Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-04

rent asked for them. This is hint to
owners to build OF Improve to suit the ousl-
ness intended to be carried on. Business prop
erty is never idle if it suits the tenant.
On and Of the String.
DR. McMasters yesterday closed tile sale, on
Linden avenue near the Linden Club House,
of new Queen Anne dwelling to j. B. Kohler,
a well-known insurance man, for $500. The
purchaser will occupy it as residence for him.
self.
An English gentleman named Smith has been
in the city for several days looking for site
suitable for building for riding school. lie
wants lot about 100 feet square on good
street. and prefers Oakland or Bellheld. DE
has been offered several properties, but ob-
1ected to the prices.
c. Beringer & Son have two big deals on hand
which they expect to close in q few days. one
involves 10000 acres of mineral land in Ken
lucky, and the other is acreage in the Ems
worth district 1t will be subdivided.
Mr. I. c. Beeckman has traded a large piece
of residence property in the Oakland district
for business site in Columbus, Ohio.
New Buildings.
Eleven permits were taken out yesterday for
IA houses-some of them high class. The list
follows:
henry ]. Werneberg, brick two-storY and
mansard dwelling, 2lx60 feet, on Fisk street,
Seventeenth ward. Cost, $1,000.
Peter Lohnes, two brick four-story stores and
dwellings, 2Oxl22 feet each, on Fifth avenue,
Sixth ward. Cost S3S, 900.
Jerome Coates, frame two-story dwelling,
lSxS2 feet, on Eureka street, Thirty-first ward.
Cost, 81, ,040.
mansard dwelling, 27x4l feet on Emerson
street. Twenty-firsI ward. Cost, S9, 0C0
E, R. Edmundson, three frame two-story
dwellings, l6X32 feet each, on Blair street,
I'll W rl
Catherine Z; Llppert; go,; brick tw9-story and
nue., Thirteenth ward. Cost, $S.S0O.
8 Ewart d Co. frame one-story wagon shed,
1890 feet, on Center avenue, Eleventh ward.
Cost $50.
Fred Werth, frame one-story stable and bake
fourth ward. Cost. $50.
John Dougherty. frame two-story dwelling;
A. NJ. Guthrie e. Co., limited, ironclad one
Cost, 1925.
feet rear of Carroll street. Sixteenth ward.
Cest $780,
Business News and Gossip.
]. NJ. Montgomery, member of the Ex-
change, returned yesterday from the North
west where he investigated the condition of
the wheat crop. BE saysit covers an unusually
Affairs of the Lawrenceville Bank are now
in the hands of the auditor who will examine
the accounts and report soon as possible.
At the present rate of house building Pitts
burg will not De overstocked during this gen
Grafton. One thousand houses a month would
not more than fill the requirement.
Scranton is to be bonded for the purpose of
erecting four iron bridges.
New Orleans and Dallas, Tex are the only
points reporting scarcity of money, but owing
r Ia col nf fhauo l,sa
over the pinch.
John R. McKee, Jr. an operator on the New
York Consolidated Exchange, but formerly a
Fourth avenue hustler was visitor on Change
yesterday afternoon.
The Diamond National Bank and the First
National Bank have declared semi-annual divi-
dends of per cent, and the Iron City National
dividend OF per cent also sem-annual.
The boys" on Change yesterday talked
politics more than business There were a good
many offers to bet by the supporters of the
rival candidates for Governor, but no one was
confident enough to put up the cash. Interest
in the result of the contest was not restricted
to the Exchange. but was noticeable almost
everywhere on Fourth avenue
Gross earnings of IS railroads for the third
week in October increased 26S per cent and 80
roads for the second week increased gross 5
per cent.
This is legal holiday in New York but not
in Pennsylvania. The local banks will do busi-
ness as usual, but the Exchange will be closed
J. c. Reilly sold for the John L. Rhood es-
tate to Samuel Zalkin the three-story brick
dwelling No. 201 Wylie avenue, lot 24xlO9 to
w. Wilson, for 5000. He also sold tor the
City Bank lot, corner Fourth avenue and
Dickson street. Homestead, for $3.50.
c. H Love sold property on Grandview
avenue, Duquesne Heights. for Mrs Emily
Long, to Samuel McCombe, for 81, ,0OO-cash,
w. p. Hamnet d Co. sold farm of 1I5 acres
near Nineyah station, P. R. R., to w. l. Davis
for s. 600.
Black & Baird sold for John Davis, the East
End halter lot next west of his Ellsworth
avenue residence, 2Oxl00 feet for 81, $50 cash.
l.. o. Frazier sold to John ]. Devine q new
frame dwelling of five rooms, with lot 20x13O
feet to 30-foot alley, situated on the west side
of Conrad street, near Coral, Twentieth ward
for S5 000
Morrison & Banks sold to jeremiah Walsh
brick house and lot on Eureka street, Thirty
first ward, for 81 $50; also to Anthony Hill lot
on Washington avenue, Thirty-frst ward for
Sl,5OO; also to Alexander Black lot on Wash
ington avenue. Thirty-firs ward, for ST. 7OO
Sloan & Co. sold lots Nos. 30 and 81 in Lem
ington Square plan to j. S. Robinson for 81, 200;
No. 20 to Mrs. Stephens for $500; No. 10 to John
Keffer for $500; Nos. 50 and 80 to Joseph Keffer
for 81 900; No. So to Mrs A. V. Stout for S6UO
They also sold in Kline Brothers West Viii
merding plan Nos. 81 and 53 to Joseph Martell
for s., ,000:sNo. 245, to Mrs. Brown for $500; No.
203 to Mrs. Baurs for $780, They also sold in
Maplewood Park plan No. 79 to Frank Miller
for $780,
Magaw Goff, Limited, sold two lots. Nos So
and a. at Oak station. Pittsburg and Castle
Railroad, to H. 7. Galley for $3.50 cash.
Ewing Byers sold for Reuben Miller, Esq,
to John Watson triangular shaped lot, trout
ing on Fourth avenue, Coraopolis for 5000
cash.
w. A. Heron & Sons sold lot 2OxSO feet be-
ing No 81 in A. Kennedys plan, Twelfth ward,
at head of Federal street, Allegheny incline,
for $780,
A NARROW ESCAPE.
One Little Sale Saves the Oil Market a
Whitewashing.
There was only trade in oil yesterday,
LOCO barrels changing hands lust before the