Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 20, 1881, Page 17

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 188I—TWENTY-''WO PAGES., ‘ ele “ REAL ESTATE. A Dull Wesk, but One Full of Promise for the Future. The Hebdomadal. Showing of Sales—A Prolonged Build- ing Season. Gratifying Progress on the Boule- vards and the Cable “Road. Great Activity in Loans—Magnificent Schemes, but No Money io Carry them Cut. Redemptions from Tax Sales and the Peculiar Tricks of the Tax- Claim Sharks. Needed Paving: on the South Side—Items of Interest at Home and From Abroad. DULL BUT PROMISING. “As far us actual and tangible resalts zo, the past week has been an unusually dull one. The cause of this abnormal lethargy, agit were, o doubt to be found in the guuecraily soaky eonuition of things and the inability, with aoy comfort. to get around. To some of the. real- estate mea the rain was a welcome visitor, but only for the reason thut it enabled them tocatch up un their accursulated office business, and to prepare for a fresh onsiaught. There have been go stunning transactions, and the w other causes have interfered even with the ¢ i sot less max- nitude, though of quite respectable importance. Tnere are numbers of these which are in the yery process of closing up, but which, for. that very reason, nang fire, aad are therefore not in a condition to be noised abroad through the medium of cold type, It iz a somewhat not bie feature of this dull week, however, that ine rigs have been more active, and especially so with regard to real estate for speculative purpeses towards the southward, or, io other in and around East wo. It no longer requires areument to persuade intending pur- chasers that the future of the region in que: “tion, now Ubat if isa fact, 1 Buyers, too, come up ‘theed und advanci witht at gort of matter-of-tuct airand a ing de~ gree of equanimity which serves 2s a straw to indicate iu what corucr the wind Some three weeks age a certain tract of land in the northern portion. of Hyde Park, foside of the same speculative regiun, was of- fered for $3400." The buyer wouldn't look ati then, but during the past week be was willin enough to take it at $1200 and bold it us_an in- vestinent. Sheflicld itself baving been pretty well gobbled up in the sale of the Forsyth tract to the East Chicago Improvement Compariy, speculators are keeping a sharp lookout on the dirt to the south and east of it, realizing Ciat, as Sneflield improves and Lecomes more and more of a facz, so will the land aajacent to and ull around it sbare in the general boom.” The transactions of the week which came near hay- ing the bizgest loc:t] interest was a rumored pur- cha: Brown & Howard, the rai ors, of SW acres near Clark Station, Ind., of the Calumet iver, for $ui,0W. The rumor proved unfounded, so far as they were con- cerned, thouzh it holds good with regard to other party, Whose name appears on the re fo that scetion of Hoosivrdum, but who is to lueal fame unknown, F ‘The inquiry Tor residence property, especially on the Nori Side, is well mamtaingd, though, for the reusous above incutioncd,the actual jnuiaber of transzetions cumplered ‘and closed out is rather limited. ‘The tact that there is litte ‘jnside ” property tobe bad, and ‘the. further get that, when there is any, the brokers know st where to take it, btve resulted in a condi- Vou of things where tho inquiries in that direc- tion ure few und far between. SALES OF THE WEEK. E. A. Wartield bought twenty acres in Sec. 2, Hyde Park, in the ently part of the week for $10.5) un aere and sold it three days afterwards at 00) an acre—a rather striking instance of quick sules and fair protits. Start sold cighty acres in Sec. 6, south* east of Hammond, st $1U0 an acre. Ira Brown sold tex. lots in Glencoe to M. E. Manrie for $1,000 casb; ten lots in Glericoe to William Goodell, for $1,000; four lots iu Glencoe to Merrill. Spalding, Yor $450; four lots in La Grange to Mary Hall, for $40); and six lots in Thornton to C. F. Jordan, for $600. C.P. Dose and William C. Fricke report the following sales: House and lot on West. Indi- ana street, near Hobey, for $3,700; one tot on West Chicago avenue park tor $700; 150 feet front on Kumsey street, near Augusta, to the West Side Brewery Company, Conrad Seipp President, for immediate improvement, at 36,00. two lots, corner of North avenue and Shober street, for $1,50: one lot on West Chicago ave- nue, near Wood street, for $1100; two lots on Bamuel street for $1.50; and one lot on West Eighteenth street, near Asbland avenue, for $5; also five tots on Mall street, ner Diversey, for $2,625; lot on Diversey street, near Hulsted, for ; two lots on Diversey street, near Clark, tor $2.000; and hause and lot on Lewis street, near Clybourn avenue, for $1,700 cas! Charles W. Fullertun. sold to Ferdinand Hei- man, for $9.00), tive acres on Ashland avenue, near Wellington avenue. James D. Lehner sold to William H. Silber- horn, tor $38,0u0, i25x501 feet on Forty-fifth street, 43) feet west of Centre uvenue, north front. : Daniel Redmond soidto James Fleming, for $10,000, G0x!16 feet on Halsted 5 treet, 10 feet south of Indiana, east front. . ‘The Gardner Savings Institution sold toJames N. Borden, for $3,09), 61x10) feet, va Arbor place, street west of Ada street, north front. AVS. and C. Heywood. sold to M. Seymour Rogers, for $14,500, feet on Hyde Park avenue, between Oakwood avenue and Brook Btreet. James H. Bacon sold to A. J. Thomas, for $12.50, flve acres on Bissell strect, southwest corner of Fifty-first. Charles F. Parsons sold to Mary E. Starr, for $6,008, SOx1 feet on Lunziey aveune, 