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THE CHICAGO. TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1881—TWENTY PAGES. 20 : pee ee aa i A ac ee ee ee F ny M.. H: EK i chromos: whilé the English send us some mag- DIFFERENCES OF SEX. ; Sn literals ach: seileh fare fs abandoning for - REAL ESTATE. East Chicago Takes a Back Seat and Garlield Steps to the 4 Front. A. Balf-Million Purchase by the Chicago Locomotive Works. A Powerful Syndicate and a Scheme Rivaling Pullman—The Loco- * .' motive “ Boom,” B Board of Trade Plans—Another Big Office Building—The Union League's New Home. Important Moves in the Down- Cown Section—Sample Sales —Busy Builders. The State. Street Cable Road Rapidly Nesting Its Completion—Items About Town, CHICAGO LOCOMOTIVE-WORKS, East Chicazo took a back seat the past week, srom 2 news point of view, and the new suburb ‘of Garfield came to the front with what is the Digeest scheme of the hour. Readers of Tse TRBCNE will recall the mention, some weeks -2go, of the incorporation of the Chicago Lovo- golive- Works, an organization with a capital of ‘$1,000,000, with ex-Ald. Jonn T. McAuley. of Mc- <Auley, Dyke & Co., D. K. Tripp, General Solicit- br of the Grand Trunk Road, and Charles How- ard.of Boston, in-the réle of incorporators. There was no little speculation at the time as to where the company proposed to locate its works, The batural supposition was that they would settle down in the viemity of Puthnan, whict _ was looked upon as uffording so many attrac~ 3 ‘ tions for an enterprise of ‘this sort. But the incorporators, shrewdly maintaining the policy of silence, neither affirmed nor denied the suppusi~ tion, though it was apparent that they were not ut all displeased at the nature and extended cur- rency of the rumor. The sequel would seem to indicate that they were simply pursuing Mr. Pullman's tactics a year or so ‘af0, in publicly juspecting property at Aurora and quietly buy- ang land at Pullman right and left. ‘The locomotive-works people, in other words, Jet the public think that Pullman was their ob- jective point, and then turned In and bought right and left in the vicinity of Garfield and Hamboldt Park. Asa result they-.at tho dirt ‘congideravly less than they would have done bad they Jet the worid into their plans, though, as it was, the secret leaked out to some’ e: ent, and holders in the region r ferred to suddenly realized that their property was worth u jood deal more than they aud ever before supposed,. and in some cuses made’ the purchasers pay roundly for it. The buying bus been conducted us quietly as possi- ble tor the last month. One of the sirst sales was, an eighty-aere tract in Bemis subdivision of Sec. % which was nozotinted ou the side of the pwnet, Mr, Ira IL Harvey, through F. st, Chand- ler & Go., and was purchased on vebalf of the avomouve works syndicate by Mr. James F. Keeney, who was curly placed in chirge of the “wud departinent branch of the scheme, and to whose shrewdness as 2 buyer and persistent de- . votion to the company’s Interests the success of the netw enterprise will be largely due. Among {the other purchases was abont $120,000 wortn of ‘aere property in the vicinity of Garticld “apd jumboidt «Park, soid during the tase. ten days by Lakin x Don. the iast purchases were made yesterday morn- inge-gud yesterday ufternoou at pre pelock-a warranty deed from Mr. Keen Jodn-T. McAuley, trustee for the locomotive works, wus filed for record xt the Kecorder's of- fice, the consideration named beng S40.UX). --Phe most important poruion of the property thus conveyed consists of the suburb of Gar- tield, adjoining the city limits on the west, ree-quarters of a nile westof Humboldt Park, and.twunded on the north by Armitage avenue, ou the. cust by Crawford avenue or the city limits, av the junction of the two divisions of ‘me Calengo, Milwaukee & St Paul ttuilroad, on me ‘south’ by North avenue, and on the west” by. the Northwestern cut-otl and the proposed line of the Western Indiana Belt Hond. The Gurtield tract proper contains Jw acres. The Chicago & Pacitie Division of the Milwaukee & St. Paul. running cust and ‘west, cuts it ‘ty. two and gives it a depot in the centre of the tawn. The junetion of the division with the maiu ‘ine running northwest gives it another suine distance to the east. ‘The fare by ruil trom the West Side Union Depot to the town 4s four and a hulf cents, while the place iz also euslly accessible by xoud roads over Grand avenue, North avenue, Armitage uvenue. and Columbia dvemie. It bas the further advantage of the Northwestern cut-off, will bave that of tne new belt-line, and is further accessivle by the street-cars, which now run to Humbuldt Park on North avenue, and will eveutually run to Gariteld itself. ‘The site which has been selected for the loco- motive works 1s the southwest twenty acres in the suburb of Gartield~—a truct in the shape of a panuliviogram, bounded on the north by the Chicago & Pacitic Division of the Milwaukee & St. Pau, on the west by . Columbia avenue, "and on the ‘south .. by Northavenue. The plaus ot the works have been gotten up in Boston under the girecton of Mr. Howard, who will be ere sduld time this week to let the coutracts. The buildings will be ‘twelve in nuinber, of brick with stone: found: tions, and will be constructed afterthe most ap- proved ‘plans. The building materi@ has all Deen. ordered, together with $109,0) worth of Machinery, aud the work will be pusbed as rap- idly as the weather will allow—the design being to begin manufacturing locomotives June 1, 1882, and to turn out three complete samples of the “iron horse a week. The construction of the works Wili be under the zeueral manayze- ment of Mr. Howard and the: ‘Trustees, Messrs. J.T. MeaAuley, D. K. Tripo, Thomas S. Kirk- wood, Harry Sayrs, James. D. McKay, and Eu- gene Ellery. : The locomotive-works people, like Mr. Pull- inun, Will build several bundred neat and sub- stuntial houses for theiremployés.wbo will aum- ber about 1,000 men. The proposed residence por- don Ifes in the northeast corner uf Garlicid, sulliciently removed from the works themselves. 10 make it suitable for the purpuse. In addition lo the streets ulreudy. made aud graded, che company will make all their own new streets and clay and gravel them. The entire plot is being rupidiy set out with trees. and will be made in every way an aftractive place to live. ‘The land syndicate iscomposed of some of Chicago's best. business-men ‘and # number of Eastern capitalists who are said to have any stwount of faith ae well as money in the scheme. It is a peculiarly Chicayo-Boston affair, and in- cludes such men ag Junn T. McAuley, J-otter Palmer, Wiliam C Grant, Charles W. Drew. Joho P. Wilson, D. K. Tripp, James F. Keeney, Snrader & Ellers.JamesA. McKay, C._ 1, Hos- mer, E.S. Dreyer &Co., and Hurvey Sayers of Chicaygo, and Messrs. Howard and — others .of Boston, Mr. Howard, it may be recalled, :is Vice-President of ‘tne Chi- cago, Texas & Mexican Central Railway, and ig interested ina uumber of other roads, while a pumber of the locui members of the syndicate nre likewise stockholders in the new road which is heading for the territory across the Rio Grande. Qutside of but in a sense associited with the fovomotive-warks seheme the syndicate bas bought around and Immediately joining Garticld avout 50) more acres of lund, a larsetract of which will be set aside forthe ther manufacturing interests “which are sure to be attracted thither. Indeed, some are already negotiating with the syndi- eate for choice locations, and among them a well-known plow manufacturing company. a Jarge furniture manufacturing company, and the Sigwalt Sewig-Macbin2 Company. The en- terprise will be fargely assisted bythe liberal Management of tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. “Pauli Railroad Company,” which is in- Serested with the syndicate in building uP a manufacturing and residence town second tO none sround Chicago. The growth of the northwestern portion of the city during the last Lwo years has been very rapid indeed, and bun- dreds of new houses bave gone up around M1 boldt Park and both sides of Milwaukee avenue as fafas the city limits. This’ gigantic enter- prise will give a new impetus to improvements ‘Usroughout this section of the cliy, ana prop- erty In the vicinity will take such a jump es the owners probably “never anticipated. In fact, this iz but the opening up of 2 maxnificeat new manufacturing and residence centre, within cuss driving distance from the city—it is only dive and a balf miles from the Court-House— accessible by railroads at low fares, and within comfortable