E3L55:1:3:05248 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 City Illumination and Progress Pageant Hoover's Cabinet Here At River Dinner (Continued from page 8) display every bridge in the city and county will also be strung with festoons of colored lights and boats on the rivers will be brightly illuminated. Pittsburgh's Industrial Giants "Pittsburgh has more than a passive interest in light's golden jubilee," said A. L. Humphrey, general chairman of the executive committee in charge of the celebration, "for it was here that George Westinghouse envisioned electricity released for use as the universal servant of mankind. "Here it was that Andrew Carnegie perfected iron and steel and that Langley dreamed of heavier-than-air transportation. It was in Pittsburgh that H. J. Heinz perfected the scientific preparation of foods. It was here that Henry Clay Frick developed the great natural resources of coal and its by-product, coke. It was here that MacBeth and Evans impoved on the manufacture of glass, and it was here that Brashear brought the heavens closer through his grinding of the world's largest and finest lenses. "Progress has been the city's watchword during the past fifty years. Half a century ago our homes, streets and churches were lighted by oil lamps. Lights meant wick trimming, globe cleaning and lamp lighting. Fifty years ago slowmoving horse-drawn street cars, cabs and carriages were the means of conveyance. "Fifty years ago there were no skyscrapers, not because man could not build high buildings, but because without electricty there could have been no fast-moving elevators or good lighting. These, with the motor car and the present street car, came with electricity. It is in appreciation of all this and in recognition of the men who have made our city possible that during the week of October 21, Pittsburgh will be the center of the most brilliant spectacle ever staged here." Costumes In Historic' Pageant Costumes, described as being more elaborate, more artistic and more colorful than any ever worn at a public performance in Pittsburgh, will feature the pageant to be staged at Forbes Field the evenings of October 23 and 24 in connection with the week's observance of Light's Golden Jubilee. Historians, designers and costumers, have combined their talents to produce an eye-pleasing spectacle. In the episode depicting the burning of Fort Duquesne, Montgomery's Highlanders and the Royal Americans, part of the force of General Forbes, will come to life again in the striking uniforms of the period. Against this, in contrast, will be the more sombre, serviceable uniforms of the provincials, also members of the expedition, men of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and North' Carolina, with semi-nude Cherokee Indians hovering about them. French troops will be there also, not in the horizon blue of the late war, but in the spectacular garb of the era. Quite appropriately, this destruction of Fort Duquesne and the, birth of Pittsburgh will be enacted by students from Duquesne University. In the episode bearing on the life of Andrew Carnegie, the costuming will be of the period of 1860. In the "steel dance" of this episode, the costumer has created a striking garb for the dancers, 50 in number, who will appear in shining costumes of steel reflecting back the vari-colored rays of the spot-lights. Another chance for the costumer is presented by a scene showing an allegorical figure watching workmen going and coming from a steel mill. Carnegie Tech students will be seen in this episode. (Continued on page 11) (Continuedfrom page 8) portance of river transportation to Pittsburgh, will march from the William Penn Hotel through downtown streets to the Monongahela wharf at noon Friday, October 18. The "flagship" Cincinnati, arriving in Pittsburgh in time for the river parade, will bring more than 300 prominent people (both men and women) fronm Cincinnati and other points on the lower rivers to participate in the Pittsburgh celebration. On Saturday, October 18, the Cincinnati and escort will start down the river stopping at various towns and cities en route, and when the squadron reaches Cincinnati a celebration under the direction of the Ohio Valley Improvement Association will be held, at which the principal speaker will be the President of the United States. From Cincinnati the pageant will continue "On to Cairo," with President Hoover as the guest of honor. City Puts Steamboat In The city of Pittsburgh, by action of council, has authorized the chartering of a steamboat to proceed from Pittsburgh to Cairo and represent this city in the celebrations at the lower river ports. The steamboat "Greater Pittsburgh" has been chartered for this purpose. She is being repainted and refitted and put into spic and span shape and will carry a party of prominent river men, city and county officials and business leaders. Explorer MacMillan Also A Guest Capt. Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorer, scientist and navigator, joins the many other distinguished guests at the banquet in the William Penn Hotel October 17 which will open the Ohio River celebration, it was announced last Thursday at a meeting of the Ohio river celebration committee in the Chamber of Commerce. The presence of a colorful explorer, who is to be the guest speaker at founder's day celebration at Carnegie Institute the afternoon of October 17, at the table with five cabinet members, governors and internationally known business and industrial executives was made possible by the action of the board of trustees at the institute in canceling the annual Founder's Day banquet owing to the importance of the river celebration. Wharf Parking Suspension Councilman Robert Garland, as chairman of the City Council Celebration Committee, announced he would call a special meeting of the councilmen to work out plans to accommodate the tremendous crowd expected on the wharf the afternoon of October 18 for the river parade. Mayor Kline, Director Edward G. Lang of the Department of Public Works and Director of Public Safety James M. Clark will be called into the conference to ascertain the possibility of suspending parking and clearing the wharf from Water street to the Wabash Railroad bridge of autos on October 18, the day of the river parade. Schools Recess Although the Board of Education had not acted yesterday on the request of the celebration committee to give high school students of the city a half holiday on October 18 so they might view the parade, officials of many borough schools contiguous to the city have communicated with Chairman Dann, announcing their intention of suspending all classes that afternoon. With this news the committee immediately voted to ask for special details of police on the wharf.. (Continued on page 11)98 GREATER PITTSBURGH Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 97) 1804 Charles Eneu Johnson, a former apprentice of Benjamin Franklin, began the manufacture of printing ink, thus establishing the first commercial ink-manufacturing plant. The company still remains in direct control of the founder's descendents and is known as Charles Eneu Johnson Co. 1808 James Park began dealing in bar iron, etc., mostly imported from England, the business being continued for about 60 years on Second Ave. In 1878-9 Messrs. B. G. and Wm. U. Follansbee became employes of the organization, then known as Park, Scott Co. In 1884 the name was changed to James B. Scott Co., with the Follansbee Brothers in active management. In 1894 the Follansbee Brothers Company succeeded the one last named. This present company has shown consistent progress as the world's only manufacturer of forged steel sheets and tin plate, with plants at Pittsburgh, Follansbee, W. Va., and Toronto, Ohio. In 1810 the population of Pittsburgh was 4,786 1810 Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Has been located at various places, and is now at 7418 Penn Avenue. 1810 The Bank of Pittsburgh. In 1899 the bank entered the National Banking System, but was permitted to retain its honored name with the addition of the letters N.A.--National Association. The Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank, the Iron City National Bank, and The Columbia National Bank have merged with this organization since 1904. 