Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-16
NEW HOTELS COMING.
Two Magnificent Structures Are
Promised for Pittsburg.
A GREAT WOOD STREET HOSTELRY
Talked Of by E. M. Ferguson, William
ROseburg and Others.
OFFERS BEING MADE FOR THE CENTRAL

A rumor has been quietly circulated for
the past few days that new hotel, of i'm
mense proportions and commensurate in
every respect with Pittsburg's needs and
commercial Importance, was soon to be built
on downtown site. According to the
story ahoat the St. Charles and Central
Hotel properties and the intervening ground
were to be purchased by syndicate, which
had already secured options on most of the
ground, and that the only bar to the immedi-
ate perfection of the place was the refusal
of Charles S. Gill to dispose of his lease of
the st. Charles Hotel. The rumor even
stated that Architect Stillburg had been
authorized to prepare plans for magnifi-
cent building on the square bounded by
Second and Third avenues, Wood and
Smithfeld streets.
The names of William Roseburg. E. M.
Ferguson and others equally prominent
were connected with the story. Several
were visited yesterday, and, while the re-
suit does not exactly bear out the original
story, enough was learned to indicate that
on that block, one of which will be large
and fine building.
Capitalists Are After the Central
Architect Stillburg, when seen at his
residence in Reserve township, declared
that the whole matter was news to him, but
Jacob Hartmann, of Kaufman Bros, who
recently purchased the Central Hotel prop
erty, admitted that during the past week
oyertures had been made by an agent for
= ohoco Of fha hota
81 cannot give you the names of the in
terested persons" said Mr.. Kaufman,
land do not know the agent, but the par
ties want the ground for hotel purposes
We refused to give them an option, but
gave them to understand that we would sell
for fair price. They then made us an
offer, but it was not enough, and the matter
has gone no further. No, I can't tell you
the sum they named, but it was better
figure than we paid FOR the property
E. NJ. Ferguson said, when spoken to on
the subject last night, that the building of a
large hotel on the Wood street side Of the
self, Mr.. Roseburg and others, but he said
nothing definite had come Of it yet. Sfid
he:
81 am satisfied that fine, big hotel, in
proportion to Pittsburg's size and business
standing, should be built, and would pay
good interest on the investment. We need
larger hotel than any in the city at pres
ent. 1 own 80 feet on Third avenue in rear
of the St. Charles Hotel, running through
to Second avenue. This, with the st.
Charles and a couple of intervening proper
ties, would make suitable sight for the
kind of hotel have suggested.
Want to Rebuild the st. Charles.
''The ST. Charles is owned by William
Roseburg. We have talked the matter
over, and he thinks, as do, that big hotel
would pay and shonld be huilt"
''Well, that rather looks as if it would be
built then, does it not?'
eyes, it does. But it would require the
expenditure of large sum of money to
build the proper style of hotel, and there
really has been nothing done as yet.
Mr. Ferguson said that the purchase of
the Central Hotel property had not been
thought of in connection with the matter
He did not care to say anything further
about the subject at present, but his willing
ness to enter into scheme for the erection
of a more pretentious hotel than Pittsburg
can now boast of was significantly shown
by his conversation.