, 1881-05-08
REAL ESTATE.
A, Healthy Market, with No
Spectators Booming
Things.
A Good Inquiry for Central
Property-Lots Selling
Well
Delay in Bnilding-Now Church
OIL Van Bllren Street,
HOW to Sell the Retorm-School Prop.
efty-VacatIon Of La Sale
~ Street.
a BELT Road to Be Built by the Chi
cago '& Western Indiana.
9oDD DEMAND WITHOUT spECu-
IATIOS.


oo'ob DEMAND WITHOUT SpECU-
LATION.
Nos"1thstand'ng tho Interruptions OF May !,
"n1ea always Interfere seriously with real-cs-
tate agents and their principals, tho business in
!a1'o last week was large in vo lumc. Almost all
.Ae sa1es were of s1lalt amount. This charac-
uF'stic oi tho market, the entlro absence OF
speculation, tells better than anything else the
stoFs ol ITS strength and hcalthf,,lncss. Num-
oe1s Oh important projects arc under way for
ootn central and suburban improvements. The
1ornaities Of tho lease Of Mt. j. NJ Adsit's lot on
Monroe street to Mr. Havcrly for bis new theatre
were all finished Inst week. and the architects are
no" otlsy drawing pians for the new building.
Inc Prcsideut OF the Connecticut Mutual has
gwen 10 one OF the principal organizations OF
This city the refusal Of tho southeast corncr Of
Monroe and Dearborn streets ut ss.5, 600. \
project IS under careful consideration for tho
erccuon OF building on this corner to cost, per-
haps, St0o,0oo, and to be devoted to Office bunk
ny. a1a ciub purposes: Street rllulor has it that
mere better quarters, without the extorhonate
eahctions that tho Board Of Education hns at
tempted to levy upon them for tho lease OF the
oln etssi-OHlcc property.
Tht -;;et,'- Estate ana building Journal says in
It's rev't<: 81 the market: "Thcrc are Mt pres
ent sFeais::: .uuibcr OF transfers brought every
1*o W CEolA ~sJ.t!1 HAS ever DcEE the Case,
the market apps to be in very thriving condi
,ion. 1t Is 1no beg ;aarkct ever enjoyed here,
necaise, while the a*.!S are rs numerous AIS they
were in the most buu.-::it times of =. and '.3,
,ue element u specutnsSSn Is lacking Never
before were transactions y. rapid in purchases
iof actual occupancy, and sc:vcr before. were
1i 1ho ,aa GnaacfSrlzed ny So much tncy and SO Ut
hhc-thiru down, balance one, twt-; and three
Years, is In perhaps ne-haf the s14- s?ler sales
changed to onc- llnlf down ana baia1lt-. IN one
r - ~ f3Yrfa
IS !ssked Oh any part Of the purchase money!
r. \: Bragg s. Co. report the following sal. !:
ing: on rhe northwest corner OF Wabash avenue
and Van l3urcu street. for *.uOp and taxes Of
1881; 5xl'l feet, casl front, on Wabash avenue.
with old frame building between Harmon court
and Twelfth street, fur s1.,oN aud taxes OF 1851;
;s&1.s!- feet. east front, OH Prairie uyenuc, be-
tween Twenty-s;ath aud Twcuty- ninth streets
west corner If lialstcti and rhrty-fuurth
streets, for $3.50; and Kill feet, west front,
on Hoyne aycnne, between Madison and Aonroc
L. 5. Dreyr- l. Co. sold 4Gxl0G feet on Sherman
street. about 30 feet south of Van isurcn, for
$3.50: Ss)Nl.n feet on the southwest corner OF
North Clark ami Euyet,ie streets for S|,HN; 1ax
la' feet Oh West Indiana street, near Despiaincs
street, for :1,jo0: tenroo1n brick residence, No.
~ Huron street. for S6.4t0: :E!:xl.1 feet on
50 pr foot: and 5o1155 feet, wrizhtwood
ayenuc. cast or Lincoln. ~ ~ per foot:
Ness,s. c; =: Dose and William g. fricke re- re-
closed: Two lois Oh North Hobcy, near Division
street. ut 500 each: one Iopon Augusta street,
rear l'tultna street, Ut S.W; house and Lot M On On
and f,'ir lots On Eighteenth street, near Ash
l:Md avenue, t.r SSov each
+: !. stonc| EST. nephew OF Cyrus Field. one
OF the syndicate building the New IOrk. Chicago
st, Louis liAroad. has purchased five ucrrs
cu-ncc Latlin and SLxty-drst streets the past
week.
Mr. John v Farwcl bought twenty acres in
the Town Of Lake, two miles west Of the Stock
Yards, or more Technically described rs in tho
southeast Il OF Sec |, u. u. Tor s1s,VO. This
Mcssrs- Garrett l. Tho1nasson effected this sale,
ITS well Us other salcs not yet ready to be re-
. W. z. Iarlsin has sold at Humboldt Park one
house utld lot for S3,a10; three lots for Sl2to;
two lots for Sl,0Oo; one lot for $700; and tor
In the sales of the week were e5x15o. improved,
OIL UreXel boulevard, north Of F0rry-third
street, S'cno; twenty acres On Dlapchnrd ave-
nue.. near Forly-fourih street. SlG.oO; tho same:
s:.a.003; .5Nl51 on Ashland avenue, south Of
Monroc: improved, $S',ioa; LII 3-rxlioa
on On Fulton. southeast corner Of union,
f3;ao: a,,3 q e s1xtSsa5: %5n:n ey5 axeo5a ct
northwest corner of Van Buren, street, $4,000;
:a|x1,6 OH rrarie avenue, south Of Eighteenth
street. sH.11o; 2txl:1 On Fulton street, near
tom south or jackson. S14 900: :1xtg OIL Washing
ton. east Of Fifth avenue, $2s.o5o; ~ acres On
Sheffield avenue. northwest corner OF Dlycrsey
street. SD.Oy): part Of Blocks l, :. 57 Of Hans
brough & Hess r. X ol S. ". i Sec. :G, H. II.
;.,vU1; .0aixi2O on Chicago avenue. northeast
r,,5e. east OF Eyuustun road. S410U; 991:x7a on
Third avenue, northeast corner OF Taylor, $500;
137 feet to alley on southwest corner Of Ogden
avenue and Fiournoy, Sao0o; = feet to alley,
SsNnl; :Dx150 OIL North La sallc, North
OF Oak, $5U31: 40x}U0 on Jefferson, north
west corner uf Barrier. improved, *,Ul1;
TN 10l, improved. On Rush, south of Ontario,
$S:.tD: :rlNli9 on Dearborn arcnue, north Of
Division. $500; jlNl24 Oh West Lake, east OF
Huync avenue, S4.J1D; .D.xli5 on Sixteenth,
land avenue, north Of Adams, *t,0I': 25xl2o on