1812 John Cooper, a printer, began business in Pittsburgh. He was succeeded by his son-in-law, Wm. S. Haven, who passed the business on to his son-in-law, Wm. Stevenson. Wm. G. Foster, of Wellsville, Ohio, joined Stevenson in 1870 and formed a partnershipStevenson Foster Co. In 1815 this establishment printed Pittsburgh's first city directory. 1812 Elliott Nursery. The first Elliott of the nursery family is said to have started his horticultural enterprise so far from "town" that members of his family protested. The site of that far-out nursery is now occupied by Kaufmann's Department Store. The Elliott Nursery Company is unable to trace chronologically the history of the firm, which now has its nurseries at Evans City, with offices in Pittsburgh. 1815 Francis G. Bailey, then about eighteen years of age, came from his birthplace, Ballywalter, County Down, Ireland, and settled in Pittsburgh, where he established a mercantile business between Hand and Hancock Streets (now 9th and 8th Streets, respectively), on the north side of Liberty Avenue. On his first journey to Pittsburgh, he, as a matter of economy, walked the entire distance with his stock of goods on his back, outstripping the baggage wagons on the way. Through numerous partnerships with sons-in-laws, etc., the business continued until in recent years it was known as John A. Renshaw Company, having developed into a high-class grocery business. At this writing a merger has resulted in a new firm---uhnRenshaw Co., Mr. Renshaw being a grandson of the founder-Francis G. Bailey. 1817 H. Childs Co., now H. Childs Co., Inc., the oldest shoe jobbing concern in the United States. The Population of Pittsburgh in 1820 was 7,248 October 12, 1929 Light's Golden Jubilee The invention of the electric lamp by Thomas Alva Edison fifty years ago was the impetus needed by the infant electrical industry. The advantages of the electric lamp were quickly seen and soon there was a demand for machinery to generate electric power. About ten years later, the predecessors of Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Company started to develop and build electric generators and motors. This business developed slowly at first and then more rapidly until today Allis-Chalmers, as pioneer builders of machinery for the generation, transformation, conversion, and utilization of electric power joins with other electrical manufacturers in celebrating Lights Golden Jubilee. pLLIS-CHALMERS MANUFACTURINGOC MILWAUKEE., WVIS. UI.S.A. Whether You EAT TO LIVE OR LIVE TO EAT You'll say that the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STEAKS AND MEATS are delicious Recatlse they are supplied by ALBERT L. BRAHM CO. 406 PENN AVENUE Purveyors of The Choicest Foods In America PHONE ATLANTIC 5500 ~:I-..-~v - I I IGREATER PITTSBURGH 1821 The Reverend John Andrews moved to Pittsburgh to continue the publication of his Weekly Recorder, a Presbyterian periodical which he had founded at Chillicothe, Ohio, on July 7, 1814. In succeeding years the publication was known as The Pittsburgh, Recorder (1821), The Spectator (1828), The Christian Herald (1829), The Presbyterian Advocate ('1838). In 1852 Dr. David McKinney started The Presbyterian Banner in Philadelphia and purchased The Presbyterian Advocate, naming his publication The Presbyterian Banner and Advocate and publishing it in Pittsburgh. In 1860 the word Advocate was dropped, leaving The Presbyterian Banner as it is known today. 1822 Cornelius Flocker came to Pittsburgh and established a rope and twine business at North Avenue and East Street, continuing until 1845, at which time his son John bought and conducted the business at the same location for a number of years. Then he bought a long strip of ground at the corner of the present Valley Street and Greentree Avenue, where he operated a rope walk for twenty years or more before moving out on the Evergreen Plank Road. He continued his business at the latter location until his death in 1890. Since that date the Flocker family has continued the establishment as a jobbing house under the name John Flocker Co., Inc. A granddaughter of the founder is now president of the company. 1824 Eichbaum Johnston established a printing business which in 1845 became Johnston Stockton; 1857 Wm. G. Johnston Co.; and in 1915, William G. Johnston Company, a corporation-printers, lithographers, engravers, etc. 1825 The Western Theological Seminary founded by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., with Allegheny Town as its location. The institution occupied its first building, on Monument Hill, in 1831. The building destroyed by fire in 1854, and Seminary Hall erected on Ridge Avenue 1856. This hall partly destroyed by fire in 1857, but repaired immediately. Beatty Hall dormitory on Ridge Ave., erected 1859. In 1877 Memorial Hall on site of old Beatty Hall erected and named to commemorate reunion of Old and New School branches of the Presb.'Church. 1825 A. Speer Sons Foundry entered the industrial life of Pittsburgh. In succeeding years the business was known as Atwood McCaffrey; Wilson Snyder Co.; Shook-Anderson Mfg. Co.; Pittsburgh Valve Machine Co.; and since a consolidation on Nov. 1, 1900, as Pittsburgh Valve, Foundry Construction Co. All kinds of valves are manufactured and the company has installed piping and piping systems in all padrts of the U. S. and Canada besides furnishing fittings for Mexico, South America, Cuba, and India. This is the largest plant of its kind between New York and Chicago. 1826 William and John Holmes, brothers, began the first grocery business west of the Allegheny Mountains, in the ten-year-old City of Pittsburgh. They dealt largely in New Orleans sugar and molasses (granulated sugar and clear syrups were not known), and owned and operated two steamboats between Pittsburgh and New Orleans. Their establishment was at the corner of (then) Market and First Streets. After a time two employes-George K. Stevenson and John Porterfield, took over the business and operated it as John Porterfield Company until 1884. The business is now known as George K. Stevenson Co. (Continued on page 100) PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS COMPANY Glass - Mirrors M. [,,, 1 h - Paints VARNISHES.:. BRUSHES PITTSBUI GH 7'/4 Products 63 2642 Duquesne Way Pittsburgh L I I October 12, 1929 99100 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 99) 1828 H. S. Spang Son built the Etna Iron Works in a suburb and there produced the first iron tubing manufactured west of the Alleghenies. 1845 the firm became VY Spang Co. 1858 it became Spang, Chalfant Co., iLIGHT and HEAVY which in 1899 was succeeded by Spanig, Chalfant Co., Inc., with plants at Etna and Ambridge, manufacturing welded and seamless steel tubes. 1829 Insurance Company of North America opened in Coil Springs Pittsburgh what appears to be the city's first insurance agency. 1829 B. A. Fahnestock began a drug business at Wood St. and 6th Avenue, to care for the needs of Pittsburgh's growing population. Through various changes the Elliptic name in 1870 became George A. Kelly Company, and _ i in 1892 George A. Kelly Company, wholesale drug- gists. It is interesting to note that in the year of this firm's founding, Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith found in a Pittsburgh printery an antique manuscript 4 and from it produced the Book of Mormon, thus I F launching the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. Special Pittsburgh's population in 1830 was 12,568 Wire Shapes Wire Shapes 1831 John H. Mellor, organist of Trinity Episcopal Church, established a music business at 122 Wood St. (Now entrance of Farmer's National Bank). The fire of April 10, 1845, wiped out nearly all the business section but spared the little music store, leaving it the only establishment in the city handling books, paper, American Spiral Spring Mfg. Co. and stationery--these in addition to music goods. When the telephone was introduced in Pittsburgh in 56th and A. V. Ry. Fik 0627 Pittsburgh,Pa. 1877 Mr. C. C. Mellor (one of the firm then known as Mellor and Hoene) was one of the first persons to have connection between home and business. In a diary he wrote: "It was a great convenience, but also a great nuisance, for being such a novelty it was used PRINTING nearly all the time out of curiosity by people who Business, Professional, Individual Forms came in to try it." The firm name now is C. C. Mellor of All Kinds Company, Inc. It is the oldest of its kind west of the Alleghenies. - PUBLISHING 1831 Logan and