New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-20
CHICAGO.
TIE EXPOSITION BUILDlNG-LIQUORD DEAL
RS-THEATRICAI.
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CHICAGO. Jan. 10.-Between tho Common C0un-
ell and the County Commissioners the city has been
kept in Torment during the past week. The mat
ter of the rental of the Exposition Building still re-
mains unsettled. though in response to the Mayors
demand for removal or rent the directors Of
the building have declared that if the
demand is insisted upou they Will
tear the building down and wind
up the company's affairs The directors are In
earnest but no one yet believes that the city Will
carry the matter far to involve the loss OF the
building which would be i'll the nature of public
calamity
The lake front business has made some progress.
The Finance Committee of the Council reported a
substitute for the Mayors ordinance relative to the
disposal OF the three blocks to the raroad compa-
MES The amended ordinance, however, only differs
from the original in increasing the width OF the
strip TO avoid any complications which might arise
from errors in the survey. The amended ordinance
will be acted upon on Monday evening. The Mayor
however affects to believe that the Illinois Central
Company is more anxious to get hold of the city's
riparian rights than lake front and that there is
"nigger in the wood-pe.'
Another scandal has arisen out of the packing Of
the Grand Jury by the Board of County Commits
BiOlerS
10 prosecute liquor dealers who sell to minors and
confirmed druukards. During the past four months
the league has been unable to secure convictions
from the fact that defendants waive examination
before a magistrate and take their cases to the
Grand Jury where they are thrown out, as the jury
IA hacked with liquor dealers lt was at hrst pro-
posed TO mpeach the entire array under the law
Int mon consultation the attorneys OF the league
have decided to question closely every member OF
the jnry as to his qualifications, and expect IN tins
manner to get rid of the disreputablc mem
bers Meanwhile the liquor dealers OF the city
have about given up all hope of being able to pre-
vent the state High License act from taking effect
and have concluded tOsuspend the fight which they
have been making in that direction
The sale of seats for both the opera seasons has
been large. The Abbey season will begin on Mon
day evening when Faust will DO peIiormedto an
audience occupying every seatin llaverlys Theatre
The sale for the Mapleson season has caused much
dissatisfaction, first because the sale was adj
yertised to come oil at the wrong place
which led many people 10 stand in line
for hours to no purposes and second,
because the SPECTATORS seem to have procured ali
the tickets they wanted and are offering them
at exortiOnale prices
The Irving season closes to-day, and has been sue
cessful In point of attendance, though the popular
verdict as TO his dramatic ability is varied one
In q social way Dir. Irving has been quite lion
Scarcely day has passed during his ay that he
has not been dined and redined and TO such an
extent has the gourmand role been imposed upon him
that at last the lion actually became sick and was
obliged to decline two or three invitations to din-
ners which he had accepted, after preparations had
been made for them The whole community seems
20 be affected with the entertaining craze, and In
The next three weeks will have ample opportunities
for its manifestation with the members OF the op-
cratic troupe. Designs have also been indicated
upon Mr. Matthew Arnold, even before his arri'
val In fact Whatever success he may
achieve here promises TO be social rather
than financial as the advance sale OF seats Tor Dis
lectures is small. -. ,oo,,t.u
James II. Meade, the manager, has been looking
over Chicago US o field for theatrical operations,
and afirms that the preparations have All Deen
made to erect theatre On DeaTDorh-st' 10 cos'