Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-01


machinery establishments of the country.
The outlook is encouraging. There are no
weak spots to cause alarm Leaders OF Dusl-
ness are cautious and vigilant There is @ but
little danger of any serious mistakes being
made in anv direction. Never were lawmakers
| mG-e carefully watched by the people. One
political party does not feel secure in It's pos
session of power against the other. III mis-
| take is made by one it will be seized upon by
| the other. Thus hedged around and protected
| by conservative sentiment, there is no good
reason for apprehending check to the for
ward impulse of the legitimate activities OF the
| city and country
Business News and Gossip.
The Fifth avenue market building is being
| converted into 4 temporary zoo, for the accom-
mediation of the living Notwithstanding
the elephant-oelonging to the city.
There are not cars enough to promptly handle
| all the freight originating in the Pittsburg
| district.
ColweIl street, east Of Vine, seems to be the
favorite locality for apartment houses. Half
| dozen or so have been finished and occupied on
that thoroughfare, and large one is in course
of erection.
A PIttsburg gentleman who invested in Chi
cago real estate about a year ago. sold out
| day or two ago at handsome profit. He thinks
| prices there are about at the top.
1t will be surprise if street cars are run in
| Williamsburg this winter. Tracks cannot be
laid on Wood street or the upper end of Penn
| avenue
Five transactions in real estate involving
nearly s40o, 900. have been finished up this week.
| This does not look like stagnant market.
Several deals in coal lands in the upper part
of the county are reported. but particulars
could not be obtained. 1t is understood how
ever, that good prices were realized.
The Peoples Light and Heat Company has
purchased from Hart Brothers for $4,000
| about 500 acres of land and a good gas well,
| for which s., 500 was paid year or so ago. A
| GOOD speculation.
Dealers in all kinds of holiday goods are pre-
| pairing for the annual rush next month. They
| expect heavy trade. as business has been good
all year. and almost everybody has money to
| spend.
The Kuhn property on Diamond street will
| come under the hammer again to-day.
Walls station is one of the livellest places
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The demand for
| building lots there is remarkable, and the best
| thing about it is that most of the purchases are
| for Improvement
Pittsburg is being built up to the very hill.
| tops Large tracts of land in the Eleventh,
| Thirteenth and Fourteenth wards, thus situ-
ated, have recently been put on the market, on
| some of which building has already begun.
This is unusual for this season OF the year.
The largest of % mortgages on file yesterday
was for 81 500.
Application has been made to the Controller
of the Currency for national bank at Johnson
The Real Estate Savings Bank has increased
its surplus to $4,000. 1t was SCI, 500 1t has
also declared the Usual QlVlQenQ.
New Buildings.
Building permits will make slim showing
this week. Only seven were taken out yester-
day. Owing to bad roads making it next to i'm.
possible to lay foundations and deliver material
great many persons have postponed building
until next year. Permits issued yesterday follow:
W. Colteryahn. frame addition, two-story
dwelling. 20xlS feet. on Mary street, Twenty
sixth ward Cost, 81 600.
Edward s. Dickson, frame two-story stable,
l6xS2 feet, on Liberty street, Twelfth ward.
Cost $500.
F. Mayer & Bro. frame two-story shop. 2ox65
ward Cost S6l0.
Daniel Harthauer. frame two-story dwelling,
lSxS2 feet, on Kincaid street. Nineteenth ward.
G. W. Slmonds, iron-clad one. story shop, zOx7S
feet, on Smallman street. Fifteenth ward.
Mrs Emma Caskey, frame two.story dwell
ing. Ax3S feet, on Shakespeare street, Twen-
tieth ward. Cost $1,000.
A. McCracken brick addition one-story dwell
ing, 24xl09 feet on Wylie avenue, Seventh
Movements in Real Estate.
Ewing & Byers sold for Peter Miller to
George 81. Holland a new two.story frame
house, containing six rooms and hail. with lot
25x5S. corner of Linden and Lithgrow avenues
Second ward, Allegheny City, for s., 400.
Magaw Goff Limited. sold two lots, Nos
14l and l42, at Oak station, Pittsburg and Castle
Shannon Railroad. to w. ]. Monteith for $500:
also lots Nos. 80, SO and "a. same plan, to G. B.
Stealy for $3.50; also lots Nos. II and II same
plan, to d. 5. Smith for S265: also lot No. 4,
same plan, to Aaron Thompson for SllO,
James W. Drape & Co. closed the sale of a
house and lot on Monterey street. Allegheny.
near jackson street for S., 775: also sold house
and lot in Cable place. Oakland, near Oakland
avenue, tor SIS 100 cash: also sold three bnuses
and lots ON Eleventh and Bingham streets.
Southside, for SS.325; also placed a collateral
interest in a large warehouse property of Sl5 0OO
s. a Dickie C. sold for Mrs: NJ. S.
kamerer to John Mcdonald lot on Bennett
street, Brushton 4OxlS71a feet to an alley, for
$S75.
NJ F. Ripple & Co. sold to s. Crawford a lot
3Oxl3O feet on Amanda street, at Brushton
Allies & Bailey sold for George Schmidt lots
lis and ll6 in +. P. Jones plan, Fourteenth
ward, size 2oxlo0 fee: each to an alley, for
81, 100.
E. D. Wingenroth sold, in his plan of Nadine
Park, three lots. being Nos. l, and 8, on the
corner of Station and Vine streets, to L. E.
Gleffer for $3.50.
". E. Hamnett & Co. sold house and lot on
Miftin street, Williamsburg, for r. s. Mcdowell
to e. A. Rugh for 81 0OO cash.
Thomas McCatfrey sold for John Quinn to ].
Miller the property No. 13l Edmund street, lot
20xl0O, with two-story frame house of four
rooms hall and finished attic, for 81 200; for Jos
Vogel to P. Legonilin a property on Baum
street, East End, lot 1OOxl20 feet, for s., 200.
s. McCord a lot on Wilmot street, Oakland,
near Sylvan avenue % feet inches front by
loo feet In depth, for S725.
L. o. Frazier sold for John Devine a lot
having front of 10 feet on the northwest cor
ner of Rosetta street and Atlantic avenue.
Nineteenth ward, and extending back 100 feet,
to 20-foot alley, for $500. cash.
Rostop StocL.