Kennedy established a business which is Private and Limited Editions of now the Logan Gregg Hardware Company, the oldest Books and Pamphlets hardware jobbing house in Pittsburgh. BINDING 1832 John M. Roberts opened a jewelry store at the corner Blank and Printed Books Any Size of Fifth Avenue and Market Street in a log building, All Styles of Binding making "extensive improvements" by covering the front with weather boarding. He created considerable Engrossed and Bound excitement by using display windows with glass panes E n nd 12 by 18 inches in size--dimensions unheard of prior Gold Leaf Stamping on All Kinds to that time. After various moves and changes the ofLeatherGoodsaSpecialty business developed into that of John M. Roberts Son RULING Co., Incorporated, in 1907. Co., ]Incorporated, in 1907. We are Equipped to Rule any Form any 1832 Pittsburgh Savings Fund Company opened its offices size paper and all Colors of ink. Water or on St. Clair (now Sixth) Street near the Allegheny Waterproof. River. The scope of the institution's financial activity broadened rapidly. In 1841 the name was changed to ENGRAVING Farmers Deposit Bank of Pittsburgh, in 1857 to Far- STEEL AND COPPERPLATE mers Deposit Banking Co., and in 1864, when a Na- Business and Professional Stationery and Cards tional charter was granted, it became the Farmers De- Die Stamping posit National Bank of Pittsburgh. At its inception the authorized stock was to be not less than $25,000 REED Wl XVI'iLNG CO. nor more than $200,000. Manufacturing Stationers 1832 J. J. Gillespie opened at No. 6 Wood Street, the first 925 LIBERTY AVENUE picture and art store west of the Alleghenies, he having come over the mountains on horseback and en- Telephone: ATlantic 6212 gaged in various lines of endeavor until he conceivedGREATER PITTSBURGH the idea that prosperous Pittsburghers might buy pictures. The store remained at the original location until the great fire of 1845, when the establishment was moved to No. 86 Wood Street, later known as 422 Wood Street. The organization remained on Wood Street ninety-four years before moving to its present location on Liberty Avenue. The J. J. Gillespie Company claims to be the oldest art firm in the United States. 1832 W. G. Stockton Co. (Pittsburgh White Lead Works) started to corrode white lead by the old Dutch process, the works being located on Rebecca Street, North Side. In 1878 the name became Suydam, Lawrence Co., in 1885 M. B. Suydam Co., and in 1900 the firm was incorporated as M. B. Suydam Company, the oldest paint and varnish manufacturing company in the United States. 1834 Pittsburgher Volksblatt established, continuing under that name until 1901, when, through a consolidation, the name was changed to Volksblatt FreiheitsFreund, published by Neeb-Hirsch Publishing Co. In 1929 the firm name was changed to Volksblatt Publishing Company. 1836 J. B. Sherriff opened a sheet-metal working shop on Market street, the firm bearing his name until 1898 when it became the Tranter Davison Mfg. Co. In 1903 the name became Tranter Manufacturing Co. The compay has been at its present quarters at 105 Water St., for over fifty years. It has developed a general machinery jobbing business as well as reconditioning automobile engines and maufacturing steam specialties. 1836 Exchange Bank of Pittsburgh founded, taking that name as it indicated the principal function of banks of 101 that time. Checks were not regarded favorably, and banks paid and collected bills in other cities for their clients, the transaction being termed "exchange." The name of the organization became The Exchange National Bank of Pittsburgh in 1865. In the old days banks were few and their notes were not always worth par value, but old newspapers record that notes of the Exchange Bank were accepted at 105% of their face value. An early record of the bank shows a loan (1841) of $15,000 to the city to pay municipal bills for three months. 1836 A. Bradley Company began the manufacture of castings. With other similar companies organized later it developed into the present Stove and Range Company of Pittsburgh in 1900. 1836 Charles H. Paulson, a representative for a Philadelphia hat maker, came to Pittsburgh in 1834 and two years later bought the Pittsburgh branch. A few years later a hat manufactury was added to the business, which continued to grow until in 1902 it was incorporated as Paulson Bros. Co. In addition to hats the firm now handles general men's wear. Since the founding of the business it has always been on Wood Street. 1837 George H. Dauler started a small furniture factory which soon developed into a firm called Hammer Dauler. 1879 Dauler Close; 1881 Dauler, Close Johns; 1916 Dauler-Close Furniture Company. 1838 John Henry Demmler founded a tin shop, which establishment made the first street lights used in Pittsburgh. The present name of the organization is Demmler Schenck Company, dealing in china, glass, silverware, etc. (Continued on page 102) U October 12, 1929 PITTSBURGH SCREW BOLT CORPORATION PITTSBURGH, PA. I j,!102 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continued from page 101) 1839 Peter Duff founded America's pioneer business college under the name of Duff's College, at corner now known as First Avenue and Market Street. From the date of founding to the present, through mergers which took in other large schools, the organization has had but three heads: the founder; his son; and the present head, who guides the destiny of Duff's-Iron City College, which is established in its own up-to-date fourstory building on Duquesne Way. By the year 1840 the City of Pittsburgh had grown to cover an area of 0.68 square mile and had a population of 21,515. In 1929 the area is 49.17 square miles and the population 673,800. for NUTS 1840 J. S. Dilworth Co., began a grocery business and was the second company in the United States to distribute coffee in packages instead of bulk. Reorganiza- NGS tions resulted in changes of name: 1870 Dilworth Brothers; 1890 Dilworth Brothers Company; 1918 The Dilworth Company, wholesale grocers and coffee roasters and packers. 1840 George Bailey decided that some one must open a plumbing shop in Pittsburgh and that he was the one to do it; but he did not dream that it would become the oldest organization west of the Alleghenies and develop irato the huge Bailey-Farrell Mfg. Co., with his grandson as president. 1842 McMillin Shyrock started a little printery on Wood Steet where the Y. M. C. A. building now stands. The name McMillin has continued in the firm name through various changes to the present name-James McMillin NEELY NUT BOLT CO. PITTSBURGH PA Printing Company, Inc.-catalog and general printing. 1843 Charles Arbuthnot, Sr., established himself in the wholesale dry goods business at the corner of Wood See hat You Buy-Buy In Glass and Diamond Streets where, in succeeding years the business grew and passed through various partnerships and changes of name until it became the Arbuthnot-Stephenson Company in 1892. The organi- J. T. A. HA NILTON zation has continued to grow until its present equipment covers over 350,000 square feet of floor space. CPANY Mr. James Rae, secretary and treasurer of the cor- COM PANY poration, is present president of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh. Manufacturers of 1843 Hubbard Brothers Company began the manufacture of circular and cross-cut saws in a building on a site Flint Glass Bottles under the present site of the Pgh. W. Va. R. R. Gl bridge, moving after twenty-seven years to the site where the Eye and Ear Hospital now stands. In 1870 shovels and axes were added to the line of products, Milk - Water - Soda - Root-Beers the firm name then being Hubbard, Bakewell and Perfume - Extract and Lippincott. In 1889 the name became Hubbard Bake- Perfume - Extract and well Co. In 1900 Mr. Charles W. Hubbard, founder, retired and the business split into two organizations, Hubbard and Co., carrying on the shovel business of the original firm. Later railroad track tools and pole line hardware were added to the list, and the company purchased a plant manufacturing electrical equipment. Following a disastrous fire in 1916 the manufacturing of products was continued under a huge circus tent temporarily. 1848 The Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy was founded in a building on Penn Street, where the next year Mother Francis Warde, the founder, furnished Phones, GRANT 5512-5513 two rooms to serve as an academy for girls, calling it St. Mary's Academy. The present organization, Our.