great Real-Estate Operations Involving Millions. f } Bowen’s Calumet Canal & Dock Company to Be Re- organized, Tts Mortgages Paid OM, and 4,500 Acres. Opened to In- provement, Jacob Forsyth Sells His 8,000 Acres at Wolf Lake for $1,000,000 Jo a Lot of Outside Millionaires Dis- guised as a Belt Railroad Company. Six Millions of Capital and No End of Bonds—Work to Begin at Once. They Will Found East Chicago and Pool All the Belt Lines Except the Western Indiana, Which Goes It Alone—Its Shops at South Englewood, ; BIG SCHEMES. INVOLVING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Allusion was made in Tue TrmunE of last Sunday to rumors of new enterprises which were, beginning to agitate all the real- estate interests south of Chicago. Great efforts have been made to keep the matters referred to.from general knowledge. They are schemes of great magnitude, involving the expenditure of many millions of dollars, infinencing values south, west, and north to the extent of many times the millions di- rectly spent, and affecting for all time the | mercantile and manufacturing arrangements of the city, aud the distribution of the popu- lation surrounding it, We are able to-day to Rive the first authentic information about these enterprises... They are: 1, The reorganization of ;the Chicago & Calumet Canal & Dock Company. 2, The consummation of the plans for the Chicago Beit-Line Railroad Company. & The location of the shops 2nd central transfer yards of the Western Indiana Belt- Line Road; and, 4. Several associated enterprises of more or less consequence, OTIS AND MEEKER. Vice-President George L. Otis, of the Com- mercial National Bank, and Mr. A. B. Meeker, both of the Calumet & Chicago Canal & Doek Company, are now in New York per- iecting the negotiations for a complete re- organization of that Company. ‘The bonded debt of the Company now with accrued in- terest amounting to about $2,000,000, is to be paid off. In its place, $2,000,000 of pre- ferred stock are to be issued.. This stock will not be issued to. holders of the bonds in satisfaction of their claims. The bonds are largely owned by the Greene and Bayard estates and the State Savings banks, and other interests which can take nothing but money in payment. A new company is to be formed, and the subscribers to its pre- ferred stock will furnish cash to clear off the thortgage. Besides the $2,000,000 of pre- ferred stock, $2,000,000 of common stock will be issued, in addition to the $1,600,000 of common stock already outstanding. Sub- scriptions to this project have already been made so freely that ITS SUCCESS 18 ASSURED. It will release 4,500 acres at the upper end of Lake Calumet from an incubus of debt and litigation that has kept it out of use,for years. A comprehensive improvement of the property will be at once begun. Subdi- visions will be made, docks and slips cut out, streets surveyed, everything in brief will be done necessary to obiain the inaximum re- turn from this valuabio tract. Its position is the most advantageous. It has a great front- age on Calumet Lake, adjoins the 160 acres in See. 11, owned by the Illinois Central, and the probable site of its shops in the near fut- ure, and is immediately in the line of the New York, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad, which will pass through its property. A NEW YORK DISPATCII STATES that parties interested in the Seney Syndi- cate thatis building the New York,St Louis & Chicago Road have subscribed for more than $500,000 of the preferred .stock ‘of the Canal & Dock Company. This shows how powerful aro the interests which are now concerned in the development of this ieg~ lected property, and make it certain that it will be but a short time before there will be at the north of Calumet Lake, as already at the west, the inauguration of a new life of growth and improvement. No secret has been better kept in Chicago for many years than the progress of the Chi~ cago Belt Line Railroad Company. This is the road first planned by Mr. Weston, but in the management of which he has for some time been outranked by some of the ablest railroad men and heaviest capitalists in the country. Few people in’ this city know be- fore reading this that all the plans have been matured for a belt road running around the begimuing at Sheffield, and passing of the city three or four miies beyond the city limits, running thirty-five miles in all, with four steel tracks, and all the land, equipment, and accessories needed fora perfect system of grain, mer- chandise, cattle, and other freight trausfer. ‘The promoters of this scheme have worked in the most successful secresy. Even the representatives of the road in the gorgeous offices herein Ashland Block were keptin ignorance of what was being done. Three or four routes have been surveyed in places in order to : Between one-half and two-thirds of the’ right of way has already been secured, ‘Track-laying will certainly begin, in thirty days, and possibly in ten, and the: whole thir- « ty-five miles will be completed as rapidly as men and money can do it. oe ee The Company have purchased the .8,000-_ gere farm of Mfr. Jacob Forsyth, fronting on. Lake Michigan and Lake Wolf. . This was the site of the ill-fatea Sheffield, started the Yeargefore the panic. Mere the Belt Road Will Dave its eastern terminus and.its outlet on Lake Michigan to the great, lakes. Here 2 comprehensive system of docks, slips, acks, Warehouses, ete., will bo. built up, With ample water and rail connections, and eyery. possible facility for the development oF ear aRiatee and a Pertests distribution outor betw a ent railroads, “Here will be the ne ae CITY OF EAST CuICAGO, Population will rapidly qluster about ich a centre of industry as this. ‘Che pur- ¢ o Forsyth farm has been made. The price was $1,000,000, not.in bonds or stock of any land improvement company, but in cash, and 2 considerable proportion of it has been already |. The purchaser was Mr. Joseph P. Ord, of New Jersey, who represents the New York cupitalists repre- sented, and ds one of the promoters of the Belt Line. The NewzYork, St. Louis & Chi- cago Railroad and the Western Indiana Road have no comneétion whatever with this ceuneac Hon field, the Ci weaving Sheffield, the Chicago Belt Line Railroad Company’s tracks will _erdss those of the New York, St. Louis & Chicago and the Western Indiana, going to the south of Calumet Lake to Blue Island, or a point a little to tne west of it, thence northerly through the Towns of Worth, Lyons, Cicero, and into Jefferson, where the road turns to the'east and so goes to Lake View. It is the belief of its promoters that the facilities offered by them will make this solid line of manufactories- all around the a Every railroad running into Chicago will be crossed. Atleast three large trans- fer yards will be opened, and warehouse and other accommodations, furnished as needed. ONE GREAT SOURCE OF STRENGTIL to the Chicago Belt Line Railro: ompany will be the completeness and cordiality of its relations with the railroads. ts promoters are among the most prominent railroad men in the country, as would be seen if ‘they would , allow their names® to be used. + ‘fhe combination includes all the other belt projects that have any raison @’ étre, except the Western Indiana, which remains independent. These allianees mn- sure the Company an easy passage around the city and across the St. Paul and North western tracks. where any other orgauiz. tion would find progress diflicult, if not im- possible. THE CAPITAL STOCK of the Company has been fixed at $6,000,000. Its bonded debt is not definitly known, as it will depend on. the mileage, Capitalists have bid 102 for the bonds, although not one of them has yet been issued. Some mystery hangs about the personnel of this Belt Line Company. _Ex-Senator Bamum, of Connecticut, C. N. Jordan, the well-known railroad man, Mr. C. IF. Woerishoefer, of New York, are known tobein it Samuel J. ‘Tilden, Gen. MeCook, and Gov. Cornell, are mentioned as interested parties Besides, there are many active railroad men in the Company, who do not appear in its roll-call. $ AN INTERVIEW, A reporter had an interview with a gentle- man who hie felt sure could, if tie would, en- lighten hinr greatly on the matter. it is unnecessary to pive the name of the gentleman with whom thereporterconversed in order to get verified the rumors which he had heard. It willdo to premise by stating that he isZone whom the newspaper man would swear by and whose part in the inter- view was taken unwillmgely. Had the re- porter not disclosed the knowledge that he already had, he would not have been able to have gotten any information on the subject all, “but?? as the gentleman expressed it, “{ see that you have somehow got an ink- ling of the matter, and as 1 know that it will be useless to attemptto conceal itany longer, I would prefer to. enlighten you so that you may have the fucts; concealment of ‘the movement is vow impossible, and when I can be of servive to you, let me know.” “Very well,” said the reporter, “to begin with, will you fell me if there is any truth in the report thax a Jand company has been formed to establish a new city near where Sheftield, Ind., is, to be called East Chica- g0? “T can say tor a certainty that there is.” “ What is the capital of the company?” “Pen million dollars.” “Who holds a good share of the stock ?” “The stockholders are mostly ‘Eastern and European capitalists.” “Do you know whether Samuel. Tilden, ex-Senater Barnum, Goy, Cornell, Gen, Me- Cook, C. N, Jordan, and their associates are interested in the matter?” 1atigtormation Ihave Iam in- clined to believe that theyare. Gov. Barnum was in Chicago recently, and 1 understand that through his fufluence was brought about the consolidation of the Belt Line Road, which will be run 2 good deal in the interest of East Chicago.” af a te TIE BELT LINE ROAD. “Where does this Belt-Line Road start 2” *Itaill start from East Chicago, and. with aroad-bed of four steel tracks, will cross the line of the Western Indiana and the New York, Chieazo & St. Louis Railway on See. 31, just below Chittenden bridge, and will bring into accessibility the large tract of land which the Company has purchased about there in the Village of Hyde Purk. About how much land has the syndicate purchased 2” “Well, it has taken already about 10,000 neres in Indiana and several thousand tore in Secs. 19, 20, 29, 30, and 31 in Hyde Park. ‘The Indiana land is beautiful property, most of it, and the Hyde Park property Mes right close to the Calumet River,—that is, much of it does,—and the new line contemplated will make this property very accessible not only from South Chicago but also from the new City of East Chicago.” ‘THE CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY. “What is the capital stock of the Belt Line Company ?” “J understand that if is $10,000,000, . Much of this stock is held by the railroads, whe will have occasion to use it, and I also un- derstand that there is an agent of the orga zation now in Eurone placing stock, whichis said to be readily taken.” “Will you give mea little idea regarding the objects which this organization seeks to accomplish 2” = “In the tirst place, to build up a new city which shall be one of the wonders of the world the locality where itis to be built is one most favorably adapted to the building of such a city, and there is no doubt hut that pany great interests will be developed ere “Dol understand that the capital con- trolled by the. syndicate which proposes erecting this ron ani building this belt-line road is $20,000,000 ? : “Yes, sir; there is all the money behind it that can be desired. ‘There xre men of wealth, enterprise, and goxheadativeness who have hold of the matter.” BELT LINES. not to be the only one around the city, is it? ~* No; Tunderstand that the Western In- diana Railroad refuses to join the combina- tion, and will buiid an_ independent line of sown. By the way, I wish also to inforn you that, embraced within this grand scheme, isa new stock-yards combany. ‘The yards will be located at the new ‘Town of East Chicago. iu Indiana, and will be a great rival be the Paton: Stock-Yards in the Town of ake. “Whatis the name of these two compa- ies”? “One is known as the Construction Com- pany, the otheras the Belt-Line Company. Each has a capital of $10,000,000, 1 under- stand, however, that the same men comprise both companies, and that they expect to hold ameeting soon and perfect a consolidation of them.” 3 “What was the average price paid: for the property in Indiana?” “ About S125 per acre.” “Was italleash?” | “It was cash down,—inoney paidjand im- mediate possession of the land xiven.”? ‘The Western Indiana combination has not joined the consolidation of the other belt roads, but pursues its independent. way. Auditions are being constantly made to its network of lines, with the double object of obtaining rights of way to lease to other rail- roads ant BUILDING UP MANUFATURING INTERESTS. One of its latest projects is covered by the or- dinance now pending before the Trustees of Hyde Park tor a rightof way from South Chicago, along Railroad avenue, south of the South Park, and then along Sixty-seventh street to a junction with the tracks of the Rock Island. At the meeting on Friday evening to consider this ordinance most of the property interested were present, and the most cordial feeling was displayed toward the ‘projected road. It is seen that it will be of - the greatest assistance to the development of the beautiful but in- accessible district along the shore of Lake Michigan between the Park and South Chi- cago. Besides affording new suburban transportation that is greatly needed, the new road will be of great service to Hyde Park by cheapening the cost of the coal used in its water-works. .For lack of railroad fa- cilities, the coal burned at the Water-Works now costs_ $3.50 a ton, while that used .by the Calumet Iron -& Steel Com- ypany and other concerns on the Tailroad is. furnished) at SLS0 to SE a-ton. The Baltimore & Ohio and the Tilinofs Central have both had the chance to build Over the route now proposed. for the “South Chicago-& Western Indiana. and have refused to take advantage of it. The Town of Uyde Park and property-owners between the South Park and South Chicago are eager tohavethe Western Indiana build a line which has been wanted so long. TUE ROUTE LAID ovr in the ordinance now pending is as follows: From its connection with the Western