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THE DUQUESNE FURNACES

Duquesne is a few miles south of Pittsburg, and is one of the almost continuous line of iron-manufacturing towns from Pittsburg to McKeesport, all connected by trolley lines

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Pittsburg is a city of hills, and workers as well as capitalists have homes in sightly" situations.

of the times are that the people are being aroused, and will regain their sovereignty at no distant date. The schools are always the last of the city's charges to throw off the political shackles. The residents of Pittsburg and its suburbs can never get beyond the influence of churches and libraries. They, with the schools, are found in the newest as well as the oldest sections. The opportunity for educational advantages that keeps so many families in densely populated centers need not hold them in Pittsburg or in Allegheny. The latter is the sister city of Pittsburg in interest and development; what is said of one city applies with little modification to the other. Magnificent suburbs, easily accessible by bridges across the rivers, by trolley, and by the inclined railroads, offer every inducement to the wage-earners to live away from the business and working centers. The building of the largest of the iron and steel and electric plants in the outlying boroughs has peopled a great region. For miles beyond the limits of the two cities residence centers have grown, where the houses are owned by the men living

in them. To own his own home is the ambition of the workingman of Pittsburg. His wife does her own housework, even when his wages equal the income of professional men elsewhere. The broad front piazza, having comfortable chairs, a table, often a rug or square of gay matting, will be occupied by a family group, the center of which is a strong, rugged man in his shirtsleeves and a comfortable-looking, tidily dressed wife and mother, who is still wearing her gingham apron, for the work is not all done. It is this frankness and lack of pretense that makes one of the greatest charms of Pittsburg. Miles of her streets are lined with stately mansions in park-like surroundings, but there is the same evidence of home enjoyment of family life that is characteristic of the true American.

The College Settlement of Pittsburg, Kingsley House, is an old mansion and stands on a bluff. It is in a center that offers every inducement to the settlement worker. Pittsburg has a woman's club owning its own building, which is the center of much activity in civic affairs. A playground association maintains eleven play

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grounds, each with a trained kindergartner in charge, and a vacation school, so ably conducted as to be a model school. Every agency common in the Church and the philanthropic world elsewhere is found in Pittsburg. One comment made is: "You can get money for anything in Pittsburg that is conducted on business principles and really needed. You never lack money."

There is a Mecca for every visitor to the region, the great Carnegie Institute. This building stands at the entrance to Schenley Park-the gift of a woman to the city. Just within the park stands the

Phipps Conservatory, another center of education and recreation. One car-fare takes a passenger from any part of the city or its miles of suburbs and centers of industry to this center of education and recreation.

Under the roof of the Carnegie Institute are the Library, the Museum of Art, the Museum of Natural History, the great Music Hall, and smaller halls used by the Art Students' League and similar organizations.

The Library was opened in 1895; since that date it has contributed to the higher life of a people who by their receptivity

have justified the penetration and wisdom of Mr. Carnegie. The city each year has appropriated more money for the use of the Library than was stipulated in the conditions of the gift, a generosity meeting the warm approval of the people. The two Museums and the Library, which are open daily from 9 A.M. to 10 P.M., Sundays 2 to 6 P.M., are familiar institutions to the people, who show in their every movement when in the building that they are using their own with care and with the pride of ownership. The Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon concerts have averaged an attendance of sixteen hun

dred. Every social rank is represented. The audiences listen not only with pleasure but intelligently to programmes unrivaled in their scope. Cloak-rooms are provided, and the women in the audience are, for the most part, unbonneted. Lectures on music and musicians are given. Pittsburg boasts its own orchestra. The musical development of the people is the evidence of their culture.

The first year the Library was opened it circulated 270,823 books, or about one book for every resident in the city of Pittsburg. When the Library was planned no provision was made for a children's

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A portion only of the great Carnegie plant. At the left, within the inclosure, are the athletic grounds of the Carnegie employees.

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