Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-24
FEATURES OF TRADE.
A Strong Position and Good Move
ment for the Holiday Season.
ANOTHER FIYE-STORY WAREHOUSE
Christian Brethren Negotiating for Prop
ertyVn the Nerthside.
sw1ssvALE JOINS THE PROCESSION

SWISSvALE JOINS THE PROCESSION
Architect j. w. Offerman has completed
plans and let the contract for a ive-story
warehouse for Mrs. Isabella Ross, on
| Seventh street, to take the place of the one
destroyed in the confagration few months
ago. It will be better equipped for busi-
ness than the original structure.
A Northside Dicker.
[ Mr.. A. B. Kennedy has the sale of his
residence on Cedar avenue, Allegheny, un-
der consideration to the Community of Chris
tian Brethren, sect that has large MEM
bership in the Eastern part of the State.
The offer for it is a very tempting one.
Full Of Business.
President Yates, of the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg Railroad Company, is quoted
as saying that the roads earnings are gain
ing finely and that the increase will be S75,-
600 this month. The roads traffic is simply
limited by its carrying capacity. There has
been talk of paving dividend, but some
people advise applying earnings to. the pur-
chase of more equipment.
Activity at Swissvale.
Swissvale is looking up. Situated about
midway between Pittsburg and Braddock,
and within easy distance of McKeesport, it
possesses manifest advantages for home
seekers who want to be convenient to the
business centers. The opening of the
Palmer estate, 20 acres, gave the place q
decided forward impulse. Lots are selling
fast, and considerable building is being
planned for the coming year. Among other
prominent people residing in or near Swiss
vale are George Gordon, Banker Kelley, of
Braddock, Hon John Dalzell and Attorney
Schoyer. 1t was for a long time the home
of the late Jane Gray Swisshelm, whose
reputation as thinker and writer was more
than national
Pushing 1t Along.
The italian R. c. Church, corner of Web
ster and Tunnel streets, is assuming form as
fast as the weather will permit. The base
ment is nearly completed, and it is ex-
pected that everything will be ready for
the corner stone early in January. The
edi6ce will be of stone and brick. Its di-
mensions are 40x80 feet.
The Market Well Stocked.
real estate famine in Pittsburg. There is a
great deal of property on the market both
in the city and suburbs, and will be for
some years to come. The trouble is that
owners and buyers are unable to look at
values through the same glasses The
scarcity of good business stands for rent is .
feature which no one can overlook.
Railroads in Good Form.
Railroad returns show steady and almost
uniform improvement. This speaks we'll
for the change in the situation of the trans
portation interests of the country as COM
pared with year ago The closing weeks
OF the year are coming to the front hand
somely, the earnings of 90 roads for the
second week of December rejecting an ag-
gregate gain of 11.0S per cent. while those
for the third week are likely to show up in
still better form.
The Pennsy's Business.
A Philadelphia dispatch furnishes the
statement of the business of all of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's lines:
All lines East of Pittsburg ana Erie for No
vember, 1891, as compared with the same
month in last year shows an increase in
penses of $2l0, 6l9; "a decrease in net earnings
of $l75,76l. All lines West of PittsDurg and
Erie for November, 1891, as compared with
the same month in last year shows an in
crease in expenses of sSs 43s; an increase in
net earnings Of $sl9,562
Business News and Cossip,
Christmas buying is as large in quantity,
but less in value than last year on account
Of labor troubles.
The Williamsburg branch of the Duquesne
Traction road continues to do a land Office
business. 1t has been q great convenience
TO Christmas shoppers.
The projected market house on Mt. Wash. |
ington bids fair to soon pass the paper stage,
It is said work on it will begin next season. |
The fine residence of Undertaken Samson
Delmar Terrace, the old Moorhead home, |
stead, is approaching completion. Two |
by Mr.. McElroy-will be started |
in the same locality next spring.
President Stillman, OF the City National |
Bank, New York, will give each Of his clerks |
ESQ. in addition to their salary, as Christ |
mas present.
and declare the regular dividend of IL per
cent.
Five permits were issued Yesterday for
new buildings. aggregating s., loo. The most
mp ortant was taken out by j. c. Bell for
'rnme two-story dwelling on Broad street,
Nineteenth ward. to cost $1,000. The rest
'anged from 81, 200 to 500
A misunderstanding, it is said, has arisen
between the DistilleEs and Cattle Feeders
Company and the new distributing com
oany, which may lead to a serious rupture
between them.
Friday and Saturday will be HOLIDAYS on
The Liverpool grain and provision market
At the last call yesterday Electric Trust
'eceipts were offered at 40. For Duquesne II
vas bid, offered at IT'S. Manchester was in
light demand at &c.
The dividend on Pipeage was not ex-
,ected: The company had the means all
Ilong, but they were tied up.
big block of East End Electric ComDanv
took will be offered at auction OH Saturday.
There has been no bids for it lately, but il
las been offered at 80.
1t has not been settled whether the Christ
;hurch property will be sold at auction or
lot. There are two or three possible buyers.
Movements in Realty.
Baltensperger & Williams sold for C. r.
RUSSELL to H. L. Watkins q ten-roomed mod.
rn brick house, with lot s5x90 feet. ON
brentwood street, Fifth ward, ALLEGHENY
or $4,000.
Allies Bros. & Co. sold for Michael Trenter
two-story frame house of three rooms.
rith lot 2Ox60 feet, situated ITO Harcum,s
LEY, for 81 400
Baxter, Thompson Co. sold lot No "a
.uch place plan, Thirteenth ward, fronting
feet on kirkpat trick street and extending
ack l20 feet to a 20-foot alley, for $500. :
Black Baird sold the following lots in |
he Alta Land Company Dian, on Duuuesne
[eights: To Samuel Rodgers, of Hoboken-
los. S26 and 327, for $50; to Davis o. Evans
los. 4l0, AL and 4l2, for $50; to f. X. Tribbv
O. s6l, for s75; to John A. Nagle, No. $40, for
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