Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-26
TO TEST THE SYSTEM.
ANumber of Apartment Houses Going
Up as an Experiment.
A BUSINESS MAN LOOKS AHEAD.
Selection of Chicago for the Worlds Fair a
Benefit to Pittsburg.
NATIONAL LEGISLATION FOR FARMERS

An attempt is being made on a compara-
lively large scale to introduce and popu-
larize flats or apartment houses in this city.
Several of these are going up in different
localities, but more especially on Fifth
avenue Two are in course of construction
in the vicinity of the market house, or mu-
sic hall, and plans for others in the same
neighborhood are being prepared. One fiat
has been finished and the first floor occupied.
They are all four stories high, with five rooms
on floor. Floors rent from SIS to S25
In addition to those mentioned plans have
been prepared for double fiat, two families
on a floor, near the Fifth avenue power house.
The buildings cost from 5000 to Sl5,OO0
A Business Man" writes: "Your suggestion
that all buildings, parks and other institutions
for the bene1t Of the people should be con-
structed with view to the expansion Of the
city in an easterly direction is good one.
The primary object of Mr.. Carnegie in donating
money for library was to benefit the masses,
and to do that it must occupy central posi-
ton. What is central positionf Just now
Grant street would be central enough, but how
would it be %, 30 or so years hence, with popu-
lation of perhaps a millionf Grant street viii
then be in the extreme western limit OF the
city. OF course a site further down town
would be still more Objectionable for the same
reason. 1 have no site in view which desire
to recommend. My only object in writing this
is to call attention to the fact that in selecting
location for the library regard should be had
to the future even more than the present.
Fifty years from now the city will include
Williamsburg. Edgewood. Swissvale, and per-
haps Braddock. The latter place is ten miles
from Union station. A library at the extreme
western end of this long line would be OF little
use to those living at the other end"
A bill has been introduced in the United
States Senate providing for the appointment
by the President of board of seven agricul-
tural commissioners, of whom four shall be
practical farmers, whose duty it shall be to in
vestigate the causes of the present depressed
condition of American agriculture, including
the laws relating to the inspection of grain, the
regulations governing warehouses used for the
storage of farm products. and the feasibility of
providing for interstate inspection of cereals;
also the relation of railway and transportation
rates to the prices Of the product, the infiu-
ence of the tariff on the prices of necessaries
of life, Its effect agricultural interests, and
generally such consideration of the subject
matter of this inquiry as in the judgment of
the commission shall best secure its object.
A gentleman who resides on Neville Island
said yesterday that the much talked of deal by
which 1t was to pass into the possession of a
syndicate would probably fall through, as the
syndicate wanted everything. The question
is still being agitated to some extent; but moth
ing definite has been done to bring the negotia-
tions to an issue. The people want railroad,
but, in the language Of the informant they
are not willing to give up everything for it"
Decisive action, one way or another, will be
taken in short time.
Pittsburg has material interest in the loca-
tion of the Worlds Fair at Chicago. A Wood
street merchant in conversation yesterday put
it this way: by taking foreign exhibitors and
visitors TO Chicago they will have an opportu-
nifty to see considerable Of the country. Many
of them will stop over in Pittsburg going and
coming to see our great industrial enterprises.
and particularly natural gas in operation,
about which the world has heard so much.
This will make business, spread the fame of
the city, and attract capital and population.
think the selection of Chicago will be the
means Of putting thousands of dollars into the
pockets of Pittsburg manufacturers without
the outlay of cent"
Where the subscriber to stock of railroad
company was induced to give his note therefor
by representations of the President and other
agents of the company that stock to the amount
of only IS, 900 and bonds to the amount of only
Sl20O0per mile would be issued and in fact at the
time these representations were made stock to
the amount of $4,000 and bonds to the amount
of SIS, 900 per mile had been, or agreed to be
and afterward were issued, the Supreme Court
of Georgia recently held that his subscription
was not binding.