Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-15
TRADE AND FINANCE.
Lower Fourth Avenue Affected by
the March of Improvement.
A GOOD JOKE ON TIE TWO MAYORS.
Buckeye Girls Adopt Original Methods to
Elevate the Heather.
BUILDING ON scRENLEY LEASEHOLDs

The scope of local improvement is con-
stantly broadening. It has reached W
Fourth avenue. Mr.. August Ruch is the
pioneer in this movement. BE is erecting q
four-story warehouse in the block OF anti-
quated structures on Fourth avenue,
between Market and Decatur streets.
1t had been his purpose to rebuild
the entire block. but some Of the
owners refused to sell. Now that the ice
has been broken, it is probable that other
improvements will be made. Speaking Of down.
town property yesterday, Mr.. George Johnston
said: ION all the cross streets from Market
down prices have been greatly advanced within
a year or two-in some instances fully lUO per
cent. I had an order a few months ago Tor q
block on Fourth avenue, near Marketstreet.Du
some of the owners were stubborn and refused
to set a price. This enlargement OF ideas Is no
aopbt due to prospective improvements by Mrs'
Schenley."
Northside Deal.
A piece of Northside realty that had been on
the string for several weeks changed owner
ship yesterday forenoon. 1t is known as NO.
IVA n orth avenue, a fine two-story and mansard
brick dwelling of IL rooms, with lot 20xll0. The
purchaser is a prominent business man on Ohio
street. who will occupy the house as a residence
" AAluselL. ne p2lQ Sl0,UVU IOt the pfoPeEty'
Busy Buckeye Beauties.
Who will say, after reading the following
communication, that women have no capacity
for business? In a note accompanying the COM
munication the correspondent says: Il address
this to the financial editor in compliance with
a request of some OF The ladies interested"
To the Financial Editor Of The Dispatch.
The young ladies of the NJ. Z. Church at
Wellsville, o., belong to a society whose aim is
to collect and raise money for foreign missions.
Their plan Of operations is a decided novelty,
and the different methods employed have
raised upward of 500 in a short time. Each
one was to make some article to sell and dis
pose Of it in person, or do some kind of work
for which she was to be paid, and among q
large variety of queer enterprises were the fol-
lowing: One young lady, who is a belle Of the
place, popped a couple of bushels of corn, and
put it up in neat packages. with ribbon attach
ments, and taking a basket on either arm.
stormed the business places of her gentleman
friends, who bought her stock in short order,
and clamored formore corn. Another bought
a bushel of beans and a couple dozen crooks,
baked the former in Boston style,
and her house has been besieged ever since by
people wanting Boston beans. The third is an
oddity, pure and simple. The young lady Dor
rowed rat traps from all her friends and took
them to the houses of those afflicted by the
pests. The first place she tried was their own
church where two mice were the result of the
first nights work, for which riddance the
church trustees hold a receipt for 10 cents paid;
the price being 5 cents q head. Others are
making bread. white and brown, cakes, candy,
etc. One is cutting bangs for the rest at 10
cents a cut; others are peddling brooms, I've,
hominy, salve for burns and scalds, pigs feet,
etc. Here is a beauty. The young lady col.
lects knives, scissors and razofs and gets a reg
ular operator to grind them while she turns the
crank.
A public experience meeting will be held on
the 10th inst, when each one will relate her
trials and tribulations in earning her share of
the amount raised. MAXWELL.
WELLsv1LLE, O., Feb. 1S