walking Aistance of what will bo. if is not at present, one of Chicago's finest parks. ‘The whole ‘tract purchased or con: tracted for by the syndicate includes about 8 xereg, the averare price of which has been from $1,001 to $2,000 per acre. ‘The somewhat natural inquiry as to the rea- fon for jocating a locomotive. works inland. in- stead, for instance. of planting them somewhere near the lake at South Chicaxo, is cusily an- ewered. Witn the belt roxd in-operation, and The rallroad facilities at present afforded py the wo divisions of the Chicago, Milwautee & St. Paul, iron, steel, and other materials can be as easily obtained at Garfield as at South Chicago, and the finished engines conveniently and readi- dy shipped in any direction desired. -It must be remembered, too, that land “around: South Chi- cago és held at good round prices these days, and ° practical considerations with,regurd to_invest- ment and income huve 2 vast deal to do with and jaaugumition of xn enterprise: like this. : ‘Hitherto Chicago. has been without locomo- tive works, purring the establishments of sey- eral of the rallroxd compantes, which merely build for their own use. Why 2 Western raii- road should send. East for Its engines, and nay freight on their enormous weight to the West, when they can be turned out every whit as g00d here, and the freight charges very materially Jessened, {g a utter which bas always. been more or fess ditficult to understand. The fact is, there Is no good renson whatever, except that nobody with sutlicient capital hus until now deen found to undertake the manufacture of locomotives for Western use in the metropolis of tho West, Iisa noteworthy fact that, Just at present, every locomotive works in the country is behind with its orders, and so far be- bind. too, that with the increasing demand oc- casioned by the building of new roads ana the complete wearing-outof old engines it is a very ditticult matter to catch up. The new locomo- tive works at Gariicld, while as yet they only -exist on paper, already have 120 orders to fill, and will no doubt have 4 good muny more before they are in shape to build. With an abundance of iron at South Chicago. the belt-line to transport it to Garfiel¢, the cheapness of living whicn makes Chicago at- } tractive to the working masses, and the accessi- bility of the place by curs and otborwise, the 1o- comotive-works people ure convinced that they couldn't have chosen a better spot for their gi- srantic operunons, und are correspondingly hope- ful and enthusiastic over the future. the location THE NEW BOARD OF TRADE. E. L, Johnson, Burnbam & Roor,S. ¥. Ran- dolph, W. W. Boyington, August Bauer, ana C. P. Thoms, the architects, competing for tho construction of the new Board of ‘rade Bulid- ing, have submitted their plans to the Real-Es- tte Committee. of the board, which at present has them ix charge, but which will submit thom to» public inspection of the board, -beginuing tomorrow morning, and in the course of x2 month o1 so prepare and present a formul report, recommending the selection of some one of the six. For the pres- ent, no profane exes are allowed to gaze upon the’ plans, and all “knowledge on the subject {5 locked up in the breasts of the cummittee and the arehitects, who have been put under prom- ise not togive the thing away” before itis fully ripe. : MORE MAGNIFICENCE. An important item of news fn connection with the prepurations for the new Board of Trade Bullding is the announcement that. John HL Bensley, P. D. Armour, and Sidney AJ. Kent will Jay out o cool half mill- fon of dollars in putting up one of me finest office buildings on the continent on the south bulf of the new Bourd of Trade site. The butding will .be 173 #-l0x15tig feet in area ana seven stories ‘hich, und will e its iain front on Van Iuren street, fucing the Lake-Shore depot and side front on Pucine ave- hue and Sherman street. The Board of Trade Building will have a frout.of 17 son street and a depth of 240 feet or Pacitic av- enue and Sherman street, and there will be a court thirty feet wide extending from Pacitic avenue to Sherman street between buildmgs, so at both will be thoraug lated and' well-lighted from four side. buildings will probably have muchinery in com- mon, inserted in the court between them, for heating purposes, running elevators. ete. As before stated, the ‘building will be seven stories high and will be constructed with reference to turnishing the best accommodations that buve r been supplied in this eity for Buurd uf Trade ollices, They will combine all the excellencies ound in the Bust and abroad, und embody some novel ones. The buildin will be ready for ov- cupaney a little in advauce of the new Board of ‘Trade Building. VUE UNION LEAGUE CLUB. The Union Lengue Club {3 ambitions, and wants to zo abousekeeping in a home of its own. With this end in view, a committee was appointed some time ago to look around fora site und to figure on the erection of 2 building that would meet the requirementsof the league, which now has over 390 members. . Tho site bus been selected, so far as the committee itself is coucerned, and the preliminary phins bave been advanced to the stugo Where it ts possible to re- fer to them in their general features. ‘The pro- posed site is the now long-vacant lot on the Southeast corner’ of Dearborn und Mon- roe streets, with a front of 1W) feet on Dearborn and 1m Monroe. ‘The property is held vy on the Connecticut Mutual Lite, of Hartford, who obtained it, ike 2 good deal of other valuable dirt around town, by tha simple process of louniug wuncy on it and then, when forced to take the step, fore- closing tho mortgage. The league is suid fo bold a refusal of the property for ten dys from Dee. 1 at $25.00, and the committee bas recom- mended the acceptance of te olfer, Aveordmg to tho plans, the building will run the entire 13) feet on Monroe. street, with a frontage of only 10) feet_on Dearborn’ street, leaving ninety fect on Dearborn, next to the alley, to be either old by the lenge or lensed for a Jong term, in case the present negotiauons: are satisfactorily concluded, ‘ihe proposed building is to be six” stories high aad to be built of pressed - brie! with stone trimminus, or possibly of Philadelplia stoue of « wreenisn tat, The league is to occupy the whole Du.tding” above the inain story, and the mutin entrance will be next to the Aineriean Express Company's build- ing. With an eye to the matter of income, it is Proposed to huve iwo spacivus stores un the main oor, Dearborn street front, aud to raise the membership fee in the league to $80. ‘Tho other financial plans of those whe are pushi the Scheme tor the Iearue provide for the issue of bonds to the amount of the. purchase money forthe lot, and the erecaon of the building from funds'to be raised by issuing certificates of imenbersbip. Over 10) of the representative members, it 15 ‘suid, are ready to assume their share of the expenseyelther us private citizens or collectively, as members of the league. ‘The interior appointments, it is suid, will be of a superior order. The culinary department. will be jocated at the top of the build mg, and the re- ception-rooms will be a special reature of tho new bome, Altogether, if tho thing goes through without any “balks.” the leazue will be ina very pretty field of clover, 60 to spgak, DOWN-TOWN MOVES. The contemplated remuval ot the Cull Board to new quarters in the Spring has again become matter of interest. Tho present call-room is & bulf-basement, 70x80 feet in area, with a 12- foot ceiling, and poorly lighted and ventilated. ‘here has béen some informal talk umonz whe inembers hutely about putting up a temporary Unilding In Calboun place, just west of Lu Salle street. ‘There,is in the reir of the stores front ing ou Madison street a piece of cround 89x? in area, which is heavily incumbered. Those wh advocate the scheme of u new building believ advantageous terms could be made for the po: session of the ground, and claim that a on story basement building 80x80 feet, with sky- lights fn the roof, could be erected on the site in question for $10.00, which would be cheaper than renting. while the bourd would bave the additional udvantage of better quarters thao scuuld.be leased elsewhere in the vicinity ot the Coamber of Commerce, und which would yet be of such a temporary and_fuexpensive character that the board wouid suffer no loss when tho re- moval tu the,uew Board of ‘Trade building takes place two yelrs hence. The graqual concentration of the wholesale clothing una boot and shee business within the district bounded by Fifth -ayenue, Market, Madison, and Adams