187 feet morta of Thirty-ninth street, esst front. George Butters sold to, Albert B. Dewey, for $5,500, five acres on Sheflicid avenue,at the euutheast corner of Wes: Chicago avenue. T. . Mailers sold to David 3. Jones, for $44,250, 45 35-100 10 fect on Fifth avenue, 251 feet north of Madison strect, east front. Calvin T. Wheeler sold to $. W, and L, J. Sai: gon. for £1: five acres on Filimore street, Rurthwest corher of i sf rancieco street. Mary D. Dominiek soldto James SSL, INosIo fect on Clurk street. couthenst comer of Harrison, west froat, iproved. Benry D. Huntington sola to Epenezer Jen- nings and others, tor $10.00), 25x26 feet on West Padison street, 25 teet east of Elizabeth, south rout, William S. Johnson cold to the West Side Brew- ing Company, for $6.00, 19x16) feet on Rumsey Siz Tet south of Augusta, enst front. ion Mutual Life-Insurance Company sold to George F. Whidder, 5, 10x feet ‘on South Dearborn street, 63 fect south of Nine- Teenth street, east front, George Van Zandt sold to Frederick E. Brad- tor $14.00, 4ux1IMy fect on Division street, belween State and Astor. improved. a - sobu K. Itussell sold to Elmira Mason, for $$,000, x10] {eet on Ada street, 16) feet north of Wash- 3 ront, with building. “Corydon Beckwith sold to i, W. Blatebford, for $10,500, the undivided bulf of twenty acres on Fi street, northwest corner of Centre Chicazo Brewing Co Witt C. Cresier, for $6,700, T5xt5 cage avenue, 135 feet east of Pine, north front; Bad the estate of William Lillo the same pur- ser. for $6,730. Lots J and 42 with south $.5-100 tect of subdivision of Lots 1 and 2, sume Joba D. Adair sold to Nellic A. Black, fo -£23.0w0, 51x15 feet, on Dearbonn avenue. 55 fee south of Burtou place, east front, und 30x. feet on Walton place, 6312 feet east of Dearborn kvenue: also, sume tosume, for $12,000, 119 3-10x 1.6%; teet on Drexel boulevard, southeast corner of Forty-tfth street, west fromt: siso, Hobert L. North to same, for £15.00, 50x12 fect ou Waiton Place, list; feet east of Dearborn avenue, south nt. Edward Wells sold to Sarab J. Hall. for $10,000. S500 Foot on Dearborn avenue, northwest cor- of Chicago avenue, east front. Cari Isemann sold 19 William Bnoke, for $10,- 00), part of Block 1and part of Lots 5 Ou, part of Block 1and part of Lots 5 and 6in Wess Gat nuke & Gardner's part of W.7 3 BUILDING. Thouzk the building season is nominally near- Ing its end, toeré is nevertheless considerable soing on, and indications enough that the pro- ess of piling up brick, and stone, and mortar will ko on all winter, whenever the weather will admit of active work. Among the notable build- ing just begun are Mr. D. K. Pearsons’ three- story dwellings, 41x63, at the corner of North State and Scott streets, to cost $25,000, ond bis new suite of three-story flats, 31x40 fect, on Scott Street, near State, to cost $12,001. The houses will be whatare known as English basements, ana will be built of Bedford stone, with iaterior hardwood: finishing, and are to be completed May 1. The flats will be large und commodious, and, like the houses, elevantly finished through- out. Mr. Pearsons bas just completed, on the south side of Scott street, what are considered some of the finest houses in the city. The foliuwing were some of the more {mpor- tant building-permits cranted auring the week ‘The Weaver estate, three-story dwelling, 20x60 feet, Eldridge court, near State street, to cost $6.00; Jobu Maas, three four-story bascment and attic stores and tlits, 85x03 feet, northeast corner ot Ggden avenue and Van Buren street, $20,000: 4 Harry Hammer, two tbree-story and basement stores and fints, 45x BS to State “street. c ipp, two two-story and busement dwellin: THE BOULEVARDS. Mr. Martin J. Russell, of the Board of South Park Commissioners, wes asked by a Tribune reporter yesterday us to the probabilities of the coimptetion of the Michigan avenue and Thirty- tifth strect boulevards this season. He said that the improvements on Thirty-fifth street had been completed from Michigan to Calumet ave- nue, and that the eastern block, between Calu- met aud South Park avenues, would be complet- ed in a week or so, if unything like decent weather prevailed. Tne sidewalks of Trinidad asphalt would certainly be finished this season. As to Michizan avenue, the-sub-muterial was being put in south of Twenty-tfth street, and excavuons had Ween made thence to Tweuty- ninth street. The. contractor who bad been called in to put in bis stock of gravel on Thir- lieth street had now gut back to the boulevard, and the probability was thet the street would be completed as far south us ‘Cwenty-ninth street in a very short time, untess a severe frost should set in. The sidewalk flagging was uearly-com- pleted for the whole length of the rou. the vateb-ba: were alin, aad the curbing would ull be it piace in two or ibree days. The planting stmeces hud been properly filed with earth aud manure, but the sodding would not be done un- ‘free-planting progressed very ee Vad weather, et boulevard is f and work js being pxverabic bicazo Uais tall. i ‘sted to Carpenter are cu: vet. From Anu te Union Park tho Park to coveree W and curbing avenue. All Anns course bus been laid, and trom cern lune Strect-crossings, in guod position for the passage of plaint is heard tpan Hy of crossing. iS of. the opinion that ty than that part of the uted, und it it certainly showed 1th ad yesterd: notwithstanding the hets} while nearly the other streets in the vicinity were dee] with mud. It belie’ thes completed to Union the whole boulevard ith tbe advent of spring, provided the winter is wot unreasonably sever Frost willnot