house rooms to several others clerks a book about myself who looked and proved to be a genial sort holding a kind of on the front steps of an evening i now turned to the morning papers going first to the which had its in a handsome building one of the or three high buildings in the city the city editor me graciously but could promise nothing at the which was published in a three story building at and diamond streets i found a man who expressed more interest he was a slender soft spoken one man on very short acquaintance i found him to be shrewd and gracious always exceedingly and and an excellent judge of news and plainly his job not so much by reason of what he put into his paper as by what he kept out of it he wanted to know where i had worked before i came to whether i had been connected with any paper here whether i had ever done feature stuff i described my experiences as nearly as i could and finally he said that there was nothing now but he was expecting a to occur soon if i could come around in the course of a week or ten days i drooped sadly � well then in three or four days he thought he might do something for me the salary would not be more than eighteen the week my spirits fell at that but his manner was so agreeable and his hope for me so keen that i felt greatly encouraged and told him i would wait a few days anyhow my friend in had promised me that he would wire me at the first opening and i was now expecting some word from him this i told to this city editor and he said well you might wait until you hear from him anyhow a thought of my possible lean purse did not seem to to him and i at the casual manner in which he assumed that i wait thereafter i the city and its and to my delight found it to be one of the most curious and fascinating places i had ever seen from a store i first secured a map and figured out the lay of the town at a glance i saw that the greater part of it stretched eastward along the tongue of land that was between the and the and that this was proper across a book about myself the m the north side was the city of an individual but so completely connected as to be identical with it and connected with i by many bridges across the on the south side were various towns mt washington i was interested especially in because of the long and bitter contest between the steel workers and the company which for six months and more in had space on the front page of every newspaper in america having studied my map i going first across the river into here i found a city built about the base of high granite hills or between in hollows called or runs with a street or car line and twisting directly over them a charming park and system had been laid out with the city hall a market and a public library as a the place had dry goods and business houses on another day i crossed to the south side and ascended by an inclined plane such as later i discovered to be one of the features of the called mt washington from the top of which walking along an avenue called view which skirted the brow of the hill i had the finest view of a city i have ever seen in later years i looked down upon new york from the heights of the and the hills of island on rome from the on from san and on and los from the slopes of mt but never anywhere have i seen a scene which impressed me more than this the rugged beauty of the mountains which the city the three rivers that run as threads of bright metal dividing it into three parts the several cities joined as one their streets presenting a pattern here and there by the darkened of churches and the walls of the taller and and office buildings as in most american cities of any size the was just being introduced and being welcomed as full proof of the growth and wealth and force of the city no city was com a book about myself without at least one the more of course the had a better claim to the as a commercial necessity than any other american city that i know tongue of land which lies between the and the very likely not more than two or three square miles in extent is still the natural heart of the commercial life for fifty a hundred miles about here meet the three large rivers all here again the natural runs and of the various hills about as well as the which pursue the banks of the streams and which are the natural or for railroad lines street cars and streets come to a common whether by bridges from the south bank of the or the or along the shores of the or within the city of itself all meet somewhere in this level tongue and here of necessity is the business so without the tall building i cannot see how one tenth of the business which and should be here would ever come about chapter two or three tall buildings the city of was then of a simple and a few blackened a small dark city hall and an old market place a long stretch of blast black as night and the li constructed bridges over the rivers gave it all an airy grace and charm since the houses up here were very simple mostly s cottages and the streets 