streets hus been frequent ly referred ty iu Tue ‘TrrpuNs's real-estate columus. The latest and most important re- moval to that quarter is that of Phelps, Dodie & Palmer, manufacturers and jobbers of boots and shoes. Early in January that tirm will move from theiff present quarters on Wabash avenue Into the new five-story and basement warehouse, now nearly rendy for occupancy, on the corner of Fifth avenui-and Adams strect. ‘The new store is 8x18) feet and contains all the modern improvements. A-Uorliss ine will furnish the motor for manufacturing purposes and for the electric light with which the im- mcnse building is tu be lighted, It is the largest building in the country devoted exclusively to the bout and shoe business. Hibbard, Spencer & Co. are reported to have jeased tie new -building, now in process of construction, -‘at the “northeast corner of Wabash avenue. and Adams: strect. These foremost representatives of the hard- ware interest would seem to be following the iead of other interests in their migration towards the south, where there is more room tomovearound than in the present overcrowded and blockaded section on Luke street. Hibvard, Spencer & Co.'s new departure is likely to give au impetus to Wabash avenue business prop- erty, und the orcbabilities are that there will s00n be “more to follow."” SAMPLE SALES. There was a good attendance at the latest sale of the Chicago Heal-Estate Exchange Wednesday afternoon, and the bidding was very spirited. After $8145 worth of property had been Knocked down to the suc- cessful bidders, James Stinson, the owner, stepped to the fore and announced that no more lots Would be sold, owing to the in- adequacy of the prices brought. ‘This was 4 genuine surprise to the audience, sho evi- dently thought that they were doing very wellin the wiy of buying, and tho owner's action as tne subject of no little untavorable com- Charles D. Kerfoot sold for Frauk I, Stev for $100.00, to William €. Comstock, a member of the tirm of Hobbs & Co., of the Board’ of Trade, 90x17 feet on Waban avenue, §0 fect gouth of Van Buren street, eust front, with ‘the building known ss-the “Albany,” containing several stores and tluts. The property was bought purely 93 an investment, and the pur- cbuser is understood to have his eye on another sprog ow heen reas, Just south of Jackson for which he is sald t Hations at $50,000. *0 DE closing nego- E. G. Asay has sold his hanasome residence at tho northwest corner of Calumet avenue and ‘Twentieth strect toGeorze Armour Jr, for $i0,- wW), and will give possession Muy 1, 159%. Sir, T. P. Phillps$ of Wheeling, W.-Va.. bought a Jot at the southwest corer of Van Buren and Fifth avenue the other day while visiting. the city, and pald down $200 deposit. In three days thereafter he pocketed an even $3,000 profit on his investment. He was to pay $25,0), but sold for $25,009. without uny furtner investinent than said deposit of. $590. Me. Phil- los, bouwnt of Samuel P. Parmily, and sold to ‘T. P. and G. 'T. Smith. “ Hutchinson Bros. sold for Thomas 8. Chard, to Benjamin Haarman, the four-story stoae-front ‘uilding, 255199, on Madison street, 140 feet west of La Salle street, for $52,500; ‘for William Knoke, 56x12 feet, with three-story and base- ment Drick stores and flats, om Ogden avenue, 150 feet south of West Van Buren street, for $15,500; znd for Monroe Frank, four-story brick block 100, corner of Kinzie and Cuss Streets, for $16,000. : it. F. Rutehinson suld to 5. C.J. Cleaver, for $13.00, 25x170 feet. on Wabash avenue, north of Fourteenth strect: the estate of Elf Bates to John S. Cochran, for $9,000, 100x108 fect on Oak street, west of. Pine; B. M. and S. Quintin to Ciara S. Alien, for $7,000. 290x150 feet ‘on Michi- gan avenue, ‘neur ‘Thirteenth street: Bele Spencer to H. A. Huribut, for 35,00), 25x148 feet on Michigan avenue, near Nineteenth street. SATURDAY’s ‘TRANSFERS. ‘The following instruments were Med for rec- ord Saturday, Dec. 3: cITy PROPERTY. Secley ny, Gf ft n of West, Juckson st. i £, 65 8-10 fc to alley, dated Dee. 1 ( iam Lawrenee to Lyman L. Barbour)... 9,000 West Washington st, 238 ft eof Onley ’ nf guxizt ft, dated Noy. 2 (George We Fuller to George ——). Centre av, U1 rt nef West Mon f, 8ixl25 tt, dated Dec. 1 (William .! Smith to Sidney P. Walker) Ln Sulle ay, n w cor of Ouk st, of, 23x10 ft, dited Dec. 3(Chartes B. Congdon to . Arthur J. Kirkwood)...,.... Campbell uv, 96 ft n of Van Buren st, f, Hx0OX ft, Improved, duted Dec. 3 + (Anna I. Caiid to Cyril L, Child).. North Paulina st, ne cor of Elk, wf, x 32654 ft, dated Dec. 1(Joban Lrenis to . F. Sylvester)... Michizau av, 200 tv's of Thicty-fourth st, 0 f, 50x14 8-10 ft, dated Nov. 25 (Henry 1. Pasco to Gustuvus P. Adanis). Hurlbut st, 12 ft n of Wisconsin, w f, 333 ft, dated June 17, 1580 (L. A. aud Y. Stexer to C. Spencer). Lincoln av, %7 ftse of Cen #Ax115 ft, improved, dated De sun L. Rosa to Amusa §. Barry Twenty-fourth st, 25 [Le of Port nf, 75x125 ft, duted Feb, 2, 1875 (W iam B. Ogden to A. F. West et ni). BS. SOUTH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADIUS SEVEN MILES OF TRE COUNT-HOUSE, Freaerick place, s ¢ cor of Fitty-sixth st, w f, 150x175 ft, dated Nov. 21 (Benjamin D. Slocum vo Albert’ Morse). sete ee WEST OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT-HOUSE. A large portion of the subdivision known as Garileld, situated on nw eorof North av. and Crawford, upoa which will be located the Chicnzo Locomotive Works, dated Nov, 25 (James F. Keeney to Jobo ‘T. Meauley; 3 = 500,000 2,400 6,000 3,000 oF SUMMARY FOR ‘TIE WEEK, The following is the total amount of city and suburban sales within a radius of seven miles of the Court-House filed for record during the week ending Saturday, Dee. Location. City sules North of city limits .. South of city limits West of city limits, Total......... Yotal previous week Amount, BUILDING. ‘The remerkably open character of the alleged winter now upon as hus filled the builders’ hearts wits joy and gladness, besides putting money in their purses, and evidences that they have been waking all p We hay while tho sun sbines are present on every band. In many eases where it wus tho first “mtention to merely put in the foundations, and leave tho superstructure until the ‘trost was out of the ground in the spring, that purpose hus been changed, and tno walls ure gomg up as ‘rapidly as the busy workmen can rear them. ‘The prog- ress made on the wotable buildings inthe down- town section, such as the First. National Bank building, the Montauk Block, the ‘Taylor build- ing, the Chicaxo, Burlington & Quincy oltice- Duliding, and other prominent structures now in. course of erection, exceeds all te precon- ceived estimates of the builders themselves and the parties who foct the bits, and puts the date of probable completion in numerous cases fully amosth earlier than was at first anticipated. The, favorable weather, too, has bad the elect or ‘spurring up those contemplating new building enterprises, and hoping to make a good start even at this ordinarily late day, aud, ts a result, the weekly erop of building permits is: considerably larger than it has been for several weeks pust. Among the more important perniits issued during the past six days were the following: E, B. Sheldon, three-story dwelling, x feet, Lincoln avenue, near Wisconsin street, to cost $20,000; Bros., ten two-story flats, 175x46, Monroe stree! near Caipbell avenue, 33,000 each; W. F. White- house, tive-story store f1xl05, Adams street, near Fifth avenue, $55,000; J. L. Campbell, eight two-story dwellings 1s8xi2, De Kolb avenue, near West. Polk street, 315,00; Latlin, Van is & Co.. four-story brick store, 140x71, TLand 7 Randolph. streec, to cost $10,000; M. Murphy, two-story brick stable 75x10) fect, Pacitic avenue, near Harrison street, $12,0W; G. Earle. eight two-story dwellings on No. 237 ‘Thicty-seventh street, $10,000; B. Grossman, three two-story and basement stores and fats, xi feet, Nos. wre, and 331 Cottaze Grove DUC, $10,500. ‘ TOE CABLE ROAD, The mild weather of the past week bas afford- ed the workinen on the State street cable road an opportunity to accomplish a yood deal of work, and they have succeeded yery well. In view of the fuct that a freeze-up muy be looked for xt any moment it might be well for Superin- tendent Holmes to bring several enicium lignts into play and work nis men all night while the present mild spell ists. ‘Che rond on State street, between Madison and Lake streets, hus been completed, as hus the road on Lake street and on Webash avenue be- teen Lake und Washington streets. The con- creting bas been done on Wabash avenue be- tween Washington and