Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 9, 1881, Page 18

: one of our-greatest wholesale ““\homes there iv the week sueceediag the fire, * gessions afi population. 18 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9; 1s8i_TWENTY-FO UR PAGE for the twelve months now ended will foot up, on the same basis, almost $1,000,000,000. REAL WSTATE. XHE MARKET ix 187] AND SINC. ; On Sunday, Oct. $, 1871, in its regular weekly rea} estate article, Tae TrmuNneE Stated that there had scarcely been a time in ~ ten years when there seemed to be so many Schemes of one Kind or another on foot, and which would, if carried out, affect the value of real estate in nearly all parts of the city . andits suburbs. “Everybody,” it was said, “seemed swelled up with biz schemes.” The “‘thost important auction sale of the year” was advertised to come off on Tuesday, Oct. 10. The property to be sold was the north- east corner. of Adams and Dearborn streets, owned by. ML C. Steams, “‘on every side of which were being erected the finest business buildings. in the city ‘The auction never came off: the hand- some buildings in the vicinity were in ashes when Tuesday arrived. In the next column to the real estate article was the Hamboyaut, advertisement of a local insurance company. At said: “Fire! Fire! Prepare for Fall and Winter Fires! Disastrous Conflagration in, West Division Last tt Insure in Companies of Known Reliability.” ‘The fire that was raging while the paper containing this advertisement was being worked off in vress dia net stop till it obliterated this en- verprising insurance company and most of the city with it, In its issue of Wednesday, Oct. 1, Tue Trmune was able to give a specimen. of Chicago enterprise in ‘the announcement — that “Already contracts lave been made for re- building some of the burned blocks, and the clearing away of the débris will begin today, f.the heat is so far subdued that the charred inaterial can he handled.” a‘ + THE SUCCK TO REAL ESTATE was Jess than would have been expected. As soon as they could reach Chicago atter the fire, capitalists came on from: New York, Sw Louis, Cincinnati, Bosten, and other eltiesto buy lots in the burnt district and build on thers. . In the first week it was esti- nated that $1,000.C0Vin cash came here tor that purpose. Di nS went temporarily down the avenues, like Michigan and Wa- bash, and rents rose 109 per cent. The 1,500 wndccupied dwellings in the West and South s found ;umedizte tenants or buy- ers, Quite a number of were made in the first v utter the fire a i just about What was demanded before it came. ‘orsury number, issued Vet. 9 sof “Pip Aiist of we new buildings in the jority of them be- During the year solidly standunc mag- a been put up. The nificent buildi: cost of ty ‘The reales arch Vand Gerel dn the sane time wy 3,000,000, There had. been a healtiry advance in pric ulation. “Two fea svemed to have | ve no Broadway 7 pesidence @ shian, but each divisio forever of the guods whole- is Tegion, is, Franklin, and Jo aveupied for the ch must — forlorn tod tand : numer i buildings. “Adams, rected waingst, was given to a ast begun it the time ‘The large resion south of the t wis. xreatly belped by the ‘Twenty hfare of ei and A. Stps. fol Yor puttinpan property did not languish street, he duet Unit up to Cet. 9, 18% * gosmof # 6f north shore suburb: bave beca vald. As far north as Evans- puy-rolis to $2) to 339-2 foot. resolution wirade ii NTANCOU: coitng gga ts 1 have taken ae 5 the On) residence quarters be- fn shape. Withotsiets, and entire branches “d from one part of the + Mayor Hanrisye myst conspicuous in- fair of the North Coy of the wholesale dry -Deld at the North {re street and : 40,35, for the purpyt location, around Mad- Congregation. A, ‘ Some ‘of cousidcraimore by the fire than ‘The Committee of ad that thoroughfare wing in readiness tinanitest destiny that Mr. axp Mus. T.2 Vil, it would today Montgomery, Mr. 60lid with stores to Wil Bostou; MAverell, Esq., has in and Mri siazed a Httle note Mr. and Mr ee MesING story Mrs. Frink M.Smithyn. It is as follow, the guests of the Pac mye forthe Cam FATHER O'Connor's Jeanie onan o=tnul ndion of drelanas Hale WrOpertyy iy all Cormick Hall this EUG $325.00. FL ei have been sold for a to is the St. Mary’s ore fair to infer thae corner of Matdison audience. Father Gote was written by Pong an eloquent a fortnight before the er. Messi 2 a fire Mr. 3hiss Condon will sairecedl if the re ae ALillle Dunstan will + ygwners on Wabisht, Mn. Janes RB. Ydison, to make up the Hause, received erty that Field & Leiter Puncnon City, Tenty’ 955,000 were needed is brother, Jobu ji" ere . ‘the evening of thiitin were willing to pay, acitizen of Cnicet, Was Secured on Satur- ing contracted ort, the late “Mr. Had- November for 3000,.1f one week more airof the Guifefore the fire came ‘was interred ati have been raised, Field, diately remoyuid have been fixed at the home. The der of Wabash and Madison, A Fain foryent migration to wie present: district. would have intended by Fietd & oe = a ante hod It ww: and are 14; ales e ite their wholesale picture of he building at Uris cort The fair egrowth of their trade shows that of the arement could have been but tein- menemmgivir note above shows that the expect iy desired . was considered worth 4,600 ti¢.00. “The best judges would not Deeufiqate its value ut more than $1,500 En'r $360,000 in all, ‘burs South Division previous to the fire we WABASH AVENUE wae finest residence _strcéet, and its prop- -vywners resisted vigorously every at- ut to introduce stores or business of any * do upon. their beautiful thoroughfare. ke, Clark, and East Madison “were the fucipal retail streets, but after the fire all se shops and offices that could find room vent to Wabash avenue, and made it the Susiest street in the city, its property quickly vdvaneme in value from 5300 to $1,200 per front foot. Later, as the old streets were briit up, business ‘drifted back to them, but ‘on Wabash avenue large wholesale establish- dit is now Trevis. ° The South Side residence quarters have also been ereatiy enlarged aud improved. - Calumet, Prairie. Indiana, and other avenues are. now. superb. residence streets, while Michigan avenue—now the Southern boulc- vard—is probably destined to: surpass them all, the latest sales