Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 6, 1881, Page 20

20, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1881—TWENTY PAGES EES REAL ESTATE. Alleged Solution of the Bridge i Question. i The Market Affected by the Weather, but Firm. Demand for Investments by Big and Little Capitalists. Sale of Improved and Unimproved City Property. Transactions Along the ‘Calumet— The Belt Road. Progress of the Cable Road—The ‘ Calumet Ditch. THE BRIDGE QUESTION. r g a eI cal A m7 Bity WsteNa Cadar St UNICN DEPOT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. Cricace. Nov. 5.—To sulve the union de- pot and bridze. question, build 3 permanent roadway 100 feet wide and two or more aniles long, commencing, say, at Twenty- fourth street, and running straight into the Jake in a direct Jine toward the crib, This can be built by cribbing and filling in with stone a strip thirty feet wide on each side of | the 100 feet. Between these two Strips of cribbing there would remain forty feet, which could be filled up with sand, stone, ete, which would make a roadway that would last forever. Gen. C. Fitzsimmons in- forins me that such a roadway could be built for $75 ver lineal root, or $1,009,000 per mile, -Bith a good profit, commencing at any point that would sive the City of Chies¢o a large and ¢ It might be. found. a mee at Thi fourth eet, but for convenience, to illustrate how asily this reat question uf a grand union depot and the bridge question can he solved, I will commence at Twenty-fourth strect, ‘he railroad companies are willing to give one million dollars fora partof the Lake- Front park for a union depot. Now, in- stead of building on the Iake-troxt, let them spent the million dollars in building the above roadway, and the City of “Chicago couid well afford ‘to add one million dollars. inore io this, which wouid give us two miles (ae oe } 188i. and comu ij corner of For in this case it strikes parties who can afford to lose a little where the masses will be ‘so greatly. Denefited. Time will close these bridges: and make permanent viaducts of them in spite of all the powers that can be brought against it. D. We IL Burr, No. 682 West Washington street. A STRONG MARKE Real estate was steady and fairly active Jast week, ‘There is.a demand for. property of almost every kind. Values are very firm. Nuinbers of capitalists are looking about for good investments in realty, and there isa constant and. growing demand from smaller buyers, Last week Controller Gurney formally opened the one bid he has received for the old Armory lot, corner Franklin and Ad- suns streets, with a frontage of 124 feet and a depth of 1€0 feet. The bid was from H. A. Kohn, who offered $110,000 in cash. This is exactly $17,000 less than another party oi- fered at private sale. It is possibie the prop- erty will be offered at auction at an upset price of $127,000. Mr. Jolin De Koven sold 100x100 feet on diana avenue, between. Twenty-ninth and ‘Thirtieth streets, for $16,000. ‘Two hundred acres have been sold east of Rogers P: on the lake shore, south of the old Indian. boundary road, for $1,100 an aere. E. A. Warfield sold to William B. Howard eleven and one-half acres on the Calumet Liver at One Hundred and Sixth street for $14.250. ‘This was bought last March for. $10,000, ‘The highest price yet realized for property in the vicinity of Hammond appears in the of seven acres at the point where the Chicago & Atlantic Road crosses the Calumet River. The price paid was $500 an acre. Mr. mimond sold to Mr. Towle. Docks aud tips will ba put in at once. fra IL Harvey has sold to James F. Keeney 712g acres west of Mumboldt Park, at North avenue and Central Park avenue, in Beehe? Subdivision, in_the N. E. 3y of X. 0,43, for. S75 an acre, streets, ys, and rig vty includ Messrs. Hupbard, Hosiner 4 their celebrated White Rive ‘alley stock farm to dame < for $76,000, Th m comprises including the Vil- Bs KE 2 be- des $25.0 worth of blouded.stock of in- d. Percheron, Norman, and , Holstein cattle, and 2 i celebrated farm in Michigan. Some of the horses cost 10 apieve to import. Cu.-report. the following Li 1. ‘o, have sold N 2$ Clark street, De with Jot 48.5x109 feet, for axes of ISSl,and commissions (abov de in connection with Everhart) feet, northeast iuige-cou xes of LSSi, and atte street, three-story and basement stonce-front store, and: lot 24}gx100 feet, for $21,000 and ta uf ISS] mt Mich- igan avenue, three-story and basement stoi for $7,500 S feet, west front, on » between Tw sist: and ets, for 3 ), taxes of 8; 34H Jolson story and basement brick ho} Teet, for $2,750 and taxes of st corner of Par S81, and K water as- sh sh; 200 Ea feet, with improvements, worth avenu reet, for street, being 009. jes of the week were 22x170 feet near Thirteenth street, 10% 0, on West Monroestreet, obey, $6,000; $1 11-128169 feet, on ih avenue, Northeast eorner of Twen- reet, $60,000: 44x150, improved, on Goethe street, west of North Wells, 3 49x 14910 on Greenwood avenue, y-third, $10,350; 1 northeast. corner of Fifty rd, $7,000 HK} 6-10 on Fourth avenue, ulin of Taylor, 35,000; he ay- enue, south of Madison, § Milto st Madi; aventte, XI on Michigan avenue, southwest corner of ‘Twenty-cizhth, $15,000; 48 10x Ton De Koven, northeast corner of Clin- ton, $12,000; Block 14 on Ashland avenue, st. corner of IHickor $30,000; 16 410 on North - Ci corner. of: Eugenie, = xiG6 on Eusei southea: of North La Salle, $3,500; 45 1-10 on nue, to alke shore. si ner of Surf street, $6,000; 37 46-100x100 on Clark, north of Fourteenth, 36, i $100n Michigan avenue,near Twenty-eighth, Sri 25, improved. on Throop street, nth of West Monroe, $15, ‘ast corner of Wallace and 4 $15,000: I and Fourt near “Twelfth, $29,600 st of Jeiferson. 