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The   Record   and   Guide.





January 8, 1887





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Leroy sfcreefc, near Hoi^ton street.   Six-story brick dwelling

tenements with two stores, 35x75x95.   Rent $2,900.......    24,000

East 149th street, between  1st  and 2d avenues.   Five-story

brick tenement, 25x65x100.3.   In good order.   Rent $2,1C0.    18,000

Cannon street. Nos. 54 and lOy, between Delancey and Riving.

ton streets.     Old buildings................................    21,000

Greenwich street, near Frankliu. Pour-story coruer store,
threa or five years lease...................................

Near Jersey Ferry, on corner. Five-story building, 26x80. To
lease for 10 years.........................................

East 13th street. No. 131. Three-story house. To rent. Good
order and location, all improvements, etc.   Rent $1,300,...

Full front on 10th avenue, between ll4th and ll5th streets.

Eight lots; three frame houses............................    65,000

Brooklyn, N. Y.   At Atlantic basin.   Sixteen granite stores,

four stories, 50x100 each..................................  400,000

East 46th street. No. 111.   Four-story high stoop brown stone,

20x50x100...............................................    15,000

South, Water and Montgomery streets.   Factory property.

Nine-story brick buildings.   Fif teen lots of ground......   300,000

10th street, between 1st and 2d avenues.   Four-story house, 25

x55x94.6.    Rent$l,700....................................    17,500

West ISOfch street. No. 218. Three-story high stoop brown
stone, 20x55x100. Perfect order, papered and painted.
Priceasked..............................................    20,000

Over $100,000 to loan at 4J^ %, or will divide in smaller sums..

Brooklyn,  corner Wythe avenue   and  North   llth   street.

Property 100x100, with factory buildings..................    18,000

18th street, corner 4th avenue. A furnished apartment (three
rooms) in " The Florence," with use of bath, to let. Per
week......................................................     25 00

$1,5C0 to loan on 23d or 24th Ward or Westchester, im¬
proved property......... .................................

South of Canal street, near Hudson street. A large plot of
ground 93x100. Has old budding on same renting for
$6,000 per year............................................    75,000

Broadway, on corner, near 23d street. Four lofts over store
to lease until May 1,1891.   Per month $500................

Single 8th avenue lot, near 113th street........................      9,000

Sth avenue, near 133d street.   Single lot.   Neighborhood all

built up.............................,....................    11,000

Ou prominent 6th avenue corner.   Choice plot of lots, 75x100.    39,000

The entire property 150 feet front on East street, running to
Tompkins street, with a frontage of 200 feet on Delancey
street, together with the water right, grant, etc., and half
pier No. 59. The frontage on the water is 150 feet. See
diagram at the Exchange.................................   17.5,000

Mulberry street, near Park street. Three-story front, four-
story rear, brick..........................................    16,000

West 56th street.  Five-story brick tenement, 35x83x100.   Will

exchange for free country property........................    25,000

Lexington avenue, near 23d street. Three-story high stoop
brown stone, 20x90, AU modern improvements. Easy
terms.....................................................    20,000

$6,000 to $8,000 ou good second mortgage. New York city
property..................................................

$100,000 (investment funds) to loan on city property in loans
of not less than $10,000 at 5 ^..............................

Wesfc 18th street, No, 343.   Five-story brick flat with brown

stone trimmings, 25x80x100,    Annual income $4,200......    34,000

WITHDRAWN.

lllth street near Madison avenue.    Three story residence....
East 13th street.   No. 131 to let...............................







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The World of Business.

Trade Stmtistics for 1886.

Under the head of " Traffic Statistics " the current number of the Rail¬
road Gazette presents an interesting compilation of statistics showing the
increase and development of the Uuited States in population, agriculture
and commerce during 18£6.

Assuming that the country's population in any one year is 2 per cent,
greater than the population in the previous year, plus the year's immigra¬
tion, the population of this country since the taking of the last census is thus
figured out:





56,955,000
68,493,000
69,991,000





518,592
349,030
3-^8,917





1830................       .?0.1.'^6,000                 1884.............

