Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-13
WILLIAMSBURG PROPERTY
Steadily Enhancing in Value as the Result
of Rapid Transit and Contemplated Inn
provements In the Borough-Building

Steadily Enhancing in Value as the Result
Of Rapid Transit and Contemplated Inn
provements in the Borough-Building
Permits and Sales.
The increased activity and enhancement
of values in the borough of Williamsburg
within the past year have been something
wonderful, but are very easily to be ac-
counted for by the fact that two electric
railways are at the present time under
course of construction, which will, when
completed, operate through and around the
borough. In view of this fact alone prop
erty will undoubtedly enhance in value in
that vicinity within the next year to much
greater extent. To add to the attraction
Of the borough property ss%slags soon ss
possible, the borough engineers having ao-
vertised for scaled proposals for the con-
,truction Of the same to De TSs
prices paid for acreage in and about WIKI.
fnsbure of late have been exceedingly large,
as has been shown by the sales recentiy pup
a gentleman who purchased tract OF lana
containing about Is acres few DAYS ago.
Said he: "The property l bought could nave
been purchased six months ago for less tnan
$1,000 an acre, while paid $500 per acre for
the same, and consider myself fortunate In
being able to consummate the dealt deal At those @
ngureS as properly IN GnaI loCdAlsy 10 uP-
ward bound at furious rate"
Building Permits.
The following building permits were Is
sued yesterday:
Mrs. L. C. McElroy, q two-story brick
dwelling, Negloy avenue, between Baum
and Friendship avenues, cost $4,000. Frank
Bissell, q brick two-story addition to dwell
ing, Penn avenue, between Linden and Dal-
las avenues, cost 5000. Patrick Nc
Cam, two frame two-story dwellings,:
Dresden alley, between Fitty,si1th and
fifty-seventh streets, cost s., 600 Tor both.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, q
one-story stone and iron electric light sta
tion, at foot OF Grant street, Second ward,
cost $l,t0O; also a two-story iron express
office at foot of Grant street, Second ward,
cost s., 500: Schoonmaker & Elwood. six two
story brick dwellings, Euclid avenue, be-
sisseo for aS al n E. Br%oe, frame two-ssory
dwelling, Madison avenue, near Clarissa
street, cost 81, 200. Morris Walsh, a one-story
frame addition to dwelling. 81 Sarah street,
cost $700.
Current Sales and Gossip.
John K Ewing & Co. sold to Miss Mary
Osgood a lot 25x1o0 on Kennedy avenue. in
the Mayfield plan, Tenth ward, Allegheny,
for $500, on monthly payments.
Black & Baird sold for Rachel Hall to
James Kerr lot 20x55 feet on Park street,
First ward, Allegheny, for $500.
Ira nj. Burchneld reports the sale OF q lot
x120 feet on Warnet street, HaZelwood, for
$780, Also a lot COX 20 feet on Bank street,
North Homestead, for $3.50.
Peter Shields sold to John G. Price, lots
Nos. IS and 36, ON Gertrude street. in the
Schenley Park Land Company's plan, 72x130
teet, ana having erected thereon a six-room
frame house, with all modern conventences,
for So, 100. Also a lot 30x90 feet on Nan
tasket street in the Greenfield avenue plan,
Twenty-third ward, Tor $500.
James W. Drape & Co. sold two small
houses and a lot in the First ward, Alle-
gheny, for 81. 900. Also house and lot in the
Second ward, Allegheny, Tor $3.50. and a
collateral interest in piece OF McKeesport
property of $500. Papers are being pre-
pared by this firm for the sale of q large res
idence in the East End to a prominent man.
ufacturer, of which particulars are withheld
for the present.
The Burrell and Kensington Improvement
Companies report the following sale of
lots at Kensington, the new manufacturing
city on the A. V. Ry: Andreas Kowal-
koski, Allegheny. lot S6. block g. for $3.50;
j Ohm R. Guffey, Dick. Pa, lots 81 and 6S TOR
81. 100: Mrs Helen Chadwick, Kensington, lot
$780, block 25, for $646 IS: Philip and Cora
Ament, Pittsburg, lots 20 and II, block 8, for
$l,b75; Wilhelm Anderson, Pittsburg, lot 49,
block Is, for $595; William o. Freeland, Ken
sington, lot 263, block 26. for 1895: Mrs. Mary
Leury, Pittsburg. lot 1897, block go for SOL 25
John H. Shafer. Beltzhoover, lots So and "a,