Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-25
POINTS In REALTY.
Several Deals of Importance as Show
ing How the Wind Blows.
STILL ANOTHER TOWN BUDDING.
Stock Trading Almost FeaturelesS, But
Values Kept Well in Hand.
OFFICE AND STREET NEWS AND GOSSIP

L1ggett Bros. report a good inquiry for
and fair movement in all classes of property.
Blu mess is as good, if not better, than at the
same time last year. They closed the sale
yesterday of property on the corner of
Pacific avenue and Corday alley, belonging
to W. A Lincoln, lot 72x132, with two-story
brick house of 10 rooms, to Thomas J. Haw-
kins of Hawkins Bros, for $1,000. MI. Haw-
kins will occupy It as residence.
Still They Come.
Another new town is in the field, and al
though in the paper stage, is getting a good
send-off 1t is called Hammond, and is situ-
ated about one mile from Mt. Pleasant. c.
j. Beeckman said yesterday that go lots had
been sold there in only the last few days.
The promoters are bidding pretty high for
manufacturing concerns, and have secured
two-a Pittsburg bottle factory, which will
break ground for their plant next Monday,
and the Brudenwold lamp shade works of
Beaver Falls, whose buildings are under
way. They will occupy four acres.
A PerrysviIle Avenue Deal.
The Fidelity Title and Trust Company has
sold an acre of ground on Perrysville ave-
nue., with improvements, to j. G. Rolls
house, the oil man, for $4,000.
Business News and Gossip.
John A. Grover is building row of ten
houses on Trent street.
There is not vacant lot on wylie avenue
from the Court House to Fulton street, dis
tance of nearly mile.
Wylie avenue is about three miles long. 1t
begins at the Court House and is lost in Her
ron avenue. 1t is one of the most densely
populated streets in the city, and represents
more nationalities than any other. Property
ranges from $50 to $3.50 foot front. The
cable road has been of great advantage to
this district.
AS shown by its recent statement, the
German National Bank, Of Allegheny, is
strong in all departments, and prosperous.
The management is able and conservative.
Vice President Stewart states that the
freight movement on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road has increased so heavily during the
past fortnight that it is difficult to provide
the cars necessary.
Because of alleged failing supplies, the
natural gas companies in Springfield and
Dayton, o., have doubled their price.
On the stock market good news falls fiat
and is treated with indifference. The news
should be carroled.
Luster was sold as high as 4S, Investors
are more conservative now.
The Building Record.
Permits for the erection of the following
buildings were issued yesterday:
John Wunderlich, frame two-story dwell
ing, ls.3x34 feet, on Rosa street, Thirteenth
ward. Cost, $1,000.
William Wunderlich, frame twostory
dwelling, 1Sx34 feet, on Rosa. street, Thir-
teenth ward. Cost $1,000.
John Mccarthy, five two-story brick
dwellings, 16x32 feet, on Pearl street, Twen-
tieth ward. Cost $6 500 for all.
Charles NJ. Reisecker, brick two-story
dwelling, 13.4x39 feet. on Smallman street,
Fifteenth ward. Cost So 900.
E. A. Baker, addition one-story dwelling
on Forbes street. Fourteenth ward Cost,
Sl,sO0.
Adam Mayer, brick addition two-story
kitchen, 14x20 feet, near Sc Congress street
Seventh ward. Cost, $3.50.
Mrs. A. NJ. Siebricht, frame addition two
story dwelling, 9xl6 feet. ia Eighteenth
street. TTenty-sixth ward. Cost, $50.
dwellings. Rx32 feet, on alley rear Bedford
avenue, Eleventh ward. Cost s. 200.
Lewis Foundry and Machine Company,
rect on Muriel street. Twenty eighth ward.
Cost, $4,000.
Movements in Realty.
R. G. Bailey sold for Mary Stieglitz to
George A. Henderson No $50 Colwell street
a mansard brick house of eight rooms, ETC.,
lot 20 feet by 80 to 24-foot alley, for 81, 400
cash.
Hoffman and Baldridge, Williamsburg sold
a lotin Edgewood l00x3OO, for So 800 cash.
The purchaser intends building at once.
john X. Ewing & Co. sold for Mrs NJ W. D.
Watson to Samuel L. Parker, a vacant lot so
division. one square from the new California
avenue electric road, East Bellevue, for $500
cash.
Black Baird sold to John Schmidt for
Louis Goldsmit a lot on the west side of
Copeland street, being 81 in the Mcfarland
Grove plan, in size 25xl0O feet to an alley, for
s., $50 cash.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold lots Nos. 45 and 46
in their Glenmawr Park plan, at Haysvflle
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail.
way, fronting 60 feet on Riverview avenue
and extending back 1l0 feet, preserving the
same width Of 60 feet throughout, for 5000.
John K. Ewing & Co. sold for cash for Rev.
Samuel Collins to Miss Maggie Carson, a two
story brickhouse containing seven rooms,
hail and attic, with lot 17x110 to Logan street.
nue, corner G street, Second ward, ALE
gheny, for 81 100.
James W. Drape & Co. sold small house
and lot on the Southside for 81, ,575 cash; also
sold an interest in Mckeesport property of
Sl0O00 cash.
George Schmidt sold another f1ve-roomed
house on Lookout avenue, being on lot No.
1863 in his Eureka Place plan, Oakland, to
John Eek for $1,000.
List of lots sold at Kensington yesterday:
Martin Blum, Pittsburg, Pa, lot lSs, in block
g. for $3.50: Thomas Horn, Tarentum, Pa,
lots lis and 49, block s, for $4S7 50 cash:
Samuel r. Scott, Tarentum, Pa, lot l62,
block 6, for s276 25; Herman Miller,
block T. for S262 so cash; Charles Behler
Pa, lot IA, block 8, for $4Ss 20: J.
Herman Stobbe. Allegheny, Pa, lot 12l,
block S, for $276 Is; Frank Kamerling, Pitts
burg, Pa lot 100, block s, for $276 Is; Peter
Geek and John Batz, Pittsburg, Pa, lot 10,
block s. for $276 25; William Stefanowicz,
Pa, lot 73, block ., for $3.50 90:
Joseph Brosky, Pittsburg, Pa, lot 14S. block
5, for $4SS 70.