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CHICAGO'S RECENT ARCHITECTURAL DLVELOPMENT.

Buildings That Have Been Krected In tha Last low Years Over a liogion Hitherto a Swamp—Hint* to Sister Cities.

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CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Tha migration of tla3 Board of Trade from its cli quarters at La Salle auJ Washington s'.ree to its present location at La Salle and Jackson, bag worked a metamorphosis in the latter region. Two years ago it was a vivid reminder of tha "Dismal Swamp" to-day every available foot of grouud is covered, with office buildings, handsome in style and towering in proportion*, and the massive structure of the bulls and bears smiles benignly upon the numerous and highly respectable family to which, figuratively speaking, it has given birth. But tills is only tbe beginning. Give us a little more grace, say only a year, and we will show you, in a district four blocks deep by four in width, a more numerous and haudsonie assortment of commercial buildings than can bo found in any city on the continent outside of Gotham. Wo are not extravagant or inclined to braggadocia, you will observe. We are willing for the time being to yield New York the palm iu this regard, and so be content with second place. A decade to come, however, perhaps we shall be in a position to claim everything and concede nothing. Time will telL .. &

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BOARD OP TRADE.

^.^fc^Right in the center of Lasalle' street, itu main front resting on Jackson street, is the imposing structure of the Board of Trade formally openei a few month3 since in the presence of distinguished representatives of trade and commerce from all parts of the country. The entire edifice is of granite and is surmounted by the tallest tower in the city, rising 301 feet above the ground. 82 feet square at the base, and built of masonry to the height of 225 feet, where 4 each face is supplied with a clock dial.

From tho masonry to the pinnacle 78 foot the construction is of iron. The entrances are large doorways, supported by polished columns of gray granite, while near tho top of the east and west elevations are appropriate figures in granite. Four elevators give access to the upper portions of tho building, and two flights of wide stairway* in colored and polished granite, load from the Jackson street entrance to the Exchauge ball, which is 152x101 foot and 80 feet high. Overhead is a skylight of stained gla^s, 72x75, while tho stained glas3 transoms of the seventeen windows bear representations in heroic figures of Commerce, Agriculture, Order, Fortune, etc. The building was erected at a cost of $1,500,000, and it and the hall are undoubtedly among the grandest of the kind in the world.

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Among the scores of substantial and handsome office buildings which since tho removal of the board of trade to its new quarters are springing up like mushrooms in the district surrounding it the Mailer's building is worthy of a place in the piotorial history of Chicago. It consists of twelve stories and a basement, witfa a frontace of thirty-nine feet on La Salle street

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ana sixty ieec on Quincy street, ana ono of the most striking and picturesque in the neighborhood. The ccrnice is 1(}5 feet above tho sidewalk, whilo the top of the ornamental finial is 173 feel in height, the sense of loftiness being still further appealed to by tho tall slender arcades, with which the facade is treated, as well as by the ample tower or minaret which corbeled out at the second story, extends the entire length of the building, and is capped with a handsome ornament. The foundation of the building is of massive stone, tho material in many of the piM-s having cost $5,000. Tha first story is troated in Quincy granite, with massive red granite columns at the entrance. Small black granite shafts support and embellish the entrance arch, which is crowned by two life-sized terra cotfca griffins. Tha granite is carried up to the third story, beyond which the structure is finished in press )d brick and terra cotta. .At the ninth story the projecting bays terminato iu a graceful

ia-eatment of iron work, serving at the bas» !or two final arcades with unsprmgtng prossed brick shafts, whose capitals ar« crowned by a nice cornice c£ molded brick and terra cotla. The value of the building and grounds is placed at $350,00). The first floor is occupied by the Bank of Montrea and above this are forty-four spacious office •mites. ,-w ,,,

ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING. The tall, substantial and imposing building nearly directly opposite the west wing of the Board of Trade on Jackson street, is the Royal Insurance building of Chicago. Two years were occupioi iii its construction and it was opened in May last its total cost be'ng iu the neighborhood of $700,000. It is eight stories in hsi^lib, and contains 165 offices. Tho front is of pressed brick and red granite, a combination which is extremely pleasing to tho eye. Tho large and imposing entrance leads to broad corridors and an open plaza, which run tbrought tha ontire building to the Quincy street exit. The interior construction of the building is of the mo3t solid character.

