Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-13
FOUR IN THE FIELD.
That Number Of Corporations Com
peting for Homestead Traffic.
sCHENLEY PARK A TEMPTING PLAN
Interviews With Insiders Throw Valuable
Light on the Situation.
The NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE CITY

When the spring opens up there will be
busy times about Glenwood. The recent
purchase there OF 36 acres of ground by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and the issue
OF a bridge charter to Dawson Cullary, John
Burns and other directors aad owners of the
Second Avenue Electric Railway to connect
Glenwood and Homestead, are subjects of
much comment in aud about Hazelwood and
the other points named.
a syndicate that spent the whole Of last
season surveying a short cut railway to
Homestead, in connection with the Duquesne
electric road, also have a charter. and expect
so span the river some distance above and
give their Homestead patrons shorter ride
by ~ miles TO the Court House. The syn
dlcate have bought land, as it could be had,
from Schenley Park to Brown station, and
propose to leave Glenwood and its circuitous
river bend out in the cold by elevating the
north end OF the bridge so as to cross the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks 20 feet
above grade at Brown Station, and then cross
the Brown farm to Greenfield avenue by easy
grade. There are 10000 people at Homestead
and the purchase by the Carnegies of the city
farm. with its 800 acres, means the extension
Of their works and the addition of 10000 more
TO the present population. 1t is eight miles
from the Court u -. to Homestead by the
shortest line of travel. and reduce this
distance the brains of four corporations are
now at work. namely, the Pittsburg, Virginia
and Charleston rad, Balti ! % and Ohio
Railroad, Second. .Av,..ue Electric Railway and
the syndicate known as the Short Cut, A gen.
1leman not connected with either interest said
esterGay:
The Baltimore and Ohio and Second Avenue
Electric have evidently gone together to bridge
the river and tap Homestead, but it does not
make any difference. The Short Cut road has
the advantage, and will compel the Second
avenue line TO get out of the pool or have its
Hazelwood and Glenwood business taken away
from il. A man that would ride over the Sec
ond avenue line would Immediately make up
his mind tpat it could have no rival for its trade
IN either of the prosperous suburbs of Hazel
wood or Glenwood. That question has been
solved. The Short Cut Railway is surveyed
and located along the northern line of Calvary
Cemetery. and thence through the Walker and
Brown estates TO the river. The east line of
the Walker farm leads into Johnson avenue,
and that takes you to Simon Johnston's house
on Second avenue on a grade of not more than
four feet to the hundred. NotwithS Standing the
distance from the main line of the Short Cut to
Second avenue is three-fourthS of a mile, the
distance between the Court House and Hazel
wood is shortened one and a half miles by cut
ting of the great bend in the river around
which the Second avenue line must continue to
travel"
Cut gave his view of the traffic question, as fol-
lows: The distance saved between Pittsburg
and Homestead is something over three miles.
instead OF two and one-fourth as your in
formaEt states. This road will practically be
without rival, 1t will monopolize the Schen-
ley Park traffic of the entire valley far ND as
brownsville In regard to general or everyday
traffic, 1t being the shortest route from Brad
dock and Homestead. The Short Cut will uns
uoubtedly get the lions sh +. of the business"
Business New and Gossip.
Fifty transactions in real estate do very well
for the first week of the year.
Things promise to be quite lively at Glen
wood this spring. Several important deals
there will be closed up saon.
The real estate brokers will meet this after
noon II complete arrangements for regular
auction sales. The plan is approved by large
majority OF brokers, and there is scarcely
doubt that 1t will be success.
The clearing up of the Cherry alley mystery
in The SUNDAY DISPATCH caused consider
able talk in real estate circles yesterday. From
the number of buyers il was held that the
Pennsylvania Railroad could have had moth
ing to do with these transactions.
The outlook for local stocks has improved de-
cldedly within the past few days. The only OBJ
struction to a general advance in prices will
soon be out of the way.
Yesterday election day for insurance
companies and number of other corporations.
There were few if any contests, and in nearly
ali cases the old boards were reelected.
The DuquesDe National Bank has declared a
dividend Of per cent. The National Insurance
Company has declared a dividend of per
cent.
Business yesterday was better than the
weather. The stores were well patronizcd and
street traffic was Large. improvement continues
10 improve.
The only building permit issued yesterday
was taken out by Joseph Fuhrer for a brick
twc-sVoTy mansard dwelling, 29x4l feet on
Fn;ueth street. Seventeenth ward, to cost
5000
Movements in Realty
Ira VI. Burchfeld sold a piece Of ground.
about two acres, near Hazelwood station