The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-09
STUDY PITTSBURG
CIVIC EXPERTS NOW FRYING
UP LID.
Economists Observing It's Local and In
dustrial Life for National Chari-
ties Publication Committee.

PITTsBURG. oct. s.-Most people
lock at Pittsburg as a blazing work.
shop, generating steel and m~illionaires
ard smoke. How about it as a place
to live
That was the question put to a group
of sanitarians. economists and civic
engineers of national reputation Who
were sent to Pittsburg early in the
fall. and, in answering it, they are
expected to throw some light on the
present trend of living conditions in
other American industrial communi-
ties.
The civic survey now going forward
in P%ittsburg is somewhat along the
lines of similar work at the national
capital two years age Justice Brewer,
of the United States Supreme Court:
DIR. Charles p. Neill, United States
Commissioner OF Labor; s. W. Wood
ward, a leading merchant of WASH
ington and chairman of the District
Board of Charities, We're among those
identified with the Washington sur
vey. Among other things, this has led
up to the recent appointment OF the
Presidents Homes Commission.
Officers of the Pittsburg Chamber of
Commerce, the Civic Club, Kingsley
J. L " OO10 AkAAA 49, C1N
Columbian Council Settlement and
other local public agencies are cooper
ating, and reference is made by per-
mission to Mayor George w. Guthrie.
President H. D. w. English of the
Chamber of Commerce and Judge Jo-
seph Burlington, of the United States
Courts.
Throughout September, a staff of ex-
pert social workers has been in the
city, and their reports may be expected
to be available to the public by h
end of the year. The sphere of in
duiry has n4sluded Pittsburg. Allegheny
City and such of the outlying boroughs
that are bound to be embraced within
the greater Pittsburg of the future.
The work is carried on under the
National Publication Committee of
aCharities n the Commons" in CO..
operation with such bodies as the In
ternational Committee of the Young
Mems Christian Association, +he-Na
tional Consumers League, the An1eri-
can Bureau of Industrial Research, the
Seybert Institution of Philadelphia and
the Department for the Improvement
of Social Conditions of the New York
Charity Organization Society.
The director of the work here, which is
described as a Survey Of the Social and
I IN - IL aus
Population of Pittsburg." is Paul u. KEEL
logg. of New York. Mr.. kellogg Is man
aging editor of Charities and The Com
mons, assistant secretary of the national
and New York conferences of Charities and
Correction. q member of the board of man.
ayers of Greenwich House, New York: a
member of the committee for improving
the Industrial condition of the negroes IN
New York. of the educational committee
of the New York association of the Neigh
borhood Workers and vice-president of the
sociological section of the international
Congress ON tuberculosis, which is TO be
held in Washington, d. c., in December,
1908. The men and women with Mr.. Kel-
logg in Pittsburg are all of them widely
known as students of social and civic
conditions.
one of the first reports to be looked for
will be that of Charles Mulford Robinson.
of Rochester. on the civic possibilities OF
the river valleys in the way of parks, street
development and general city plan. He has
acted as official civic adviser In ~replanning
Columbus, Denver, Oakland and a number
of other American cities, including a spe-
cial call to Honolulu by the government
authorities there. He is at present on an
extended tour throughout the West, filing
various public commissions in Duluth and
other cities.
Another of the first investigators in the
/ field was Christopher Easton. who since
last SpTllS mas peSu enSdEeu III a SNltn-
tifc analysis of the statistics of ocoupa-
tional morality in the iron and steel trade.
This is pioneer work in America. as al
most nothing has been attempted hitherto
in the direction of an analysis of health
records along the lines of occupation either
by bureaus Of labor or boards of health.
Mr.. Easton is registrar of the Bureau Of
Vital Statistics of the State of Minnesota.
During his stay in Pittsburg he acted as
executive secretary OF the Pittsburg Tu-
berculosis Exhibit. and in his statistical
work ne has been assisted in making q
classified census of steel in Allegheny
County by men Of such standing as Presl-
dent Dinkey. of the Carnegie Steel Cons
pany. and President Wallace H.. Rowe, OF
the Pittsburg Steel Company.
DR.. IL. E. BraInley. for twenty years
an expert sanitariau Of the New York
Department of Public Health, has been
here as a representative of the Lederle
Laboratories. Lawrence WELLER. secretary
Of the New York Tenement House Com
mission of 1900 and a national authority
on housing. was in Pittsburg during part
OF the summer.
Another specialist is Or. Peter Roberts,
representing the investigation department
of the international Young Mems Chris
fian Association. Or. Roberts IS known
for two important volumes on The An
thracite Coal Industry" and The Antha-
lie Coal Communities. which are deserip-
tive OF the coal fields in Pennsyiyania His
inquiry In Pittsburs deals exclusively With
The Immigrant population, and he has had
the cooperation OF Slavic, Bohemian. ltai-
ian and other leaders of the Pitts5nrs dis
Professor John R. Commons, Of the Sui
versity of Wisconsin, and three associates
were in Pittsburg throughout the early
fall studying wages, homes and eondi-
tions of work generally in the steel dis
trict. Altogether, a staff of twenty mNes-
f%igators mas been on The ground. and thelr
findings will cover a wide range Of civic
conditions.
GRAPE FESTIVAL AT eREIsENHEIM.
A three-day's grape festival VIII be held
on the grounds of the Gottfried kruesef
Gretsenheim. in Clinton place, beginning