The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-06
The New Pittsburg.

baseball
and glass and concrete-is distinctive feature of
this Improvement.
The New Pittsburg.
The freight trains gone from the downtown
shopping streets and the two wicked grade crossings
disappeared when the Pennsylvania built It's splendid
new Uniou Station Other fine railroad terminals and
new hotels have added to the comfort OF the stranger
They are beginning in faint way 10 give transfers
the trolley cars aud there Is promise that some
day wnyfarers will not be taxed penny every time
they walk across the bridges that bind the heart OF
the city.
The bridge companies private affairs, paying
from fifteen to twenty per cent In annual dividends,
and they hang pretty tightly to their bonanzas.
But the PittSburg Chamber OF Commerce Is after
them. and that chamber is fairly energetic body.
has already sought the devil i'll his lair and tried
to abolish the smoke nuisance, With some DEFINITE re-
suits
y New York girl who has been living in Plttsbure
for the last four years complained that she never had
but two sunsets there. There is hope for that
girl If the Chamber OF Commerce keeps hard at Its
anti-smoke campaign she may yet stand the Point
and down the muddy Ohio something that dlmly
resembles the glorious dying of the day, one sees
1t from the heights of New York ciys Riverside Drive
A kcon eyed man sat in an easy chair in the luxury
OF the DuqueSne Club and faced the New York nun
Are we bad:' he demanded You New York
men Ike to paint us that way You judge us falsely
You think that when you out here you going
TO a sort of modern Seldom, bowling to all the
gods Of money and the gods of the high tariff. You
think you going TO fairly rcve In wide open
town. IN the full Significance OF that phrase and what
You see a pretty solid sort OF Scotch Presby-
tcran town, where you can't get shaved In your
hotel on Sunday, TO say nothing Of buying drink.
And as for shows YOU can't buy your way into
cert here on Sunday. Why, of the elders
my kirk have even looked askance at Mr.. Carnegie
for the free recols that he gives Sabbath afternoons
i'll that splendid hall of the Institute.
There's your real Pittsburg, and If of the
boys have crampcd bit under all the restraint that
they've had here and gone to the wicked city for a
nttlo fling and a little advertising is that any Just
reason why It all should be charged against Pitts
burgf PttsOurg has enough troubles Of her own.
without borrowing any additional
The trouble Is we've been making too much money
to notice much about the boys OF give proper at
teutou to some pretty vital civic problems-thats
why the r0tenness cropped out in the city councils.
It's the tainr OF the almighty dollar. New Yorker
why Mr.. Carnegie made about hundred of us million
nUreS within single twenty-fo6r hOuTS-can you
think OF any worse blow for an average town?
BE took some Of us, who had been working for
him long time and got rs Into the busness-some
FOR eighth interest, others for sixteenth even
n thlrty-socond That great and appreciated
IL, but it kept us fairly tight on ready money for
a while even though Prick and Mcllcn were standing
pat with offer of hundred million dollars for tho
bonds of the steel company. tell You was short on
ready money myself; and wondering II [ couldn't cut
down my house rent of $1,000 year and get my
wife 10 keep two hired girls instead Of three Then
you know what happened. Carnegie himself took over
the bonds nj n cold two hundred million dollars.
Within week in New York talking with an
architect about building new house for the miSsus
and getting passage tickets through TO Europe
The IronmAster called his automobile and bundled
the New York man within IT,
Into the Sums
Were going down into the slums' he said. 81 can
show YOU single block where thirteen different an-
csuNges spoken. That's the new PlttSburg-takin@
up anoher's burdens something OF that sort
they call It. It's queer until you ger used TO It, and
YOU do get used 1t t makes you feel like get
ting up the roof and yelling that PttSburgS going
10 be the greatest city on Garth and not Just greatest
IN tonnage in dollars
That's why cottonlng to that idea of
civic centre out by Scbenley Park that's why pat
Andrew Carnegie on the back when know that
he IS giving the best in pictures and in music in
America; thats why Frick is holding back with his
horse pasture there In front of CarnesieS Institute TO
build something bigger and better you get the
idea now of the bigger and the better Pittsburgh"
The Limousine stopped and the ironmaster beckoned
a much whskered Russian TO H.
Here's Il real anarchist" be said, but he's one of
my proteges. He speaks down In dirty hall In Lib
ery avenue, near the Wabash terminal, ana he rather
roasts directors, but he's for the new PIttsburg
and he's for 1t strong-So we come together after
fashion"
The Russian who was teacher came close TO the
big automobile and pointed To woman OF his own
people-a woman wretchedy poor. who dwelt in one
of the novels which today Pittsburgs greatest
shame
She's reading Byron" he said, quietly. and she
has been In America less than six months She says
Byron aud Tolstoy"
That reminded the ironmnster of an Incident
After that bad time in 1901" he said. II cbanced
INTO one oil MT CarneGcs libraries and the librarian
complained to me OF the way the boolSy were being
ruined Their pages were being scratched and filled
with rust and fine Shavngs | had an idea on
that myself. l went back to our own mll-it was
pretty dull there, and lodging the fororn place
much as | could But we were sjftInl nur u ,nn.s
from the men who were beating our doors every
morning for work, and even then we were carrying
twice as many men really needed I went
around back OF the furnaces, and there were the
library DooKs-the men were reading them the long
shifts"
They weren't reading Hctlon? asked the New
Yorker
One of them spoke to me- He was only getting
three days week Mr. Carnegie can give the books
was his quiet observation and the money with which
TO buy them. But we need more than money Cnn't
he ever give US the leisure read them without IL
costing us the money Tor food
IDat, New Yorker, that from the of of
those of the new Pitsburg, is the answer to your
lon