Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-11
CITY REAL ESTATE.
A Round Dozen Dwelling Houses
Purchased as an Investment.
BAPTISTS LOCATE AN ORPHANAGE.
B. and 0. Railroad People Filling Hole
for Their Transfer Station.
ANOTHER NICE SALE IN THE EAST END

ANOTHER NICE SALE In THE EAST END
Another deal in the Nineteenth ward
comes to the surface in the sale of 2, 400 feet
near Negley and Stanton avenues, compris-
ing jackson and Horner street fronts,
owned by Mrs Isabel Sargent. The price
is said to be Ss4, 900 cash. The deal was
consummated by Kelly & Rogers, of the
East End. The names of the purchasers are
withheld for the present
Block of Houses Picked Up.
A transaction in real estate of some sig
nifcance as showing confidence on the part
of investors, was closed yesterday by the
Black & Baird agency. They sold four
brick dwellings on good lot, Nos ia, 49,
11S and 120 on Forty-irst street, for the
Peoples Insurance Company, to w. h.
Leahy, for SO, $50. Mr.. Leahy purchased
through the same agency short time ago
eight other houses in the same row, making
IL in all The houses are in good condition
and yield handsome income. The pur-
chase was an investment, pure and simple.
Baptists Have Prac ically Located.
1t has been mentioned that a number of
leading Pittsburg Baptists have under con-
sideration the purchase of tract of land,
within a convenient distance of the city, for
the purpose of establishing an orphanage,
principally for the care of children of that
denomination, but to the exclusion of none.
1t was learned yesterday that the promoters
OF this enterprise have narrowed their in
quiry to two sites, one of which will in all
probability be selected The favorite is sit
uated a short distance out the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Filling Upa Hole.
The transfer station of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Second and Greenfield
avenues, will be built on made ground over
Four Mile Run, which is being severed
and the depression filled up for that pur-
pose with clinkers from Jones & Laughlins'
furnaces. From the bottom of the run to
the level of the railroad track is between 40
and so feet. The sewer, which will not
only drain the creek but also Squirrel Hill
diameter Work of this magnitude is
necessarily slow, and it will be some time
before the cry is heard, "Change cars for
Chicago via the Junction Railroad" The
building will be substantial and ornamental,
and will add greatly to the attractions of
that fine residence district
Special Features Of Trade.
Street traffic was brisk yesterday. Large
quantities of goods were sent out Of the
city.
A leading member of the Cathedral con-
gregation said yesterday there was no seri-
Gus talk of selling it. There was, he added,
necessity for a representative church of
that denomination in the central part of the
city, and no better site could be found.
4. S. Eagleson has sold the 100-acre farm
known as the Sweet farm, situaterl in Char
tiers township, Washington county, to W.
d. Wood, for $5S 30 pera ere.
John A. Wood has purchased from W. B.
McGogney % acres Of land, partly coal, in
Jefferson township for 1855
Seven permits were issued Yesterday for
nine improvements, aggregating $6,0I, and
rangingfr $3.50 to 81, 500.
In New York 200 shares Pittsburg and
Western preferred sold at 81.
A feature of the stock market yesterday
was activity in and strength of street rail-
way bonds Idle money is seeking invest
ment.
James W. Drape & Co. sold a small block
a figure over s240 per share.
Additional Points in Realty.
A. j. Pentecost sold lot 10 in Valley View
plan, CHARTERS Valley Railway, 75x20O feet,
with a two-story frame dwelling, for 81, 500.
the purchaser being John NJ Montgomery.
John X. Ewing & Co. sold to David Emer-
ick a lot, 50xl4s on Grant avenue, in the
Western subdivision, East Bellevue, Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, for
$780,
Black & Baird sold to Henry J. Foskett
lot No. 16 in Adam Rolls plan of lots on
Braddock avenue, Twenty-second ward,
city, fronting 40 feet on the north side of
Kensington street by about 80 feet in depth,
for about 5000 cash.
5. J. Fleming sold for James Mevay, ESQ.,,
a brick house and lot, 4x55 feet, on Gran
vile street, Eleventh ward: also sold for S.
J. Fleming to John Wesley No. 1909 Susque-
hanna street, lot 25x10O feet for ST. 500 cash, |
subject to street improvements: also, sold a |
lot 25Sl0o feet on Tiosa street. east of Home |
s ,OOO, purchaser to pay street improvements: |
also, sold Tor H. Brown, Esq, six lots on |
Frankstown avenuc. near Brushton for So 600; |
also, q lot esAs21a feet on Hillside street for |
S. J. Fleming to O. Hanson, consideration |
s275; also sold small frame house on Penn
avenue N'neteeth ward, near Negley ave-
nue., lot 24xl45 feet, for So, 800
tine suburbs, near Mansfield, at about 81, $50;
also q lot on Mt. Washington at $3.50: also five
lots in Munhall Terrace plan at s, $50; also a
property in Sharpsburg OF s., 200: and also in
q house and lot in McKeesport nd piece of
ground in the suburbs Of McKeesport, of
is 5O0
George Schmidt sold for Lafayette Obitz
lot 43x6o feet. on CIaybourne street. to A. H.
Hill. OF Freeport. Pa, for $3.50.
Z. L. StrauD sons SOiQ to A. w. ZefSler |
lots and 8 in Beechwood Park plan, front
ing look l60 on Shady avenue, for s., 500.
Charles Somers & Co. sold for Thomas E.
Clark to William Diehn. a piece of ground
at Ellsworth. p, Ft. w. & c. R. R.,
in dimensions 90X4l7xl05x35l feet, Tor $500
The lot lies near the Brighton road, contains
a fine orchard and it is the purchasers in
tention to erect on it n house that will be
credit to that handsome suburb.
Holmes & Co.. sold tor the Keystone Land
and Loan Association, IN the Etna Place
plan of lots. Sharpsburg, lots Nos. 80. 80 and
40 section No for $l,20o to X. L. johnson,
lots Nos. -. %, "A and 25. section
NJ, for 81. 400 to j. B, johnson, Pittsburg: lot
No. H. section j, for $3.50 to Clarence Wilson,
and lot No. IA, section j, for $3.50
to W. Jordon, Allegheny.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold on Aiken ave-
nue., near Walnut street. East End, lot 50x93
feet to an alley, with double frame house,
for "a 900 and the purchaser to pay fcr street
HOME SECURITIES.