005 ington, northeast 5,000; S acres on Walla of Mohawk, $14,000: 50x100 southwest corner of _ Lilinois, 500; 50x1890n Michigan nue, south of th, $22,560: 105 on Sedewick, southeast corner of Webster avenue, 315.400; % anal, south of Randolph, $40,000: 24x130 on Michigan avenue, northeast corner of Fourteenth, 314,000; 24 39-100x149, im- proved, on Dearborn vem north of Goethe, $16,000; G0x100) on ‘Thirty-ninth, northeast corner of Indiana aventie, $3,000. enth, between Twelfth path, 49,4403 259x114 on Holden, 193 on West x100 on eorner of southeast May, corner RETURNING PROSPERITY. The Real Estate and Building Journal has made an interesting and laborious exain- of roadway into the lake, and then give the | ination of the sales of outside property which yailroad companies the privilere of us do not appear ih the regular list of dusta much of the Jake as they should desire | transfers published every morning. Ieturn- to build a grand union depot on at the com- | jng prosperity -at onve shows itself in a Anencement of this roadway into the lake. | qemand from the employed elasses for cheap und: thee halanos Uf this Lio miles of roadway | realestate. The following is the compilation could be utilized tor freight depots the first | of some of the principal sales of. acres that aut al Sachineal ee round-houses, ¢tc, | have grown out of itand are of recent con- sec nile. i a summation: Now, what would be the result of ail this | ‘ren acres in See. 15; 99, 13. expenditure of money? Why, just this: | Twenty acre: i 40, 13. the two miles of solid Stone roadway into the | Bishty acres in & wy Jake would bea never-failing protection for | ‘Ten neres In See. the finest harbor in the world, and s! ‘Twenty acres in See. sould be built one-half a mile tong and 16g | Pract in Secs, 17 an Ieet wide, not only along the Inke shore, but | Five acres in Sec. all along the above roadway, which would Bor acres In give asolid dockaze of forty miles, where | Fyuctional Sec. ae ‘ail-of our lumber, coal, and merchandise | Nine were paraee Sixty-lrst street and could be landed and handled with great ease. South Park nvenue.. 2 17,323 The land for these slips, of course, the City | Fie weres cormer Stare and Fifty-lirst | of Chicago would own, and could dispose of | six seres in See. 1. Iwo to vrivite parties tor ‘at least one or more | Sixty neres ir, Sec. 31. 41, 1h ‘ 48,000 million dollars, and these private parties | Ten acres in Warren's addition to Wild- would build tie doeks, elevators. | store- | _ wood... houses, etc., the rentals of which would well | Eizhty acre e' rep2y them for the money expended. ‘Twenty acres in Sec, 19. _In talking this subject up with Mayor Hai- | Forty ueres in Se rison, who, by the elt a blan |: 70) acres tn Sea ot. qnust be adopted in x very few years, his } Twoedte acres in Se Honor threw out a valuable and’ practical | forty acres in See 2h. hint that J had not thought of in regard to | spwente ures in Sec. 4 civansing this harbor. He said there should | ‘Twenty acres In Sec. de lefta space near the Union Depot so ar- acres in See. 6, 3 ranged ‘that the water ould’ flow over this | E acres in Sec. 1, ‘yoadway into the Jrarbor under the railroad- | Forty a tracks so. as to create a semi-current to the |. oF! Avater on the harbor, and’ ther out the filth that would aturally accumulate rom so inueh shipping. This is a valuable | Five acri sanitary hint : Peet: Sa eee ee Lhave no doubt if this scheme should be | Five acres corner Wailace and Fift carried out the General Government would streats, be ‘pertectly wilimg to donate $1,002,000 or | 20acres in See.i5, 34,1 . $2,000,000 10 complete such a grand_under- we eres in Sec. 9, 330 ‘aking, thereby relieve the City of Chicago | 20s! 20 fee coraur Contre-arenue and of any great expenditure of money; in fact, | raivty by olehty code in Sooo i7, 40014 it would prove x money-making project for | jsisnry-ewo netes In South Section Hobine the city, and the river need only be used for | “con's heserv pipes oe 9496 canal-boats and sewerage purposes, thereby | Ten acres corner Evanston road and Ros- giving us the bridges for permanent coe street .. om 25.000 ducts, and without these permanent viaducts | Forty acres in Sec.7, 37, 14. 20,000 the business of Chiexgu cannot be trans- | Twenty acres in Sec. 1, 37, 14...... 13,009 acted in ten, sears from now with a inillion Seventeen and one shalt actes coracr For, Of people in the city. eventh street und Stewart avenue, From the Union Depot at Twenty-fourth | BiBUs seres in See. 21,31, 1... street an elevated railroad should be built| Forty acres in So i along the Jake shore where tie Michigan | ‘riwenty acres corner’ Kinz: Central and Ilinvis Central pes ds ae eighth streets... : 9,009 Tun, to-iake passengers up to the centre of Nearly. 15,6 o in t the city as far as Lake street. with stopping Nearly 15,000 acres are embraced in the ¥y at Tweifth, Van Buren, Madison. showing, equa! to 150,000 building lots. Out A s. Lwould sell the val } of the total perhaps 100,000 lots, for building, dands owned by the Ilinois Central and Mich- ; will be offered, and the remainder used for } dan Ce ra Railroads from ‘Twenty-fourth j manufacturing and railroad shops. If there street to the river, the proceeds of which | nad been Jess than an extraordimary call for would about build the Union Depot and the ahore empl venignis along the roadway into be lake. A 1 am well aware that the linois Central and Michigan Central Railroads and the ele- .Vator interests along the river will fight this scheme, for it must necessarily injure their “tinancial interests, more or less, but no great such property the purchase of acres would not have shown up so well. This call comes from the yery rapid increase in our popula- tion, and from the prosperous condition of the working class. It assuredly gives a very bright prospect of the settlement of. all the available portions of the county at a not public improvement can be made without sume private individuals being injured, and distant period. The market in the month just past has been characterized by the number of Srna for Si "The transfers agetegute 0 & 163," against 786 sales. for $2,515,822 in September, and 752 for 33,1 3 in October, Tss0. ‘The sales for the past ten months foot up $492 for $42,105,9'0, against 6,329 sales for $26, 59 in the same ten months of 1880. BUILDING. Architects are talking over at their leisure with their elients the plans for next year’s buildings, some of which are of great im- portance. Rents are rising, if mat rial and Wages are not coming down, and this cncour- ages capitalists to put money into bi ick and anortar. ‘The Evening Journal say Tho northwest corner of State and Jackson streets, which bus long been covered by several smittl fil-louking frame buildings, is. being im- proved by Mr. F. It, Otis, Ina handsome and sub- stantial manner, by the erection of stores which are to have a State street frontage of sixty feet They will be tve stories in bight, have Phila- delphin pressed brick, with stone trimmings for the Juckson street front, and stone for the State street facade. They will be finished in x sutb- stantial manner throughout, suitable for busi- ness-stores, ‘The approximate cost is $40,0W0. The sume gentleman owns sixty-tive fect nd- joining the above, the improvement. of which will likely follow soon. Permits were issued last. week for 102 buildings, valued at $210,000, Among then were thse to W. A. Marr, nine one anda half story cottages, 155x43 feet. Lyman, near Haines street, to cost $20,000; II. J. W: ford, three-story and_ basement dwelling. G4 feet, No. 218 LHlinois street, to cost $6,390; John “Gorman; three-story~ and basement: alwelling