Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-27

Its Value Almost Doubled by the
Building Boom There-So Great Is tho
Rush That Thousands of Lots Are
Added to the Plan.
Once more the city is the loser. The Bur
rell Improvement Company has bought all
of the n. L. A. Stewart farm at 500 an acre
in advance OF what it was offered to the city
of Pittsburg as a Poor farm site little over over
n year ago. At that time the people howled
fraud and the sale was stopped, but had 1t
been bought it is safe to say that inside OF
three years it could have been sold for So, 600
an acre. In fact, the Poor Farm then would
have met the same fate as the present one.
kensington would have crowded it far more
than even Homestead has crowded the old
one. For that new town on the Allegheny
Valley road is just as stable rs any OF the
older manufacturing towns of the county
like Homestead, Braddock and McKeesport.
Where year ago the farmer followed the
plow is now long rows of substantial and
some elegant modern houses. Kensington,
though it has sprung up since lSst June, is OF
solid growth. In the past four months 965
lots have been sold exclusive of manufac-
turing sites. There have been 100 houses
erected in this new city in that time, and
there are ], 900 men now al work on the vari-
Gus improvements. Nearly 800 other labor
ers are sleeping in barns. The population is
now about 1000 people and baby. The lat
ter came about three weeks ago and wears
the name of Elizabeth Annetta Cappcau.
As hers was the first birth registered in Ken
at once donated her a S, 600 lot.
Streets have been laid out all over the
present city, and most OF the gas and water
pipe and sewers are already laid. The water
supply cannot be beaten anywhere. 1t is
brought from the big hills away TO the east
of the town. 1t is clear as crystal and suffi-
GENTLY cool for drinking purposes without
the use of ice. With the present flow they
can supply population OF 200 people, as
well as all the great mills that are being
established there.
Everything is favorable for manufao-
tories there, and that kensington is to
take the lead among the great
manufacturing towns of Western Penn.
sylvania is evidenced by the fact that
the plan had to be increased from 2, 100 to
5000 lots in order to find homes for the
thousands of workmen who must neceS-
sarily go there. The first dream of the
founders OF this new city has been surpassed
The wonderful facilities afforded them
for factories is so great that the demands
have been greater than was anticipated.
There is q broad, level sweep Of land plenti-
fully. supplied with coal and gas and has
three ana one-half miles of river front. This
was seen 20 years ago by Andrew Carnegie,
who tried to buy the property for the Edgar
Thomson steel works, but it could not be
bought.
Beginning at the north end of the factories
now in course of construction are the
Brownsville Plate Glass Works, Bradley
Stove Works. Kensington Chilled Steel
sington Tube Works, kensington Roller
Flour Mills, B. F. Rynd & Co.'S Planning
Mills J. NJ. Logan q Sons Planning Mills,
Rolled Steel Wheel Works, and the Pitts
burg Reduction Company. Besides this
flint and n big bottle house will locate there
inside of the next few weeks. The
company now has altogether 30 man.
ufacturing sites. For the accommoda-
tion of the factories two and half
mile of railway switches are in course of
construction, which will cost $4,000 An
additional impetus is given to the town by
the fact that when the new dam is built the
Allegheny will be navigable clear to Ken
sington.
Aside from its inducements MS place of
business it is also one of beautiful homes.
Tie residential portion is all by itself. The
Washington Inn is one of the best equipped
hotels outside of the cities. The streets are
all broad, and besides this there is a magnid-
cent natural park OF so acres,