Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-03
WRINKLES In TRADE.
Conversion of the Allegheny Central
Hotel Into a Flat.
GOOD THINGS AT WILLIAMSBURG.
A Two-Bundred Acre Farm in the Sur
veyOrs' Hands for Subdivision.
FEATURES OF MONEY AND SPECULATION

Allegheny Central Hotel is being con-
verted into fiat, or apartment building.
1t will be supplied with an elevator, and
have a cafe on the top floor. The interior
is undergoing complete transformation.
1t is the intention to make it one of the
finest structures of the kind in this or any
other city. The cost of the improvement
will reach S1j, 600 or $4,000.
The Central has had a long but not wholly
successful career as Il hostelrie. 1t was
erected in 1868. The location is one of the
best on the NorthSide. In its new form 1t
should be n paying investment The owners
are George Shields and W. Ii Graham.
Movements at Williamsburg.
Williamsburg promises to furnish two good
real estate items before long. Mr.. Peter
Dick, of Campbell & Dick, has made an offer
of about $4,000 for the Hubley property on
Penn avenue, below Wood, and it is now
under serious consideration. The lot is
about 200 feet square. The house is large
twostory brick. If his offer be accepted
Mr. Dick will improve the place and occupy
it as residence.
Two brothers, who own q stone quarry in
Westmoreland county, are looking for n
site whereon to erect two stone residences
which will cost $4,000 each. They want
frontage of at least 200 feet on a good street.
and willing to pay good price Tor It,
They have one OF two sites in view. but are
open for offers.
Another Large Subdivision.
A tract of 200 acres, owned by Alexander
Dempster, formerly City Engineer, at Par
nassus, on the Allegheny Valley Railroad, is
being plotted, and will soon be placed on
the markes through the agency of 4. Leg
gate & Son.
The lots will range from one to five acres,
and supply a much-needed want for large
sites for suburban homes.
Comm. to Head.
Several plans have been submitted for the
Newsboys' Home, to be erected on the site
donated by Mrs. Schenley, at the corner of
Old avenue and Shingiss street. They differ
considerably in style and cost, but all of
them contemplate structure which VIII be
useful as well as ornamental.
The committee having the matter in
charge will meet next week, when selec-
tion will be made. The building will then
be put under contract.
Business News and Gossip.
New York had little boom yesterday.
Stocks were higher.
1t will take about $4,000 to buy the Mar
shall-kennedy mill property.
The Evans estate subdivision, McKees-
port, is the only plan of lots on the market
within the city limits
Off or six rapid transit schemes under
consideration by the West Enders, one or
two will likely be adopted. The latest idea
is to build road directly from the Point
bridge to Grafton. This will do fora starter
The Tenth ward, Allegheny, is the most
progressive part of the NorthSide. Lots are
going off very fast and building is active
The proposed electric road on California
avenue is helping business i'll that quarter.
james S. Mccartney has sold to Peter Her
mes residence property i'll the Sixth ward
for $500.
The City Deposit Bank announces q divi-
don hOf1 No
Talk on the street yesterday was favor
able to a successful issue of the Chambers
embarrassment.
q dividend of Ia per cent payable Novem-
ber2.
As advertised in another column of this
paper Samuel W. Black 4 Co. will have
another auction sale of fine level lots at
HaZelwood this afternoon at o'clock. Be-
ing in the city and on an electric line ell
hancement is certain.
Movements in Realty.
J. f. Glass sold a new two-story frame |
dwelling of eight rooms and all modern con-
veniences, with lot 20 feet front, situate on
Parker street, near o. Hara, for - 500
James W. Drape & Co. sold an interest in q |
piece of property adjoining the city of
about two acre., with improvements, and
small house ami lot in the city, for IS, ,425;
also piece of property near McKeesport |
for $500: also several lots at Avonmore, |
from $500 to $500 each: also several lots in the
keystone plan, Grafton, at from $500 to 500 |
each; also several lots in Munhall Terrace |
plan, at from 1925 to $3.50 each.
A. L. ByerS & Co. sold for Mrs. Selona b. |
jenkins to E. Dougherty new frame house |
of five rooms, attic, hall, etc. with lot 25xlOO |
feet, fronting on Duquesne avenue, Du- |
quesne Park, Allegheny City, for s., 200.
Black & Baird sold Tor Julius GroetZinger |
to Edward Brien lots Nos. 90 and a. in |
George A. Reineman's plan, in the Thir- |
tecnth ward, fronting A feet on Millwood |
avenue and extending back l3O feet to an |
alley, for $l,jU0.
5. A. Dickie & Co. sold for John II. Hughes |
to T. c. IIosack lot on Bennett street, |
Twenty first ward, 25Xl35 feet, for s475.
Baxter, Thompson & Co. sold lot No. 10, |
Ruch place plan, p feet on kirkpatrick |
street and extending back l20 feet to 2O-foot |
alley, for $780,
The Building Record.
Eight permits we're issued yesterday for IS |
the cost of all being esti- |
mated at $56,650.
II. s. A. Stewart, nine brick dwellings on Hays |
street, Nineteenth ward; cost, s45, 600. Mrs. Nc
ClOskey, three brick two-story dwellings on Car |
negie avenue, Eighteenth ward: cost. So. CO. John
Beck, frame twO-story dwelling Conrad street. |
Twentieth ward: cost, s.. 500 Herman Ross, brick |
dwelling on Edmund street. Sixteenth |
ward; cost. 81, 500: George Gardner, frame two
story dwelling on East End avenue. Twenty-second |
ward; cost 81, $50. Barbara Stoke. frame two- |
story dwelling on Rowan street. Twcnty-first ward; |
cost 81. 600. Andrew Beekman. frame addition TO |
500. August lIaller, frame addition to store on |
Main street, Thirty fourth ward cost, 800.
MCRE DOING,