, 1881-03-20
Lt,nltiU1l.
BUILDING OPERATIONS.

| ob u S'A L1A3A A"t-$3*
| Building is backward on account Of the
weather and the scarcttyo Of brick. Notmuch
new activity can be expected till the new
brick comes in. There will be all unusually
large supply Of brick this year, as the Pull
man brick works will turn out millions, and
several yards of large capacity are being fit
ted UP on the North Side.
Among new fat buildings to be erected are
q three-story block OH La Salle street, north
Of Division, to cost 200; three-story fiat
OF. LII Sale, north of Chicago avenue, to cost
| Sll,0o0; and q third on State street, near
| Pearson, for two families, to cost $4,000, for
| all of which plans have been drawn By Archi-
| tect Hansen.
The top stories Of buildings well lighted
| and well fitted with elevators are becoming
popular. In the new Grannis building, OFT
Dearborn street, two first-class insurance
| companies have taken offices on the fifth
t floor. Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, of Bos~
| ton, writes Chicago friend that lie gets
more for his sixth floor than for his first, and
| that he is sorry lie did not build nine stories
| instead of six.
The old Rock Island elevator is being torn
down, to be replaced by new one, planned
| by Mr.. Baumann, the architect. The new
elevator will be S5x155. will have q capacity
Of 1,5Qo, 900. and will cost ssoo.ooo. 1t will be
Max Rothschild,. wholesale clothieE is
! building. a store for himself, ;5ox1so, five
stories high, on the site of the old American
Express Building. In. plan it will reSe!ilble
and Randolph Streets it viii cost s7o, 900.
In the building permits Of the week were
those Ut K. Hefholzer, two-story dwelling,
2ox6s fee feet No. &vo Shields ; street, s. 5oo;:
SSen Gqra te dyenG r. Ensne ex' fse Ns
story dwelling, :s.,x73, 10: 27o3 South Park
avenue, $1,000; Jnseph Sncllv, two-story
dwelling, 24x56, No. 3ls9 Huron street, 5000:
William Gass twost31y dwellag No L s1 Ann
ing, No: I'll Leavttt street, $500;
u feet, No. .3sla Emerald avenue, 81 ,soo;
AndrsS ~ G5s d.Ibs srse oo 5Wens A. Slaafe4
two-story dwelling, .2ixto, No. 1os9 Twelfth
street. $500; j. e. 1laskins, two-story dwell
ing, 81 Lincoln place; $500; T. Heroe!t,
threestory dwelllng No 9 h9rtn @ Msi1s
ing. No. $723 La Sale street, sl,5o0: Henry
Klein, one-story dwelling, No. 6l5 West Chi "
cagn avenue, Sl:6oo: Miehael ~ Mnrueker, two
story dwelling. Ny Gls Vest Chicago avenue
ST. West Monroe street, $1,000.
Chicago is sgrowi1g rapidly OH its outskirts,
particularly OH the west and nnrth. In
the neiyhhorllood OF DeerinS and the new
HIlt tlN VI !Ch-1taLN5 JA51 HOA ~ ~ LIN wy
limits at Clybourn avenue, nearly twenty
new houses are going up, and more will be
erected later in the spring.
RAPID TRANSIT.
Important progress has been made in the
scheme Ut rapid transit northwarl under the
direction OF Mr. T. G. Cole. Mr. Cole and his
friends III New York have been in cotnnun-
cation by cable with English capitalists to
.3., 1rI t}faee1 1t1v
now committed themselves virtually to the
enterprise. At home the plans and the
ground have been examined BY Nr. E. $.
Chesbrougl&, the weiI-known civil engineer,
Mr.. Chesbrough pronounces the scheme
feasible. and has accepted the post of Chief
Engineer OF the road. His estimates have
reduced the cost from S3,3o0,0o0 to
S2,50O000. One great saying is in
the tunnel under the river, which
Gen. Sooy Smith and Ar. Chesbrough agree
can be built for So0O. 900, very much less than
was at first calculated.
The persons who are trying to obtain tue
right Of way for the Chicago l. Evanston
Ruad are still at work. Some OF the property
owners at Lake View have refused to grant
the right OF way until the Company that ask
for it have pledged themselves to afford GER
tain accommodations as to fare ami trains.
Mr. IT. G. Goudy, who represents the holders
Of the charter, is endeavorinE to obtain the
right Of way nnconditional!y., Kunor
has connected the Chicago, ST. Paul,
minneapolis g. Omaha Road with
the owners Of the Chicago i Evanston
charter. If corporation Ut the character
aud resources Of this railroad should apply
to the prOperty-owners i'll Lake View it
would no doubt readily obtain what itwislles.
But it is idle to expect men with large landed
Interests to give away land, for they know
not what. to II corporation they do not know.
The Chicago d Evanston charter is still
alive, and a first payment Of SIC, co.. has been
nlatie for it BY those who now hold it. The
route will be as previously described; RUN
ming out OF the city over hawthorne and South
east, pass along the eastern side OF Grace-
land. and so due north to Evanston. The
greatest obstacle is Calvary Cemetery: bu'
passage through this has been arranged for.
Concessions as to fares and funeral trains