there.reported reaching between $709 and $800 per front foot. > The West Side received the greatest ac~ Probably 40,000 10 50,000 additional inhabitants found their ‘and every house was filled in Madison ‘street, thea an insigni: -oughfare, was filled for miles with retail stores, the overflow from the'South Division, and the. business it then got it has held and Increased. Fine-new blocks of stores have been-put up throughout its extent, and of no streat in the city is. the future more promis- ing or assured than West Madison. ~ The population, too, of the entire West Di- sision has greatly increased, and it now has more inkabitants than the ¢utire city held previous to the fire. me ‘The North Division was ‘at ‘the time the most unfortunate. Though farthest from the point where the fire started, it stood justin the line where the flamesstruck itat their hottest ‘und strongest, and, in a word, the North Side was wiped out, A few of its poorest blacks near the river were left, but of alt its beauti- {ul residences, many. ef them occupying an entire block ora. half ‘block each, full of beautiful things and surrounded. by the fin- est trees and shrubbew in the city, but one hhouse escaped. The Ogden place, in the centre of a full block of: land, surrounded MRS. O’LEARY’S RESIDENCE. VIEW OF THE HOUSE AND COW-SHED WHERE.THE GREAT FIRE ORIGIN. ILAD 1TS NO. 137 DEKOVEN STREET. VIEW OF THE MANSION NOW OCCUPYING THE SITE OF THE O'LEARY IABLIATION. 7 7 Wel additions, and improvements, the frontage, and the total cost thereof: : - Ne Year. ts. ‘Total ... This statement, however, enormotls as are the results it discloses, does-not take Into ac- count the vast amounts which have beeu ex- pended upon the new .Custom-House, the new Court-llouse, and the new City-Hall. ‘The first-uamed building, so far as all p Uical purposes are concerned, may be res: ed 2s complete, though it was only yes day that the workinen finished. resetting portion of the steps on. the Adams. street front, and half a dozen jobs oF patehwork, more or less important, have. to be done: since tho building was’ formally turned over Hitt and aliost covered with splendid forest trees, by great exertions was saved, and has since been the Mecca of thousands of curi- ous Visitors to the city. It still remains, a large, stately ng, at present uc- enpied by the Union Club, and. its grand. elms and other trees are. by far the finest in the city. But ‘everything also. on the North Side worth saving was lost, and things fora few months vere much depressed. ‘The reaction, how- er, soon came. No houses were rebuilt on a fullblock of land. Oftener four, ten, or twenty, but they were solider and finer than those they took the place of, and today, with thousands looking for -homes north of the river, the desirable iots forsale may je numbered on the fingers of ‘one’s two hands. and choice property on its best isiness strectsis in demand at 3500 per Mone foot. and is steadily advancingdy ‘Tniue. 1 @ Was i permanent ad- 0 all the divisions of the city. Some it_purifed, some it made more busy—all ib added to in their improvements, population, and value. UNTIL THE FIRE there were a great many residences in what is now exclusively the business district. ‘They were. gradually -retreating before the advancing lines of trade, but what was a gradual movement was made a revolution by the fire. That swept away: between two nights ail the buildings north of Van Buren street, on the South Side, whether wooden, stone, or brick. In the reconstruction that followed, no residences were built north, of Van Buren. Some notable landmarks went out of sight Oct. 9,1 One of them was Judge Mark Skinner's house, at the corner Wabash avenue and Madison. It was-a fine, old-fashioned wooden man- sion, surrounded with spacious. grounds. Where the Grannis Building now stands on Dearborn street was a wooden theatre owned by the Peck estate. Where the Williams Building is at the curner_ of Monroe and Wa- bash was the residence of E. B, Williams. Lt was used at the time of the fire by Mr. John son as a Marson Dorde, The gilded youth of Chicayzo used to flit gaily in and out between tne wooden pillars of its} Grecian particos. "There was no business then on Wabash ave- nue south of Madison street. Now there are stores of one kind and another all the way to Twenty-second street. When Mr. Walter, of thé London Times, was here a few weeks ago he spoke with admiration of the old Wabash avenue, as he remembered it, as a street of private residences, embowered in trees, setapart from each other and back fromthe street. On Michigan. avenue the res ces ran before the fire as far north as Washington street. This corner was occu- pied by a brick raw, where Matthew Laflin, Timothy Wright, Nat Wilder, John B. Drake, and other old citizens lived. The late Peter Page had his home at the corner of Wash- ington and Wabash. There were dwellings Tarther north than this, as_faras Randolph street on Wabash. Washington, Madison, Monroe, and the other cross streets near the river were mostly devoted to residences. Monroe street was all residences west of -La Salle, and from State to the lake. ‘There were private liouses on Madison street, interspersed with shops. This whole district, now filled with the finest stores of Chicago, sheltering the most valuable stock of goods in the city, was before the fire a residence quarter of deteriorating character. Shanties, houses, and a few stores stood side by side. ‘There were a great many white wooden boarding-houses here.