Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15


! Roads-Strest Car Service Inefficient-
Hotels Always Crowded - Pittsbure
| Women.
| CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
| CHICAGO, May 13.-Some one has said
everybody thinks his own city in the worst
| plight and the managers of that city's street
railways the meanest men on the face of the
earth. am of the opinion this does not
hold good with Pittsburg's people, at least
not with its women people; but if there are
any of that mind let them come to Chicago
! and get cured of it. The farther from home
go, the more dirt get into.
Pittsburg is decidedly clean compared to
| Chicago. But unlike Pittsburg, Chicago
| does not glory in her Crime. She has Or
ganized a society for the prevention o.
smoke, appointed Smoke Inspector and
has sent out letters to manufacturers and
the management of every railroad company
operating lines in Chicago notifying them
that they must adopt one of the four ap-
proved devices, now more or less used,
| abate the smoke nuisance or stand suit.
So far so good; but the reform movement
does not go far enough to insure cleanli-
ness and the attendant comfort.
Chicago must clean up her miserably
dirty streets before she can command OH r
fullest admiration and respect. Really, in
many places the crossings on her mai
thoroughfares are comparable only to cour-
try crossroads during spring freshet.
One cannot take step without getting into
mud. A woman needs gum boots and a
DR.. Mary Walker suit to get around COM
fortably. Of course, the fat site of the city
and probably imperfect sewerage is respon-
| sible for this unpleasantness, which we are
promised shall be obviated before we visit
the great Fair.
However, it seems to me everybody is al
ready here, and whether Chicago has the
:'meanest men on earth" for street car man.
ayers or not, it remains that her lines can
not carry her people any more comfortably
than can those Of other cities over whom
Chicago has done a good deal of Growing.
During morning and evening hours there
are not seats for half the people. They
stand on the end platforms, hang on the
side platforms and even from the steps,
from which insecure, place they frequently
tumble, and at crossings it sometimes han
pens they are struck by Locomotives which
here run on the same grade as the streets.
In regard to the promise to clean up be-
fore Fair time I am afraid Chicago will
have spent all her time and money on the
kEApuSltlOu duU nave nOLnlug lett LOT Inunl-
cipal improvement The Exposition build
ings, even in their unfinished state, are a
great attraction. Evidently am not alone
in this opinion for the city seems uncom-
fortably full of visitors. One can but won
der how the people are to be accommodated
during the Fair
The hotels are so many hives filled with
bees-queen bees for most part, since the
first biennial meeting of the General Feder-
alton of Women's Clubs is now in session
and representative women from all ov er the
United States are here making themselves
heard. Pennsylvania is to the fore in this,
as in everything else, clubs from Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg, Allegheny. Pottsviile,
Bradford, Oil City, Wayne, Meadville and
Franklin having sent delegates.
Just at this point am waited upon by
bedrabbled delegation bringing request
that I tell the public that Chicago has the
wettest rain, the muddiest streets and the
''crowdedcst" street cars of any city in the
world. have said it for them and now the
sin DC on their heads, not mine
Among those well known to readers of
THE DISPATCH now here are Mrs Max
Becker and her daughter, Mrs. Dinwiddie,
Bessie Bramble. and Mrs. C. w. Bassett,
President of the Vassar Home Study Club
of Pittsburg. MARY TEMPLE BAYARD.