In- diana Railway at a point where the railroad crosses the strand at Harbor avenuein South : Chicago, thence northerly to Eighty-seventh street, thence in a northwesterly direction to Railroad avenue, northwesterly and westerly to the junction of Seventy-first street, thence northerly along Yates avenue to Seventieth *| street, thence northwesterly to Sixty-cighth strect, along that: street to Lincoln avenue, with authority to make a curve connection trom some convenient point on Sixty-eighth street, west of Stony Island avenue, to some convenient point on Sixty-seventh street, east of Sheridan avenue, thenée along Sixty- seventh street to the west line of the town- ship. From here it will proceed to the tracks of the Rock Island Road, with which it wil] connect, and thus form a direct route from South Chicago to Chicago. In Sec. 2, just adjoining the Oakwoods Cemetery, a sale has just been made at $1,250 an acre. Property west of the cemetery bought last spring for $990 is now $1,200 bid and $1,500 asked. THE WESTERN INDIANA will build down to Hammond to give the Chicago extension of the Erie Road its out- letto the city. Its tracks will run thence through Sees. 38, 50, 19, 16, 13. 12, and il, The New York, St. Louis & Chicago will run by its side. The two roads will thus make 2 considerable economy -in the cost of right-of-way, Some S00 aeres of land have been bought by the New York, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad uorth- west of Hammond, and between the Grand Calumet and their road. Jere extensive shops and yards will be established. ‘The price paid ranged between $100 and $125 an were, SOUTH ENGLEWOOD isthe locality selected by the Western In- dianaas the headquarters of its whole belt system. Jere 175 acres haye been bought, and here will-ve put the round-house, the re- puir-shops, the transfer freight-houses, the transfer yards, and the grain-transfer houses. Cars Joaded with grain will be carried up on elevated tracks, and the grain, which is now shoveled out, will be ran out by machinery into cars beneath and ac- curately weighed and graded in the process fe chear. ‘This cannot be accomplished under the present system, and will bea great convenience to the grain trade, ‘The land bought by the Western Indiana lies between Ninety-fifth street and Eighty-third street and Stewart avenue and Wallace street. In- cluding the cost of the lund, the Company will disburse here something between $300,- 000 and $400,000. ‘This is in Sec. 9. ‘The Western Indiana will do nothing in See. +. . ACTIVITY IN ACRES around South Englewood will be the imme- diate effect of the establishment there of the Western Indiana’s shops. Already numer- ous sales have been made and some advance scored in prices, In the S. E. 2¢ of 9 37, 14, thirty-eight acres have been sold for $600; in the S. E./ of 4, 87, 14, twenty-tive acres have been sold: for $500 an vere and a bonus of S50 ‘Lwenty acres in Sec. 9, 37, 14, in the S. W. 34, brought $600. Twenty acres in the S. E. of 4, 37, 14 sold for $750 an acre, Ad~- vances have been offered on several of these purchases. y Twenty acres in the N. E, ¥ of S. E. 3¢ of 9, 37, 13, have been sold by W. C. Reynolds to ‘Thomas A. Mill at $450.an aere, In the 8. 3¢ of N. W..2¢ of See. 9, 37, 13 asale has been pale at $462.50 an acre to C. D. Uamill and others. At Washington Ueights 190 acres have been sold near the school at Morgan Park at prices ranging from $350 to $500, On the line of thg Western Indiana Belt Road, between Fort¥-seventh and Seventy- first streets, areal estate syndicate, headed by Mr. H. LL. Walker, have bought up nearly 1,000 acres, which they will at once subdi- vide, improve, and put on the market, SALES OF THE WEEK. SOME OF THE LEADING TRANSACTIONS. C.P. Dose and Willian C. Fricke report the following .sules: Lot on Fowler street, fronting Wieker Park, for $1,135; two lots in West Chicago Avenue Park for $00 each; oue lot on North Paulina street, near Au- gusta street, for $1,000; two lots on Samuel street, near Chicago avenue, for $700 cach; two lots on Davis street, near Northavenue, for $800, and 50 feet fronton West Division street at the crossing of tho Northwestern Railroad, for $50 per foot; also lot and mar- ble-front dwelling on Montana street, in Lake View, at $5,225; house and lot on Orchard street, near Clybourn avenue, for $2,200; house and lot on Kroger street for $1,500: 873g feet front on Wrightwood ave nue, neat Racine avenue. for $1,287.50 cash, and the premises known as the Harlem/| House, in Dlarlem, Cook County, IIL, for $5,000, ‘ Noah Barnes has made the following sales in Uyde Park: 50x150 feet on Cornell street, 250 fect south of Chestnut, west front, for $2,800, all cash down; 50x80 feet to. railroad, west front, on Iyde Park avenue, at end of Fifty-second street, for $1,250, spot cash; 50 xl64 fect on Woodlawn avenue, east front, 150 feet south of Fifty-first street, for $1,250; 50x150, west front, on Madison avenue, 100 feet south of Chestnut street, for $1,250; 36x. 150 feet, north front, on Chestnut street, 160 feet west of Frederick place, for SUS4. Mr. Barnes also sold in connection witn lienry L. Will. for C. WU. Knapp to IL Curtiss 240x150 feet at the northwest corner of Cottage Grove ave- nue and College place, east front, for $10,500. Mr. Thomas E. Patterson has bought forty acres of Messrs. Hanna, of Aurora, in the S. E. ¥/ of the N. W. 34 See. 18, 37, 14. for $500an acre. This property is situated at Morgan Park on the bluff. An advance of $100 an acre has been‘offered and refused for it. Ira Brown sold eight lots at La Grange, $500; four lots at Glencoe, $100; house and two lots in Evanston, $1,100, A NEW SUBDIVISION AT PULLMAN has been made by Thomas Scanlan and J. IL Bissell, agents for the Cincinnati owners of a large tract of land adjoining Pullman. It contains thirty-one acres, and is called Fallis & Gano’s Additign to Pullman. , The necessary proceedings. have nearly been completed for openmg and improving One Uundred and Fifteenth street, from Morgan Park across to Kensington. Cc. A. Ekstromer has sold the south 4 of the N. E. 4 of See. 9, 37, 14, to Mr. Thomas A. Till, for $37,000. This eighty-acre tract was bought by Mr, Ekstromer only three weeks ago for 352,600. For $21,125, George Werse bought of the County. of Cook, on South Grove parkway, southwest corner. of Clinton avenue, east front, 149 feet to alley. ‘The same property eighteen days later was sold by the purchaser to County Commissioner Louis Uutt for the snugly advanced price of 325,000, For’ 320,000, J. Nelson Vance bought of George Butters, on South Wood street, south- east corner of ‘Chirty-seventh, ten acres. ‘The Cuok County real-estate vahtation, as equalized by the County Board in 1880, was 4,520,794, while the additions for 1881 have been $1,755,871, and the deductions $95,422, making the net real-estate valuation for the year for the connty $96,183,143. Add to this the personal-property valuation,—$23,892,26s, —and the total assessed valuation foots up the round sum of $120,075,30, IN BRIEF. Inthe sales of the week were 1408/x150 feet on Cottage Grove avenue, northwest cor- ner of College place, $10.500; 106}4x7434,, im- proved, on Loomis street, northwest corner of Nebraska, $5,300; 322 feet-on Lumber street, southeast corner of Allen’s Canal, $28,000; 10 acres on South Wood street, southeast corner of Thirty-seventh, $20,000; 22x183hy on West Adams street, west of Ash- land avenue,’ improved, $10,000; 2134x100 on Third avenue, south of Van Buren street, $5,500; 26x80 on = Adams street, west of Michigan avenue, $10,000; 49!