- Vaiues were low, and when Field, Leiter & Co., J. V. Farwell &Co., and other: leading houses found that they could buy deeper fots here at $350 a foot than they could get on Wavash for $1,500, they moved over in a body. THE TOWN HAS BEEN REBUILT, ‘put values have not been fully rehabilitated. it would be hard today to xet for lower Wa- «bash avenue property what it would have brought in 1671. ts in the new wholesale centres, and along the newer parts of fashionable avenues, like Michigan, are higher than before, but there is a great deal of central property and a great deal more of acre property that has not yet got back to the ante-fire level. And yet Chicago today has a population ot 525,000, azainst 299,000 then. It. is now, as few even of its own citizens know, the centre of almost as Iarge a population within a radius . of 300 miles as York. - A circle drawn about New work % ith. = patie of 300 miles, including such large cities as Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Jersey City, Balti- more, Washington, and most of the. consid- erable places of New England, will cover a population of about 15,500,000. A similar circle about Chicago,:though including no frat cities, unless St. Louis and Milwaukee e considered such, will take in a population ot 14,500,000, Tne centre of population is moving westward. uzo’s tributaries are increasing more rapidly than those of any other of the great capitals of the world. In all the speculative furor that has carried up the prices of railroad, stocks, cotton, and grain, real estate has remained steat wand quicto ee Ss whey: aay ahd quict € cope decailities Whee Such enterprises ut Pullman gave legitimate reason for Te great mass of real estate re- eason .27%, Pre panic prices, ivis for this asovrthat conservative capitalists today re- Batvitas the best of all investinents rem ain- ibg open. STATE ACTIVITY was not checked by the fire. Its momentut breasted the pante even, but in 1875 and 18 the fuss of blood began to tell, and the move- ment graduafly slackened till In 1878 the than $17,000,000 against $7S,- up to. May 1 sales averaged about $4,500,000 a month. In June they fell off. ut nearly $2,000,000, and kept at that level i September, when over a inillion less was sold.. For five years the average had been $65,617,186 a year, but this dwindled away in i876 und 1877 to. much lower figures, but the very lowest were reached ih 1878, ‘The following shows by years the amount of real estate that has been sold in Chicago and Cook County since the great fire _Botween Oct. 9, 1871, and March 4, 1872, $3. . Between Maren § and Dec. 31, 72, $09,573.156, In 18:3 i <8 73,101,450 2 6728554 + $400, 981,342 BUILDIN: UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE PURPOSES oF THIS REVIEW it is impossible to furnish complete or en- tirely accurate statistics of the amount of building from Oct. 9, i871, to which the fig- ures already cited bring the matter down, up to the present date. ‘Ihe records of the old Department of Public. Works, which for- inerly had charge of the issuance of building permits, are for all practical purposes about as good as worthless, The lower vault of the present City-Lfall is crammed full of an undigested mass of dust-covered truck, which has Jain there for years, and which no one has apparently ever thought of separat- ing, or classifying, or arranging in anything lixe shape for consultation. The published reports of the department contain any amount of minute details on the subject of Stopcocks and other weighty themes, but when they come to what was evidently con- sidered the unimportant question of building operations, the information is about as val- uable as a last year’s bird’s nest. The amount of building done in:the calendar year of 1873 is not tobe found. Diligent search among the reports for that year and the two’ following was rewarded by the discovery of these very meagre results: The number of permits issued for.the erection of brick build- ings inside the limits during the fiscal year ending March 31, 1673, were 1,223; froin April 1, 1873, to April 1, 1874, 935; from Jan. 1, 1875, when the work was turned over to the Su- perintendent of Streets.and Bridges, to June 1, 1875, 186; makinz the whole number from Feb. 1, 1872, to June 1, 1875, 2,851. A state- ment of the amount of building for the cal- ender year 1873 is nowhere given, noris it possible, from the way in which the figures are presented, toseparate them and credit tho years.1872 and 1873 with what properly be- longs.to'each. When tho work passed. into the hands of the Building Department, how- ever, the records began to be kept in better shape,. From them, and a careful study of Tue Tnmuse’s files, and with the best esti- mate obtainable for 1873, . THE FOLLOWING TABLE Pn has been prepared, showing approximately the number of. permits issued for each year, from 1374 down to date, for new buildings, to its official custodian, the. Collector of toms. The new Court-House is oecupied bur incomplete, while * THE NEW CITY-HALL is a long way from being finished. ‘The con- struction of the Custom-ouse has cost the Government down to date $4,126,375. The amount of money expended up to date in struction of the Court-House is $2 while at least one contractor is still E ‘as, and others are engaged rrying out th ryll iy contracts, or have ius Of OG sort or anotber gainst the ounty. ‘The unfinished contracts and un- uttled clirims will probably aggregate $250,- 0G0,. The actual amount of money which ha gone into the construction of the new City- Ifalt up to date is $826,674, Lt has been pre- viously shown thatthe cost of the ne buildings erected duru first your. after the fire, $40,155,600. ‘The following table; iheluding «this last- mentioned item, the: cost of the buildings since erected, 2s per tte foregoing table.af permits, frontage, and cost, and the tigures just given in connection with the three pub- lic. buildings named, shows at a glance how nich money has gone into new buildings in Chicago since the fire: “Cost, From Oct. 9, 1871, to Oct. 9. 1872. 40,135,600. From Jan. 1. 1874, to Oct. 9,18 r previous table... 88,054,825 Amount expended o1 House 4820075 Amount House Amount expended on ni ‘Total from fire to date.......