Thirteenth street, near: Cen- tre avenue, to cost $7,000; J. Galchow, for a, two-story brick dwelling on Rumsey street, Clarinda, to cost $18,000; Union Iron & nea Stee! Company, for a two-story foundry 59 feet, on Ashland avenue, near Thirty-ti street, to cost 20 cob Lauer, thr ling- 1 story, basement, and attic’ planing-mill, 7 100 feet, Nos. G39 to 693 North Lalsted street, to cost $7,000. THE CABLE OAD. The work on the State street cable road is being pushed *forward rapidly, and if the present weather continues and: there is no hard freeze-up, the road will be completed this fall through to Thirty-uinth street. ‘Che excavations for machinery at Madison, Ninc- teenth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second streets are being closed in with iron super- structures, and will probably, be invisible from the sidewalk by the last of next wt ‘The tirst gang of: city pavers has reached hiteenth street, the second gang has tween Thirty-first and ‘Thirty-tifth streets. ‘The middle track on State street. between Madison and Lake, is nearing completion. The conerece is in belween Madison and Washington streets, and the mixer is pidly crushing materi ke street. By uext of road will probably be this length ompleted. From the Madison street e: tion south to Nine- teenth street the road been finished. ‘The shafts in the engi are being put in place, and the inachinery for tne excaya- tion in front of the house is being put in, Suuth of Twenty-second street the work st track has been veuty-seventh street, the con- h street, and goes rapidly on completed to erete has been put in to ‘Phirt the iron-work is in plaice a ‘a ‘hirty- lirst street. ‘The east track has been com= ted to Twenty-fourth ‘street. South of ‘Chirty-tirst street the iron yokes and ‘Trails ae lying along the street ready to be put in place. Indiana avenue, between ‘fwenty-ninth and Th first strects, is in a very dition. ‘fhe street from curb to curb is one vast of mud, and the tracks and switches ‘eoutot sight, The water has warped the switches to such an extent that they are very’ imperfect, aud almost every evening cars are thrown off the track into. the soft mud, causing 2 confusing blockade and a devlora- ble amount of profanity on the part of the street-car passengers who are on their way home to supper. w residents along the street are very indignant that the city should allow such. a state of affairs to exist. 6 TNE BELT ROADS. The terms of all the contracts have been ‘setiled for the construction of the East Chi- cago Belt Railroad, and they will be. signed. tomorrow. The contractors are obliged: to proceed with the work continuously from Dee. 1, without regard to the ordinary inter- ruptions of winter weather. ‘The first fifteen. miles to be built will run from East Chica to the Rock Island crossing. This will inter- sect all the great roads running to the East and South, and will, as a reference to the map will show, . cross the tracks of eleven roads. At Lake View piers will be built that ties for loading and unloading lake vessels in fair weather, A road will be pushed up along # route not yet determined to South Chicaxo. East Chicago has been brought into the courts at Indianapolis. Charles Edward ‘fremearne and others, of England, ha) Jacov Forsythe to compel specific perform- ance of a contract to convey 8,000 acres of Jand, lying in. Lake County, about thirteen miles from Chicago, to, the plaintiff. ‘Tre- mearne, ‘The land has since been sold by the Forsythes to Joseph Ord, of $1,000,009, the transfer of tithe awaiting the result of thissuit, The defense is that there never was any legal contract of sale, and that the plaintiffs are irresponsible . parties and wholly unable to pay for the land. _ The Western Indiana has received permis- sion from the ‘Trustees of Lake to lay tracks east of Wallace street from the south side of Porty-seventh street to the north side of ity-lifth, with the privilese of using length- wise any of uve intervening streets and al- leys running north and south where the rai road owns abutting lands on each side of such street. Provided. however, that the tracks shall not cross Forty-seventh street, and that a strip of thi liree feet between Forty-ninth and Fifty- for a street.in ease the town s also, the-same pi exe from street to Auburn, and from Vincennes avenue. Alot the latter are to he considered vacated, providing the railroad company puts Kighty-seventh street in good condition for travel trom Holland road to Wallace street and from thence to Vincennes avenue. «An ordinance was passed allowing the Chicago & Western Indiana Railway to build telegraph lines and lay tracks and track connections from the crossing of the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway west to the dividing lines between the west and east half of the N. W. 2 of See. 27. Town 38, Range 13, and north to the north line of the Town of Lake. THE CALUM pItTcn. Considerable interest is felt over the dis- position which. the Hyde Park Board of ‘Trustees may make at their next meeting of the assessment for cutting 2 diteh from Brown's Mills Slip across to Pullman, During last year the. village levied an as- sessment upon an extended area of adjacent property for the purpose of cutting an al- lezed * diteh* from Brown’s Slip westward- ly to the eastern shore of Lake Calumet, ‘This “diteh ” is proposed to be twenty-five feet wide on the bottom, nine feet deep, and would, when dug, be between fifty and sixty feet wide across the top. This would afford Lake. Michigan for. the Pull- Association. Ostensibly . th is to better the drainage of that sec- The owners of some portions of the At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees _a resolution was adopted intrueting the Village Attorney to take steps to stop the further collection of the sbecial assessment, of which about one-half ($4,009) has already been paid. tis claimed the cou: by” parties interested in- the Brown's Mills slip that the . construction - of such a channel would prove ruinous to the slip, which is much deeper. and would conseauently soon be filled in with deposit drawn fromthe ditch, They urge that if built of the proposed dimensions water craft could be floated.upon it It is claimed also that the village, to secure proper dramaze facilities, should not en: upon this private slip, which has been built at great expense, bur should enter the river at some other poin ‘ it seems but proper if the “canal project” is the “power behind the throne” in’ this inatter, that the owners of abutting property 1 secure dockage thereby should val at their own expense. re, if the “ditch” is built for the accommodation of Pullman, and 1s used as a ship canal,.it will necessitate the building