Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-29

rounds of applause. 1t read: 81 would
give all that space that lies between u.s.
provided the owners were willing, to be
with YOU tonight" from George H.
Welshons, who is in California at the meet
ing of the International League of Press
Clubs.
Work of the Newspaper Artists.
Adiutant Charles Reese next made a
clever response to the toast cart in Jour-
nalism' He first detailed the danger of one
having his picture in newspaper, and then
said:
Before newspapers were published the
man who was especially designed by Provi-
dence as a newspaper artist contented him
self by scratching pictures on stone, the
same that have puzzled the generations that
have followed. Had newspapers been pub
lished in those days, the artist wonld have
rad his etchings on stone stereotyped and
the editor would have labeledit, "A Pictorial
Review of the Weeks Doings,' or "The Pro
posed Carnegie Library in Schenley Park"
Mr.. Reese then gave a detailed description
of the chalk plate system and its horrors.
In speaking of its advantages he said:
The value of the process is this: Should
paper receive a report of an earthquake in
some remote corner of the globe at o clock
in the morning, the artist could scratch
some scenes of destruction on a plate, thus
giving full pictorial details of the disaster in
the edition that goes to press at go To
sketch or photograph would take inuch
longer, and should the earthquake prove TO
be cyclone or only murder and suicide,
the same plate will answer equally as well
for general view of the landscape or cor
oner's jury, or may be kept in stock ana run
as cartoon of "Chile Apologizing TO Uncle
Sam"
In closing he spoke of the DANCE ,e
artist endured with the reporters. g., IL
uing, he said:
Take the history of our own State.
Wherever the reporter has had dangers to
encounter or pr1vations to endure, whether
at the mines of Mammoth or Dunbar or
among the Huns at Morewood or Mt Pleas
ant. or at JohnStown on the drift hy
day. or the brick kiln at night, whatever the
call of duty, it was shared by the newspaper
artist When engraving. stereotyping
press, paper and ink shall reach the millen-
mum of newspaper work, when the printed
picture shall resemble in some faint degree
the one the artist drew, then will the artist
consider that he has not lived in vain and
will consent to slight division of the hon9rs
with his more fortunate brother-the re-
porter.
Pittsburg's Place in the Nation.
Hon. John Dalzell was introduced. His
toast was Pittsburgh Place in the Nation"
After the applause had subsidized he first
talked of the early history. He said:
There never has been a time since civiliza-
non unfurled its banner in this Western
commanding importance. the genius of
France enlisted in the conquest of a con-
tment here planted Fort Duquesne, and
around its history clusters, in large part, the
bloody story Of Latin and saxon
struggle for the lordship of the Missis-
sippl Valley. At time only little
later. Fort Pitt was worthy successor in i'm
portaDce to Fort DuQuesDe, in our colonial
Struggle for independence; and there is no
sDotin all the universe where the saving vir-
hot cin fv hlI I'M nj re
qUent exercise, in the pioneer courage and
daring of the men and lofty heroism of The
women, who amid savage forests and stili
more savage men, blazed the path from bar
baTism to Christian light, than at the iunc-
lion Of these two rivers, now tho pe5ca!ui
carriers of our commerce TO the sea.
Pittsburgs primary relation TO tho nation
Is that OF a great manutac turing city, and
such it must continue to he.
Wealth in manufacture demands two
things: Facility OF supply and of distribution
raw material. in other wordsand tIRuspor-
1ation. ! use the term row material, OF
course, in its ordinary acceptation, not in
tending to discount the value o. human
labor.
With respect to both, Pittsburg's advant-
ages are great, and yet they might be
greater
That. such as they are they have been
made the most OF is apparent from results.
What the Great Iron City Produces.
We make one-ffth OF the iron ana steel of |
the United States. We make one-half of the |
entire product of table glassware single |
firm has the capacity to make II, 0,0G0,o 600 |
of square feet per annum of plate glass, and |
plate glass manufacture is yet with us an |
infant industry. We have the largest cork |
factory in the world. We send out on IN |
average every year 100 900 bushels of coal, |
or 4 600 009 tons.
According to figures made some years ago,
Pittsburg's local railroad tonnage reaches in |
4 single year the colossal aggregate OF |
Is. 900 tons. According to the census of |
$50 the railroads centering, or in part trib- |
tary to Pittsburg moved in the year pre- |
eding a, 100000 tons.
The same authority gives the total annual !
tonnage OF the Ohio, Monongahela and ALE |
gheny rivers rs 1l,500,00O tons; the gross |
earnings s.. 500, 600, ana the meE employed al |
most 5000.
No other city-large or small-on this con-
tinent or any other, can make such a show |
ing this. The mere enumeration OF tine 4
products of our industry will hardly convey !
anv idea of their variety. 1t is necessary to |
stop and think of the multitudinous -orHls |
assumed in our various manufactures. |
We make steel small needle, plant Il |
Damascus blade and ponderous as the al1nor 1
that protects the cruiser that arries our |
nag and defends our national honor.
Endorsed the Erie Canal.
Consider for a moment the raw materials |
OF all these manufactures-the coal, coke, /
limestone, sand, and j hundred things not |
now to be newfoundland that these have |
TO be conveyed here from the place OF their
production: consider that the manufactured |
product has to be carried to market and |
you will appreciate the TACT that PittSbur.'s |
greatness in the present ard Pitts
burg's destiny in the future is to q /
very large extent n question of trans
portation facilities. 1t would matter
little that have here courageous
capital business tact and energy, machin-
cry that testifies to the triumphs of ingen-
uity Drawn and muscle labor in abundance,
If we had not the fuel and the ores at rea-
sonable cost; and it would matter little that
our storehouses were filled with finished
products If the cost of carriage to market
buver.
Manufacturing supremacy means cheap
freights from the mine to the furnace and
from the factory to the mart;and by as much
you cheaper either or both, by so much 90
you add to the continuance OF that saprem-
acy.
PittSburgs possibilities as to raw mate
rials and as to markets for her finished prod
ucts as nature designed that they should
be-who can measure them?
The Greatest Coal Beds Knova.
Our city lies in the very bed OF a bitumin-
Gus coal field containing 5000 square miles
more of coal than underlie all England. Gas
and oil are all around us. Ore fields illimit-
able are not far of One hundred miles OILY
more or LESLIE between the Ohio river
and the great unsalted sea that we call Lake |
Erie. Connect the two by a ship canal and |
calculate, if you can, how much of space has
been annlhilated that separates PittSburE |
from her base of supplies, and from new
markets without number now practically in
accessible.