Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-27
P|TTSBURG IS SOLID
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A Complimentary Picture
From a Metropolitan Oh.
servation Camera.
TONNAGE BEATS NEW YORK
Thirteen Miles of Cars Enter and
Leave the City Every Day.
AGGREGATE WEALTH OF BANKS.
low the People Are Now Reaching Cut for
Beauty and Culture.
AGGREGATE WEALTH OF BANKS.
low the People Are Now Reaching Cut for
Beauty and Culture.
BUSINESS CONDUCTED on A BIG SCALE


gle between France and England for predom
nance on this continent In that struggle
the colonies learned their strength, were
freed from an aggressive foe upon their
frontier, and found their leader, George
Washington. He erected a fort on the
present site of Pittsburg, and not far away
acquired his first military renown by skill.
fully protecting the retreat Of Braddoch S
army after the latter's disastrous defeat.
Pittsburg then had its backwoods town
period, followed by the introduction Of such
industries as depend upon manual labor
and skill. Machinery came next, then the
discovery of coal and iron, with a mad
scramble after riches-money the sole goal
comfort, joy, refinement, art, intellectual
pleasure, all ignored. During this time Pitts
burg earned and gloried in the title of ''the
Smoky City" 1t was large Vulcan forge,
reeking with half-consumed gases and
smothered with floating carbon.
Pittsbursers Learning How to Live.
Pittsburg to-day has made money, has a
large leisured class, has awakened to the
JOYS of proper living. The city has been
greatly frightened and becomes every year
pIeasanter to look upon and live in. Short
sighted people say the change is due to the
discovery and utilization of natural gas in
place Of coal. But this is not so. The
change is in the nature of the people them
selves Fuel gas aided and hastened the
transformation already determined on.
Since, some sources of natural gas have
Jailed but the foundries and factories de-
pendent upon them have not reverted to
the old air blotting. ,;asteful methods of
consuming coal. New methods of combus-
tioa have been devised, and manufacturers
turn their coal into gas by processes which
utilize every heat-producing element in the
fuel. which completely release the stored
energy in the coal, converting it into fame
aud ash with no residue of poisonous fumes
or beauty destroying SCOT.
80 now the purifying forces ever at work
in nature, aided by the energy and newly
awakened aesthetic perception of the peo-
pie, are making handsome city of Pitts
burg, one wholly pleasant to live in. Such
change as this is going on everywhere
throughout the country, but the unrestipg
energy which. combined with natures en-
dowments has made this the iron and steel
center of the continent, has accomplished
moro in this humanitarian direction and in
shorter time here than elsewhere, and is
still at work. .
More Money Than Many States. -
According to a report of the Chamber OF
Commerce Just issued there are in Pitts
burg 800 industries representing a capital
o. S22S, 592 240, employing 134, ,097 persons,
paving in wages So, 80, ,s5S annually, and
producing each year $3.50, POI ,925 worth of
manufactured goods.
In 1900 Pittsburg had /, 565 inhabitants;
in 1920, 724S; in 1910, 81, 49, in 1860, 49, ,217;
in 1880, 156, 35l, and in 1890, 23S, 473, an in
crease fof the last decade of 81 0S4. ALLIE
chenv CITY in 1880 had 7S 6Sl, and in 1890,
104 967, an increase of 26, 2SS Allegheny
county, which is practically Pittsburg. writ
large, had 55l. Sj6 inhabitants in 1890, an in
crease of 1875 9S7 over its population in 1880.
The value OF the taxable real estate in
Allegheny county in 1880 was SIS, 356, 766.
and in 1890, S262, Gil. .357.
So Jew people are able to grasp the real
import of figures that these win not put
Pittsburg in its proper perspective, but the
following facts should: The cash resources
OF Pittsburg's incorporated banks are larger
than those OF any one of 33 States and
Territories, double those of all the banks of
Virginia, 80, O00, 900 more than those of In
diana and S17 900, 900 more than those of
Texas. The capital surplus and deposits of
the 67 Allegheny county banks aggregate
SlOj, 600, 900, one-fifth the total amount
shown by all the banks, national, State and
private, of Pennsylvania. In 1890 the clear
ings at the Pittsburg Clearing House aggre-
gated 1902, SO, OPS, an increase of over
$500, 600, 900 above the gross amount In 1880.
Its Facilities for Recreation.
So much for the merely material side of
Pittsburg. What of its social side, of its
comforts and and opportunities for recre-
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10 another is made easy by Il lines of street
railway, operating 100 miles of track In
seven of these electricity furnishes the
motive power, in three cables are used, and
three still cling to horses. Nine power in
clines make the uphill journeys of foot pas
=cngerS easy. There are six theaters and
one museum. In the two cities there are
Isl churches, representing all denomina-
lions. Most of these buildings are exceed
inglv handsome, stately and grand. Pitts
burg has 65 school buildings, with 80 ,57S
pupils in attendance, under the instruction
of COS teachers. Allegheny City has %
school buildings, with 10, 600 pupils and 292 |
teachers. These figures do not include |
private and parochial schools, of which |
there are many. Seven public libraries are |
maintained in the Two cities lis Schenlev |
Park will soon be one of the most beautiful |
and largest in the country
For the relief OF the sick eight hospitals |
are maintained Both cities have magniti- |
cent water works, and rejoice in the fact |
that they use more water per capita than 1
any other cities in the world of parks |
there are two measuring together $50 acres,
aud both naturally beautiful and main
tained in handsome fashion. Pittsburg
newspapers for the whole |
country side There are 20 published here.
or these the more important are The PITTS
BURG DISPATCH, Post, Commercial Gazette
Chronicle Telegraph, Leader, 7imeS Press,
ErsibetS- Ercs1.d and Fittsb,aoer Beobachter
Compliments From a High Authority
THE PITTsBURG DISPATCH, the foremost
and most influential journal of Pitts5urg.
was established in 1876, since which time It's
growth has been steadily progressive, not
alone in business and circulation, but in the
esteem of its readers and the general public.
Its policy has always been ''onward and
upward - 1t is considered one of the
great" newspapers of America. Its pro-
absolute fearlessness, inde-
0endence and comprehensive news features
nave made it in point of merit second to no
newspaper published in the United States
Its recognized position as ''the leading
of Western and Central Penn
,ylvania, Eastern Ohio and West Virginia
5 never questioned, and it is considered
throughout the Union as one of the stand
lrls of excellence in all of the salient fea-
ures that make great newspaper. The
DIsPATCH'S utterances, both in its edi-
.oriai and news columns, are considered as
authority" everywhere ON account of its
-eputation for reliability and veracity.
The DISPATCH last year moved into and
low occupies its own commodioCs building |