Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-02
Citizens Pack Up Their Lares and
Penates and Set Up Their House.
hold Gods Elsewhere.
REMOVALS THE ORDER OF THE DAY
Business Men Seek New Quarters and Add
Their Quota to the General
Heat and Bustle.
LIST OF SOME OF THE CHANGES MADE.



glad to-day has come and that yesterday is
relegated to the past. For it was day full
of moving incidents and many changes and
of tears and prayers, of teams and small
children, and narrow doors and heavy fur
niture, and of much hustling. As a matter
of general information it may be mentioned,
casually, that it was Moving Day.
About the average number of citizens
don't want to be reminded OF the fact. They
know all about it. The good man of the
house remembers rising in the small hours
in bad humor to haul around the furni-
ture in preparedness for the wagons that
didn't arrive for four hours after they had
been promised. The housewife has not
yet forgotten her horror at finding
little BERTHE, after an hours search,
rolled up in the bedding. nearly sufocated,
or the mental strain consequent on keeping
one eve on the hired girls efforts to pack
silver set and stewpan in a flower basket
while the other followed her husbands
wrestling with the bijouterie.
Many Changes Down Town.
Nobody cares to be reminded of the anx-
ious glances cast heayenward while the
household effects lay helplessly on the
wagons at the mercy of Jupiter Pluvius,
who-to his credit be it said-behaved very
decentlv, and kept closed his hoodgates dur
ing the better half of the day. Merchants
and traders who changed offices and ware
houses had busy time. A good many
changes occurred in the downtown portion
of the city, and list of the chief removals
will be found below.
Changes of residences were pretty general
among the poorer classes in the First ward.
On Second avenue the furniture of one
family reposed during the afternoon on the
sidewalk in charge of the children while the
parents were hunting round for rooms.
Down on Ferry street is a double four-story
building, formerly the old Continental
House." but now given over to the Italian
element 1t gives refuge to about 300
people, but though already crowded, room
was found within for so or 40 more from the
lower end of Fourth avenue.
Carriers report that not so much moving
was done this year as last, but the number
of vans seen travelling in every direction during
the uay would indicate that the number of
restless people was about the same.
Business House Removals.
Some of the prominent removals follow:
The Westinghouse building has the following
new tenants: The New York and Cleveland
Gas Coal Company; the Sterling Steel CON-
pauy; W. ]. Rainey, and DR.. I. c. Christy, of
Penn avenue.
Rasner & Dinger the architectural sheet
metal workers, moved from l03 Market to their
new four-Story warehouse and offices at Second
avenue and Ferry. The structure cost O,OO0
Stewart, Hackett q Co. moved from 207
" Wuod to 7lS Liberty.
The Atlantic Dynamite Company from LAG
First avenue to l42 Water street.
Stoughton & Stuler from Fourth avenue to
los Market street.
] B. Booth & Co. from the Hamilton build
ing to the Standard building, Wood street.
James H. Harron & Co., from All Wood to los
Fourth avenue.
its factory on Third avenue.
]. NJ, Montgomery, from Al Wood TO 54l
Liberty avenue.
Edward Jones, from 40 Fifth avenue to cor
ner of Fifth and Wood.
Tressel q Tener, from the Oil Exchange
building to 40 Fourth avenue.
W. W. Vensel, from Oil Exchange building
Ross w. Block, from sl9 Liberty to 712 Penn
avenue.
Joseph Rauh & Co., from sOS Liberty to sls
Liberty.
Changes in the Old Dispatch Building.
Restaurateur John Newell, under the terms
of agreement made for the purchase of the old
Dispatch building, expected TO have secured
possession of the property on the 10th Of last
month. He was not however, satisfied with
the title, and, as he said yesterday, the amount
of money involved was much too large to take
any chances.
Mr.. Newell then turned the deed over to the
Fidelity Title and Trust Company for examIna-
tion, and certain guarantees demanded from
the sellers of the property by A. NJ. Brown,
Esq, acting for the purchaser, having been
arranged, the agreement was signed yesterday
and the sale completed. The purchase money
was $4,000. Thus MIR. Newell is now the abso-
lutte owner OF the property and will begin at
once to ft up the entire building for q first
class restaurant He began moving out of the
structure he has SO long occupied about a week
ago A great deal of the dining room fixtures
had been taken out up to Tuesday night, but
early yesterday morning work began in earnest,
partition to be seen on the first floor MIR.
Newell will open his restaurant May l, and thus
every trace of the occupation of No. SO Fifth
avenue by THE DISPATCH disappears.
Many families took up temporary quarters in
the hotels, and some of the hostelries get out
Moving Day" menus. notably the st. Charles,
which had a special menu, with the title page
adorned by a DISPATCH cut of a team and
wagon load of furniture.
Joseph Mccormick, a 5-year-od boy, was lost
yesterday while his parents were removing
from Magee street to No. 273 Fifth avenue.
Ee was found on Robinson street by some boys
and taken to the Fourteenth ward station,
where bis parents recovered him.