Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-20
ON THE N0RTHSIDE.
Many Buildings Going Up and Con.
templated in Various Quarters.
FIFTY COUNTED FROM ONE. POINT.
Contract Let for Permanent Home for the
Keystone Bicycle Club.
FEATURES OF MONEY AND SPECULATION

The keystone Bicycle Club, composed Of
prominent young people of the East End,
recently purchased for s., 900 . lot on Howe
street, near O'Hara, as a site for q perma-
nent home. Yesterday the managers of the
club let . contract for the erection of a
building to cost s., 900, and to be completed
at as early a date as possible. .Orth Bros
are the architects
Allegheny City Is Growing.
Building operations are being prosecuted
with much energy on the Northside. Mr..
Herbert DuPuy is finishing the last of 40
pressed brick front modern dwellings, mod
eled after the Philadelphia style, on Sedg-
wick street, Morrison avenue and St. Clair
Terrace, Sixth ward, and has commenced the
foundations for 80 more of the same class in
the same locality. They will be completed
by August 1. A. 2. Byers & Co. have
them in charge Mr.. w. W. Davis, the
well-known druggist, has demolished the
old building at the corner of Ohio and San
dusky streets, preparatory to the erection
of brick four-story business stand of mod
building corner of River avenue and An
derson street, owned by NJ c. Bracken, is
undergoing reconstruction to degree that
amounts practically to rebuilding 1t is
said 1t will be used as hotel. No. 219
Federal street, razed some time ago, is being
replaced by four-story business house.
The substructure is about finished. No.
223, in the same locality, will soon be
treated in like manner. M. A. Donovan,
brick contractor, is putting up $40, 900
residence in the Ridgeview Land Com
pany's plan, Eleventh ward. Messrs.
Wright, Mellor, Rose, Mexican and Coffin
are building nearby. From the corner OF
Charles street and Perrysville avenue 90
houses in various stages of completion can
be counted.
Activity in the Lot Market
The Allegheny lot market is in healthy
condition. j. Z. Ewing s. Co. disposed of
"a lots in the Mayfeld plan, owned by the
Bissell estate, at the opening sale. This
firm will soon put in the market new sub
division on Linden, Maple and McNaugher
avenues, Tenth and Eleventh wards. A. 2.
Byers & Co. are opening up the Grande
Pointe plan in the Eleventh ward. They
report good inquiry for lots in the Ridge
view Land Company plan, Eleventh ward,
and also in tine Bellevue district, which is
rising in importance as an outlet to the
crowded portion OF the city. -
Yesterdays Building Record.
Building permits issued yesterday do not
make q list of imposing length, but are we'll
up in figures. Eight were taken out, repre-
senting II improvements the cost of all
being estimated at $110, 700. Those of most
importance are:- Ruben & Solomon, brick
fve-storv business house on Smithfeld
street, 800, 900; John H. Reese. two frame
dwellings on Vespucci street, Twenty-third
ward, s., 400; Andrew Dressel, brick dwell
ling on Ann street, Sixth ward, s., 900;
Charles Kreiling, four brick dwellings on
Tustin street, Sixth ward, IS, 200: John A.
Kaercher. six brick dwellings on Ann
street, Sixth ward, $8, 500; Ralph Bagalay,
frame addition to dwelling on Breckinridge
street, Thirteenth ward, So, 500.
Special Features OF Trade.
It Is said Pleasant Valley cars will be rum
ming to Bellevue by October.
The annual meeting OF the Monongahela
W ater Company will be held Tuesday, May 3.
Thomas Burgess sold to J. W. Megahan n
property on Biddle avenue. Will
Sinsburg, for S.. 500 -
Work on the Jacks Run bridge is making |
progress. Citizens of that |
quarter are anxious for its early completion. |
The Pittsburg Female College property is |
)ferod as whole or in parts. 1t is well |
situated for almost any kind OF business.
Bonds of the Williamsburg Electric Light |
Company are in the market. The plant cost |
Ills, ,000 Earnings last year paid all ex-
,enses and left something for the surplus |
und.
At the close of the final stock call yester-
lay 251s was bid for Birmingham Traction,
md 39A tor Manchester, offered at 10. Du.
luesne was passed.
The Odd Fellows Savings Bank yesterday
elected the following Board of Directors to
erve for the ensuing year. Andrew Miller
George W. Rankin, John NJ. Horner. A. N.
Brown, NJ. Schuetz, George w. Schmidt,
samuel Shaner, Frederick Gwinner, T. j.
stevenson. R. H. King and F. E. Moore.
In New York 5000 Pittsburg and Western
s sold at sS.
Additional Points IN Realty.
The congregation Of St. Luke's Church
las sold lot in the Twentieth ward, Pearl
treet, 6o13sl feet, for $l0se2.
J. J. Cupples sold for Samuel Courtney an
ere and a quarter at Ellsworth, to John C.
for 81, 400. The purchaser will inn
,rove with a handsome residence.
John X. Ewing & Co. sold to James s. Will
on four lots, e5xl00 each, on Mayield ave-
ue. in the Mayf1eld subdivision. Tenth
Yard, Allegheny City, for $500. The pur-
haser will improve the property by erect
ng four flve-roomed frame houses.
W. A. Heron & Sons sold n property on
locust, near Gist street. lot 23x35 feet with
n old building, for 81 300; also O lot 24x10o
eet on Madison avenue, near Thirtythird
treet, for $780, The purchaser pays for i'm
and sewering Of street. He will
improve at once.
Black & Baird sold to Charles Glendening
ot No. 63 in tho rear of the D. H. Barr plan, |
'rushton, fronting 25 feet on Tioga street by
DO in depth, for $500 cash.
W. L. Hamnett & Co. sold a house and lot |