Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-24

streets If two or three weeks should happen
to go around without their streets being
swept Why, there is one avenue in Pitts
ourg-Fourth avenue-her Wall street,
which the brokers say has not been cleaned
for four years. On it is her Oil Exchange,
new postofice, many banks, insurance and
brokers' offices, as well as most of her real
estate Offices, which draw multitude OF
people every day; and yet there is probably
no dirtier street in the Union.
Plttsburg apparently has no contract let
TO Keep the streets clean or to haul away
either ashes or garbage. Each citizen pays
tor that himself, In addition to his multi
tude of other taxes. The tax rate in Phila-
delphia is less, if anything, than that OF
Plttsburg, and yet she keeps her streets
clean, keeps her sanitation in good condi-
ton, her ashes and slops removed, and has
money left to build large Court House
and keep the park going beside. The peo-
pie OF Philadelphia growl continually at
everything that is done or not done in the
matter Of administration of the city's busl-
ness. Once in while they assert their pre-
rogative and elect the opposition ticket;
put one term generally satisfies them that
the ways of parties are various. but thev all
lead to the same place-the pockets Of the
people.
AN UNwARRANTED SHEER.
1t has been the habit of many persons,
many newspaper people especially, to sneer
at Philadelphia's sleepiness-her old fogy-
ism and general deadness and inactivity.
DID such critics ever go over the district be-
tween the rivers, from Callowhill to Market,
or between Fifth street and the Delaware
from Spruce to Franktord? A vast district
which is a perfect hive of industry miles in
extent, where almost every trade is found,
district which is great in mechanics IN nov
elites, in leather, dye stufs, saws, files, etc.
Great In woolen underclothes, stockings,
yarns and especially of carpets (she i'm
ported q, 100000 pounds of woolen goods
and wool last year, ,oilcloths and machinery
OF all kinds. Great in her shipyards which
are now building several new men-of-war
Tor our depleted navy. Great in her Read
ing coal docks of wonderful extent, where
coal is shipped all over the world. Great
IN her miles of dockage where ships from
every land under the sun are daily unload
ing queer-looking stuffs of great value and
taking back cargoes in return to their far
away homes. Away down in the lower city
are the best sugar refneries which imported
last year over 100000 gallons of molasses
and 300, 100000 pounds of raw sugar alone
from the West Indies.
Ihere Claus Spreckels, OF Honolulu and
San Francisco fame, is building a vast
sugar refinery, with which he promises to
wipe out the great Sugar Trust, which has
imposed high price for sugar upon every
person in this land during the last year.
Along the Schuylkill is another great
center Of manufacturing industry, while at
Broad and Callowhill is the great Baldwin
Locomotive Works, which now turns out
daily five finished large-sized locomotives,
which are shipped to every corner OF the
globe where locomotives are used. Adjoin-
ing it and near it are very large bolt and
otner forging works of great capacity.
Philadelphia is also great in her chemical
works, whose products have a worldwide
fame, while her medicines are household
words.
To escape taxation, many Of her heaviest
are located, as they are doing
in Pittsburg, up or down the rivers or in
the suburbs and maintain Offices only in
the city. The importations passing through
the Custom House in 1888 reached the large
sum of over 81, 900, 900. And yet people
who are given to comparisons. but indiffer-
ent as to facts, call this sleepy city, with
grass growing in the streets.
BUMBALo.