Source:New-streets-and-avenues
"New streets and avenues—tour of the Survey Committee." Daily Post (Pittsburgh), May 10, 1869, p. 1. Newspapers.com 86523268.
The Survey Committee of Council met on Saturday morning at nine o'clock, at the car station on Fourth street, for the purpose of making a tour through the new districts of the city, to select and lay out new streets and avenues. The members of the Committee present were Messrs. R. G. Herron, A. H. Gross, F. Torrence, T. J. Craig, John McMasters, Frank P. Case, T. P. Huston and John Chislett, Jr., Chairman of the Committee. The party, accompanied by Mr. W. H. Hennedy [sic], Civil Engineer, started for the scene of their labors shortly after nine o'clock, and first examined Forbes street, the location of which they decided to change so as to run it independently of Fifth avenue, and nearly parallel therewith, from what was formerly known as East Pittsburgh, in a straight line through the estate of Thomas Little, Esq., eastwardly in the direction of Wilkinsburg. The new thoroughfare will pass in the rear of the property of Messrs. Faber, Howe, Berry and others. The committee was unanimously in favor of the location above indicated.
They also decided to run a street parallel with Craig street, from Forbes to Allaquippa [sic] street, which will cross at nearly right angles with Center and Fifth avenues.
The Committee also decided to widen Shady lane, which is now forty feet wide, to sixty feet. This thoroughfare runs between Fifth avenue and the Greensburg pike.
The gentlemen of the Committee were regaled with an excellent repast at the residence of Frank Sellers, Jr., after which they visited and inspected the private lane at the toll gate, which they decided to open as a street, fifty feet wide, from the Pike to the Frankstown road. The Puckety road, which is now thirty-three feet wide, will be converted into an avenue with a width of fifty feet, and will be extended to the Allegheny river.
The City Surveyor will at once proceed to lay out the streets and avenues according to the decisions of the Committee, which will no doubt be endorsed by Councils at their next meeting.
