Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-14
Northside improvements.

Allegheny, where number OF houses are GO
ing up. Several are under way at the head of
Charles street, on the McKain plan. Plans are
ready for several good dwellings in Watson's
circle, near Major Pentecost's. The owners of
the principal ones are Superintendent Hunter,
of the Allegheny County Electric Light Com
pary; Mrs. Crow, widow of the late Fire Chief
and Mr.. Bovard, well-known business man.
Mr.. Charles Fanord has just completed large
business house on Perrysville avenue, from
which groceries will be dispensed, to the great
convenience of that locality. A number of
other improvements will be set on foot next
spring.
Business News and Gossip.
The Fort Pitt Land Company has finished
about so houses in North Jeanette, some of
which have been sold and others rented.
Perrysville avenue Improvement is one of the
lIveliest topics on the N Northside. remon-
STRANGE against an s0-foot street and in favor of
one of so is being circulated and numerously
signed.
The most important mortgage on file yester-
day was for $4,000. Ten of 29 were for pur-
chase money.
prove a slayer. that part of the city may be
filled with derrlcks instead of warehouses
Ten shares of Pittsburg Plate Glass Company
stock sold yesterday on the basis of S175.
There was no monetary pressure anywhere
yesterday. 1t was offered at per cent in New
York.
A M. Byers and Henry NJ. Long are men.
toned for the position of financial manager of
the Electric and Manufacturing Company un-
der the new arrangement to secure money to
tide over present difficulties.
The dumping of 240 shares of Philadelphia
Gas Company stock yesterday failed to break
advance.
The Building Record.
During the past week SO permits were issued
representing so buildings-3l frame, l6 brick
ironclad and iron buildings, the total cost
of all being slO9.07s The Twenty-frs ward led
with II, followed by the Thirteenth and Seven-
teenth wards with each.
The number of permits issued the previous
week was 43, representing 81 buildings of an es-
timated cost of So, 635 The total number of
permits issued this year to date is l,756. repre-
senting 2.9l2 buildings. The following were
taken out yesterday.
Pittsburg Forge Company, ironcIad one-story
factory, 52x79 feet, on Smallman street. Twelfth
ward. Cost 81, ,590
10xA feet, on Patterson street, Twenty-seventh
ward. Cost, S25
Movements in Realty.
Baxter, Thompson & Co.. sold for the 81. D.
Reymer estate to a prominent city manufac-
turer. a lot on Shetland avenue, Twenty-frst
ward, size l2)xl20 feet, for IS. 900 cash.
Thomas Liggett sold for ]. g. Wainwright, .
lot on O'Hara street, for S., 100.
Peter Shields sold through F. q. Beinhaur.
six-roomed brick house. No. % Fifteenth
street, Southside, for So 6O0
Black d Baird sold for William r. McGill, a
tract of land in the Twenty-thlrd ward, city,
being part of the Little estate. containing
about four acres. for s., ,5O0
Reed b. Coyle & Co.. sold for Samuel Wat
son to Otto Greenwalt lot la and one-half of
LIS, In the Watson Place plan, Tenth ward,
Allegheny, fronting 80 feet on East street and
extending back 100 feet to Shaft avenue, for
$780,
w. c. Stewart sold tor David F. Mckee to
prominent Pittsburg merchant two acres of
ground on Squirrel Hill, near Schenley Park,
for $4,000.
M. F. Nipple Co. closed the sale OF a lot on
Baum street, 5Ox120. to prominent County Of
fetal for 1000 cash.
Allies d Bailey sold for Jane Pusey lot No. SO
In the Jane Pusey plan, Tenth ward, Allegheny
City. 60 feet on Perrysville avenue by 100 feet
on Ellis avenue, with q new Queen Anne frame
dwelling, with all modern improvements, to p.
w. Harrington, for s70OO
Holmes Co. sold lots to Jacob
Trauth In the Lorenz place plan for $500; also
house and lot in Hazelwood for Richard Can.
non for $3.50; also 16 acres in O'Hara township,
near Sharpsburg, to David Stewart, for 81, 600. !
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