Thi? magnificent structure, which rears itself like a giant amil tho more unpretending surroundings, is tbo Union depot of the South Side. It stancb on tho southeast corner of Fourth avenue anl Polk street, anl its completion date? back bub a fow mouths. It ii difficult to designate its architectural design, for in truth it might be said to defy Cla cification. It i3 rather on the composite order. At oin point we aro coui'ronte 1 with a semblance to the Gothic, but this is speedily merged into a Corinthian column, which in turn fiually loses its identity in a Queen Anno idea. But what the structure lacks in rigii architectural type is more than compensated by the richness and harmony of color, tha pretty oddities of detail, aui the numberless striking and pleasing effects. Tho structure is three sfcoriea high on the corners, and two and a half, including tha dormer windows, in the center. Philadelphia pressed brick, red terra

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cotta from Perth Amboy, N. J. reddish brown sandstone from New Jersey, are the principal materials iu the outward construction. On the Polk street front is a clock tower 195 feet in height, which can be plainly seen at Lincoln park, fivo miles to the north. This tower contains the main eutrance. with a vestibule of roc t-fa cod sandstone arches, with ornamentations of terra cotia and glazed brick of variegated designs, a handsome tile floor and window transoms of stained glasj, cathedral pattern. The general interior of tho depot is elaborate in design handsome in execution, and arranged with an eyo to the comfort and convenience of passengors which altogether relieves it of tho frigidity aui dreary monotouousness which is the leading characteristic of too many of tho principal depots of the country.

Five roads concentrate their Chicago pasBenger traffic in thi.| depot. These are the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Wabash, the Grand Trunk, the Chicago and Atlantic and the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago. It owes its existence, to the enterprise and foresight of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. Prior to 1889 this road was obliged to lease from tho "Panhandle" 'he privilege of admission to and from

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Chicago, its directorate, However, realized the advantage to be gained by an indspendent outlet, and accordingly organized the Chicago and Western Indiana. Before its completion several other roads were clamoring for admission, and an arrangement was finally made by which tho five roads now runping ovei it were to own and maaoge it jointly. The Chicago and Eastorn Illinois, however, retained tbo righb to nil local business originating on it—both freight and passenger. The suburban business, which amounted to nothing when the Westarn Indiana wa3 opened, has now grown tq marvelous proportions, and nine trains aie limning daily in each direction. The 6ost of the depot was in the neighborhood of half a million dollarsk p/is

CHICAGO, BTTRLINGTON AND QUINCY OTFICQI BUILDING. Who has not heard of the Q," as it is affectionately called by the hundreds of thousands of people, east and west, to whom brevity is the soul of wit. Two decades age aJoc»l line, merely linking afewprrminent towns of Illinois tc Chicago, and only a de-

nde since still confined within the borders of the state, it is to-day one of the greatest ol the many great systems of tho west and south, with its "iron horses" cavorting ovei nearly 5,000 miles of track, and ramsback eling tho states of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Colorado. Its depot building at Canal and Madison is probably one of tho most complete and elaborate in the west but two years ago the necessity for more commodious and convenient office accommodations became imperative, and the result wa? tho orection of the building shown above. It is perhaps not too much to say that it is a model and triumph of office architecture. It faces on Adams street, with a frontage of 126 feec, and bas a depth of 176 feet on Franklin. There aro six stories and a basement, and the exterior is well proportioned and massive, imposing and balanced. The material employed is St. Louis pressed brick, with ierra cotta trimmings, which gives a do lided relief to the numberless heavy stone fronts which surround it. The chiof effort, however, was expended upon the interior, where the arrangements approach "perfection. The center of the building is an open court, 52 by 60 feet, reaching the entire length of the building, and surmounteld by an immense skylight. Winding stairways of polished butternut and pino reach to the top of the building, and the court at each story is circled by a balcony, creating a light and graceful effect.

But our artist's inspection is cut short at this juncture by tho appearance of a pale, slender, smooth-faced gentleman, who had just emerged from a room, tho glass door of which tears tho legond: "General Manager Private. "This is ''Torn P&tter, and MO mention of the "Q" would be complete if it failed to give him place. Tradition says that a score years ago he was, shovel in hand, storming a gravel bauk, and whether or nob tradition in his case speaks truly, it is certaiu that in his early days be m$de a living by twisting a brake on a gravel train when the Burlington and Missouri lliver road was in course of construction. This was only in 1804, and now, twenty-one years later, at the ago of 45, his energy and industry nave made liim vice-president and general manager of Ibis great system, with a salary of $10,000 and a reputation of bsing one of the most thorough railroad managers in the west. He has for a year had a standing offer of $25,000 a year for five years if he will go to another road, but he intends to sticlc to the Burlington so long as his health and strength remain. When these fail he will retire to his Iowa farm, upon which ho spends tens of thousands of dollars annuully. and end his days in peace.

