The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1909-11-11

in three different halls at the same
time, except that on some special days
there must be four, five, and as many
as seven halls in use. The magnifi-
cent auditoriums of the Bellefield
Presbyterian church, First Congrega-
tional, East Liberty Presbyterian,
and others were thrown open to the
people. Then we took possession of
the great armory known as Duquesne
Garden. seating thousands of people.
Not content with this we took in Luna
Park, a great summer theatre, and
Forbes Field, said to be the finest
athletic grounds in the world,
erected at cost of million dollars,
with seats for 1900 people under
cover with capacity for adding sever
al thousand more in the open air.
Then we must mention Carnegie Hall.
This immense building is 600 feet
long and 400 feet wide. 1t contains
library of 100000 volumes, an art
gallery, hall of architecture and
sculpture, museum and a hall of
music. The music hall was open for
our use during the entire convention.
NO less than sixty-five varieties of
marble, from all parts of the world
where marble is quarried, enters into
the interior construction of the build
ing. Its cost is about $7,O0O,OOO,
while near by are the Carnegie Tech
meal Schools. costing $13,OOO,OOO,
more, the whole being known as the
carnegie Institute, one of the truly
big things of Pittsburg and America
eve almost forgot to mention the
watch of Alexander Campbell among
the relics mentioned above. These
relics are all owned by grandson of
Alexander Campbell, Mr. A. c..
Thompson, of Pittsburgh
Tomorrow we shall be better pre-
pared to enjoy the convention. On
arrival at the hall Thursday morning
we found the doors closed again. We
very much disappointed, as we had
planned to hear the great Medbury,
of University church. Des Moines, but
there was no help for it, and as it was
raining we decided to spend the fore
noon in Carnegie Institute. We Wis
tied the museum, saw the Diplodocus
Carnegie (Spelled that without look
ing it up too) and took his picture
| believe this is the largest fossil in
existence. He is 1913 feet long and 16
feet high, and belongs to the reptile
family. How is that for a snake
story? | am not sure but what we
sent you post card picture of him.
The greater part of the bones were
found in Wyoming about ten years
ago. l have seen other fossil remains
but somehow, | don't forget the
Diplodocus. accent on the Do.)
We also spent some time in the hall
OF architecture and statuary. These
things cannot be described by the
ordinary mortal, nor can the pictures
in the gallery. There is one picture,
however, in the gallery which, like
the DiplOdocus, comes before our eyes
whenever we think of Carnegie Insti-
tute. That is the painting by Bouveret
OF Christ at Emmaus. The picture
portrays the moment when the Saw
Jour made himself known to the two
disciples in the breaking of bread
after he had walked and talked with
them on the way. The artist has in
troduced himself, his wife and child
in the background looking upon the
scene from the standpoint of today.
1t is study, and there is something
about it that compels one to go and
look upon it again after he has seen
every other picture in the gallery.
This was the first day we got to see
many of our acquaintance from ST.
Louis, and we were fortunate in see
ing nearly all Of them Thursday
evening our pastor spoke in one of
the halls on the Relation of Chris
tianity to the Development of Ameri-
Ca and it was one of the very best
addresses of the convention.
The student of American history
can find much that is fascinating in
and around Pittsburg, and we de-
y termined to visit some of the places
Our guide book told Of us the old
Semple tavern at the corner OF
Water and Ferry streets, and we
made that our first objective point
The old inn has long since been RE.
placed by another building, but as
we walked about on the corner in the
hope that we might at least tread the
same ground over which Washington
walked, for he lodged at the ole
tavern whenever he visited Pitts
burg, we discovered an old tablet OF
the. corner of the present building
placed there to mark the location o.
the old tavern. We are on histori.
ground. Here no doubt Washington
stood and gazed out over the water:
of the Monongahela, for the river i!
UuC q Lew IOuS away. mere III Llt
old tavern Lafayette and the Duke
of Orleans were entertained. Ant
even as we stood there trying to i'm
agine the scene as it was in Wash
ington's day, a steamboat, The Brad
dock, passed by, reminder both o
historic days of old and of the pro
gress that hundred and fifty year,
have brought. A few miles away il
the scene of Braddock's defeat. w,
wanted to visit this point too, blu
simply could not get time
Only few blocks from the OLE
Semple Tavern is the site of oil
Fort Du Quesne, later named For
Pitt, after it's capture by the Eng
lish. The Braddock, built in 1854
is still standing, having been care'
for by the Daughters of the Revolu
ton. We visited this and / tool
Eva's picture standing by the side o
this old relic. 1t is still in a YER
good state of preservation, but o
course, would not be much protec
tion to a garrison in modern war