~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.il II..1,,IIIGREATER PITTSBURGH Lady of Mercy AcadeIny, continues the work thus humbly begun. 1844 Allegheny Cemetery Association organized. 1845 James Rees leased a shop for six months and began a boat-building business. When the plant was sold over his head and he was left with $25,000 worth of work and no place in which to finish it, he purchased a shop and formed a company known as Rees, Hartrupe Co., which lasted for three years. Through many hardships Rees continued alone until in 1854 he purchased at Duquesne Way and Fourth Street the site still occupied by the company he founded. In 1878 the company constructed its first boat for foreign waters. The successful operation of this vessel on South American waters led to orders for more. Their fame led the Russian government to requested drafts and specifications and the boats were put into use on the Volga and Dneiper Rivers. Since that time boats of all descriptions have gone (knocked down) from Pittsburgh to all parts of the world. James Rees and Sons Company continues the business so well founded. 1846 Opposite the St. Charles Hotel--the leading hostelry in Pittsburgh then-which stood where the Keystone Club is now located, Reymer and Anderson opened a candy a ud fruit store. In 1876 the organization moved to a site on Wood Street now occupied by the Farmers Deposit National Bank, and handled groceries, fireworks, confectionery, and soda water. In 1901 the business was restricted to candies, ice cream, and soda water. The firm name in 1850 was Reymer Brothers; and in 1901 it became Reymer Brothers, Inc., with many retail stores in prominent locations and branches in the leading office buildings. 1847 Jos. Woodwell Co., opened a hardware establishment at the corner of Wood St. and Second Ave., where the company still has its headquarters, handling hardware and automobile supplies. When Second Avenue became Boulevard of the Allies, with consequent widening and improvement, the eight-story building was moved forty feet along Wood Street without any cessation of business. The name of the organization was changed in 1902 when the business was incorporated as Jos. Woodwell Co. 1847 A man named Eichbaum established himself in a linseed-crushing business on West Diamond Street, where Boggs Buhl's warehouse now stands, but in about five years he sold out to Thompson Lyons. Theirs was the first oil mill west of the Alleghenies to use the then new process of steam heating and hydraulic pressure for extracting the oil. Later Mr. Thompson took his sons into the business which was then named Thompson Company, and the manufacture of paint was undertaken. The plant of the company has expanded steadily in size and is now located at Oakmont, where the company manufactures industrial and technical plants. General offices are in Pittsburgh. 1847 It is known that in 1802 James Reed conducted a jewelry and silver business in connection with the manufacture of surveying instruments at Washington, Pa. When his sons became of age the business was transferred to Pittsburgh (1847), where J. R. Reed Co. carried on (and still conduct) the original business. 1847 The Sisters of Mercy opened an establishment for caring for the sick, in the ball-room of Concert Hall on Penn avenue, using it for a ward. The first building of the Mercy Hospital was completed in 1848 at a loL FRANK D. SAUPP, INC. 5928 PENN AVENUE DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CARS, TRUCKS, BUSES AND MOTOR COACHES r _ October 12, 1929 103104 GREATER PITTSBURGH Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 103) cation on Stevenson street, with bed capacity for 60 patients. In November. 1848, the first report of the organization was issued, which showed that the average patient cost per week was $2.68. The bed capacity in 1929 is 635, and the average cost per day is $4.05. 1848 Western Pennsylvania Hospital founded. During the Civil War the use of the hospital was tendered to the Government and its use was devoted during that time to the care of sick and wounded soldiers. 1849 Pittsburgh City Glass Works was started by Wilson Cunningham, his two brothers, and a George Duncan. In 1865 the name of the company was Cunningham Imsen; 1878-Cunningham Company; 1880 D. 0. Cunningham Glass Company. The company has discontinued the manufacture of all glass products except beverage bottles. 1849 Joseph Horne opened a retail and wholesale establishment, handling notions, millinery, and fancy goods; but in 1871 the wholesale and the retail businesses were separated and conducted at different locations. The wholesale section was at 77-79 Market street until 1881, when it moved to its new building at Wood and Liberty streets (now Post-Gazette building). Later it developed into the Pittsburgh Dry Goods Company, which is now defunct. The retail section carried on in the Library Building, which stood on the corner of Liberty avenue now occupied by Mrs. E. A. Williams' floral establishment. In 1893 this section moved to the present site of the Joseph Horne Company, at Penn avenue and Stanwix street. 1849 Dr. W. A. Passavant, a Lutheran pastor, founded what is now known as the Passavant Hospital-the oldest Protestant hospital in the United States. The Population of Pittsburgh in 1850 Was 46,601 1850 John Dixon Matthews, an expert gunsmith, locksmith, and maker of marking devices, having come to the United States from England in 1845, undertook the responsibilities of his own shop and founded what is now the important house of Jas. H. Matthews Company. The business was incorporated in 1902. 1850 John W. Haney, a Scotchman, purchased a horse and dray and secured the job of hauling freight for a local concern from the Pittsburgh waterfront to the P. R.R. station in Allegheny-there being no railroad bridge at that time. Three years later he bought out his principal competitor. From that aggresive movement the organization has grown through the horseand-wagon stage, and now operates a great fleet of motor trucks under the name of Pennsylvania Transfer Company. 1850 Nathan Gallinger entered into the drygoods business at Twelfth street and Penn avenue. In 1854 he changed to a jewelry and brokerage business, which is continued by his grandson, S. Gallinger, Jr. 1850 Joseph DeRoy opened a jewelry business on the first floor of a dwelling at 47 Smithfield street-now No. 307, opposite the post office. In 1860 the firm name became DeRoy Brothers, and in 1898 Jos. DeRoy Sons. The firm has never left the site of the original store, although adjoining properties have been acquired for expansion. 1852 R. G. Dun Company, The Mercantile Agency, established in Pittsburgh their eighth branch office. The October 12, 1929 Capital and Surplus $3,000,000.00 8 9 8 2 8 9 Monongahela National Bank WOOD STREET, SIXTH and LIBERTY AVENUES PITTSBURGH, PA. OFFICERS JOHN W. LLOYD _.-.....-.....Chairman of Board JAMES E. FULTON.................President GEORGE C. ARNOLD -........................Vice President FREDERICK C. MACMILLAN -..........Vice President MALCOMB S. VANDEVORT.-................... Cashier RALPH W. MERCER.............Assistant Cashier F. S. CALLANDER ------------------------Assistant Cashier H. C. BURCHINAL........Assistant Cashier Commercial Accounts Savings Accounts Insured Savings Plan Safe Deposit Boxes Night Depository WE INVITE YOU TO INSPECT OUR NEW HOME IRON CITY ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Supplies (Wholesale Only) EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL FOR INDUSTRIAL PLANTS MINES AND MTT,TLS PUBLIC UTILITIES Also ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS and DEALERS 575 6th AVENUE. near Fifth Avenue PllI'TSBURGH - - PENNA. _. __ LL..-__..!...:.-:l--_. l,, _ _ -_ - f.... _ t.._.. a 1 i _ iGREATER PITTSBURGH business of this organization was founded in New York City in 1841 by Lewis Tappan Company, and from the beginning it has grown steadily until at present it has 256 branches, located in practically all commercial centers of the world. The great confidence which business men have in the integrity of the organization began ten years after the founding (which was in 1841). At that time one of the proprietors, summoned as a witness in court, refused to disclose the name of a business man who had furnished him with certain confidential information, and as a consequence he was committed to jail for contempt. He served twenty days before being released on appeal. The U. S. Circuit Court upheld the judgment, but it was reversed by the U. S. Supreme Court, thus fixing for all time the principle upon which modern credit rating is based. 