¢ on North Clark, north of Divis- ion. running west to La Salle, $9,395: 16234 on Michigan avenue, south of Twenty-ninth, 60: 50x185 on Hyde Park avenue, near Forty-fifth, $5,100; 149 feet to alley, on South Grove parkway, southwest corner of Clinton. avenue, $21,125; 50x100 on Jefferson, south of West Monroe, $6,000; 25x160, improved, on Michigan avenue, north of Twenty-ninth, $9,000; + five .acres on West Division, avenue and Sheridan street, $5,000; 25x180%%, improved, on Union avenue, west of Cottage Grove avenue, $3,650; 50x12, improvéd, on West Washing- ton, west of Wood, 515,000; 50xS3 on Quincy, west of Franklin, $20,000; 50x133 on Lake avenue, southeast corner of Rior sireet, on North. Wells, north of 000; . 255 Michigan, $8,000; 200x264: on Racine avye- nue, northeast ‘corner of Belden avenue, to Jay street, $0,600; 120 7-10x367" on“ Sede- wick x ect north of Eugénib, to Unmmond, 1405¢x128x90. on “Fifty-third, north- $13,888; 1: west corner of Park place, $9,000, {THE CHICAGO REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE -announces its thirteenth regular call ‘of real estate for next Wednesday,‘with the, ustral yarlety of property on the! catalog. lere- after the calls will be held weekly on every Wednesday. - A-special auction sale of En- glewood -lots is announced! for Sept. 3, and during September and October arrangements are being ade for some Yory Important aue- ton sales not yet ready to made public. There will also be a Receiver’s sale of land and miscellaneous ‘assets in;the near future, in order to'accommodate those who .do not have opportunity to attend: Sales in business hours it.is contemplated to inaugurate a series of Monday evening jauctions for the disposal of cheap lots. Everything. points fo a great activity in. real, estate . this fall. Ilolders are more inclined to offer their property for sale, especially those who have earried it through the depressing times fol- lowing the panic of 1873; and, as prices have not reached the high scale of 187, buyers fee] encouraged to take hold and try their luck on a lower _Jevel than when the sellers were enthusiastic for real-estate speculation. ‘The truth of this is well illustraced bya little Dit of history. showing $300,000 sunk in a land speenlation, and the realizing from the wreck of tho little value left at the first mo- mentit was possible to make a sule since 1873. When speculation was_ rampant in 1872, Dr. G. D, Beebee and Mrs. Marietta Meigs (now both deceased) bought seventy-five acres in. E. 34 of the N. W. 2g, See. 2, 39, 13, for $1,800 an ere, of George W. Gage. “It was about the time Ilumboldt park: and boulevard were laid out and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad came_into the city, aswell as the Chicago & Pacific Railroad, both of these lines having depots on the land inques- tion, It was then contemplated to have the Indiana street cars run out on Grand avenue to this land, as well as a line of street-ears on North avenue. Among other _induce- ments tomake tliis land fabulous in value was the uearness of the’ car-shops of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company to be soon erected. A buildling association was established, and what cost’ $120,000 was. tobe put in at $300,000,—giving any sub- scribér one of these lots, 25x125, fr $500. THIS SCHEME seem to have fallen through; there was evi- dently too much water in it, and no shares of any conseqtience were taken. But the panic came. No street-cars reached the premises; no houses went up; taxes kept on until 350,000 followed the. original out and, finally, this‘ week the whole that was left was sold through Messrs, Chandler & Co. to Ira R. Warvey for $6733¢ per acre. Now this new purchaser has come in on the bottom, is a man of energy, has good times before him, will bring in lots of people to oc- eupy the ground, the city has extended im- inensely outwards, and increased wonder- fully in population the past ten years, ta the chances are ten times more in his, favor to make money outof his purchase than those who paid more than double his price and sunk over a quarter million of dollars, taking into account what might have been re- ceived in interest on the originalsuminvested. You cannot talk reat estate to the heirs of Marietta King. ‘Their losses are too deep, and. this Is only one case in a hundred all through. the country. They don’t propose to be caught with another pattie and real estate on their hands, and therefore sell in season. ‘The purchaser now, who gets @ bargain, will and ean sellata profit, and thus from month to month the activity inereases, until the more yenturesome get on the top wave and overtaken by the coming storm. . The exact ealeulation of that period is the dificult problem, but ne one expects it until there is a general boom all along the whole line. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. ‘The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, Aug. 27: PROPERTY. Wood st, 60 ft n of Kinzle, ¢ f,25x1% ft, S dated Auc. 2s J, A. Schulze to Catha- rino Jones). os -+..8 1,500 Johnson place, be! and ‘Thirty-ninth sta, June 15 (George Griffith)... West Congres : nf, 24xlw ft, dated May 13 (F. G. Ames to Hugh Copeiund).. oe aben West Wushlagton st, 128 ft w of Robes, n £, 20xl2tty ft, dated June 24 (Liver- pool, London & Globe insurance Com- pany to Barbara A. Lowe) .. ss Michigan ay, 231 ft n of Twenty- w f. 50x16) ft, with bu: dated Aug. 26 (Cutharine“and George 4 Miller to Susan J. Seaverng)...... -. 40,000 Ewing st, 32 ft e of Jetferson, s f, 25x11. ft, with building, dated Aug, 2 (ier- man Schultz to R. and M. C. Lobraico}.. West Taylor st, 50 ft e of Lincoln, n f, 24 Aug. 22 (Patrick Haley to 4 1,200 Michigan av, n of ane z : St,w t,2ixlizy, ft, improved, dated Aug. 26 (George A. Senverus to Cutbariue Miller)... sscessessses D2, Fairtield a 3 Twelfth st, @ 2, 24x130 ft, dated June 8 (T. E. Archi-, »_ bald to C. lin)... - 0s eee . ‘Lincola av, 20744 ttn w of Franklin “ats w f, 48xli5 ft, dated May 25 ames W. Calkins to Charles F. Weber)...... - Third av, between Van Buren and Harri- son sts. w f, 244x100 ft, dated July 19 (The Union Mutual Life-Insurance Company to John Macomb) ~~ 6,000 West Sixteenth st, 66 ft w of B 8 f, 66x280i3 ft, with other lots in sine subdivision, dated Aug. 2 (Charles Stephens to H. B. Eastman) ‘West 'uron st, 24 ft w of Leavitt, 3 x 121 6-10 ft, dated Aug. 25 (Mary Cush- man to D. N. Moones).. +s West Nineteenth st, 200 ftw of Oakley 8 f, 25x125 ft, improved. dated Aug, 25 (N. and M. E. Kistner to P. A. Meyer).. Arnold st, 200 ft s of Thirtietb st,e f, 25x 120 ft, dated Aug. 3 (Ehomus Devine to ‘Thomas Dermody).... -.-.-+ Leavitt st. s w cor Parmelee, ¢ it, dated Au (E. ©. Neumann) Thirty-Oftb st, 8 f, 235x160 ft, improved, dated 1g. 27 (Edward Wilizms to Franz Schroth)... North av, 97 tte of Oakley st,s f, 241x130 {t, dated Au; Brown to Agnes: Torrens} . .. 