Madison streets, and the fron work is all in ow-Mudison street between Wabash avenue and State street. The South Side cars now turn ut the starting-house on Wa- basn avenue, near Monroe street. The trivie curve at the intersection of State and Madison streets is belng put in, and befote the last of the present week the down-town ‘ eable road will in all probability fe completed. From Madisun street south to Twenty-secdnd Street the road -hus been completed, with the exception of paving the Archer avenue excava- tion and the engine-bouse excavanon. The city pavers have reached Twenty-second strect. During the week the fourth engine was received at the engine-bouse and put In position. The ‘Twenty-second strect excavation 1s bemg rnp- fly bricked over. Last night the west track from Twenty-second to Thirty-ninth streets was completed, and the east track is finished from ‘lwenty-second to ‘Lwenty-cighth streets, concreted to Thirt; Street, the fron-work is in to Thirty strect, and the channel is dug to Thirty-thfrd street. The street is paved between ‘lwenty- second and Twenty-sixth streets, and between Thirty-lirst und Thirty-ninth streets. The com- ing week will witness still further progress ip this important improvements HARD TO STRIKE WIS GAIT. ‘The latest scheme in the vicinity of East Chi- cigo is the rumored negotiations between uo party of mysterious New-Yorkers and the hig- ling owner of a- 2,000-acre tract of laud sttuated at Edgemore, the rather fancy name of a “spot down in. Indinnu adjointns East Chicugo.. The owner in question has been stubbornly holdiug on to what be con- sidered a good thing for some time past, in the hope of booming” jc forall it was worth. It would seemto have dawned upon him that tha plice was cut gut by nature for 2 summer-re- sort, and the aileged New York- syndicate are said to bave inspected the pince and been fairly weil pleased with it.. The property is situated between the Big Calumet iiver on the south and Lake Michigan on the north. It bas two miles’ frontage ua the river, and two miles of Luke Michigan beach, is from eigat to ten Yect above the level of the luke, and is covered with large pine trees. But the syndicate haven't bought it yet, and “the finest bench around Chicago, with unusual attractions ‘for a Inke-shore drive and a lakeside resort muy go a begging. There ure several other peopie down around East Chicago, and just over the border-line into Indiana, who have been stubbornly holding onto their possessions for some time past, in the hope of muking them veritable bonanzus,and who may ultimately find themselves badly left. Its @ wise man who knows just when to gell out. IEMs. Ald. Sanders thinks’ “Broadway” would sound a good deal better than “State street,” and has introduced an ordinance to make the chuuge. The current number of the Western Manufact- urer contains an accurate illustration of the wonderful Town of Pullman, with its works, ho- tels, houses for workingmen, ete., and a com- plete and interesting history ‘of the enterprise from {ts inception down to date. A good number of toans were made during the week at6 and? per cent, and the market was fully us tirm as during the preceding week.” The Calumet Iron & Steel Company ts doubling the capaelty of its nail and pudding mills, and discussing ‘still greater improvements which may be undertaken this coming spring. ‘The most refreshing exbibitton of unadulter- ated gall during the week was the filing of xt bill by the Escanava & Lake Michigan Transporta- Hon Company, not only to test the validity of the bridge ordinance, hut, what was more cheeky Still, to have the Harrison street bridge and the other bridges south of it declared nuisances. ‘The Chicago Nationa! Bank bas secured along lease of the two corner rooms. first flour, of rhe Hawley Building, southwest corner of Dearborn and Madisun streets, bought up the feases of the present tenants, and will take possession about the middle of the month. The new quarters will be handsomely titted up. and the bank will be- gta business about Jaas10, 182, , 2a How Manager Abbey Worked Up ~ a. Boom for-Patti and “ ~ Himself. Small Boys and Rope the Chief Features of the Senseless Exhibition. The Return from Europe of Victoria e ‘Woodhull and Her Oddly- Named Child. Christmas Cards, and the Liberal Prizes Given to Those Who Originate Them. + Stage Fascination Something Not Easily Shaken Off—Theatrical Notes, : Ete. Spectat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. New York, Dec. J.—Mlle. Patti, under tho new munuugement, hus just lighted up Srooklyn this weck. Mr. Abbey put down 1,30) yards of earpet on the: steps and sidewalks about the Academy; he laid in tons of tlowers, and I don’t want to say he was the originator of the non- sense ‘after the theatre was over butas. tho Georgia man said. at the hanging, be “bad nothing more to do with it than turnishing the rope." Perhaps Mr. Abbey furnished the ropo~ which a lot of hobbled boys hitched to the coupé, und, detaching the horses, pulled fire-engine fashion through the streets. Patti and Nicolini {of course) entered the carriage. The driver jumped from the box and remained Uke a sen- sible man with bis intelligent cuadrupeds, while, whooping and shouting, a crowd of men and boys clunr to the rope and wildly dragged the singer and her cavalier from the Academy to the Pierrepont House, turning a corner on two wheels like an exhilarated butcher cart. A more undignitied proceeding could not ve imagined. Thon Patti got away from. the ropes and boys and into her apartments. A seranade com- menced, and sheappeured at her window. A brass band always commands a crowd, and a tremend- ous crowd soon gathered. Puttl in the window> did some Little Toddlekins business; she clapped her hands and jumped up and down with about aS much elasticity a3 a dasher jn a churn. Then she got excited to such a devree that she began to throw things out the window—state bouquets and .a tray of raisins and almonds. it was 2 wild time all round. Abbey and his djannisaries were In the bestof spirits (the Pierre- pont House is noted for then), ‘and the tun was kept up till every one got hoarse, or empty, or tull, or something buppened. The Academy was pucked; the actof “Faust” was well suns by the: chorus, miserably by Nie- coliui, and yzorgeously by Patti; but it was a taste of opera, and in opera alone-is Patti worth her money. However, the engagement began in u blaze of glory; although expensive glory, it is asort of Dated meta), and the demonatratta floral, musical, and jackuassicnl—seem tawdry, and blatant, and idiotic; thoy will. make dread- fulreading for London aud Paris, and, though the treasury will benetit, Patti cannot feel happy over the powwow of Monday night, and, though this is new country, it’s quite on the cards we have x ruined Abbey yet. DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS. From off one of the storm-tossed steamers that reached New York last week there stepped 1 very remarkable party—an old woman so with- ered, and brown, and wriukled that she looked like oue of the hickory-nut dolls you find at country. fairs—two middle-aged women, outré in costume, with the slap-dash air of tho strong- aiuded, and tho shurp, eager look of tho adver turous females they ure. hore were three generations of the family, tor the elder sister leaned upon the arm of'a stout brunet girl of 38. ‘This was Zulu Woodhuli-Blood and ber mother and aunt, Victoria Woodbuil ang Ten- nessee Clatlin, and her grandma, the hickory- nut old lady. Never in the memory of man was there such variable fortunecas that of the Woodhull aud Claflin family. One week iu a tenement-houso wearing “Waterproofs ‘and. gundul-rubbers 23, negligé costumo; the next, dwelling in Andrew Garvey’s lost, mansion, draped in oriental magniticence. ‘Thus up und down till the Vanaertilt case came on, in whieh Victoria was much mixed, paving enjoyed the desirable contidencc of oid Cornelius. “The opening of the suit found the family wheel deep in the mud of adversity, and before the next revolution ena- bled u to buy tho Reservoir aud roof it over; atfysterious influence shaped the magic change ina new direction; bag and bugeage, mother, sister, daughter, ‘and Victoria, uway thoy suiled for England.” Not a doubt but: they “left their country for thoir country's scood,”" Enough soiled tinen was afred in the Vanderbilt lawsuit without the threatened element Victo- rin. Mr. William Vanderbilt was generous, for the folks bave not bad to come Lote till the win- ter of ‘SI, but here they are at lust. i Inthe old duys when Vie had that editorial Saison, Theodore ‘Tilton, by the long, blonde