Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-17
OUT FIFTH AVENUE.
The East Liberty District a Bad Place
for Chronic Croakers.
BUILDING UP THE WASTE PLACES.
The Project for an Opera House Abandoned
for the Present, While
A MARKET HOUSE FINDS LITTLE FAVOR

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large number of fine residences are il
various stages of completion, of which be-
tween 20 and 80 are stone. Lots are be-
ing taken up very fast for improvement
Considerable vacant ground remains, but il
is nearly all plotted Side streets are re-
ceiving almost as much attention as the
main thoroughfare. Evidences of thrift
and progress are as thick as leaves in Val
ambrose.
Two projects of public character, which
have been staple topics of discussion in
East Liberty for year or two-an opera
house and a public market-have been
abandoned. In regard to the first, Mr..
Denniston, of Denniston, Elderkin & Co.,
said yesterday: "Plans were completed
several months ago by Mr.. c. M. Bartber-
ger, for an opera house on Collins avenue,
near Penn, but the erection of the Masonic
Temple, containing three large halls for the
various lodges and public bodies, the fitting
up of a fine hall over the Pittsburg Gas
Company's East End Office, and the prospect
| OF the erection of a large building by the
| American Mechanics for their own use and
| that of other secret societies appearing to
| character, it was decided to drop the opera
| house scheme and put up several small busf-
| ness houses on the lot. This is not an aban-
donmeDt-only postyonement. The time
| is not far off when an opera house in East
| Liberty will be a necessity"
The market house scheme found consider
able support among the people, but the busi-
ness element opposed it from the first. The
gentleman quoted above gave some informa-
I fO, %l,,o ~ II.
''The idea of building a large market house
in East Liberty was never popular enough
to afford assurance of success. Itisnot con-
sidered a necessity from the fact that gro
ceries and butcher shops abound on almost
every street. These have their regular Gus
toners, which include nearly the entire pop
ulation, who have become so welded to the
present method of obtaining supplies that it
would be almost impossible to switch them
over to a regular market house. Several
years ago Mr.. Foetter erected and fitted up
market house on Frankstown avenue, but
the people would not patroniZe it. After
struggling along for some time, he rented
the concern for a grocery and butcher shop.
1t will be some years before the necessity for
such place will be SO pronounced as to
justify its erection"
Mr.. A. H. Wilson has purchased from
George Buchanan the entire outfit of the
Exchange Hotel, East Liberty, and has as
su1ned control. He will make extensive i'm
provements on the buildings and grounds.
The real estate is owned by the Allertons.
Business News and Gossip.
Mrs. Gusky's fine stone mansion on Fifth
avenue, between Roup and Lincoln, will be
finished in a month or six weeks.
The Fifth Avenue Market House has sur
vived its usefulness. Demolition is pro-
ceeding very slowly. The site will be occu-
H,,;Ia
poses.
There is talk Of erecting block of bust
ness houses on the vacant lot at the corner
of Butler and Forty-fourth streets.
The salo by one firm, Kelly & Rogers. of
SlS9. $50 worth of property during the last 10
days shows that there is nothing wrong with
the real estate market.
At meeting of the Board Of Directors Of
tho Exchange yesterday the stock eff the Red
Cloud Mining Company, Idaho, was ordered
to be placed on the list. The capital is o., ,00O-
000 W. n: Frew. Pittsburg, is President.
Earnings of the Pittsburg and Castle Shan
non Railroad for the year, according to a re-
port just filed at Harrisburg, were 500, 14S 81;
operating expenses, $s4, lsl 90: number Of
JAG
Yesterday was an Off day in local stocks.
The bears should not presume too much on
the break. The tide is against them.
At the last call yesterday Birmingham
Traction was offered at III and Duquesne
at 1875
1t was the general impression on Fourth
avenue yesterday that the Moorhead-Mc-
Cleane trouble would be amicably settled.
W. F. Maxon returned from his vacation
yesteI day and donned the harness at once.
He is one of the hustlers on Change.
There are rumorS of a combination under
one management of the Great Northern,
Canodian Pacific and 500 systems.
There is story that the Gould interest is
seeking to get control of Richmond Ter
New York opened active and strong, but
reacted slightly at the close.
The shamokin Coal and Coke Company, of
Mayberry, Mcdowell county, W. Va, has
been authorized to increase its capital stock
to 500 000.
Charles E. Cornelius has commenced the
Butler street. H A Davis has broken
ground for ten houses of similar design ad-
joining.
Movements in Realty.
A. G. Pentecost sold for the estate of
Walker Reed, at Coal Valley, 75 acres of land
for sl2,75O. The purchaser was w. B. Nc
Gogney.
Samuel W. Black & Co. sold the property
at the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and
Washington street. two-story brick bust
ness house and dwelling, for sl2, 500 cash.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold a house and lot
on Sylvan avenue, in their Marion Place
plan, for s., ,000
Kelly & Rogers passed the papers and
closed up the sale of four houses on How
street, between Shady lane and Highland
avenue, for w. G. johnson to Mr. Criley, of
CHARTERS, for S3l 900. They also sold about
eight acres for Mrs. Phillips to G. C. Lewis
for $50, 600, and 46 lots on Daulphin, Rebecca,
and Rosetta streets, in the Nine
teenth ward, near Penn avenue, for j. C.
Dick, j. B. McCabe and DR.. Mcconnell to j.
B. Holland, John Barth, j. L. Smith, NJ C.
Harrison, j. n. O'Brien, L. l. Laughlin and |
others, for price aggregating S3O,OOO. They
also sold two other houses and a lot in the |
ward for Sll 500 and made two |
other sales amounting to S4l,OOO within the |
past Is days. |
Black s Baird sold for Louis Goldsmit to |
Edward Lauer, lot 95 in Mcfarland Place |
plan, having a frontage of 25 feet on Cope
land street and extending back 100 feet to an
alley, for 81, 1876.
John K. Ewing Co. sold a new two-story
frame house of five rooms and attic, with
lot 20x200, on Morrison avenue, Tenth ward,
to John X. Ewing for William
A. Warner for s., 900 cash.
Charles E. Cornelius has sold the last week
20 lots from his plan at Morningside Place,
Eighteenth ward, as follows: Mrs. Ollie
two lots, 20x10O, $500; Mr. W. S. Potts, six
lots, 2oxloo, s. 900; Mr.. H. A. Davis, ten lots,
20XlO9 $, 600.
C1afleS SOmerS q 20. report the Following |
additional sales of lots at Blaine: John
Morgan, city, lots :O9, 80 and 81, in block 10,
j 600 for all: James Russell, city, lot 10, in
block II, $500: Freeman Mather, Alliance, O.,
ot Sc, in block II, $3.50; John Gregg, city, lot
Is, in block 8, $3.50; +. R. Heplinger, Clarion,
Pa, lots 55 and 56, in block 9, $500 each; Will
am Thompson, city, lot u, in block 8, $500;
James Russell, Allegheny, lot 66, in block 10,
s45O: William Freyvogle, Cumberland, Md,
OTIS p and 81, in block TO- $500 and $4OO respect
vely.
Hoffman Baldridge sold a new frame
aouse of five rooms on Franklin street, Will
1insburg, with lot 33xl32, for s, 500.