Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-24
SOLVING A PROBLEM.
Relief for the 0ld-Time Business
Center of Pittsburg by
SMALL TRADERS CHANGING BASE.
Good Openings for Retailers in the Thlckly
Settled Outskirts.
CHANGES WROUGHT BY RAPID TRANSIT

1t is apparent that the business problem,
so far, at Mast, as the retail part of 1t is con-
cerned, is approaching a solution. Street
Improvements and rapid transit are scatter
| ing it to the four winds, literally as we'll as
| fguratively. Reference mas been made to
the TACT that many stores are being built on
| Fifth avenue between the Court House and
Soho. Penn avenue, Forbes and Wylie
show numerous Improvements of the same
| kind.
Trade follows the course of population.
Each of the thoroughfares named is suf-
fciently built up to constitute numerous
business centers on small scale, but large
enough to sustain one or two stores The
pioneers in this movement had serious mis-
| givings of disaster at first, but they stuck to
it ana have built up a remunerative trade.
These stores are so great a convenience to
the people that they could scarcely get along
without them. They save much time,
trouble and expense. Deriving their sup
| plies from down town wholesalers, these
stores are worth as much as feeders" to the
city as if they were located in the heart of the
so-called business center.
| This tendency of the retail trade to keep
pace with the movement of population to the
outer districts is not limited to any particular
section 1t is as apparent in the hill district of
| the Southside, in the West End and down the
Ohio Valley as in the East End. though less
| pronounced for the reason that settlement Is
slower, owing to imperfect transportation
| facilities. These, however are being remedied,
| and will soon be rapid enough to attract home
| seekers. Business will follow.
This dispersion of trade is natural result
md nra n hQ n
| the CITY, Pittsburg proper is being given up to
| business more and more every year. Ground
is too valuable and rents too high for residence
| purposes. This forces people to the suburbs
, where a majority of them buy or build homes
| 1t is this that gives so much Importance to
rapid transit. The full development of all the
| systems that projected will result in thickly
| populating all of the territory between Brad
| dock and Sewickley and on both sides of the
rivers There is no escape from this conclusion
| Manufacturing and wholesaling must be ac-
| commodated and encouraged. Small trades
| will find 1t profitable to change the
| theaters of their operations to the outskirts
| The success of those who have already made
| this move demonstrates its practicability. OF
4 its necessity there can be no doubt.
Business News and Gossip.
| A 2. Byers & Co. report the demand for
houses in the Sixth ward, Allegheny, double
the supply.
Julius F. Stark sold after call Thursday so
| shares OF Philadelphia Gas stock at l01I.
As soon as possible in the spring the brick
| pavement IN front of the Conlor property, out
| Fifth avenue. about completed, will be taken
up and flagstone substituted. This, as sug-
gested by THE DISPATCH, will be move in
the right direction. and directly in the interest
! of property owners on that thoroughfare.
| The Cannonsburg Bank is to be reorganzed
| and operated under the national banking law.
| Mr.. George Gotthart has broken ground for
| four-story business. house, and dwelling on
| Fifth avenue, at the foot of Vanbramm street.
| Real estate brokers. almost without eXcep-
| tion, report business picking up Inquiry is as
| good as at the same time last year.
A. c. MCCOY has purchased a residence prop
s. sstS 5ca on West Pike street, washington pA f0r
The scarcity of small houses on the Southside
is causing no little anxiety. Renters are at a
| loss what to do.
Mr. W. q. Stewart is in the East on business
| ton.
/ The Building Record.
Ten permits were taken out yesterday for II
buildings. nearly all of good class. The list
| is appended:
Frank Porynski, frame twostory and base
ment dwelling. I7x36 feet. on Bedford avenue,
| Twenty-seventh ward. Cost s., zoe.
Henry Thyar. frame two-story and mansard
dwelling, 20x3c feet on Gilmore street, Four
| teenth ward. Cost 81, ,S2e
Catharine Deiger, brick one-story and base
ment dwelling, 2U1ax34 teet, on Josephine street,
| Twenty-sixth ward. Cost 81 200.
Adam Doersch, frame two-story dwelling, Tx
Is feet. on rear Torley street, Sixteenth ward.
| Cost $500.
George Kramer brick two-story and attic
| dwelling. 20x30 feet on Ann street, Fourteenth
ward. Cost. 5000.
William Kosr, frame two-story and attic
dwelling, 22x32 feet, on Wandess street, Thir-
teenth ward. Cost. 1900
John A. Anderson, frame two-story dwelling
22x32 feet.on Wandless street, Thirteenth ward.
William Mackey, two brick two-story dwell
ings. l2xSO feet each on Carbon alley, Seven
| teenth ward. Cost. &, 500.
Gustave Schwartz frame addition two-story
| dwelling. l7xl7 feet, On Cypress street, Twen.
tieth ward. Cost. $500.
| George Kramer, brick two. story and man
sard dwelling, 2Ox32 feet, on Torley street, Six
teenth ward Cost, $500.
Movements in Realty.
James W. Drape & Co. say: "The $500, 600 deal
in property, of which mention was made some
weeks ago as being under way by us, has SO far
| progressed that S5O0 900 has been paid on ac-
count, and the papers, titles, etc., are expected
to change hands during the next 80 days.
| I'VE have closed the sale of one-half interest
in three houses and lots in McKeesport at
SS. 600 cash; also. two houses and lots in Home
stead at IS, 600 cash; also. house and lot In
Allegheny, on James street. near the parks, at
| "a, 5O0 cash; also, closed transaction of over
four acres of ground in the East End, with i'm
provements, at S2S 900 cash.'s
A. z. Byers & Co. sold for Abram Rife to L.
II. Deer the property No 1S9 Rush street. Sixth
ward, Allegheny City, being brick house of
four rooms, hall and attic, for 81 600. This is
the third house sold by them within the last
week in the above location.
Reed b. Covle & Go. sold to prominent bus
4 iness man seven frame houses on Sylvan ave-
nue., Twenty-third ward in their Marion place
/ plan, for S14. 900 cash.
Baxter, Thompson & Co. sold lot No. l35
Bank OF Commerce addition plan, Brushton
Station, fronting 40 feet on Frankstown avenue
| by lao to 20-foot alley, for $3.50.
Allies & Bailey sold for George Klingelhofer
to Henry King, No. 81 Locust street, brick
dwelling lot 20 by 81 feet, for s.. 300
Battenspeiger Williams sold for Dennis
| Mcmahon 10 Cornelius Halpin, a small prop
erty on Cliff street, Eleventh ward, for s., $50
cash.
Black & Baird sold to Albert ]. Long for P.
B. Snyder. lot Miller street, Eleventh
ward, 2OX93 feet, being No. IL in the Jacob
Toner plan. for $50.
A. 2. Byers d Co. sold for r. ]. Walper to III.
W. Klein lot No. in Black & Rohrkaste's
plan. Tenth ward, Allegheny City, having a
running through to Virginia avenue distance
of go feet, being on the line of the Perrysville
avenue electric road for S775 cash.
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