Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-11

things have assumed cleanliness before
unknown. Once it was that Pittsburg
seemed kind of chaos-a mass of SCOT:
For in the East snd North the psople thonebt
mat Plttsburg was kind of outer gate
10 fields of blankness; a jumbled mass
vi SCOT and smoke, from which cane sounds
That when traveller had need to pass
It's highways through, it was with thoughtful
Now there is no need to call it the
Smoky City, for linen collar can venture
forth and return in something like the
state 1t was in when starting out. But
once such thing could not be done with
lmpuuity. Every year the 10th of April
the hre bells ring out the numbers l, S, 4,
D IN memory of the great fire. Like all
such calamItles the origin was trifiiug.
While the hrecracker adorns the shield
oil the Fire Department of Portland, Me-,
and the cow and coal-oil lamp that of Chi
Acago, so does the domestic washboiler f.
ure In the history of this city's great dis
aster. In tenement house q big fire nm
der boiler caused the fire, and high wind
helped on the blaze until one-third of the
city and two-thirds of its value had been
swept away.
The great riot in June. 1877, occupies =
page IN history. At that time the PennsvI
yania depot was burned, and the torch was
applied to everything that was supposed to
belong to the railroad. The depot was re-
buiit, and is fine place. The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad has an elegant new de-
pot on Water street, overlooking the Mo-
nongahela river.
A comlcal story told of riot times is of
the wrath of two women, who managed by
some strategem to get hold of what they
thought was large barrel of flour, and
after laboriously toiling to get it to an al
accessible place on hilltop, opened it,
and found 1t contained only Portland ce-
ment. Many laughable, as well as pathetic.
incidents are told of this time.
While by no means progressing place
IN appearance, this Western METROPOLIS is
highly interesting, and in many WAYS an
attractive city to visit. Situated in the
extreme western part of most pouulous
and prosperous State, it enjoys facilities
that make 1t one of the most important
cities in the Union.
The chief attractions of Allegheny City
lie IN Its picturesque situation and its
handsome parks and streets. 1t is an ex-
tremely nice place, and there are good
stores Tor shopping, though no places of
amusement, except at present the Cyclo-
rama OF Gettysburg. Every one goes to
PIttsburg to the theater, and while the
Grand Opera House and Biiou Theater are
good buildings, they do not compare with
similar places..in other large cities.
Allegheny has very fine market build
ing, and the Carnegie Free Library-called
Carnegie Hall pronounced here Carnay-
gle)0was donated to the city by Andrew
Carnegie. 1t is massive stone building,
beautiful IN appearance, and a handsome
ornament to the city. Allegheny differs
from Pittsburg inasmuch as it is city of
homes. People live in East End and Al
legheny, and go into Pittsburg for business
The national game" is played in Re-
creation Park, and at present the Pitts
burgs, or "Alleghenies," as they are called
here, are playing the Chicagos. There is
hne grand stand, and lovers of baseball
can be made very comfortable, considering
the thermometer lie either climbing to the
boiling point or the mercury is descending
into the frigid end of the tube.
L have noticed in home papers desire
on the part of some to use the public
squares for school purposes. 1t is gratify-
ing to know Sacramento is growing; but it
seems too bad to utilize the public grounds
for school-houses.
THE PARKS
Constitute the chief beauties of MANY
Eastern cities, and why should not Sacra-
mento In time have such places. The
park in Allegheny covers acres and acres.
and is very beautiful, and such place of
resort for those who have no gardens. 1t
Is to be hoped some day the park fever
will meander Westward.
Just out of Allegheny is the new River
side Penitentiary, which is not quite COM
pleted, and which, when completed, will
contain 200 cells. 1t overlooks the Ohio
river, and is situated in beautiful spot.
The Eagan Thompson Steel Works are
on the site of what was once known as
Braddock's Field, of Indian war history.
Eighteen miles west of here. on the P.
+. w. and Chicago r. r., is little place
called Economy. The Economics are n
German sect who came over and took I'D
an enormous tract of land many years ago.
They vacillated between HARMONY. Ind.
and this place here, which is the Economy
OF the present day. The village has a
quaint appearance. Their houses have no
front doors; they are built with pointed
roofs, and you could not tell them from the
barns but for the fact they are of brick.
Each house is two stories high, and has a
little side yard into which opens high
gate, and into these little gardens open the
doors of the dwellings. Every house is
built right out to the sidewalk, and grape.
vines are trained up to the roof. giving the
niapp obi
Economics do not marry. They adopt
poor children and bind them until thew
areo age, then give them their choice ofem-
braclng the Economic faith or going into
the world with hundred dollars as a
starter in life.
Their chief industry is farming. Their
territory is extensive and finely cared for.
They bury their dead in the orchard
and level the ground, and make no mark
of the place. The head of this
queer community is very old man named
Henrlce. He attends to the finances and
overlooks things generally. In the big
garden where visitors are allowed saw
huge bed of California peoples, which
quite took me back to my native heath.
Economy is one of the prettiest situations
on the Ohio river, and the land is consid-
cred very valuable.
Much could be written of Allegheny
county and its neighbor Beaver, from
which place the politician Quay halls. |
The country throughout here is beautiful, |
and now the grain is golden of peculiar
hue that Pennsylvanians claim is only |
found in this State. The summer is upon
US In all its glory, and old Sol seems to |
shine brighter and pours down hotter, as |
if to make up for all the days Jupiter
Piuvius visited us and kept the sunshine
hid behind the clouds This is the time
for thunder-storms and they are by no
means few and far between. Still they do
not last long, and the air is much purer
and nicer after shower.
LEILA J. LINDLEY.
SANDER.
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