tuterfere with the work, but heavy snows mizht delay it some. There ureabout thirty teams employed in craving material for the work, besides # large force of men. ‘Tne work of resetting the Jamp-posts was cominenced yesterday. ‘The trouble with the i uthorities relative to movime the iamps 2 few feet from tho iuterseetious bus evidently been settled, as some of the lamp-posts bave already been moved to correspond to the -phin already autlined. There will be ou INps On tno boulevard. These will be 150 feet apart diavonalir. ‘The contract for the tree-planting has been let to P. S, Peterson, aud the work inust be done by ‘tho Ist of March. coutract is for sw white eli stre trom eizbt to ten inches it diameter, and net less than thirty fect in bight. The contract for the Hlagzing bh weeks, and arissioners. ‘tT. M, Avery. re ing. & 2 Green and Peori id Mr. Henry Beidler. owner the La Pierre House, on the corner of flal- sted street and the boulevard, have bad their sidewalks laid. ‘There i: id. to be little or no complaint by the residents or property-owners now us to the character of the work completed. It is conti- dentiy predicted’ by tho engineers that the boulevard, when finished, will not be equaled by. any in the city. THE CABLE ROAD. Work on the State-street cable road stiil goes rapidly forward, und each week that passes shows considerable progress. on the line. The State-street side of the dowu-town belt bas been nearly compieted, and wili be finshed when a few more stone blocks are laid between the switches at Randolph street. The curve at the corner of State ang Lake streets hus een put in. and strongly concreted, and Is really a Gne piece of work. The Luke-street section is com- pleted, and the conerete-mixer is at the corner of Wabash avenue and Luke street, rapidly cou- creting the Wabash-avenue length, on which the jiron-work is all in placc. The iron perstructure over the Madison- street excavation has been neatly completed, and will probably be finished this week. It is also probable that work on the Madison-strect side of the belt will be begun. From Monroe street to Archer avenue both tracks have been completed, and the chamber at Archer avenue is bemg bricked over. Con- siderable trouble has been -found in obtaining bricks, as the roads ure’ iu poor condition fur hauling. -Atone time during the week twent: four horse teams on their way to different poi on the road were stuck fast in the mud, and to company Yas obliged to send their own horses out. for} assistance. Durmg the week the windows ‘have been placed in the engine-house. and everything made ready for work. The cable wheels in front of the house have been set, and the large chamber is being bricked over.’ At the Twenty-second street excavation the iron superstructure is being built, and tracks laid across it. The w track hus been completed from Twenty-scebnd to ‘Thirty-tirst street, con- ereted to Thirty-third street, the iron-Wwork is in to Thirty-fourth street, and the track has been dug to Thirty-fifth street. The east track s been completed from Twenty-second to Twenty-tfth street, conereted to ‘Twenty-sev- énth street, and the iron-work is in plice to Twenty-eizbth street. The wooden-block pavement bas been Iuid to Arener-avenue; another section cast of the track, between Twenty-second und Twenty- fourth streets; a Section west of the track, from ‘Twenty-third to Twenty-sixth street; und both sides of the street have been paved from Thirty- first to Thirty-seveuth strect. LOANS. Loans on real estate have. been more active, with rates well muintained—6 to 7 per cent. One of $25,000 went on record at 3 per cent which had been negotiated for previously. A proniiuent mortguve-banking house report the following. applications accepted by telegram Friday by a New York investor: $114,270, five years, 6 per cent; $43,230, tive years, 6 per cen £20,000, five years. 7 per cent; $20.000, flve years, G per vent; $15,000, five yours, T per cent: 34,60, three to five years, 7 per cent; $1,000. three per cent; and eight founs of $3,500 exch, re years, 7 per cent: ora total of S245,5W, none of which have as yet gone on record ex- cept two of tae sinall PRETTY, BUT IMPRACTICABLE. ‘Tux TRIBUNE published. during the week City- Engineer Cregier’s estimates of the cost of sey- eral suggested improvements on which the Council has reeently been . seeking light, and, in response to whose request that good-natured official used up . considerable time and paperin making the required figuring toobtain the aforesaid estimates. One of the proposed improvements is to pump out the river from. Luke Michigan to Tweuty-secoud street and build a nine-foot sewer along its sent bed. Anotber is to construct a canal feet along Thirty-ninth street from Lake Michigan to the South Branch of the Chicago jiiver. ‘The third and Jast {3 to build a lot of aitks, a breakwater, and other works necessary (oo harbor along the lake front from tne mouth ot the river to Thirty-ninth street, the im- provements to extend one, mile custward from Tie present snore tine. ‘The City Engineer. with the best informadon obtainable, finds that the fivst-mnentioned scheme will cost $1,520.00. tbo second 76421, and the third $9,615,755, or, altogether, $1! 