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Irascible Bachelor—Conductor, tho lady wants to know why tlied—1 you don't stop the car?

Lady (more angrily stili)—I didn't sav so, sir." Irascible Baclielir—No, madam, but that's what you meant.

She Wished the Breath Had Left Him. {Boston Transcript. 1 "Where have you been at this time of night?" demanded Mrs. Smith of her lord and master, when the latter came sueakirg home after midnight. "Just been to see a man on business, dear," replied Smith, in a terrible self-conscious manner: "hurried home so fast Fm almost out of breath." "Out of breath 1" exclaimed Mrs. S., derisively. "Pity you wasn't! Phew! For mercy's sake, turn your head t'other way— 70U smell like a distillery."

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"Say," said the editor's smart little son, as ho entered a store, "do you keep knives?" "Oh, yes," responded the storekeeper. "We've kept them for years." "Well," returned the boy, starting for the door, "you ought to advertise, aud then you wouldn't keep 'em so long." vjj*i a

The Kev. Sam Mmt Have Umpired Once. Tho Rev. Sam JODOS says: "I have the profoundest contempt for a baseballist, and I hope they will break my neck the first lick they make afocne, if they ever get me into

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The resignation of Dormau B. Eaton, tae grandfather of civil service competitlvo examinations in America, has drawn tin "eyes of the country" upon llie triple head of the commission to whom is intrusted tin enforcement of the civil per vice law of 18K3. Tho resignation of Eaton takes plaw Nov. 1. Ihoro is a whisper in the air that tho other two members will have to go also.

Mr. Eaton resigned of his own accord. Ha wrote a letter to tho president, representing that ho had boon fairly dying to resign lor a good while, didn't want tho office in tho first place, tried to resign twice before, but his friends, etc., wouldn't let. him. The reason he didn't resign before was that in the civil service there were "impractical methods which were not fully matured," and. therefore, ha remained to take part in their development. Now. apparently, Mr. Eaton has fully matured and developed these impractical methods, for he says he must resign, and won't take no for an answer.

At the same time he sincerely congratulates President Cleveland on tho breadth, firmness and fidelity with which he has carried out tho spirit an 1 the letter of the civil service law. The president's own cabinet bavo a higher opinion of the civil service reform then than they had before. Ho says: "From those at the haad of the many offices in the postal and customs service, to which the examinations extend in all parts of the Union, and whether they be Republicans holding over or new officers from the other party, there has come no reason for believing that the merit, system is not welcomed as a great benefit to tha public service, a great infiuen oe for honesty in politics, aud a great relief to the head of the office."

Tho president receives Mr. Eaton's resignation with sincere regret, and assures him that all who desire good government appreciate his devotiontto the cause.

In view of the fact that the commissioner are all three, possibly, in a dying condition, officially, wo hereby give them a good sondoff. flsJ'JjL,

DORMAN B. EATOIC.

Thfe gentleman will be known in the hl». tory of his country as tha civil service reform agitator. He has agitated early and late, and has tho satisfaction of knowing that some success has crowned his efforts. It doos not appear in any of the records how old he is. He looks to be of age, however. Ho was born in Vermont, and graduated at the state university. Ho studied for the legal profession in tha Harvard Law school, and practised in New York city, whero he lives when he is a£ home But he always took great interest in unpartisan politics and municipal affairs. In 1877, President Hayes requested him to go to Greit Britain, study the civil service of that country and write a report on it. He did so, and reported in a book, an able and forcible volume, called "Civil Service in Groab Britain." He has written numerous magazine papers on the reform of tho service. One well known one is "Assassination and the Spoils System another is "Experiments in Civil Service Reform."

Commissioner No. 2 is a doctor of divinity, Rev. J. M. Gregory.

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Lady (in an angry and shrii. voice)—C011. ductor, why don't you stop tuo car when.I cell vou?

DR. GREGORY.

