Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-15
MAY MAKE A DICKER.
The Best Brewing Company Almost
Ready to Close Bargain.
ONLY A MERE TRIFLE IN THE WAY.
Williamsburg Talking About Three School
Houses Instead of One.
RAPID TRANSIT SCORES A BIG POINT

There have been not few misstatements
which have found currency of late concern
ing the efforts Of the Best Brewing Company
to obtain additional grounds at Pike and
Twelfth streets. There is no question that
this company is making efforts to lengthen
its cords and strengthen its stakes. The mis-
statements alluded to relate to the prices
asked for the property which the company
has in view. That holders have demanded any
thing like the prices attributed to them is said
on good authority to be pure fiction.
One of the properIy-holders who has received
an offer from the Best Company was seen
yesterday, and reported that there was
very little between him and the company,
and that there was little doubt of their coming
together. Said he: 1.-THE price was reported
to have asked for my property was simply H.
diculous. The difference between my price
and the bid was but s., OO0."
Williamsburg Council, by an unanimous vote,
passed the ordinance giving the East End
Electric Railway Company the right of way in
the borough. The road will come in on Frank
lin street. where there will be two tracks.
There will be two tracks also on Wood street,
and loop on Penn avenue. By the terms OF
the ordinance the work of constructing the
pleted in year.
Some objection was made to overhead wires.
The representative of the company gave a
verbal guarantee that so soon as it was found
the road could be worked on the underground
system the change would be made.
Sixty years ago real estate in Pittsburg sold
at almost any price that could be obtained for
it. Values were arranged on sort of sliding
scale TO suit the necessities of the owner and
the ability of the purchaser. The grandfather
of prominent bank cashier owned about 100
feet on Fifth avenue which he sold for few
thousand dollars. The same property is worth
a round million to-day. Another gentleman,
about the same time, was the possessor of 100
acres and several houses in the heart of East
Liberty. He indorsed for a friend to the
amount of $50, 600, and all this property went to
pay the debt. At the present time it would
bring 81 100000.
There are men living who remember those
occurrences. What contrast they present be-
tween the old and the new. Could anything
more forcibly illustrate the marvellous growth
of the city?
The destruction by fire of the schoolhouse in
Williamsburg will probably result In change,
the importance of which has long been recog-
nized The borough is nearly mile in length.
The Pennsylvania Railroad tracks separate the
Second and Third wards. The schoolhouse
was almost in the center. Children living at the
extremlties, therefore, had quite a distance to
walk. and those living in the Third ward had to
cross the railroad. To eQualize distances and
obviate the necessity of crossing the railroad
always dangerous to children, it is now pro-
posed to erect a school building in each of the
three wards, each of them to cost about 900,
md # tn 0f
School.
So far as this plan has been discussed it has
been favorably. entertained. The cost of the
three buildings would be very little greater
than one large enough to accommodate all the
children of school age in the borough, and they
would be far more convenient.
There are two sides to every question. The
proposed change of moving day is no exception.
1t has its advocates and its opponents
In regard to this matter a member
OF the firm of w. A Heron & Sons
said: "one great objection we have found has
been made by the business men to the idea of
moving in the midst of the spring trade. They
are averse to a change at that time, which is
one of the busy seasons of the year. This has
always been the subject of grave consideration
on the part of our business men. AS it is now,
many are subjected to great inconvenience,
while some incur loss by being forced to move
as late as the 1st of April.
MANY concerns have been compelled to con-
tinue year after year in undesirable locations
or inadequate quarters, rather than move the
lst of April, and the instances are numerous
where merchants have paid large bonuses to
get possession of the houses to which they
remove early enough to be prepared for the
spring trade. This is SO frequent that many
business men prefer to have moving day earlier,
rather than later"