12,156. it doesn’t fake long to seo that each of these schemes is necessarily connected with and dependent upon the others. ‘To pump out the river, in order to build the sewer, necessitates, in the first place, the building of the canal to carry otf the water so pumped, for it could not be very well emptied into the fake ut tne river- uth. “In depriving the shippiug interests of ir present instde harbor und dockage facili- ties, tne city would naturally be expe: furnish then) with equally as good ones outside, or, in other words, to build the outer harbor be- fore it tampered with the river. Desirable 25 these improvements may be, and doubtless are, the insuperable objection ut present fs, that the city has nu money to undertake any one of them, much fess all of then, no power to bor- row siny, and no immediute ‘prospect. of being putin a position where it can inereaso its pres- ent fudebtedness. The projects look well on paper, but ue long 2s the money aucstion re- initins Unsolved, they are to all intents and pur- poses only so many idie dreams. LOCAL DOTS. Jefferson strect, from Harrison to Twelfth, is to be widened to sixty-six feet. The Counel ba3 authorized the Lincoln Park Commissioners to tap the Fullerton avenue con- duit at North Park avenue for the purpose of draining the park lake. Ald. Cullerton’s underground-wire ordinance has been killed in committee. The ‘finpri that there was a Nubian in the woodpile seems to have done it. The city bridges are no longer to be disflrured with the advertisements of clothing sbups, con- trueting to furnish the public, or the mule: por- tion thereof. with $f pants, 50-cent vests, and a pair of gift “ galluses" thrown fn. -E.S. Dreyer & Co. will sell at nuction tomor- row alternoon at 3. o'clock, at the corner of Fifty-secona ‘and State streets, forty lots on State, Dearborn, and. Buttertiela streets, be- tween Fifty-second and Fitty-third. The prop- erty is well focuted, the prices low, and the terms easy, with special inducements to intending pur- chasers desiring to builc. Ald. Lawler, whether intentionally or other- wise, did'a good thing last Monday night when he jutroduced an ordinance proviaing for sling up the river from Luke to Harrison streets. 1t will be many # day, however, Letore the Council pusses iL One bundred men are working on the new City-Hall, aud the roof wilt be on and completed in about torce wer The building is up even with the Court-ffouse, the temporary doors und windows are being put in, the tire-proof work is being done, und the indications are that it wilt be ready for occupuney in avout n year’s time, ‘Yue Mutual. Union ‘fetegraph Company n¢ has the old Amerioan Union ottice, in the base- nient of the northwest corner of Washington and La Salle strecta, which it wilt tit up for its Operating rooms. its enerul otlices remaining in the Grannis Block. Lt expects To hitve its un- dereround wires laid and to open up for bu ness in good shupe all atone the line by Dec. I. ‘fhe Maywood dummy line, narrow gage, is pleted as far ag Oak Park, and fs running its to thut suburb, trking in-Austin, The tare ents trom Western avenue to Austin, and S cents to Oak Park. As suou as the rose is completed to Maywood, the company will have three dummies aud twelve cars, and rena train each way every balf-hour. {ne Public-Library scheme is still, being xzi- tated. and if Cony when it meets will “only display balf the 1 evinced by a good many yenticmen who have been indorsing 1, drawing bills ceding K to the city, and Ubrowing out rn intinit variety of sugzestions, r relings Data ish its rights in the pari. and the new ; Si eran and the favor of tho ng the Council will tke up the ques- tion tomorrow evening and ro doubt indorse it respectfunly request Congress to grunt the red lesistation. "Auother railroad project was_sturted during t st week—the Culeazo & Northern—which is to begia somewhere on tho West Side and run to Milwaukee, where, according to te incor- porators, is iv Connect With some road—name at present noknown—whieh is said to.be backing the scheme with money. in order to tap Chic over a direct line practically under its control. The time bas been when railroads were butit on pure speculation, with an idea that sooner or luter comebody would want them ana might be i 3 getthem. ‘This mizht be zo & Northern; but thea Suy it isn't, and that, of course, the ineorporator: settles it. What is beliéved to be the only it on the Forsyth tract—viz.: the old Contincnint Life-Insarance Comput mort: —has been q t Ciiexze I:sprovement Company's depositing $21u,00 with. tue United Stat purt wt ludianapolis, reteas: the morteuce. Mrs. Forsyth and the murtgasees ure rt establish by yeul fight their individual rights and interests in the division of the money Astipulation bas been filed proviaine that tho to be applied to the payment of the a deeree will be ebtuined in ibree Ju the meantime, Jacob is hiv ing a werry time of it, encering his pearance as defendant in a ft of suits for alleged damages brought him by sundry Pritisbers, who claim to ha x power-of-uttorney from him, and te kav the #,0x-aere traet for him before tho Inpro ment Company aud the Belt-Line Railroad inede up their minds that they wanted it, The tit tion. of course. will have no effect on East Chi- cago, and is of no importance ept to the purties themselves, one of whom wants dam- neesforvan: alleged breach of contruet, while the other doesn’t propose to give them, if he can help it. MAPPY WAMMOND. Hammond is located on the srand Calumet River, xt the State line, adjoining East Chicago on the south and the projected Town of Howurd ou the southeast. It is rapidly comit to great favor asa field for’ profitable real-e investment, and a glance at the gi provements now in operation, and thoze pro- jected for the immediate future, seems to jus- tify the extraordinary rush to acquire property in this foculity. til recently one railroad, the Michigan Ceutral, was the only hope for rail transportation. Manufacturers were shy