Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-08
DOWNTOWN DICKER.
A Choice Bit of Business Property on
Third Avenue Picked Up.
ANOTHER EIGHT-STORY BUILDING.
A Manufacturer Points 0Ht the Danger
Lurking in Cigars and Pipes.
DIRECTORS OF THE CHARTERS GAS co.

Another downtown business property
changed owners yesterday. G. II. Love, SO
Fourth avenue, sold for Charles Reno to
Kaskel Solomon, of the J. NJ. Gusky cloth
ing house, Nos. 72 and "a Third avenue, two
brick houses, one five and the other four
stories high, built by the late Benjamin
Singerly, with lot 40x80 feet, for $22, 800. 1t
was offered something over year ago for
800 900.
It Is the purpose of the purchaser, at the
expiration of the present lease, to tear down
the OLD buildings and erect fine eght-story
business block on the lot.
To the Financial Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you please publish, for the information
of many stockholders, the enclosed list of
names of directors of the Charters Natural
Gas Company: James A. Chambers, James
Laughlin. Jr., n. Sellers Mckee, Adam Clark
bravo, William H. Singer. William E.
Schmertz, Duncan G. Phillips Calvin Wells,
John II. DalzeI, Mark W. Watson, James M.
Bailey, Daniel G. Ripley and Edward E. Dem
niston. MEMO.
A we'll known manufacturer remarked yes
terday: "1he sign. No Smoking Allowed
store. and not only posted, but its meaning
should be strictly enforced. A man with pipe
or cigar in such an establishment is as danger
GUS 1nfuriated bull or a drunken man
with pistol, Many mills, factories and public
places have such sign, but in many cases it is
dead letter. A distinguished visitor is some
times allowed to go through with cigar in his
fingers. Proprietors often forget their own in
structions and smoke. Many fires which seem
mysteries to most people are caused by hot
ashes from cigar or pipe. Insurance COM
panies should insist on abstinence from smok-
ing in buildings full of infammable material"
Homer City. Indiana county, bids fair to be-
come the center Of an important coke region.
Some time ago Mr.. ]. M. Guthrie purchased 600
acres Of land underlaid with coal. His plant
now consists of 26 ovens, built as an expert
ment, and the output from these ovens has
from the first found ready sale. He has now in
course of construction a large number, which
are being finished and utilized as fast as posi-
BILE. Mr.. Guthrie is now negotiating for what
is known as the Mikesel plant, and. should he
succeed in getting it will commence at once
the erection of 200 ovens. Quite number of
other capitalists are looking over the field,
from Philadelphia. Pittsburg and other places.
The coal is said to make better coke than is
made at either the Milwood, st. Clair or
Latrobe mines, and as good as that produced in
the great Connellsville district.
An electrician has just patented something
as new as it is unique in the wav of clock.
Aside from being a regular time piece and
calendar, it is also provided with system of
keys, making double circuit around the out
side Of the clock, the first one to denote the
hour and the minute and the 9th er the day of
the month. The object is to furnish thereby
regulator for business appointments. For
instance. if man had an appointment at $40
o'clock one morning. he would turn the indi-
Gator to that time. At the minute exactly that
morning an alarm would be turned in, and
would continue to ring until stopped.
Joseph Van ormer, of Cambria county, Pa,
reports the finding of a new coal vein at Van
Ormer station half mile above Fallen Tim
Der, on the Cresson and Clearfeld Railroad
This new find is a matter of great interest to
people inh2bIting that vast area of coal terri
tory in Cambria county, and also to parties in
Edensburg, who have money invested in that
section. Mr.. Van Ormer has already leased
his coal property to parties in Hollidaysburg,
who propose to commence mining operations
in the near future Many years ago search
was commenced for this vein of coal, which was
known to exist, according to the geological
structure of the formations, in that section of
the country. and thousands of dollars have
been expended in making developments.
The following Is taken from Philadelphia
letter in the American Manufacturer: "The
activity in building operations is the most en-
couraging feature at present. Last month 4O2
two, three and four-story dwellings were
started The bricklayers have decided to ask
for 20 per cent. advance in wages. The other
branches of the building trades have as yet
taken no definite action, but agitatlons are In
progress. The builders and the promoters of
various kinds of new enterprises are somewhat
concerned at the possibility of an interruption
to their operations through strikes. In several
places in Eastern Pen nsylvania large sums of
money are to be Invested in house, mill and
shop building. and the managers of these en-
terprises are extremely anxious to make their
contracts now"
The statistics of coal mining in Pennsylvania
during the year 1888, as presented in the report
issued by the Bureau OF Industrial Statistics,
shows that there were mined in Pennsylvania IN
1855, 5,41071l tons Of coal, of which Al 6SS 426
tons were anthracite, and 33, 772, 2S5 tons were
bituminous. This includes the coal shipped to
market and used in and about the collieries.
There are L002 collieries, 3S9 anthracite and 613
bituminous. There are 1903 coke ovens. and
the production of coke was 6,2l7, ,729 tons. The
number of persons employed in mining coal
was l7S,S55 of which ,9S4 were employed in
side and 54.S71 outside. The number of tons
mined in the anthracite mines for each em-
ploye was 343 TONS and in the bituminous mines
536 tons. The average in all the mines Of the
State for each employe was 439 tons.
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A few days ago 7. n. BarnsdaIl, Of Bradford,
sold to o. P. Weston, G. H. Preston, of Kane;
c. H. Noyes. L. g. Moves, o. F. Hoffman,
Francis Henry, Myron Waters, George Sill and
A. D. Wood, of Warren, his entire interests in
Elk county, consisting of 900 acres, on which
there are number of producing oil wells yield
ing about 275 barrels per day. The sum paid
was s325, 600.