1881................       51828,0n0                 1885.............

188J................       53.6.'54.00O                 1886...........

Ib83................       55,333,000

In these same years the immigration has been:

l8Sn................    4.07.377   I   1884.............

],S81...............    669.4S1   I   1885...........

18S3................    788,992       1886.............

1883...............           603,332        |

The agricultural industry, which occupies by far the largest area of any
of the counti'y's industries has steadily developed since 1873, despite the
periods of financial depression through which the country has passed in the
interval. The record for the last seven years is as follows, the figtu-es given
being the acreage devoted to the respective mdustries:

Grain.                       Cotton.                       Total.

1830....................          n),l03,000                   15,475,000                   135,57S.O0O

ISSl    ...................           1:2,559,000                    16,^49,000                    138,808;00O

IKSi..................           125,721.000                    16,277,000                    141,998,000

1SS3.....................          129,'i7C,000                    16,778,000                    146,454,000

18«4         ................           135,08i,(lOJ                    17.440.000                    15i,fi22.000

1885 '.................           134,!J64.000                    18,3'^,000                    l.'i2,865,000

1886..'....................           14(.',469,000                    18,557,000                    159,026,000

From the above-mentioned grain areas the yearly product has been in
millions of bushels:

1880.              l^Sl.             1882.             18R3.             1884.             1885.             1886.

H-2,704              2,053             2,688             2,6-43   -        2,971       •     2,9^9             2,826,

Or stated in the form of the annual yield for each inhabitant: J •





In the same period  of seven  years the cotton production has  been in
millions of pounds:

1880,              1381.             1882.             1883.             1S84.             1885.              1886.

3,203              2,586            3,431              2,7.59              2,738              3,179              3,164

The table of the exports of grain, flour and breadstuffs during the first
eleven months of each year show an almost steady decline both in amount
and v.alue.   In detail it is as follows, the amount of the exports being stated
in millions of bushels and the value in millions of dollars:
1880.        1881.        1883.

Amount........        275 5        211.7        144 8

Value............        2.)7.3        210.3        165.6

The exports of pork products have also noticeably decreased since 1880,
as is shown by the following table of the first eleven months ineach year,
the amounts being given in millions of pounds:

183).              1881.             18S3.             1883.             1884.             1SS5.             1886.

1,079                 920                570                681                 529                 740                751

Including the above-named exports the total exports of merchandise from
this country from January 1st to December 1st of each year have compared
with the total imports in value as follows:

Exports.                              Imports.

I8S0    ..................           $790,800,000                          $649,400,000

1881....................             75i,500,000                           612,900,000

1833....................             675,000,000                           693.3 0,000

18-3....................             719,600,000                            633,100,000

1834....................             653,000,000                           587,100,000

1885....................             614.000,000                           535,700,000

1886..................            627,900,000                            607,100,000

Whereas the shipments of anthracite coal from the mines has unfalter¬
ingly increased in the past decade (39,335,013 tons being shipped in the first
eleven months of 1886 against 18,831,-378 tons during the same period of
IbTi) the receipts of lumber at Chicago have been decreasing.

This year the receipts have been the smallest since 1880, the figures being
in millions of feet:

1880.             1881.             1883.             1881.             188t,             1835.             1886.

1,563             1,879            2,118            1,910            1,839            1,745            1,690

Turning aside from the consideration of the individual branches of com¬
merce and regarding the entire transportation of the country during the
past few years, the wide divergence iu the volume of East and West bound
traffic is particularly noticeable.

Stated in tons, the total transportation on the through lines during the
last seven years has been as follows (eleven months in each year being
considered):

West bound.                        East bound.

