The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-20

of listening to the New York organ
ization. But Chicagoans were opera
hungry then, having been cut off the
schedule the preceding years and CIV
en- only one week in the season be-
fore that and the Jealous promoters
of this springs four-week engage
ment received shock when the re-
ceipts did not even reach the $75.-
600 mark per week. The fact Is
that Chicagoans are weary of pay
ing tribute to New Yorks grand op-
era company, and are patiently wait
ing until they have an organization
OF their own next fall.
A periodical season of efferves-
cling bohemia is on in Chicago as re-
suit of the sojourn of the grand OBJ
era musicians who always set tha
cosmopolitan city a-sputtering in
their trysting spots, the cafes that
follow closest to the traditions of
the hinterland. One of these, che
Bismarck, just off of Newspaper Row
downtown, witnesses displays of lin
guistic fireworks, Italian, French and
German, that ignite the smouldering
enthusiasms of foreign-born frequent
ers. The result would be creditable
dc IF nric
lin. Temperament? 1t is all there,
Just round the corner from the hurry
burly. One finds the merit Of mo-
tits of Era Diavolo," of "Pagliacco"
and of "Walkkeuere'' the paramount,
absorbing topics in the Bismarck in
stead Of the state of the wholesale
leather market Here are fought out
in dispute the mooted question Of
boAemia-of art, science and music
IN half dozen tongues. For years
this has been Chicago's compromise
for the Lambs club, quiet place
where stare of the literary, theatrical
musical and artistic life of the city
foregather German is the tongue
spoken by the walters with easy lap
ses to other speech, and the settings
are those of cafe of Berlin, freM
the bust of Chancellor Won Bismarck
to the round-faced sculley-boys ana
the adages of de Vaterland 1t il
said that Bismarck's crest is even
interviewer in the linen of the hotel
counterpanes, giving way on Amerl-
can holidays to the grave and noble
face of Washington-done in linen
thread. One is suddenly transported
from Randolph street to Strasss
koneg there, quick trip abroad
that hundreds of people make it
point to take during the effever-
scent stay of the grand opera com
pany.
Inc purchase of a strip of land
only three-quarters Of an inch wide
stands unchallenged as the most
unique transaction in Chicago real
estate down to date. When James
Montgomery sold his residence, the
purchaser "a woman made the
troublesome discovery that his grey
stone house was in fact three-quar-
tiers OF an inch over the line ON the
adjoining property. Having been
signed by similar predicament, the
woman would not complete the deal
until the needed strip of land had
been acquired. When the owner Of
the adjoining land learned what the
situation was. he promptly and ftrm-
~ declined to deed the strip gratuf-
eousiy as matter Of courtesy or
Kindness. Therefore chickering's and
chickering's were begun over the price
OF parcel of property less than an
men IN width. This incident IL a
reminder Of troubles between other
property owners in the same yicinitv
~hen 1T was discovered that the cor
nice OF one mans house projected
over the line of the other one. ri.
haily the owner Of the offeding cor
nice was obliged to saw it off on q
cnalk line drawn by surveyor. Or
olnarily surveyors lines have lati-
tude OF several inches, but as the
Value OF property has risen lines
nave been run with increasing ev.
ac'ness. With land at $4,000 a foot
an inch Of it is no trivial invest
ment.