Show RI D f J JI S t j jI I I I t 7 i I RL 1 REVISING L i ia a PITT r r t 1 oj MUD D J and an Dirt Up p to t the e Knees pees Money lone the Rest of o n the he t hel l I I Way r Says Say a Native and an Then erg He e Proceeds to Point I I Out f the New Idea ea and an Its is Progress I I I I BY EDWARD HUNGERFORD I I M 1010 br bT the Now haw cw York Yort Herald Horold Co Ca All An retorted MAN IAN supped slipped Pp ed Imo ino n strange city for the first J 1 1 at In tho the morning mon n he lie awoke 7 I lu In his Ids hotel room It was very ery dark and he JI fumbled across the room to the electric switch i In Ju the tho sudden radiance that followed he sPlit I ut at himself for having awakened so early erl for he ho heI hel I l I was a man fond of bis lazy Inzy sleep In tho the morning Ho fumbled In his pockets and found his bis watch Ten cn j minutes to nine It Il said to him Stopped Stolpe said the man half baIr aloud I forgot to 1 wind It once again n nin But the watch had not stopped Insecure In III his i I own mind he lifted It t to his ear It was ticking licking briskly ly The man lOan was perplexed ne went lo to 0 the tho window anti peeped out from It A great groat olice build building buildIng ing tag was gayly gayl alight a strange performance for be before before fore toro dawn of or a September morning lIe He looked down 1 Into the th street Two long files I les of or brightly lighted curs cars were parsing pl g through the street one up nii till the tillI r C L I I I other down donl The Thc glistening pavements nl were peopled the tho stores were brightly lighted the man glanced at athis att I J t I I Ii I his watch again Three minutes of or nine It told him himI this time I i I lie smiled as he gazed cd down Into Inlo that busy street I Ii II This Is s he said I Later ater r that day ay that same man stood In another 4 window of a n tall this time again n a In II gazed gared down In the hollow below him there was nr n II Ir r seeming chaos There were smoke and amid fog fo and dirt i I thero there through h these showing ever eer anti and ever eer bo so J 1 faintly tall artificial cliffs punctured with row upon J I ii row of or windows brightly lighted 1 at midday From Fromi i IH II It i J the narrow gorges orges between these towering cliffs camu canie the rustle and the rattle of or much muck traffic It lot came canto to lo lothe toI j I 1 i I the man In waves of indefinite sound II I The Tho man lifted his gaze g e and saw beyond these arti artificial li I Ii I i cliffs cUffs mountains m o a i n s r real e a l lt moun towering will willi w L LI t I II i I 1 houses bouses upon their crests and steep sleep Inclined railways i I I th lr Ir precipitous sides In these houses there 1 I I I I 1 1 1 I were ts more lights burning at midday Below themi them i were great stacks row upon row upon row of them too and the tho black smoke that poured up was pierced now cud and then and again by b bright tongues of or dames the radiance of furnaces that glowed I throughout the night nl ht and day I I Were mud and nud andall dirt ui uy U to the knees and money all tho the rest of o the die way wn ay said ald the owner of that He Lie was a native natle of or the tire city He lie came cams to the window i and pointed to one ouo of or the rivers rl a yellow brown mirrored surface scarcely glistening under leaden lea en clouds s but bearing long lon tows lows by h tho the dozen do coal barges convoyed by dirty stern wheeled steamboats f There Is one of or the busiest blest bi us harbors in hi the world II said the thc townsman A harbor that In tonnage t com coin compares compares pares with Liverpool ool and even your own blessed New York The Thc New York man laughed at the harbor barbor It re rev reminded reminded minded him Wm quite Culto definitely of or Newtown Creek that slimy waterway along which the trains used to puss pass passin I I in the tho days ays when l street ferry feiry etry was the j J gateway sa to Long Island Islands s We have hac in this tills district said the man mant t who way W not ashamed of or his city and amid an that t Is no idle idled j dream d ream You wont believe It when I ire Ven it you ou that the freight tonnage of or this pippin of a town equals that of New York orl Chicago and amid San Sau Francisco I put together while you can CM put In one or two foreign capitals for good measure Its solemn truth If It Iti i you rou dont believe belloe It and If f you rou wont believe bellee our har harbormaster harbormaster bormaster look at 0 t the lines Hues of or freight cars for forty miles out on every eor trunk line Hue railroad that gets gots fir In Inhere P here This Is 18 the real gathering ground for tor all the tho freight rolling stock I of this big land lan But the New Now York tuna man only looked out again upon the city in semidarkness at the the tho day doy I b y This is Pittsburg he bc said once again Not Unlike New York In a n general way g has bas a 11 situation not n nI of un mr unlike j J I like that of oY the great metropolis of the tho continent 1 For New Nei Yorks East Enst River substitute the Monongahela hela for tor the We Hudson sou the Allegheny Alle anti and let the Ohio beginning its Us long course at nit the Point Pitts I burgs burg s Battery represent the two harbors barbor of New