Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-17
CHOOSING A PLACE.
Female College People Fall in Love
With Shadyside Property.
VANDERGRIFT PLACE SUITS THEM.
An Allegheny Site Also Talked Of. but
Chances Favor the Former.
THE DRIFT OF LOCAL SPECULATION

1t was stated yesterday by gentleman
| who is in a position to know, that the Pitts
| burg Female College people have almost de-
cided to locate in Shadyside, and have un-
der serious consideration the Captain Van
dergrift property on the south side of Fifth
avenue, near Shady lane. This property
consists of six acres of land covered with
| beautiful trees, very essential for an insti-
! tuition of this kind, and one of the largest
and finest residences in Western Pennsyl-
| vania, together with costly outbuildings
| and greenhouses. 1t is understood the price
| asked for this property, including the right
of way to Shady lane is $4,000. 1t was
| further stated that if either the college or
| the Bowman Institute takes the property Mt
the above figure which is $4,000 less than
Captain Vandergrift says the property is.
| worth, he will donate the entire furnish
ment excepting pictures and bric-a-brac,
which is entirely new and worth between
$50 900 and $4,000.
| 1t is not puffery to say that q better location
for the college, or buildings and grounds
| better adapted to educational purposes, can
not be found in the two cities, and the senti-
ment of those spoken to on the subject yes
terday was that the college authorities
would do well to close with CAPTAIN Wander
grift's offer. But that is for them to decide.
Another report was to the effect that the
college would be located in Allegheny, al
though no site has been found to answer all
the requirements. OF the two reports the
former is the more probable, and will be SO
regarded when it is stated that two of the
college authorities visited and inspected the
Nandergrift place yesterday.
No Cause for Complaint.
The real estate market is active in the lot
department, but rather quiet for large prop
critics, except in q few of the downtown dis
prices. Important transactions on Penn,
Third and Smithfleld streets are pending,
but will not be closed for some time. Here
and there an agent may be heard complain
ing of dull times. They should not overlook
the important fact that there are almost
twice as many men in the business as there
were at the beginning of last year. with
commissions going to so many agents it
would be unreasonable to expect all of them
to do as much as they did in 1890. Still, the
large majority of brokers are rs busy as
they care TO be at this season of the year.
She Makes Them Hustle.
The members of the New York Real Estate
Exchange are watching with much interest
the career of one of their associates Miss
Agnes X. Murphy She is the only woman
belonging to that body, and her business
qualities and ability to hold her own in the
rush for commissions having never excited
the envy of her competitors, now command
their unstinted admiration. Miss Murphy
lives across the Harlem river. where her
father had a small real estate office. He died
about three years ago after lingering i'll
ness of two years, during which she took
charge of his office. The office was all that
the family had after he had gone. Miss
Agnes then took it in full charge and began
to bestir herself to make money out of it.
Old brokers III that section soon found that
they had to rise early and sit up late to keep
the pace she set. Her office is one OF the
most important i'll the upper wards. She
makes quicker sales and gets better prices
than any of her competitors.
Business News and Gossip.
A residence property Center street,
Williamsburg a good house and almost an
acre of ground, is about changing ownership
at price very close to $1,000.
The offices of the East Pittsburg Improve
ment Company and of the Turtle Creek Val
lev Water Company have been removed to
All Wood street. The improvement company
is letting the contract for 20 new homes at
Wilmerding and 20 at Brinton, to be of
modern design and of five and six rooms
each.
The prospect of heavy crops continues to
inspire hope of an active trade movement in.
the fall. Europe will want all the surplus.
Mr. d. p Black when last heard from, was
"doing" Germany. He will return by way of
Italy, France and England.
local bonds, and good many sales are made
on the quiet.
The Board of Directors of the Natural Gas
Company of West Virginia, at meeting held
on Monday for organization, reelected c. W.
Bachelor President: Harris Buchanan Sec
retary; Henry Fisher Treasurer, and George
Heard, Assistant Treasurer and General
Manager
The two largest and finest flats in this
meek of the woods are in the Tenth ward,
Allegheny. They pay the owners per cent
Mackerel are said to be plenty this season,
and good catch is expected.
Charters were issued at Harrisburg yester-
day for the Dime Savings Building and Loan
Association, of Sharpsburg, Allegheny
county, capital stock, $3.50, 900, and the Speyer
Hotel Company, of Beaver, capital stock,
SlCOO)O.
At meeting of stockholders of the Sewick-
to allow the Board of Directors to sell the
whole or part of the land formerly used by
An office sale of 100 shares of Central Trac-
tion stock at 172s was talked OF yesterday
evening.
There is a good deal of quiet buying of
Philadelphia Gas stock by those who have
faith that the supply will hold out and they
are i'll the majority.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the following
buildings were issued yesterday:
ing. l6xS2 feet, on Dauphin street, Nineteenth
ward. Cost, ST. 900.
Charles Slider frame two-story addition
dwelling, llNl4 feet, Webster street, Thir-
teenth ward. Cost, 800.
Joseph Shaffer, three frame two-story
stores and dwellings, AxS2 feet, Shady Lane,
Twentieth ward. Cost, S. 300.
Movements in Realty.
W. c. Beringer & Co. sold to Mrs. Gulda
Goldsmith for Shndle Bros, FIVE brick
dwellings on Wooster street, for $l2,500.
Ira NJ. Burchfield sold three more lots on
Warnet street, Twenty-third ward, for S.
SEQ.
Baltensperger Williams sold two more
lots in the Wenman Plan, Mt. Washington,
being Nos. 40 and 30, each 25xl15 feet, for
$500 Mrs. X. S. Wishart was the purchaser
John h Ewing & Co. sold for f. G. Rohr-
kaste, of New Brighton, Pa, to Oliver Gitt-
ings a lot s0Nl00 on sheridan avenue, Tenth
ward, Allegheny, being No. 81 in F. G. Rohr-
kaste's plan, for $3.50 on monthly payments
Black & Baird sold for the Gernlania Saw
ings Bank to Frederick Staltz two-story
frame dwelling and double lot being Nos.
1886 and 1888 Penn avenue, ,40xlC0 feet through
to Comrie alley, for SO 200.
Magaw & Golf, Linn, sold for Phil Vortish
to a capitalist from Armstrong Co. four lots
each 2jNI20, and two lots each 30 feet front by
l6O feet deep, and II feet wide in rear, on
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