Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-13
ROWSOF FINE HOUSES
Pittsburg is Rapidly Becoming a City
Of Beautiful Homes.
EAST END BUILDING OPERATIONS
The Open Fields Of Few Years Ago Now
Thickly Populated.
WHAT A CABLE CAR RIDE WILL REVEAL

A trip on the cable cars out Fifth avenue
and around the loop is about as pleasant
and profitable way as Sunday afternoon
can be enjoyed by those who are not under
heavy bonds of Christian obligations to
either learn or teach at some of the many
varieties of Sabbath schools. The compari-
son of the buildings along the route with
those of ten or even five years ago is an
object lesson in PittSburg's growth which
cannot be lost upon the ordinary observer
Elizabethan, Queen Anne, Tudor and COM
posite styles of architecture. with an in
definite number of doors, dormer windows
aud gables, before the number of which
Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables.
would bow with becoming modesty.
Rows OF brick and rows of stone houses
follow one another in rapid succession as
the gripman Jerks his bell in response to the
passing salute of his partner in the ring.
All bear the stamp of newness and show
that for the last few years the strides taken
by the city have been those of giant.
Stepping over dirt and SCOT to paved streets
and natural gas, the consequences are SO
manifest as to need no description.
GOOD WEATHER FOR BUILDING.
The open winter, too, has helped the
building trade most wonderfully. All along
the traction line new carpenter work on the
outside in January is the astounding reve-
lation. beware of the paint" in bold let
tiers, stares you on every square, where before
Beware of the dog denoted the existence
of the guardian of potato patch. Byactual
count yesterday there are III houses either
being built or reconstructed on the traction
line, and the fresh carpenter work showed
that this moving business was to be resumed
in extending the residence portion of the
CITY, and that the weather which frowned
upon sealskin sacques smiled upon home
for its wearer to enjoy, and enabled the
builder to get his contracts finished in first
class time.
The wide fields which were baseball
grounds some two or three years ago are now
laid out in lots, and the real estate business
is having an unparalleled boom. The lots
are laid out as invitingly as rolls of silk up
on a ribbon counter, and "Thisstyle on your
own terms" is no unusual sign to see pene
trating the ground with its post, and pene-
trating the intelligence of the public with
its logic and its liberality.
EAST LIBERTY BOOMING.
Through East Liberty the same state Of
affairs exists, and the building process is
pursued as serenely under the balmy
breezes of January as it would be amid the
bowling billiards of July. Buildings are
going up, property is going up and the pop
ulation OF the surcharged downtown dis
tricts is going up to East Liberty heights,
and this East End grade of society, of fresh
air and of residence facilities. During
such a drive, on any week day, could
have been seen hundreds of young
couples looking at building sites, and
discussing the most eligible position from
which Ito send baby to school," said baby
having just attained the dignity of short
dresses. Near them the real estate agent,
with a bland smile and finely engrossed
card, profers both with any additional in
formation or aid toward getting home
that may be desired. The men of means
sit upon their front piazzas, and looking
around the broad expanse OF land surround
ing their homes, and remark first, that
they never saw such weather, and second
that they never saw such a chance for in
vestment as now presents itself.