NewYork cw 1 1 i 1 York ork Then n you rou begin to got ot the rough resemblance C 1 To the south of or the thc Monon r Pittsburgh s Brook Brooklyn I lyn lye Is Birmingham set under un er the half day I shadows 1 t of the tho towering cliffs of Mount Washington ton Alle Aile pheny now a part purt of Greater Greuter and an semi oili i 1 dally known WD as ns the north side sl corresponds Ju Iu loca ben lion Uon with I Jersey Jerse e tey City And nd the problems problems that have Jave beset lIes t Pittsburg in her I have been almost the very ery problems that from frome he e first have hac hampered the growth of metropolitan New tew York If It her rivers have hae been no such stupendous 1 ous affairs as have hare been those of o this city the over oer overpowering overpowering powering hills lulls nn mountains that close in fin upon her ber heran an j n every cery side have presented barriers of or equal magni magnitude tude ude l To conquer con luer 1 them has been the labor of ot many man of steel Inclined railroads the like Ilko of which Is not to lo be bc seen In any other r great Brent g rent city in America It has Ills been Deen no easy conquest As a result of or nil all this the tho growth of or the city has been uneven and an erratic Down on the tho narrow spit of or flat fiut land at the tuJe the two rivers that go goto goto O Oto to make the tho Ohio n location exactly corresponding ln 0 with Ith Manhattan Island Islan below belon belo the City Han Hall and ln bf even en less leas area a r ea Is the tite bushe i centre o Cle c f t no place 1 wholesale and an retail stores 11 H buildings 9 I f railroad passenger pa terminals hotels h t theatres and the ilke The lute sume same causes that hint mad the hu skyscraper a 11 necessity in New York city have hae w OM a n like Ilke II k I tilt city in 1 1 So it has hns come to pass that t at no one lives lites In Pitta Im burg Itself unless under absolute compulsion Th Tin suburbs present housing facilities for the th better part pirt of or Its folk and aud East Bast Liberty vie 1 In n furor favor and there arc dozens of smaller communities that crowd close upon those two social successes We Ve V can cnn newer get a decent census figure 1 growls rols burg hur min man as n he contemplates heI I the thc size of these e outlying out outlying lying boroughs IH that go to make snake his city strong in every Ier everything thing save sOc in the popular competitive feature of or population population lation r The fact that tuat men live outside e of ot Pitts burg bur goes to give gle to her the fourth largest commutation tion service In the country Only Onh New York Boston and lind nd Philadelphia surpass her In this wise nise One hUll him dr dred d and fifty miles to the northwest is Cleveland the tha sixth city of the country and 1011 ranking higher bighel than in population There Is not a n single ills dis distinctive suburban train run In III or out of at Cleveland Clen Prom From one single terminal In n Pittsburg four fOIll hundred passenger cl trains arrive and nud depart It in ht tho the course of or a 1 single business day and per cent of or these those are run rUIl for the thc solo benefit of the suburbanite So con sl ed have even these railroad rn facilities Ics be become h cone come that the city cries bitterly for or a transit and experts are arc now at work work rl planning pg a subway tern em to aid nid both hoth the steam roads reads and amid tile the worked surface trolley lines At best hest It Is no sine shoe sinecure cure to operate the lie trolley troll y cars of Com Coin Combined biped billed with narrow streets uptown and downtown are arc the fearful shapes lopes of the great hills bills It takes lakes big cars to climb those slopes slop and when the New NewYork re NewYork York Yolk man sees secs those big cars rs for the first Ort time lime ho he looks s twice Brice They arc a e chariots of steel not much lIuch smaller than those BlOse that dally thread our own blessed subway In when they conic come to you they the make malo you rou think of locomotives The trucks are art equipped with heavy hC T thriving driving rods precisely like those of u a locomotive tive U Time The heavy car cm Itself gives a n sense of strength th and hill bill capability Put nut the company staggers twice dally daily under a 1 traffic that is far beyond its his facilities and it staggers under Its political burdens For It is as much a j your very life lie la is i worth tt to talk basic back to a n Pittsburg car conductor The conductor is 15 an arm aim of the time big hi political machine that holds hohl that Western estern Pennsylvania h town in hr the very of Its ample hand band The Tile conductors get et their jobs through their lr Aldermen and ami they hold them through their Aldermen So If Ir a New York man forgets that he Is miles from rein Broadway and goU getS to assert asserting asserting ing ln his Ills mind to 10 the man that hint ruu rung the car let him look 1001 out for trouble Chances are arc nine to one that thin he will be hauled up before a Magistrate fa for fol breaking break breakIng Ing the peace and nud that another arm of the political machine will come down doD hard upon him liim himA A Man Who Got Angry AngrA t tA A man born In once made a protest toa to toa toa a conductor of