Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-30
MAKE ANOTHER MOVE
Project for a Large Law Office Build
ing on Fifth Avenue.
EAST END PROPERTY PICKED UP.
Speculative Values Sitter for Almos
Everything on the List.
OFFICE AND STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP

The latest is that the scheme for buying
the block on Fifth avenue, between Scrip
and Cherry alleys, for hotel purposes has
been given up, and that the present owners
contemplate the erection of a fine law
Office building to cover the entire block.
This information leaked out through a
conversation between one of the owners and
the Judge of the United States Court on a
cable car, between Pittsburg and Shadyside.
The talk occurring in public place. with no
ATTEMPT at concealment there can be no harm
in thus referring to it for the information OF
the public. especially as the matter involved Is
OF unusual interest and Importance. IL may
settle the hump" question.
d. P. Reichard has sold a lot l00xl50 on the
south side of Stanton avenue. near Highland,
at the rate of SlO0 foot front. The purchaser
intends to erect handsome residence on the
lot during the summer.
Business News and Gossip.
A Philadelphia banker is dickering for a
piece of business property in this city.
George K. Stevenson will soon begin the
erection of fine residence on Terrace street.
Fourteenth ward. for his son.
1t is noticeable feature of the local stock
calls that concessions are almost invariably fol-
lowed by good buying.
provement in nearly all the industrial interests
On May l all unlimited tickets in the Central
Traffic Association territory will be cancelled.
and thereafter only limited tickets will be sold.
John d. Bailey sold 597 shares Monongahela
Water Company stock at 271S, the same as paid
at auction.
For Electric scrip 40 was bid yesterday-an
advance over the last reported sale
The Mercantile Trust Company OF which
Mr.. L. Sproul is President, has received Its
charter.
The National Linseed Oil Company, in an
swer to the inquiry, officially states that per
cent dividends for the year are assured.
The first Clearing House in the United States
was established by the associated banks of New
York in 1853
Maxon, George B. Hill Co., Harry M. Long
and Ruin Bros. sold Electric on the bulge.
Messrs. = v. White d Co, OF New York;
offer for subscription portion of the preferred
ana common stocks of the H. II. Warner Co.,
Limited. The record of this stock as an in
come producer and dividend payer is well
known. 1t is purely an American enterprise,
the founder. Hon. H. II. Warner. having
started the business at Rochester in 1879, until
now, extensive branches in various parts of
the world are required tC supply the constantly
increasing demand for his preparations.
The progressive and booming borough of
Edgewood is, with its usual enterprise run
ming road machine over the principal thor
oughfares.
James w. Drape & Co. will open up their new
town site at Munhall with public sale on May
8. The property is situated within easy walk
ing distance of the great Carnegie, Phipps &
Cas- Homestead works, which are being en-
larged for the purpose of manufacturing
armor plates for the Government battle ships,
where thousands of men employed.
The Standard Plate, Glass Company yester-
day declared its regular quarterly dividend of
2 per cent.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the foil owing
buildings were issued yesterday:
James ]. Ritchey. frame two-story dwelling,
lSx32 feet, on Bigelow street, Twenty-third
ward. Cost, $500.
James B. Bradley, frame two-story and attic
dwelling, 27xS7 feet on River avenue, Nine
teenth ward. Cost, s. 060
Henry Losterman. two frame two-story dwell
ings, lSx32 feet each, on Rural avenue, Nine
teenth ward. Cost, S3 QUO for both.
Terrence Burns brick addition one-story
dwelling lOxl2 feet. on Forward avenue,
Twenty.second ward. Cost. 500
dwelling, l0xl2 feet on Southern avenue,
Thirty-second waro. Cost S4O0
S. E Gill, frame one-story shed. 16xlS feet. on
Liberty avenue Twelfth ward Cost $50.
G.. NJ. Lang, three brick two-story dwellings,
Hx34 feet each on Home street, Seventeenth
ward. Cost $3.50.
Hooper Bros. & Co.. frame one-story brick
shed, 40x50 feet on Center avenue, Thirteenth
ward. Cost, $500.
Mrs Mary McConville. frame two-story and
ATTIC dwelling. lix5z leel, on heDecca street,
Nineteenth ward. Cost, $1,000.
Movements in Realty
Samuel w. Black & Co. sold the lot on the
northwest corner of Carson and Twenty-frst
streets, Southside, size 20x120 to an alley for
$1,000.
Black & Baird sold for Omar Patterson a six
roomed frame dwelling. with lot 50xllO feet, on
Tenth street. Homestead. for s.. 500
John K. Ewing & Co. sold for F. Schultz to
Mrs. NJ. Fredrick . cottage frame house of
three rooms, with lot 24xl2S, on East street, Al
legheny, for s.. $50 cash.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold lot No. 206 in their
Marion place addition, fronting 25 feet on Par.
nell street and running back an average depth
of l50 feet, for $3.50 cash.
]. E. Glass sold for James Nicely, of Burgetts-
town. Pa, to John Beck lot No lis in Marion
place. Twenty y-third ward for S275 cash.
E. d. Wingenroth sold lot No. l0S in his plan
of Nadine Park fronting 25 feet on Poketo
avenue and extending back Ito feet to Della
ware alley, to Mrs. Carrie Steinmann for $780,
Magaw & Gof, Limited, sold to John C.
Welsh a lot fronting IS feet on Home avenue
by about l2 feet deep by 80 feet wide in rear
at Elwyn, on the Pitlsburg and Castle Shan
non Railroad. for $500 on easy payments.
James w. Drape & Co. sold for an Eastern
customer, nonresident, % lots on Harrison
and q private street in the Eighteenth ward
each about 20xSe feet, for $4,000
Charles Somers & Co. sold for w. L. Smith,
Esq, the house No. l53 Water street. being a
three-story brick of nine rooms, on lot 221Sx5O
feet, for S. 600.