hair, be perpetrated a biographical batch of bosh about ber; he compared her to the Niue ‘Muses and the ‘Three Graces; be viewed ber pro- file trom the northeast and discovered u striking likeness to his ofd friend Socrates. or Demos- theues, or some other wise and handsome ben- then. ‘Tur about that time Heary was contem- plating Elizabeth fram the southwest and found she looked like a “ carved image on a tomb.” So these savans didn’t do so much for Woodbull after all; but when She zot to Londou she capt- ured a British newspaper-man who christened her the “Queen of Society,” described ber in four columns as something beyond the grasp of adjectives, inventoried ber drawtng-rvom like a broker, and sent forth the" news of an approaching marriage between “Victoria and one of the greatest noblemen und statesmen on earth.” Lsbail always believe that unen- lightened Briton mixed her up with bis sov- erelgn, the other Victoria, and Beaconstleld, Beside this newspaper article ‘Tilton’s gush was A penny trumpet to a full-blowa Lovy. Mrs. Woodtiull mailed it to every one she knew in the States, and I have always thought of ber as hanging up her coronet on “her bedpost and putting on a jeweled nivhteap at night. one of the happy fuinily of crowned heads; but, true to her see-suw fortune, here she comes over a ¥ang-plank with a very commonplice riz on, with Ma, and ‘Yennie, and Zulu, and with the in- tention of putting thetirl upon tho stage and going herself into the lecture business, "Ss PRIZES. Five years ago the first Christmas cards ap- peared in the Stationers’ and fancy stores: after them camo a deluze—Easter cards, Christ- mas, New-Year's, and birthday cards—thetr de- signs are legion, Théy come in battalions from I4ndon, in platoons from Boston, and they are niunufactured by thousands in New York. The great chromo firm of Prang hit upon a device to obtain original desins. They offer in early spring prizes ot. $1,000. $500, and $250 for the best executed cards, and secure a multitude for a nominal price ufter the successful ones buve zobbied the prizes. One of the triumphant competitors has said that It ‘vostas much to get 2 prizé as the prize amounted to.” This was at the time when acommittee of judges awarded the prizes. To avoid the bribery and corruption of that’ sort of thing the cards te last year have been exhlb- ited and every visitor voted. The wily artists got round this by buying lots of tickets, putting the numbers of their curds on thom, and sending friends, una relatives, and the stranger within their gates to vote. Praug’s people found lots of tickets tying round, all nicely numbered, that the faithless representative of the competing artists had not taken the trouble to put where they would count. One day thes found a lot all numbered 9,129.90, we'll say, and they found 41,129,999 had polled a tremendous vote, standing a ood chance to win that which it did not de- serve; So they quietly took off 9,129,908 from the card, substituted 7,377,771. and it never yot a vote all day, while soae poor little card. un- noticed during the exhibition with the magic number 9,148 planed on, got arousing send- off. : ‘There's no getting round the skilful artist when there's a prize at stake. © The winning cards are by no means the best of those sent in; the $1,000 prize is startlingly upiy: the girl who with clumsy drapery and arms ak{mbo, looks out from some esthote muddle, is 8 fright; she certainly has been out oo a Xmas bender; her whole ‘face betokens dissipation; her mouth louks as if she hud been hit with a pair of brass Knuckles, and a quuntity of ily- ing strings from off her bead fits ber to call her- selr Medusa; ber complexion {3 so dreadful that no one will mistaxe her for. Maid of: Athens, siuce they will see she {s made_of putty. Alto- gether it’s a sud specimen of Yankee tuste and Not as pretty or artistic as twenty other designs thitt never got a vote. Another, curd that came near gotting a prize shouta be “by the same band; the same sort of femule reprobate, with most of her wardrobe at home, is sitting on the hub of Fortune's wheel gesticulating wildly out: of ber frume for an ulster or a bottle of. Jacob's Oll; she seems to need both. ; ‘The Boston cardsare mostly steel engravings, and look cold and ineffectual beside the colored, ue ager niticent tlower cards, a3 artistic 23 anything thus far shown. Ladies are buying them (they are 0x5 and 12x6 inches, and very cheup, 23 and 30 cents), backinz them with rich satin ribbon that falls handsomely fringed at the bottom, and is finished ia a point above tohangup by. But Christmas cards must. not necessarily be cardshaped; thore are fans, and pillets, and tambourines, and plaques. with desizns: and mottoes, and quotations. ‘These are doubly val- uable when they contain the face of the donor and are made at home. I know a lady who bus transferred her photo to a dozen pallets, and painted lovely sea-weeds, shells, and flowers nbout it; on a card she bas painted a charming bunch of daisies, and the heart of the flower is the Ince of a sinfling child; us she has five, the five little heads muke a beautiful bouquet. ,THE FASCINATION OF THE FOOTLIGHTS. Once ui actress, always an actress. There arc a few exceptions, but very seldom does a woman leave the footlights that she doesn’t look back with longing to them and return to them if she cau. Tuke Mrs. Hoey; she retired from Wal- lack’sin her prime, and .she is 28 much inter- ested und as eager about each theatrical event as if she played every night, There’s Agnes Ethel out in Buffalo, Every yearshe gets mixed up with managers and urtists, and in conse- quence the report goes forth that she will re- turn to the stage, and she will undoubtedly if she don’t wait too long. Kate ‘ferry in London tmurried one of the richest merchants, and bus a very good position in his cirele of society, bit Kute ilies off 10 the theatre with his sister Marion, and haunts the creenroom, longing to step forth once more behind tne glowing semi- circle of gus that is so much burning incense iu the nostrils of the actress. It wns out in somo Western city, Chicago per- haps, that alittle soubret named Kitty O'Neil became tho wife of @ Httlo Irish comedian named Conner, and twenty years ago tha two cume to New York, where Jimmy, the husband, Started the first dramatic agency and Kitty, the wife, did all the business connected with it. Str. Conner was consumptive, and the’ brisk litte womun had hard work to’ pull along—take care of achiid anda sick husband and run about town to muke thé little axency give them a mis- erable living. Iu those days she bemuaned tho sud fate that bad taken her from the stage, sho loved it so; but her constant associatfon with professionals made her burden somewhat lighter, after yeurs of struggle with poverty and diseuse the husband died, and. Kate and one sou instead of being heard of 2g Yupsy and Eva or Cora und her chijd in same traveling company, dropped out of sight and memory, —. Five years ago the mistress of the finest home on the Hudson, dressed in purple and tine linen, doiue the Lady Bountiful among her poor neigh- bors, very staid and dignified, went all to pieces with # wild whgop of joy and feil upon the neck Of aa old uctor walking with me along x quiet road in ‘Varrytown. ‘his was Ars. Ander- sou, wife of John ‘Anderson, 2 tobucco inllt- jonaire, and the little widow Kate Conner. How-she rattled on—she beats Myra Clark Guines for looking young and being old. Sbo told of poor Jimmy’s son, who wus a fash- fonable young man traveling ia Europe; she told of ber old husband and their visits to Italy and Garibaldi; of Azassiz and the istand and schvolold John Anderson bud given him; of the works of urt they had picked up in toreign lands; of their castle they were build- ing; of her ancestors, Brian Boreihme and other irish Kings; of ber jewels and her wealth; but every other sentence was of the stage. She had played in many pieces with tho old actor, ana the pent-up gush of the green-room ‘burst forth fn u Hood of rejoicing. é She hud ceased to be the nurse of an actor to become the nurse of a tobacconist. Mr, Andor- son Was 2 contirmed invalid—old, irrascible, and prejudiced aganivst the stage and his wife's former associttes. The tears stood in her snap- ping black eyes as she told bow she wished she could tuke tho deur actor friend howe and display her gorgeousness to him} for alt the pride she evinced at her pecuniary success und changed position— regret for the old life rang in every sentenc she piued amid pienty for past (privation: <lfter that 2 saw ber several times; she was iad for her son’s sake that she was no