Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-18
Business News and Gossip.

This is a good time for business men to OBJ
serve Davy Crocketts maxim: "Be sure you
are right then go ahead" There is no danger
&c the careful and prudent.
Next spring will probably witness a brisk
movement in real estate in the Sewickley dis
tTlct, extending up as far as Allegheny. A
number Of schemes looking TO this end are
being worked up.
The Osceola schoolhouse in the Twentieth
ward is nearing completion. The roof is on
and work on the interior will begin at once 1t
Is the intention to have the building ready for
occupancy by the first of the year.
The talk on Fourth avenue yesterday ran
more on the weather than the panic" The
uiIIvIan infiiction is much the worse of the two
for HiJtsbaTg, but even it has been unable to
throw business on its back.
80 far this year the number of building per-
I'D IS taken out IN the city proper is l59I. repre-
seutIag 2695 houses. The number of buildings
erected IN the suburbs is almost as great.
Iwenty-one OF 50 mortgages on file yesterday
were for purchase money. The largest was for
$1,000 Each Of l9 was for less than $1,000.
he business houses of Mr.. Lohr and Mr.
Turner, WIlknsburg will soon be ready for
occupancy The walls of Odd Fellows Hall in
the same place. are about finished
llr. W. X. Mooney has finished the founda-
ton for a fine residence on Spahr street, near
College avenue.
At the election of directors of the Bank of
IIttSburg yesterday there were three changes
two new men coming in under the rotation rule
and one new man being chosen, Mr.. William
q. Park. The board as now constituted is:
John Harper, Thomas II. Lane Joseph Wood
we'll Charles Hays, Reuben Miller, Robert NJ.
TludIe Henry II. KING William A. Caldwell,
William Thaw Jr-. and William G. Park. The
old canserva tive policy will be continued.
The Pennsylvania Railroad reports that the
quantity Of coal ana coke originating on and
carried over its lines east of Pittsburg and Erie
.or The week eufing November s. was S36, 9S8
tons Of which 2S2, 5O2 tons were coal and lO4 454
tons coke.
Inc East Pittsburg Improvement Company
Yesterday sold to the Braddock Township
= ;nOOl Board large 30t at BriDton, upon which
VIII be erected SIS 900 school building.
The Building Record.
The official who dIspenses building permits
made "a fair start yesterday for good week.
Nine were granted for l3 houses some of them
of high class. Thehst follows:
John Siebert and c. E. Succop two brick
tvo-story and mansard dwellings. 3Sx36 feet
each, on Fourteenth street, Twenty-eighth
ward. Cost, $1,000
Hugh Heron, frame one-story dwelling. 25x
10 feet. above Second avenue, Fourteenth ward.
Cost $50
Andrew Despern. brick addition one-story
and mansard dwelling. lSx34 feet on corner
Rose and Vine Streets Eleventh ward. Cost,
s Ha
Peter Lebriefer, four frame two-story dwell
in-s. I4N2S feet each, on corner River avenue
and Butler street, Uwenty-tirst ward. Cost,
s. 900.
Robert J. Gallagher, frame two-story store
and dwelling. 2iN3O feeg, on Forbes street,
Fourteenth ward. Cost, 500.
charles Boerner, frame one-story and attic
dwelling. 2iN52 feet. on Beltzhoover avenue,
lhIrIy-hrsJ ward. Cost, $3.50.
- Miller, brick addition to one-story shop,
l2A2S feet. on Webster avenue, Seventh ward.
Cot. 500.
Eey. j. r. Holland. frame two-story stable.
osN55 iect, on corner Bellefield and Fifth ave-
nues, Fourteenth ward. Cost. s. 500.
5r Lgpis F7Rk5 g7Rs5 brick ihreestGry store and
Thrty-second ward. Cost, $500.
Movements in Real Estate.
Ira N. Burchfield sold to Harvey NJ. Halloek
two acres on Squirrel Hill for $1,000. The pur
chaser viii build fine residence on the prop
eTty for hls own use.
Charles Somers & Co. sold for E Leech to C.
N. Harmau. lot 2Ix6O, Ward street, Alle-
gheny. for s. 90 cash
W +. Hamuett & Co. sold a lot on Savannah
avenue, Williamsburg, 52Xl20, for Thomas H,
Sheppard ct al for S9OO, TO Mr.. Wallace, of
Black 4 Baird srld to Andrew Trent lot No.
] ID the D. II. Barr plan, Twenty-frst ward be.
tween Brushton and Homewood stations 25x
100 feet, for 500 payable IS cash and the bal
auCe s. per month
Allies q Bailey sold to Frank Torchea for
George Schmidt two lots fronting on Alleouipna
street, ~ feet each by 100 to 2O-foot ailey Nos
ll3 ana lif ~ Eureka place plan, Fourteenth
ward. for 81 l2l.
r. D. W Nlngenroth SOLD TO Joseph Engel, of
Homestead, lot No. 81 in his plan of Nadine
Park. fronting . feet on IroQuois street and
extending back TO Usage alley, for $500
n. r. hlpple d co. sold for ]. A Grayu to a |
weil-known broker two-stury, six-roomed |
frame dwelling. with lot 2611xl57 feet, on the |
north side of II owe street BeIiefonte street
Twentieth ward, for $4,000
W. A. Heron d Son sold lot No 2I in the |
Hampton plan, IhartlerS township adjoining |
the lhrty-sl&th ward, West End, 25xI6O feet
fOr $500, on easy payments.