The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-11-05

we're more lights burning at midday. Below them
were great Stacks-row upon upon row of them
too-and the black smoke that poured up was pierced
and then and again by bright tongues of
nameS-the radiance OF furnaces that glowed
throughout the night and day.
We're mud and dirt up TO the knecs-and money
all the rest of the way" said the owner of that Office
He was a native of the city. He came the window
and pointed to of the rlYcrs-a yellow brown
mlrrored surface, scarcely gllsening under leaden
clouds. but beoring long tows by the dozen-coal
barges, conveyed by dirty stern wheeled steamboats,
There Is OF the busiest harbors In the world"
said the townsman. "A harbor 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 Creell-that
Shiny waterway along which the trains used to pass
in the days when Thrtyfourth street ferry was the
gateway TO Long Island.
I'VE have tonnage-in this district" said the man
who was not ashamed Of his city, "lud that is no idle
dream. You won't believe It when ;eif YOU that
the freight tonnage of this plppin of town equals
that of New York, Chicago and San Francisco put
together-whlle you put in one or two foreign
capitals for good It's solemn truth II
You don't believe it and if you won't believe our har-
bormaster look the lines Of freight cars for forty
miles out on every trunk line railroad that gets In
here This is the real gathering ground for all the
1reight rolling stock of this big land"
But the New York man only looked out again upon
tne CITY In semrdarkuesS at the middle of the day
inns Is Plttsburg," he said again.
Not Unlike New York
In general way Pittsburg has Il situation not un-
like that OF the great metropolis of the continent
For New York's East River substitute the AIoponpa
hela' Tor the Hudson the Allegheny, and let tho
oho' beginning It's long at the Point-Pltts-
burgs Battery-represent the two harbors Of New
York Then you begin to get the rouab resemblance
To the south of the Monongnhca PittsburcIs Brook
lyn Is Birmingham set under tue half day shadows
Of the towering cliffs OF Mount Washington Ale
gheny-now part of Greater Pittsburg and seml-oGi.
tially known the north side-corrcsponds IN loca
don with Jersey City
And the problems that have bcsct PttsI,,r,, j., br
rowth have been almost the very problems tbot from
me hrst have hampercd the growth of metyopoton
New York II her rivers have been no sucb stncnd.
Gus olIarS rs have been those of this CITY tho ovor.
towering hills and mountains that close I'm unon hcr
Sn every side have presented barriers OF eoua mnrn
rude 10 conquer them has been the labor Of many
iuhnes OF steel. inclined railroads the like of which
Is not 10 be seen in any other great city In America
1t has been no easy conquest
as result Of all this the growth of the cltv has
been uneven and cratic Down on the narrow splt
oil uat land ut the junction of the two rivers that &c
10 make the ohio-a location exactly correspondina
with Manhattan Island below the City Hall and al
even less areas the business centre of tbo nloco
wholesale and retail stores banks office buildings
railroad passenger terminals hotels theatres and IN,
IKE The same causes that made the sl,yscraner
necessity in New York city have worked n Ike necoe
eluy In PlttSburg.