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Show !tIHfF-':: -ft WISING' TITT5SURG UypD and Dirt Up to the Knees, Money the Rest of the Way," Says a Native, and Then He Proceeds to Point Out the New Idea and Its Progress. BY EDWARD HUNGERFORD (CopvTlrtit. 1310, bv the New York Hernltl Co, All rlcbis rrwn-rd.p S ;-t.-,-T,'. -.Jill v TTTT.SJ 8,'r. 3 :?zti ,-;;r.; -;w6V,V. i ; .MAN slipped iuto n Klranc: city for I be Orst A time at eventide. In Ihe'njorulng be awoke hi bis hotel room. It was very dark and be fumbled across tbe room to tbe electric switch. In tbe sudden radiance that followed he sputtered sput-tered at himself for haviu.c: awakened so early for be was a man fond of bis lazy sleep In the morning. Ilo fumbled in his pocket and found bis watch. Ten i minutes to nlni?, it said to blm "Stopped," Id the man, half aloud. "I forpot to ! wind it once again." ! ttnrthe watch bad not stopped. Insecure In his own mind, be lifted It to bis ear. It was ticking So It has come to pass that no one liveui ntt-burs: ntt-burs: itself, unless under absolute conpuUiuu. Th suburbs present bousing facilities Tr th? better parr of Its folk Sewk-kli'y and I nst LilMTty vie ;n favor and there are dozens of smaller communities Hint crowd close upon I hose two social sue esses. "W" can never pet a decent census figure." growls rh" Tltts-burg Tltts-burg man, as lie contemplates the le of I oijt-lvlng oijt-lvlng boroughs that go to make his city strong In .-rrv-thlng save in tlie popular competitive f'-ature of ;jopu. latlon. Varied, Striking and Picturesque Sky-Line of the Heart of Pittsburg. Courtesy of Leslie's Weekly. briskly. The man was perplexed. Hp went to tho window and peeped out from It. A great office building build-ing was gayly alight a strange performance for before be-fore dawn of a September morning. He looked down Into the street. Two long hies of brightly lighted cars were passlug through tbe street, one up. the other down. Tho glistening pavements were peopled, tho stores were brightly lighted the man glanced nt his watch again. Three minutes of nine II told him this time. He smiled as he gazed down Into that busy street. "This is rittsburg." he said. Later that day that sam? man stood In another window of a tall skyscraper this time rind again gazed down. In the hollow below him there was a seeming chaos. There were smoke and fog and dirt there, through these showing ever and ever so faintly tall, nrtilieial cliffs, punctured with row upon row of windows brightly lighted at midday. From the narrow gorges between these towering cliffs came the rustle and the rattle of much tratlic. It came to the man In waves of indefinite sound. Tbe man lifted bis gaze and saw beyond these artificial arti-ficial cliffs, mountains ival monntlns lowering, wltb bouses upon their crests, and steep inclined railways lllmbLng their precipitous sides. In these bouses there W'-W: - J-:. urn- Entrance to Highland Park. umbrella, experimenting with that ptraiige rnctal which men culled steel. In the day dreams I'hila- dclphl.i enjoyed In 170 Pittsburg was forgotten. The Philadelphia Lady. "I suppose the Pennsylvania Railroad must have some place to end at," said a lady from Uittenhonse ttfiil srpiaro. when ln-r attention was called to tbe city at :' f;.V the jum lion of the three rivers- And In the next year that lailv and many other ladles of the stnneb 0'1 Quaker lown were holding up their hands In holy r honor nt the news fro in Pittsburg, flre.tt riots, the . bloodiest that bad ever been knoMi. were marking the railroad strike there why. In n single day tbe rioters bad burned the great I'nlon Station, every other railroad stnicture and cery ear In the place. That was bad advertising for a town that bad none loo mnnv friends Put Pittslurg was finding herself she Is still In that fascinating process of development. For word va eking out from the lougii mounralns of Western Penn-ylvanhi that a little j:roup of .Scotchmen led by : llnesr hast ball park In all this land n wizardry of steel and glase and concrete is a distinctive featuro of this Improvtaient. The New Pittsburg. The freight trains are gone from the downtown shopping streets, and tbe two wicked grade crossing dlsajipeiin d when tho Pennsylvania built Us splendid new Union Station. Other tine railroad terminals and new hotels have added to tbe comfort of the stranger. They are brgiiining In a faint way to give transfers on the trolley cars, and there Is promise that some day wayfarers will not be taxed a penny every time they walk across tbe bridges that bind tbe heart of the'clry. The bridge companies are private affairs, paying from fifteen to twenty per cent In