-. +++. F130,638,650 About all the comment that is needed in connection with so palpable a slo ine as this is, tht the first two items are rather underestimated than otherwise. The cost of a provosed building, as stated in the permit for, its erection, is, as a rule, somewhat id very rarely over, the mark. ‘The reason is obvious, even if it-be not alto- gether complimentary to the average man’s honesty: the figures are put as low as is con- sistent with the promptings of conscience, because the Assessors are in the habit of referring to the sttibs of these permit-books before making their annual inquisition into the taxabic property in their respective bail- iwicks, Alarge shuwing in the permit-vook taxpayers’ schedule ney of which the payer would scorn to be guilty. nation will satisfactorily average ta ‘This tite expi count for the street-railway company into the building permit therefor at $ whereas in truth-and in fact those barns are iikely to cost at least twice that sum, and possibly more. It should. also be added that the perinit-books frequently contain not whatever with regard to cost of additions and improyements—an omission which ought to be speedily corrected in future, in justice tothe cause of statistics if for no other reason. ENOUGH HAS BEEN SAID of the class of buildings which, as a rule, have been erected since the fire to show that the’ city fearned from experfence the neces- sity of improved construction. - The building ordinance, while not as vigorously enforced at. times as it should have been, has proved avaliable measure of protection, and has survived the schemes of reckless speculators to wipe itoft the municipal statute-books. ‘The Fire Department is stronger and better than ever before, ‘The water-supply has been duplicated by the. completion of tne second lake-tunnel and the West Side pump- i and ts in no danger of giving out se Chicago should be visited destructive conflagration. For drinking pur+ poses, it may not be, and is not, all that it should be, and ,the next fe ars Will prob- ably witness tlé ereetion of a crib several miles farther out into the Jake; but its suf- ficiency, for fire-extinguishing “purposes at least, 1s beyond all qustion, even if. Water-Works -pressure ist at all times powerful enough tostart the faucets runving in the upper stories of the high buildings in } the Howetonen seation Chtengs, ae the be~ giving of the present year, had overzey Tiiles of MMiprétved strocts, Wore than 720 les of sidewalk, and more than 1,760,689 linear fect of sewerage, and the work which hag since been acconrplished in these depart- ents run the figures up several notches higher, MARVELOUS : as is the record of the city’s trade, its gigan- tle building operations, and_ the statistics of@ its publie works, its steady and rapid growth’ in population must ever remain one of the wonders of the post-igneous period, From the three hundred odd thousand who were here at the time of the fire, the population has almost doubled.. The last, census, com- pleted during .the summer of 1650, put the figures at 503,305. ‘he increase since then exn only be estimated. ‘The City Directory for Inst year contained 170,358 names, while the population, as ascertained by the ceusus, was 2.95 times greater. The directory for 1381, issued near the close of the first half of the year, contains 183,292 names, or an increase 4 over the number of directory names ror last year. Using the corrected multiplier, 3, as ascertained by the ceusus, would bring the present yopulatiou—or rather that atthe date of issuing the directory—up to 540,711, or a gain of 37,406 withm the year. At will not be forgetter, however, that these figures show merely the- population inside the strict corporate limits,- omitting the closely-built residence districts immediately beyond the border line, tl ms of people in that hive of hunni ‘y—the Stock. Yards—and the numerous, populous, and thriving suburban towns, all of which are. as really portions of Chicago as the several. city wards, and whose residents are scarcely less closely connected with and interested in its daily Ii Chicago lus not adopted the “annexing” policy which has enabled some of its would-be rivals, as they are wont to fondly style themselves, to appenr considerably greater than they really are. What ithas and what it claits - is'all its own, and, instead of following the ab -you-can” policy of the communi- ties which must needs have recourse thereto inorder to swell whatwould otherwise be their own paltry showing, it-proposes in the future, as it has done in the past, to “0 it alone,” aud let thie results take care of them- selves. 3 PREDICTIONS as to the future, in view. of the splendid achievements of the past and all the glories of the living present, are scarcely needed. ‘The city itself, and all the vast material i terests tributary to it and. diay sby day. en- hanemg its importance as the commercial trovolis of the interior,; were never so reat ws now.- The old-time energy of its people © has reased,. rather: than decreased, and jis | now more than ever the one, distinguishing ‘trait of those whom neither fire nor panic could dishearten or cast down. There can be no turning backward. What has been done is but “ the babyjfinger of the giant mass to cone.” Providence is said to be on the side of the heaviest; artillery. Tho history of Chicago would seem to indicate some subtle connection between that powerful ally and the possession of what_is variously termed enterprise, push, “‘sand,” and true grit. Manifest destiny’ has pointed oitt the path by which Chicago is to attain the summit of its ambition—the. title of “sreatest- among the cities of the New World.” With courage renewed, and with every pulse quickened, as its people contemplate: the brilliant results of the past ten years, and with a living, abid- ing faith in the future as it unrolls before thet gaze, they are pressing on towards the goal, “ THE FOLLOWING REMARKS, made at the time of the opening of the new Chamber of Coninnerce, Oct. 9, 1872, by Mayor Meaill, on that? memorable’ oceasion will give the reader wvery clear idea of the ex- tent of Chicago’s caiamity and the wonders accomplished durmg the period of the-re- construction: " ‘This mighty work of recoustruction and re- bubilitacion could hot be so tar advanced by any possible effort of our unaided citizens. Nothing ut the ‘enormous afd in money and. muterlals that we buve received hus enabled us to nchieve such wonders in go incredible a space of time. With our unsupported strength we could rebuild aud restore no faster than we could produce surplus earnings. and davote, sparo time to "work, But the capitalists and craftsmen of Americ and - Europe stepped forward and proffered the assistance that could be employed. ‘The citizens of Chi- exgo supplied the during ebdterprise, tho brain power, the plans, a large amonnt of inuscle, and whatever capitul and credit the flames’ bad spured. Our friends end correspondents sup- iplied everything else. Thoextent of tnis help is not ensy to calculate, but the best upproxi- mute-estimate I exn’ make, from: the data in possenstoty nukes it equalito one-bulf. the total loss sustained in the cupitll destroyed aud earn- ings of labor and business fost by reason of the fire. L eatinate the destretetion of property by tire at $16).000,009, und thesloss on business and vinployment nt $30,000,0@, unking u total of #3190,000,000 as the consequence of one day's work of the fire fiend. Amaiust these losses we lows: On insurance... Losses on real estat Loans on personi{ securities. 