1852 Jones and Lauth combined in the manufacture of iron and steel, the business continuing to the present with the following changes in name: 1861-Jones Laughlins; 1883-Jones Laughlins, Ltd.; 1902Jones Laughlin Steel Company; 1923--Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation. In 1900 the company acquired the Laughlin Company and the Vesta Coal Company. 1852 Alexander and Samuel Wilson, brothers, purchased property at 541 Third avenue, running through to the canal, and began a building-construction business which is carried on under the corporate name of A. S. Wilson Company. The original site of the business has been sold to Allegheny County. 1852 The many boats that traversed Pittsburgh's waterways had to have supplies; therefore, the WalkerCooper Boat Store Supply Company was organized with a store on Water Street. In 1880 the firm-then Walker-Dunlevy Bros. built a packing house on Twenty-third street and a retail store at 615 Liberty avenue. Several changes in organization and continual expansion have taken place until at present the firm is known as Dunlevy-Franklin Company, packers of pork and beef, with a great establishment at 6500 Hamilton avenue. Still in the employ of the company is a man who entered the organization in 1888. He watches more than thirty immense trucks start on their routes, and recalls a delivery of four cans of lard he made with a wheelbarrow years ago, having the barrow break down on Liberty avenue, and being compelled to appeal to a man with a wagon to aid in making delivery to the railroad station. 1852 Emanuel DeRoy engaged in the jewelry business, later taking his son into partnership. The business continues as Louis DeRoy Bros. 1852 The Presbyterian Book Store was organized by the Presbyteries of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, about this time-possibly a couple of years earlier. The first building occupied by the organization was on Ferry street at an unknown location. 1853 John K. Davison, at the age of fourteen years, established himself in the sand business in Lawrenceville, continuing by himself until 1870, when he took his brother Edward into partnership. The stockholders of the organization now known as J. K. Davison Bro., are the sons of Edward, Jr. John K. Davison had no isuse. The office of the organization is within 100 yards of the spot where young John began business. (Continued on page 106) PITTSBURGH Landau Brothers Contracting Co. Building Construction Building Alterations and Repairs 125 FIRST AVENUE Court 2984 I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pi October 12, 1929 105GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 105) 1853 Smith Brothers, printers, established themselves on Grant street, where the organization has continued to the present. It was incorporated in 1905 as Smith Bros. Company, Inc., specializing in law and commercial printing. 1853 Thos. J. Keenan and John Hastings began publishing the Legal Journal, which is now named Pittsburgh Legal Journal. This publication is the third oldest law periodical in the world and the second oldest in the United States. 1855 The Pittsburgh Dollar Savings Institution was founded, continuing today as The Dollar Savings Baink, the only mutual savings bank in Pittsburgh. 1856 J. Diamond entered into the optical business at 51 Fifth street (now Avenue). The First National Bank now covers the site of the first store. In 1924 the business, which is now conducted by the second and third generation of the founder's family, was incorporated as J. Diamond Company. Proof that the early executives had faith in advertising is given by a copy of the Pittsburgh Dispatch, dated April 15, 1865, which contains the firm's advertisement and the first announcement of Lincoln's assassination. 1856 In 1852 a coppersmith died, leaving his business in Beaver, Pa., to his sons, John, Alexander and Thomas McKenna. The business was sold and the money held until the second of the sons reached his majority, at which time the three formed a partnership (1856) to conduct a brass foundry and general brass machine shop, manufacturing some specialties of their own invention. The youngest, Thomas, was only 19 years old. John and Alexander died prior to 1893, leaving Thomas to carry on the business. When he died the business passed to his seven sons who still own the majority of interest in the McKenna Brass Mainufacturing Company, whose principal product is machinery for the carbonated beverage industry. 1857 The Diamond Savings Institution. In the third month after organization the name was changed to The Union Banking Company. In 1865 a national charter was taken out and name became The Union National Bank of Pittsburgh. From a saving institution the organization had grown to include all phases of banking, including investment service and trust department. 1859 W. W. Wattles established a jewelry store in the building of the Post Publishing Company at the corner of Fifth avenue and Wood street. The present establishment of The W. W. Wattles Sons Company, Inc., is near the original location on Wood street. Mr. Wattles was the first Pittsburgh jeweler to send a buyer direct to Europe, doing this in 1886 and for many succeeding years. All importations were cleared through the Pittsburgh Custom House. In 1889 this establishment imported the first full electrolier (without any gas connections) seen in Pittsburgh. It was exhibited at the firm's stand at the opening of the Pittsburgh Exposition in that year, the "stand" setting the style for others that were soon erected in the exposition building. It was painted white with gold trimmings, and over the center was a large dome covered with Silesia. 1859 H. Samson established himself as a funeral director, the business being continued at this date by his son, under the original name, IL Samson, Funeral Director. This is believed to be the only establishment of its I. LEONARD ARONSON President HARRY M. ARONSON Secretary-Treasurer UNITED STATES REALTY CO. 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Established 1894 Member New York Stock Exchange Pittsburgh Stock Exchange New York Curb Market Pittsburgh Offices 235 FOURTH AVENUE and MONONGAHELA BANK BUILDING Phone Court 3500 New York Office 43 BROAD STREET I I I ~1, _GREATER PITTSBURGH kind in the city which has never been associated with any other activity, such as livery, furniture, etc. Pittsburgh's Population In 1860 was 49,221 1861 Crawford, Trimble Gilliland engaged in a buildingconstruction business. The name of Trimble has appeared in the firm name through succeeding years, the name now being W. E. Trimble Sons Company. This organization has built many of the large buildings in Allegheny County, among them being the original Westinghouse buildings at Wilmerding and East Pittsburgh; Dixmont Hospital; U. S. Veterans Hospital; practically all of the original station buildings of the Pennsylvania R. R. between Pittsburgh and Chicago; present Bell Telephone Building; Jos. Horne Warehouse; etc. 1862 A. D. Miller Oil Works founded, becoming A. D. Miller Sons in 1886 when three sons of the founder were admitted to partnership. In 1919 the organization was incorporated as A. D. Miller Sons Company. Crude oil from Oil Creek was brought down the Allegheny River in barges and barrels. Only lamp oil was made, the waste being burned as fuel. Today this "waste" crude oil is used to manufacture hundreds of products. 1863 Business now known as Sankey Brothers, producers of brick and tile, founded. 1863 Lewis, Oliver Phillips established their Excelsior Bolt Nut Works at McKee and Neville streets, Birmingham (now South Tenth and Muriel streets, South Side), and produced various kinds of bolts, nuts, and washers. Through various changes the name Oliver has remained in the firm name, which is now Oliver Iron Steel Corporation, manufacturers of bolts, 107 nuts, washers, rivets, forged tools, and pole line material. 