annual dividends, and they bang pretty lightly on to their bouauzas. Put tbe Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce is after tb.m, nnd that chamber Ls a falily energetic body. It has already sought the devil in his lair and tried to abolish tbe smoke nuisance, with some definite results. re-sults. A New York girl who ha been living in Pittsburg for tho last four years complained that she never had seen but two sunsets tbpie. There Is hope for that gill. If the Chamber of Commerce keeps bard at Its nuti-snioke campaign she may yet stand ou the Point and down the inuddv Ohio see something that dimly Panoramic View Showing Great Steel Mills, j " I Photo by R. W. Johnston. I a shrewd Ironmaster whom politic folk were already calling "Mr. Carnegie" had made steel an economic structural possibility. In this day, when wood has become a luxury, steel ls coming Into Its own, nnd Pittsburg is to-day the most metropolitan city between be-tween New York and Chicago. Cut she is still Gliding herself. The Survey, financed xttr V,' "VJ ' . i -r-j5 V - m v '- ;'., '. : . - r, Lil jt i 'ii , t. .a resembles the glorious dying of tbe day, as one sees It from the heights of New York city's Itlverside Drive. A keen eyed man sat In au easy chair in tbe luxury of the jMnpuesnc- Club and faced the New York man. "Are we so bad?" be demanded. "You New York men like to paint us that way. You Judge us falsely. You think that when you come out here you are goiuij to see a sort of a modern Sodom, bowing to all the gods of money and tbe gods of the high tariff. You think you are going to fairly revel In a wide open town, In the full significance of that, phrase, and what do you see? "Von see a pretty solid sort of n Scotch Presbyterian Presby-terian tow n, where you can't even get shaved in your hotel on Sunday, to say nothing of buying a drink. And as for shows, you tnn't buy your way Into a concert con-cert here on Sunday. Why, some of the elders at my kirk have even looked askance at 3Ir. Curnegla for the free recitals that be gives Sabbath afternoons In that splendid ball of the Institute. "Theie's your real Pitt.sburg, and if some of the boys hae cramped a bit under all tho restraint that they've had here and gone to the wicked city for a little lllng ami a little advertising, is that any just rea-n.ni -why if all should be charged against FltLs-biirgV FltLs-biirgV Pittsburg, has wiiough troubles of her own, without borrowing any additional ones. "The trouble is we've been making too much money to notice iuu b about the boys, or give u proper attention at-tention to some pretty vital civic problems that'.s why the rottenness cropped out iu the city couuclls. It's the taint of the almighty dollar. New Yorker why Mr. Carnegie made about a hundred of us million-uaires million-uaires w It bin a single tw eoty-fuur hours can you think of any worse blow for au average town? "He took some of us, who had been working for him a long time nnd got us Into the busiuess tome for an eighth Interest, others for a sixteenth or even a thirty-second That was great and we appreciated it, but it kept us fairly light on ready money for a w hile", even though Frick and Mellen were standing pat with an offer of a hundred million dollars for the bonds of the steed company. I (ell you I was short on ro;uly money myself; and wondering If I couldn't cut down on my house rent of lJOO ft year and get triy wife to keep two hired girls instead of three. Then you know what happened Curnegle himself took oer the bonds nt a mid two hundred million dollars. Within a work I was In New York talking with an architect alM-iut building a new house for the missus and getting passage Ikkel through to Europe." The Ironmaster called his automobile and bundled the New York man within It. Into the Slums. "We're going down into the slums." he said. "lean show you a single block where thirteen different languages lan-guages are spoken. That's the new Pittsburg taking up one another's burdens or something of that sort they call it, It's queer until you get used to It, and w hen you do get used to it It makes you feel like getting get-ting up on the roof aud'yelling that rittsburg's goin to be the greatest city ou earth, aud not just greatest in tonnage or in dollars. "That's why we ate cottoning to that Idea of a etvlc centre out by Scbenley Park: that's why we pat Andrew Carnegie on the back when we kDow that be is giving us the best in pictures and in music Iu America; that's why Frick Is holding back with his horse pasture there In front of Carnegie's Institute to build something bigger and better. Don't you get the Idea now of the bigger and the better Pittsburg?" Tbe