2 Loans, compromises with: burned-out merchants, deductions on claim: a Donations’ to the poor in money and fO0ds,... 25-0. Louns snd donations ‘trot and friendstosame.... « Rebates under Relief bills... Purchase of Custom-House I Repayment on canal lien by Investments bere from abro: ‘Total. ‘To this may be added : fusurance that will yet be paid ... Federal expenditure on™ Custom- have received as fol- Bulance of ennai lion from Stat fo he added. Making grand total of...........-+.$00.000,000 ‘or 50 per centof the logs made good by ingur- ance, loxns, investments, payments, and gifts, leaving’ 2 net loss.of $2,000,000 to be borue by our citizens. 3 in addition to the forexoing money aid, we have bad the assistjuce of the skill and labor of not less thin ¥0,00) “able-bodied men, since spring, tohelp revuild the city and supply otber demands for labor. This hetp bas becn Indis- pensuble to the enornious progress made. But all the workers employed In the rebuilding und repairing of ;Chicago have not-wrought here. Another army of more than 10,000 Save been as busy as bees in felling tho forest, suwinx and shipping Inimber, quarrying and cuttin Stone, making brick, custing fron, manufacturing hardware, jlas5, oils, paints, furaituro, bouse- hold goods of every description, and wearing apparel of all kinds, to replace all that was lost. ‘Thus 70,000 workers besides our own citizens have been actively engaged for a whole year in hetping to rebuild and refurnish Chicago. ‘The effect of the sudden loss of so much cap- ital aud the extra demand for so many laborers has been felt ait oyer America and Europe, aud has exhibited itself In enhanced prices-of inost commodities—more especially in tron, lumber, and coil—and a rise in the cost of labor. The effect has not yet censed to operate, but will be felt for another season, ‘thouzh not to the sume degree us during the pnat year, as tho greater part’ of the destruction of weulth in the form of buildings and commodities have been recreated and re- placel by extra industry and economy here and elsewhere. Tho moderu ‘social system distriv- utes the losses and gains of a municipality over nations and continents. The ravages of tire and war ure felt everywhere, and are repuired py the jolat industry of clvilized mankind. ‘Thus we help one another without being scarcely con- selous of it. VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. Uncle Toms Cabin.” To the Editor af The Li:iccgo Tribune. Eats, lll., Oct. .—When was “ Uncle ‘Tom's Cubin published, and when did it make its rst appearance on the atage? [ Uncle ‘Tom's Cabin” was commenced as a serin! story Ia the Nationat Era in June, 1851. In 1852 issued In-two volumes. In 1853 tho author publisted a * Key to Uncle Tom's Cubin,” gi ing the original styry and facts. In Brewer's * Readers’ Handbook" you will find date of dramatization.) An Appeal for Boyton. |; ‘To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. , CHICAGO, Oct. &—Please permit.me to en- Croach upon tho valuable:space of your estima- bie journal, believing as j.do tbat it is alwayea sure medium to the pudiic, suilse. With eager eye Lhays-scadned the daily col- umn of foreign geys:10 leara of the liberation of the Amerjcauvitizens now occupying En- glish dungeous; but my hopes have always been deferred, and as one by one that Government allows. others to go free the American “sus- pects” are detained, as if by such treatment the “Proud Mistress of the Sea" intends to offer fasule'to injury, and show her contempt for the appeuls' to the protection of the Stars and Stripes. > More especialty do [refer to the case of Mr. _M.B. Boyton, who was tried and acquitted, be boing guilty of no. crime against the law; but finder a “coercion act he was“ reasonably suépected". of not being in sytpatby with the Jandlords; be was arrested and thrown into prison, where be remains to this-day untried and uncgnvicted of auy offense. . Rhis sume man, who, at the tender age of 1S, Seeing bis udopted country in danger, risked bis ife on the field of Hattic aiding in {ts defense, urely {8 worthy of our earnest assistance, but, Alas! oge~TRepubtic~Ts“uketaiettr 10- Gis best | Geeins, “-In vain does this noble-souled patriot appeal from ‘bepiud the prison bars, (a a damp, dark hole where his life's blood is becoming poisoned from fhe surrounding malaria: is ft just that we should sit idle and allow him to rewmatn in wat dvtesjuble abode wntil death alone relieve, bin? We bave it from the lately-releused Father Sheehy that furthor detention of the suspects will (mperfl thoir lives; und the food they get ho deseribes.ag unt for Buman usp. ‘This (mprisonment of Americin citizens by a foreign Power; without legal ana open investi- gation, 13. a violition of thorr rights und an insult to our Governmens:*,and, on behalf of the Americans now deprivedof their hberty, I ask, is it just, is It patriotic, ogig It bonordvle that our Government should submit to those out~ rages? “ More especially do I: address tnyself to the members of the Dumcrous Irish-American so~ efeties located in our own city and elsewhere. Surély there ought to be in ull of these organiza- tions enouen vitality to take the luitiative In the matter, and never rest content until the cases of Boyton and -others are fairly presented before his Excellency the President, feeling assured thar he will detnand/of said English Government the reasons of imprisonment, and furthermore the release of all Amorican citizens illegally ioa- prisoned. Hoping that my humble appeal may be of some benelit, and that I mint pride in being a young american, (um, dear sir, one who never saw Ireland, but novertholess hates tyranny und it~ Justice. JD. Le Please Give Us a Rest. : _ To the Edtor of The Chtcago Tribune,. CHICAGO, Oct. 8.