of a place where there was no competition. Now three new trunk roads: muke MNammond # point =the New York, Chicago & St. Louis, the C! cago & Atlantic, and the Chicago & Indianapolis Air Line. All these ure rapidly pushing their work to compiction, and -within x few months will be ready for business. ‘Two of these roads have purchased large tracts of Iand ai Ham- mond on which -to erect construction hops, mabrance red olf by the ar four weeks. where they will employ - thousands of hands. ‘The shops of the New York, Chiengo & St. Louis will. be located on the north side of the Calumet in Sec. 3, and those of the Chicago & Atlautic on the south side. The Chicueo Belt lune, in its sweep round the runs thruuzb. aud thgn di vides iuto three or four branches, which spread out like thereof a fanover the 8.000 ucres forming what is known as East Chicago. The south branch of the belt line will run along the Inmet to Clark Stution, This practically in- cludes Hammond, especially on tho north side, in the stupendous schemes of dockage and rail fueilities which are to form the, basis future growth of East Chic; The W Indiana Belt tine hus also ruwa branch to mond. The Calumet Ki Station, six miles east of this point. ‘Che Chicuzo Company will cut a ship canal from Lake Michigan through Lakes Wolf aud G to the Calumet River at this ‘This will bring Hammend within five mil Lake Michigun, with but few bridzes to the towing of ves: four trunk roads river and canal for dockage. Hammond, in the opinion of its backers, can present udvantures and facilities for manutacturing unsurpassed by anything about Chicaro. NEW ENTERPRISE AT ENGLEWOOD. A new manufacturing enterprise has just been secured for Englewood which will add very ma- terially to its growth, and will bea financial blessing to property-owners in the vicinity of Halsted and Fifty-ninth streets. Mr. Hervey W. Fowler (until recently of the firm of Fowler & Seliers, who have een operating a rolling miil for several years at tho Calcuxo avenue bridge, and now employ over 30 men,). bus pur- chased through Andrews & Burhans 400 feet of Jand on the west side of Wallice street, between Fifty-cighth and Fifty-ninth, and has also taken an option for furty-five days on the bulance of the entire frontage of the block, with a view of ultimately extending his own works, as well as providing for the location of another manu- factory. ‘Mr. Fowler's business will be the ri ing of old raitrond iron, and tanutacturing rutroad set bolts, and - bur plates for railroad use. When in full running order be will cmploy fram 10 to 193 snen. point. ‘s of pede s. With two belt roads and Frail transportation, and the Mr, Fowler bua already let the contract for bis buildings, ana proposes to have them completed and the muchinery on the ground within ninety days, costing 32,00. Mr. Fowler is now in Pitisoure purchasing and superintending the completion ut the requisit iuchinery fer bis new establistinent. He bus associated with an Eastern capitalist, and there will be no lack of means to push tho business to an early completion. ‘The Western indiana Raflroad Company hag obtuined the right of way from the Town of Luke to lay tracks from their main line to the grounds to be used for the roilimz-mill, and the frack is now being put down. ‘The lroud Company have also indicated that us soon xs occasion demanded they would muke 2 station ut Fifty-ninth street and stop ut that point on the road. SATURDAY'S TRANSFERS. ‘The following instruments were filed for rece. ord Saturaay, Nov. 19: CITY PROPERTY. Mohawk: st. 165 ft _¢ of Eugente, ¢ f, 24x10 ft, improved, dated Nov. 15 (John és hinidez 40 setizaberh dueller oa iraras t north of Arinitaze road. ef, x125 feet. dated Nov, 15 (Py owski to George Schroeder) Market st. $ w corner of Van Buren, undivided 1-5 of 150 feet to river, dat Y nna W. Joues to Alonzo W. Rollins) ure or less to the puint, tue Governiuent will 7 of undivided 1-5 fof the divided Undivides dated Nov. 12 (Alonzo. above property, WV: Rollins to T. A. Shaw), 0 ee West SOD) st, between, California and co Washtenaw avs, nf, 28x100_ fr, dured Sep: lu (J. MacHatton [0 Churles He ‘Mudl) aay ah RESUS 700 Douglas Joo fte of Stanton av, nt, Joue731 ft, dated Ovt. 18 (University Place Baptist Church to Jobn It, Bens- 33,000 soni Giaris st, 1201s of Elm, e f, 24x150 ‘ft, dated Nov, 15 (Master in Chancery nerald av. a 3 Emera gated Oct. 15 (W. A. Sertiwetner to M. E. 5 450 roperty as .B, Sears 50 isted 81 fT Sega tt, duted Aug. 12 (Eliza Hildrech i A. W, Hildreth). cess, 9,000 Stare st, Se:fesof Harrison, © f. 253x115 ft, improved, dated Nov. 18 (Theodore V! Wadskier to Burbit Bloom; © 95,000 ‘Aldine square, w_of Vincennes av,e f, “© ‘21x 195 ff, dated Nov. 1 (James D. Smith ith). wie vvee 6,000 z 12 feaor West Twelfth st, Ay T soxib ft, dated June 17 (J. W. Bar- ney ct ai. to donn Bs. Taylor) 00 West Monroe 82, 2 tte of Lincol dated Oct. 23 (Naacy Re et H. Corbett). 5,000 ‘eniwort! avin at (H.E. and H. jit ¢ of. Washtenuw av, a dated Nov. 7 (F. E. and T. P, Phillips to 'A. E. Wood)... Bare) De Kalb st, 113 fts w of Flournoy, se f, 3 fe 10 alley, dated Oct. 15 (B. J. Wilson to W. Winter), aceests . 630 Wentworth av, 335 {1 § of Twenty-fourth, 25xl20- feet, dated Noy. 5 (F.-and \ Bouck toi, W. Klein) 1,600 Indiana av, 275 ts of ‘Tht Sp xiol S13 tt, dated May 10 (WW. Jentazel to Margaret Vierltox) 1,837 Brown st, 5 ft not West Twelfi F 100 ft, dated. Nov. 38 (Leo Lewith to sa Horne Division st, tu fhe pa Lincola ay, 205 ttn w of C wae ft, a5x115 {t, Improved, dated Oct. 31 (Nich~ Otaus Gerten to Laura Leech)... 