Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-08
PHILADELPHIA TRADE
BOOMERS IN THE HEART
OF GREAT IRON REGION
Greeted at McKeesport by
Mayor and Commerce Cham
Der After Stops at Union
town and Connellsville
HUGE INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
Visits to Big Manufacturing Concerns
and Enterprising Business
Houses
~ a star Correspondent

McKEESPoRT, Pa. March s.-when
the trade expansion special on the Penn
sylvania Railroad, bearing several score
business men of Philadelphia as ambas-
endprs OF the commercial and Industrial
interests OF that city, rolled into the sta
tlon at this place at 10:45 this morning,
+ Mayor George II. Bysle, with n delegation
Of prominent citizens and members OF the
hMcKeesport Chamber of Commerce, were
waiting to greet the tourists The cordial
fly Of the greeting left nothing to be de-
sized, and the round of the great manu-.
facturing concerns and enterprsng busl-
ness houses was n revelation in the way of
= mutual understanding between the Wis
itors and their hosts.
r. #. Dulany, president OF the McKees-
port Chamber of Commerce, mounted
truck at the railroad station and made n
brief and stirring address of welcome.
Mayor Lysle's greeting was responded to
BY 10. j. Cattell and o. @. McGowin on
behalf OF Philadelphia Automobiles were
in waiting and the party divided, one part
to visit the National Tube Works which
extend more than two miles along the
bank of the Monongahela River, the other
party to visit the Mckeesport Tin Plate
Works.
OFF TO THE OIL COUNTRY.
At noon the tourists left McKeesport on
the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, on their way to Butler, Pa, the
centre of a great oil and gas industry, and
the home of the mammoth plant of the
Pressed Steel Car Company The special
train slSlrted Pittsburgh on the east pass
ing through that part of Pittsburgh known
as the Schenley district, within sight of
the new Pittsburgh Baseball Park said to
be the largest and finest in the world and
which was recently enlarged by taking
of Schenley Park so that Hans Wag-
ners homers would not always go over
the concrete fence.
McTSeesport is the home of the largest
plant of the National Tube Works and of
extensive tinplate plants the largest in
the world, surrounded by the gigantic
steel plants of the Carnegie and United
States Steel Corporations. Adjoining
,McKeesport are the great steel manufac-
turing towns of Duquesne, Homestead and
Braddock, where are located the stu
pendous plants of the Carnegie Company,
the Edgar Thomson Steel Works the
Duquesne furnaces, the famous Home
stead Works and the Braddock steel
plants. The Westinghouse plants, both |
airbrake and electric and manufacturing, |
as well as their subsidiary, the signal |
and switch works. are within calling dis |
tance, and all are busy rurning out their |
regular products, as well as war NUM- |
TONS
Up to the time of their arrival here |
Niie HIiidutlpIld lOuTlSIS UaQ ndu q DuSy |
and instructive morning.
At Uniontown, Fayette County, they |
were met by the Mayor, George NJ. Bailey, |
and a committee of the City Council, and |
escorted to the Hotel Tillow. Here n |
number of Uniontown's prominent citizens |
were on hand to receive them, A cordial |
greeting of welcome was made by the |
Mayor and responded to by N. B. Kelly, |
Secretary of the Philadelphia Chamber of |
Commerce. Speeches were also made by !
Allan NJ. Matthews, of the Corn Exchange |
National Bank; Charles H. Tryon, of Ed |
ward X. Tryon q Co., and r. j. Cattell, |
City Statistician of Philadelphia. Later |
at the Lyric Theatre moving picture films |
of the laboratories of H. X. Mulford and |
the Disston Saw Works were exhibited.
On the way from Greensburg to Union
town and from Uniontown to Connells- /
ville the special train passed through the |
great coke district, where hundreds of |
thousands of coke ovens are throwing into |
the air as waste by-produCts which, IL |
conserved, would supply with dye mate |
rials all the textile mills in the United |
States and leave tons for export.