Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-08
BIG IMPROVEMENTS

Contemplated by the Allegheny and Perrys-
vile Plank Road Company-A Boule-
ward and a Clubhouse-Gossip, Late
Transactions, Etc.
MONDAY, Nov. Z.
Perrysville avenue, Allegheny, is to be
transformed into a grand macadamized
boulevard 60 feet in width. This morning
| there was meeting of the stockholders of
the Allegheny and Perrysville Plank Road
Company, and new board of directors was
elected, namely: John W. Chalfant D. T.
Watson, B. F. Jones, A. E. w.
Painter and D. E. Park. Mr. Harry
Darlington was elected President
and j. N. Davidson was elected
Treasurer. These gentlemen intend to
widen the road and make grand drive 60
tavern, a distance OF about seven miles.
They intend to macadamize it at a cost of
about $3OO,O00. Many of these gentlemen
property along the route of the contempla-
ted driveway upon which they
will will erect erect permanent resideneess, !
o'ness 10 pn pece
of ground has also been purchased by the
gentlemen upon which they propose to
erect what will be known as country club
style. A portion of the boulevard will be
reserved for dirt road, to be used by those
who have fast horses and desire soft foot
ing for their speedy animals.
The work will be commenced early in the
spring, and will De pushed forward as
rapidly as possible. There are 80 gentlemen
interested in the enterprise, and they will
contribute sufficient to insure complete
success. With the completion of this boule-
ward and the contemplated park, Perrys-
Vile avenue will be one of the most desir-
10 Io,~< $l,<
Items of Gossip.
1t was reported to-day that the Ruch man.
sion, corner of North Highland and Stanton
avenues, had been sold for a price approx
mating $5O0CO.
John K. Ewing & Co. have closed $4,000
deal. in the way of exchanging Perrys7ille
avenue acreage for hotel property.
The property fronting on that portion OF
Perrysville avenue called Horseshoe
Bend" embracing eight acres. was sold to-
day to Fourth avenue real estate broker.
Building Permits.
The following permits were issued to-day:
George Lies, a two-story frame dwelling,
Grandview avenue, near Duquesne Incline;
cost, 81, 200 Willis A. Booth, 8 two-story
frame dwelling. Horton street. near Wylie
avenue; So, 900. Emma F. Johnston, a two
story frame dwelling, Julitt street, near
Cato street: cost, 81 200. d. g. Sterratt, q one
story frame dwelling. Nimmick plan,
near Forbes street; cost $3.50 George
Kansas street. near Lowery street; cost,
$l.500. A. 7. Kearns, two-story frame dwell
ing, Lowell street, between Meadow and
Winslow streets: cost, $l.700. Mrs. NJ. E.
Conahan, a two-story frame dwelling, Sus-
quehanna street, near City line; cost. 81, 300.
Mrs. W. p. Knight, q two-story frame dwell
ing, Linden avenue, near Penn avenue, cost,
$s.5S7. Mary Donahue. a two,story
frame dwelling, Greenbush avenue, near
Boggs avenue; cost 1900. Charles Lutte,
two-story frame dwelling, Mulberry street,
near Root street. cost, $500. Joseph A.
Reinsing, q two-story frame dwelling, Hall
street, between Cowan and Gray streets,
cost, 81, go. II. Webb, a two-story frame
dwelling, Hillside street, near Wallace
street, cost. $500.
Late Sales.
Ira M Burchfield sold for Mrs. Elizabeth
G. Wilson to Warren Elsey, frame resi-
dence, with lot 5lx200, on Second avenue,
near Mobile street, Hazelwood, for 81 500.
Black & Baird sold to j. W. Kinnear ESQ.,,
a lot ON the northwest corner of Linden
avenue and June alley, East End, 40x90 feet,
for s., 200.
Henry W. Armstrong sold for George NJ.
Haines to p. p. Jageman, a lot 25N120, corner
Fifth avenue and Ninth street, Kensington.
for g, l53 cash. One year ago this lot was
j. R''''A .is5 '"-'N'H WIG ~ ' -'i
John K Ewing & Co. sold for A. H. Ger
wig to Thompson Il Weddell three lots, 25x
GO each on Daisy avenue, Tenth ward, Allie
gheny, Tor 500 cash.
Reed B. Coyle & Co. sold for William A.
Altman lots Nos. 8 and 10 in j. S. Craig's
plan Twenty third ward. fronting 26 feet on
Monongahela street by 156 feet to 80 foot
street, for $500
Samuel W. Black & Co. sold an other one of
those two-Story frame dwellings on Dear
born street, near Penn avenue, for $500.