Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-07-15
PlTTsBURG.

OF Pittsburg is mentioned. That's the
way the writer has always thought of
it from what he has res d and heard,
but he thinks that way no longer. 1t
is a charming, beautiful city, where
culture and elegance and wealth and
comfort do abound.
II you go to Pittsburg and stay
around the hotels, or simply go about
that part of the city where the bust
ness interests and shops and mills are
congested, you will never have an
idea Of what sort of town it really
is. You will find the dust and hustle,
the smoke and fog, the din and dirt,
all that you have ever heard. But
get out of that part OF the city and
make tour of the residence section,
and you will quickly change your
mind.
Pittsburg is an odd sort of a place.
1t is composed of number of towns
and villages apparently separate and
distinct, yet all united in single city
and bound together with the ties OF
modsrnimprovement. The city proper
lies in the angle formed by the Mo
nongahela and the Allegany rivers.
1t is level and flat. Going back from
the river, you pass up and around a
hill and come upon another section,
out Fifth avenue and Forbes street,
leading to East Liberty, Highland
Park, Penn Avenue and other parts
of the city distinguished by the local
names that they retain. Nothing
could be more charming than this
part of Pittsburg. For five miles into
what really seems the country the
well-paved streets and avenues run,
flanked on either side by the most
beautiful residences and magnificent
estates. Scores upon scores-hun-
dreds upon hundreds-of splendid
dwellings, of the most superb archi-
lecture and most elegant taste, sur
rounded by large and well-kept
lawns, embowered amid shrubbery
and trees, show the wealth and cul-
ture OF great proportion of the Pitts
burgers. And everywhere so many
new and beautiful homes are still be-
ing built, that one begins to wonder
if every person in the town is rich.
There are high hills all about Pitts
burg, but they are utilized just the
same IS any other part OF the earth.
Houses are perched all over them
up to the very backbone. To reach
these points you go up inclined
planes-that is, you get in cars that
are pulled by a cable up track
about as steep as the Episcopal church
steeple here. The untutored Shep-
herdstowner doesn't incline very
strongly toward the incline. A GER
tain one of our fair daughters went
up the plane not long since to see the
view. She kept her eyes tight shut
all the way up and down, and we
don't blame her. The other day as
an old lady stepped off OF the con-
trivance she thanked God she was
on terra Gotta once more" If l had
my choice between riding up and
down the inclined plane and surrsn-
dering to Homestead strikers l don't
know which should prefer. No man
with a family dependent upon him
ought to ride on the pssky things.
OF course Shepherdstown has its
representatives in Pittsburg. (By
the way, where could one go without
finding Shepherdstown folksD MIR.
and Mrs. Hugh P. Allen, whom we
all like so well, are there, and by this
time have become so thoroughly &C
climated that they consider Pitts
burg almost as nice place as Shep-
herdstown. Their kindness to the
writer showed that the Pennsylvania
atmosphere but increases Virginia
hospitality. Mr.. Allen has been for
Ave years engaged in civil engineer
ing work on the street railways, and
is now helping to change the last
horse-car route to an electric line.
Mr.. Alex Shepherd, another Shep
herdstown boy, is also engaged in the
same business in that city. Mr.. H
w. Potts is making monument fol
himself at Schenley Park. A year OF
two ago a wealthy lady named Mrs
.Schenley, who had more property
than she knew what to do with, gave
three hundred acres of land in the
suburbs to the city as a free gift, tc
which has been added by purchase
over a hundred acres more. Thi'
great tract, which is charmingly di
versified by hill and dale and wood
land and meadow, is destined to be-
one of the most beautiful parks il
this country, and the work of making
ii such has been entrusted to Mr.
Potts as chief engineer. Although
the work has been under way only {
little over year, he has already
miles OF splendid drives and romantic
paths laid out, while many other i'm.
provements are being made. 1t is {
delightful work, and Mr.. Potts has al
interest in it that calls forth his bes
efforts.
The street-car system of Pittsbure
is wsll-nigh perfect. There is but ont
horse car line in the place-all thu
others are either run by cable or cleo
tricity. The cable cars bowl along
up hill and down, at from eight t.
twelve miles an hour, while the car
OF the electric line sometimes let them
selves out at a speed pretty nearly
| equal to an express train. You dom