Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-20
THE PRIZE WINNERS.
Continued from, Ninth Pare.

CONtthue" IToHb ~ IttN IUge.
that the Exposition is u moral benefit to
| Pittsburg. Secondly. it is an intellectual
| benefit
once knew an illiterate old lady who had
never spent single day outside the village
mountain top in the vicinity she gazed
around in wonder, and exclaimed: ST never
thought the world was SO large as thisP' Is
it not a fact that thousands of people are
living in Pittsburg, hearing the busy hum
of her machinery, and seeing the results of
the beating of her great heart in its totality,
who have but poor conception of the
various processes by which such results are
obtained? With what avidity the crowd
drinks in the displays of human Ingenuity
Is it not possible that genius in embryo, un-
der the magic influence OF such surround
ings may be suddenly developed and pro-
duce results of illimitable benefit to man
kind, which otherwise might have remained
dormant?
The Centennial Exposition of 1876, either
directly or indirectly. transformed nation,
whose ideas of esthetic things were COM
paratively undeyeloped, into one of the most
liberal patrons OF art and science in the
world. Review the progress of this nation
since 1876, and what do we find? American
ingenuity has become proverbial the wide
infancy. The cottage of the poorest man is
made brighter and happier by little touches
of artistic culture. Where hung the crude
print of yesterday to-day we see chromatic
copies of soul-inspiring works that have
made the world purer and better than it was.
The influence of this great international
gathering has permeated every hamlet in
this great country, and has left the impress
upon nearly every home. The mighty strides
in intellectually which we as people have
made during the last decade are truly mar
velous.
Admitting these things to be true, how
can it be possible that Pittsburg can wit
ness such an Exposition as the present and
escape being in proportionate degree simil-
larlv Influenced? No city in this vast
world has been so blessed in natural advan-
tages as this and yet many of her people
have no adequate conception of the fact.
Familiarity is the mother of that indiffer-
ence which is apt to hinder appreciation,
but the man, woman or child who can care
fully and thinkingly pass through the
Pittsburg Exposition and truthfully assert
that the intellect has received no stimulus,
is little less than a nonenity. Thirdly, the
Exposition must of necessity be financial
beueft to Pittsburg.
Unutilized advantages bring no profit to
the pOssessor. A man may have within his
brain capacities for magnificent achieve
ment but unless the golden key of oppor-
tunity is used 20 open the door he might
just as well be a driveling simpleton, so
far as good results are concerned.
Advertising is the soul of success in
business. In performing their legitimate
function the daily newspapers keep before
the world the fact that Pittsburg is destined
to become the center of such radius of
mechanical ingenuity as the world has
never witnessed. Expositions, such as the
present one, not only emphasize these oft |
repeated assertions, but put upon them the
stamp of almost absolute certainty. Could |
we but lift the veil which covers the face of
iuturity the revelation would he astounding.
Plttsburg is yet blushing maiden, just |
budding into new beauty. She has only |
just made her debut. Her charms are being |
developed every day, but il she wells them |
beneath the habiliments of the sacrIlege of |
excessive modesty she will be likely to live |
a life of seclusion, sacrificing her voluptu- |
GUS splendor upon the altar of objectionable |
negligence. Thousands of people are |
thronging the city from far and near. Some |
are here for the purpose of viewing the |
products of Western Pennsylvania with |
view to purchase. Every dollar that is
thus brought into the city adds that much
to her wealth. The Exposition opens tine
portals OF our natural advantages and lets
the outside world get glimpse of the treas
ures within. The American people grasp
opportunities when and where they find them.
This is an age of wonderful progress, and
the whole world is on the alert for develop
ment. That within her corporate limits and
immediate vicinity Pittsburg has a world of
wealth, is being exemplifed more and more.
The home OF electricity, the camping ground
of the internal forces of nature, the hub
around which inexhaustible mineral treas
ures cluster, Pittsburg stands unique. The
press points out these advantages and to
that institution the city owes large part of
its wonderful success. The Exposition is
the pictorial illustration OF what the press
has asserted. Lack ofspace makes it i'm
possible to write of all the advantages to be
reaped by the Exposition. Country people
1t this season of the year have leisure. They
have money, too, and they expect to spend
some of it among Pittsburg merchants.
Railroads are selling cheap excursion tick
Its, and the rural population is taking ad-
vantage of the opportunity. This is a direct
outcome of the Exposition. Surely no
urther argument is necessary to prove that
'y the present Exposition Pittsburg is being
benefited morally, intellectually and fnan-
tally. JOHN W. MOODY,
Monongahela City.