Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-04-03
SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.
Prof. White Gives His Idea of
Pittsburg's Greatest Need.

Coal Gave Industrial Supremacy to
This City. But Man Must Supplement
Natures WOrk-The Ideal Location
for Great University Of Applied
Science-Proposed Course OF the
Ship Canal Once Followed by the
M0nongaheia- Municipal Consolida-
ton Thing Desirable.
A university of technology, or APP
piled science, superior to any insti-
tuition of that kind, in the United
States, is declared by Prof. l. c.
White, geologist of West Virginia,
to be the one thing needfnl to Sc
cure. and perpetuate the supremacy
of Pittsburg as the industrial mas
ter of America.
Prof White, who has for many
years been connected with the Uni
versity of West Virginia at Morgan
town, delivered an address Friday
evening in the Carnegie institute
lecture hall, under the auspices of
the Academy of Science and Art, on
''The Making of Pittsburg, says the
Times. His audience was larger
than usual at these lectures and was
attended by many young persons of
both sexes, evidently from the High
school and the academy Prof.
Whites treatment was geological
rather than historical. He described
the operations of the carboniferous
or coal period, the most important
of the geological epochs to Western
Pennsylvania. This part of the lee
ture was illustrated with lantern
slides, showing the vegetation of
that age and the vegetation and an
imal fossils found in the bituminous
coal and slate. The great Pittsburg
coal bed was formed, he said, while
this region was on the border of an
arm OF the Gulf of Mexico. The veg
citation formed into immense beds of
peat and these, by heat from the inte-
rior of the earth and pressure by the.
superimposed beds Of deposit from
the washing down of the once tower
ing Blue Ridge, were converted into
coal.
It is this extensive coal bed, Prof.
White said, which has made Pitts
burg. These beds will supply the
mills here for centuries to come, and
are SO located that their treasures
come down hill to this center of in
dustry. This is the largest coal de-
posit in the world
After the formation of coal depos-
it's the Monongahela river flowed
northwestward to Lake Erie. 1t
was DETECTED by the coming down
from the north of the great glacial
sheet, which turned the Monongahe-
la to the southwark, near Beaver,
and formed the Ohio Prof White
believes that the course of the river
northward followed almost identical
ly the route surveyed for the ship
canal TO Lake Erie and that the
construction of that canal would be
but restoration of the watercourse
Of many centuries ago.
He believed that Pittsburg should
have the ship canal, as one helpful
feature in the attainment of indus
trial supremacy. ssThis is already"
he said, the greatest center ofindus
try IN the world, but there are things
which will clinch that position. You
should have the ship canal and you
should have consolidation of all con-
tiguous municipalities. Nature has
done much for you and your men Of
brains and energy have contributed
to the advantages of natural selec-
ton. Great good has already been
done here in the establishment of
institutions of learning Above all,
to maintain your supremacy for the
years co come, Pittsburg must have
a great school of technology. This
is che fit place for it,
sit is a cause of shame that we
have not one first-class school of APP
piled science in the United States.
When our young men have desired
the best knowledge practical science
they have found it necessary to go
to Germany, and now its schools
have been closed against us. This
is the ideal place for such univer-
sity, in the shadow Of your mills,
and its foundation is worthy OF the
most intense efforts of your indus
trial princes and masters of learning.
No city can survive without keeping