limousine stopped nnd the Ironmaster beckoned a much whiskered Iiussinn to it. "Here's a real anarchist," he said, "but he's one of ray proteges. lie speaks down in a dirty hall In Liberty Lib-erty avenue, near the Wabash terminal, and he rather roasts us directors, but he's for the new Pittsburg aud he's for it strong so we come together after u fashion." ' " f The IUisshin, who was a teacher, came close to the big automobile and pointed to a woman of his own people u woman wretchedly poor, who dwelt In one of tbe hovels which to-day are Pittsburg's greatest shame. "She's reading Byron," he said, quietly, "and sho has been In America less tbau six months. She says that there Is a magnificent comparison between Bvron and Tolstoy." Kc-re more lights burning at midday. Below them were great stacks row upou row upon row of them, too and the black smoke lhat poured up was pierced now and then aanl again by bright tongues of flames tbe radiance of furnaces that glowed throughout the night and day. "We're mud and dirt up to the knees and money all the rest of tho way," s:iid tbe owner of that office. He was a native of the city. He came to the window and pointed to one of the rivers a yellow brown mirrored surface, scarcely glistening under leaden clouds, but beuring lonp tows by the dozen coal barges, convoyed by dirty stern wheeled steamboats. "There Is one of the busiest harbors In the world." raid tho townsman. "A harbor that in tonnage compares com-pares with Liverpool and even your own blessed New York." The New York man laughed at the harbor. It reminded re-minded him quite demilicly of Newtown Creek that slimy waterway jilong which the trains used to pass In the days when Thirty-fourth street ferry was the gateway to Iug Island. "We have tonuage In this district." said the man who was not ashamed of his city, "aud that is no bile dream. You won't believe It when I lei. you that the freight tonnage of this pippin 0f n town equals . that of New York, Chicago and San Francisco put , together while you can put in one or two forc-lsii capitals for good measure. It's solemn truth. If you don't believe It and if you won't believe our harbormaster, har-bormaster, look ut the lines of freight cars for forty tnlles out on every trunk line railroad that gets In here. This is the veal gathering ground for all the XrernrLt rolling ttock of this big land." But the New York man only looked out again upou the city in semi-darkness at the middle'of tbe day. "Thi.s is Pittsburg," he said once again. Not Unlike New York. In a general way PilUburg has a situation not unlike un-like that of the great metropolis of the contlnc-Dt For New York's Last River substitute the Monouga-hela. Monouga-hela. for tho Hudson the Allegheny, aud let tho Ohio, beginuLng Us long course at tho Point Pittsburg's Pitts-burg's Battery represent the two harbors of New-York. New-York. Then you beglu to get the rough resemblance. To the south of tho Monougabela, Pitt'burgs Brooklyn Brook-lyn Is Birmingham, set under tho half day shadows cf the towering cliffs of Mount Washington, Allegheny Alle-gheny now a part of Greater Pittsburg and seml-olli-tlally known ai the north side corresponds In location loca-tion with Jersey City. And tho problems that have beset Pittsburg iu her rrowth have been almost the very problems that from :he first have hampered tbe growth of metropolitan New York. If her rivers have been no such stupendous stupend-ous affairs as have beeu those of this city, the over-powermg over-powermg bills und mountains that close In upon her n every side have presented barriers of equal magnitude. magni-tude. To conquer them has been tbe labor of many tunnel, of steel, inclined railroads, the like of which hi not lo be seen in any other great city in America. It has beeu no ea?y conquest. As a resnlt of all this, the growth of the city has been uneven and erratic. Down on the narrow spit of Hat land nt tbe junction of the two rivers that go to make tbe Ohio a location exactly corresponding with Manhattan Ibiaud below the City Hall and bt even less area Ls the business centre of the place-wholesale place-wholesale and retail j.uirvs i,uul.s, otlico building. railroad passenger terminals, hotels, theatres ami the" like. The same caui.es that mad..