Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-17
MANY TALL TOWERS
To Be Pushed Toward the
Skies in the Two Cities
This Season.
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PROSPECT FOR BUILDING.
Every Indication Points to q Year of
Remarkable Activity.
THE STRUCTURES NOW IN SIGHT.
4 Number of Others Are Probabilities Of
the Near Future.
ONE POINT SCORED By THE UNIONS

The first Monday in April will usher In
the opening OF the building season, and
from all indications before it closes Pitts
burg, Allegheny and the suburbs will have
experienced an era of improvement un-
precedented in their history. Despite all
the stories of hard times, labor troubles and
the numerous other grievances which are
constantly being brought up, the prospects
are bright.
From every hand comes news of improve
ments. Where tumble-down old two
story frame house stands to-day massive
pile of brick and mortar will be erected as q
monument to Pittsburg's growth and
industry. So it will be all over
the business part of Pittsburg. By
the time winter again makes its
appearance many merchants of all kinds,
professional men and others will be in new
and commodious quarters.
Structures That Are Contemplated.
Some of the large buildings which are to
grace Pittsburg and Allegheny are as fol-
lows:
Joseph Horne & Co.'s store building. Fifth
street and Penn avonuo. covering tho Leon.
new eight story commercial building on
Penn avenue, above Garrlsoa nlley; L. 81.
Smith will remove tho First U. p. Church on
store building; the Kaufman syn
will r,S s1'ena arao.or it, prsssns
Ruben & Solomon's now department store,
at Smithfleld and Diamond streets. and OK
tending both ways, beins probably six
ond ;harty hoa heen securad no sowe phil.
adelphia parties, and O l9-story commercial
house will go up; publishing company will
probably build l2story building on Third
streets; tho new Fourth ward sub-district
school building will 60 up at Duquesne way
and Eighth street: the new Southside Mar
Ket House will be erected; one school house
on the Southside and two I'm the East End;
the Sandusky street Baptist Church, Allie
gheny, will be replaced by one of the most
handsome church structures in Allegheny
City, and there will be four-story addi
tion to McClurgs cracker factory, Allie
gheny.
There are several other buildings which
are being talked of. They are:
Store building for Gillespie, the grocer;
one opposite the Westinghouse building; the
Old Christ Church and Female College will
probably be replaced by new buildings in
the near future.
All Will BE of . High Glass.
These buildings will all be built as nearly
they will be built of brick It is said that
the reason more stone buildings are not
erected in Pittsburg is because of the smoke
discoloring them SO much faster than those
of brick.
Aside from the business blocks, a great
number of residences, little and big, will go
up. A big syndicate has been formed to
build honses and sell them on the INSTALL
ment plan or rent them. The company will
work in Oakland and the East End. Forty
houses will go up at once, and before the
season is over as manv more will be added.
The suburban districts and nearby towns
will come in for great deal of the build
ing, as a number of new manufacturing
plants are starting just outside the city
limits
All this work is to be pushed ahead, no
matter what happens Strikes are not to be
a barrier to their erection. In fact, the
builders say there will be no strikes in
Pittsburg this summer, other than the con-
tinued one of the bricklayers. They also
say that should there be, the work will 60
on just the same.
A Victory for the Unions.
Already some lively hustling has been
gone through by the Builders Exchange
and the building trades. just what may
como of it all is hard to say SO
early in the game. Yesterday the union
men won victory over the Exchange
by securing the contract of the Ruben &
Solomon building. G. P. Kretz secured
the contract and has sublet the brick work
to Rown & Daily and the masonry to Nc
Donald Bros. Dougherty Bros were
awarded the contract first, but there was
clause in it specifying union labor should
be employed. This firm belongs to the Ex-
change and had to give up the contract be-
cause of the refusal of the property owners
to let it without this clause.
MI. Rown said last night: 81 expect the
Exchange will do. all in its power to inter-
fere with the erection of the building 1t
will not make any difference, however, for
we can get material the same way it got men
last summer.
''The Exchange" continued he, sis work
ing hard against union labor It has even
gone so far as 10 inform the architects, who
are members of it, not to allow union con-
tractors to come into their Offices and make
estimates from the drawings. know of
one case where the order has been carried
out already"
The builders think the strike of the build
ing trades of Wheeling, which is to take
place on April 1, will be in their fav or
They think great many of the men will be
induced to work in Pittsburg.