Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-02
TAKING A NEW START.
Fall Weather Having a Stimulating
Effect Upon Business.
NATURAL GAS AND ITS ENEMIES.
The Philadelphia Plan of Building Just
What is Needed in Pittsburg.
LATE MOVEMENTS IN REAL ESTATE

With the coming of the fail season busi-
ness begins to spread out. Old enterprises
are being pushed with greater vigor, and
many new ones are being put in shape. The
remaining months of the year promise to
surpass in activity any similar period in the
history of the city. Brains, energy and
money are uncomfortable.
Perhaps the best evidence of the general
prosperity is the urgent demand for common
labor. Complaint comes alike from manu-
facturers and farmers that it is scarcer than
ever before known. When labor is offered
steady employment at fair wages the people
are happy and the country prosperous.
The Company Not Affected.
From the best information obtained, the
death of Joseph Britain, general manager Of
the Butler Salt and Chemical Manufacturing
Company, will not affect that concern in any
way. MIR. James W. Drape. a heavy stock
holder, and one of the directors, said yesterday:
'Mr. Brittains liabilities entirely personal,
and outside of the business OF the company, SO
far as know and believe.
"The statement that owed him 40 shares Of
stock is without foundation. The fact is. he
died in my debt about Sl2 900, this being for
notes of his on which am endorser, but for
which, fortunately, hold collateral"
The following explains itself: "Please cor
rect rumor regarding embarrassment of the
Butler Salt and Chemical Company. 1t is not
true that this company has been embarrassed,
nor will it be compromised in any manner by
the business transaction of the late Joseph
Britain, Jr."
Brokers In Better Spirits.
Sock and oil brokers had little to say yes ter
day. but may have sawed considerable wood
for use to-day. when the exchange grind will
be resumed.
Expressions occasionally let fall denoted
more hopeful feeling due to the improved con-
dition Of the money market and the gradual
reconciement of labor and capital. The stead
iness of Pittsburg securities during long
period of comparative stagnation shows that
they rest upon solid ground and are worthy of
public confidence.
1t is gratifying to observe that natural gas
stocks maintain strong front against all at
tempts to make the public believe that the sup
ply is giving out and will soon be exhausted.
This cry has been heard so often that it has lost
its efficiency as a stock jobbing canard. So
long as men who have millions invested in
natural gas are not alarmed, consumers should
feel at ease.
Something to be Proud Of
No city in the world can turn out a better
looking or more intelligent body of men than
marched through the streets of Pittsburg
yesterday. Their banners were banners of
peace. and the music to which they Kept step
was In harmony with their pacific professions
1t was not a war cry. With such men TO keep
the wheels of industry in motion Pittsburg's
future is secure. Her supremacy as a manu.
featuring and commercial center cannot be
overthrown.
The demonstration was creditabIe in every
way to those identified with it, actively or pas
sively, and reflected the highest honors, not
only upon the participants, but upon the entire
community where labor is king. Pittsburg is
proud of her toilers.
Movements in Real Estate.
Black & Baird sold to Galen G. Hartman,
Esq, q lots on Brownsville avenue, Thirty-first
ward, for 81 300 or 500 each. In 1872 the same
property changed hands at So, 800. This is the
reverse of boom, and shows the difference be-
tween the inflated values of that brass band,
free lunch period and the substantial prices of
the present time.
real estate broker on Grant street. who was
in Philadelphia few days ago. said yesterday:
II wish Pittsburg capitalists would build like
they do in Philadelphia. John ]. Cassidy, of
that city, is putting up l3O good frame dwell
ings and will commence several hundred more
early next season. Building on this scale here
would keep demand and supply about even,
and encourage outsiders to come IN and SETTLE"
SamDel w. Black & Co. sold the leasehold
property No. l65 Ohio street, Third ward, ALE.
gheny City. being lot 21x1lO feet with three.
story brick business ana dwelling house. for
$40, 100.
w. A. Heron & Sons sold for Mr.. Benner a
lot 25xT feet on Harvard. near Beatty street
Nineteenth ward, with a new two-story frame
house of five rooms and late improvements, for
S2650.
Black & Baird sold to William E. Giberson
lot No. 10 in the Wilcox plan at Hazelwood |
Twenty-seventh ward, fronting 33 feet on Sec
ond avenue by 100 in depth. for sl,eOO. They
also sold for J. Walter Hay lot No. 23 in the
Valley View place. Nineteenth ward, for 1925
Ewing & Byers sold for Joseph Bardsley to
Mrs r. s. Ewing the property No. So Ackley
street. near Monterey street, Second ward,
Allegheny. consisting of a two-story brick
house six rooms hall and attic with lot 2OxlOO
through to paved and severed alley Con-
$4,000 cash. John K. Ewing, of the |
above firm. has returned from a trip to the |
lakes and Niagara Falls.
Sold by s. A. Dickie & Co. to Mrs K. M. |
Lageman, two lots on Monticello street, 25xl40 |
each, being part of the Frankstown avenue |
plan of lots, at $500 each.
NJ. T. Ripple & Co. sold for s. Montgomery |
for 81, 900. lot No. IL in the f. Ardary plan 5Ox
ward.