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

we're more lights burning at midday Below them
Were great stackS-row upon row upon row OF them,
too-and the black smoke that poured up was pierced
now and then and again by bright tongues of
hames-the radiance of furnaces that gowcd
throughout the night and day
We're mud and dirt up to the knees-and money
all the rest of the way, said the owner of that Office
He was native OF the city. He came To the window
and pointed TO of the rlvers-a yellow brown
mirrored surface scarcely gllstening under leaden
Clouds but bearing long tows by the dozen-coal
bargcs, conveyed by dirty stern wheeled steamboats,
There is of the busiest barbors In the world"
said the townsman. "A barbor that In tonnage COM
pares with Liverpool and your own blessed
New York"
The New York man laughed at the harbor 1t re-
minded him quite definitely of Newtown Creek-that
Shiny waterway along which the trains used to pass
in the days when Thirty-fourh street ferry was the
gateway Long Island.
Eve have touuage-in this district" said the man
who was not ashamed OF his city .aud that Is no Idle
dream. You won't believe 1t when ,elt YOU that
the freight tonnage Of this pippiu of a town equals
that Of New York, Chicago and san Francisco put
together-while you put In one or two foreign
capitals for good measure It's solemn truth II
you don't believe It and If you won't believe our har-
oornaser look nt the lines Of freight for forty
mueS out Oh every trunk line railroad that gets In
here This Is the real gathering ground for all the
freight rolling stock of this big land
But the New York only looked out again upon
the city In semidarkness at the middle. of the day
This IS Pittsburg," be said again.
Not Unlike New York
In general way Pittsburg has a situation not ur-
like that Of the great metropolis of the continent
For New YorkS East River substitute the Mononga-
hela, for the Hudson the Allegheny and let the
Ohio, beginning its long course ut the Polnt-Pits-
burgs Battery-repreScnt the two harbors OF New
York. Then you begin to get the rough resemblance
To the south of the Monongabea, Pittsburgs Brook
lyn Is Birmingham, set under the half day shadows
Of the towering cliffs of Mount Washington, Ale
gheny-now part Of Greater PlttSburg scmi-ofi-
rally known the north side-correseouds IN loca.
don with Jersey City.
And the problems that have besct Pittsburg In her
growth have been almost the very problems that from
,he FIRST have hampered the growth OF metropolitan
New York. If her rivers have been such stupend-
affairs as have been those of this city, the over
powerng hills and mountains that close in upon her
every side have presented barriers equal gui-
tudc To conquer them has been the labor of many
tunnels, of steel. inclined railroads. the like of which
is not TO be seen IN any other great city America
1t has been no easy conquest
As a result Of all this the growth of the city has
been uneven and errauc. Down on the narrow spit
OF Cat land the junction of the two rivers that go
10 make the Ohlo-a location exactly corresponding
with Manhattan Island below the City Hall and of
even less area-is the business centre of the place
wholesale and retail stores, banks Office buildings
railroad passenger terminals hotels theutres and the
IKE The same causes that made The skyscraper n
necessity In New York city have worked a like neccs
sitY In PlttsburR