6,500 Toman av, se corner of West: Washing: ington st, wf, Hox20 ft, dated Oct. 20 (Julius J. Luther to Lucy Morrison). 1,000 NORTH OF THE CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS ‘OF SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. Surf st. nw cor of Lake View ay, sf, 187 (x150 ft, dated Nov. 3 (estate of Helen 2. Hubbard to Albert L. Sercomb). Dunning st, 56 ft ¢ of Seinina xitg ft, dated 3 Mabuk 10,560 Ito C 1,185 ng roud, nf, Wx ZL. Buld> win to Elizabeth D. Bate: 4,000 Hl ite of Fabius rt, dated Nov. 4 J. A. Throop to C. - 2,600 . . 4 Georse st, } inary av, F tt wi ted Oct. 15 (Albert: Wisner to Mau) ~ 8,000 SEVEN MILES OF THE COUKT-HOUS y-third, © f, HUxI30 ft. sou io Witiiaa_ “3 ume party to L. ov, $8 (Nathan f. Hellyer)..... fesuxtiv ft, duted Thomas to Charles. W. 1 - 5,000 A RADIUS OF T-HOUSE. LIMITS WITHL OF THE West oF CIty et. 1,100 ste f, @ohn Jobn- Ty sat a ade) .. + 1,600 o Conrad IE. SUMMARY FOR THE WEEK. "The following is the total amount of city and suburban transfers within ‘a radius of seven tiles of the Court-House filed tor record dur- ing the week ending Saturday, Nov. 19: Location. Sates, 13 South of city, West of city timi ‘Total, ‘Total pre: To the Editor of The Chicago ‘Tribune, . 19.—Murvel not at the caption tion, for T aim not to discuss religipus cree but real estate, and this only so faras itrelutes to abuses srowing out of the tx-sale troubles, which are growing more outrageous as year after year tho seramble inereages for opportunities to practise extortion under the sanction of law. The writer, with many other non-residents, has been in- duced.to invest. moderately in real estate in Cook County, and, though not baving an ollice or dweliikg on the premises, I have exerted dili- gent cdre to keep ft tree from the exorbitant penalties which follow the w's delay.” Lam ro that no person can expect ‘to be @ proper- owner in any municipality, East or West, without annual taxation, aud that such owner, or agent, is in duty bound tu inform himself, so fur us possible, as tothe timo of assessnent and payment, tog quences of neglect to meet tho Collector's requirements. Coneerning the justice or injustice of this unnual taxation, so fur 9s values or relative ues are concerned, I propose nocompluint or fclsm, knowing that sucn w field of discus- sion and controversy would absorb the entire supply of the printer's pai and “patience, Hininating in sutistaction to avybody. ‘That these values are out of all proportion, aud require caretul readjusament, is x truth erally admitted, estiniates as a -besis for mone: continued, the bettergfor the credit of Chicago. My purpose just nof is to call attention to the special assessinent business which in-the city und suburbs forms the chief aggravation of the jaded property-owner. Itis no doubt a smart thing in a town, city, or county to_ resolve that it will contract for no street or other improve- ment until the money is in the treasury, and it shows powerful excentive eiliclency und prompt- ness to bring the wuctioncer’s bawner down on the unnotitied before the improvement is cou- mneoved, itis hkewise a smart thing for the Assessors “We levy our ussessments on property, not persons, and care nothing for ownersaip so long a3 a tax-sale will satisty tho Collector's The: nual sales have become uotori~ isreputuble, and are not only x fagrant owners who have the mis- fortune to be in arrears, but 2 neeuless sacrifice of their interest to a norde of merciless extor- uioners who lay in walt at the Counuty- Building for the purchase of these claims. { hope Iam not impertinent in the choice of adjectives with which to describe these *Shy- ck2 of the Exchange,” for, after the past two years’ reuding in the Chicago papers concerning municipal and county pilferiug, Lbave beon led into tis style of thougnt and expression. L ald, of course, beg pardon if tL knew just whom ‘to address: but that is not an easy matter to uscertain, ~* He gave me and I did eat,” set- tled Mother Eve's sense of justice and propriety, and ot course it was no crime against the law to bid upon what the County Clerk offered. Hence, without changing our’ estimate of the moral character of the parties implicated, we Withdraw the oensive adjectives. With the high percentage allowed purchasers, in the way of “pennities, for the two years’ grace I wilt not tnd foult if that is considered equita- : usury, but L may with justice question the ssity of limiting the time of redemption to two years. Asan investment, 2 per cent per ganim ought to gal the greed of any one, and certainiy 300 per cent would be an inviting business for the most ravenous of speculators in rent estate. Why, then, this unnecessary haste on the part of the County Clerk to deed wray property for perhaps & bundredth part of its market value?: Of course it is not the Clerk’s option, but why the necessity of such a iaw- linntution? The City Treasury is sure, the tax- brokers happy, or ought to be, ‘and there is no- body suffering but the rightful owner, and he doesn't know it. The Jaw supposes him to be notified of both the assessment and the for- feiture, but he ig not so near at band us the tax- broker, nor so convenient to find, gnd it might distress him to receive the information. ‘The tax-broker is not on the anxious seat to find: the owner's addi On the contrary, be would nave him iu biisstul iznorance until after the day of redemption, when be can “laugh ut his calumity and mock when bis fear cometh.” It was only a light asscssment—tesa than 32— fora street sewer, three blocks awuy, uot pre- sentuble or payuble at the tne of regular taxes. Itwas aquiet and entirely unjooked-for per- formance of duty on the part of . the essors. They notificd tho fotsor land of the special. with the supposition that the mute earth would report to its owner, but it was without a voice in ths matter, and it comes to pass that the afore- said owner and regulur taxpayer is tinully found, and he receives the follow! interesting, but somewhat surprising, information: David Delinquent, Eeg.