—Boforo the ollicial history of the medical, or rather surgical, treatment of the late’ Prosident Gartield had been issued, it secmied rather unjust for us to act as a self-ap- pointed jury and judyo in the case without the evidenco in full, or at least as full as it would be given by the surgeons preparing the So-called complete history of this deplorable case. Nevertheless, medical critics havo day after day.appeared in the various newspapers, with- out apparent benellt to the profession, the Na- tion, or the sorrowing family at Mentor; and . now that the promised medical report is Inid be- foro the public, itis but fair to expect “ more and more to follow” of tho same kind, to be coritiiued almost indeduitly, or at least until the almost unlimited newspaper facilities for rival surgeons to air themselves shall bave been. exhausted. “Yet with all this ft is more than doubtful if ‘any ane will derive any other benefit or conso- Intion than the one We have always had, that doctors will disagree, and that medical and surgical infallibility is clearly disproven in this case, though no more sp thun it would appear almost tov day and in*any community. Were wwe informed from hour to hour of the condition of hundreds of patients in our midst the diag- nosis of thelr cases, their treatment: and at last, whon death had closed tho scene, if. then the revelations of an honest autopsy was held ‘up before the awestruck and wondering crowd, instead of burying ‘the medical mistukes with the clay in the cotin and allowing tho eminent, distingulshed, etc., medical men, with words of learning and ibundering sound, ‘to bulldoze” the people ali around, tben otter professional raspirants for public patronage and con- FROM ASHES. The Story of the Décade from Prostration to. Pros- ' perity. Chicago Now Ranks as.the Third Commercial City in “ America. What .. Indomitable * Parseverance, Pluck, and Energy Has Ac- . complished, Ten Years’ Experience of Her Manu- ‘facturers, Merchants, Real- * Estate Men, Etc. A Showing of Whici Every Ttesi- dent of This City Should Be Proud, *: Turning retrospectively to the memorable 9th of October, 1871,,;vhen our then prosper- ous and enterprising city was transformed into # mass of blagp.ted ruins with: its com- merce laid as low-as its walls, and today upon our resurrected Chicago froin the tomb of the old, with her rehabilitated conmnerce, ranking third in magnitude in the, Union, we realizé the venerable, hoary-headed...le- gend that has come down from antiquity— “Tlistory repeats itself’’—finds its exception on the shores of Lake Michigan, since his- tory nowhere furnishes an instance of a magnificent city of over 600,000 souls being built on the heels of such a calamity within the short interval. of one short decade, nora parallel of a trade growing from nothing to over $i,000,000,000 per annum within the same brief period. The master spirits who have succeeded in this wonderful achievement are deserving of recognition as exemplars everywhere, and we take pleasure on the occasion of this immense commemo- rative edition of Tue TreuNe to hand down the names of some of the men and firms who, by their indomitable perseverance, energy and business foresight, have made Chicago what she is today, and gives her the promise in the near future of being without a rival in her commercial greetness. "REAL ESTATE. W. D. Kerroot, ° Among the reputable real-estate agencies of Chicage none havea more enviable fama than that of W. D. Kerfoot & Co., No.9 Washington street. Established in 156 beacon light founded on an impregnable rock, « it has withstood all crises that have inter- vened since its foundation. Even the marvel- ous fire of 1871, that nearly swept our city from the face of the earth, leaving its site an unintelligible mass of ruins, had not the pow- er to terminate its existence, but, like the radjtional Phoenix, it arose in the uiidst of the ashes, telegraphed the next day to neigh- boring cities for maps of Chicago, and was Lhus the first house to afford information to inquirers and to bring order out of chaos. Nor did its thoughtful enterprise stop here, but.set about at once to help the house- fess to homes and business places; and it also has the honor ot building the first house in the burned distriet. Later, when “Black Friday” sent its desolatmy wave o’er tne Jength and breadth of the land, whereby so many stanch houses fell, the agency of W- D. Kerfoot & Co. was among the. few that passed through that trying ordeal anseathe:i, and today it notonly has all this financial stability, which makes it a monument of ia- tegrity, pluck, and farsightedness, but it has also, with all its augmented busiuess, the freshness of enterprise incislent to new « fideiiée;--As might be expected of a house of twenty yeats'-.-experience, directed by men eminently fitted for the pusiness, its mechanism of management is unique and perfect. Aside from the devartment for the purchase and safe of real area rental (which deals resident property), a Surveying, departments, Every new subdi soon as recorded, is entered on thei: Ss maps, so ihat the firm is at all times ready to. give reliable information and locate property in Chicago and Cook County. Another part of their. method is to render monthly stat ments to clients and to acquaint them wi matters relating to their interests. Perhaps the best index to Abe Clinsétee and caro; is teary, speculative—and has, incredible as it- may seem, never lost ‘an agency confided -to its. cate since its establishment. That.artirm like this should prosper is by no-means wonderful, nor that its clients become more uumerous. day by day. Chicago and Calumet Canal & Dock Co. ‘The enterprise inaugurated upon the or- ganization of the Chicago and Calumet Canal & Dock Company was the most stupendous and comprehensive to be found in the annals of this famous city for daring and accom- plished enterprises. The company was or- ganized in 1869 for the purpose of developing the property. at the mouth of .the Calumet Kiver... With — this interest. in yiew the company -purchased 5,000 acres of land and sade. any Improve: ments, among: them 1,500 feet of docks, a large hotel, a number of houses, soveral miles of graded Streets, and laid sidewalks to ‘an equal extent. This property is now known ag South Chicago. The company at this time also-inangurated the inprovement of the Calumet harbor, which the United States Government is now pushing to completion, An 1878, in consequence of the panic’ and