Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-15
Street Development Big Factor in
Building Up the City.
A MONSTER APARTMENT HOUSE.
Five Acres Sold to q Prominent Architect,
Who Will Build CJttage.
FEATURES OF LOCAL SPECULATION

permanent home. He claims that the
modern cottage has many advantages and
comforts over the old style mansion, indie
pendent of its beauty and uniqueness.
Improve the Streets.
The extension of the street system of
Pittsburg within the last few years has been
very rapid and has contributed materially
to the general prosperity. Good streets and
plenty of them are necessities of modern
civilization. Many of tile leading thorough
fares have been pushed out int the suburbs,
where connections have been made with
new streets, forming bonds of union be-
tween widely detached districts, and giving
oil easy access to each other and to the city
proper. Difficulties are occasionally en-
countered in opening streets but their nee
essity is so apparent that objectors soon
yield. Good streets cost a great deal OF
money, but nothing pays better. The mar
velous growth of the East End is due to the
excellent street system. Other districts
have experienced the same results. This is
matter of such supreme importance that
authorities and citizens should heartily CO.
operate not only in opening new streets
wherever needed by the advance of popula-
tfon, but in putting old ones in. good condt-
tion. There is no other equally effective way
to stimulate the material development of
the city.
Monster Apartment House.
A correspondent gives a description Of
what he considers the finest apartment
house in the world. 1t is located on Fifty
eighth and Fifty-ninth streets and Seventh
avenue, New York. 1t has frontage on
Central Park. 1t covers an area 40ox200
feet and is nine stories or l57 feet high. 1t
contains 1872 apartment suites of from eight
to twelve rooms each. The capitalized
value of the property is $4,000, 900, and the
building was four years in construction.
Rentals range from $500 to $500 month.
While Pittsburg has nothing of the kind
that will "hold a candle" to this immense
building, she is catching on" to the apart
ment house idea very fast. All told, there
are about 30 of them in this city, the largest
being three stories. All are occupied. At
least two of four stories will be erected next
year. Others are under consideration. The
crease in proportion to the advancement of
land values. Many think that they will in
q few years be prominent feature of Pitts
burg home life.
Signs of Prosperity.
Industrial development in the South seems
to, be keeping pace with that in other parts
of the country. With prosperity all over the
land, there is no reason to find fault with
the business situation. Among the new en-
terprises just started are a 81 0C0,C00 salt COM
pany in Kentucky; an $685. contract for
water works engines at Savannah; an $780, 600
rolling mill and cotton tie company at Den
ison, Tex; an increase of $500, 900 in the cap
ital stock of gas and water works company
at Macon, Ga, for enlargement; $500, ,0C0
phosphate company in Florida: a $50,000
woolen mill company in Texas, and 100000
lumber company in the same state 500, ,00J
coal company in West Virginia. a $75 900 i'm
provement company at Florence, S. c.,
and a $4,000 company at Raleigh, n. c.;
81 ,000, 900 construction company in West Vir-
ginia; 100000 improvement company in
Manchester Vt, one of 5000 in Basic City,
Va, and one Of 100000 in Louisville, KY; $25,-
900 water works in Brunswick. Md, and
$4,000 cottonseed oil mill company in Texas.
Business News and Gossip.
An offer of 5000 foot front has been
made for a piece of downtown business
property.
Judging from the push and hustle on the
streets business is picking up all along the
line. Everybody is satisfied except the con-
stftutional grumblers.
Mr.. G. w. Lang, OF Black & Baird, says
Ellwood is fiourtshing like green bay tree.
Buyers are there from all quarters.
There was a renewal yesterday of the old
rumor of the probable reorganization of the
Pittsburg and West End Railway Company,
and the adoption of electricity as the motive
power. There may be truth in the story
after all.
The carpenters strike put stop for this
year to the building of go houses by
senator Finn in the Twenty.t third ward
They will materialize next season.
The electric light plant between Wilkins
burg and Edgewood will soon be ready for
business.
There are leo reputable building and loan
acquire homes. This is a'good work
The wheat harvest in Nebraska is prac-
tically completed and the yield of the State
will reach 80 600, 600 bushels.
Ia Nnrtharn
has made cut in all classes of freight rates
from to IL cents per 100 pounds between
Boston and st. Paul.
Electric scrip was offered at p yesterday,
at 3SsI.
Movements in Realty.
J. E. Glass sold for } ohm Wesley lots Nos.
"a, 25, 26 and p in Alliquippa place plan for
S., $500
Thomas McCaffrey sold for George w,
Monroe to Parke Bros. & Co., Limited, a
property fronting on Railroad street, be-
tween Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth streets,
Twelfth ward, lot 24x6O feet, with two brick
buildings, for GOO cash; for John Carson to
the same firm two lots, 24xl2O feet each,
fronting on Railroad street, for a, 900 cash,
and for Joseph Hoevler to z. wainwright &
Co., lot 4Oxls7 feet, fronting on Charl otte,
near Thirty-fifth street, Fifteenth ward, for
S3, Az IS cash.
John X. Ewing & Co. sold two more lots
5Oxl5O each, on Grant avenue, in the Watson
subdivision, East Bellevue Pittsburg, Ft.
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, for 81 6OO
The purchaser is n prominent Federal street
business man, who will improve the prop
erty by q handsome residence.
Rlack s Baird sold to j. w. Bungert lot
on North street, Williamsburg, 2sx1S2 feet, for
5000
R. G.. Bailey sold to John E. Wills lot No 7,
in the Boyle plan, Tenth ward, Allegheny,
% feet on Harrison street by 1856 feet to O 90
foot alley, for $3.50.
Peter Shields sold for the Schenley Park
Land Company to Joseph Ward n lot in their
plan on Haldane street, 25x1OO feet, for S40O
Also to c. W. Fox Il lot in said plan, 25xlOO
feet, on Lydia street, for S4c0.
james w. Drape & Co. sold 90 lots in the
plan of Munhall Terrace near Homestead,
at prices ranging from $500 to 81, each: also
three houses and lots in the city and East
also a manufacturing site, about l00x309 feet,
for $4,000.
NJ. T. Nipple & Co. sold another lot to John
B. Hay in City View plan, Allegheny, for
$500.
The Building Record.
Permits for the following improvements
were issued yesterday:
Schauerhammer Davis two brick two-story
dwellings, on Colwell street. Eleventh ward. cost.
o. Coz. Mrs. Mary N1cGinty, frame addition to
dwelling, on Natchez street. Thrty-second ward;
cost. s25. Stanislaus Hedziersth frame one-story
dwelling. on Spruce street. Twenty seventh ward;
cost. sS25 Joseph Stuckhouse. frame two-story
dwelling. on Boggs street, Thirty-second ward;
cost, 81, 200 Helen W. jenkins, frame one-story
ward; cost. SO. second Avenue PASSENGER Rail-
way Company. power house, on Second avenue,
Fourteenth ward; cost: 1880. Mrs. Hannah
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