Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-16
A 'BRUSHTON DEAL.
Two Hundred Feet Fronting the Penn
sy:vania Railroad Wanted for a Manu-
featuring site-Current Gossip and Lat

Two Hundred Feet Fronting the Penn
sy!vania Railroad Wanted for a Manu-
featuring site-Current Gossip and Lat
est Sales.
1t is reported that a deal Is on for about
200 feet frontage on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, just below Brushton, used as skat-
ing rink during the winter. No one inter-
ested would say anything about the matter,
but an outsider intimated the ground was
wanted for manufacturing purposes, for
which it is we'll adapted.
The Goder Land Company closed a con-
tract yesterday with Hugh Miller for grad
ing the front of their property at the corner
of Fifth and Murray Hill avenues, adjoin-
ing the Pennsylvania Female College.
This means the removal of $4,000 yards of
earth, which will lower the hill or front of
the property about 10 feet, conforming it to
the terrace in the rear, and affording
occupants of inner lots good view of
Fifth avenue and the Shadyside valley.
Murray Hill avenue is in fair way to be-
come one of the most attractive thorough
fares in the East End.
There is considerable building in sight on
Frazier, Oliver and Wilmot street, Oak
land Place plan. Among those intending
to put up houses this season are C. H. jerks,
the Oakland plumber, who will build three;
Miss McAllister, Mrs Jenkins, George
Thorne and three or four others. The prop
erty recently purchased by the Fourteenth
Ward School Board, at the head of Sylvan
avenue, is being graded and put in shape
for the proposed school house, which will
be of brick and stone and contain 18 rooms.
John F. Sweeny is doing considerable
business in the Heron Hill district. Of a
number of lots sold by him in June five are
being improved, and others will be during
the season. This quarter is being built up
very fast. Only year or so ago it was
open country; now it is populous country.
Lots range in price from S400 to 500. There
is fair market for acreage.
Nine permits were issued yesterday for 12
buildings, aggregating in cost SIT ,O25 The
largest are: John Clark, frame dwelling on
Thirtieth street, Twenty-fourth ward, 81, 300;
John G. Wainwright, brick dwellin. on
Forty-sixth street, Seventeenth ward, s3, 150;
Martha Kane, frame dwelling on Keystone
three brick stores and dwellings on Ellis
worth avenue, Twentieth ward, s., 400; Mrs.
Mary Kaufman, frame dwelling on Walnut
street, Twentieth ward, s., 600.
Isaac Van voorhis, the well-known attor-
ney, is having plans prepared for fine resi-
dence on Ellsworth avenue adjoining the
BOYLE property.
WoodIawn avenue is being graded from
the Bellef1eld avenue bridge, at Schenley
Park, to Forbes street, preparatory to paw
ing and sidewalking. This will bring con-
siderable fine residence property into the
market.
W. c. Stewart has about completed ar
rangements for putting the II. Enmer prop
erty OH the market. 1t consists of u acres,
located on Murray Hill avenue, near the
park.
Property owners on Bayard street, sha hady-
side, have almost unanimously signed pc
tition to Councils for the paving of that
thoroughfare from Craig street to Morewood
avenue with f1rebrick.
. Duquesne cars commenced running on
Neville street yesterday. Passengers will
now be landed on Fifth avenue instead of a
square away, as formerly.
Bids closed yesterday for the removal of
the Bufum house. on North Highland ave-
nue., to make way for the new Sixth U. p.
Church building.
George Schmidt sold for John E. Obitz a
new ten-roomed dwelling, with lot 30x120
to John A. New for So 800 cash.
Black & Baird sold to John A. Prall lot No.
II in J. Walter Hays plan OF Haywood
place, Thirteenth ward, fronting "a feet on
Madison avenue by depth of 100 feet to q
20-foot alley, for $780,
James w. Drape & Co. sold two houses and
lot about l00x275, in the Eighteenth ward, for
$l2. 500: also, q lot on the hillside, Ben Venue,
Shadyside, 60xl50. for 81, 600; also, collateral
interest in q property near Leetsdale for
$4,000 cash; also. % lots in the new town Of