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Show A HOUSE IN MANCHESTER. (The English Pittsburg) No longer is It Pittsburg that stands in need of elucidation, but Manchester, the ancient city of the Britons, so long horself the standard by which Pittsburg and other Amert-can Amert-can industrial communities have been measured. The pendulum, so many years swinging to one aide, has now heaved mightily in the other direction and from thin day on It is to bo "Manchester, the Pittsburg of England,"' Eng-land,"' and no longer "P.ttsburg, tho Manchester of America." It la, indeed a worthy beginning, but we must not bo "satisfied with merely beginning. Wo must throw off the mattle of ourself-efacement and fight this thing to a finiBh aye, even unto that day when. If we refer to I-ondon as the Brooklyn of the British Empire, or to Paris as the Emporia of France, or to Athens as the Boston of Greece, or even to Berlin as the Cincinnati of Europe, everyone will know precisely what we mean. John Kendrick Bangs In Aug. Smart Set, |