He is just 60 years of age, and wears his board in the old-fashioned "chopped-cff-square" style that was popular and proper for tha ministerial profession forty years ago. Dr. Gregory is a native of Rensselaer county, N. Y. He is a graduate of Union college. First he studied law, but concluded that profession was too wicked for his turn of mind, and wisely changed it to theology. He bas been identified with schools and teaching, hfwever, more than with his wicked profession or his sacred one. He has been state superintendent of public instruction iu Michigan, and president of a girls' school in the poetic town of Kalamazoo. Then he speeded still further westward to Illinois, where, in 1867, ha was made regent of the State Industrial college. When he leaves Washington ho will go back to bis homo in Champaign, Ills.

His enefhies said that Judge Thoman waa put oa the commission for his good looks, including the dimple in his chin. He wa3 to offset the others^ so to speak. Ho is a

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j*per City, Ills, ne was onty ao when h« was admitted to the bar in Indiana*. His precocity may have baeA owing to bis being born in Ohio. He has served as probata judgo two terms "up iu my county." He i9 a Democrat, and made the narrowest escape of his life in 1881, when he came near being the candidate of his party for governor of Ohio. He was also beaten for congress in 1880, "up in my deo3trick."

Thus it seems that the commissioners can probably all three answer tha questions they ask the poor fellows of both sexes to whom they put-the thumb-screws in their competitive examinations. That is something to know of them. Eaton and Gregory are college graduates. Thoman is not, but tie is a schoolmaster and an Ohio man.

The three commissioners are President Arthur's appointees. They held their first meeting March 9, 1883. It was difficult in the start to get man to accept a place on toe commission. It was felt to be one of such difficulty and its duties were so unknown and nntriel that nobod exactly liked to take hold of it. Silns W. Burt, ex-navnl officer of the port of New York, was one of those who declined tbo appointment, and there were several others. The oaly charge

HOW. LIEROY D. THOMAN, OF OHIO, of consequence brought against the three gentlemen during their service is one against Dr Gregory. It is said ho misused money. But he being a doctor of divinity this is probably not true.

So thai early in the winter there may possibly bo three good offices vacant for learned gentlemen who are noi offensive partisans. Salary, $3,500. ELIZA ARCHARD.

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The Governor of Two Candidate!* for "J ew York. -f thi [Special Correspondence.!

Nsrtv YORK, Sept. 30.—The ,ovent3of political interest in the cou itr/ for the last of September were the two gubernatorial conventions, Republican and Democratic, at Saratoga. .. When tha lightning strock-Grorver Cleveland last year and landed him in the presidential chair it dropped his gubernatorial mantle upon the shoulders of David

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of Elmira. He served out Governor Cleveland's unexpired term with such satisfaction to his constituents that he has been renominated for tho office on his own account. He was nominated not so much by acclamation as by storm. Tho principal ovent of hi? official career as far as he has got was his contest with the Republican legislature last year over the census bilL The legislature persistently kept passing a bill which be as porsisteutly refused to sign. Alter this game bad been played a good many weeks, tho law-making body adjourned, and no census was taken in New York state this year. Tha real split was over an apportionment of office? which would have followed the new censu^uV /rf

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Governor Hill, being a bachelor, and a good-looking one, his age does not generally appear in the sketches of him tliab aro available. It seems, however, that ho was born in Chemung county, forty-two years ago. Twenty-one years ago he began the practice of law iu Elmira. He has held tbe honorallo office of aldirman in that city, and got free rides to funerals. He was a member of tae New York boii?e of repr Jsentatives, the •^Assembly," as tho fine old Knickerbockers call it, along with Samuel J. Tilden. He did not lise the veteran Demdcrjit a* all at first. When Tilden was nominated for governor, Mr. Hill disrespectfully romarkad that the grandmother of the party had been selected- He took it all back, however, greatly to his credit, and became one cf the veteran's staunchest supporters. Iu fact,, he may be considered at present tho Sage of Gramercy's legacy to the Democracy, representing tho Tildea wing of the party.

Liko Governor Cleveland, he has boea a mayor, holding that office in Elmira at the time he was nominated for lieutenant governor. "There is a similarity between his history and that of the president.

Governor Hi'.l has been considerably in politics, off and on—mostly

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to "believe iu political success, however achieved." He is so speckles- i.attire, so precise in his habits as to recall the "Tat* bias" in Hujh Conway'* delightful story of "A Family Affair." It is said he was mora than half sorry when ho bec imo governor, because it would take him out of his bachelor snuggery in the Chemung Cabal bank, of Elmira. He must have got used to it,

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coo, and will put up with 110 member ot the forbidden sex about him, except .'lis cook, it is said.

