The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-07

Ia in the meantime putting up great breakwater
where the depth OF the lake Is from .wehsy.'e n 70
anchorage for lake craft In front OF the city. Inc
contract for this work has heretofore been given
formed the work with expedition and honesty.
THE BREAKwATER
is now about thirteen hundred feet IN length, ana
800 feet per year are to be added to it. It Is ex-
pected that II win be completed in 1874 or 1870.
Taxation in Chicago Is not very hign atn0ugn
Cook county pays One-sixth OF the entire STATE
taxes The new State constitution, which has
proved to be very admirable document IN almost
s 70 SO that It may become
to make levy on property OF It's null value Ior CITY
taxes and another levy at mnch lower vato . ,U
State taxes. The average Chicago merchant ana
real estate owner looks upon taxes OF any khu
with disgust, and there was denclency OF
$4,000, 600 in the last fiscal year, people Ss--
REFUSING TO PAY THEIR TAXES
and going into Court industriously to evade their
ne 70 ccnsodated estate in Chicago Is that
ofP f. W. Peck, deceased, which ID rated at ABOUT
1--WE million dollars. One Of the greatest landnod,
ers is Long John Wentworth, who possesses 1000
acres of land within twelve miles of the Court
House, The estate OF stephen A. Douglas is pretty
and s viii probably
monument at seme other spot
THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF CHICAGO -
is probably tue most efficient and useful citizen in
it-E. s. Chesborough formerly OF Boston: lie was
brought out to Chicago at time when the gTaaes
supply inadequate, the drainage miserable and the
sewerage contemplate. The grades have been
raised three times until the streets stand about
eight feet above the natural level and
the singular and happy expedient o. . lake tnnnel
70 give tne 5own wa1ea w bse since the
fire as to advance that tunnel several miles further
into the city, at depth OF sixty feet unaer the
SUBSIDIARY WATER WORKS
in Southwestern Chicago. There is no city on the
be snSynS ca sss'fE Ta s
nothing by the fire except portion OF the gram
trade, OF which the cross country roads carry q
| trot and straight on eastward. The meat business
Is said to amount TO the enormous sum OF
ONE MILLION DOLLARS DAY
in transactions and 500 coo OF cash bank cur
rency are required to carry the meat. None OF the
banks are extinct on account Of the Are. AT the
Water Works there Is one engine OF the capacity
| OF all three which existed before the fire. There
are three first class Observation-Disclosures Ho0ley's
theatres; the newspapers have built series q
offices almost uneXamped IN size and s0lldity, tht
Ionss cosng sSsoo 1as asS .i $.SS S ea ana
The cost OF buildings put up since the IRE, III u
twenty months, is computed as low as $6o, GOO oos
and as high as $1OOCOo,ooo. Confidence In the city
real estate IL even greater than before and some
the Eastern companies have been KNOW
to increase their mortgages TWENTY-FIVE PEI PEI
edifce which formerly covered it was de
stroyed. The oldest business houses, which every
| body predicted must go down and their places bt
occupied by new set OF merchants have turned
out to be the staunchest IN the city,. me snoe
trade Is getting 10 De euOrInOuS anu tuc CuiCue'
| manufacturers unlike those of the East. make vi
their goods in The upper stories OF their great edi
fees instead of going out OF town to manufacture
| in the suburbs. The principal architects OF thu
resonant period here are citizens OF the place. tn
great place of Summer resort, known as Riverside
| has proved to be somewhat too ambitious, but it ii
RENAL kable anair ana quite Saratoga IN pro
| portions and stylishness.
Among the on dts Of Chicago is the rumor tina
| Fred Grant, son of the President and member Q
General Sheridan's staff, is about to marry tn
daughter OF Judge Dunlevy OF ONO. Dunievy wa
for Seventeen years Judge in Central Ohio, an
has been very intimate with Robert q. Schenck
| He Is wealthy man, and has recently made
|