or a car coming across from Allegheny The passenger er was in the right and the be conductor knew It n But the conductor con answered that protest with a n volley of o profanity If It that thing thin bad hod Imp hall in New York the conductors con job would not have been worth the formality ofa of mu resignation III In a b slander bystander warned the passenger and he lie saved sc himself arrest arr it by b keeping I his mouth shut and getting off time the car But lint the he Pittsburg man mau lied hall not lost quite his lils sense of or Justice and he hurried to a u certain high officer of or orthe the street railroad company compau When hell ho came to tha he was ushered In hr in III high state slate for fot forit foIt r rIt it so 80 happened that the tho born urs man was a 1 director of o that CIT corporation It to so happens that street railroad directors do o not rot ride like their steam railroad brethren on passes and the conductor dill did he lie was playing with whit his hl Job have to lire that man ninn said the director In ill ending his complaint If U that lint had happened at nt the Id a n punched him bl In hi in tle tile head Tho big operating man JUnn looked hI at at his director and smiled what the lady novelists ts call a sweet sad smile smUt Sorry Ben neD said snit he but 1 ut I know that man lies lios one of or Alderman X l s men and amid II lid If it we wo fired him X would hang Nano hw us up on an a aha half a n dozen doeu things f r p i b pg 4 1 V t ft T J i f J 1 f f J t r fr 11 t 1 rl J v tl I I Ir 1 I 1 S r t I t J p t l of Or J t y t s r S t C I t a hJ r i I It j t Fl J I c t t tm 1 7 c n f w rt 1 r dD it t I I I tl il In 1 T j mf d l J it J rr It J 1 Mi r 1 1 i Iii r EI t r 1 l r I 1 r 1 i it t Jr P U l J t i r l J I V f In I i J ft i I J tt Y f L J P IZ Ir 1 i if i 1 r Sd t f f J t 1 J n J J t tr Ii t h jr i I J 1 s I r 1 i ir f iW t A V r rt fw f ri Y j r t f i act 8 1 I t d Irr C f td iR Jt s v l JCl tri m li t t l rr r j II r I a r J r I q pt J tr 1 It 1 I n f t cr ro 19 t f I rr j r f J V J f f t mt fJ 1 c s i f t t i J t t J I L 1 b 7 O 1 1 1 U 1 I 0 t 1 1 H tt r l J 1 4 Ii c 1 Jf l r t I t t iJ k i 11 t 1 l w rp i ir r pr W LI N tIt p r Ig f f tf rt t 7 J LI tJ L T T J t J A 1 j jl d l r wa J r g P Pr h Varied Striking and Picturesque SkyLine of the Heart of Pittsburg Courtesy of s Weekly y t x 1 3 t v V jf 4 v i JL t till h ill f Entrance to Highland Park I Is s zi 4 n to x 4 r ry y 1 Ir Irr r i iR R tt v r S t tC A C r J T 4 t 4 VW F r rasa i I M vr c v 1 Monongahela Monon Incline Pittsburg P Do you wonder In III face of or such Mien a II state tut of or things that thai transit relief relict comet comes rather slowly to Pittsburg Pittsburg mini men m u have been trying trin to worm their way WIl out of their lr for fOl about a n century and hn a licit hilf now for It was nuts that hint saw a permanent settlement started there at the junction of or the three great rivers I Ie 18 Before that thit hind had been time till memorable light J ht and defeat of or Braddock not far from where wore moio recently Mr Frick rick I anti Sir Mr Ir Carnegie Carne io have hae hll e been engaged ef in III a II rivalry as ns to lo which could caul erect tho time higher skyscraper I and amid most effectually block out the front facade of tile the exquisitely beautiful be Allegheny 11 eh c II county Court that n II n U Richardson designed tl a n score of or ore yeas e ls ago At doCIs defeat George Washington fought ht und aud it was wis less leas a n prophetic mind than that of the Father of or His Ells Country which foresaw aid prophesied that with proper facilities would would become ono one QUO of the tho monster master cities of or ortho the tho country Today lo ay when wilen PIt uI men grow row nervous in one olle of their chronic fits of or agitation generally started by b some home upstart city cit such as l Chicago or Duluth pro proclaiming claiming herself tho the future futuro centre of the tile steel in industry she gains Sums comfort fromm the sayings of two Pi i General Washington us as just quoted Judge 13 g II U Gary at ut the head of or the United States Steel Corporation who went out there within the month with limo tho foreign guests of ot the Iron aud and Steel Institute and anti told the Pittsburg men to be lie of good I Cb cl he centre of the tho steel Industry ht was wins US Irrevocably Irrevocably bly bl fixed within their community It After that they breathed brea more easily eu ll and fell feli to a n now naw In the tho contemplation of or n a traffic rattle In III a l i tw twelvemonth that thai reached to the enormous total of tons tOilS Philadelphia stands at time the extreme east cast cod end of or Pennsylvania Pittsburg Is the western gateway of or ort the t le Keystone State Yet two twig t wn peas liens In im a pOll pod were I never nover half as ng different t Philadelphia stands for con cou conservatism Pittsburg for progress flroeS While Philadel Philadelphia el phia lihla was climbing to the zenith of her power and In III Influence fluence finance through h the tho first quarters of the last century and reaching hi her r apotheosis In III the hue great Centennial Cent aJ was quiet under tier her j umbrellas experimenting with that strange metal which rumen men called steel In the day |