Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-04
PITTSBURG'S FUTURE.
What the Late Exposition Did in Ad-
vertising Our Industries.
TIE OUTSIDE COMMERCIAL WORLD
Discovering That This is to be One Of the
Great Centers.
A GRAND FUTURE is now ASSURED
OFFICE OF PIrTsBURG DISPATCH, I
TUESDAY, December & 1889. I

OFFICE OF PTTTsBURG DIsPATcH,l
TUESDAY. December 8 1889.
1t goes without saying that Pittsburg's
Exposition has been q success. Every
doubling Thomas has "seen and believed. 4"
In variety and excellence of exhibit and
financial results there has been no industrial
display in any city of the land which has
excelled, or, in the opinion of many who
ought to know, equalled, Pittsburg's Expo
sition. 1t has brought many dollars to your
merchants and manufacturers, has very
much enlarged our city's constituency in
trade lines, and has advertised Pittsburg
and her industries through the commercial
world as no enterprise ever did before.
Daily visits to our tradesmen and manu-
facturers during the progress of the Exposi-
ton and since, reveal the fact that it has
done excellent service in bringing customers
to our doors, and furnishing to the outside
world valuable information concerning the
resources ands61oAcity of the city in indus
trial lines.
Very Clearly Illustrated.
An illustration or two will suggest how
the Exposition has benefited. A gentleman,
who had for some time been working on a
patent, visited the Exposition, and, to his
surprise, found an invention on exhibition
that had the same object in view. The one
on exhibition suggested to him valuable
Improvements, and he has been able to
make such additions to his own invention as
give assurance of success. His improved
machine has already been patented, and in
very short time viii be on the market.
The Exposition was the school in which he
learned the defects of his machine and dis
covered more excellent way.
One of our leading dealers in the line of
filters said recently that the Exposition had
been great stimulus to his trade, as it
brought him a number of customers from
far beyond Pittsburg's natural territory.
"A trade" said he, "has been opened up
in our line of goods with many who had
heretofore no knowledge of our wares, and
would still be il darkness but for the light
poured upon them by the Exposition"
Reaching Broader Fields.
Said leading jobber of carriage hard
ware: 'Our trade lines have been very
much extended as resultof the Exposition.
New customers from beyond our natural
territory have come in, attracted by the ex-
hibit of our industries, and we have secured
valuable trade which hitherto has gone to
other cities"
Similar testimony comes from scores of
our trades people. The Exposition has been
q mighty educating influence. The outside
world knows more of Pittsburg's resources
in commercial and manufacturing lines than
it did before.
Visitors to the Exposition could learn
more In day of our industrial resources
tnan they could learn in a month by going
through our great manufacturing establish
kr nr,-- a
common center, where in a few hours could
be seen the fruits of great industrial devel-
opment.
In the Book it is stated that the Queen of
of Sheba, hearing of the wonderful king
dom OF Solomon, went to Jersaleum to see
for herself. When she saw the glorious city
'.The half had NOT been to1d - 81 gnnititndes
of those who visited our Exposition went away |
wi with Similar expressions on their lips CONCERN
not Gfeaned of our ejtys capacity in industrial
lines until they came and saw.
Advertising Actually Pays.
The prime need Of Pittsburg to-day is to as
sert herself She has in the past been entirely /
too conservative, too modest in pushing her
claims as great center of manufacture and |
commerce.
There are now few cities west Of the Allie
ghenies that surpass us in population, and |
Cleveland and Cincinnati have been distanced, |
and in the next St. Louis may be in the rear.
1t needs no prophets pen,to see that, when the |
twentieth century dawns, the three great cities
of the American continent will be New York /
PIttsburg and Chicago; and, if there be the
right spirit of enterprise among our business
men, there is no need that Pittsburg shall have
the third place. If we had blown our horn as
Chicago has done, Pittsburg to-day might be
the second city of the American continent
The Scotch-IrIsh element which is the con-
trolling element of this city, and has been from
Its origin, is little given to advertising. We
quietly wait for customers to come to us instead
of going Tor customers.
He Told the Truth.
A leading manufacturer said recently; "What
Pittsburg needs is to accept the Injunction of
the Master, Go out into the highways and
hedges. and compel the people to come in We
have been so confident of our resources and
ability that we have folded our arms and waited
for trade to come to us, instead of going out
after trade as other great commercial centers
have DONE"
The Exposition is a move in the direction of
lifting our old, staid and too conservative city
out OF the old ruts in which it has been moving,
the nrst century of its career. 1t is hoped that
this is but the beginning of new era in our
history, and that we are to still more glorious
results in the future Developments of this project
which is yet in its infancy.
1t has already dawned upon the minds of the
American people that this is the great .jron and
sIeel cenVer OF the continent The location of
Pittsburg eminently fits her to become a great
as well as manufacturing center.
Very few of our citizens appear to appreciate
our advantages and opportunities Untold
wealth lies beneath; vast populations are
springing up on our borders and it only re-
mains that our peoyle seize their opportunities
TO make Pittsburg one OF the great cities of
the continent
We have already seen some of the good IA
suits OF the exposition in bringing our CITY into
notice. Learning what can be done in this di- |
rection, 1t now remains to make our future |
exhibits still greater success. The way has
been opened. J. b. YOUNG.
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