of at least six swing bridges: at large expense, and which will be a constant barden upon the taxpayers of the villaze, 3 “commerce; the money already paid refunded or not is { the question now w above, At the la: unade To reconsjd was had. Lt is i final. decision eather abandoned or thrown back into court, STREE! Canal street, i proposéd Polk street viaduct, is. impassable on recount of the dirt filling that has been in, till put ready The for use by the pul porary expedient, to add a plank’ roadway from which to 1 speeial appropri large rep ir-sho} West In : ‘The Comissio! been ii prepa nordina its nex meeting, SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The following record Saturday, West Luke st, 225 ft wof Staunton, n f,25 x10) ft, dated Oet. 20 Geore: ti 3,000 Other observers have since said that this herbage is regularly felled by the ants in order to make a road. Each ait carries its Partita an i 4,009 | semicircular piece of leat FONE £1, dated: Oct. 8 (Bertha B. Joan = UPRIGHT OVER 17S ITEAD, arin tasitnge! Stolp tery 6,250 | so-that the home-returning train is rendered enaV, Ne cor of Orel Ais very conspi cs sereation SHOW Sad Tt dated Oot. 31 (William Schrude to very conspicuous. Keener observation shows Hans C. Jonnson, Ree 3,200 | that this home-returning, or load-carrying, Lubeck st, Mb tte Cuuninghatm to F. A. Rother)... CM ites aanaeh eh Park st, 138% lft n wot Wood, 1 ef, 255 ing in opposit directions. When the leaves ft, improved. dated Novy arrive at the nest ‘they are received by a 7 el 1,800 | smaller kind of worker, whose duty it is to _,, | cue up the pieces into still smaller fragments, 3,500 | whereby the leave em to be better fitted ‘ fur the purpose to which, as we shall pres- Ruspin It. Cherry) 8,000 | ently see, they are put. ‘These smaller work- West 1 ers never take any part in the out-door 1,100 | Jtbor: but they occasionally leave the nest, hare te ee npparently for the sole purpose of obtaining sty eAS: +» dnted Oct. air and exercise. for when they Jeave the remunt ei bot Sopna 400 | est tiey m Tun about doing nothing, atte Te hanroved, dated Sept. and frequently, as in mere sport, mount some 2 J. EO Robertson to ¥. C. Prive) 25 of the semi-circular pieces of leaf whith the Aldine square, wolf Vincennes av, ef, arricr-ants are taking to the nest, and so get XISD ft dated Nov. 1 (Master in Chin- a ride home. ta. Davi: 3,200 From: his continued observation of these r ants Bates congludes that the object of all Sti puted 3.209 | this labor isa highly remarkable one. The iter stot nf mate fas leave hen gathered do not themselves ap- Tt, dated Oct. pear to be of any service to the ant: ‘ood; U! Borden g50 | but, when cut into small fraginents and tured away in the nests, they become suited : nidus for the growth of a minute kind 2,300 fungus on which the ants feed. We may n Thomps ety therefore call these insects “ gardening ants,” Det. 8 Gown Jobuston | inasmuch as all their labor is giv “1 rearing of nutritious vegetables on artificial- and ‘Thirty-tifu rond rizbi of A nm itroad Cou 1 in the (Frank W. Mix NORTH OF CITY CITY LIMIT IEE srady 250 3 seeds of grasses dur- alot av, udjolutig’ tho above, wt, ing stunmer, and storing them in granaries jauntins URE CO ee aah [OE r cousitnpcon. Mullison av isfttn of Fifty-seventi sy ~~ Moggridge found that from the nest in x75 ft, divted Sept. 1 various directions there proceeded vutgoing » Gibbs to a. Ber: 1,875 ins, which may be thirty or more yards in Le UTE Ror EerCsaseent Btw length, and each consisting of a double ii fr, dated Nov. 5 (A. and J. row. of ants moving in’ opposit di- mpson to'T. 1. Gary). £00 | rections. Like the leaf-eutting ants, Langley ay, lw ft s of Fort, those composing. the outgeing = train oes | tre empty-t wnded, while those composiny the incoming train are laden. But here the burdens are grass-seet At their termina 5 | tions in. the roraging-ground or ant-fi the insects composing Lhese columns disperse byshhundreds among the seed-yieliding grasses. "They then ascend the steis of the’ grasses, pista teas 7,000 ands ae ins ie seal or capsule in their jaws, st. 5A) EE it nn f ix their hind-legs firmly as_a pivot, round t ied et. bL(Master_ in Chancery to as | ich they turn and turn till the ‘stalk is Bae . 3 ed aff. ‘The ant then descends the to doin Hoos) Lotot sixi ft on above, dated Qet. Jonn Hoos to B. companions to the nest... . Two ants a Ine we S12 | sometimes combine their efforts, when one gas aa Sera cat. stations itself near the base of the peduncle, Faeeaen OD BONES a “tae I znaws it at the point of greatest tension, WEST _or city SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOL fr, dated Nov, 3 (Thomas Willinins to HL, Masson) iD Htt s ted Nov. £ Baldwin)... SUMMARY The following and subnyl City sitles: North of South of West of city limits. . Total. ‘Total previous week New York is excited over negottations for the purehase of the Jumel estate in | slong tho train, aud found that all the ants with d # Sate EB the bunnerets on thelr heads were standi the upper part of Manhattan Istand | sui’ mnickiy pressed tozethor, awaitiag the by. persons who propgse to start a | word of command from’ the front. When 1 great world's fair on that site, | turmed Lack to the obstacle, 1 was astonished to Mr. Chase, who the famous Jumel says that the property has not yet been sold, but that it is iu the market. 100 lots altogether, and a bid for the property.. The real-estate people |, ‘The operations nere described show clearly think that it will bring $1,500,000. There are tees these ants et upon the principie of the Inortgar i del lates Oy, ivision of Tabor. origazes On it, or, accumulate taxes, |“ Witen ihe grain is taken into their nest by mounting to over $490,000. Many think that i {tailroad should buy this the Elevat erty and es re ‘The consol -\s for Brooklyn. don a suburb of portant quurter of Indeed, both cities would be greatly by becoming not only the zrext metropolis of the country by nam . and ity miles is becoming occupied by hich is rapidiy growing. tion, busin Tront of tw ordinarily more ssi than wre found on are gaining in the find berths here, in Brooklyn.” Our than those of New iu-hirge bloéks, an ure the New Jers hores 009,W0 bushels of grain in store, more than arters is in Isruok Atisfactory prog: WW. Child 2 thres Georze in the develinaielt of their new suburb of 1 Wayne, near gether t popu ‘The company bought 600 and spent $100,000 + $50,000 for a wa drainage to swel $500,000. The bu and the purchasi of twent costing $2,000 to further provided upon which the cating the trees to suit the landscape. pasanene of a third part of the cost of the and and impro’ hh the rest remaining on mortgage s ‘Whether