Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-08
POINTS IN REALTY.
A Manufacturing Firm Looking Up
a Site for a Large Plant.
TWO MORE SALES IN TIE EAST END.
Williamsburg Presbytsrians Decide Not to
Build and Sell Their Lot.
FEATURES OF MONEY AND SPECULATION

|. Considerable interest is displayed il
manufacturing sites by outsiders as well q
pected in the dull season of the year and il
the face OF a serious labor disturbance.
Fourth avenue real estate broker spent the
greater part of yesterday in pointing ou
situations to the representative Of com
pany desirous of changing the location Of
their plant. About 20 acres will be re
quired.
Several tracts abgtting on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad were examined. Upor
his return the broker said there was q good
prospect that selection would be made II
few days
Two Ease End Sales.
w. A. Heron & Sons were engaged yes
terday in closing up the sale for A. q. Will.
son, of the East End Hotel, of lot fronting
26 feet on Penn avenue by about 800 feet
deep, at a price approximating $4,000 II
was learned outside that the purchaser is
Mr. wainwright, the owner of the adjoining
property, who is improving it with fine
house and needs more room.
Another transaction Of some Importance
was effected by Liggett Bros They sold
for j. P. Bailey to Charles Cappell lot
fronting 80 feet on Parker street by 100 in
depth. with good ten-roomed frame house,
for ~ 500. This property is situated near
the Mellon row. The sale is the first in
that quarter for several months.
Presbyterians Make a Deal.
Early in the spring Williamsburg Presby-
terians who at the time contemplated sell
I'M oh fu NJ ot
and building elsewhere purchased lot for
that purpose from James Doran for Sc, 900.
1t is situated on South and Center streets.
Afterward they changed their minds and
concluded to remain in their present quar-
ters.
The lot being for sale it was purchased
yesterday bv the School Board of the bor-
ough for little over $1,000 with view to
the erection of scnoolhouse for the use of
the Second ward, the other two ward be-
ing already supplied. The building will be
put up next year.
Yesterdays Building Record.
Seven permits were taken out yesterday
for 15 buildings, all estimated to cost $32,-
$50. Those of most Importance are: Key
stone Bicycle Club, frame clubhouse on
Howe street, Twentieth ward, "a, 500; Ross
White, seven frame dwellings On Cany
street, Thirteenth ward, Sc, 400; same own
er, four frame dwellings on Heron avenue,
Thirteenth ward, $1,000; Louis Barckhoff,
brick and stone business house on Franks
town avenue, Twenty-6rst ward, $14, 500.
Special Features of Trade
Mr.. Neeld, whose farm on CHARTERS creek
has been purchased by the city, was circu-
laring among Fourth avenue real estate
brokers yesterday.
The President and directors Of the First
National Ban L, Washington, Pa, have de-
clared q semi-anDual dividend OF per cent,
payable forthwith.
, Those expecting an increase in Citizens
Traction dividend this year will likely be
disappointed; 1t is understood from good
source that there will he no change.
The New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
Company has purchased from Henry Nor
row 81 acres of coal land in Penn township
Thomas Mulvehill has sold his business
properly on Braddock avenue. Braddock,
change have just been sold at sls 500, not
the street.
The directors of the Mercantile Trust
Company have declared an interest divi-
dend of ~ per cent on full paid stock.
Henry Fisher, one of the Oldest and most
OF the oil operators, has sold his
Henrv ons e sod sl oo6 sas V.v
bonds at l0l and interest.
At the special meeting of stockholders OF
the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad held
1t Toledo yesterdav the new consolidated
nortgaxe of s., ,000, 600 was authorized.
Additional Points in Realty,
D. Behen & Son sold for John Crossett to
Edward Fillingen house and lot on Miffiin
street, Seventeenth ward, for s., 600.
Black & Baird sold for the heirs of Annie
:. Brown to Fred Gwinner, the well-known
contractor, a two-story frame
louse on Woodland avenue, corner Bake
veil street, near the Brighton road. with lot |
06 feet front by 400 deep, and being some |
yhat smaller in the rear, Tor Sc, $50. |
Reed b. Coyle Co. sold two new dwell |
ngs of seven rooms each, with all con- |
'eniences, situate on Rural avenue Nine |
eenth ward, for So 600.
w. A: Heron & Sons sold on Alder ST.,
0x110 it. for 81, 500. The PURCHASERS thereof |
will improve same at once. They also
losed the sale of lot on Penn ave.
ward, 26 by about 600 it. for
price approxfmating 5000.
Charles Somels & Co. sold for Anna L.
sond to Hattie E. Johnston a residence
property situated in Williamsburg, consist
ng of lot fronting % feet on Holland street
nd extending 122 feet in depth to an alley,
ontaining frame house of six rooms for
J, 800.
Peter Shields reports the sale of lot No. al5
ox90 feet, located on Nantasket street, in |
he Greenfield avenue plan, Twenty-third
'ard, city. for $500.
Z. T. Schaffner sold lot No. el2 in the Bir-
bingham Land Improvement Company's |
Ian or lots opposite the Southside Gene !