The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-11-06
Panoramic View Showing Great Steel Mills.
Photo by r w. Johnston

The fact that Pltsburg men live outside of Pitts.
burg to give TO her the fourth largest commute
ton service in the country. only New York. Boston
and Philadelphia surpass her In this wise One hun
drcd and fifty miles the northwest Cleveland the
sixth city of the country and ranking higher than
Pttsburg in population. There Is not a single dis.
tnctiye suburban train run In o of Cleveland
From single terminal in Pitsburg four hundred
passenger trains arrive and depart in the of
single business day and niney-dve per OF these
arc run for the sole benefit of the suburbanite.
SO congesled have these railroad facilities be
that the city cries bitterly for transit rcliel
and experts at work planning a subway sys
tenn to aid both the steam roads and the over
worked surface trolley lines At best it is sine
cure to operate the trolley of PltsburG Com.
blned with narrow streets uptown ana downtown,
the fearful slopes of the great bills Il takes
big TO climb those slopes, and when the New
York sees those big cars for the Grst time he
looks twice. They chariotS of steel not much
smaller than those that daily thread blessed
subway. and, when they come 10 sou they make YOU
think OF locomotives. The trucks equipped with
heavy driving rods precisely like those of a ocomo.
tive. The heavy itself gives n sense Of strength
and hIll c0pabity. But the company staggers twice
daily under traffic that is far beyond It's facilities
and 1t stasgers under Its political burdens.
For is much as your very life is worth talk
back" to n Pittsburg conductor. The conductor
IS 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 II a New York man Gorgcts that
he is 40 miles from Broadway and gets 10 assert
Ing his mind to the man that runs the car let him
look out for trouble. Chances nine TO one that
he will be hauled up before Magistrate for break
ing the peace and that another of the political
1pb btnp will dow h1r, n ,fv,
A Man Who Got Angry.
\ man. born in Plttsburg, once made q protest to
a conductor of car coming across from Allegheny
The passenger was in the right and the conductor
knew It. But the conductor answered that protest
with n voley OF profanity. II that thing hnd hap
pened IN New York the conductors job would not
have been worth the formaity ola resignation In
Pittsburg Il byslandcr warned-the pOssengcr-and he
saved himself arrest by keeping his mouth shut and
getting OFF the car.
But the Plttsburg man had not lost quite his sense
OF Justice and he hurried certain high officer OF
the street railroad company. When be came to tina
compunyS Offices he uSbcrcd In in high state fot
II happened that the born plttsburg man was
director OF that very corporation so happens that
street railroad directors do not rde-ke 5heir steam
railroad brchren-on passes, and the conductor did
not know that he was playing hp-nap with his Job.
You'll have To fire that man." said the director In
ending his complaint III that had happened at the
Duquesne I'd a punched him in the head
Tho big operating looked at his director and
smiled what the lady novelIsts call sweet sad smile
Sorry Ben" said he, but l know tbat man He's
one OF Alderman ks men. and II we fred him
X would hang US up on half a dozen things