1863 Third National Bank of Pittsburgh, founded and established at the corner of Wood street and Virgin alley (now Oliver avenue), where the store of W. S. Brown is now located. The bank then moved to the location now occupied by McCreery's store, then to the building at Oliver and Wood, now occupied by Reymer's Cigar Store, and in 1916 to its present home in the Henry W. Oliver Building. 1863 The United Presbyterian Board of Publication incorporated. In 1924 the responsibility of the organization was enlarged, and the name changed to The United Presbyterian Board of Publication and Bible School Work. 1864 A company which developed (in 1903) into the A. M. Byers Company, America's largest producer of wrought iron pipe, was started. 1865 A frame building with capacity for 12 patients was converted into St. Francis Hospital by sisters of an order having that name. A new hospital building is now being constructed with capacity of 400 beds and costing $1,250,000. 1865 Western Newspaper Union organized to serve city and country newspapers. 1866 Smith Porter began the manufacture of light locomotives. The first one constructed was run across a Monongahela River bridge on street-car rails by its own steam. Nothing of the kind had been done before, and no toll classification covered the engine; therefore, to be sure enough toll was assessed, the (Continued on page 108) r Allegheny Equipment Corporation CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT ~..,I NEW AND REBUILT FOR SALE OR RENT GRANT BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PA. GRant 1122 WAREHOUSE AND YARD: - FREEPORT ROAD, ASPINWALL, PA. October 12, 1929 IOctober 12, 1929GR: EATER;PIlJTTSBURGHt;: Some Of The Notable Guests RiTver Cele br ationDn ner 108 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 107) same rate that was applied to an elephant was applied to the engine. Porters have been connected The value of Checks with the firm since the beginning, and now conduct the business under the name H. K. Porter Company, building locomotives of all types. Anyone without a checking ac1866 Homeopathic Medical and Surgical Hospital and Dis- count is without the easiest and pensary founded. Here, in 1884, the first school for safest way of handling his money. nurses between the Allegheny Mountains and Chicago was opened. Nearly all business nowadays is 1866 Allegheny Observatory established by Western University of Pennsylvania, now University of Pitts- transacted with checks and business burgh. See notes under 1787. customs would drop back a hundred 1867 Rosenbaum Fleischman opened a retail and whole- years if we were forced to deal with sale millinery store at old No. 76 Market street. Two currency alone. years later the name became Rosenbaum Company, since which time the Rosenbaum name is the only one used in connection with the organization which is now If you have no checking account, named The Rosenbaum Company. In 1872 the firm we invite you to open one at our discontinued the wholesale business. In 1878 the business was moved closer to Fifth avenue on Market bank, so that you may enjoy the prostreet; and in 1880 it was moved into the first floor tection and convenience of paying by and basement of the McClintock Building-the first check. office building in Pittsburgh, located on Market street between Fifth avenue and Liberty. One of the first are lights in the city was hung in front of the store while at this location. In 1915 the organization moved into their present up-to-date building, with IGHLAN NATION L BANK thirteen stories above and two stories below street THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN EAST LIBERTY level, which occupies the block on Sixth Street be- 6102 PENN AVE. tween Penn and Liberty avenues. In 1923 the firm became affiliated with National Department Stores, Inc. 1867 Peter Duff and his two sons, Robert P. and Thomas, established themselves in the molasses business. Robert P. Duff was the originator of the idea of selling molasses in cans--another Pittsburgh achievement. The firm name now is P. Duff Sotns, Inc., dealing in molasses and other food products. 1867 Heeren Weckerle founded a jewelry business in an HEAT ENDURING establishment located in what is now an alley, running from Fifth avenue to Diamond street, almost directly M AT1RIALS opposite the First National Bank Building. The partners had no safe; therefore, Mr. Heeren, who was in charge of the factory, took the gold and silver home with him at nights in a cigar box. At the time of the Grand Army Encampment (1894) this firm struck medals of a brass cannon which was used in the Civil t.[ War, and made a small replica that is now on exhi- bition in Soldiers' Memorial Hall. The first medals struck for the Stephen Foster Memorial Home were G ) made in the old Pittsburgh Exposition, where a Foster admirer paid $10 for the first medal. Subsequent medals sold for 25c, the money being used to purchase the Foster home. The business is now known as t /, ~' | Heeren Bros. Compahy.!) 2O V 0 Let our 1867 The Safe Deposit Company-with a capital of $98,000 Engineering Dept. --was organized with its establishment at No. 83 (now help solve 241-3) Fourth Avenue. In 1891 the name was you changed to The Safe Deposit Trust Company of Pitts- your problems. burgh. The organization in 1903 acquired all the stock of the Peoples Savings Bank and nearly all the THE CALORIZING COMPANY stock of the Peoples National Bank. In 1917 the Safe Deposit Trust Company of Pittsburgh and the Wilkinsburg Station - Pittsburgh, Pa. Peoples Savings Bank merged and the name of the company was changed to Peoples-Pittsburgh TrustCompany of Pittsburgh-the oldest Trust Company west of the Alleghenies. 1868 Laird Lupton engaged in the roofing -business. Upon Mr. Laird's death in 1870, P. LeGoullon entered the business which was then conducted at 1012 Penn avenue, where the Fort Pitt Hotel now stands, under the name, W. B. Lupton Company. The firm specialized in carpet felts and roofing paper. Today the business is conducted by one of P. LeGoullon's sons under the name P. LeGoullon Sons. 1869 On January 9th three energetic citizens of Allegheny opened a dry goods and notion store in an 18-foot store room at 512 Federal street. Being willing to work hard for success, they did their own box opening, window trimming, etc. The sign on the establishment bore the names, Boggs, Blair Buhl. In the year after opening they moved to a three-story building across the street. The firm prospered, and in 1885 it had a telephone in the office. In those days business was so brisk that the hard working proprietors required a wagon and a wheelbarrow for making deliveries. With the passage of time they purchased the property where the imposing establishment of Boggs Buhl is now located. 1869 Walter E. Hague, having within him the pioneer spirit, opened the first plating establishment west of the Alleghenies. The founder's son was admitted to partnership in 1899; and in 1924 the business took the name Walter E. Hague Son, Inc. The firm was progressive and kept abreast of the times, being the first to introduce many new processes in the city, among them being the use of spray lacquers. This firm was the first in Pittsburgh to use a dynamo (generator) instead of batteries. It GOLDEN-ANDERSON Patented Automatic Double Cushioned Triple Acting and Non-Return Valves Especially Adapted for Central Station and Industrial Power Plants 109 1869 W. A. Bunting began the manufacture of stamps and stencils, the activities of the business later including regalia, flags and banners. The business has at various times borne the names W. A. Bunting Son (1896), Weber-Erickson Bunting Company (1902). Bunting Stamp Company, Inc. (1917). A son of the founder is now president of the organization. 1869 H. J. Heinz, then aged 25 years, planted a patch of horseradish, which, with the assistance of two women and a boy, he grated and marketed, thus founding the great food industry which now bears the proud name H. J. Heinz Company. The organization has grown from its original tiny home in a building near the horseradish patch to a huge plant of 24 buildings, covering fifteen city blocks, besides seasonal canning plants throughout the country and agencies abroad. 1869 Pennsylvania Female College founded by the Rev. W. T. Beatty. The college has grown steadily through the years, and now grants the degrees A. B. and A. M. Academic honors granted are Magna cum laude and Cum laude. Professional certificates are granted in music, spoken English, and social service, and teachers' certificates are granted. In 1889 the name of the organization was changed to Pennsylvania College for Women. 