Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-10
A LIVELY LOCALITY.
Some of the Attractions of the Law
renceyille District.
FINE STREETS AND FINE HOUSES.
A Great Manufacturing Center in Touch
With the Markets of the World.
PROPERTY VALUES TO SUIT THE PURSE

Middle-aged people remember when Law
renceville was a borough; now 1t is one OF
the most progressive portions of Pittsburg.
Butler street is the principal thoroughfare.
! 1t begins at the Forks and ends at sharps-
| burg bridge, a distance of about three miles.
| This street is almost entirely given up to
| business.
Some of the side streets, notably Fortieth,
| Fisk and Main, are bordered with handsome
homes. Young Mr.. Fuhrer is building
| fine Queen Anne residence on Fortleth,
| Mr.. Black, President of the Keystone Br1dge
Works. owns and occupies q palatial man
| sion on the same street. 1t was oulit last
year.
Fisk is comparatively a new street, having
| been open but few years. 1t Is devoted al
most entirely to homes. This is one OF the
| handsomest streets in Lawrenceville. Prop
| erty on the street has enhanced 80 per cent
| in the last three years.
Main street is another comparatively new
| thoroughfare, and, like Fisk, is largely occu-
| pied by residences. Among many beautiful
places on this street are those of George
Seibeck, Mr.. Fuhrer, Sr, George Folsom and
Miss Sadie Wilkinson.
Forty.fourth, above Butler, is another fine
street, and displays many handsome homes,
| among them being those of Mr.. Siemen, OF
Siemen, Sleeth & Black, Mr. Wallace and
Mr. Mitchell, who was chief clerk to Mayor
McCallin.. All of these streets are in the
| Seventeenth ward.
The Eighteenth ward is building up. faster
| than the Seventeenth, but with cheaper
class of houses. 1t is a great manufactur-
| ing center The Home for Incurables,
founded by the late Miss Jane Holmes, Is in
| this ward. 1t contains many fine residences,
denoting opulence and cultivation.
ascertafned from Mr.. Thomas McCaffrey.
the enterprising real estate broker, can be
bought at almost any lrice, but in choice
localities it is held at pretty steep hgures.
A sale on Main street recently was at the
rate of $500 foot front. Cheap property is
on unimproved side streets, and near the
mills. Business property is strong, with an
advaning tendency. Forty feet on Butier,
| near Main, changed ownership short time
ago at S2oOOO, or $500 foot front. 10 iets.
are as scarce as in any other quarter OF the
city.
Lawrenceville, as stated is great manu-
| featuring center. Some of the most 1npor-
tant works in the city are located here. NO
locality offers greater inducements to enter
prise. Sites suitable for any kind OF business
can be purchased at moderate figures. 1t IS
in touch by railroad and river with the IRON
and coal fields of the country, and with all
the outside markets.
Business News and Gossip.
The old buildings on New Grant street, ad-
joining the Bindley block, are being demol-
ished preparatory to the erection of five
story business house.
Sharpsburg will soon be connected with the
city by an electric railway. The Citizens
Traction people are pushing their extension
in that direction as fast as possible.
The statement of the Laclede Gas Com
pany, of st. Louis, for the month of June
shows that the sales and profits increased
80 per cent over the corresponding period in
1890.
Coo1 .+ooI-s ora ouiet and strono dino tn
the excellent condition Of the coal trade.
Each of the l,5OO street cars of New York
earned $40 day last year.
Plans are being prepared for two new
schoolhouses in the Tenth ward, Allegheny.
Work on them will be commenced next
spring.
The work of reconstructing the GermaIiia
Bank building will begin next week. As
stated in this column a short time ago, the
new structure will differ materially from
the old. 1t will be of the same height but
otherwise larger and handsomer.
Up to the present the Treasury has not re-
ceived any applications for the extension of
The Schenley Park and Highland Railway
Company has placed a mortgage of $5O,000
with the Fidelity Title and Trust Company
as trustee, the money to be used in the de-
yelopment of the road.
The Real Estate Board of Chicago con-
templates the establishment of a grade of
honorary membership free from any dues or
fees to be given to persons who have rem
dered the board valuable assistance in its
work.
The annual meeting of the Bridgewater
Natural Gas Company has been called for
Monday week.
Muslin bid 81 yesterday for Underground
Cable, buyer 60 days.
The transfer books of the Electric Com
pany are to be reopened and will remain
open until the 18th, to give all an opportunity
to come in.
Central Traction was stronger yesterday
on prospects of a dividend. The s.. 50assess-
ment may be postponed. The meeting will
be held ON Tuesday next.
The National, German Fire, Ben Franklin,
Cash and Artisans Insurance Companies
have declared their regular dividends.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the following
buildings were issued yesterday:
Theodore Donk, frame kitchen, SKIS feet,
rear 1906 Mary street, Twenty-sixth ward.
Cost, $50.
Sarah Gray, frame one-story stable. 16x20
feet, rear 23s Bedford avenue, Eleventh ward
Cost, $75.
Louis FUNGUS, frame one-story addition
store, 16x65 feet, on Frankstown avenue,
Nineteenth ward. Cost, $500.
Herman Kuhn, frame one-story store, 20x
Sc feet, corner Norton and Cowan streets,
Thirty second ward. Cost, $500.
Elizabeth Given, frame two-story dwelling,
23.6x1S feet, on Ridge street, Thirteenth ward.
Cost, $500.
Mr.. Dixon frame two-story dwelling, 16x30
feet on High street, Nineteenth ward. Cost,
$40.
William A Sucking. frame two-story
dwelling, l6x30 feet, on Cedar street, Twen-
tieth ward. Cost, 200.
Owen Hart, frame two-story dwelling, Tx
80 feet Carnegie street. Eighteenth ward.
Cost, ST., 100.
store 24x36 feet, 1888 Carson street, Thirtieth |
ward. Cost, $3.50.
James Whalen, frame two-story dwelling, |
20x32 feet, on Dearborn street, Nineteenth |
ward. Cost, 1880. |
Siemen, Sleeth & Black, brick one-story
addition to machine shop, 29ySo feet on |
Forty-second street and Allegheny Valley |
railroad, Seventeenth ward. Cost, s., 800.
Reuben Miller, four frame two-story dwell |
ings, l6x32 feet each, corner Reed and Ward |
streets, Thirteenth ward. Cost So 500
R. NJ Pyatte, brick two-story dwelling, ok |
AZ feet on Amber street, Twentieth ward. |
Cost, 5000.
Movements in Realty.
Black & Baird sold to George R. Hopf lot
No in the J. Walter Hay plan of Haywood
place, Thirteenth ward, for $5i5; they also
sold to Mrs. J. H. Cahill lot No. I42 in the
Alta Land Company, on Duquesne Heights,
for SIS cash.
Reed B. Coyle 6 Co. sold lots Nos. 81 and |
50 in Glen Mawr Park plan. at Haysville, !
Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad, |
being 60 feet on Riverview avenue, and ex- |
tending back l 10 feet, preserving the same |
width Of 80 feet throughout, for 500
Peter Shields sold for the Schenley Park |
Land Company to John Regan two lots, |
25x5O each, on Haldane street, for $500. |
Magaw & Gotf, Linn. sold for Thomas |
Smith to III. T. Galley two lots each 25xlOO, |
at Oak station, Pittsburg and Castle Shannon |