the project will be abandoned and | terms. ‘there will be no barrows. ee, t as Virtually done by th next ‘To render the roadway in proper condition 700; but there is no fund under the control of the Department of Public. Work st is reje rest | ina crossing by the Indianapolis Air Line, whieh will come into Chicago over the Western Indiana, will be built in the vicini! ueted by the. Common Council to paving of North Ialsted street from go avenue to the brid: cago avenue from street, and report the same to the Council at 109 ft, duted April hore, between LIMITS WITHIN iv, 220 ft's of Forty: p. Peterson). aun transfe! seven tiles of the Court-Ilouse filed for rec- mt Mr. Gould, it is said, thinks that the project would pay idation of New York and Brdok- On this id toa Herald ew York. It would be of great advantage to Brook! Nine-tenths of the warehous- ing of the port will be found to be alread: lated buildings: viking designs tor a residence, » ‘This .: ANTS. | before the authoritie: meeting an attempt was ler the matter, but no action pected that: they will make and the whole projec Remarkable Facts as to the In- teiligence of - Certain Species. in the neighborhood of the | prov They.Cut and Store Leaves, and What For. not - be paved. will to filling spring be Grass-Seed Gatherers, Plent-Sowers, tem- and Honey-Gatherers lic, it is desirable, Wholesale Foraging by the Military Ants of the Amazon. twelve feet in width, the estimated cost of which is ot such an outlay, unless a tion is made. jiving in the prospect that ys will be erected at the Performances Evincing Astonishing Powers of Observation and Reason. rge iron foundry + George J. -Romunes in Nineteenth Century. The mode of working practiced by the leaf- cutting ants of the Amazon is thus described by Bates: ‘They mounta tree inmultitudes. .. . Each one places. itself on the surface of a leaf, and cuts with its sharp, scissors-like jaws. a neatly semicirenlar incision on the upper side; it then Takes the edge between its jaws, and by a sharp jerk detaches the piece. Sometimes they let the lenf drop to the ground, where a little heup ne= cumulates, until carried off by another relay of workers; but generally each inarches olf with tne plece it has operated on, and, 1s all tuke tho same road to the colony, the path they follow beeomes in v short time smooth and bare, 1ook- ing like the ipressi on of a cart-whcel through the herbuge. ner of Public Works. has ince for the curbing, filling, e, and West Chi- the bridge to Halsted instruments were filed for Nov. 5 L. Epps to Souta’ Water 5} Dek Whycharlests train of workers keeps to one side of the ae road, while the out-going, or empty-handed, of Sorta Leavitt, nf, | train keeps to the otheer side; so that on 1578 ( A every road there is 2 double train of ants Zo- ly-prepared soil. __ Ants of this genus are very clever at n ing tunuels. The Rev. 1D Cla ys that in one case they have made a tunnel of enor- mous length under the River DParahytia, where this is as broad as the Thames at London—their object being to reach a store- house which is on the opposit bank. ‘Thi: sis and . ditted Nov. 1(M. 3. uni to the Hingis Cen- pany)... ubove lot, dated Nov. to sume cumpany)..... A RADIUS OF COURT-OUSE. ov "rHe, ne § Mean passaces of these ants extending to a distunce of sev- enty yare TING ANTS. ‘The harvesting ants. belong almost ex- clusively to a single genus. which, however, nuunber of sp distributed in allover the four quarters of Their distinctive habits consist OF THE COURT-HOTS mean avs fr sts, Oct. (W. 1H. Speneer stem, patiently backing and turning upward rain as often as the clumsy and dispropor- te burden becomes wedged between the ely ilks, and joins the line of its while the other hauls upon it and twists it, +. . L have occasionally seen ants, en- ze in cutting the capsules of certain plants, drop them, and allow their compan- ions below to carry them away; und this cor- responds with the curious account given by #Elian of the manner in which the spikelets ot corn are severed and thrown down “to the people below.”” Dr. Ellundorf made the experiment: of in- terrupting the advance of a coluinn of. these s ants, with z FOR THE WEEK. TNE INTERESTING RESULT is the total amount of city | which he thus describes in a letter to Biich- aradius of | ner "Thick dry grass on cither side of their narrow road, so that they cottid not pass through it with the loud on their heads. I placed a-dry’ branch, nearly a foot in diameter, obliquely. across their. path, and pressed it down so tightly on tho ground that they could not pass under- neath, ‘The first comers crawled —_be- ueath “the branch a3 tur as they could, and then tried to climb over, “but faited owing tothe weight ou their hends. Meanwntie tho unloaded ants from the other side came-on, aud when these succeeded in elimbing over the bouzh there was sucha crush that the unladen ants bids to.ehimber over the mden, und tho result was a terrible muddle. * I now. waked A RADIUS OF $ 800 Wfts of Wabansia Nov. 5 (0. BL t ft, dated Clara. piace. ¢ f, 283x105 (EM rd to M. L. ITEMS. See that the loads had been laid aside by more than a foot's fength of the column, one imitat- ing. the other. And now work began on-both sides of the branch. and in abuut half an hour tunnel was made beneaib it, Euch ant then took up its burden again, and the march was re- sumed in the most perfect order. represents all the heirs of 1 estate at Fort Washington, There are over million of dollars is sters, itis stored in regular grana- not until it has been denuded $ Ks? or chal” ‘The denuding process, which corresponds to thrashing, is carried on below ground, and the chat is brought up to the surface, where it is laid! in heavs.to be blown. away ‘by the wind. Ibis not yet understood why the seed, when thus stored in subterranean chambers just, far enough below the surface to favor germination, DOES NOT GERMINATE Probably the ants in the granaries do some- ing to the seeds for the express purpose of nting germination; and, if so, it would be interesting to botanists to ascertain what this process can be. Dut, be this as it may, there is no doubt that the ants are fully aware of the’ impor- tance in this connection of keeping their garnered seeds as di ible; for when the latter prove ov st after collection, or have been subsequently wetted by soak- » the insects bring them up to the 2imd spread them out to dry, to be in brought into the nest after a suilicient Mogetidge bserved that the process, whatever is, whereby the ants prevent germination, is not invariably suc- cessiul, but thet a small percentage of stored is sometimes do begin to germina n 5 the case, he also observed the highly interesting fact that the ants then Knew the most effective method of checking further germination, for he found that in these cases they cnawed off the tip of the sprouting radicle. ‘This tact deserves to be considered as one’ of the most remarkable among the many yemarkable facts of ent psychology. prop- ultural garden and 1a hort Jo8. T. subje we ure row in public estima nto be Known: 2s an itn the great City.of New York. benetited butin fact as to popula alth. irooklyn's water- We buve iling-vesselg ut our wharves the New York side, and we number of steamships that y doue elevators are more capaeious York, but they ure situated dare nol so conspicuous as u the New York and OF the 1,- of the Hudson. yn storehouses, is being made by Mr, nd Mr. Anthony Drey delphia. It will bring to- n Of 3,000 in another year. supply, and enous! 