Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
FIRST IN THE FIELD.
a Fourth Avenue Real Estate Broker
to Build on Diamond Street,
ON THE NEW FIFTY-FOOT LINE.
Suburban Farm Land offered at Two Thou
sand Dollars an Acre.
ALLEGHENY CITY PROPERTY PICKED Up

Although nothing except preliminary
work has been done toward widening Dia-
mond street, at least one property owner on
that thorougfare has so much confidence In
the favorable outcome of the project that he
proposes to begin building operations at
once.
Mr.. D. P. Black will, in q week or two,
break ground on the new 50-foot line for a
fine business house. plans for which have
been drawn mp by Architect Ssuer. It will be
erected on the Wiley and Thoma lot, and have
q front of AZ feet by so in depth, and contain
three stores.
It was learned yesterday from an inside
source that 20 or Is acres of the McKelYy farm
had been offered at 81 900 an acre, and that the
proposition was being considered by Wood
street capitalist.
Tw lots on Remlock street. Allegheny. Nos.
SO and 95 with improvements, were sold by c.
H. Love yesterday tor Sc, 5OO They belonged TO
Mrs. Emma Brant The purchaser was William
Swindell.
The Pittsburg Library Association, now
known as the Young Mems Mercantile Library,
was the first organization of the kind in Pitts
burg. 1t was organized in IS47 by three public
spirited citizens-Colonel Samuel NJ. Wicker
sham, Captain David Holmes and Jacob
Weaver Jr.. brother OF ex-Mayor Henry A.
Weaver. OF these Colonel Wickersham is the
only one living. He was the first President.
The first donations of books were from Rev.
Francis Heron, pastor of the First Presbyte-
rian Church: Rev. George Uphold rector of
Trinity Episcopal Church, and Rt. Rev. Bishop
O'Connor, of the Cathedral who were elected
honorary members of the association. The
L., e,l1 hor
ket street This was the beginning of the IL
brary movement in this city, which has cul-
minated in the splendid conception and
princely donation Of Andrew Carnegie.
A member Of the firm of Thomas Carlin's
Sons informed THE DISPATCH yesterday that
they had purchased the steel plant of the Co
lumbus, o., Steel Company, consisting of open
hearth furnaces, gas producers, hydraulic
pumps and crane and billet mill. The works
have been idle for some time. They were built
in 1872 10 roll rails, but were changed in 1867 to
turn out steel The firm will operate the plant
as 3 sort of annex to their Allegheny works.
The National Safe Deposit and Vault Manu-
featuring Company, of PittsDurg. has just COM
pleted handsome vault for the Bank of Nc
Keesport The contract price was $4,000. 1t
has been examined by number of bankers
and capitalists, who pronounce it invincIble
against the skill of the whole fraternity of bur-
glars. The big vault in the Fidelity building,
on Fourth avenue, was built by this company.
1t cost S75, 600.
Oil clearances for February, 1884, were: Oil
CITY, 2lS. .322 900 barrels; New York national,
19S, ,696 600; New York, petroleum, 1885, 600;
Bradford. producers. 57.l646OO Pittsburg,
2O5 946 OOO Bradford oil I76 100 600 The busi-
ness on the Pittsburg Exchange this month
will probably not exceed 5000, 900 barrels. The
comparison yividly illustrates the decadence of
the trade.
Two Eastern architects have prepared plans
for four buildings to be erected at Curtis Bay
Nd, for the Baltimore Sugar Refining Com
pany. The cost will be at least S750.000. The
main building will be II Stories supplied with
all conveniences. The boiler house will be
40xl2B feet in size washhouse to be 45x45 feet
in size. It is probable that q part of the ma
chinery for the plant will be obtained in Pitts
burg.