longeron the stage, but for her own I believe she would have preferred Knocking round the country with some snap combination at nothing a week and find yourself if you can. Here last, week comes the news that Kate is again a widow, the Lord having sent for Auder- son while he was in Paris (Anderson, not the Lord). [suppose she has & good bit of money, and Will be untrammeled in its use. It’s a pity she isn't in America. Harnett, the New Yori renl-estate min, advertises a first-class theatre now in operagon in Philadelphia. As she is too old to pluy we shall hear of her yet a3 mau- ure. TUE ARMAND OF THE, AGE. If the Union Squire compuny didn’t play “Camille” (as ['m sure they did not) during their stay in Chicago, then Charles ‘Thorne's greatbess is partinly unknown to you.. He's the best .irmand over seen in America, and he’s the star of the presentation here this week. Clara Morris is so dreadfuily unfitted physically to viny the part of the beautiful lady of Camel- as that it is painful to look upon ber. Camille was a dying woman from the tirst act ip- Dumas’ intention, but with all the hectic loveliness of consumption at tho. first and the beauty of 0 statue ull the last, else the De Varvilles, and the Dukes, and the Duvals would not have zone mind about her. Clara Morris is the sort of ball-room belle that would stop the music and drive the dancers un- der the benehes. She's u fine actress; but not till Bou Magintey plays Ophelia and Edwin Booth mukes a hit as Stalacta in “ The Black Crook” vurht Clara Morris be xecepted us Camille. Fauny Davenport is engaged for a tour cover- ing two years in Engtand, and pinys u farewell eugayement here ut the Fifth Aveoue after Mc- Cullough. ‘The murnificent John is doing a bic business, ashe shou!d. He's the only Virginius we have now. He humps very satisfactorily through Aichard; his Lear is a very pleasant old fellow; his Ingomar delights ever so many girls beside farthenta Forsythe; and who that has looked upon the manly ture and lovely mouth of John. McCullough but swears by him; there's an inex- plicable fuscination ubout that actor that capt- ures everybody. Rhea in'some sort, has the same: her presence elicits an unusual amount of upplause; all the women pronounce her charming; she can walk off the stage after n very tame scene and be re~ called because she is “so sweet,” that being the Fensony Lhear given everywhere for admiring er. -* Fred Vokes is gomgto be naturalized, select some city in the Union, and go into munaso- ment. “The girls” will’comre over and give bin a helping band once 2 year, and if he can uaturalize or catechize that wile of his ha may have a jolly tine of ity:but Mrs. Fred Vokes is the daughter of Pony Moore, the London imin- strel. manager, and blood will tell. Mrs. Fred declares for London, and makes things yery lively for the mercurial Fred. Well! its x com- fort to hear of one man who is uuder proper subjection, MB. FE. “*YOU ARE MY ALL THE WORLD.” ADAPTED FROM SHAKSPEARE'S SONNETS. For The Ulicago Tritune. You aro my all the world: no praise or blame. From lips less loved can move my tIxéd heart. You are my ail the world: none else impart ‘The deathless wo to shame, the joy to fume. You are my all the world: I throw all caro Of other voices in this dupth profound. You ure my allthe world: tite’s utmost bound Ireach through you, my nope and my despair. You are my all the world: what you have said, Or felt. or thought, my sum of sod or Ill. O deeper life, you so each purpose fil, “Tnat all the world beside, methinks, are dead.” Grace S. WELLS. * ————— Dr. Holland as a Schoolmaster. ‘The experience of the late Dr. J. G. Holland us Superintendent of Schools at Vicksburg is thus recounted by Edward Eggleston in the De- eember Century: At tho end of the tedious river voyage he found that the pubife schools which he bad. bee: led to superintend bad not yet been organyed, und that, beyond a de- partment ror girls, they had: no existence. Dr. Holland wus warned tht discipline was out of the quesnon, that if’ he exacted abedience he would be put out by the larger boys. ‘There ensued a stern fight for supremacy between him und his rebellious pupils, in which his quick decision of ehuracter gave bim the mustery. Even at % later day thun this, such a thing a3 the shooting of 2 schoolmaster for whippmg 2 boy was not unknown in the Southwest. and it is 2 wonder that Dr. Holland escaped violence. Nothing bat his superior quickness and unfaltering cournge saved him. Onee, the Jarger boys resolved on revenge. One who hud suifered x sharo punish- ment at his bands provided hituself with a club, and backed by a crowd of burly, overgrown schoo}-fellows, waited to attuck the teacher on his way to the post-office. Seeing the crowd, und knowing- its meaning, Dr. Holland fixed his steady dark eyes on the one who had the elub, clenched bis tists, and walked straight- forward through the very midst of the group. whieb melted slowly away at the approach of the terribte master. When the rebels hus dis- persed, the teacher found the prints of his nalls in the palms of bis bands. Though he staid {o Vicksburg but fifteen months, he wrought a revoludon in its educanonal system. In less than 2 veur from his coming, the private schools were nil ziven up, except one which derived its support from out-of-town pupils, ‘The schools were graded, and were taught in one building under his supervision. << 7 + Satisfaction. “What will you have, ina'am?” said the pretty ‘irl behind the counter of a bakery at Wapa- koneta, O., ts the richly-dressed Woman who had alighted from u carriage at'the door. *I'lt have some satisfaction, if you please,” the caller replied; and then she got it by:.ecratching the girl's face, knocking her down, and kicking her. “Now, perhaps, you won't be quite so civil -to ne peabend when. he comes for -bread,” she adde: 2 A: Frenchman’s “Zoological, ‘Treatment of the Question. ——— aj Physical and Intellectual Inequalities Between Man and Woman, ~ Pre-eminence of the Masitline Sex in Al- most Every Particular, And that Pre-eminence Increased by Equality in Instruction. G. Delauney in Popular Sctence Monthly. The sentimental pretensions put forward by apolitical school which holds that woman is intellectually the equal of man, give a character of actuality to the question of the comparison of. the sexes. This question,’ which it has Been the custom to treat from a metapbysical point of view, is to us purely anthropological, or rather zodlogical. The nutritive phenomena in birds and mammals, including the human speci more intensive in the male than in the fe- male. Thg blood is denser, redder, contains more red: globuies and hemiglobine (Quin- quand, Korniloif), fewer.white globules, and less water. M. Malassez has found a million more red globyles in a cubic millimetre of man’s than woman’s blood. Man eats more than Woman. Public charities recog- nize that it costs more to feed a boy than a girl. But, though she eats less, woman is more of a gourmand (Brillat-Savarin), and eats more frequently, being oftener pressed by hunger. Women in the cities eat be- tween-meals, like children. In asylums fer the aged, where women are not allowed more meals than.men, they abstract. food ion by the feinalo sex. According to the libearians and the. directors of reading-rooms, while the men ure interested in the -study of history, ~ philosophy, and science, the women are still int ~ quiring for nothing but novels. It is, however, just to add that Europe ana America & Yew doctreases, and that a day will perhaps come when scientific carears will be disputed by women. We ure not authorized to couclude, from the fact that they bave not yet figured 23 inventors, that they will always be incapable of discovering anything. The future only cay tell whether woman is simply an imitator, or whether she is a creator in the same sense a3, man. It results as a whole from this parallel be “tween the sexes that. amony the superior spe- cies, the male excels the female not only in the intensity of the nutritive phenomena, but also in musculur-foree and intellectual.”develop. ment:" becuse man, more strongly nour. ished’ than woman, ‘fabricates more force than she, he is ‘correspondingly stronger. ia pbysical and intellectual qualities than she. At may be-added that more biological differences are found between the males than between tha females of the same race, If, for-exumple. we take ten Crévecceur cocks, we shall find thas they ditfer much mors from each other in sue and tna development of the locomotive orguus than ten hens of the same variety. So in the -bUman species, rezarding the stature. color of hair, musculur