Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
Four Handsome East End Residences Change
Hands at Good Prices.
AN ACREAGE DEAL ON THE NokTHsIDE

nearly over and it is too early for the spring
movement. A change will come in due
time The signs are favorable.
Residence Property In Demand.
Quite a demand has sprung up for high
class East End residence property, which
was dull a. the beginning of the year. Con-
siderable of it comes from outsiders. Yes
terday NJ. F. Nipple & Co. sold for John P.
McCrea to A. c. Beeson fine brick house
and lot 60x140, on Rebecca street, at figure
said TO be close to $4,000. Black & Baird
disposed of two of the Stewart dwellings in
Negley Place, fronting on Hay street, lots
40x156, for $40, 900 each. 1t was reported
that Wood street merchant had purchased
place on South Highland avenue for about
$25, 900, but it could not be verified
Rapid Transit Materializins.
Insiders say that about all the stock of
the Grandview Avenue Traction Company,
on the Southside, has been disposed of, and
that work will begin on the ROAD as soon as
the season opens. 1t is expected that the
cars will be running inside Of a year. Prop
erty in the district which the road will ira
verse, the Thirty-second and Thirty fifth
wards, is looking up in view of improved
transit There is very little acreage on the
market, the most of it having been plotted.
The Popular VIII Respected.
Citizens along Perrysv1lle avenue have
been for some time agitating for through
cars and Scent rate. They held a meeting
day or two ago and formulated resolutions
making this request of the Pleasant Valley
Traction Company. Rumor has it that the
company conceded both points, and that un-
broken transit will soon begin at cents for
the entire distance. The gaining of this
point will encourage the leaders Of the
movement to widen and otherwise improve
the avenue.
Sale of the Hawkins Property
Of several deals in Allegheny realty dur
ing the week, the most important, perhaps,
was the purchase sby Major A. j. Pente-
cost of three acres belonging to Hon. Will
lam G. Hawkins, on Marshall avenue, Tenth
ward, adjoining the residence property of
Thomas NJ. Marshall, ST., for SC, 500, or
nearly So, 200 an acre. This slightly raises
the standard of value in that quarter. This
ground will be plotted and put on the mar
ket at once.
Perrysville Avenue improvements.
Among other improvements to be made in
the Watson Circle, Perrysville avenue, in
the spring are two high-class dwellings by
, Mrs. James E. Crow, widow Of the late
chief of the Allegheny Fire Department,
and A. D. Armstrong, Chief Clerk to the
The residence of David Hunter, prominent
Northsider, in the same place, is about
finished. He will occupy It March 1. AL
together, according to present plans, 80
houses or more will be erected on.this ave-
nue. north of Charles street, this season.
Another Record Breaker.
A Fifth avenue merchant closed deal
yesterday through the agency of Baxter,
Thompson s. Co. for lot on the southeast
corner of Fifth avenue and Chestnut street,
for which he paid $4,000. He will improve
it with a fine building in the spring. The
consideration is the highest ever paid for
property in that locality, showing that
values are hardening as the population in
creases
Sales at Claysvi!Ie.
John NJ. Carson has sold his farm of
$50 acres to John Cunningham, Jr., for SIS
900, possession to be given March /. j. L.
Milligan has sold his store room to G. L.
Head1ey, of Bristoria, Pa, terms
private James Piatt has sold his
David Winters, Of Donegal township.
Business Ncws and Gossip.
The fractions were leaders in local specu-
lation last week. There is plenty OF the
stock to go round.
End. acreage was broken OF during tide
week by the refusal of q tenant, who has a
one-year lease on small part of 1t, to give
immediate possession.
The Norfolk and western Railroad has
iust secured $4,000, 600 in New York for push
ing the work on its Ohio extension more
rapidly.
b. j. williams, of Baltensperger & Will
Jams, will soon begin the erection of three
houses on Southern avenue, Mt. Washing
ton. He is finishing four on Stanton avenue,
East End.
The Journal of Finance says: an Boston
there is some talk OF the Westinghouse COM
pany entering the Thomson II custom Edison
consolidation. There is excellent authority,
however for stating that nothing whatever
looking in that direction has as yet been
done, but it is impossible to say whether it |
will come into the big consolidation one of
these days or not"
building gs and additions were issued last |
week, the cost of all being estimated at s75,- |
S76. None were of special magnitude.
A. 2. Byers & Co. report an unusual de- |
mand for houses in Allegheny. They have |
Just had all OF the SO built by Herbert De |
Puy placed in their hands. There will be 80 |
of these houses. They are in the Sixth |
ward.
Brokers say the reaction in Reading and |
other coal stocks was only natural and the |
only surprising thing about 1t Is that it did |
not come sooner.
A sl,OOO.O0o company has been Incorporated |
in Louisville; Ky, to deal in timber lands,
and SlDOUOU0 company TO purchase and de- |
velop oil and min eral lands.
Street railway bonds improved in both de- |
mand and price during the week. Sales on
and off Change, SO far as reported reached |
$780, 900.
Movements in Realty.
W. C. Stewart sold for Josiah Cohen to
James ]. Flannery, the undertaken, lot
601l75 feet. on the west side of Dithridge
street, for S, 900 cash. The purchases is hav-
ing plans prepared for dwelling that will
equal ANYTHING on the street. The adjoining |
lot 50xIT5 feet, was sold to William L. How
lev for Sc ESQ cash. This lot will also be |
handsomely improved.
J. H. Coleman g. Co. sold ten lots in Glen |
mar park, at Haysville station, to J. C. Dick |
for s., 900. j. C. Dick has just closed three !
large deals on East End property, which will |
be reported later, one of these is for a busi- |
ness house; the other will be improved for |
residence purposes.
The Burrell Improvement Company re- |
ports the following sale OF lots at kensing- |
ton: Joseph Imhof, Braddock, lots % and |
26 and north half "a. block 8, for 81, 763 IS; |
James Pickles, Jeanette, Pa, lot 3 block Is, |
for Sol %; William II. George, Brick Church. |
Armstrong county, Pa, north 10 feet lot IS |
and south 10 feet lot 81, block s, for $3.50 63; |
Mrs Mary McHugh, Pittsburg, lot 49, block |
g. for $780, Amos 3. Schantz, Duquesne Pa, |
lot 6, block Q, for $3.50: William II. McClarren, |
Jr., Bennett Postoffice, Allegheny county, |
lot 81, block Il. for Sol a5 Michael Trunk, |
kensington, Pa, north 10 feet of lot 81 and |
south 10 ieet of lot s5, block s. for SIS; Will I
izm II SDeucor Pittsburp south half lot |