Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-29
ONE MORE SUBURB.
Well-tO-D0 Citizens to Combine and
Obtain Future Homes.
ASITE FOR MANY FINE RESIDENCES
The Noble Farm to be Laid Out and Sold by
Local Company.
A RIDE OVER THE SUBURBAN RAILWAY

AT a meeting to be held in the German
Savings and Deposit Bank Monday, at P.
NJ, new land company will be organized,
the directors and officers chosen, and things
put in shape to obtain a charter. The name
agreed upon, and which will probably be
adopted, is the Hermosa Land Company,
the term being taken from the Spanish,
meaning beautiful. The company will soon
close deal for the Noble farm, in Baldwin
township, which will be divided into lots
and sold.
The company is composed of Southside
citizens, many of whom are looking out for
future homes, and have thus pooled their
interests that they may obtain a residence
from the noisy, dirty, lower Southside. If
they receive other profit from the
plan, so much the better, they think.
However, it cannot be monopoly concern.
as the limit of stock to one person is fixed at
S., 1000, and the total stock will be 500, 900
and may be increased later. The Noble
farm, opposite the Southside Cemetery, con-
tains sc acres, and the consideration is to
be S6S000. This will leave $32, 900 ready
capital to the company. Seventy-fve thou
sand dollars stock has already been SUBJ
scribed by the following citizens:
THE STOCKHOLDERS NAMES.
John Phillips, of the Oliver Iron and
Steel Company, j. M: Phillips (his
nephew, A. A. Adams, of Adams & Co.,
j. F. Erny, of the German Savings and De-
posit Bank, Alderman c. E. Succop,
Alderman j. Martin Shafer, DR.. j. D.
Thomas, Fred Pieil, John j. Freund,
John Siebert. Prof. John Golden,
John McKain, Henry Miller, Peter Snyder,
Mr.. Wigman, of the Union Planning Mill
Company, Chas. Breitweiser, Samuel Mil
Ter, Chas. G. Miller, Jacob Roth, Chas.
Weber, Theo. A. Weber, Chas. Ott Albert
Breitweiser, William Jones, j. Boyd Duff,
Henry Stolenbach, Edward Hayes, Samuel
Connor, William Rutland, DIR. Nj. A. Arm
holt, Lawyer T. A. Noble:
The plan is one that has been sin the
wind" for some time, and until the present
has not assumed definite form. The lots
will only be sold on a guarantee that the
purchasers will erect modern house.
The Suburban Rapid Transit Railway,
whose stockholders are largely included in
the new company, are now figuring to reach
the city, or at least to connect with some of
the inclines. Nothing further has developed
than given in THE DISPATCH of December
q. and printed again Friday without de-
tails or accuracy in a morning paper. In
THE DISPATCH it was then stated that the
road was negotiating with the Pittsburg
Incline Company for their street charter
rights and an arrangement to use the incline
to transfer the cars to Carson street, where
they would be propelled to the city over the
Short Line route.
LOOKING FOR AN OUTLET.
Nothing has resulted from the negotia-
tions yet and the incline company is unde-
cided as to what they will do about street
car line. They at one time stated that an
arrangement with the suburban company
was possible. They have also sa id the same Of
other plans, so all is in doubt regarding
their probable move.
Mr.. John Phillips said yesterday that the
Mt. Oliver incline had no freight accommo-
dations and so would not answer the pur-
pose. The Twenty-second street incline is
too far out Of the way. Branches may,
however, be run to connect with each. The
whole question is in embryo and it is doubt
full if the incline companies or the electric
company have any more definite conception
of what will ultimately be done than has
been given.
There is one possibility limited at some
time ago by The DISPATCH on good au-
thority that would change the whole aspect
of the Mt oliver and Pittsburg Incline
Companies. The Pittsburg Incline Com
panv does not deny that there have been
negotiations to pool the interests of the two
companies, or for one or the other to sell
out The Mt. Oliver people have denied it
in a way.
The Brownsville road is still LETT to the
Suburban company. The two companies
are really the same-''a distinction without
difference" There is still another plan
for an outlet, and that is the tunnel route
incline scheme from Thirteenth street. This
has resulted in nothing but talk so far.
SOME FUTURE POSSIBILITIES.
In regard to the plans of the land COM
pany, Mr.. Phillips said that there was no
intention, as some have thought, to build
another Knoxville, but merely to sell off the
lots. Many of them will be bought by
stockholders, it is thought. Possibly the
company may enlarge their plans later.
That is too far in the may future to predict
Alright. Negotiations have been made for
several farms but as yet they have resulted
in nothing more.
Few persons in the old city know any.
thing OF the Suburban Electric Railway or
that it has been in such successful operation
for some time 1t starts at the first toll gate
in Mt. Oliver and runs out Southern avenue
past the cemetery into the country about
three miles. 1t will be extended soon to
Whitehall, about two miles further. A
DISPATCH reporter took trip out the road
Thursday. The Daft system with motor un-
derneath the car is used and the cars made
very fast time. The motor man said that q
speed of 60 miles in 20 minutes had been at
tanned under favorable conditions. The
trip one way now is made in about II
minutes.
The ride is delightful one 1t is all
country from one end of the line to the
other, the beautiful residences of John
Phillips, Lawyer Noble and few other less
imposing breaking the monotony of the
rural surroundings. At one place the car
had to slow up TO let COW get off the track.
The farmers chickens are used to the gong,
and lazily waddled to one side. At several
seen in the fields gathering dandelions for
greens.
A RURAL ELECTRIC ROAD.
The motor man sat on the lower step Of
the car with cup of sand in his hand and
sprinkled it on the rails while going around
curves and up grade. He knew every
farmer and teamster along the route, and his
"Hellop' was like an echo that followed in
the wake of the car. At several points
the farmers were rakiug their
front yards, burning brush in
the orchards and getting ready for spring.
One woman was spading up her flower gar
den, and summer travellers will doubtless in
hale the perfume of sweet scented flowers as
they pass that house.
AT one point was one of the relics of past
times, halfway house, run by Mr.. .Ahlborn.
Countless lumber, hay and farm wagons