subsequent financial depression, operations were obliged to be suspended on the. pro- jected improvements. Now, under the new regime, which is comprised of the new ac- quisition to the company’s inembership ofA. 4, Meeker, President; A. S. Downs, Secre- tary and Treasurer; and, as members of the Board of Directors, C. 8. Cummings, Presi- dent of the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railwa y3 the Hon, John B.eAlley, of Boston; GR. Blanchard, Vice-Presiaent Erle Rail road; and W. B. Howard and George L. Otis of Chicago, fresh life and vigor are infused into its veins, and the work is going along grandly. Four miles of docks 400 feet deep, with intervening sslips 110 feet wide, are ti contemplation, railroad tracks being Iaid, and a geteral movement along the whole line jis noticeable. Two million dollars of | the indebtedness in the shape of bonds is being rapidly -retired—the new stock subscribed for being applied to taking up the ‘old bonds: so that the company is now on 2 decidedly firm and sure footing, and by Nov. 1 will be out of debt and owners hearts would be made to ache #3 much as do those of tié unfortunate few at Washington who, while fumbling in darkness and fgnorance, fooled a Nation fur weeks, until their illustrious patient atfiast. succumbed and. found relief in what .must bave been, to -the suf- rer at jeast, a welcome’ death... When post-murtem‘éxaminations shall have become as common outside the pauper’s hospital as thoy’ are now within; then medical mistakes will for eby ious reusong grow beautifully less—and only It is to be hoped that some day we will reach this stage, for the’ good of humanity; that the time will arrive When the thought of having the departed loved ones subjected to an autopsy. will not be one of horror and repulaion, but one in harmony With the progress of humanity and civilization, and that an autopsy will appear to mankind as natural a proceeding as wo row find the practice of embalming and cremation to be. 2 Until that time, please give us a rest from any further useless medical critics of Bliss, bis con- suiting staff, and the unenviable reputation thoy have gained. In!ochalf of-numerous renders, yours, GRAHAM, 31. D. Stnver Creek, N.. ¥., Feb. 6; 1980.—Gznrs:.1 have been very idw, and have tried everything, to no ‘advantage. I heard your:Huo Bitters recommended by so many, I concluded to give them atrial. I: did, and am. now: around, and constantly impraving, and.am_hearly as strong BSOVE dao, We He WELLER. Bt) ao ae. ‘ in fee of 3 property valued at $7,000,000 to 310,000,000. ‘The sale of the company’s lots at South Chicago for the month of Septem- ber, 1881, were double those of the entire Poise o which is another evideuce of ity. Among, the important worksiocated at South Chicago are the Calumet Iron & Steel Company’s works; the North Chicago Steel Company, which has spent over 52,000,000 on their establishment, which will have a ca- pacity of 3,000 tons of steel rails per week, employing 3,000.men; and a large forge-*| works, running night and day, and employ- ing 100 men. Messrs. Willard Sons & Bell are? building, another _forge-works largest in’ the est it . is claimed) where they will ‘employ 200 men. There are In addition to’ the above.a tool company, which makes its own steel entering into its mianufactures, three plan- ing-mills, and several lumber and coal yards, besides other manufacturing. and business enterprises; all of which are indices of what this important and enterprising company has’ among its future possibilities. ‘The company’s office is at No. 25 Borden Block. fied with the rea]-estate interests of Chicago, we paid the fitm a visit and gleaned by in, quiry that thelr: house has been actively engaged in real-estate transactions in thig cfty for nearly a quarter of a century. Not withstanding, the: firm gives no inconsider able attention to the purchase and sale of cit and suburban improved a tatmoroved > business property, oF whieh they handle an. nually large amounts, Yet they do not'con, fine their business to this class of realty, but include in. their agency i it of property in general, and. also attention tg the negotiation of loans.” Frog! what has already been recorder of the firm’s existence, it would be Superflaons: to remarg-” they were among th :Who survived the” great contizgration of 77Vand the panié of 73, Were it uot desirably to state. a fact jg connection with those two memorable events, and that is, neither of those nities sug ceeded in making an nppreciabdle interrup- dion in their business, bee it coutinged without hindrance of-any from date of its beginning uftil the and is now. in the flood-tide of prosperity ag fs evidenced by the tootings of the year's business, ending with the present season, which show that th «lone a busi. nes: These eure indicate the sta Bragg & Cy, in “this community and of: the “stabilite of the -house. anything more is required to emphasize the character of their agency, itis supolied in the experience of the individual. members of the firm, with properties in Chicago and country contiz. uous, and which experience is supplemented by memorandums, atlases showing all tha - subdivisions in Chicazo and in Cook Count; maps of adjacent counties, besides other carefully collected data concerning the status of realestate in the various lo«alities, all of Whicu 2takes .thein not: only competent judges, but excellent authority in real-estate matters, aggregati = ea 3%. S- Breyer & Co. Success sometimes is the. creature of acei-- dent, but the success that has attended E. 3” Dreyer & Co., real-estate-and loan azents, No. $$ Washington street, since the establisti- ment of their house in 1874, is the healthful, fruitage of energetic endeavor, cood dusk ness judgment,* and equitable dealing, Messrs. Dreyer & Co., not. to mention inany~* other subdivisions and additions to .Chieago of teir éreation, made and started in Octo- ber, 1378, the Stock-Yards Subdivision, which now has 159 neat and substantial rt clusive of the churches, and fine schvolhouse et ata. cost of §: anda population of over --1,000 Oe peopl present time, 7 We mention this incident parenthétically to show that the members of Alte: Jirm are uf that pushing, live, far-sevitx. -cool-headed kind of men who, while they are quick to dis- cern advantages, are so