strength, yolce, tastes, idens, and even handwriting, we shail find A great resemblance among women anda grest diversity umong men. The supcriority of women appears everywhere among.aucient and modern inferior races, but. is never observed among superior races, which are, on the contrary, always characterized oy the preéminence of the nan. Whether we re- gard species: or. races, we see evolution con- stuntly advancing froin the supremacy of the fe~ male to that of the male. The “same uppears to take place respect to age. Girls grow faster than boys ill thoy are Ji, after which the man keeps on growing and the womun remains at a standstill, “So, -in the intellectual point, teachers in mixed sthuols observe that giria hold the first rank uutil they are 12 years old, and x lower rank afterward. Womun is, there- fore, physically, intellectually, and morally more precocious than man. Buffon believes that this difference bears a relation tu the more solid development of the tissues of men; but Prseoetty. itself, according to the investigutions have reported to the Société de Biologie, isa churacteror inferioty—for it is always followed. by ao arrest of development—observable umong in from each meal to eat in the intervals, so as to double the number of their meals. The respiratory phenomena of men are also stronger than those of women. The pulmonary capacity of a woman is a pintless than that of w.iman of the same size. The thoracic index of woman is less than that of min (Weisgerber). ‘The man absorbs more oxygen, although he does not breathe as of- ten. According to Quetelet, the woman, from 15 to 50 years of age, makes one more inspiration a minute than the man. At all ages man exhales more carbonic acid than ‘woman (Andral and Gavarret), The ‘tem- perature of man is higher than that of Woman. In the- circulation, the pressure of the blood is stronger: in the male, although the pulse is less fAquent. The difference amounts to eightcen pulsations a minute in the lion, ten in cattle, twefve in sheep, and ten to fourteen in man. + . ‘The relative weight of the skeleton to the weight of the body isless with woman; ‘Topinard says that in the physical characters of her skeleton woman jis intermediate be- tween the infant and the masculine adult, M. Mime-Edwards has found the bones of the male 2 little richer in organic matter than those of the female; and that at 30 years the boues of the man contain more mineral imatter, less organic matter, more carbonate of lime, less phosphate of lime, than those of the woman. The prevalence of the right side over the left is less with the woman (Harting). Broca has found that the clavicle of the woman is longer in proportion to the humerus; similar differences are ob- served between interior and superior races. ‘The male individual is always larger than. the female. This is observable in our do- mestic animals. M. Tovinard fixes the aver- age difference in hight between man and woman at twelve centimetres (four and two- thirds inches). Womun is also lighter. than man, although she often appears larger on account of the’ greater development of her adipose system. According to my researches, the foot of woman is flatter and less arched * than that of man—a fact which women of fashion try to hide by means Of high heels. ‘The femaie voice is always higher than that of the male, in animals and iuman. Woman’s voice is an octave higher than man’s, ‘The muscular system of the imale is better developed and more vigorous than’ that of the female. ‘This may be observed. in wild and domestic animals. The muscular force Of a woman from 25 to 30 years of age, meas- ured in the dynamometre, isa third less than thatof aman of the same age. The move- ments of man are more precise than those of woman. Thus men make the best pianists. The skull of the male is more voluminous than thatof the female (Sommering,. Pai chappe, Broca, Morselli). Muschke estimat the. diiference in. Europeans at 20 cubic centimetres; Dr. Weisbach makes the rela- tive measurement as 1,000 to 878; Morselli, 100 to $5. The shape of the skull also varies with the sex, that of the man being lower and jJonger than that of the woman. The brain of tho male is heavier than that of the female, in a proportion for mau fixed by Brocu ap 1,323 to 1210 grams (46% to 4245 ounces). Parchappe mukes the differonce us 109.54 so 100; Rroca, Kudolph, and Wagner, us 121 to 100; Huscbke, as 113 to 100; Meyner, a3 100 to. ‘That this ditference in weight does not depend upon the relatively smutler size of woman is shown by the stitement ot Purchappe, that, while tho stature of woman is to thal of mun as 927 to 1,000, the relative weight of, the brains of the two sexes is 2s 909 to 1,000. M. Le Bon has found, on comparing the average weight of tha brains’ of seventeen men of about five fect in hight with that of tho brains of seventeen women of corresponding size, a difference of 172 grams (six and one-quarter ounces) in fayor ‘Of the masculine brain. Diagrams of the femi- nine brains of ditferent races show that even in the most intelligent populations, as amoux con- temporary Parisians, the skulls of a notable proportion of women more nearly npproach the volume of the skulls of certain gorillas than that of the better-developed skulls of the maie sex. Other ditferences between the brains of the two sexes relate to the conformation. Accord- ig to Broca, Wagaer, and Huschke, and Wight of New York, the frontal lobes, the seat of the highest intellectual faculties, aro less devel- oped in woman than in man. The. occipital Icbes, the seat of the sentiments, ure more yol- uminous fn womun. Accordmg to Prof. Wag- ner, the brain of woman as # whole fs always in 4 more or less embryonic condition. Huschke suys that woman is only a child in growth, and belies ber infantine type no more by hér brain than by the other parts of her body. Some anatomists allege that the right side of the brain is superior in woman and the left side in men; hence women pass to the left and men to the right. Thaye observed that man performs certain motions, 29 those. of striking and but- tong tho cloths, centrifugally, and woman centripetally—another sign of ‘iaferiority: in woman. ‘The differences in the relative prominence of the lobes of the brain may explain Why wowaa is more given to the Ife of the heurt, and man to that of tho mind—~a point in which all authors ure agreed. , = The question of the relative morality of the sexes hus beea debuted by thousands of authors. Without going over their ground, we will en- deavor to suow what light hus been cast upon it by recent facts in demography. Women incon- testably commit a smaller proportion of crimes axainst persous than wen. Quetelet suzzests that they nre more restrained by shane and modesty, by their condition of dependence, their more rytired bublts, and thelr physieal weak- ness. When they do thus olfend, they are more apt to adupt poisoning, the weapon of cowards. It is universally admitted, asain, that woman is more devout and more churitable than. man. Her charity is, however, it muy be said, often narrow and intolerant, and exercised for the suke of proselytism. We now come to the consideration of the in- tellectual fuculties. The male is more intelligent than the female in wll ‘the superior species. ‘Trainers of trick-dogs prefer males, Kegarding the human speeles, all known systems of legis Jation recognize ao intellectual inferiority of the femule sex to the male, and treat womun a3 Awinor not abieto tuke care of herself, and heeding n cuide and tutor. The allotment of this position to womun has been determined chietly by her levity and frivolity, and the Roman law constantly invokes * fragilitutem sSexus" in justification of its statutes. ‘Ine partisans of equality meet this fact by alleging that tho laws have sacrificed wuman because they were made by men. Moralists have ulso noticed that women are merrier, more change- able, and more capricious than men: they are cir- likewise more hbeedless and less cumspect: All philosophers and moral- ists admit that women are “more super- gtitious, more prepossessed, more. imi- tative, and more addicted to routine, more talk ative, and more timid than men. Some inen of science also hold that women ure less intelligent than men. Bruca suys they are a tittle less so. Darwin remarks that men go further thin women inall that they undertake where pro- found thought, reason, imagination, or the ap~ plication of the senses and the hunda ure con- cerned; and that, if we should draw up a list of the dozen men and a similar list of the duzen women most distinguished iu poetry, painting, sculpture, science, and philosophy, the two Usts would bear‘no comparison. We might ulso cite the opinion of manufacturers and merchants who. employing both sexes, have been able to compare their faculties. All those- whom we have consulted think women are more assidu- ous, but less intelligent, thanmen. In printing- ollices, for example, women work minutely, mechanically, without knowing very well. what they are doing. They succeed well in reprint, which does not exuct intelligence, but poorly in manuscript. |. In the evolution of tastes and ideas, woman marches’ about:a century behind man.’ One might say: that she is in’ the course of going through the phuses that we have passed in urts, *.’ f letters, science, and philosophy. The ‘artistic ull females of animals andof men. Asarule,mun differs from woman more xt the age of muturity than during youth or old age, in such 2 manner that the maximum of ‘masculine pregminence corresponds with the climax of bis evolution. The biologicul considerations we have ad- duced explain to us why the two’ sexes tend to diverge from each other as we proceed from tho Jower to the highor elusses, Both sexes amoug peasants and worxing-people baving nearly tha “same morai and Intellectual faculties, they can sytmpathize with euch other. and have no reason for becoming estranged. itis ditferent amonc the intelligent classes, where the two sexes, in consequence of the increasing pretminence of man, not baving the same dens, the same senti~ ments, nor the sume tastes, cannot understand each ‘other, and form ‘separate coteries. Moralists have jong taken notice of the seperation, which is of force in the family and in the mectinys of men and of women, which seem to be increasing from year to year. Tt might be thought that the physical and { tellectual inferiurity of woman is a consequence of ner muscles and brain being less exercised than those of man. This is not correct. As ta bodily strenzth, it readily appears in the circus, where the two sexes receive tho same physical education, that the boy is always more vig= orous than the girl, and constantly main- tains his superiority over her. Some dificult feats ‘which the men perform regularly are fobidden to the women. The view that the intellectual superiority of man. and interiority of woman are due to differences in education is likewise not just. “In former ages, When the mass of the people were groping in ignorance, neither sex was better instructed, than the other; and now, in the France of to- day, there are still 600,000 children of both sexes who never set foot in a school, and receive ab- solutely no education, Wecan, then, say with Prof. Bischotf, of Slunich, that ** Women have suffered no other hindrances fo the exercise and evolution of their brains and their intellect ‘than those that are derived from their constitu- tion and their faculties of development.” The pretense that woman never receives the same education as man is, moreover, faise. Female pupils receive precisely the same musical in- struction at the music-schools as male pupils. How comes it then that, although there aro incomparably more women than men fol- Jowing musicas a profession, women furnish good performers, but 10 composers? ‘The same observation is applicable to painting and the culinary urt, Why is it that, while all the mea who devote thomseives to the latter urt become good cooks, there ure amoung the thousands of. women who exercise it as a profession so few of the first Sualicy? We have already seen that in mixed schools, where children of both sexes receive precisely the same education till they are 15 years old, the girls at first are abead by virtue of thelr natural precocity, but, on passing 12 years, fall behind the boys. The arrest in the development that takes place in woman at about this time is the real cause Of the crowing pretmineuce of man, who continues to develop till aa advanced age. if the girl begins thus to fall bebind the poy at # certain point after having enjoyed the same training, it must be that her inferiority Is real, and cannot bo ascribed to a difference in educa~ tion tbat does not exist. < ‘Thus equality in the instruction of individuals of the two sexes, the equal working of the brain, instead of retstablishing equality between them, increases the pre¢minence -of the males, and this explains why woman is less perfectibie thaa man. "Tne equality of ‘the sexes dreamed of by the philosophers is, thon. not near being real- ized. On the contrary, that equality which ex« isted among tne primitive races, and still exists nmong some savages, is tending more and moro. to disdppoar with tho prozress of civilization. The pretminence of mun over womun, which 19 @ product of the evoilunon of individuals and races, is rather increased by instruction, the ef fect of which, far from revstublishing the equal- ity of the sexes, is to ussure definitively the sue premacy of mun. : TOO SWEET FOR ANYTHING. For ‘the Chicago Tribune. Ah me! her violet eyes— ‘Loo sweet for anythin: Looked forth tn giad surprise— ‘Too sweet for anything! And Love lit up a face And mien of queenly grace ‘That Love will fondiy trace, ‘Yoo sweet for anything! Her song, a sacred art— ‘Yoo sweet for anything !— Enraptured so my heart— ‘Too sweet for unytaing! Tsaid, Let others sigh For worlds beyond the sky; But here's dearest joy— ‘Coo sweet for anything! Ab! would sho hear my yow— ‘Too sweet for authing!— . I could in rapture bow— Too sweet for anything!— And say, O maiden, take . My heart to keep or break, For thou can’st mar or make— . ‘Too sweet for anything! DECEMBER, 1881. CBG $$. Alleged Mlegal Election—How a Mate ter Involving $2,000,000 was Decided, by Vote in New Haven. New Havey, Noy. 2.—On the day of the recent election of Representatives to the Con- necticut General Assembly was tried in this city a question ot-great local interest. The water- Ries used. ae supply in Na Bare ee uit years 2 rivate enterprise. specified in Mn contract drawn up: at that time fo should : New paren ever pte ia its. corporate capacity — to works it could do so on the payment. of she cost of construction and an annual inter- est, the contract also making it obligatory om the city to ayow a wish to purchase prior to the terminution of a certuin period. That time hav- ing’ nearly expired,-mensures were taken ;t0 bring about a vote. Previous to Nov. $ the works were appraised by a city committee and ulso by 1 commission appointed by | the Superior Court. Tne local papers all took position against the purchase, and the Issue of the election was a majority of 1.300 against jt. The votes had bardly been fully ‘counted before there was an ontery in certain quarters that the election had been carried by bribery. The city was represented by Corpora~ tion-Counsel Stoddard and Simeon E. Baidwio. ‘These gentlemen today. in reply toa remon- Strance filed by tha water compauy, in view of * proceedings looking toward the second trial of tho issue, took meusures calculated to create a stite ‘The reply sets forth in one count that the vote was not legully taken, because check ists were 80 kept that persons who wished to vote on the .~ water question could not do 30 uniess they ut © the sume time voted for Representatives, which deprived many of a legal vote; also that sald vote against the purchase was procured by-aa improper. uze of money, amounting to macy thousands of dollars, = ‘These declarations have been followed up this afternoon by subpe:nas calling into court dmooy, others the editors of tho local newspapers, the otfcers of the water compuny, and not less than ascore of lawyers and othercitizens. The hear-- ing is set down for 10 o'clock tomorrow murning. .” ‘The water compuny is represented by ex-Gor- Ingersoll and Jobn S. Beach. It bas also en> Ustea as advisory counsel President Watrous, of the New. York & New Haven Railroad, and. Henry B. Harrison. The proceedings are likely to open up the entire question, and the tawyers employed by the city are trying to pave the wal for another vote. ‘The water company wor! are estimated ag worth about $2,000,000, unt the ; stock pay? a handsome dividend to its holders, ° who, It is belleved, are anxious to retain it. oe Longfellow. », Mr. Henry W. Longfellow read toa friend oa Thanksgiving poem recently composed bs bi and entitled “Hermes Trigmewistus.” | He stl suffers from the occasional. attacks ‘of vertigo, which have confined him to the house ang mad it necessary for him to consent to the issue of printed circular excusing him from: answering #7 the numberless letters which be receives asking | 4 him not only for autographs, but for all sorts imagiuable and unimaginable favors." ° | 3