Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-02

| after careful consideration haye reached
| the conclusion that the next ten years will
bring about a complete transformation in
the lower part of the city. Fine business
houses will occupy the places of the anti
quated and dilapidated structures which
| now mar the appearance of many of the
streets. I know of at leaat half a dozen
costly improvements which will be made
| next year. These will start the ball rolling.
| think it is Mrs. Schenley's intention to put
| up a large number of business stands There
| Is such an urgent demand for warehouses as
| to leave no doubt of their value as an invest
ment. While am glad to see the suburbs
grow and flourish, I am decidedly opposed
to anything like neglect of the business
quarter of the city, where the money is
made that keeps everything moving"
Perrysvfne Avenue improvement.
On the Northside, the City Engineer has
prepared plan Of the grade Of PerrysvIlle
avenue from the head of Federal street to
the city line, which will be presented to the
Street Committees OF Councils for their 40
tion. Property owners are pushing the work
| as fast as possible, SO as to have the avenue
| in good condition before cold weather.
Closing the Gaps.
The vigor with which building operations
are being pushed affords ground for the hope
| that the result of the years work will not
| suffer much by comparison with 1890. The
| strike has been a serious detriment to pro-
| been minimized by large increase in the
number of builders. Figures show that for
the expired portion of the year, 17SO permits
| have been issued, against 1878 in the cores
ponding time of 1890. With good weather
| and no further labor trouble this gap will be
| closed by the end of the season.
Business News and Gossip.
Considerable interests felt as to the course
of Philadelphia Gas this week. Higher prices
are not improbable.
G. 7. Beeckman reports the gale OF es lots
in the new town of Hammond
The realty market is in good condition for
the season. Brokers report better inquiry
than In July Of last year, and more actual
business.
The failure OF the big mill YVES reason
enough for the check in Luster.
The dividend of the Pittsburg ana Lake
Erie Railroad Company on tho canal stock,
to be paid this week, will be per cent semi
annual
1t was authoritatfvely announced yester-
day that there will be no reduction of faro
by the Duquesne Traction Company.
At the stock call yesterday 10 was bid for
Electric scrip, offered at IS; Birmingham
offered at 1s14 ng Birmingham bonds 81 fiat bid,
John c. schaefer has sold 10 Mrs. Mary L.
Burley residence property in the Four
teenth ward for Sc, 500.
Plans are being made for $4,000 resi-
dence on North Highland avenue near the
park. The lot cost 81, 100.
The annual election of the West End SAY.
ings Bank will be held August II.
A hotel, bank and a score or 50 Of dwell
fngs are in course of erection at Charlerot.
Black q Baird had q successful sale Of
Heron Hill lots yesterday afternoon. Their
central location Is q strong card In their
favor.
Commencing tomorrow the Airbrnke
Works at Wilmerdtng will be run full In all
Railroad shares finished the week with a
sharp rally. Big crops are beginning to
tell
The Building Record.
During the past week Al building permits
were issued, representing 4s buildings, Is
frame, % brick and one stone and wood, the
total cost of all being $ls4,2 The Nine
teenth ward led with six buildings, followed
by the Fourteenth with five.
The number of permits issued the previous
week was 66, representing 81 buildings, at an
estimated cost of $iS7,0l9. Number OF build
ings for which permits have been issued this
year to date, l,7so. Yesterdays list follows:
Charles Wegel, brick addition two-story
dwelling, 13x23 feet, rear Carson street.
Twenty-sixth ward. Cost, $500.
j. Lingenfelser, franc two-story stable, 16
x20 feet, on Gem alley, Nineteenth ward.
John Deerit, frame one-story dwelling, 1ex
30 feet. on Magnolia street, Twenty-sev enth
Peter Elmer, frame addition two-story
dwelling, 16xlS feet, corner Harcum's alley |
and Thirty-hrst street, Twenty-fourth ward.
Cost, $400
Mrs. Mary Morrow, frame two-story and
attic dwelling, 1Sx2S feet, on Morrow avenue, |
Nineteenth ward. Cost 81 600.
Mrs. Fanny Baker frame two,story and
mansard dwelling, 21x32 feet, on Park street, |
Twenty-frst ward. Cost, s., ,00o.
Movements in Realty.
W. c. Stewart sold for the Yoder Land |
tn lot md n jpt
Ardshiel Terrace plan, 6o1l7O each, and situ-
ated on Murray Hill avenue, for ss, ,500
Black & Baird sold for j. c.. Schaafer q |
two-story and mansard brick dwelling, on !
Oakland avenue, with lot 251l8o feet for q |
price appro1imating $1,000. The purchaser
is Thomas D. Burley, of st. Louis, who will |
occupy the place as residence.
A 2. Beyers & Co. sold for the Ridgeville |
Land Company to F. j. Oesterling, Esq, the
well-known architect lot No. 73 in their plan,
corner of California and Falck avenues, in
size 4Sxl6O feet, ON the line of the California
Avenue Electric road, Eleventh ward, Allie
gheny City. for s., 200. JRs1
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold two lots in plan
at Marion station, Twenty-third ward, front
ing IS feet on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road by 100 feet in depth, for 81, 900. The pur-
chaser will improve at once by the erection
of a residence for himself.
M. F. Nipple & Co. sold to Paul Kohler lots
Nos. 40 and Al, 20x109 feet each, with a frame
house, in the NJ S. Dickson plan, Thirteenth
ward, for price approximating s., 700. This
makes 81 lots sold in this plan within the
last 80 days. The purchasers are erecting
neat and substantial homes for themselves.
Baxter, Thompson & Co, sold for w. X.
Given, Esq, lot fronting so feet on the east
side of Pacific avenue, Twentieth ward, and
extending back distance Of l6o feet Ior
g., $50.
Charles somers & Co. report the following
additional sales of lots at Blaine. s. o.
Rhodes, Elizabeth, Pa, lots Nos. 26 q, % and
29, block II, 81 500 for all; G. w. Roberts, Eliz-
abeth, Pa, lots Nos. 10 and II, block 10, $500
for both, Lewis Fisher, West Newton, Pa,
lot II, block 8, $3.50; W. T. Hough, American |
Vault Safe and Lock Company, lots Nos SO
and 81, block II, $4C0 and $3.50.
John K. Ewing & Co. sold a lot 60x100, on
Leland avenue, Tenth ward, Allegheny, for
d. B. McHenry to A. J. Chisholm for $500
Peter Shields sold for the Schenley Park
Land Company to owen McGarvey lot, l46
4Z5, Tor $3.50, on easy payments.
H. B. Smithson auctioneer sold Yesterday |