Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-25
A LOOK AROUND.

NEARLY all the acreage" in the out
lying wards has become, or will shortly be
come, foot frontage" The big blocks o
unimproved land outside Of the three o.
four large estates like that Of the Schenley,
and Dennys. have either been covered will
options purchased outright or are beins
plotted for the market by the owners. And
this is true, despite what was said to me
yesterday by real estate dealer in regard
to an absence OF imitation and perniciou.
blooming" on wind.
UNTIL you run up against people who are
in search Of houses which are fairly desira
BILE, you can form no estimate of the scarcity
Of just such properties. While it is true that
September is not q month in which to find
untenanted houses advantageously, still
they could be had If they were not all taken.
1 have friend who is looking for house
which will cost him from $50 to $50 month.
which is comparatively new, has the usual
comforts and conveniences, and which is 10
Gated in a good neIghborhood. He has been
looking for such house for more than q
month, and has gone through the lists with
out success so far.
IT Is admitted that there are plenty of
small cheap houses, usually in blocks OF
closely built pairs. There has been de-
cided tendency toward the building Of such
houses and the new sections as we'll as
suburbs are full of them. They are renting
rapidly and there is every evidence that
they are not overbuilt for the demand keeps
up. 1t is the better class of houses, those
which would rent from 500 to 81, 400 a year,
which are hard to find and which are eager
ly run after. 1t is understood that when the
Schenley Fourteenth ward property comes
into the market scores of just such resi-
dences are to be put up.
IT DON'T know whv II should be 50, I"
said jeweler yesterday, "but it is fact
that l have sold more watches of good
quality this spring and early in the summer
than have for years. I don't mean that
have sold many expensive watches for
have not. Indeed, 1t seems to be an unwrit-
ten law that the best watches should rarely
be bought even by the wealthy men of this
city"
The old residence on the hill above
Highland avenue, next to the Tim place,
which has been remodeled for the Highland
Park, is about ready for use. 1t will have broad
porches and is surrounded by q wide circu-
lar driveway. The lower floor will be used
Us rcStaurdn1 anu Ine upper rooms Will DO
occupied by the park officials as offices.
THERE is strong similarity in some points
between Editor Charles A. Dana of the Sun,
which shines for all in New York, and Mr..
Henry Lapouchere, who tells unpleasant
things in London Truth They are
never SO happy, this caustic pair,
as when in deep controversy
wherein sharp knives are used freely and
twisted in the wounds. Each is now partic.
ularly happy no doubt Dana has just con-
victed his old enemy, Pulitzer, Of the World,
of the most fiagrant taking known to mod
ern journalism, and Labby has touched up
his ancient friend and ally and present tar
get for satire, the new Premier. Dana's
thrust at the World is as deadly as that he
made into the Alger boom early last spring.
Whom the sun of the sage of New York jour.
nalism shines, the air is apt to get above
summer heat and something melts He
writes caution with vttriol and his blasts
can either draw forth the tones of an Eolian
harp OF blow over a row of buildings as the
case may require. May his shadow remain
intact! WALTER.