, 1881-07-31

lay thelr TRACKS OIL, aua LIE ai1fA Soo4JA !: .
heen spread that there was to be trunk llne
thro11eh every section. The New ork. CHI
cago j. st. Louis Road has surveyed its line
alongside the Western Indiana.
BUILDING.
Building i'll Chicago is still active, though
few new enterprises Of importance are be-
ing mootel. LII New York, activity in new
buildin. enterprises continues noticeable
feature OF the city rcal-estate market and
the amount of capital that is put into them
is, i'll the aggregate, very large. Costly pri-
yate residences OIL the avenues and boule-
Yards are multiplying, yet not more rapidly
than firstclass apartment houses, which
rent nowadays in Nlany cases mucll beyond
the figures which the average brown-stone
front used to command when times were not
so flush.
4 seven-story build ing is to be put up i'm
mediatcly by Slessrs. Fuller l. Co., wholesale
druggists. It will be at Franklin and RAN
doiph streets. on ground Is by 100 feet in di-
mcnsions. St. Louis pressed brick will be
the material. Architect Chapman is in
charge. On tile same corner Marshall Fields
great storehouse has lately been completed.
00O handsome residence on LOOMS street.
near west corner of Van Buren,. 1t will he q
two-story, basement, and attic dwelling or
stone and pressed brick.
West Madison street is now active with
new building enterprises. At Nos. B and 95
P. McEwan is putting up brick block with
stone laciugs, four stories high, with base
ment having Il frontage of thirty-elsht feet
and depth Of ninety feet. The ground floor
is to be used for restaurant anu crockery
l5S and ITO the foundations for an elegant
stone-front, tiye-story block, with basement.
have Just been laid oil the Scanllnon School
lot, with 4 frontage of eighty feet and depth
OF 100 feet. The ground floor will be divided
into two stores, 4oxloo each: The upper
vators will be put in the building. It
will be ready for occupancy by Noy. L.
AID. John II. Snyth is the proprietor.
C. Keichold has a new store ut No. l9T', :5eox
100, 1t is q stone front, four-story structure
with basement, and is to be csel as store
below and dwelling above. Mr.. G. T. Gregg
is pulling down Nos. PSI, 2s 22s3, and 81, block
Of old wooden rookeries, to give place to i
handsome lnarble-front pile. with frontage
of Is feet and Il depth of 10 feet. It will be
353 IL II. Forsythe is erecting a sttone-front
block, with a frontage Of IS and depth Of 50
feet. It is three stories high. with basement.
Mr. Forsythe is erecting similar block ut
$40 and 5l32 with a frontage Of two additional
feet. At i65 r. Il. Winston is putting up a
store with dwelllns-house above. 1t has a
frontage Of 80 feet and is 81 feet deep, and is
built OF pressed St. Louis brick. 1t will be
four stories high, with basement
At the southeast corner of Loonlis street
Mrs. Foss is erecting handsome stone-iront
block 9c119x75 feet, three stories hiGt With
basement. At SIC DR.. Charles J. Smith is
erecting store having frontage Of n feet,
and 4 depth SIX feet It is 4 stone front,
TO be three stories high with base
ment The vacant lot at the northwest c91-
stores and flats. At the corner OF llonore
street, Nos. 7IS and 10, Mrs. Potter. OF Evan
st0u, is having Il tllrce-stOry St0ne-front block
erected to be used for stores and flats: At
the southeast corner of Lincoln street J: L.
Davis, of st. Louis, is laying the foundations
1t has frontage OF rs feet and IS rs feet
deep. It will be three stories high with base
mcnt- At the southwest corner of
Robey street j. t,d E. G. oWs1ey i ov m5Gkmg Gog
pany's factory 6GxS2 feet ;u,d four stories
high with basement. The ground floor will
consist Of four stores which will be rented,
and the upper lofts will be used BY the toy
company. At Nos. So, s5i, and So john j.
stone-front block, consisting Of three stores
on the ground floor and flats above. The
block has frontage Of slxty-four feet, anu
is seventy feet deep. It is three stories high
with basement At No. $50 Mr.. pitcomb is
twenty-four feet and d depth of thirty feet:
1t is two stories high with basement, and will
be used as d store with dwelling above.
In the building permits OF the week were
those to John Hook, three story and base
mcnt store and dwelling: skill feet, fee, Nos; ~
Jacobs, one story and basement storehouSe,
5Ox70 feet, Paulina and AIoortnall street, to
cost 5000; Union Iron and Steel N1i1l COM
pany, two-story iron mill building, SGx140
4rtH n11IAt- 3F
$4,000: Michigan avenue Baptist Consrega-
tioll, to repair church, Michigan avenue, near
Twenty-third street, $4,000; William kru-
ger. tllree-story and basement store and
dwelling, :a,5x75 feet, No. ts}3 Blue Island
dWs|sr ys9Hs; % feet A fSaFGask SS s tyt tNosfory o
story and cellar store 24551lx:a feet,
No. COL LaIrabee street, 81, 5o0; 5:
shackferd $nt thrfeste5X },a dwelng' senn :; 5as M
Charles IIurpel, three-stOry dwelling, 23xC3
feet 10. 800 Oak street, $500; 6: 4 Hart
well, four-story warehouse, northwest cor
ner Of Lake and Jefferson streets, Sl2 600;
Thomas Mackin, two thrcc-st0ry dwellings,,
S Nq a and lhois fh2e Sffee TO :1Si 5
basement dwellings, G0x40 feet, West WASH
ington street, near leavitt, S1;.500; j. n.
Gray, two tWo-story and basement stone
front dwellings. Nos. 546 and SIS Fulton
SlIeeI. Ct,UN- LII. ~ L. V!l!uU4c, O!C-stOi3
addition, S0x175 feet, Nos. 2i5 to I'll Madison
street, S13,OO0. +. H. johnson, two-story
and basement dwelling, 1aGxG0 feet, No. 3443
Vernon avenue, ST. 100.
TIE NEW BOARD OF TRADE.
The Board of Trade has received the title
to the site Of its new building on La Sale
street. Just how the proposed Building AS
sociation is to be formed ami how tile build
ing is to be done are unsettled points. Some
Of the Board Of Trade men don't like the
idea OF paying rent to any association, and
have been discussing plan for building out
Of the proceeds OF bonds to be
given BY the Board, which will in this way
not violate the Limitation Ill its charter
against owning more than 100000 worth of
real estate, and yet will keep its rent down
to the amount of interest payable OIL the