Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28
ANOTHER BOULEVARD.
It Will Be q Fancy Residence Drive
to Highland Park.
VIEWERS REPORT NEW STREETS
4 Corporation Refused Place on tho
Free List
OPERATIONS OF BUSY DOG cATCHERs

A new driveway to Highland Park Is be-
ing rapidly constructed from Stanton ave-
nue.. It will be mile and half long, al
most level, go feet wide and will cost the
city nothing. Its most important recon-
mendation is that while it will be apublic
street there will be no excuse for running
traction cars over it. The property
for the new street has already been dedi
Gated to the city as q public thoroughfare-
I by the owners of property through which
it passes The same parties are having it
laid out and graded at their own expense.
A half mile of the driveway lies inside Of
the park grounds and has already been
graded to the park limits. A force of men
are now at work on the balance under the
watchful eye of the City Engineer.
The new street runs along the hillside in
the Negley Run valley through one of the
most romantic stretches of forest in this
section, and when completed 1t will be
broad, beautifully shaded avenue. At pres
ent it bears the name of Jonette street, but
that is only temporary one.
A Smooth, Level Drive Way.
It's course is midway between the boule-
ward which Chief Bigelow has planned
along the bottom of Negley Run Valley
and Heberton street, which runs along the
top of the ridge above Highland avenue.
The grade at no point will be greater than
three feet to the 100. Superintendent Pals
ley, of Highland Park, who is entitled to
some credit for planning this entrance, says
it will be the prettiest drive in the city.
The property through which Jonette
e{r l,xyT porl
Black, Thomas Wightman, G. L. Magee,
F. M. Magee, E M. Bigelow and james
Grogan. They have already planned for its
future. 1t will be paved with asphalt next
year and part of it will be sold
with buildidg restrictions requiring
purchasers to erect only high-class dwell
ings 1t is understood that Messrs. Wight
man and Grogan will build permanent resi-
dences there for their own USE Mr. Black
has already plotted his ground into lots.
All this ground is held to-day at $40 foot
front for average depths. A year ago the
best of it could have been bought at $25
and the bulk of it at $40 or less.
Another Entrance to the Park.
Heberton avenue on the hilltop is also
talked of as an entrance to the park, pro-
vided Chief Bigelow's scheme to buy the
Fite property goes through. This will also
.
tion will itself be great attraction. From
the emlnence on which it has already been
officially located. Williamsburg can be plain
ly seen on the east and Oakland on the
west. The view is said to be the best in the
East End, and commands that whole Sec
| tion.
The Jouette street entrance will be graded
ready for vehicle travel late this fall, but
bridge over an intersecting ravine will
hardly be commenced until next spring.
The improvement of Heberton avenue will
not likely be commenced until the same
time.
The city yesterday presented to court the
reports of the viewers on a number of i'm
provements made under the new street ac'.
Among them were the first street vacation
reports made under the new law.
New Streets to Be Cpsned.
was for extending Aurelia street from
Shady to Denniston avenues, so feet wide,
the damages amounting to S3.800 The ex-
tension of Deary street from Lincoln to Lar
inner avenues, a distance of about quarter
mile, was another. No damages are pro-
vided in the report on this street, which rs
to be traversed by branch of the Lincoln
and Larimer avenue branches of the Du-
quesne Traction line. The report on the
opening OF Wlnsl0w street from Park
avenue to Tunett street shows dam
ages of S3,275 assessed. The damages
assessed on the opening oI Blair street, from
Hazelwood avenue to Lowry street, amount
to S1.825 Other openings reported were
Finance and Cobden streets, no damages
being allowed on either The vacations re-
ported were Fairfield street, over Squirrel
Hill, section of Broad street from Fair
mount street to CRAFTS line and a triangular
section of Morningside avenue at the inter-
section of Stanton avenue.
Viewers will start out in few DAYS to
assess the cost of the recently completed
Susquehanna, Tioga and Kelly street sewer.
This is the largest branch of the big Negley
Run sewer, and when its tributaries are
built will drain Homewood and the district
north and south of Penn avenue from Silver
Lake to the city line. The members COM
posing the board on this work are r. H.
Lee, A. L. Pearson and John KearnA