The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-04-05
SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY.
Prot. White Gives His Idea of
Pittsburg's Greatest Need.

Coal GaYe 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
Monongahela- Municipal Consolida-
tion q Thing Desirable.
A university of technology, or ap-
piled science, superior to any insti-
tuition of that kind in the United
States, is declared by Prof. l. G.
White, geologist OF West Virginia,
to be the one thing needful to Sc
cure and perpetuate the supremacy
of Pittsburg as the industrial mas
ter of America.
Prof White, who has tor many
years been connected with the Uns-
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
1.-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.
1t 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
its the Monongahela river flowed
northwestward to Lake Erie. II
was DETECTED by the coming down
from the north Of the great glacia
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 b.
but restoration of the watercourst
of many centuries ago.
He believed that Pittsburg should
have the ship canal, as one helpful
feature in the attainment of indus
trial supremacy. "This is already
he said, the greatest center ofindus
try in the world, but there are things
which will clinch that position. Yor
should have the ship canal and yor
should have consolidation of all COR
tiguous municipalities. Nature he.
done much for you and your men O.
brains and energy have contribute
to the advantages of natural selec
ton. Great good has already beer
done here in the establishment o
institutions of learning Above all
to maintain your supremacy for th'
years 60 come, Pittsburg must have
a great school of technology. This
is the fit place for it
ut is cause of shame that W,
have not one first class school of ap
piled science in the United States
When our young men have desired
the best knowledge practical science
they have found it necessary to g
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
abreast of the time, and to do thai
the people of Pittsburg and all it;
tributary territory should strive