Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-15
FOUNDING A TOWN,
COntractSAggregating $7,OOO,-
900 Let for CharlerOi.
A SCHEME OF GREAT SCOPE.
Largest Plate Glass Works in the
World to be Built,
DETAILS OF THE MAMMOTH WORK


above Lock No. 4 has been staked out and
will be invaded by an army of workmen
next Monday. 1t is expected that by the
first of next August 10000 inhabitants will
be occupants of the town site. A DISPATCH
representative finished yesterday two days
inspection of the place and learned much of
interest in connection with the plans by
which s., 900, 900 will be invested in this To-
cation and contingent enterprises within
less than q wear.
Drexel, Morgan & Co., the great banking
firm, is represented in its immense invest
ment by NJ. ]. Alexander, the gentleman
who built Jeannette for Chambers & Nc
Kee. J. W. Moore, the ex-coke king, of
Greensburg, Pa, is very heavy investor.
So also is DR.. Built, a Philadelphla
banker, and Mr.. W. ID. Hartupee, the Pitts
burg engineer. Mr.. James B. Haines, Jr.,
of Pittsburg, is also in the big plate glass
company. Messrs. Alexander, Moore, Bull
lit, Hartupee and Haines form the director
ate Of the Charleroi Plate Glass Company
and the Charleroi Land Company.
A SERIES OF COMPANIES.
DR.. Chandler, late the manager of the
Butler Plate Glass Works, will be the gen.
eral manager of the Charleroi Plate Glass
Works, capitalized al s., 900, 900. Mr.. Alex
ander will be superintendent and general
manager of the Charleroi Land Company,
capitalized at $3.50, 900. Messrs. Chandler,
Alexander, Hartupee, Built and Moore are
the directorate of the Charleroi Construction
Company, which has the contract of building
Charleroi.
There is also sand company with the
same parties interested, and the Mexican
Sand and Stone Company, with capital OF
500, 900, of which Postmaster James S. Nc
Kean is President and has a controlling in
terest. There is also brick company, with
a capital of $50, 900. A capitalist of Canton,
O., is heavily interested, and several lead
ing fnanciers of Philadelphis and New
York are owners of large blocks of stock in
the above companies.
With a river frontage of nearly two miles,
the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Rail-
road threading the site, 20 feet of water close
inshore, the town site directly over the Belle
vernon natural gas ante-clinaI and every
possible mineral advantage close at hand,
the site of Chsrleroi is highly favored.
ON A NATURAL PLATEAU.
The land secured by the purchase of the
Mexican and other farms forms a natural
plateau bounded by bluffs at the back,
sweeping gradually around a curve and
abutting upon the river at either side of the
town site. The Monongahela river is nearly
straight and the P, V. & c. Railroad runs
through the tract separating the town proper
from the tract devoted to building and man.
ufacturing sites fronting upon the river.
The ground rolls slightly toward the bluffs
at the rear, and is so nearly level that no
grading will be required. The avenues and
streets are laid out between the railroad and
the Fallowfeld township line now indicated
by the township road. From the summit OF
the hills overlooking CharlerOi the view is
unobstructed for miles up and down the
river. This handsome little spot is destined
to become great industrial center.
Traversing the town site from West Belle
vernon down to Lock No. 4 the present
plans can be rendered intelligent by a de-
tailed description of the various holdings
and the contemplated improvements. Be-
tween West Bellevernon and Maple Creek
the first tract going down the river is 30
acres owned by the Charleroi Plate Glass
Company, upon which is found a superior
quality of grinding sand for plate glass
polishing.
LARGER THAN THE LARGEST
1t may be said at this point that the huge |
factory will use 100 tons of sand day, The |
largest factory in the world uses 60 tons, |
and the difference in amount illustrates |
clearly the leviathan size of the proposed |
plant. Next comes 30acres owned BY James |
S. Mexican and his associates There is a |
fine quality of building sand and lime |
stone quarry upon this tract The founda- |
tions OF the plate glass factory will make use
of 500, 900 worth of stone alone.
The 81 acres reserved by Robert Mexican,
Sr., is crossed and at Maple Creek the
Charleroi towr site commences. Running
Just IL miles downstream and perfectly
straight are the four avenues forming the
principal thoroughfares. The names are as
field" Washington" and Lincoln"
Cross streets, numbered from one to nine
consecutively, bisect the avenues. The old
station lies between Mexican avenue and
the railroad and Second and Third streets.
Between Fourth and Fifth streets the Pitts
burg, Virginia and Charleston Company
has secured an entire block whereon will be
Immediately erected the finest passenger
station and freight yard on the entire line.
A system of double tracks will be put in,
with switches at regular intervals for the
use of manufacturers. Freight loaded upon
cars inside of such works as locate on the
river front will go all over the country by
the proposed system. Below the railroad
and opposite the present station huge der
rick looms up. 1t is for the Charleroi well
No. /, and spudding will commence next
Wednesday.
THE MAIN STREET.
Fifth avenue will be the street of the
town. At the upper end, upon the brow of
the hill, the water works will be erected at a
cost of $50, 600. The pumping engines will
be placed on the river bank, below a trestle.
which will Iorm an approach to the four.
span Pratt truss bridge, which will cross the
Monongahela river, and which will cost
&125, 900, with approaches, wagon and foot
WAYS and railroad track. The latter will
connect the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charles
ton and the McKeesport and Bellevernon
Railroads. The McKeesport and Bellevernon
Railroad skirts the bank of the river from
Lock No. to Bellevernon. Slightly above
the proposed bridge are the DAILY wells Nos.
j and 2, both 700-pounders Within 1000
yards stands the big Gibsonton distillery,
for which two weeks ago a British syndicate
offered s., 600, 900 in cold cash. In view of
the Charleroi improvements the owners of
the distillery decided last Thursday to build
q four-story stone warehouse, with a capacity
Of Il, 900 barrels, at a cost of $125, 900. The
work will commence Immediately upon this
and other Improvements.
The Iour corners Of Mexican avenue and
Fifth STRAIT wi n he oocr mad bu fba pau d |