1 the tot investment to ilding lots are an acre excl, ris bound to Select one out $3,000. Picturesqueness is by fixing the exact spot n their manner of gathering and garner- house shall stand, and Jo- | ing grain the American. harvesters re- Afirst | semble in 1 general the harvesicrs of Eu rope; but itis alleged’ by Dr. Lincecum that in one respect their habits manifest an aston- ishing, and indeed wellnigh incredible, ad- vance upon these of their European allies. ment is all that is required, For this observer states in the most positive. terms that the ants actually suw the seeds of tin plant called the antrice, tor the se of subsequently reapmg 2 harvest ; hence these ants have been called HONEY-MAKING “ANTS. These ants are found in Texas and’ New fexico. The comunity consists of three distinet kinds of ants, which appear to be- Jong to two distinct genera... These are: ae Yellow workers; nursers and feeders of IL. Yellow honey-makers; sole function to secrete a kindof honey in their large globose. abdomens, on which the other ants are sup- posed to feed. ‘They never quit the nest, and are fed and tended by. L IH. Black workers; guards and purveyors, whieh surround the nest as sentinels, and also forage for the food required for 1. They are much larger and stronger than either or LI, and are provided with very formidable mandibles. : ‘The nest isin the form of an absolutely perfect square, of which each side measures from four to five feet, and the surface of whichis kept quite unbroken save at two points, teach of which there is a very mi- nute hole or entrance. One of these minute holes occurs near the westside of the square, and the other near the southeast corner; for it must be remarked that thesquare is always built with precise reference to the points of the compass, in such a way that one side faces «ue north, and consequently the others due south, cast, and west. ‘These boundaries ure rendered very conspicuou by, the guard. ot black workers or soldiers (LL), which continuously pa in a close double line of defense, moving oppasit directions. This sentry-path oceu- pies the north, east, and west boundaries, the south side of the square being Jeft open. ‘The southern side.of the square encamp- ment, or rather fortress, is left open as just described in order to adinit of ACFREE OF SUPPLIES. some of the black workers are on duty rd, another and rger division are on duty as purveyors. ‘These enter and leave the quadrangle by the southwest corner in a double line (one laden and the other not), which follows exactly the diagonal of the square to its central point, where all the booty, consisting of flowers and aromatic rade round three of the sides 1 Whil as gu leaves, is deposited ina heap. Passing from this central heap to the entrance at the southeast corner of the quadrangle, and therefore occupying the other semi-diagonal of the square, there is another double e. f workers constantly engaged in carry- ing .the booty from the central deposi into the storehouses — below-ground. ‘These workers are exclusively cou posed of Class I, whuse whole life is therefgre spent in running backward and forward upon this. semi-diazonal of the square, carrying in food and. feeding Class 1. Nu black ant is ever seen on. the eastern diagonal, and no yellow ant i the western; but each avate station, and here works with a si fastness and apparent adherence to discip line which ure not-less remarkable than those exhibited by the sentries. ‘The western hole before-mnentioned seems to be intended only asa ventilating shaft; it is never used as a gateway. F Section of the nest reveals, besides passages and galleries, a small chamber, across which is spread, like a spider’s web, a network of suuares spun by the insects. “In each of these squares, supported by the web, sits one of the honey-secreting ants (II). Here the honey-makers live im perpetual confine- ment, and receive # constant supply of flowers, pollen... ete., “which is continually bein; tthemvby I, and which, by “a process of digestion and stcretion, they yert into honey, lt is particularly note worthy that in this traly wonderful exhibi tion of sovial codperation the black and ye low workers appear to belong to two distinct genera; for hitherto this is the only gase known of two distinct species of animals co- operating for a common end. . ECIYON: We have lastly to consider the most aston- ishing insects, if not the most antonishing animals, in the world. These are the so- called “foraging,” or, as they- might more anpropriately be called, the military ants of the Amazon. 5 Ecitow legionis moves in enermous armies, and everything that these insects do is done with the most perfect instinct of military or- ganization. ‘The army marches in the for: of a rather broad and regular colin, hur dreds of yards in length. The’ object of the march i¢ to capture and plun- der other Insects, for food, and, as the well-organi advances, its deva tating legions set all other terrestrial life at defiance. From the main coliunm there are sent out smalier lateral columns, the com- posing individuals of which play the part of scouts, branching off in various. directions, and searching about with the utmost activity for insects, grubs, ete., over every log and un- der fallen leaf, if prey is found in sufiicient ly ull quantities for them to manage alone, itis immediately seized and carried to the main column; but, if the anyunt is too large for the scouts themselves to deal with, mes- sengers ure sent back to the main column, whence there is immediately dispatched a detachinent large enough to cope with the requirements. Insects or other prey which, when killed, are too large’ for sinie ants to varry, are torn in pieces, and the pieces con- ved back to the main army by different individuals.. Many insects in trying to escape run up bushes and shrubs, where they. pursued trom branch to branch and tw twig by their