Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-29
Men Deserving Downtown Wards on
Both Sides of the River.
MANY SECURE SUBURBAN HOMES.
Allentown and the Southside Hills Reap.
ing the Benefits
LOTS OF EMPTY HOUSES IN ALLEGHENY

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children and placed them beside new hearth.
stones. High taxes and increased rents are
the main causes, and the drift Is all toward
the outskirts in both cities. East End,
Brushton and Williamsburg have the call, as
they catch nearly two-thirds of the movers.
Allentown and the Southside hills, as well
as the suburbs of Allegheny, come in tor
their share.
Real estate men and draymen say there is
a regular exodus to the country. Many of
the downtown wards are being deserted and
given up to foreigners, and there are many
people leaving the flooded districts of ALLIE
the people who have gone to the East End
have bought houses of their own. This same
feature is true of the new towns that have
beensestablished near the city. During the
| winter over 300 families have moved there
from Pittsburg and Allegheny, and 20 more
will go on April 1. Nearly all give as q
reason the high taxes and rents in the old
cities. and many are buying rural property.
Fifty-fve new houses have been started at
Kensington within the past AZ days, and
houses are being rented there as soon as the
cellars are started. 1t is the same in nearly
all the suburbs.
Cannot Find Enough Wagons.
Transfer men say they never were so
pushed as they are this year, though there
are more in the business now than ever be-
fore. One of the prominent transfer men
yesterday estimated that there were over
200 regular moving vans in use in the two
oh fhar HI al
pressed into the service at present. On
Friday they will all commence work at day.
light and it is expected at least 800
families will be moved that day.
Mr.. Shanahan, of the Shanahan Trans
fer Company, said yesterday: 'The business
this year is the busiest we have ever had.
Though there are four times the number of
people in the moving business that there
was five years ago and ten times as many
wagons, people can hardly be accommo-
dated. We have been so crowded that we
have had to refuse all people for the last
two weeks and will not receive any more
orders before Saturday. We have % two-
horse moving vans and ten one-horse ones
During this month we have had 600 NOV
ings and next month we will probably have
a thousand.
The Tide Running to East End.
cover half of them have gone to the SUBJ
urbs. Many 60 to the outskirts of ALLIE
gheny and up in Allentown and Duquesne
Heights. East End caught a great number,
but most of the people we have hauled
stances who have bought property. Nine
tenths of those who have gone beyond the
city line were people who make from $50 to
$50 month. They are all llleaving on account
of high taxes and rents. Most of the people
we have moved have been from the down.
town portion of the city. There has been
great thinning out along the hill and all
down along Fifth avenue. The great desire
seems to be to get beyond the city limits.
The East End streets are so bad though that
in many cases we have to put six horses in
q wagon"
The Allegheny Transfer Company is
about the next largest moving company. 1t
has ten two-horse and two one-horse wagons
at work on moving. A member of the COM
pany said yesterday they were hauling 25
fittings day, and were rushed with orders.
This month they will move 800 families, and
expect to move more during the coming one.
They say most of their business comes from
Allegheny, and fully one-third OF their
movings have gone to Brushton and Wilkins
burg. Most of the people tell them they
are leaNlug Oh dccOuut Ol DlS TcutS, anu are
purchasing the houses they are moving into
Real estate men in general take the same
view of the exodus and say East End and
the upper end of Wylie, Heron and Gen.
ter avenues are catching the greater part of
the people. Most of the brokers in property
attribute the move to high taxes, and others
simply to increased rapid transit facilities.
A representative of Baxter. Thompson &
Company, the well-known Fourth avenue
real estate firm, speaking Of the matter
yesterday said:
Foreigners Capture tho Hill Wards.
s'The move to the East End this year is
unprecedented. East End has the call, and
houses at the upper end Of Wylie avenue
are in demand. Many people are buying
property and many people are leaving
there Is grumbling at the high taxes,
there seems to be general desire |
to get out and find breathing room. The !
downtown wards are left more now to for |
eigners. The Fifth ward is being left to |
the Italians while the Seventh and Eighth |
wards are falling to the Hebrews almost ex- |
clusively and the negroes are crowding the |
Eleventh ward. People are trying to get |
away and many are even deserving the |
Sixth ward. We also find many Allegheny
people going to the East End"
the matter their representative at once
said: Everything is toward the East End
People are going there from all parts of the |
two cities, and Allegheny is being given |
the cold shoulder. don't know why this |
is unless people want more breathing space,
and are accepting the accommodation Of |
rapid transit. Why, in Allegheny we still |
have on our list 81 big houses that rent
from s4OO to 81, 500 per year. They ought to
have been rented long ago and always
were before, but they do not seem to be in
demand. Nearly half the people moving
this year are going to the East End or to
the suburbs beyond, and at least one-half of |
them have bought houses of their own.
Every house, except very expensives ones,
from Oakland out has been rented, and we
could rent more if we had them
The transfer men also explained that
there will be large number of movings on
Saturday and Monday because plenty of
people are still superstitious about Friday
and fear they will have bad luck it they
start on that day.
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