Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-03

architecture, the Police Department has
contributed q real gem to Forbes street in
| the shape of police patrol station No. 4,
| nearly opposite the Oakland NJ E. Church,
| which is about completed 1t is handsome
white stone structure and q credit to the
| good taste of whoever designed 1t.
Territory Covered by the Central.
1t is advisable after two hours on the street
| cars 10 refresh the inner man. That done
| one may adventure the Central Traction
| Company's dizzy climb, as did the two ex-
! plorers yesterday. They took the car at
Wylie and High streets, and were astonished,
after ascending a succession of hills, ar
ranged in the pleasing but somewhat expen-
sive shape of letter W, to arrive at the end
of the line in exactly eleven minutes As
Heron Hill and the contiguous country has
| the appearance of being a thinly- y-settled
district about 100 miles from any large city
the fact that the postoffice is only quarter
of an hour or less away looms up as large
surprise. Desirable building sites in this
to be that everybody on the hills is waiting
for top fgures-prices are higher than the
properties-with the result that other neigh
borhoods are taking the population. This
but when the inhabitants get used to their
new proximity to civilization that will not
last long. By the way, if you would not be
taken for a spotter be careful not to make
memoranda in transit on the Central cars.
When the Central car ran across Smith
field street at three minutes past two there
stood Pleasant Valley car just about to
start for Observatory Hill. Now, of all the
new territories that electricity and cables
have brought tothe Pittsburger's door there
is none more picturesque than that reached
by the o. H. Division Of the Pleasant Valley
Electric road So well-assured of the cor
rectness of this statement Is President
Henry. of the Pleasant Valley, that it is cur
rently reported that he will presents yearly
pass to the man who will show him more
picturesque street car route.
The corner of Smithfeld street and Sixth
avenue Is good place to observe the change
portation system, for at that point come
together the Birmingham Electric, the Du-
quesne Electric in all its branches, the Gen.
tral Traction, and the Pleasant Valley sys-
TENS.
Pretty and Picturesque Finale.
On board the Pleasant Valley car the pass
age from Sixth avenue over the Ninth street
bridge to the Sandusl,y street railroad cross
ing is made in six minutes-and it is proba-
BILE that no street car in the two cities
travels faster than the average P. Y. car at
the Allegheny end of the Ninth street
bridge. After that the car jogs along more
soberiy, up hill all the time. The first
cities are caught as the car reaches the head
OF Federal street, and from there on to
the terminus the scenes are shifted,
and ine in the rs ss
would say, no views Of Allegheny and Pitts
burg, with the surrounding hills and the
Ohio valley, compare with these for perfect
harmony and just proportion. Close at hand,
too, as the car whirls around curve after
curve, rural homes of most romantic beauty
nestle among the trees, connected with the
prosaic dust of the old turnpike by winding
tan-bark paths and divided from it by
terraced lawns and batteries Of flowers.
Nearly every house yesterday seemed to be
smothered with the royal purple blossoms
of the clematis. Still within city limits men
were making hay-a late crop-in a hill
side meadow. As the car was re-
turning hay wagon disputed its
passage, and the sweet long stalks
of timothy brushed the explorers faces
as they squeezed by. This is the truly rural
experience ten cents will buy you within
twenty minutes ride Of City Hall. The
round trip yesterday-about eight miles,
perhaps one hour and three
minutes.
This completed the tour Of the day, and
figuring up the explorers found they had
spent about five and q half hours actually in
the street cars, at a cost of 40 cents each, and
had covered about IS miles.