—DeEan sin: It is my privilege to inforia you that 1 hold a tax deed of Lots 4 to 10, Block 7, Sec. 17, Township 27, ete., etz., in which 1 presume you bave some interest, and'sball be happs to sell them to you at rea- sonable figures, if applied tor soon. Yours Traternally. LYE ANDER LANDSNATCHER”, * Who ig he,” and “What is this all about?” are questions which naturally’call for solution, and the discomtited delinquent, after looking over bis annual tax bills, and finding them duly reccipted, writes to the urbane broker for par~ ticulurs. He learns, in reply, that,. some six or seven years previous, his property. was sold for a special nssesement, and, the right of redemption at the County Clerk's ollice nav- tice to propert ing expired, the property, which was bid off by the aforesaid snatcher for about $2, can be re- deeded or reconveyed for about $l—a trifle higher than the assessed valuation. "Asa speci- men statement of * how they doit," we append the followmg:. Amount of spectal tax. $2.10; premiun or peuulty, $2.10; advertising, $1; tax Coe S10: Beaten OF uue, interest com- nded, $25; sundry expenses, $5; brokerage, $100: grand total, $150.20. sa ‘This is not a fancy sketch, and by no means an exceptional one, 1 am knowing of the case, of aperson who, ufter long delay in selling a single lot on the South Side. finally got anoffer of $400, but found, in bis elforts to convey it to the purchaser, that it was incumbered by a tax claim for which $300 was demanded, and the balance was insufficient to provide for ubstracts and iegal fees. The benevolent gentleman to whom the county sold the claim puid less than §15, and‘the’ delinquent party of the first part, after payment of taxes a dozen years, is obliged to abdicate inglorioustly in bis favor. Is there not, in view of these facts, a press need for a non-forfelture law, like the one go’ erning Hfe-insurance companies, not so much to shield the detinguent taxpayer aguinst prop- er penalty and adequate punisbiment as against wholesulé contiscation, and, if this is not feas! bie, is there not a method of registration ai- ble, by which the actual owner's name and resi- dence can be known for purposes of notifica- don, etc.? In what L have here written, Lam conscious of having but sligntly touched. upon a matter de- serving more extended comment and considera: tion. “We are told that’ these ‘newspaper. gquibs" are powerless for any purposes of re- form and will be regarded only as the mutter- ings of some victimized individual rather than 25 the voice of public opinion. 1 trust, however, thatiz this shall fail to secure merited atten- tion some other and abler person will de heard from. Pain Puay. PAVE TNE STREETS. , To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune. '{Cnicaco, Nov. 19.—Fhe Council should forth- with see to it that all streets and pieces of streets on the South Side, north of Twenty-sec~ ond street, are paved without further delay. Thirteenth. street. which is only u little over a mile from tho Court-House, has never been paved. The roadbed consists of a black muck, which, when wet, is converted into mud of tho worst description, For two months that street has been eubstantially impassable. Wasons and carriuzes passing there sink aliost to the hob, Several wagons have been mired and abandoned for the time within the last few weeks, and one of them remained two days be- fore it could. be removed. The mud from tnis strect is carried along Wabash and Michigan avenues aud State street for blocks. Au at- tempt fs now being wade to clean Wabash ave- nue in that vicinity. Every neal yard of this avenue near Thirteenth street bas at least a wagon-loud of mud on it, most of it coming from that street. Fourteenth street is alinost us-bad. ‘These streets ure nut only impassable themselves, but render it impossible to keep the streets they cross in a decent condition, besides imposing w heavy tax on the city to cart off the mud coming from them. ‘This: state of sifairs, in focalities So prominent, i3 a disgrace to w city making pretensions to being a metropul In faet, it would be a diszruce to a country lage. The Council hus supreme control of this autter, and shoud not allow such x state of af- Tales tc exist_any longer than it is possible to remedy it. Now is the time to take the initial steps and order the improvements made. Will the Council do it. or shall those who have vaid for costly street-immprovements on streets inter- Becting the S the expenditure of luciess, and all be en- veloped int seu of mud? Geoncr W. Braxpr. OWN ITEMS. Thoy had a $150,000 salc of real estate down in St. Louis the other day, ang they call it the most exten: thut has taken placc in the vil- e for years. The extalow included resident, store, and manufacturing properties, sevent, Keven picees in all, and the sale reallzed $150, ‘The transaction took place at the new Real-Ks- tate Exebange, tho bidding was spirited, to prices obtuined were xenerally in excess of the owners’ estimates, and St.. Louis is eccordingly cungratukiting herself on what she is fain to calla “boum” in her real estate. The manu- facturing sites, which wero outside of whut Is known as the cligible quarter, brought less than is ordinarily paid