, 1872-10-15
BUILDING NOTES.

Ta1ue of the Scattering Of 1mproyements--'some-
thing About Office Buildnys---The Magic Date
s72"---Signs, Etc.
One thing is very noticeable and not easily to
be oyeresti1pated in our Great Rebuilding the
spread Of the improvements. 1t is remarkable
that thero is scarcely square in the entire
burned district north Of HGrrieon street,-we can
call to mind but two,-upon which some building
or block las been erected to set the example to
those that are to follow. On the better class Of
streets. comprising some localities now for the
first time to receive good improvements, the
eaDe are thoroughly distributed and scattered,
and these are now SO completely surrounded BY
good business structures that it is not easy to
filed in an inferior manner. Building
tPpe' and fe he0 begets Snasf ie ta Mad
it happened otherwise that the new buildings Of
this eeason; numerous as they are, had been
massed into few squares, it might have proved
q drain and an influence Of deterioration to any
large tracts left vacant. No wise observer in
terested in the best development Of the city
can but rejoice to see tie new and elegant first
cluss wholesale stores Of Market and Franklin
streets and Fifth avenue competing with Lake
and State streets, and the new blocks On Va
bash avenue and State street near Van Buren
competing with other localities Of retail trade
further north. It is rare that O. growing city
Gull lAhe buCl id}-out Gs 4ui5 VI tN6 Plc6tut
season in Chicago, and we do not oyerstate it's
advantages to the whole general scale Of de-
yeopment OF our city.
The suggestion should not be needed, but We
notice that a few builders have forgotten the
Importance and interest that will attach to tho
circumstance if every structure Of the present
year bears in bold figures the date ''1872." To
the new structures Of the present season will
always attach peculiar associations which all
cali share who bear the magic dato It is worth
while for any of our builders who have omitted
this in their generous rivalry of haste in COM
p1eticn to observe the hint, and keep their
Structures in the roll of honor.
portion thus far. is tile increased number OF Of
tice buildings. Numerous very costly blocks Of
this description have gone up in localities that
have always been devoted to stores. We cannot
see any ground for the fear lest Office supply has
been oYerdone. We believe, with the wide
spreading development of our city, that We are
to give use for more Offices than any city in the
ing and industrial enterprises must, IN time, Ill
be represented in downtown Offices, as is tue
custom in other cities- # the supply Of eligl-
bic, handsome offices is such as to invite IN in
crease of demand for Offices, at favorable rates,
the number OF ofice-seekers not in the POLITICALLY
market meet the views Of builders. We remem-
ber when two or three large Office buildings on
IaSalle street we're supposed to oyerstock the
market. At the time Of the ire the numerous
large Office blocks were filed at paying rates.
We trust that, as the new stores are rapidly
stTiction will be placed upon the too common
evil of extravagant and dangerous signs. There.
is 8 limit Of safety and propr;ety excess Of en-
te1prise in this direction is continually striving
to pass. We have city ordinances sufficient to
meet the case if they are stringently applied.