1869 The Westinghouse Air Brake Company was organized to manufacture for steam railways an air brake which George Westinghouse had invented. The company began operations in 1870 in a factory occupying two city lots at the corner of Liberty avenue and Twentyfifth street. In 1880 the company moved to Allegheny, but on account of increasing business it moved in 1890 to Wilmerding, where the factories now cov(Continued on page 110) 1 GOLDEN-ANDERSON PAT. AUTOMATIC CUSHIONED WATER FLOAT VALVES 1 Automatically maintain uniform water levels in tanks, standpipes, etc. 2 Instantly adjusted to operate quickly or slowly. 3 Floats swivel to any angle-Most satisfactory float valves known. 4 No metal-to-metal seats-No water hammer or shock. 5 Cushioned by water and air. "4500" Ordered by the Iron and Steel Industry 1 Prevent expensive shutdowns due to reversal of steam flow. 2 Instantly close and isolate a boiler when a 3 Sin off 4 Au 5 Pre 6 Pos back now ot -foolproof. I DOUBLE EXTRA HEAVY VALVES "Every Valve sold with a Positive Guarantee" "No Shutdown When Boiler Tube Bursts." mn a pipe bursts. le. i boiler. justments to be made. in service. 3 dashpot that cushions in opening and closing. 9 Cannot spin, stick or chatter. Golden-Anderson Patent Cushioned Combined Throttle and Automatic Engine Stop Valves 1 Operate 3 ways: Automatically, by Hand or by Electric Switch. 2 Prevent Fly-Wheel Explosions. 3 "Double Corliss" Cushioned-no pounding or Sticking. 4 Contain No Tight Fitting Parts. 5 Furnished in Angle and Globe Patterns for High or Golden-Anderson Patent Automatic Double Cushion Check Valves Especially adapted for Hydraulic Elevator Service and on discharge side of pumps. Sizes to 24 inches. GOLDEN-ANDERSON PATENT AUTOMATIC CONTROLLING ALTITUDE VALVES Automatically maintain uniform water level in tank, standpipe or reservoir. No floats or fixtures to freeze. No Water Hammer or Shock 6 "Always Ready for Servic,e." No Valves in Tank` 1315 Fulton Bldg. Golden-Anderson Valve Specialty Co. PITTSBURGH, PA. October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH I I r o iJUUJULt nVIJ Ta110 GREATER PITTSBURGH Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 109) er 35 acres. About 6,000 persons are employed in manufacturing the company's product, which is now a standard railway appliance throughout the civilized world. In 1870 Pittsburgh's Population Was 86,076 1870 Ursuline Young Ladies' Academy founded. 1870 Bollman-Baggaley Company founded. Later names were James B. Young Company (1874); Seaman, Sleeth Black (1886); Seaman-Sleeth Company (1893); Pittshurgh Rolls Colporation (1917)-manufacturers of iron and steel rolls for rolling mills. 1870 William Semmelrock, a wood turner by trade, discontinued his previous business and engaged as a funeral director, this business being continued after his death in 1888 by his sons until 1905, when John Semmelrock purchased the business from his associates and continued at the original location-1720-22-24 Carson street. 1871 Humboldt Fire Insurance Company founded. In 1918 the name changed to Superior Fire Insurance Company. In 1910 this organization gained control of the Allegheny Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, and in 1921 it gained control of the Western Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh. In 1925 it became affiliated with the Firemen's group. 1871 In April, Campbell, Williamson Dick began a business which gained the confidence of Pittsburghers and became known as "The People's Store," at the location still occupied by the organization--327 Fifth avenue. The business has been directly under the control of the Campbells since its founding. Through the retirement of partners from time to time the name changed to Campbell Dick in 1882, Campbell Smith in 1894, William Can1pbell in 1899, and Campbells' in 1910. 1871 The Arsenal Bank of Pittsburgh founded. Chartered by special Act of Legislature March 20, 1872. Since founding the organization has had but five presidents and five cashiers, including those now serving. The present cashier, John Grine, has had forty years' continuous service with the bank. 1871 Isaac, Henry, Morris and Jacob Kaufmann, as partners, opened a Men's and Boys' Clothing Store at 1918 Carson street, in a room 18x27 feet. In less than a year they had to secure larger quarters nearby, and in 1875 it was necessary for them to take additional space on Smithfield street, near Diamond. In 1879 the establishment moved to Smithfield street and Fifth avenue, where it occupied a fifty foot frontage on Smithfield. By 1885 the business occupied the block on Smithfield Street, between Fifth avenue and Diamond street, and growth since that time has been continuous. This was the first store in Pittsburgh to feature plainly marked one-price tickets, and was the first store in the country to take a full page advertisement daily in a local newspaper. The first escalator in Pittsburgh and the first high speed elevator in a local store were in this establishment. It is said that the store today has the largest escalator system in the world, having just installed enough escalators to carry over a million people every day in each direction. The organization is now officially known as Kaufmann's Department Stores, Inc. 1871 On April 1st Messrs. A. Rasner and H. F. Dinger, aged 22 and 25 years, respectively, came from Dayton, October 12, 1929 R. M. NETHERLAND CO. COurt 0527 Engineers and Contractors Steam Shovel Work a Specialty CONCRETE WORK EXCAVATING ROAD CONSTRUCTION SEWER SYSTEMS STREET PAVING WATER LINES, ETC. -* On the Job the Year Round 611 Maloney Building PITTSBURGH, PA. IFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF BOSTON. MASSACHIUSETTP You Need Not Pay the Price The loss of a valued executive is always costly, involving expensive adjustments. If it is safeguarded by a Business Life Insurance policy, which provides funds to meet post-mortem contingencies, your business need not pay this price. Whether you are an executive in a large corporation, a partner in a firm, or the sole owner of a business-you will be interested in our booklet, "Business Life Insurance for Executives."'' Send for your copy. W. S. STIMMEL GENERAL AGENT 814-819 Farmers Bank Bldg. PITTSBURGH, PA. i _____ I--- I I i.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~-I~October 12, 1929 GREATER Ohio, to erect on a building on Smithfield street the first sheet metal cornice in the city. The establishment of, Frank Seder now occupies the site of that building. A fellow-workman associated with them in the founding of Gitridge Company, located at the southeast corner of Market street and First avenue. In 1872 the young men first named took over the business and called it Rasner Dinger. Being limited in funds, the partners arranged to secure sheet metal from The Moorhead McClain Company Mills at Twenty-second street and make payments weekly. They themselves worked with their employes, and at the end of each week, after paying the men, would walk to the mills to pay for their material, not having sufficient cash to meet their bills and pay car fare, too. Their industry was rewarded through their securing many important contracts in their early years: Seventh Avenue Hotel, buildings at Morganza, Beaver County Court House, Carnegie Library on Forbes street, etc. The business now occupies a 3-story building, 60x100 feet at 840-42-44 West North avenue, N. S. The organization is now incorporated as Rasner 8 Dinger Company. 1871 German Savings and Deposit Bank founded on March 19th. In 1918 the name was changed to Fourteenth Street Bank. 1871 Empire Contract Company organized. Subsequent names of the same organization are The Mexican National Railway Company (1873); The Commonwealth Contract Company (1875); The Rio Grande Extension Company (1879); Philadelphia Company (1884). Affiliated with this company, whose charter grants authority for engaging in any kind of business except banking, are the Duquesne Light Company, Equitable PITTSBURGH lit Gas Company, Pittsburgh Railways Company, and many others. 1871 Iron and Glass Dollar Savings Bank of Birminghsam founded. A charter was granted on March 1, 1872. The first bank was located at 1203 Carson Street, and through the years business has been conducted within a block of that location. The present address of the institution is 1112-14-16 Carson street. 