Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-01
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.. Zr-si-.r..gl -. Sa- Great Occasions-
lts,-aor.f r,--rH.er.
, Leu o'4 .-a "a ! yin to compare notes
al rl' :. ro1.. he past in Pittsburg,
tt s GO @ and keen interest in
Il r.,.-'.. - . among the middle
a.. F..a.-st the subject yesterday,
& '.E -e-- -.. jung, remarked that
s.a.-e r-sr, ms of the old people as
-.-. semed neither so vivid
a,-... $3.50. .-. Tould have arighttoex-
Ens t like men, anyhow,
..- Hj- .stimable critic; they
ar observations of events.
-....-., General Harrison at the
u,,. ..- / remember went there
as a child to a .ption given for ladies and
children, and certainly have had a clearer
picture of the scene in my mind than any
have read in the newspaper recollections SO
far given.
general Harrison was in the parlor OF
the hotel facing Penn street, looking very
old and worn. He had blue cloak, which
he kent around his shoulders. We children
were very much impressed. by him. de
was very polite, but was either fatigued In
his right arm, from some cause or other,
as he asked us to shake his left hand.
"Then the great log cabin and hard Older
convention in Pi:tsburg was big event for
the Young people of those days. Many OF
them must surely remember still how the
streets were thronged with country people
who came in by canal and boat-it was be-
fore the railroads-and a much superior
class of people they were who came to con-
yentions then than would be found in Pitts
burg on a political field-day now. There
were ever so many from Ohio, women as
we'll as men, taking an enthusiastic
part in the proceedings. I remember seeing
ladies from Ohio that day wearing strings
of buckeyes as necklaces. You can imagine
how quaint the scene would be in COM
parison with what Pittsburg presents on
thronged day now. The city was so new
and primitive then; the costumes of the
visitors were SO different from those worn
now. During that convention every Latch
string was out 1t was understood that
visitors could 60 into any house and make
themselves at home. A celebrated French
man who happened to be in Pittsburg at the
time, on going home wrote book about the
United States, and therein sagely set down
that our people became insane regularly
every four years.
"And then" continued the fair informant
of THE DISPATCH, 81 wonder how many
people remember clearly the details of Gen
eraI Taylor's visit to Pittsburg. To this
moment i remember how, as child, 1 was
dressed up .n see the triumphal entry, which
was along Penn street, by way of the Green's
burg pike. 1 can remember the brass bat
terry, with the inscription that sit took nine
men to beat Taylor" That was in allu-
sion, you know, to the Mexican War, which
we thought very big thing then. though
distance and history have diminished its
proportions, its glory and its Importance.
On those occasions Williamsburg used to
send in snowy professions, headed by two of
its best known citizens, riding upon hay
wagons" -.
chow was Pittsburg in point of size
theu?"
"Well, the best idea you can get of the
growth of Pittsburg was given me lately by
a lady who lived here during the War OF
1872. She was telling me of going out to
see regiment reviewed-going out a long
way, beyond wheat fields and orchards, po-
tato fields, and away out. Finally asked
her about how far the reviewing place was
from the Point, which was then the resi-
dence part of the town. '0h, said she, 1t
was away out to where the Fort Wayne
Offices now stand, that is to Eleventh street.
That was considered long distance in the