, 1880-03-14
erect two-story store and dwelling State street,

have reduced the amount of old brick now on |
has been checked by The high pa prices to WHICH
brick have been carried They are now selling |
at $40 to $l3 thousand. # builders were will
brick in the city to do a quarter Of the new
structures that ART PINNED. One architect had
ne plans ali drawn for new Marsh m Harvester
factory, which would take 3,0GW,000 brick, and
that job is laid on the shelf. In the coming sea-
son the supply of brick will be equal to al the
demand, as numbers Of new yards will be
The statement that the Chicago strnwn and
Chicago Western Indiana would build passen-
ger and freight
DEPors on VAN bunES STREET,
seems to hnve been at least premature. The
Western Indiana has the right of why to Vnn
Buren. but has not been ableto secure the prop
street, on account Of the high prices usked by
IS 70 be built on Twelfth street. between Third
lnE.s s. Dreyer s Co. s stock-Y ards Subdivision,
at Forty-scventh street and Ashland avenue,
building; twelve houses were built last month.
There will be over 100 houses built during this
year; Over 100 acres haye been laid out in sub
There Is water in all the streets, and sidewalks.
4 police station will be built this spring.
1t is proposed to
IMPROVE sHTY-Ta1RD STREET,
between Englcwood and the South Park, with
good roadway, to give easy access to the lake
shore.
Commissioner waller agrees with the Street
improved between Halsted street aud Ashland
avenue
SUBURBAN TRAVEL
Oh the Illinois Central will soon have the benefit
of tho new accommodations that road Is pro.
yiding The rails are all laid on the additional
trucks between Weldon and Parkside Junction,
and the stations have been moved to their new
locations. Six new coaches are now being built
at the shops Of the Company Of the same elegant
pattern Us those Of the Pullman Palace-Car
G Chicago is promised
NEW HORSE-RAuWAY,
but where it is to run +" nobody knows " as yet
The new Company has been incorpoTated at
Raiiroad i % with Vi @ capitalof 500 o. the object Of
which was said to be tho construction and opera
ton Of Il horse and dummy railroad In this city
Edward G. Assay, John +. Hinkle. Seth Gage,
Warren A. Wells, and Malcom Mcdonald The
incorporators refuse to tell where they will lay
their tracks, but promise to begin operations
RECENT LEASES.
J. C. Sampson s. Co. report the following leases
for the past week: Mrs. Sanford Lewis to Louis
Rinich, the tour-story and basement brick build
ing IS East Randolph strect,-lease for three
at per term 3ndSe and
retail rubber-goods, the store and basement 100
East Madison street,-lease two years nt Slo'ooo;
basement :Ds Randolph street, at $500 per year;
store and basement III and ll9 Lake street to
the MArSeillcS Paper Company $2,5uQ per year;
E. L. Brand to Prutt s. Co., the store and base
ment -; Wabash avenue and store 2lo Wablsh
avenue, at $l,Do per {enr eaGh' l. st4re 20
Randolph street to l.: Doyennile wn9lesaac sni map
term; the fye-story and basement brick build
ing 5Ox15O, No $50 Wabash avenue, to n G.
Thayer Co. for aye years, Ut S per oa seam; ani
24l Lake street to Wilson s. Eyenden, OIL and
shipping can manufacturers; *4,WN per year;
tha Mason f. HaYnlin Orgnn Company, at $36U
II The hoard OF Public Works is now furnishing
certificates for the
CORRECT NUMBERS oF HOUSES
On all tho streets south of Twelfth street, ac-
cording to the uniform system adopted oy tne
Common Council last December. rho plan IS IS
simply that of allotting 100 numbers to each
block, beginning with the numer7ll which desg-
mates tho first Street north OF the numbered
Thu the eli be-
l9)O and 1900. Until the end of Aprl! the cert1n-
catcs for numbers will be furnished free OF cost.
After that time delfnquents Will be assessed g.
Careful inquiries made In
NEW YORK
by the Times shows that while the tendency Of
rents in all but few exceptional Localities IS IS
upward, the advance IS much more decided fp
the rentals Of business property than In those OF
residences. . v.n
to - per cent, but not for its whole length: The
decided rise has been mainly in the district be-
rwcen Wall and Fourteenth smtreets, m which d9 IN
way. down. town, the rents OF stores have On the
| average been advanced 10 per cent.
The advance in Office rcntals Is greater and
more rencral than in uny other class Of proper
| t.. Offices Immediately in the neghborhood OF
| the Stock Exchange hnvc jumped up IRON = TO
100 per cent Great activity i'll salcs OF lots is
| reported One large dealer reports that CURING
! the six months ending March he bad sold more
| vacant lots than in any other nalt year aurlnK
the twenty years he has been In the business. It
| is certain that building is very actlfe n t9e
| upper sections Of the city, around Central Park-
In BOSTON,
! the He,nld Of that city reports that since sep,
| teuber lust there has been steady rise IN real
estate: the advance generally (outside the Back
Raw territory, where things have been booming!
has ranged from 70 to 30 per cent on sales OF
The Back Bay territory is filing up very rap
idly, and land has increased in price IL the last
from 6e e6oee p lpts s in SECTION are be-
Ing rapdy taken up, and It VII not ne en- many :ii
years before most of the vacant land there a Wiil
Of extreme depression III some of the most fae
| vored localities prices have advanced 1nily 90 %
Per cent Of tnls ts IS ,enfp in otep
! pctlnE and even less favored localities nave aa"
vanced in degree in sympathy with thls r1se'
PUBLIC SURVEYS.
| The reports Of the Secretary Of the Interior in
| rernrd to the surveys Of the public lands are
| among tho most interesting publications ever
| made by the Government. Those OF recent years
| especially mark an era in the advancement MO OF
| science. and furnish the best practical text
| hooks ever issued upon geography, surveying,
| engineering, primary and secondary trtanYulA-
| tinn. and are studies in topography, geology,
na1contology on vertebrate fossils insect fossils.
and the rhtzopods, embracing lis they 90 certain
forms Of microscopic life that have had greater
| influence in
| BUILDING UP THE Crust
| of the eorth than all other forms, whether ami
| rnai nr vegetable" The computations and ad-
! i,1stments for triangulatfon, the detefml1ation
| nf the necessary azimuths, ATTITUDES anu lonSl-
| t11dcs and hvpsomctric calculations me eslao-
ishment Of keodetic stations for the use or sur
! 1avors. the study .and classification or areas
| snItahle for arabic, pastoral, or mining pur-
noses. and materials for detailed ecqnomic iI
MN Of the countries surveyed. showing the oi1-
fcrent classes of land by series OF colors; @ 1ne
| Volcanic plateaus, barren land, mountains, nll5'
yaicys rivers, and streams, showing WnGro 1rll7
| ration can be rcsortcd to, where rese!'omls ~ Gan
| Re made and artcsinn wells sunk, anu sno"lils
the qualification of the rocks, the cnmate' ln7
| heasts and birds, and the cthnology
| OF TIE TRIBES AND RACES
| that have inhabited and do now fnhab1t the re-
| rons. show at glance how conprehenslve ana
| Important the work Of making the plunc 3 Sua
| yeys now is. Indeed, the surveying auo e1p!oa ut
ing parties which yearly sent our py Inc oeG
rctary of the Interior into the West nre scnooe ~
! of the highest order, which teach the science "
| mathematics, surveying, and engineering; ano
| REQUIRE a knowledge Of metallurgy. geology;
| zo;,louy botany. astronomy, skctcneng anu