0. oo eas Warren av, %4 fte of Staunton st,n f, MxI ft, dated Aug. 10 (Master in = Chancery to W. IH. Stubbings).......... 905 NORTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE, North Ialsted st, nw cor Wyoming, cf, 150 ft to alley, dated Aug. “3 (Elizabeth ‘Ashworth to Horace A. Goodrich)......$ 3,500 SGUTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COUNT-IOUSE. Cottage Grove av, 74 ft s of Clinton av, w , 2x10 ft, dated July 8 (Cook County to Mary Lampson). oo one Phare av, 167 ft s of Fifty-fourth st, ef, 4x12 ft, dated Aug. 2% (A. A. Dean to if. U. Boyd):... eee : Stock-Yards Dummy Road, 105 ft w of Stewart ay, s f, 25x124 fr, dated June 25 i ‘Thirty-cighth ef, 2x157 ft, dated B, Clapp to Mary R. inti sty. Na. 281, 5 4,000 4,000 Be3 2,800 (J. H. Martin to Robert Brennan)....... 1,05 irty-sixth st, 141 ft c of Washtenaw av, 81, 50x1254 ft. dated Aug. 10 (Nathan Corwith to S. K. Kennicott). Forty-cighth st, 192 ft e of Aberdeen, Hxi25 ft, fmproved, dated Aug. 26 (George D. Pease to Robert Brown)..... SUMMARY For THE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers, within a radius of seven miles of the Court-Ifouse, tiled for record during the week ending Saturday, Aug. 27: Location. Sales, Amount. City sales.... 130 $s +4 North of city limits... South of city limits. West of city limits, Total........- ‘Total previous week. BUILDING AND LOANS, ASKELETON PLAN FOR THE NEW BOARD OF TRADE was submitted.to the Directors at’ their last meeting. It made the dimensions of the “building 175x210 feet. The first floor was to be devoted to offices,—a double tier of them, with a corridor running through the centre. Then caine the main hall, eighteen feet above the sidewalk. The present one is forty feet above. This hall was to be sixty feet in hight, and ebout double the size of the pres- ent one., It was suggested that another doubie row of offices be built on the story above the hall, which would be reached by elevators. This would not make a very high building, as compared with some of the blocks in Eastern cities. Room would also be provided for the Call: Board... Such @ building would cost $700,000 and more. Among other plans suggested for evading the restrictions of the Board of ‘Trade charter about owning real estate is'that of asking the Legislature to pass a general law allowing Boards of Trade tohold property. A special session is to be held to make a general ap- rtionment, and the proposed law for the joard of Trade could be covered in his proc- lamation. OTHER BUILDINGS. « ‘Mr. William Armour has taken out abuild- ing permit for a residence,to be built this fall at the corner af Pririe ‘favenne ond Twen- tieth street. It will cost $33,000,- thgee stones Ie ss) "0, and will be, arshall Field and Henry. Stronz have taken out permits for bulldines on Fifth avenue and Monroe street, to cost $110,000, * + instead of receding -brick have advanced in price. A great deal of building was de- ferred last spring in the belicf that the price of materials would go down, but these eal- culations have been disappointed. Less thin two months of the brickmaking season ze- inain, the demand is unabated, and the South and West Side Brick-Laborers’ Union: have Just struck for an advance of 25 cents a day, which will have to be granted, ‘and will bo added to the cost of brick and building im- provements, — * Chicago manufactures more billiard and pool-tubles than any other city. tts facilities ure soon to be increased so that it will manu- facture nearly as inuch as all the other cities together. ‘This will be done by tho erection ata cost for building and laud of $120,000 of # new factory by’ the J. M. Brunswick.& Balke Co. ‘They have bought for $19,000 2 lot 200 fect on Market and 208 on Iuron. An alley runs through the lot, andthe fac tory will be divided into two buildings. It will be five stories high, and will be begun at ouce. | ‘The lot is the one deeded by the late Miss Lucretia Pond to the Historical Society PERMITS have been issued last week for new build- ings to cest $550,000. Among then were those to the Chicago West Division Railway Company, two-story ear-house, 102x144 feet, Indiana ‘street and Western avenue, to cost $12,000: same, two-story car-house, 96x125 feet, Western and Warren avenu L, Hodges. three-story dwelling, & No. 2125 Indiana avenue, $6,000 four-story and basement factory, Clinton and West Marrison streets, $25,000; Conrad Seipp, onestory and: cellar’ ice- house. Augusta and Paulina streets, $20,000; J. I. McAvoy, three-story store, 69x90 feet; Cottage Grove avenue and ‘Twenty-fift, street, to cost $26,000; William Armour, three-story dwelling, 40x60 feet, No, 2015 Prairie avénue, to cost $33,000: Conrad Fuerst, five story brick store, 54x160, Adams, near Fifth avenue, $35,000; Marshall Field, five-story brick store, 40x80, Fifth av- enue, near Adams street, $30,000; Henry Strong, five story brick store, GOx125, Mon- roe street, near Fifth avenue, $80,000;'J. W. Plows, one-story brick hotel, 126x606. feet, southeast corner Pine and Oak streets, $10,009; one to F. Dorerak, to erect a one- story cottage, No. 207 Taylor street, to cost $1,500; and one to J. W. Jackson, to erect a block of three-story flats, Nos. 1$ and 20 North Ada street, to cost $6,000, LOANS. * There has been increased inquiry for loans the past week, and the. rates are firmer, but with” no perceptible advance. ‘The large building operations of the season and in- creased cost of labor and material ure ab- sorbmg inore money. We do not hear much of 5 per cent loans, und it is quite likely these funds have been exhausted or withdrawn to higher markets. “One loan during the week -of $40,000 on central improved property and North Side improved was made xt & per cent. At was a supplemental loan toone of same amount already existing, and as the security was yery ample, and the old Joan extended, it would be fairly quoted as.$$0,000, 6 per cent, for five years. We learn also of au in- creased loan of $20,000, five years, at 7 per cent, being negotiated on elevator property. A good many purchase-money mortgages bearing 7 per cent interest havealso been on the market and taken. AMONG OTIER TRANSACTIONS WERE? $15,000 for six months at 5 percent on. lot in Block 6, original town: $16,000 for five years atG per cent on tract southwest quar- ter of Sec. 22: $49,000 for five years até per cent on lots in Block 6, Kinzie’s Addition; $11,000 for five years at 514 per cent on lots in Bloek 4, Cleaverville Addition: $12,000 for five years at 6 per cent on lots in Block 122, ‘School Section; $15,000 for tiye years at T percent on Lot 145, Butte: tield’s” Addition; 322,500, same rate, on lots in Chicago and South Chicazo; $10,000 for’ ivo years at? per cent on lots in northwest quarter 1S, 37, i; S for five years at 7 per cent on lot in Block 29, 33, 40; 35,000 for three years at 5 per cent on part of Block 1, University sub- division; $8,000 for five years at 6 per cent on Jot in Block 16, Smith's Subdiyison; $11,300 for four and five years at S$ and 10 per cent on lots in Block 3, Jones’ Addition; $21,250 for five years at 6 per cent on lots in Block 19, School Section. ITEMS. , HYDE PARK, LAKE, AND PULLMAN WATER. , The water-works planned for the joint accommodation of Hyde Park,’ Lake, and Pullman will have a capacity of about 6,000,- 000 gullons a‘day. This is no more than these places will use from the start, allowing Hyde Park 3,000,000 of gallons a day, Pull- man 2,000,000 gallons a day, and dividing the balance bétween the South Parks, South Chicago, Kensington, and Irondale. It is believed that a daily capacity of 10,000,000 gallons would not be too much, in view of the rapid growth of Iyde Park, DREXEL FOUNTAIN. The South Park Commissioners have form- ally aceepted the fountain offered them for Drexel boulevard by the sous of the late Francis M.