The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-05
Panoramic View Showing Great Steel Mills.
Photo by r w. Johnston.

The fact that Pittsburg live outside of Pitts
burg 10 give to her the fourth largest commute
tion service in the country. only New York Boston
and Philadelphia surpass her i'm this wise. One hun
dred and fifty miles TO the northwest is Cleveland, the
sixth city of the country and ranking higher than
Pittsburg in population There Is a single dis
tnctlvc suburban train in or out OF Clevelqud.
From single terminal in Pittsburg four hundred
passenger trains arrive and depart in the course of
single business day. and nnety-6yc per cent of these
run for the sole benefit OF the suburbanltc
So congcSted have even these railroad facilities be
that the city cries bitterly for a transit relIc
and experts at work planning subway sys
TEN 10 aid both the steam roads and the over
worked surface trolley lines. At best Ii is sine.
cure to operate the trolley of Pttsburg. Com
bncd with streets, uptown and downtown.
the fearful slopes of the great hills 1t takes
big cars to climb those slopes. and when the New
York man secs those big cars for the first time he
looks twice They are chariots of steel not much
smaller than those that daily thread blessed
subway, and when they come to You they make You
think OF locomotives. The trucks are equipped with
heavy driving rods precisely like those of n ocomo
tive The heavy Itself gives sense of strength
and hin capabllity But the company staggers twice
daily under traffic that Is far beyond its facilities
and 1t staggers under It's political burdens
For 1t is much your very life is worth to talk
back" to n Plttsburg conductor. The conductor
is an of the big political machine that holds
that Western Pennsylvania town In the very hollow
OF its ample hand The conductors get their jobs
through their Aldermen, and they hold them through
their Aldermen. So if a New York man forgcts that
be is $40 miles from Broadway aud gets TO assert
ing his mind to the that runs tic car let him
look out Cor trouble, Chances nine to one that
he will be hauled mp before Magistrate for break
ing the peace, and that another OF the political
will
A Man Who Got Angry
\ man. born In Pittsburg once mnde a protest to
a conductor Of coming across from Allegheny
The passenger in the right and the conductor
knew IL, But the conductor answered that protest
with volley of profanity. If that thing had hap
pencd In New York the conductors Job would not
have been worth the formallty OF II resignation In
Pittsburg bystander wnrncd-thc passenger-and he
saved himself arrest by keeping his mouth shut and
getting of the car
But the Pittsburs man had not lost quite his sense
of justice. and lie hurried Il certain high officer Of
the street railroad company. When he came TO tha
cOmpany'S Offices lie usbercd in high state fot
It 50 happened that the born Plttsburg man was a
director OF that very corporation 1t happens that
street railroad directors do rlde-ke their steam
railroad brcthrcn-on passes and the conductor did
not know that he was playing dip-1ap with his job
You'll have to fire that man. said the director In
ending his complaint "If that had happened at tho
DuqucSnc I'd punched him In the head"
The big operating looked Mt his director and
smiled what the lady uoyestS call n sweet sad smile
Sorry, Ben" said he but know chat man Hes
one of Alderman KS men. and IL we bred him
x would hang US up a half dozen things"