The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-05
Varied Striking and Picturesque Heart of Pitsburg
Courtesy Weekly

baseball park In all this land-n wizardry OF steel
and glass and concretc-is distinctive feature OF
this Improvement
The New Pittsburg.
The freight urnins gone from the downtown
shopping streets, and the two wicked grade crossings
disappeared when the Pennsylvania built its splendid
Unou Station. Other fine railroad terminals and
hotels bnve added TO the comfort of the stranger
They beginning In a faint way 10 give transfers
the trolley cars, and there Is promise that some
day wayfarers will not be taxed penny every time
they walk the bridges that bind the heart of
the city.
The bridge companies are private affairs paying
from fifteen to twenty per cent In annual dividends
and they hang pretty tightly on to their bonanzas
But the Pttsburg Chamber Of Commerce is after
thcm and that chamber Is n fairly energetic body.
1T has already sought the devil in his lair and tried
TO abolish the smoke nuisance, with some definite re-
suits
\ New York girl who has been living in Pttsbure
the four years complained that she never had
seen but two there. There Is hope for that
girl II the Chamber OF Commerce keeps hard at Its
autsmoke campaign she may yet stand on the Point
and down the muddy Ohio see something that dimly
resembles the glorious dying Of the day, secs
1t from the heights Of New York ctys Riverside Drive
y keen eyed man sat In an easy chair in the luxury
of the DuQuesne Club and faced the New York man.
Are we so bad?' he demanded You New York
Ike 10 paint us that way. You judge us falsely.
You think that when YOU come out here you going
a OF a modern Sod0m, bowing to all the
gods of money and the gods Of the high tariff. You
think you going to fairly revel in a wide open
town. In the full significance of that phrase and what
do you see?
You see a pretty solid sort of a Scotch Presby
terian town. where you can't get shaved in your
hotel Sunday, say nothing Of buying drink.
And for shows, you can't buy your way into
here Sunday Why. of the elders at
my kirk have even looked askance at Mr. Carnegie
recitals that he gives Sabbath afternoons
IN that splendid hall of the Institute
There's your real Pittsburg, and if of The
boys have Cramped bit under all the restraint that
they've had here and gone to the wicked city for
little hng and n little advertising, is that any just
why IL all should be charged against Pitts
burg? PittSbuTg has enough troubles of her own,
without borrowing any additional ones.
The trouble is we've been making too much money
to notice much about the boys. give Il proper at
tcution to some pretty vital civic problemS-thats
why the rottcnness cropped in the city councils
It's the faint of the almighty dollar New Yorker
why Mr.. Carnegie made about hundred of us million
naires within single twentyfour hours-can you
think of any worse blow for average town.
He took some OF us, who had been working for
him Il long time and got into the busiueSS-some
eighth Interest others for sixteenth
n thrty-SecOnd That great and appreciated
It, but it kept fairly tight ready money for
n while. even though Frick and Meen standing
pat with offer OF hundred million dollars for the
bonds of the steel company. l tell you was short
ready money myself; and wondering If couldn't cut
down my house rent of $1,000 year and get my
wife to keep two hired girls instead of !hrce, Then
you know what happened Carnegie himself took over
the bonds cold hundred million dollars.
Within q week l in New York talking with
architect about building new house for the miSSuS
and getting passage tickets through to Europe"
The ronmaSter called his automobile and bundled
the New York within II.