-Drexel, of Philadelphia. It will be completed during the coming year. Henry Manger, of Berlin, Prussia, now in Phil- adelphia, is at worklon the fountain, which will be of bronzey“oim granit, base, with a ground plan of 400 re feet and a hight of thirty-five feet. The cost will be $40,000. ‘The fountain willbe placed in the centre of the wide space—i00 feet—turning westward in Drexel boulevard from Fifty-first street, between It and Cottage Grove ay nue, where it will be seen from the approacues in all di- rections. ‘The statue will front westward towards Washington Park. WARREN AVENUE, from Oakley avenue to the railroad-track, has been kept impassable for months by the contractor.in charge of improving it. Some- thing ought to be done, and that quickly. ‘he Robey street improvement has been completed. “The new gravel and macadam- ized portion is from Lake to Harrison. Mr. M. Hollister, the Inspector for the city, has been on the ground continually, and thinks it one of the best streets on the West Side. 14; § THE WESTERN INDIANA. The route of the Chicago s& Western Indiana Road, as described in the ordi- nance to give it the right of way through Hyde Park, is to be as. follows: Com- meneing at a point where the railroad crosses the strand at Harbor avenue, under an ordi- nance formerly granted to the Company by the Bourd, it will run northerly along the east thirty-three feet of the strand to Eighty- seventh street; thence in a northwesterly direction to failroad avenue, in Sec. 30, ‘Township 38 north, Range 15; thence north- westerly on Railroad avenue to a point at or near tle junction of Seventy-tirst street; thence northerly on or along Yates avenue to Seventieth street; thence northwesterly and_westerly by the most convenjent route ty-eighth street; thence ongor along Sixty-eizhth strect to Lincotn avenue, with authority and permission to make a curve connection from some convenient point on Sixty-eighth street, west of Stony Island avenue, to some convenient point on Sixty- seventh street, east of Sheridan avenue; thenee on or along Sixty-seventh street to the west line of the township. THE RIVER. Nothing has yet come of the project talked of some time ago to straichten the river between Adams and Van Buren streets, on the west side of the river. Representatives of the railroads interested say the city can easily get the use of their land for the purpose. ~ : NEW SUBDIVISIONS.. : Since Oct. 1, 1880, 112 new subdivisions have been recorded, and thirty-four have been made since June i, 1851. They are as follows: A part of Block 28, Canal Trustees’ Subdi- vision in Sec. 17, 39,14. A purt of Block 4, Pry- | or’s Subdivision in Sec. 4, 38, 1. Lots 207 to 211, and 03 and 2Ut, in Waller's Subdivision in Sec. 98,39, 14. "The east seven acres of the north ff- teen neres of the southeast quarter of tnesouth- east quarter of Sec. 6,38, 14. A part of Block 2, Loeb & Harris’ Subdivision in Sec, 4,38, 4. A partition by decree of the Circuit Court of the east half oorthwest quarter northenst quactcr of Sec. 3 41, 14, and of the west half southwest quarter of Sec. 14, 39, 13. Soren and one-balt neres in_the northeast quarter of See. “4.40, 13. Apart of the west half of northeast juarter of Sec. 6, W, i." A part of the east ten neres of west fifteen ucres soutneast quar- ter southenst quarter of Sec. 6, 3% 14. A part of Block 3, Castello’s Subdivision in northwest quarter of Sec. 35, 40,13. A por tion of Blocks 4 to 45, East Washington Heights. A subdivision in the ‘southwest quarter sauth- west quarter of Sec. 18, 37,15. A purt of Block 40, Canal ‘Trustees’ Subdivision : in Sec. 3%, 40, 14. Apart of Block 2 in south quarter northeast warter of Sec. 10, 38, It. A part of Block 16, anal ‘Trustees’ Subdivision'ot See. 7,39, 14. 3 part of Dlock 9 in Sampson & Greene's Addition to Chicago. A resubdivision in Johuston’sSub- division in the southeast quarter of Sec. 36, 4, 13.. A part of Block L, Wrightwood. @ part of Block 5, Clough & Barney’s Subdivision tn Sec. 36, 38,14. Asubdivision of forty acres in. the northeast quarter of 8, 38, 14 (Windett's Addition ta Chicazo). fi Sec. 8 . Twenty-five scresin the northwest _fractionaly quarter of Sec. 2, 3.14 (Reform School "Addition to Hyde Park). A part of Block 7, Canal Trustees’ Subdivision of Sec. 33, 40,14, A part of Block 8, Canal Trustees’ Subdivision of Sec. 5,30, 4. A part of Blocks 10 and U. Keesington (Pullman). A partof Block Wof Ellis’ east Addition to Chicazo. A part of the southeast fracuonal quarter of See. 21, 33, 14. A_resubdivision in Jobuston, Roberts & Storrs’ Addition to Chicago, A resubdivision in Busb- nell’sAddition to Chicago. A part of the south halt of the south halfof northwest quarter of norih- west quarter of. Sec. 3, 48, 14. A subdivision of the northwest cutee of southeast quarter, and of the cast bulf southwest quarter of southeust gaarter of Sec. 25,38. A resubdivision in taves' Subdivision in northeast quarter of Sev. 86, 40, 13%, A part of Block 1, in Lake Shure Sub- division, Pine Grove. .A ‘Subdivision named Keenoy's Addition to Rogers’ Park. ‘A Subdivi- sion named Fallis &Gano's Addition to Pull- man (Kensington). A Subdivision namea |} Stevens’ Addition to Kensington (Pullman). BRIDGE AT WASHIXGTON sTRE! To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cutcaco, Aug. 2 was glad to seein your last Sunday's wea favorable notice of the effort now making to build a bridge at Washington street. True, there is a tun- nel under the river here, and let that continue to be used for heavy teams. ‘The bridge would only interfere - with the entrance to the tunnel for foot-passengers, and that really is a matter of no consequence. ‘They would prefer to wait a few minutes for the bridge. Lake, Randolph, and Madison streets are for considerable portions of the day com- pletely blocked at the. river with cars and teains, and some additional facilities must be furnished for transit between the vast and west sides. Washington street is soon to be make a boulevard to the Central Park, and, as 1 citizen who has_ been heavily taxed for these parks and the boulevard, I want the people of the South Side to have easy. Fe 5 to them. This is really onc of the pleasure and health necessities of the city. The new bridge, like the boulevard, should be used only by buggies, car es, and foot- passengers; and thus, also, an_.opportunity would be xtforded to the West Side people to reach their business houses without the out- rageous delays so common throuch the busi- ness season. By all means let the Washing- ton street bridge become a fixed fact at the earliest day possible. West SIDE. OHIO METHODISTS. An Effort to Foist the Loveland Ticket on 'Fhem Unsuccessful. Dispatch to Cincinnati Gazette. BELLEFONTAINE, O.,Aug. 24.