Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-27
HOW TO MAKE A GREAT CITY
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signed to attract visitors and entertain
them while here with multiplicity of in
teresting sights, prominent public work
and hberally-conducted exhibits of tn
great resources of the locality.
The situation impartiaIly reviewed, is:
Nature has boun:ifully endowed this 10
cality with many of her richest treasures.
Men have intelligently accomplished ;
material development of each of her jewels
so that princely fortunes have been &C
quired.
The city that has given homes to the mer
that have contributed to her growth, anc
has secured for them the protection of theil
fortunes, is Justly proud of the hundreds o.
examples of thrift and enterprise among hel
citizens
But visitors estimate efficiently.
They look around them in vain for m ate.
rial evidences of loyalty shown for theil
native city by the steel and iron workers
They see no desire to perpetuate, in endur-
ing grandeur, a monument to the successes
and engineering achievements in iron and
steel with which Pittsburg has been SO
closely identified.
What Strangers Miss.
They ask: If these great furnaces, mills
and foundries, these workshops and forges,
have given the New World her greatest crea-
tions bv man, where in your own city have
YOU erected a testimonial celebrating the
accomplishments and growth OF over half a
century?
Surveying another wonderful manufact-
uring success the visitor asks: Where is
your magnificent glass palace? Has YOUR
glass trade not dedicated creation OF their
own designing worthy of the records and in
dustrial art progress of the city's second
greatest resource?
Strangers think of what domes and pyra-
mids of coal and coke these countless hills
have yielded. But its magnitude has as vet
sent no liberal sentiment through the loyal
blood of black diamond operators in the
direction of Here we have worked and
here we have won, and here we will fittingly
perpetuate our record by exhibiting our
wonderful products of this great trade"
From the day of brakes first we'll to the
last one 'in," Western PENNSYLVANIA has
not given single creditabIe exhibit of mar
velOus resources of oil and gas and she
owes TO the metropolis of this region both
building and exhibit of permanent value
which the world will turn to in wonder ana
praise.
No other city in the world has been so
armored by nation with such shield OF
protection as has made all this material
growth possible.
No other city of its size and importance
can show such general Interstate traffic
and tonnage as is shown on the ledgers of
the manufacturers OF Allegheny county.
Every American city and town looks to
Pittsburg for her staple products; and vet
the residents Of these same localities point
10 provincial Pittsburg, wrapped in con-
servatism; clam-shelled in materialistic self;
and hidden from the world bv mantle of
gain, only lifted at the corner bv Carnegie
whose grand gi Is should shake the founda-
tlons of the seventh clearinghouse city
until every citizen was alive to the spirit
which make citizens en- masse proud of their
workshops and homes boast .ul of their
palaces of trade and parks, taking second
place with no other city of their facilities
Tor transportation and opportunities for
pleasure.
ShOuld Exhibit Our Resources.
Let Pitts0urg sit at the feet ofthe humble |
citizen OF Sioux City. See him 60 deep
into pocket and then gladly welcome inter-
State visitors to his ideal-the brightest and
best exhibit of local resources in the United
States-the Sioux City corn palace; then,
iron civilian, figure out the difference OF
popularity and prosperity; INQUIRE what
causes people to travel 500 or 600, yes ]. 900
miles to view Sioux City's monument OF
corn, versus, local trip ''Ny people here
abouts" o. 80, 60 or 100 miles to see what?
An exhibit of Western Pennsvlvania's re-
sources? Not much! Candor compels YOU
and TO say mot single resource is fitlv
exhibited at the Exposition, which wonld be
made doubly attractive il they were. True.
wldeawake merchants have made a clever.
and to many Of them an expensive, display.
which, combined with art and music, is
making an attractive show
1t is the same annual fair seen in q half.
dozen Mississippi Valley cities. No ma
tional ambitions stimulate all classes alike
to a resource 'ul effort to induce all States
TO turn to Pittsburg-the tourist and can't
talist of New England and the Atlantic
Coast Is near You; so, also, is the merchant. T!
farmer and sightseer Of Middle, Western |
and Southern States.
Until these people have come and seen
and you have conquered entente cordiale
Smoky City remains the same avoided local. |
lty where fewer stop-overs are made on |
through tickets than in any other CITY on the |
routes. You have nothing
with which to interest the travelling Amer.
lean.
So much for the diagnosis of the situation
which has belittled the CITY of nv nativity
u the eyes of thousands, who, like myself.
lave seen by comparison how she is being !
'clIpSed by new claimants or consideration,
Honor both city and State by public
that will stimulate interua-
Ional ambitions. II the following possible
have merit for second considera- |
lon, third may lead to their accomplish
nent. 8
Monuments as Object Lessons,
Metal Trades Industrial Tower-A gift to !
ne city OIL Flltsburg by the metal workers of r
v estern fennsy -yania, TO be erected on one y
VI the highest elevations in Schenley Park. |
The obligation which the National Gov 4
has placed on this locality bv tbe g
given iron and steel products y
.ould certainly have no more fitting reeog- y
lltlon than In the building of this colossal y
monument on Pitlsburg's hills bv all active =
nd retired metal producers, workers and =
ealers. a a
Let the nations know that Pittsburg's bid h
or International honors is substantially IT
era.ded abroad. From its summit let the
tranger see great city, its beautiful subnr. -
AN hills and valleys and healthy homes. :,
1et him see that the ''hell with the lid Off ii
as become a visible bee hive, with gardens | a
Or the bees" to live in and parks for their m
leasure. Whether this tower should as q,
ume less grand proportions than Eifel a
over or the one under contemplation in .,
.ond0n are questions of details and support | a
rom all classes. So too would be the uues- a
on as to the use of its floors Tor a museum n
nd exhibits, but its height should certainly II
e sufficient to show the greater Pittsburg of tr
he future extending along wonderfully n,
improved waterways from McKeesport and "
Iulton to Sewicklev. Sc
a Pittsburger standing beside his visitor V,