Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-21
A DOWNTOWN DEAL.
Commission Men Pick Up a Business
Stand on Liberty Street.
EDGEWOOD PROPERTY MOVING.
New Town of Mendelssohn Beginning to
Make Something of Noise.
TIE FEATURES OF LOCAL SPECULATION

McAllister Bros, commission men, have
purchased through the firm of Black s
Baird the property now occupied by Henry
Rea, Jr., on Liberty street. lot 20x11S. with
an old-time two-story warehouse, for abou
$40, 900, or $1,000 foot front. The pur
chasers will sooner or later put good build.
ing on the los.
ADehl at Edgewood.
Edgewood is about the liveliest as it is
admittedly the handsomest, of the group ol
younger boroughs which cluster like jewels
around ths parent city. Assistant Superin.
tendent Michael Crump, of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad, has purchased the property
there formerly owned by the late Joseph
ID. Hill, for many years President OF the
Pittsburg National Bank of Commerce. II
consists of about three-quarters of an acre
OF ground and an old-fashioned brick resi-
dence. The price paid was a shade under
10000. Mr.. Crump will remodel the build
ing and occupy it as a residence.
A Possible summer Hotel.
There is talk of cutting the Mckay prop
erty at Edgewood. about three acres. up
into lots. 1t is among the finest in the
borough. Mr.. McKay's large ana hand
some residence on this ground was de-
stroyed by fire about ten years ago and mas
never been rebuilt 1t was understood last
summer that Mr.. Westinghouse intended to
erect 100-room summer hotel on this prop
erty, but this project has since gone glim-
mering along with Electric. If Mr.. Nc
Kay's subdivision scheme be abandoned, as
some think, it is possible that he may catch
on to Mr.. Westinghouse idea, and carry
out the hotel project himself.
Young but Progressive.
The new town of Mendelssohn is keeping
up its pace regardless of strikes, present or
prospective. The roof of the paper mill is
on and the plant will soon be ready for oper-
alton. Ground has been broken for a hoop
iron and steel plant, and the Pittsburg,
Virginia and Charleston Railroad Company
is pushing the work of extending its tracks
into town. About $4,000 worth of lots
have been sold since the place was laid out
less than year ago. W. Y. Parkinson has
marketed 80 lots OF the William Bradshaw
plan, just outside the town, in the last few
months. Many buildings will be erected
this summer and coming fall. The prospect
is that Mendelssohn will develop into an
1W center.
Fighting the Smoke Nuisance.
The Williamsburg Electric Light Com
pany has begun work on the superstructure
for its new plant at Edgewood. The pros
pect of possible smoke nuisance in the
center of the pretty little borough has
stirred up considerable feeling among the
citizens, which has taken shape in the form
ofa new company, recently chartered, which
will furnish light from a plant located
farther up the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal Company 'Y," where it will be less
Objectionable.
Business News and Gossip.
Up to the close of the last call yesterday,
nothing had been heard from or about Mr..
Westinghouse.
Mt. Washington. for the most part, is built
up almost as solidly as any other part of the
city. Two new churches, Methods and Pres
byterian, will soon be completed.
With two electric light companies in the
Williamsburg district, illumination should be
cheap.
Among the mortgages on file for record yes
terday was one for S5O. 900, given by the Straub
Brewing Company, ana one for $40 700 given by
Herman bartels-both purchase money.
The annual meeting of stockholders of the
Pittsburg and Western road Will be held Maya
A President and Board of Directors will be
elected at that time.
PlttsDurg stood seventh in the list of Clear
ing House cities last week, leading Baltimore
and Cincinnati. with considerable to spare
Ihe Superstructure for the NJ. Z. church at
Homewood is about finished. The building
will cost about $4,000.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the following
buildings were issued yesterday:
Frank Vallmer, brick two-story mansard
m ri
teenth ward. Cost, S3, 200.
James Cain, frame addition one-story kitchen, |
l4Xl6 feet, on rear Greenbush street. Thirty. |
second ward. Cost, $50
Joseph L. Hesch, frame two-story dwelling, |
l6xlS feet, on Yew street, Sixteenth ward. |
Cost. $3.50.
VIM. Lawson. brick two-story and man sard |
dwelling, lSxS6 feet, ON Kansas street, Twenty |
third ward. Cost, 81, 800
Stephen Snyder, frame two-story dwelling, |
l6x24 feet, Oh Thomas street, Twenty-seventh |
ward Cost, 81 200
dwellings,, l2xS2 feet each, on Carey alley, |
Twenty-fourth ward. Cost, s., 200.
Movements in Realty.
s. A. Dickie & Co. sold for G. K Black to e.
6. Neudorfer an improved property on Bryant
street, lot 50Xl24, with a six-roomed frame
house, for S. 100.
Reed b. Coyle & Co. sold for Peter Conoly
two lots In the Fourteenth ward, fronting so
feet Oil the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and
in depth ia feet, for $500 cash.
Black & Baird sold to William Crowley lot
No. 56 in Valley View place for 1915.
j. E. Glass sold for A. c. Watkins lot No. IL
in Allequippa place plan, Thirteenth ward, for
s700.
Magaw & Golf, Linn, sold to George Beihl
i've lots. each 25xl20, u the Elwyn plan. Pitts
burg and Castle Shannon Railroad, for S525, on
easy payments.
A. Leggate & son sold at auction by order of
Orphans Court, a 50-acre farm near Acme
'onia, Harman township, for $1,000.
Charles Somers 4 Co. sold for Messrs Dean
Whitley to James Irwin, who proposes to
Iuild thereon at once. lot No. So in the Flem-
ng Park plan. Fleming station, Pittsburg and
lake Erie Railroad, tor 600 cash.
MONEY MARKET.
Conditions HeaIthful, but Unchanged
Checking and Depositing the Features
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