Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-20
OWN YOUR OWN HOMES.
New and Healthy Suburbs Being Anxiously
Sought Fora Safe Place TO Put Money.

New and Healthy Suburbs Being AnxiousIy
Sought Fora Safe Place TO Put Money.
1t is fact beyond question that the COM
ing year is developing more interest in real
estate than Pittsburg has ever before ex-
perienced. In the city proper transfers of
valuable property are taking place every
day, business blocks are being erected
where dwellings once stood and dwellings
are being remodeled into business rooms.
What does this mean? Simply this: That
the time has come for the people TO get out
and make room for traffic. The value of
ground is far too great to be longer used for
building homes upon. Rents are high and
the noise and confusion are yearly becoming
less endurable. We are crowding each other
out, and are beginning to look around for
escape, for more breathing room and for
greater health and comfort.
Owing to our peculiar situation, being
surrounded by hills, there is but one remedy
the suburbs.
That this condition of affairs has been
foreseen is plainly demonstrated by the fact
that street car lines have been extended to
all available localities. Railroads have
established convenient stations at short
distances from each other for miles out of
the city. running a great number of trains
at suitable hours and establishing surpris-
ingly cheap rates of fare.
The growth of these suburban towns has
been truly wonderful and this year gives
promise of more improvement in this direc-
ton than ever before.
The Northside is fast pushing to the front
as a place of residence and particularly
noticeable is the growing popularity of
Clifton and Ellsworth, on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. These
places adjoin and have all the conveniences
of city without its discomforts.
Reliable information has been gained to
the effect that the 40acre track of land known
as the Duff estate, located at Clifton and re-
Gently purchased by Wood, Harmon & Co.,
$40 Smithfeld street, is being improved for
the purpose of putting on the market in the
shape OF building lots, and will be open TO
the pubic in a few days. The situation of
this property is very fine. being only 20
mutation fare of 81 cents trip. Churches,
schools, stores and postofice are already es-
tablished and it is the home of many promi-
nent Pittsburg business men.
The price paid for the land was high but
the increasing demand for suburban lots,
together with the many advantages this To-
caIity enjoys, justified the company in its
purchase. 1t is also learned that the method
of selling these lots will be that
usually adopted by this firm, and
is as follows: The price will
run from S100 to S4O0. A first payment of
from 81 TO 81 is required. followed by weekly
payments of 81 to 50. This method will al.
low anyone to own one or more of these very
desirable and really valuable lots.
No interest is charged upon deferred pay.
ments and there will be no taxes until the
lots are fully paid for.
The business methods of this cOmpany
have stood the closest kind of investigation
and have been the means of providing peo-
pie with homes who could never have pro-
cured them in any other manner.
Furthermore, it affords cheap. sure and
profitable investment for small earnings,
and persons thinking Of putting money into
property will find 1t greatly to their ad-
vantage to examine into the merits of Cliff.
ton.