1880....................                1,738.157                             10,472,227

1881....................                l,9.-.9,954                             10,131.298

1882...................                2,237.008                               8,879,099

1883....................                1.768,006                               9.34,5.59

1884....................                I,8u3.5l7                               9,189,8i9

1885...................                1,906,570                             10,3-8,130

1886...................                1,797,783                             10,.505,665

The total mileage of railroad in the country at the close of each year and
the number of miles constructed in each year have been:

183-.'.        1881.        1833.        1883.        1884.        188.J.        1886.
Total mileage...       93,349     103,145     114,713     121,454     125,378     128,967     136,467
No.miles built..        G,37d        9,796      11,593        6,819        3,974        3,131        7,500

True Inwardness of Railroad Pools,

The Eastern railroad managers and Wall street speculators are bitterly
antagonizing the pending Inter-State Commerce biU.   Their opposition is
especially directed against the anti-pooling provisions, and they are making
the most absurd pleas in support of their claim that it will be impossible for
them to continue to do business under the regulations of the bill if it should
become a law.   The claim that the pool system is the only one under which
they can treat all shippers fairly is a particularly specious one, but it is the
acme of irony as applied to Chicago.    It is well known that the pooling
plan has been operated, almost fiom the first, in direct discrimination
against the commercial interests of this city.    The managers have adopted
rates to be strictly adhered to in the transportation of property from this
point eastward, but allowed them to be cut ad libitum all around us. The plea
that they could not help what other lines were doing is the baldest kind of a
pretense, but it is the only one that could be advanced to cover up the iniqui¬
ties of the pool syptem under the operation of which business here has for so
long suffered as from an incubus that could  not  be shaken  off.     Even
the so-called "differentials," nominally established by them as equitable,
have been grossly unfair, as they are framed on the principle of including
the cost of a transfer at this point, while it is well known that the transfer
service has to be paid for in addition by the owners of the property.   But
those differentials have been lived up to only just enough to permit the claim
that they are strictly adhered to.   The discrimination has been at times so
brd as to entirely cut off the shipment of grain from this city for months
together, except as it could be done by a very few favored individuals who
were " let in " to the charmed circle and allowed equally "good terms"
as those conceded to shippers  n the country.    And this method of " doing
business " has not only been grossly unfair to the patrons of the roads, but
there is reason to believe it has been used for the purpose of hoodwinking
that  part  of the  dear public  which invests  its money in stocks and
bonds.     The    Chicago    rates    are    pointed    to   us   as   the   ones   on
wjiiich   the   whtl)    btisiness    of    the   lines   is   conducted,   and   they
are used as a basis on which to make up from the admitted tonnage the
estimates of weekly earnings.     This may not be done in all cases, but
that it has been done can scarcely be denied.   When the figures are ulti¬
mately corrected the mischief has been already accomplished and the dear
lambs nicely landed in the den of the wolf, from which there is no return.
One of the most agreeable anticipations of the passage of the new bill is
that it will put an end effectually to tbis nefarious plan which has, at one
and the same time, discriminated against merchants here, allowed one set
of officials to rake in blood money by dividing with their favorites, and
permitted another set to scalp fat pickings out of the stock markets by
taking advantage of a public misunderstanding about the earnings of the
roads.   If it do this ifc will have accomplished a grand reform in the inter¬
ests of common fairness and honesty which would amply make amends for
any little disadvantage that might accrue to the widow and orphan stock¬
holders for whose welfare the whimpering apologists for a vile swin le
appear to be so very solicitous. But no intellgentman can entertain the idea
that there would be any such loss.   Straightforward business methods are the
ones that best pay aU but knaves, and the contrary kind does not always
bring satisfactory recompense even to them.   The cotmtry wants a law
that will allow the charging of rates that will be a fair compensation for
services rendered in the transportation of persons and property, abolish
imfair di-criminations by making all pay alike for the same or equal ser¬
vice, and give to the patrons of the lines the immense sums that are now
annually paid out for commissions or donated in the shape of free transpor
tation to those whose influence it is desired to retain in favor of perpetua¬
ting the present iniquitous system of railroad management.   The amended
Culiom bill promises to accomplish all this, and to do it with the least
possible amount of damage to the parties concerned in making the change.
Opposition to it can come only from those who fancy their interest lies in
the perpetuation of present abuses and should be treated with the contempt
it deserves —Chicago Tribune.

How It Has S.windled Is.

_   It is enough to-make a horse laugh to look back and reflect how the