—The District Methodist Conference of the Bellefontaine District closed an interesting session at the Methodist Church yesterday morning. ‘Chere were.about forty ministers in attendance, in- eluding local preachers and exhorters. » The business transacted pertained exclu- sively to the church government and econ- omy, until the question of absorbing political interest was reached, and that created a flut- ter and brought forth the latent Republican- ism from some of the good brethren. ‘The Committee on Prohibition reported a series of resolutions, sharp and pointed, on the subject of substituting legislation for constitutional provision on the prohibition question, and pledging the Conference as a body, by vote, voice, and personil effort to what seemed to be an indorsement of tho Loveland compulsory teetotal ticket. ‘This opened up an animated disenssion. ‘The resolutions were indorsed and strongly advocated by the Itev. Henderson, of Find- Jay, who was a visitor in the Conference, but evidently a stool-pigeon for the Democrats. He was promptly met by the Rev. Parker P. Popeina strong and forcible argument against binding a body of men by stringent resolutions, and avowing his intention of being independent of all bodies of fanatics in the exercise of his great right of an Amer- ican citizen. +, f+; He submitted the following resolution as a substitute, Which was promptly passed with- out opposition, being, in fact; an embodiment. ot the church disciplineon the subject of temperance: Ge Resolved, That we regard the prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors asa beverage us the only effective and feasible legislation upon the subject. aud that we will henceforth, by voice and vote, labor as may seem wisely udapted to secure that end, and earnestly advise our people to do the sane. The Kev. Dr. Rutledge, Presiding Elder of the Delaware District, also engaged in the discussion, and said he had been where it meant something to cust a vote (referring t his experience in the South), having stood in the face of mobs armed with pistols and guns, and cast his"vote for the Republican ticket." Tis voiee was for afree and un- trammeled exercise of the risht ot suitrage. The Rev, L. 1. Alderman, of Uuntsville, ‘also engaged in tne discussion giving his voice for the greatest. freedom and inde- pendence in the exercise of the franchise. ‘The ley. J.S. Blair, of this city, also fell into the same line, and, though a radical temperance man in practical, work and voice, isan unqualified Republican, and fully in- publican ticket. Tis etfort to secure an indorsement of the Loveland Deimn- oeratic stool-pigeon ticket in the District Conference will in all probability be re- newed in the Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but will be as Promptly met and snowed under es on this oceasion. GRISBY’S SPEECH. The Words of a Secexstonist Who Has «No Sympathy with Garfield. “ The Confederates of’ Missouri. hela. a re- union on Aug. 10, at Dallas, Tex., to cele- brate the twentieth anniversary of the battle of Oak Hill. There were present among others the following, all ex-Confederates from Missouri: Seeretary-of-State M. K. Me~ Grath; Robert MeCulloch, Register of Lands; Maj. A. U. Lemons, of the State Auditor’s. oflice; Jolin S. Mellons, of St. Louis, who was Commissary under eleven different Con- federate Generals; W. C. Brouaugh, G. M. Casey, and O. M. Bush, all from Clinton, Henry County, Mo.; Col. J. A. Burbridge, Alton, Iit.; W. P. Wilson, of the Fort Worth aidvance; J. V. Cockrell, of Sherman, Téx., brother of Senator Cockrell; Sum M. Mor- rison, of the Standard, Shreveport, La., one of Parson’s_ brigade of Missouri sharpshot- ers; Brig.-Gen. L. M. Lewis, once of Cole County, Mo., but now of Waxahachie, and a Southern Methodist preacher. ‘The principal address was delivered by the Rev. Gen. M, Lewis, and it i$ a ranting, roaring affair, alike destitute of patriotism orscholarship. The speech of the occasion, says the St. Joseph Herald, was that of one Grisby, which they printed without com- ment. Capt. W. H. Grisby, a soldier and a Missou- rian, as the Chairman said, opened his re- marks by saving that he was with Quantrell i \e id was with during the War, an Bill Anderson when he was s| is s Much ap- plause.} Ile was not the ay to ask President Garfield_to spe: {Applause. Ife indorsed:-Gov. Roberts when he woul not. affiliate ‘with the Governor of Ohio in calling upon the people of ‘Texas to say that they sympathized with him in his misfortune. [Applause Iie (the speaker) did not syin- pathize with Garfield in his misfortune. [Ap- plause.] Ue paid his respects of appreiation to the people of ‘Texas, and then said: “fn reference to sympathizing with people that I care nothing abont, I am not that kind of a man.” [Ilere one suggested to the speaker to tone down and temper his remarks.) © They ask me not: to be bitter, not to inin- gle confusion with my talk, but [ am not dying on the wings of policy. How can I say otherwise after being with Bill Ander- son when he fell, with Tucker, Hill, and alt those boys, loving them? How can [sy pathize with Gen. Gartield? [Cheers, ‘Bully,’ ‘Don't it?} Gentlemen, ever since I could lisp the word Constitution, ever since I knew anything about constitutional law, ever sinee I Knew of the Confederate Government and of State-rizhts, I have always been a secession- ist. [Cries of * Bully! and * Stick to it, my boy!’J Lam ready for war at amoment. Ay plause.] ‘Lhey tell me to temper down, but how ean f, how. can {? how can {temper the truth !{ Cries of ‘No,sir?] If you will teach me by some melodious sonnet, sung by flam- ing tongues above, to temper the truth, it might possibly be done. (Voices: ‘Cut it short.’] - And now. they tell me to cut it short. Gentlemen, I ain not afraid of the ladies. They fought and stood by us when no others would. They are ready at the first sound of war, if fired to-day. There is no one on earth so glad to meet youasl My hearg upheaves with such power and force that Patn notable toexpress inyself. I know not how to express myself. I feel my soul growing with the grandeur of my theme—a theme so majestic, and so able to cement hearts among women and bonds among men. Thope we shall meet often and early, and should ever war again commence let us be found in the front rank battling against Gar- field and all the crew.” [Applause.] —————— . SAD. "The dental profession find it a discouraging task toretain tho old fancy rates, while the McChesney Bros. turn out from 50 to 100 sets of 1 teeth per week of thelr unquestionably su- | berior quality. $8 hast.ooe, CITY SANITATION. ~ Several New Cases of Small-Pox Reported Yesterday. The Grand Jury to Investigate Several , Cases of Smoke Nuisance. 