Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-29
IN A BUSINESS WAY.
Improvement in Architecture Keep
ing Step With Prosperity.
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY IN BUILDING.
A Brisk Movement in Realty, With the
Usual Gossip About Big Deals.
LUCKY VENTURE OF A YOUNG LADY

In no city in the country has the art Of
building made such rapid advances within
the past few years as in Pittsburg. This
can be demonstrated by comparison OF the
old parts OF the city with the new; but it is
still more noticeable in the suburbs. Houses
embodying all the comforts and luxuries are
now within the reach of people Of moderate
means, whereas a few years ago they were
attainable only by the wealthy. A large
| share of the credit for this change for the
better is due to local architects whose achieve
ments in planning have attracted attention
throughout the country.
As the season advances the promise of ex-
traordinary activity in building grows brighter.
| This will result in an immense expansion of
population, and afford a guarantee of con-
tlnued activity in real estate, which is really
the basis of prosperity. When it thrives every
other legitimate interest fourishes.
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There was good inquiry for and fair
movement in real estate yesterday, but nothing
unusual came to the surface. There was re-
currence of last weeks talk about big deals on
Fifth avenue, but nothing tangible could be
CLEANED from it. The following transactions
were reported:
d. ". v, 81
nelus Buckly to William Woods two-story
frame dwelling, No. 81 Miller street, lot 20xIoO
for 81 $50 cash; also IL lots for John Musser to
Mr.. Rohrkaste. each 2Ox1O0. situated near the
head of Twenty-second street incline. and
known as the old ice pond, for Sc, 500 cash.
Ewing & Byers sold for ]. NJ. Fleming, ESQ.,
of Ellsworth, to W. T. Tredway, attorney, 6.62
acres of ground at Coraopolis (Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railroad) for $500. being 200 per
acre. The purchaser intends subdividing this
property into building lots and putting them
on the market at once.
L. o. Frazier corner Forty-fifth and Butler
streets, sold for Mrs. Anna Keely lot SOxlOO
feet situate on the west side of Osceola street,
near Cypress street, Twentieth ward, to John
8. Horsfall ct ux. for s.. 400 cash.
Hamnett & Meredith, l02 Fourth avenue and
Williamsburg, sold lot No. II, plan Mol Wilkins
estate, Williamsburg, to Robert Collins for
s., ,2O0
Black & Baird, 95 Fourth avenue, sold to
William G.. Grey for E. l.. Porter a lot on
Niagara street. Oakland, near Craft avenue,
64x95 feet, for s. 500; also sold to NJ NJ. Wishart
lots So, 81 and S. in the Dunlevy plan of Linden
Place, having frontage of IS feet on Hastings
street by 120 feet in depth, for 81, ,326.
Magaw Goff, Limited, las Fourth avenue,
sold in the OaK station plan, Castle Shannon
on Second avenue, and running back ITO feet
to an alley. to George B. Stealy. Price S225
for all.
Work has been practically stopped on the
Squirrel Hill electric road, and will not be re-
sumed until some arrangement shall have been
made with the officers in charge of Schenley
Park. 1t may never be resumed. 1t is thought
in some quarters that tho Duquesne company
will take in Forbes street up to Shady avenue.
Twenty-eight mortgages were recorded on
Saturday. The largest was for s., 600.
Johnstown is fourishing as of yore, as proof
of which it may be stated that a Fifth avenue
piano dealer has sold Is instruments to citizens
of that town within the last 20 days.
The sales of leading wholesale drygoods
house on Liberty street for the expired portion
of this month exceeded those for the same
month last year by sl2 000
A young lady who is employed as stenogra-
pher in leading business house on Fourth
avenue bought three lots on the Castle Shannon
Railroad. She held them a month and sold
them at profit of 70 per cent, nearly doubling
her money. Although single, she is welded to
real estate as an investment
Ewing & Byers-Coraopolis IS bound to be-
come one of Pittsburgs most thriving suburbs.
Real estate is very active there.
Work on the Duquesne traction road, on
Penn avenue, is being pushed as fast as posi-
BILE. A considerable quantity of material for
the road was delivered at Homewood yester-
day.