Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-31
CITY REAL ESTATE.
Augmentation of the Supply Of Mod
erate-Priced Building Lots.
ONE FOR EACH OF FOUR HUNDRED
Movements in the schenley Park Quarter
Of the Twenty-Third Ward.
DOINGS OF BUILDERS AND BROKERS

Activity in the lot market requires
frequent reinforcement to keep up the sup.
ply. There is practically no speculation in
this trade, nearly all tho purchases being
for use.
Part of the Ursuline Convent property,
about nine acres, fronting on four streets,
and extending along Fifth avenue $50 feet
to Halket street, has been plotted and put
in the market by Black & Baird and j. C.
Reilly.
John X. Ewing s. Co. will put the May
field subdivision in the market about the
middle of April. > 1t is owned by the Bissell
estate and fronts on Perrysville and
Marshall avenues, near Charles street,
Tenth ward, Allegheny.
j. C. Reilly will, this week, put on the
market plan of 160 lots, corner of Bedford,
| Webster and Thirty-third streets. This is
| the Gallery property, and was formerly
owned by the divers.
These plans contain an aggregate of
nearly 400 lots, centrally located and mod
crate in price. There is no immediate dan
ger Of 'corner" in this class of realty,
but home-seekers should not let this fact
certain to advance.
An interesting quarter.
There is no lack of movement in the
Twenty third ward. Peter Shields yester-
day sold the last of the small houses built
by Senator Finn on his Greenfield avenue
plan.
The Schenley Park Land Company is ar
ranging to build ten modern dwellings on
its plan of lots in the Twenty-third ward.
The Greenfield avenue branch of the Sec
ond Avenue Passenger Railway has been
completed. and will be operated as soon as
the cars can be equipped with electric
motors.
Senator Finn and associates will break
ground early next week for 65 houses on
their ground in the Twenty-third ward.
Material has been bought and much of it
deliyered., ;Qae :efs the: ,eGis!s=phaeed, with:
local dealers was for l, 500, 900 feet Of
lumber.
A petition is being handed around for
signers to influence Councils to authorize
the paving Of Greenfield avenue.
Work is progressing on the approaches to
the Greenfield avenue bridge at Schenlev
Park.
Special Features of Trade.
Local lumber dealers report Improvement
in trade and prices steady.
The machinery of the Penn Cotton Mill
will be removed to Sylacauga, Ala, about
Mayl
At the last stock call yesterday Whitney
to cali 500 Central fraction, July i, at ss
The new preferred stock Of the reorgan-
lied Allegheny Valley Railroad will soon be
Ali the stock of the Williamsburg National
Bank has Teen sold. Officers and directors
will be elected Saturday next. The bank
will begin business next week.
The piano and organ factory at Men,
delssohn is still silent The delay Is said to
he due to the difficulty of obtaining COM
petent workmen, who prefer the city to the
The talk Of building large tannery at
Brushton has been revived.
What Builders Arc Doing.
Yesterday was one of the best building
days of the season, Judging from the num-
Der of permits issued. Fourteen were taken
out for ID improv ements, aggregating sl1, I25
Those for S., 900 or over are: August Funck,
two frame dwellings on Twenty-seventh
street. Twenty-fourth ward, $500; J. H.
ward. 81. 100: Jacob Buss and
wife, frame dwelling. on Atlantic avenue,
Nineteenth ward. S. 900; C. Geismar. frame
ward. 81, 800: Samuel v. Duff, frame dwelling,
on Holmes street, Eighteenth ward, s.. COO
John X. Ewing Co. have just completed |
a building on the corner Of Perrysvflle ave:
nue. and Charles street, Tenth ward, Alles |
gheny, which they will occupy as a branch |
office.
Realty Handled by Agents.
No important transfers of real estate were |
for record yesterday, but the num- |
ber of small ones was sufficient to demon |
strate q fairly active market. The following |
were reported by agents: A. z. |
Byers & Co. sold for W. P. Fraser to j. Har. |
per Adams q vacant lot in Groves plan,
Tenth ward, Allegheny City, on line OF the |
Perrysvflle avenue electric road, having q |
frontage of S6 feet inches on Perrysville
avenue and extending through l40 feet to q
l7-foot alley. for s2 400.
j. C. Reilly sold tor Jacob Rohr to Mar
yaret Duffey the property No. Al Congress
street, being a three-story brick dwelling
seven rooms, for s3,40o cash.
John X. Ewing & Co. sold for Francis Nc
tI-,me house of six rooms and hall, with lot
s0x90. being the property No. 1873 Jackson
street, Second ward, Allegheny, for s., 600.
Morris & Aisbitt sold lot No. "a in Philip |
Fairmonnt plan. on Kfncafd
street. to Catherine White for $3.50. Ground
They also solo lot No. in Piermore place
plan at Ingram to C. S. Allison for S, 600, on
which is being erected a fine residence.
Black & Baird sold to j. N. Jarvis for L. C. !
Phipps five brick buildings on the corner Of
street and Mulberry alley,
vate; also sold to Thomas Carney for Henry
Aslfalk the property on the east side of
West street, Brushton. 5Sx10O feet to an alley
with two-ssory frame dwelling thereon, for
=, $50
j. E. Glass sold for E. S. Cox lot No. so in
The Aliquippa plac plan. fronting 20 feet on
sworth street, for $3.50
James w. Drape & Co. yesterday sold two
houses and lots on Carson street, for 81, 350
w. z. Hamnett & Co., of Williamsburg. sold