for that cluss of property, while the residence property was in good de- mand. ‘fhe plans for Cyrus W. Fieid’s new olfice building, to be erected on Battery gluce, New York City, where the historic Washington Hotel stands, fave been perfected, and the building will be completed, if possibic, by April, 1883. The architect, Mr. Edward H. Kendall, proposes to construct a Duitding which, in many of Its de- tails, will remind one of tbe old Colonial days, avu, tu ume extent, memoriutize . the buildinz which now occupies the site and which is known te have been Gen. Washington's headquarters. ‘The plaus ve an artistic elfort which cannot fair to attract the “ye, und the building promiscs to be one of the bandsomest in the city. It will be ten stories bixn above the | cel- lar and basement, with an inside bight of 18 feet. While above nll is tobe a clreular lantern, or cupola, with a Nagstai? and electric Hgbt, the bizhest point from the: ground being: 230 feet. Milwaukee brick, with Betieville stone triminings, is the material to be used. The inain entrance will be on Battery place, and the others. on Broadway and Greenwich street, the cellar at the corner of the last-named streets to be used 25 a press-room for the Evening Mail, Mr. Field's newspaper, which wilt likewise oc- cupy the top floor for editorial. reportorial, and composing-rooms. The offices in the new build- ing will be roomy and elegant, and the general interior accommoducions will be in the tirst- class modern style. . A tract of land comprising 1°1 acres, contain- jog over 1,00 city lots, and situated in 9 desira- ble partot the city,was put up forsule at Broo! lyn Thursday. ‘The lands are known as the East Slue Park tands, and extend on either side of the crest of the ridge of bigh ground which forms the backbone of Long Island, ana which pleas- antly diversifies the landscape iu Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery. When tho tirst pur- chases of land were wade for Prospect Park. in 1888, the intention was to bave it extend further tothe cast and north than it now docs. Vor this purpose the land was purchuscd to the line of Wusbington avenue on tho east, and as far north between Washineton and Vanderbilt xveuues a3 Prospect phice.. It was afterward deemed better to extend the park to the westward, anu tho boundary on the cast was fixed at Flatbush ave- nue. This left the tract of 1 neres, bounded by Prospect place, Vanderbilt, Washington, and Flatbush uvenues, and the city Ine on the Flat- bush avenue side unused. i The Mount Prospect Reservoir takes up eleven acres near the ceutre, at the top of the ridic. fr isi an act was’ passed dy the Legislature au- thorizing the sate of the remainder. Several legal dillicnities were encountered, and it was not until 1873 that the arrangements for selling the 1,000 lors at auction were made. ‘The sale was set down for December in that year. In September cume the panic, and before the sate came off the real-estate market was completely unsetticd.. The Boara of Aldermen wet in Brooklyn and passed resolutions inrploring the Fark Commissioners not to sucritico the prop- erty, and offering to advance any money thoy might need for park expenses. ‘The sule was in- detinitly postponed, but it } ately dec that the -time was. ripe for it, and the sale ac- cordingly tox place Thursday. ‘There were uo restrictions ns to the sale, except ts to the class of structures to be put up. On Flatbush avenue, fronting on the purk, about fifty lots were re served by the city for a site for public buildings. The prices recvived are understood to more thin have. met the confident expectations of the Commissioners. eo KATHLEEN. For The Chicago Tribune. I've wandered ‘neath Italii When Nature ut her Ii And widens scen whose lustrous eyes: Like stars trom heavenly faces beamed; But lustrous eyes ana ruby lips Possessed no witching charm for me: ‘Thy image fair naught could eclipse— ‘For, Kuthleen dear, I loved but thee. And in the Saxons’ land I've oft | Seen maidens moat divinely tair, ‘Whose eyes so heavenly-bluc and soft ‘Might tempt a saint to linger there; But tender giance from eyes of blue Could win no answering look frou m ‘My heart kept asking still for you— For. Kuthicen dear, it loved but thee. Caicaco, Nov. 19, 188! R i The Power of Imitation in Doxs. London Spectator. The following anecdote may interest those of your readers who ure accustomed to observe the characteristic actions of dos. Jcan vouch for its accuracy, as Iwas un amused eye-witness, and severni members of my family were also present, and have often told the story. A friend of oure and his wife were spending a musical evening with us, apd an old, black, Eng- lish terrier. who belonzed to the bouse. hud been in the drawing-room, which wus up-stairs. ‘The dog bad been kindly noticed by our friend, who was partially lame from paralysis, On leaving the drawing-room, the dog followed bin to the top of the stairesse (we. with his wife. were waiting below in the hill), and with cocked tuil and ears stood gravely watchinz bis slow, limping descent. When theinvalid was nearly at the toot of the stairs, tne dog bexan to follow. limping.on three legs (be was quite gound), in hutmorous imitation of our poor, afilicted friend; and his assumed lameness was ztuvely kept up, till he arrived on the mat. It was. impossible to repress a smile, though our politeness was at stake, and the unconsciousness of our friend added to the difliculty. $$ —_—_— Wrssrox, Forsyth Co., N. C.—GENTS: I desire to express to you my thanks for your wonderful Hop Bitters. 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