Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-10
| SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
Needed Improvements on Liberty
Street Under Consideration.
MIsFITS UNABLE TO DOWN TRADE
General Apathy Still Rules the Roost on
the Local Stock Exchange
OFFICE AND STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP

OFFICE AND STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP
The new buildings going up on Liberty
street in the vicinity of Garrison's alley, to
be followed by another on the Presbyterian
Church lot, purchased last week by s.
Ewart & Co., have directed public attention
and interest to that quarter of the city. 1t
is certain that Liberty street will always
be, as it always has been, an important
business artery, and that, therefore, invest
ments there promise good results. In no
other part of the city. except on some of
the side streets, is there more pressing
need for improvement. Scarcely any of the
old-time houses, which constitute the large
majority, are adapted to modern business
requirements. They will have to come
down sooner or later Reasoning thus,
several capitalists are figuring on properties
on that thoroughfare. These dickers may
not be consummated, but if they go through
the outcome will be number of substan-
tial business structures as an effective
starter for the complete transformation of
the streets. Events are tending in that
direction.
Sound at the Bottom
Business started out in good form yester-
day. The Maverick Bank failure of week
ago and that of the Cory National Bank
on Saturday were not sufficient to unsettle
confidence. This is quite remarkable. 1t
furnishes undenlable proof that the trading
public has faith in the soundness of banks
in general. This, coupled with the fact
that reports from all parts of the country
are of an assuring nature, showing that the
L. - Io& af
years, is the basis of the buoyant feeling
which prevails throughout the country, and
is SO strikingly manifest in Pittsburg. The
conversion of the crops into money will
take time, but by spring the farmers will
have the cash in their pockets. Viewed in
any or all of its aspects, the outlook is
fav orable for good winter and o very act
i've spring.
AChurch Site Secured.
The trustees of the Second o. P. Church,
Williamsburg, have purchased handsome
lot south of the railroad, on Biddle avenue,
upon which they expect to erect house Of
worship next year. It fronts 100 feet on the
avenue. The consideration was little less
than 5000.
Business News and Gossip.
There is promise of quite building boom
at Swissvale next year.
According to good authority fare on the
Pennsylvania Railroad between Pittsburg
and Williamsburg will be reduced to or
cents. Twelve-minute time is also talked of.
The Baltimore and Ohio will, on Decem.
Der 1, commence using the Chicago and
Northern Pacific terminals in the city of
Chicago.
A national bank has been established at
Stewartstown, Pa, with James Fulton as
President
The earnings of the Ohio River Railroad
Company for the month of October were
SIT, ,255, an increase of 81 ,654.
Black s. Baird, having reached point in
their business toward which they have been
working for several years, will celebrate the
event by giving a theater party and banquet
to their employees tomorrow evening.
The books of the Pittsburg Traction Com
pany and those of the Citizens Traction
Company close to-day until after the annual
meeting, November 1S.
There was bid of S5 yesterday for Du-
quesne Traction bonds, and of 1917 for the
stock. Rea Bros. & Co. sold 100 shares at
1877.
The bulls en- Sugar say per cent will be
declared semi-annual this week.
At the last call yesterday Birmingham
Traction was offered at 17H.
Some buying orders for Peoples Pipeage
were out yesterday, but the stock was
scarce.
Morerent in Realty.
S. A. Dickie & Co. sold for Mrs. NJ.
Kaufman to Robert Z. Ellis, Jr., prop
erty on Bond street. nine-roomed frame
house, with lot 30X120 feet, for $3, 500.
J. E. Glass sold for Thomas W. McCune to
Isador FL. Aaron lots Nos 81, SO, "a and IS in
the Allequippa Place plan for $500 MI.
Aaron will build four houses on these lots at
once.
Hoffman & Baldridge sold lot No. II, 4ox19o
in Palmer Place, Swissvale, for H. Il. Neg.
Black 4 Baird sold to Mrs. Hannah Evans,
Place addition plan, having q frontage of
20 feet on 40 foot street. by a depth of 80
feet to an alley, for $3.50.
of Orphans Court lot 5oxlOO, on Natchez
street. Mt. Washington, on, with frame house
VIM. F. schade sold for DanT O'LoughIin
ana wife, to Frank Soevyn, two houses and
ground lease, No. 26ls Penn avenue, for
81, 800
The Burrell Improvement Company re-
ton: R: Abel ABB Hale, Mansfield, Pau % % lot e bioef
I, for S6is IS; Walter c. S. Lloyd, Ford City,
Pa, lots ISL and 1S2, block 3, for $595: Peter
Y. and William c. Cox, Lcisenring Pa, lot
Kensington, south half lot IS, block g. for
$40; William NJ Craig. Verona lots 80 and
q, block IA, for ST 1885, Domenico Pestrig and
Joseph Silvestro. Pittsburg, north half lot
4b, block 8, for $40: Thomas N. Morrow,
Fally Carey, Pa, lot II, block !, $43l %; Gus
tav Steinberg, Pittsburg, south half lot 10,
burg. lot &c, block l, for $3.50; H. L. Teits-
worth, Parnassus, north half 30, block 8, for
$3.50 63; George Wiuss, Allegheny south half
lot G2, block 8, for 1909 3s; Adam Eitenmuller,
Allegheny, north half lot 81, block 8, for
5000 3S Michael Susanna, Pittsburg, lots IS
and 76, block 8. for $l,575 cash: Mrs. Ellen
Brown, Pittsburg, lots 80 and "a, block Is,
KalZo, Pittsburg, lot 81, block !, for $3.50:
Antonio Juliano and Vasario Stabil, Pitts
burg, lot 6, block g for $3.50; John Batz, Pitts
burg, south half 49, block g. for $3.50 So: Mrs.
Margaret Elser, Pittsburg, lot 81, block 6,
for $l.0e2 80: VIM. Specht, Allegheny, lots 40
and Al, block 6, for $l,S75.
The Building Record
Thirteen permits were taken out yester-
day for Is improvements. the cost of all be-
ing estimated at $l5375. The more i'm
portant of these were:
William Johnston three frame two-story dwell
ings on Glosser's alley Thirteenth ward; cost, g..
sec. John Ktlen. frame two-story dwelling on
Flowers avenue, Twenty third ward; cost, ST. $50.
Mrs. Daniel Volz, frame two-story dwelling
Friendship street. Sixteenth ward; cost 81 500. Mr..
Beer frame two-story dwelling on Carroll street,
Sixteenth ward: cost, 81. 300. Mrs. Lorsch, frame
two-story dwelling on Minerva street. sixteenth
story dwelling on Hataeid street, seventeenth
ward; cost. g, 600. +. w. Haas. frame two-story
dwelling on Rural avenue, Nineteenth ward; cost,
81. ScO.
THE HONEY MARKET.