6 + ————— What the Sanitary Inspectors Did Last Week. New eases of smalt-pox were yesterday re- ported trom Nos. 2 and 4 Fox place, No. 35 Currier Street, ‘No. 764 West Nineteenth street, and No. 98 Wade street.. Deaths from the disease were reported from No. 30¢ Au- Busta street, No, 102 June. street, No. 190 Black Hawk street,—all chlidren. One death Was reported from the Laspital, being woman taken from No. 30 Holt street Thurs: day, and one from No. 37 Fifth street, the presence of the disease not ing been dis- covered until after death. Since Jan. 1 the Health Department has vaceinated 5,000 people, and the work is still going on. TIE SMOKE-NUISANCE. Mr, Paton, of the Leaith Department, who has indirect charge of the enforcement of the smoke ordinance, submitted a report to Dr. De Wolf yesterday of -his labors tor the week, which read very much as if he was in a fair way of getting entangled in the meshes of sume of the smokeburner pro- prictors. [le favorably mentioned some of the smoke-burning devices, and charged that the Methodist Book Concern was FE: ad served the necessary notice on Willoughby, Hill & Co., W.S, Baker & Co., the United States Distilling Company, Keeley’s Brewery, the Leland Hotel, the Union Brewing Company, the Conrad Seipp Brewing Confipany, and the Downer & Bemis Brewing Company, to take steps to do away. at once with the nui- sauce they were creating. Dr. De Woit says upon the subject: that he is prepartog for a vigorous prosecution of all offenders, and ex- pects during the coming week to lay the cases of some of them before the Grand Jury, THE SANITARY INSPECTORS. The report of the Tenement-House In- Spectors for_the week ‘ending yesterday shows that 107 honses have been examined, in which there were 579 families and 2,764 “the following is alist of some of the de- feets found, and which have been ordered corrected No. 3201 Benson street was found offensive, the water-closets being full and the basement floor covered with stagnant water. At No, 3059 Pitney avenue the privy was offensive and drainage defective. At No. 38 Starr struct the sewer was found obstructed and the waste-water was running over the premises. . At No. 420 North Clark street the cateh-. an was reported full and the ventilation ad. a\t No. 553 North Clark street there was an offensive vault, and complaints about un- pleasant odors. . At No. 36. North Clark street the drainage and plumbing were bad, and offensive odors Were prevalenton accountof abursted waste pipe. At No. 419 North Clark the waste-pipe was untrapped, and there was anaccumutation of filth under the sidewalks, At No, 605 Thirty-first street the drainage, was defective, -the waste-pipe having no connection whatever with the sewer. At No. 200 Ashi avenue the vaults were full and offensive, and the sewer choked up. At No. 5 Mill street the vault was full and no drainage, and at Nos. lund 3 the same condition of affairs existed. At No, 52 Bradley street the vaults were full and offensive, and three ehildren had died during the week of diphtheria. At Nus. 202 and 204 Evergreen avenue there was defective drainage und offensive privy vaults, and no sewerage connections. ‘The children in the house have been sick alt summer. Kf": alt Nos. 620 and (23 Noble street the vaulis were fulland offensive, and the yards filthy. At No. 43 Bradley street fhe premises were overcrowded, and their condemnation is rec~ ommended, At Nos, HS and 545 the report is that the premises, are overcrowded with Italians, ay thet the surroundings are exceedingly ty. : = AtNo, 1810 State street the vaults were fulland the plumbing and drainage defect- ive. At Nos. 1434 and 1456 the roof was re ported as le: the plunbing bad, and the preinises dilapidated and unfit fur habita- 101, yAt Nos. 1830, 1832, and ISH State street Sy ults were oifensive and druinage de- fee 24 and 526 State street have offensive and ure overcrowded. Nos. H9 and 4494 South Clark street ie privy was offensive and the premises hy. At Nos. 1304 and 1306 State street the waste-pipes Were without traps, and the air ad. At Nos. 1300 and 1302 the same condition was reported to exist. Dr. De Wolf thinks that, with the good work going on, ina year from now.people will hesitate to rent houses unless the kend- Jord can show a certificate from the. Health Department attesting that the premises are in a good sanitary condition. If. h a re sult is notattuined he will be disappointed. $$ ‘BEATING GRISCOM. A Man 70 Years Old Who Has Fusted Seven Weeks. NEw York, Aug. 24—Terrence Connelly, of Newton, N. J., who on July 5 began 2 prolonged fast, is now considerably weaker and much changed, and up to Inst Wednes- day—the forty-third day—he subsisted en- tirely upon water,taken at frequent intervals through the day. Last Wednesday he was restless, and com- plained of feeling badly. His family Jre-* newed their appeals to be allowed to prepare some food for him, but be said he had no more desire for food than wheu his fast be- gan. In the course of the day, however, he was prevailed upon to take half a teaspuon- ful of brandy in water, and subsequently two teaspoonfuls of beef-tea. This seemed to stimulate him, and-he arose from his bed : without assistance, and fixed himself In an easy chair, The next evening he complained of feeling worse, but would not be induced to take any more brandy or beef-tea, assert- ing that the brandy was the cause of his feel- ing badly. The next morning, however, he vas prevailed on to take one or two swal- of beef-tea, and Stuce that time he has S continued to take the same amount each day. - Ile has no faith in beef-tea, and says. he only takes itto please his family. Hedepends on water for strength, and always drinks With a keen relish and evident refreshment, When asked if his fasting is not the cause of his sickness, he replies that he could not eat if he attempted it, as he feels as if ho had just partaken of a hearty meal, He re- tains his cheertulness, is pleased to see_his friends, and conyerses freely and ina strong voice, although compelled to rest oftener | > now than he did two weeks ago. Conuelly is over 70 years old, and has been in bail health for over a year. He was great- ly reduced in flesh at the time he began his fast. Wherr he first announced to his family that he would not eat any more food until his appetite returned, it was believed he gpuld live only a few days, unless he was Reptup by stimulants. But for forty-two days he lived on water, aud for the last six days on water and half a teacup of beef-tea. > The Coo’’s Shark Story, Providence Journal. About 4:30 o'clock u. m. sesterday the cook of ¢ the schooner Golden, now lying at Hilts wharf, threw some refuse vegetables overbourd. A white shark, so he reports, ubout twelve feet in length, sprang clear out of the water and caught ali the swill he throw away and sw:i- lowed It. The white shark is one of tho man- cating species, and is very dangerous. Speaking of the past successful Thomas concert season, a local ‘director was askeu to what he attributed the yenerous support pisen and the inusica! talent shown by the Chicago audiences. Efe answered that the result was due in a very great degree to the enterprise and liberality of Mr. W. W. Kim- pall, who not only furnished superior pianos atinoderate prices, but who, by introducing, the systein of monthly payments for the’ same, had placed pianos in thousands of hommes that otherwise would néver have been opened to the refining intluences of musi culture. ‘The humblest purchuser fs always sure of the most courteous treatment, and can select froin an immense stock of the best pianos and organs in America,