ténservative withal they. are the last men to efther put their own or a client’s foot into any visionary “trap.” "This firm docs a large agency business in real estate, 2s well as, caring for their own property.. he fielt of their operations is not confined to-any ‘special locality, but is bounded by the city and-county tines. ‘The loan department of the business shows a very extensive clientagze, and, while home has_a fair representation, wost of the uezo- tlations are- made. for non-residents. From what has been said it will be readily under stvod the firm ot E..S. Dreyer &Co. is recug- nizel in ‘real-estate circles as one of tha stanch . houses “of Chicago, ‘and whoever contides "business to their charge will have no occasion to‘regret the confidence imposed in them. : Mead & Coe. : Duration and ;prosperity in business ara palpable signs of wértl:, and appreciation. Messrs. Mead & Coe, 449 La Salle street, ~ have been established as “real-estate agents, in this city since 1867; consequently have encountered all the vicissitudes of: business, , including the “great fire” and the panic of : °78, throuzh all of which they’ came ont» victorious; and evéry succeeding year-with ; them has skown an increase of patronage; over its predecessor, until now they-are at tha head of one of the largest and most sta- bie real-estate houses in Chicago. Their’ specialty, is strictly an ageney Dusi- ness—care and management of “estates;: negotiation and*ylacement of loans. A sort, of “wheel withiirawheel”? of their depart-- ment for the purchise and sale of real es tate is the investiuents¢ tinent, wherein property is bought, thestly for Eastern par ties, for investment, nOt speculation, and of ly ve the management. F build up a_business of this class, relieving owners (resident and non-resident) from the care of the same. ‘They have in charge some of the largest and finest office buildings in the city, besides a large list of residence property. “Their loan- ing department -is of equal magnitude with’ their other branches, and’ large sums have’ been placed by them for some’ ofthe largest capitalists of the country. 3 . Cole & Co. © in contemplating the real-estate interest of), Chicago the importance of the realty on the “ West Side,” to thé-.casual observer, is lost sight of; yet, whgn it is ‘borne in mind that - three-fitths of the, population of Chicago is embraced in nisl ision, a different concep- aon begins.to dawh on the understanding. At is true that the West Side cannot boast of! such architectural piles as the central pore; tion of the ci till it has its notable busi ness structur Its chief glory lies, how ever, in its comely residences and: desira- bi residence..quarters. Most of “the -estitte firms of the city do something” st Side property, but there is one firm understandingly makes’ it a-specialty, that of- SS West Madison street, tecessors to the old firm of D.. Cole & Son. established in 1862. ‘The busi-- ness done by this stanch house is simply im-, mense, ‘fhe agency branch alone. would be’ creditable business, so; too, the renting - branch, and the same can be said of the loan department, all accruing from the firm’s ex tensive acquaintance with the property, ¢lose attention given interests of pxtrons, and a, strict observance of: the Golden Rule. No reul-estate house in the city offers better fa- cilities to “patrons than ‘this, perhaps the. largest real-estate house in its provincein the city.” We may mention the firm are large owners in their own name. Ira Brown. at If the founder of 2 city is entitled toim- mortal renown, something of such fame should attach to those’-men who are the authors of the small towns of a coantry especially those that fie on the outskirts:of Jargé cities beautifying the approaches there to. This thought was suggested by atalk with: Ira Brown, Nos. 142 and Ht La Sails street, who. makes a specialty of subarbal property, in which he has a large interest— infact, he handles none but his own propel ty. Mr, Brown established his present ness in 1864. Previous to that time he was engaged in mercantile lines, and he my’ justly be called the representative myl.¢ Chicago for the subdivision and sale of sab. urban property. Certain it is, none “harg « done more than he to provide cheap homes for the people. Among the additions.or sub. divisions he has made are Evanston, Pak Ridge, . Desplaines, Lake Side, “Gleneo horton; Homewood, Hyde Park, asd range. ? Pecos - The following interesting Geures froin bis. books are indications of the fluctuations 2. the sales of suburban real. estate during 08 S72, 300 lots; - 500 200 lots :-1880, 425 thos, far, 873 lots.’ These. werg all sales at retalh and baye no reference to sales of acre Drop erty. Mr. Brown,.as a merchant, passed: successfully through the panies of ’57 oh 461; as a real-estate man through the fre of *T1 and financial crisis of *73; and later whet compulsory bankruptcy was the order o! day, and “thousands: of good men were forced to the wall, he pulled through we ‘Menry J. Goodrich. harmed. It can be truly said of Mr. Goodrich that. he is eminently qualified for his profess{om, What others teach only by deduction be: seemingly Jarrivés at by intuition. 4%. judginent on yalues ‘and knowledge :of localities “gre ‘stamped with the potent of his success. * Commencing ness in 1865, he -has heen prominentlY: identified from its -incipiency veal: real-estate interests. Hislines comprise F estate, agent tor estates,. and. dealer. in a suburban, and acre property. He is larzel- interested in Hyde Park property, of ve he makes a specialty; and also Is largely He: terested in tax titles in that town. In a5 tion to his other business, Mr. Goodrich My the best of facilities for the examination 0: titles, particularly of Hyde Park. He has Sociated with:him competent emplosés others, and his meshodical mind has been) means of accuraulating guch necessary tells that few have as welf an. appuinted 0! ” Recopmizing that the fru of coRnizi at the firm of F. A. Brage é& Co., No... 95 Washington street, had always’ been in the front ranks, and largely identi- | taxes even bis power of en ‘Perliaps no other house'bas .a more sudsta, tial business or a niore desirable clientagt itis gratifying tp fearn_ pis business abt: time is in such a flouris! condition thstlt. farance and Light t