, 1880-04-11
REAL ESTATE.
Mammoth Plans for the New Pull
man Car-Works.
Uncertainty as to Where They
VIII Be Located.
Activity In Real Estate On Michigan
Avenue and the Boulevards.
The Market Otherwise Dull
Business OF the Week,

1Ae uAATAtb OIutTN1S6 Dull
Business OF the Week.
Leases and New Buildings - More
Horse -Cars-Suburba News.
Every one has known for months that Mr..
Pullman was about to add to his other vast
enterprises the erection at Chicago, St
Louis. or some other Western point, one of
the
MOST EXTENSIVE cAR-woRKs
in this country, if not in the world. Real-es-
tate owners, realestate speculators, and real
estate reporters have followed Mr. Pullman
and his associates like bloodhounds to scent
out the location Of this great enterprise. just
previous to his departure for the Far West,
Mr, Pullman declared that it was not yet de-
cided where to put it. Purchases have cer-
tain1y been made, and heavy ones, Of suita-
BILE real estate in locality that seemed to
offer the. best advantages, but that does
NOT DECIDE THE MATTER.
So open is it that during the past week
the representatives of the Pullman Palace
Car Company have examined the tract of
5000 acres owned by Mr. John Wentworth
in Cook County, and yesterday Went across
the line into Indiana to look at the 6,000
acres in the Forsyth farm OH Wolf Lake.
Those interested assert that it is possible the
whole enterprise may yet be settled else
where than at Chicago, though this is not
really likely. The magnitude Of the real
estate interests involved may be readily
comprehended from the statement that the
works, as planned, will support popula-
tion Of
NOT LESS THAN 10000 PERSONS,
with all the tributary accomplishments of
stores, and subsidiary industries, schools,
and churches. The plans for the work have
long since been marured, and have recently
been made public. The structures will be all
OF brick and stone. They will consist first of
two parallel structures for erecting-shops,
ESQ feet long and 81 feet wide. The central
section, containing the offices and store
rooms, will be 10o1 feet long and 100 feet
deep, three stories high, with an imposing
tower rising to the hight Of 136 feet. Back of
these is series Of four buildings covering
an aggregate frontage of LOTT feet, with
general depth of 200 feet, forming the wood
machine shops, blacksmlth-shop, varnish-
room, repair-shops, and two erecting shops.
Still back Of these is another erecting shop,
474 by s8 feet, q dry kiln 15o by so, and
foundry 130 feet front and 200 feet deep. It
will be observed that these buildings are
compactly located as regards each other,
making them very convenient Of access.
TIE ERECTING-sn0Ps
will have stalls for forty passenger cars and
fifty freight cars at one time, and it is need
less to say that the works will be fitted up
with the most improved machinery and will
turn out only first-class work. Tracks run
ming between the various shops will be pro-
yided with numerous turntables so that cars
can be run in and out without switches.
The plans for these great works have now
been fully elaborated, down to the location
Of every piece of machinery, and work will
be commenced as soon as the
FINAL SELECTION OF LOCATION .
from several eligible sites offered in the vicin-
ity Of Chicago is determined. It is expected
that the Pullman shops and the car-wheel
works which will be located adjacent will
employ about 1000 men, which would mean
the speedy planting Of a colony Of ten thou
sand people thereabouts. Plans have been
fully completed for the erection Of extensive
works,
ADJOINING THE PULLMAN SHOPS,
BY the Allen Paper Car-Whee1 Company.
They will consist Of two brick and stone
buildings, each having frontage of 364 feet,
and each covering a depth Of $50 feet, the
central portion being of two stories, with
handsome tower, and measuring 100feet front
by $50 feet. The plans and specifications are
now in the hands of builders, the machinery
has been purchased, to be delivered between
the 1st of August and the 1st of October, and
if the location is decided uponin time ground
will be broken by the Goth of April. The
consummation Of both these important
schemes
DEPENDS UPON TWO THINGS:
where the best location can be found, and
which railroad will give the best terms for
the transportation Of materials and the like.
On neither Of these points has de6nit de-
cision yet been reached.
Real estate generally was quiet, with
firm undertone. Inquiries are fair, and
new feature of the market is the arrival of
remittances from England and the prospect
Of more for investment in Chicago property.
MICHIGAN AVENUE AND THE GRAND BoULE-
YARD
have been the scene OF the most Interesting
transfers of the past week.
Jacob We'll & Co. have sold, in connection
with F. B. Peabody s. Co., for Abraham Bige-
low, Of Boston, to George A. Seayerns, ten
acres Of land fronting OIL Grand boulevard,
254 feet, with two fronts on Vincennes ave-
nue. of 254 feet each front, about 500 feet on
Bowen avenue, fronting south, and about
700 feet front on Forty-first street, fronting
north; consideration, $4,000. This is one Of
the eest.loeated pieces OF vacant property on
Mr. Matthew Latin has bought five acres