- the skvsc.aper a - neee.s.ily in New York city have worked a like nccc-Uty nccc-Uty In rittsburi;. The fact that Pittsburg men live outside of Pittsburg Pitts-burg goes to give to her the fourth largest commutation commuta-tion service in the country. Only New York. P.ostot ami Philadelphia surpass her in this wise. One bundled bun-dled and tifty miles to the northwest is Cleveland, the sixth city of the country and ranking higher than Pittsburg In population. There Is not a slncle distinctive dis-tinctive suburban train run in cr out of Clcvehind. From one single terminal in Pittsburg four hundred passenger trains arrive and depart In the course of ; single business day. nnd ninety-five per cent of these are run for the sole 1euefU of the stiburl aiille. So congested have even these railroad facilities bo come that the city cries bitterly for a transit relic and experts are now at work planning a subway sys tern lo aid both (ho steam roads nnd the overworked over-worked surface trolley lines. At best It is no sinecure sine-cure to operate the trolley cars of Pitt-burg. Combined Com-bined with narrow streets, uptown and downtown, are the fearful slopes of the great bills It takes big cars to climb those slopes, and when the New York man sees those bl ears for the Hrst time be looks twice. They are chariots of steel, not mm h smaller than those that daily thread our own blessed subway, nnd when they come to you they make you think of locomotives. The trucks are equipped with heavy driving rods, precisely like those of a locomotive. locomo-tive. The heavy car itself irivos a sense of strength and bill capability. But the company slagncrs twice daily under a tratlle that Is far beyond Its facilities and It staggers under Its political burdens For It is as much as your very life Is worth to "talk back" to a Pittsburg car conductor. The conductor Is an arm of the big poIULal machine that hold-t lhat Western Pennsylvania town In the very hollow of its ample baud. The conductors get their jobs through their Aldermen, and they bold them through their Aldermen. So if a New York man forgets that be Is 1 lo miles from Broadway ami gets to asserting assert-ing his mind to the man that runs the car let him look out for trouble. Chances are nine to one that be will be hauled up before a Magistrate for breaking break-ing the peace, and that another arm of tbe political machine will come down bard upon him. I A Man Who Got Angry. A man, born in Pittsburg, once made a protest to a conductor of a car coming across from Allegheny. The passenger was in the right and tbe conductor knew it. But the conductor answered that protest with a volley of profanity. If that thing bad happened hap-pened In New York tbe conductor s Job would not have been worth the formality of u resignation. In Pittsburg a bystander warned the passenger and be saved himself arrest by keeping bis mouth shut and getting off tbe car. But the Pittsburg man had not lost quite bis sense of justice, nnd be hurried lo u certain high olllcer of the street railroad company. When he came to tha company's ollices be was ushered In In high state, fen It so happened that the Urn Pittsburg man was a diiector of that very corjioratlou It so happens that street railroad directors do not ride like 'their steam, railroad brethren on passes, and I he conductor did not know that he was playing Hip-flap w 1th his job. "You'll have to lire that man," said tho director lu ending his complaint, "if that had happened at the Duquesuo I'd a puoclied him lu the head." The bl operating man looked at bis director and smiled what the lady uovelNts call a sweet, sad smile. ".Sorry. Ben." said be, "but I know that man. He's one of Alderman X men, and if w. tired bhn would hang uj up ou a half a dozen tblnga." Forks of the Ohio, by Mrs. Kiisscll S.ige and equipped with some ot tho ablest nnd fairest iulndedocial workers In America, has called sharp attention to her shortcomings. The Survey did its work thoroughly, and it was not the work of a mlnuro or a day or a week or a month. Wiieu its report was ready Pittsburg smarted. It w.u the sort of smarting that goes before- a cure. Much bus been done already. Tho man who went lo Pittsburg as recentlj as ten years ago carried away some pretty definite memories of antiquated railroad stations and inferior hotel facilities. He remembered that In Liberty and Lu Teuu avenues two of the chief shopping streets in the city long trails of freight curs were constantly being shlftcl by dirty switch engines In among the trolley cars, while further up those same avenues the Fort Wayne railroad tracks formed two of the nastiest grade crossings In America. Amer-ica. When a tine new hotel was finally built away out Fifth avenue he could sit on its porch and face Pittsburg's Pitts-burg's famous farm. The Schcnley fnrm stretched over the hill and far away. Its barns were sharply silhouetted upon the horizon, rail rlg-zng fences ran up and down the slopes and sometimes one could see cattle outlined against the sky edge. Monong;ahela Incline, Pittsburg. Do you wonder lu face of Mich a state of things that transit relief comes rather slowly to Pittsburg? Pittsburg men have been trying to worm their way out of their d'ulk-uUlics for about a ccntuiy and a half now. for il was IT'i that saw a permanent settlement stained there at the junction of the three great rivers. Before that hail been the memorable tight and defeat of Braddock not far from where more recently Mr. Frick and Mr. Carnegie have been engaged In a rivalry us to which could erect the higher skyscraper and most effectually block, out the front facade of tbe exquisitely beautiful .Allegheny county Court Hou.