, 1881-03-06
REAL ESTATE.
Business in Land Checked
by the Weather.
But Inquiry Is Active, and Some
Notable Sales Are Made.
Large Transactions in Acres
on the Calumet River.
Business Rents-Real Estate in
Early Chicago.
Horse-Cars to Brighton-The County
Abstract Office.

0uoe1 cI1 0I4tCs
Business in real estate was seriously inter-
fered with last week by the weather. Three
feet of snow are not an additional attraction
to the buyers Of land. Notwithstanding this,
inquiry continued good, and the volume Of
sales was we'll maintained.
ONE OF THE FEW SENSATIONS
of the week was the reported purchase OF the
~ Murray Tract" Of 2G6 acres on the Calumet
River, by Mr.. Geo. II. Pullman. This is the
north So acres Of the west i of northeast 4.
and the west 11z in Sec. 35 81, II. The price
paid was sos all acre. This purchase gives
Mr.. Pullman quarter Of mile frontage on
the river, running north to the lake.
During the week the sale Of
THE GARDNER HOUSE
was made public. It has been bought of
Capt 4. E. Goodrich by Messrs. Cobb and
Bradley, Of the Forest City House of Cleye-
land. They pay S23o,ooo for it. The hotel is
to be renamed the Leland, and will be kept
by Mr.. Warren Leland, of the celebrated
hotel-fanily of that name. The new man
agemcnt take possession ct the house March
Is. Mr. John Dekoven has sold the north
west corner Of Thirtieth street and Prairie
avenue, lo4 feet front, at S2225 per foot cash.
A YEAR AGO
this property was not valued higher than
S15o a foot. Mr.. Hugh 7. Dickey has sold
sixty feet on West Lake street, ninety feet
east of Canal street, north trout, ninety-six
feet deep. for 500 per foot cash, The First
National Bank are still debating what to do
with the
uAVEULY THEATRE PROPERTY.
One plan is to reyamp the present building,
improving it only enough to make it suitable
for their own use. Another is to pull down
the old Post-Otlice building. and
put up in its place nine or ten
story structure, with four elevators. the
maximum of daylight, and all the modern
convcnences. Such building would cost
s53o, 600, and would rent to the roof at good
rates. It is said that tile unknown purchaser
of the lot west Of the Hayerly Theatre will
place 4 high Office building on the ground.
It is reported that the Tracy heirs and the
Rock Island Railroad have patched UP their
disagreement about the donations to be made
for the purpose of Widening Pacific avenue
and Sherman street. This removes one of
the difficulties in the way OF the vacation OF
Lii Sale street 10 r the new Board OF Trade
build ing.
MI. Ii. 4. uurlbut has bought for $4,000
the east half OF the building occupied for
1nerly by the National Tube Works COM
pany, and now by Duranl Bros, wholesale
grDcers. ,o.-u,o
feet, with stone-front house, ON Ada street.
north of Washington, for $500 and taxes Of
1850. and cottage and lot 25x125, II Latin
- j. G. MaSil}: :a:-co have made the following
sales: No. 81 Thirty-seventh street, two
story and cellar, brick, with lot 2ox1ao feet,
for $1,000; No. 90 Park avenue, all eight
room house and 34-foot lot for s. 900: NJ.
255 Ewing street, house, with lot, S2.ooo; :;
No. 21S South Morgan street, two-story,
foot lot, for $500; No. 704 West Jackson
street, q two-story house, with lot 25x125 feet,
$4,000; No. Ito Ashland avenue, twtestory
and basement tstoAe-front, with lot. for S6,oo :
No. SIS Ohio street, two-story and basement
stone-front, with lot 2ox100 feet, for $3.50;
No. :;;So6 Dashiel street, two-story brick house
and lot for Sl,G00; No. s. State street, a
handsome four-story and basement stone
front building, long land lease, for $4,000. a
lot on Oak street, near La Sale, 90 feet 'front.'
near llalsted, for 5000; No. 3030 State street,
two-story brick, with lot 25Xl20, $1,000; 60
feet ol, northeast corner Of Fifty-ninth street
and Wentworth avenue, at EnglewO0d, for
SLIGO; and a tract OF between f1ve and six
acres, bounded by Sixty-second and Wright
streets, and Stewart aud Englewood avenues,
for $1,000.
Mr.. J. Johnston sold nlnelo lots OF humboldt
Park property at the rate Ut Sb75 per fifty
feet front; also two 25o feet lots north Ut
Humboldt Park for S500 apiece. Ihe pur-
cilase!? ~ t!o !. 1919, @ or,o ), rlantiu
e1rast a+trao+fon st Cnicaso theatrr. Maxi
s.asr +hav S,;,f leave the stage. and settling
3o'vn I'M ~ +heir new nnrchnse viii build q
au great 1,nuse1 also a pigeon-holise Of dimcn-
sinns and art.hitectl,rai pretensions unknown
in % the West. Some 5000 viii bo expended
-, ~ II,e h,,iidinrs.
y" Mr f Lain .Io1nston. Jr.. has received Ger
titird cony al the viii Of The late lamented
Miss aIeiaide Nelson, Her real estate here
Is Is deyised to the lion, Henry Carr Glynn,
I3 Roar dmiral in her Maiesty's navy. It is
two iots 1a9 feet front at the corner of
l,rave1 avenue and Fifty-tirst street, south
and east front. and IS in many respects one of
thus' the fimst @ sites for an elegant residence in
iIvda Park. Miss Nelson purcbased it some
rnnrs aro for $4,000.
4 neh 4, I;ro' report sales of house and
1ot - 81 % Snuerior W m to Phil Hoyne, $1,000: 50
feet eaSt front. Wabash avenue, near Thirty
fhird sfreet. Sl50 per foot: six lots California,
near 1filwal,kee avenue. Sl.SC0,
l4ei'a i'nts 80 m Harrison street, near Robey, are
hcin~ sold at loo per cent advance on the