The Republicans, on tbeir part, nominated Hon. Ira N. Davenport, of Bath. He is nobody's candidate in particular, except as he is supposed to represent the sentiment of the rural districts as opposed to the heavy men and millionaire* Jf New York city, men such as Morton, Bliss and Drexel. Ex-Governor Cornell mildly favored him at the last. He is a member of congress frcni the Twenty-ninth New York district, having been elected last fall.

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hut H. DAVENPORT.

Ira Davenport was born in Hornellsville in 1811. Both himself and his rival. Governor Hill, belong to the young politicians of their respective, parties. Mr. Davenport comes of an old and wealthy western New York family. He spends much of bis win* ters in New York city. He has traveled in Europe extensively. His chief private

occupation is managing the large estate bie father left him. He was instrumental founding the soldiery hoJ.ie at Bath, and gave $5,000 to the in3tltuttdu.

Tbe Republican nominee has riot graduated up through ward politics. The first offi'jo ho ever held was tta|£ of state senator ia 1877. He was re-ele#£ed in '79. In 1881 the Republican convention put him in nomination for the stato controllershipl, Ho "was elected by a handsome majority, running largely ahead of his ticket. He was a good officer in that capacity, making a strong fight against corporations that were backward about paying tbeir taxes. This gained him popularitv. He was renominated for the place in 1888, but that being a Waterloo jrear for the New York Republicans, he was defeated If he should beelected governor, he will not have time to get his new seat in congres? warm. His vote last fall vfras larger than that" receivod bv tfco Republican presidential tioket in bis district. Ho has a brother John and two sisters, Mrs. Sherman S. Rogers, of Buffalo-,' nod- Mrs. J. W. Waterman, of Detroit. His grandfather founded the prosperity of the family bv keeping a country store. Tho nominee's father, Ira Davenport, when very young, gathered load of goods together aud started out on his own hook as country merchant in the wilds of western New York. He settled at Hornellsville, went into lumberiug and general trading, and accumulated a, fortune.

Mr. Davenport is one of the few political candidates wno is. not a lawyer. Rather oddly, he, too, is a bachelor. Unlike tho rival nominee, however, ho is popular in society and fond of ladies. He is rather small in stoturo, and it is more than whispered has red. hair. It seems that New York can hardl/ put up any candidates for governor any more who are not bachelors. But of those two bachelors, the anti-woman ono and the other, wo shall see which will win tlw day. It will be a pretty fight.

New York is the pivotal state of the Union politically. It is so uncertain, too, that nobody can ever calculate beforehand how it will go. Since the Republican party was formed, the Democrats have elected the governor six times and the Repullicans seven times. A. J. BOTHWELL.

That Broken Needle Again, I Boston Transcript.] "Some twenty years ago," said the mildfaced stranger, "my wife, while sewing, suddenly missed, her needle. She saw nothing more of it, and soon forgot all about her loss until last week, when—" "When she suddenly felt a pricking sensation in her right foot," suggested Boodle. "When the point of the needle showed itself between her shoulder blades," guessed Coodle. "When the needle was soen protruding from her youngest daughter's left forefinger," intimated Doodle. "No," said the mild-faced stranger "you are all wrong. She found it in a crack in tho floor. It had been there all those years. Singular, wasn't it?" There was a common desire to welter in the blood of tho mild-faced stranger but with difficulty Boodle, Cookie and -Doodle restrained themselves, P* •.••.*4 a

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The .Minister Helped Himself. ,»\ [Argonaut Storyctta.] .- The Rev. VV. W. Freeman, a Baptist minister, relates an amusing story illustrative of the way that a man's heart can swell a id prompt him to great liberality under soma extraordinary condition?. A big. rawboned, red-headed young farmer entered his parlor one day, accompanied by a,sjy tut comely girl, and desired bim to perform tbo marriage ceremony. Ho did so, and when the fateful words were spoken that mado the couple man and wife the younj husband drew from his pocket fevr bright silver quarter-dollar pieces, and, extending them toward the minister on his open palm, oxclaimed: "There, Brother Freeman, just help yourself until you are. satisfied." The zuitt'ster took one. ,,

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4 Means. -J [Milwaukee Sentinel] One of those "languages of flowers" and •'language of handkerchief' sort of ninnies asks us what it means when a postage stamp is put on some other part of the letter than tho right-hand upper corner. It means that tho stamp c.'erk who is delayed in bis wurk by it would .like to, kick the person who dr.H it all over the distributing room.

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