-e that II. II. Richardson desigued a scoro of years ago. At Braddock's defeat George Washlngtot fought, nnd it was no less a prophetic mlud than that or tiie Father of Ills Country which foresaw and prophesied that Pltisbiirg, willi proper transportation lacilitles, would become oue of tho master cities of the country. To-day, when Pittsburg men grow nervous in one of their chronic li'ts of agitation generally started by some upstart city such as Chlcugo or DuliitU proclaiming pro-claiming herself the future centre of the steel industry in-dustry she gains comfort from the sayings of two Presidents General Washington, as Ju-st quoted, aud Judge F II. Gary, at tbe head of the United Slates Steel Corporation who went out Here within the month Willi the foreign guests of the Iron and Steel Institute and told the l'lllsburg nicu to be of good cheer the centre of the steel industry was h revocable revoca-ble tlxcd within their community- After that they breathed more easily, and fell to a new pride In the contemplation of a tratlic in a twelvemonth that reached to the enormous total of li",'.H'M"MJ tons. Philadelphia stands tit the extreme east end of Pennsylvania; Pittsburg U the western gateway of the Keystone Stale. Yet two peas In a pod were never half as different. Philadelphia slnnds fur conservatism. con-servatism. Pittsburg for progress. While Philadelphia Philadel-phia was climbing to th... zenith of her power and ln-lltnncc ln-lltnncc through the jtt tiirco-quarlers of tho last century nnd reaching her npotheosis in tJie great JenLcnniai, 1'ltLsbuii; waa quic-t uudci" her tsmoLo That reminded the Ironmaster of nn Incident. "After that bad time in lUClT." he said, "I chanced into one of Mr. Caruegle's libraries aud the librarian complained to me of tbe way the book-j were being ruined. Their pages were being scratched and tilled with rust aud line shavings. I had an idea ou that myself. I weut back to our own mill It wtu pretty dull there, and I was dodging tho forlorn place as much us 1 could. But wc were sitting out a gang from the men who were beating ut our doors every morning for work, and even then we were carrying twice as many men as we really needed. I went around back of the furnaces, and there were the library books the men w ere reading them In the long shifts." "They weren't rending faction?" asked the New Yorker. "One of them spoke to me. Ho was onlr getting three days a week. 'Mr. Carnegie can give the books,' was bis quiet observation, 'and tbe money with which to buy them. But wo need more than money. Cnu't he ever give us the leisure to read them without It costing us tbe money for our food ' 4 "That. New Yorker, that from the month of oue of) those of tho new Pittsburg, is the uuwer to yourj quejtivu." The farm wiih a sore point In Pittsburg's development. develop-ment. It occupied a tract somewhat similar lu loca tlon 'to that of Central Park In Manhattan, nnd the struggling, grow lug town craw led Its way nrouud the obstacle? slowly then grew many miles east once again. Bcscntmcut gathered against the farm, and finally a bill was slipped through t Harrlsburg imposing im-posing double taxes on properly held by persons resld lug out of a he United States a distinct ship at the Si henley estate. Wheu the estate protested word wus curried oversea to It that If a good part of the farm were dedicated to the city nt a. iiark nbat bill would be withdrawn. So Pittsburg gained its splendid new park, and a site for one of the liiiest civic centres in America The farm has begun to disappear the University of Pittsburg Pitts-burg is absorbing its lust undeveloped slope for an American Acropolis that shall put Athens to tbe pale. The new athbtlc club, the Itltz-Carlton development ot the Hotel Sclu-nley, tbe great Soldiers' Memorial Hall which Allegheny county ba.s just nui.xhcd, tho even greater Carnegie Institute, the graceful, "twin spired Cuthcdra). are nil going toward the making of this line, new civic centre, and Pittsburg being Pittsburg Pitts-burg and tiio Pirates social iioroes, .Forbes iieid tho |