remorseless enemies, till, on arriving at some terminal rami tion, they must either SUBMIT TO IMMEDIATE CAPTURE by their pursuers or drop ewn amid the murderous hosts beneath, As already stated, all the speils which are taken by the scouts, or by the detachments sent out In answer to their demands for assistance, are immediate- ly taken back to the main army or column, When they arrive there, they are conveyed to the rear of that column by two sinaller columns of carriers, which ure constantly running in two. double rows (one of each being laden and the other not) on either side ot the main column, On either side of the main column there are also constantly run: ning up and down a few individuals of ler size, lizhter color, and having larger heads than the otherants. These appear to perform the duty of ofticers, for they never leave their stations, and, while actively run- ning up. and down the outsides of the colttmn, they seem intent only on maintain- ing.order in the march—stopping every nov and then to touch some member of the raj and file with their antenna, us if giving di- rection: ‘The Ecitons have no fixed nest themselves, but live, as it were, on a perpetual campaign. At night, however, they halt and pitch ncamp. For this purpose they usually se- et a piece of broken ground, in the -inter- stices of Which they temporarily store their plunder. In the morning the army is again on the march, and before an hour or two has passed not ingle ant is to be seen where thousands and millions -had previously cov- ered the ground, ‘Two species of Eciton are TOTALLY BLIND, and the habits of these differ from those above described in that they march exclu- ively under covered roads or tunnels. ‘The yan of the column is constantly engaged in rapidly constructing the tunnels tyrough ich the army or regiment advances as w quickly as they are made. Under the pro- teetion of these covered ways the ants t 1 ing rate, and, when they re a. rotten fog or other promising hunting- ground, they pour into all the crevices, etc., in search of prey. Bates says: The blind Ecitons, working in numbers, build up simultancously the sitles of their convex. strendes, and contrive, in n wonderful manner, to approximute them und fit In the key-stones without letting the loose, uncemented structure fall to pieces. “There was n very clear divis ata surpris of ‘Inbor between the two ci neuters- in these blind ~ species. The large-headed- class. act as soldiers, defending the working community (like soldier termites) against all comers. Whenever I made x breach in one of. their covered ways, all the ants underneath were set in conmotion, but the worker-miners remained behind to_repair the damage, while the lurge-heads issued forth ina most menneing manner. Eorard records in his “ Etudes de Meeurs” an observation of his own on F. fusca. ‘The ants were engaged in building walls, and when the work was nearly completed there still remained an interspace of twelve or tit- teen iillimetres to be covered in. For a moment the ants were thrown out, and seemed inclined to leave their work, but soon turned instead to 2 grass-plant growing: aur, the long, narrow leaves of which ran se together. ‘They chose the nearest, and veishted its distal end with damp earth un- tilits apex just bent down to the space to be eovered. Unfortunately, the bend was too close to the extremity, and it threateued to break. To. prevent this misfortune the ants gnawed at the base of the leaf until it bent along its whole Jength and covered the space required... But, as this did not seem. to be yaulte enough, the heaped damp earth be- neath the base of the plant and that of the Jeaf, until the latter was sutliciently -bent. After they had attained their object, they heaped on the buttressing leaf the materials required for building the arched roof. 5 ‘This observation naturally leads to two others by two different observers. « Thys: Mogsridge says: * L was v3 it Aogestize ys able to watch the MOVING ROOTS dd through their ga i to seedling plants growi a rated face, mu which was performed by two ant, one. pulling at the free end of the root, and th othér gnawing atits fibres where the strain Was greatest, until at length it gave wae Again, as previously quoted in another enn nection, he says that two ants sometimes combine their efforts, one stationing itselt near the base of a feutstalk and suawine the point of greatest tension, while the one hauls upon. and twists it, af the other observer to whom 2 ferred is McCook, who says of Re: linerenie: nuts of America that he has seen “the work. ers, in several cases, leave the puint at which they had begun a entting, ascend th y had begun i g, its e and pass as far toward the point as Pome ‘The blade was, thus. borne downy as the ant swayed up: and down geen ni Hint she was aking: verge thus gained, and was bringing the: augmented toree to bear upon the fathee ; An two or three cases there appeared to bea | division of labor—that is to say, while the cutter at the roots kept on with’ his work, another ant climbed the grass-blade_ and ap- lied the power at the opposit end of the ever. This position may have been quite ae- cidental, but it certainly had the appearance - of poluniars: cobperation,”” hese observations serve to render less im- probable the following quotation taken from Bingley’s account of Capt. Cook’s expedition ard, eal dvantaze of the i in xe South Wales, and vouched for by Sir Green ants were seet i their nests in trees by bending dawn oe eral of the leaves, each of which is as broad asa man’s hand, and gluing the points uf them together so as to fori a pw We saw thousands uniting all their strencth, to hold them in this position, while other busy multitudes within were employed in plying the gluten that was vel i appl ing the st ‘Was to prevent their McUook szys that they dis! grows up in their vis the harvesters of America de, So that if a tree y inity and casts ashadow over their nest they forthwith migrate. He gives in this connection 2 statement which 1 regard as, BORDERING ON THE INCREDIULE, and therefore [ desire it to be specially ob- served that it is not very evident ‘from icCouk’s whether he himself wit- - nessed the facts. The facts, however, which he narrates, are that a peach-tree having grown Up so as to overshudow a nest o hervesting-ants, the latter climbed the tree ‘ip vif the leaves. ‘I am convinced,” McCook, ‘that the reason for this on tos! ught was the desire to be rid of the -ob- ‘The observation made by Col. Sykes oncer- tain ants in India has gained «avide rovone ty from its having been published by Spence popular work on instinct. He says thatin order to. guard his provisions frum the ants he put them on a table, the four