Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-13
THE TRACKS OF TRADE.
No Rush. Anywhere, but Steady
Growth and a Good Outlook.
SOME LATEST DICKERs IN REALTY.
Real Estate Brokers Request Gov. Pattison
to Sign the Street Bills.
OFFICE AND STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP

UFF1CE AND STREET NEWS AND GUeolI
A'regular business meeting of the Real
Estate Auction Board of Allegheny county
was held in their new room. No. 80 Fourth
avenue, yesterday afternoon. There wars q
good attendance, President Baxter was In
the chair and Secretary Leggate recorded
the proceedings. 1t was resolved to have
daily sessions from 1 to 1:30 p. M. for the in
terchange of views and the transaction OF
business.
A resolution was unanimously adopted
requesting Governor Pattison to approve the
Pittsburg street bills now before him.
The resolution was telegraped to Harrisburg
after the adjournment of the meeting. No
other business of importance was transacted
He Who Runs May Read.
1t needs but ordinary eyes to perceive that
business is improving. Evidence of this Is
seen in the stores, in the mills and on the
streets. In all lines of trade. the volume OF
transactions is steadily growing. Easy
money favors the upward drift, and is q
strong incentive to expansion. There are
no fears of financial strfngency, even In
the face of heavy gold shipments. Europe
will want wheat corn, flour and pork next
fall, and this will insure the return Of the
gold that Is now being sent over.
The loss of the yellow metal has had q
bearish effect upon railroad shares, and
and caused some holders to realize, but COM
mercial interests have been subjected to no
strain, all needed financial backing being
secured without trouble. The crop prospect
is satisfactory and railroad earnings, on the
whole, arc larger than month ago. Not
withstanding few disquieting rumors, most
of which are baseless, the outlook favors an
active trade movement the rest of the sea-
son, with large accession in the fall
Business News and Gossip,
Water street below Smithfeld is the thea
ter of an important deal in realty, in which
one of the coal kings is interested.
Elwood, under the management Of Black
& Baird, is attracting many home-seekers.
Upward of 100 lots have been sold, and 80 or
more dwellings and storerooms are under
contract.
The largest purchase money mortgage on
file for record yesterday was for $l2, ,OO0,given
by Adolph Doerr to j. H. Sorg.
Henry NJ. Long sold 20 shares Of Manches-
ter Traction stock at IS, the highest price yet
realized on Change.
At the last call yesterday 90 was bid for
1000 shares of Electric scrip with none
offered.
Pittsburg Traction IS were wanted at 105.
An interesting report of the meeting of the
CHARTERS Gas Company is given in another
Stockholders of the sewickley Dairy Com
pany will hold q meeting on June IL, to vote
on the question of disposing of portion OF
the eompany's property by sale.
John d. Bailey returned yesterday from
Columbus, O., where he was called by the
illness and death of his brother.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the following
buildings were issued yesterday:
Mannas Cannon, frame addition two-story
dwelling, l6x17 feet. on Window street,
Twenty-seventh ward. Cost, $500. .-..-.-.
Julius Schenck, frame addition one-story
kitchen, 12xl6 feet, on Joseph alley, Twenty
seventh ward. Cost, $l50
VIM. Galliford, frame one-story' store, 16x1S
feet, on Arlington avenue, Thirty-flrst ward.
Cost, $50.
John Frost, frame two-story store and
dwelling, 18X32 feet on Kincaid street, Nine
Sarah Jane Wharton, frame two-story
dwelling, 1sx32 feet, Mignonette street, Tweri-
tieth ward. Cost, $3.50. ia
Riley Norris p frame one-story coal & house,
ward. Cost, $100
J. P. Leach, frame addition two-story
dwelling and store, 22x12 feet, on Station
street, Nineteenth ward. Cost, 1892.
c. Jacob Miller, frame two-story dwelling,
22x22 feet, on Fifty-third street, Eighteenth
ward. Cost, $500.
Movements in Realty.
Mrs. Isabella Sergeant has hold 2s5x130 feet
on the east side of Euclid avenue, Nineteenth
ward, to an attache of the Recorders. office
for 5000 cash. The purchaser has com.
menced excavating for a fine residence.
That local railroads are doing well and
have confidence in the future Is Shown by
the fact that nearly all of them are increas-
ing their facilities for handling freight by
enlarging their buildings and yards One
road is negotiating for upward of 100 acres
il nearby town for shops and offices. l.
Samuel W. Black & Co. sold to a prominent
East Liberty, size 50xl45, to Kirkwood street,
for ,000 This part of Penn Avenue is+rap-
idly becoming desirable for business pur-
poses.
Straub Morris sold a LOT, 40xI10, On Fair
mount avenue, for 50 $50 cash; also a lot on
same street, for 5000 cash; also six lots on
Sweetbriar street, Thirty fifth. ward, for
s., 500 cash.. They report good inquiry for
lots at Ingram and Grafton.
j. B. Larkin & Co. sold two lots on Butler
street extension for Mrs. Mary Clark, 25xl9O
each, for $780, IL
lot on Neville street, Fourteenth ward, be-
ing 5OXl95 feet, for $500.
Baxter, Thompson & Co. sold to Mrs. Mar
garet Duncan O lot on the north side of Fifth
avenue, Fourteenth ward, city, size 20x90 to
Boston street, for $500 cash.
Charles Somers & Co. sold for the Jones'
Jones plan, fronting 20 feet ON Rose street,
with q depth of 100 feet to an alley, for 500.
This plan has just been placed on the mar
ket and it is expected to sell very rapidly,
as prices are considered low. Several lots
have already been spoken for.
lor two lots, each 24x10o in Etna Park place,