Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-29
PLANNING A NEW
BUSINESS BLOCK
EAST OF PENNSY
w. H. Cummings Organizes
Company to Buy Up Prop
critics by April 1
OPTIONS OBTAINED
Miller Brothers and Co. Act
Cameron, State and Market
Street Limits

options on more than a score OF
properties have already been obtained
and negotiations are under way for
the requirement of at least as many
more in the proposed development of
new business district bounded by
state, Cameron, Market streets and the
Pennsylvania railroad.
The Cummings Realty Company, or
ganized by w. II. Cummings. is be-
hind the move which is one OF the big
gest planned for this Spring Incl
dentally the announcement of the
activities of the Cummings company
sets at rest the many rumors that
had been flying about in realty circles
TO the effect that this section was
Company.
Plans Ready April
Plans for the erection of a series
of modern business structures are in
course of preparation, according to
Mr.. Cummings and these will probably
be ready by April l. Razing of the
present buildings Will be started as
early as possible and the new struc-
lures will go up as needed if the hopes
of the new company materialze.
Application has been made for in
corporation" said Mr.. Cummings to-
day, land our capital will be $4,000
to start with, increasing in time to
100000 In addition to Stephen HUI
bertis and myself, those interested will
include Colonel John c. Young. gen
eral agent for the local branch of the
International Harvester Company of
America.
Some of the properties have al
really been bought outright: on others
only options have been secured. hut
we expect TO close up most of the
deals before April l."
Some of Properties
Among the properties involved in
the deal are the following which were
handled through Miller Brothers and
Co:
Nos. 1O06-OS-10 Market street and
warehouse, J. b. Montgomery; T. T.
Weirman, plot including seven frame
houses with 151-foot frontage in
Tenth street; Stevens estate. plot in
Tenth street. east of Walnut with sew
entY-two-foot frontage and tapering
to l72 feet in Paxton creek; Cooper
estate plot. Isl in Cameron south of
Market, adjoining Snodgrass estate;
Nos. 22-24-26 North Cameron and g.
story brick warehouse owned by Oil
Yer Atticks: 20 North Cameron. dwell
ing owned by Mrs. Fannie Purvis; 3S-
40 North Cameron. Smith Noodle fac
tory; 126 North Cameron, dwelling
owned by w. II. Bolton.
Gilbert, Lot, Too
The lot owned by Mrs Lyman d.
Gilbert and Spencer Gilbert which has
a 241.3 3-foot frontage in Cameron street
and extends back to Paxton creek. and
No. 9S North Tenth street. a 15-foot
property owned by George W. Thomas,
complete the list of options.
MIR. Cummings personally and Brin-
tonPacker Company are negotiating
further deals for additional property
in the same section.
While the transfer of the many
properties in the proposed new bust
ness district will be the big move
ment in local realty circles round
about April /, some other transactions
also negotiated by Miller Brothers
company will help keep the record
ing clerks busy Among these sales
are the following:
No. 21S Maclay street, to John II.
Nixon. freight agent of PENNSYLVANIA
railroad: lot in Chestnut street near
Twenty-s Bellevue Park. to
Paul VOORHEES,. for a dwelling; 2206
Logan, owned by County Commission
er Harry c. Wells sold to Harry Boyle;
No 1873 North Thirteenth, owned by
j. Horace Mcfarland. to II. E. Whit
moyer; four houses in Curtin street,
Penbrook. owned by Harvey c. Koons
sold to David Handshue.
Fifteen lots in Ellwood New Cum
berland's pretty suburb" which had
ben owned by Elizabeth NJ. Hesse
have been sold to John P. Madden.
Attorney w. S. Snyder, a well-known
member of the Dauphin county bar,
has purchased a Go foot lot of John K.
Bowman, of the firm of Bowman and
Company. at Front and Seneca streets
and is planning to begin the building
of a new home this Spring