legs Lin many basins filled Some ants still sueceedéd in ater, and so the légs with water. scrambling across the water, 2 of the table were likewise painted with tar- pentine. ‘The ants then n up a wall near which the table stood, and wh bout a fous above its level, they sprang from the wail to the table. Somewhat analogous to this is the observa. tion ef Prof, Leuckhart, who placed round the trunk of a tree which had “been visite by ants as a pasture tor aphides, a broad: - cloth soaked in tobacco-water. ~ When the ants, returnine home down the trunk of the tree, arrived at the soaked cloth they turned round, went up the tree again to some of the hanging branches, and allowed then selves to drop clear of the obnoxious barrier. nd, the ants which desired to iuount the tree first examined the nature of the obstruction, then turned back and pro- curd some pellets of earth, which they ear ried in their jaws and deposited. one atter another, upon the cloth ull a harmless road of earth was made across ‘This observation of Prof. Leucki turn a corroboration of #n almost identical one made more than 2 century age by Cardi- nal Fleury, and communicated by hin to Keéaumur, who published it in his “Natural Ilistory of Insects” (1734). "The Cardinal smeared the trunk of # tree with bird-line, in order to prevent the ants from ascending it;-but the inseets overcame the oustacle by making a road of earth, small stones, ete., a3 in the case just mentioned. On another oc casion the Cardinal saw a number of ang make 2 bridge across a vessel of water sur rounding the bottom ot an orange-tree tub, ‘They did so by conveying a number of Title pieces of tcood—the choice of that material, instead of earth or stones, as in the previous case, apparently betokening SO SMALL KNOWLEDGE OF PRACTICAL EN- NEERING recently publi nslated work on “Mind in gives a singular observation analogous to the above, which was communicated. to him by err G..Theuerkauf. A maple-tree standing in the grounds of Herr Voilbaum, of Ething, swarmed with ants aud aphides. In order to check the mischief, the proprietot snieared about 2 foot width of the ground around te tree with tar. ‘The first ants that arrived stuck fast; but the next, seeing the prediea- ment of their companions, turned back and fetched 2 number of aphides from the tree, which they stuck down on the tar one after another till they had made a bridge over- which they could cross without dauger. Dr. Ellendor€ «writes to Prof, Bieher that he protected a cupboard of his provisions from the invasion of ants-by standing the lez of the cupboard in saucers filled with He adds: 4S, Tinyself did this, but 1 none the tess foal thousands of suts in the cupbuard next morn ing. It was a puzzle to me how they crossed the water, but the puzzle was suon solved; for ( found a straw in one of the saucers... ; “This thes bad used asabridge. .-. . [pushed- the straw about an ineh from the cupboard-les, when a terrible confusion arose. In a moment the leg immeuiutely over the water was covered with bundreds of ants teeling for the bridge in every direction with their antenn back agitin and coming in ever larger swartns, as thouyh they bud communicated to their cuin- panions within the cupboard the fearfiti mis- fortune that nud tuken pluce. Meanwhile the new-coiers continued to run along the straw, and, not finding the lex of the cupboard, the greatest perplexity arose. ‘They burried alone the edge of the saucer, and goon found waere the fauitlay. With united forces they pulled and pushed at the straw, until it again came into contact with the wood, and the communi tion Was uguin restored. ‘The military ants, both in America and Africa, exhipit still more extraordinary re- sources in the way of BEIDGE-MAKING. Thus Belt says ot the Ecitons: 1 once saw 2 wide columa tryiux to pass along acrumbling, neurty perpendicular, slope. They would havo got very slowly over it, and tnuny of them would bu but a number having secured their huld, and. reuching to each other, remained stationary, und over them the main colummn passed. Another time they were crosi- fog x water-course along’ a smalt branch, not thicker than u yoose-quill. They widened this nutural bridge to ‘three times its width by a nuwber of ants: clinging te it ana to each other oneach side, over which the column pussed three or fourdcep; whereas, excepting for this expedient, they would have’ bad to pass over in single tile, und treble the time would have been consumed. Of the therand more recent ob- server give: mintof a yet more re markable device, although no doubt a de- velopment of. the one just described. . This observer is Herr If. Kreplin, who lived for nearly twenty years in South America as an engincer, and often had the oppurtunity watching the Ecitons. [ye writes to Biichaer under date 1976 as follows: If the water-course be narrow, the thick-beads (otlivers) soon tind trees, the branches of whicD meet onthe bank of her side, and after a short balt tho.colimns set themseives in motion over these bridges, rearranging themselves ia @ narrow train with inarvelous quickness on reaching the farther side. ut, if.'no natural bridge be available tor the passage, they travel along the bank of the river until they urrive at a sandy shore. Each ant now seizes 2 bit of dry wood, ‘pulls it into the water und mounts thereon. The hinder rows push the front one3 ever farther out. holding on to the wood with their feet and to their comrades with their jaws. ina short time the water is covered. with ‘uats, nnd when the raft has grown too large to be held together by the smiall creatures’ strength, a part breaks oif und bexins the journey neros3, while the anty left on the bank busily pull their bits of wood into the water and work at enlare- iny the ferry-boat until it azuin breaks. ‘This 13 repeated ns long as un ant remulus on store. , i shall now bring these numerous instances toa close with a quotation from Belt, whien reveals in a most unequivocal manner ASTONISHING POWERS OF ODSERVATION AND in the feaf-cutting ants of South America, the general habits of which we have already considered: has A nest was made near one of our tramways and to yet to the trees the ants bad to croas the ruils, over which the wuyons were contivually passing und repussing. Every time they came along a number of ants were crushed to denth. They persevered in crossing for some time, but ut hist set to work and tuuncled underneath euch rail. One day. when the wagons were not running, I stopped up the tunnels with stones: but although great numbers carryins leave were thus cut off from the nest, they would 20t cross the ruils, but set .to ts 3 work making fres% tunuels beneath them. «-. - + .°. sa LOTSA Pe * CT REAL