1871 Surety Contract Company organized, later being known as Union Surety Company (1898); Southern Traction Company (1900); and Pittsburgh Railways Company ( 1901). 1872 Hermes-Groves Dairy Company founded. 1872 McCullough-Dalzell Company founded. In 1872 the organization was incorporated as McCullough-Dalzell Company, and in 1901 the name was changed to McCullough-Dalzell Crucible Company. 1872 S. F. Jones Company founded by S. F. and William Jones, as a private banking firm. The business was incorporated in 1903 as The Valley Deposit Trust Company. 1872 L. H. Smith established a broom manufacturing business on Sandusky street in Allegheny. In 1875 he moved to Wood street and First avenue. In 1880 a move was made to 911-13 Liberty avenue, and the name of the business changed to L. H. Smith Company, Ltd. By that time Mr. Smith. one of the first in the country to manufacture the modern type of broom, had acquired control of much of the western broom-corn territory. However, manufacturing was discontinued in 1880, and since that time the firm, now known as L. H. Smith Wooden Ware Company, 4-6-8-10 Eighth (Continued on page 112) SAFE DELIVERY of your products is assured when shipped in THE TTSBURGH BOX COMPANY THE PITTSBURGH BOX COMPANY ___GREATER PITTSBURGH Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 111) street, has introduced a general line of hardware, woodenware, and house-furnishings for wholesale trade only. 1873 Duquesne Club founded. 1873 J. P. Koehler established a business handling ferrous metals. In 1906 R. L. and J. P. Koehler, Jr., entered the business as partners, and in 1924 the business was incorporated as J. P. Koehler Company. From 1906 to 1918, ferrous and non-ferrous metals were handled, but at present only non-ferrous metals are dealt in. 1874 December 5th THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PITTSBURGH was organized at a meeting in the Germania Bank Building at the corner of Wood and Diamond streets. At this writing the building is being razed. 1874 The Central District and Printing Telegraph Company was organized under the laws of the State of New York and was authorized to do business in Pennsylvania on May 27, 1874. This was the pioneer telephone company in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, operating under an early license from the American Bell Telephone Co. It was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on August 10, 1881. On April 2, 1913, the name was changed to The Central District Telephone Company, which company was purchased by the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania on September 30, 1918. 1874 Valentine Storch began what is believed to be the first cemetery memorial establishment in Pittsburgh. At various times the business moved to different locations, finally locating at the present address of V. Storch's Sons, Inc., 1305 Brownsville Road. 1875 The Diamond Nationial Bank was organized to succeed the Diamond Savings Bank. The bank took its name from the rich and busy section at the lower end of the city which was then commonly called "The Diamond." The savings feature of the business was revived and incorporated as a separate department in 1902. The present 12-story home of the institution was completed in 1905. 1875 Mrs. Wm. A. Herron and Mrs. Wm. Thaw,'seeing the need for such services, organized The Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor, for the purpose of supplying necessities to those in distress. The operations of the association have increased from year to year, and now it maintains an Industrial Department which looks after homeless, destitute men; a Children's Temporary Home, where children may be sent when a mother is ill or a court case is pending and other shelter is not available; a Fresh Air Home, where poor mothers and children may be sent during hot weather; a home for homeless and destitute colored men, etc. 1875.William Grabowsky opened a little store at 707 Penn avenue, dealing in men's hats--principally silk "toppers" and fur-felts. The latter commodity naturally led to the handling of furs, which gradually became the principal part of the enterprise, and soon replaced the hat department entirely. In 1914 the proprietor's A Packaging Service t aght at our'oor TO get the package engineering facilities of the world's largest producer of corrugated fibre shipping boxes, telephone Grant 6187. For H D is right at your door, ready to supply promptly anything you require in the way of corrugated fibre packing material and shipping boxes. Quotations are furnished promptly. Samples are supplied without obligation. May we have your specifications? THE HINDE DAUCH 4139 Jenkins Arcade D. A. Larkin, Manager PAPER CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. Grant 6187 V HINDE DAUCUHrrs SHIPPING BOXES PRUDENTIAL'S NEW POLICY Modified Life Policy with Change of Rate at End of Three Years ANNUAL PREMIUM First Three Fourth and Years Following Years $5,000 Age 20 $60.50 $71.20 $5,000 Age 30 80.25 94.40 $5,000 Age 40 115.15 135.45 $5,000 Age 50 174.90 205.75 (Payable Quarterly, Semi-annually or Annually) Ages 15 to 66 - $5,000 and up There will be one increase in rate at end of three years but dividends begin at that time and if current experience of the Company as to earnings continues, dividends should equal the increase. It will pay you to call Court 3168 or write FRANK, C. PIERSON, Manager (ORDINARY DEPT,) WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AGENCY 1 5TH FLOOR, COMMONWEALTH BLDG. PITTSBURGH, PA. 0it Iruerntial 3nsuranrr e(gimpanl of Amrrira EDWARD D. DUFFIELD, President HOME OFFICE - - - Newark, N. J. October 12, 1929 112GREATER PITTSBURGH son was taken into the business, and the organization established at its present quarters, 514-16 Wood street, under the name Wm. Grabowsky Son. Women's exclusive apparel in addition to furs is now handled. 1875 Nevin, Gribben Company opened a commercial and job printing plant at 104 Fifth avenue. In 1880, under the name of Nevin Bros., the firm did job and show printing, and in 1890, as Liberty Printing Company, activities were restricted to show printing. The business is now continued as Liberty Show Printing Company, at 632-642 Duquesne Way. 1875 Metropolitan National Bank founded. In 1924 the bank became a State institution and the name was changed to Metropolitan Savings Bank and Trust Company. 1875 E. C. Weaver joined a local confectionery as salesman, and in 1882 C. W. Costello joined the force. In 1889 these two and others formed a partnership with an establishment at 332-34 Third Avenue. Through various changes in the personnel the name has come to be Weaver Costello Co., Inc., with commodious quarters for manufacturing and distributing all kinds of confectionery. In 1893 this organization distributed (for a Boston firm) the first one-pound boxes of candy put on the market. 1876 The London Bakery was opened at Penn Avenue and the Pennsylvania R.R. Mr. R. B. Ward, the proprietor, employed four hands whose monthly pay totaled $150. Mr. Ward subsequently organized huge baking plants in various of the country's largest cities. In June, 1912, he organized the Ward Baking Company of New York, which represented a consolidation of his various interests. The local establishment is at 3100 Liberty Avenue, where over 420 people are employed. 1877 The Chautauqua Lake Ice Company was organized in this year by A. and A. A. Hersperger. In 1877 it was re-organized as Consolidated Ice Company, one of whose first directors was Mr. A. W. Mellon. The company is now owned by over 600 Pittsburghers. 1877 W. C. Beckert Co., opened an establishment which is now said to be the oldest seed store in PittsburghBeckert's Seed Store, 101 Federal St. 1877 The Western Pennsylvania Agency of the Berkshire Life Insurance Co., was established in Pittsburgh by George W. English, now deceased. In 1880 his brother, H. D. W. English, entered the organization. In 1886 the establishment employed an office boy named William M. Furey who," in 1905, became a partner in the agency which became known as English and Furey. The agency makes the proud claim that aIthough millions of dollars in death claims have been paid through its office, no claim has ever been contested and no suit of any kind has been entered against it. It is a coincidence that the only two life insurance men that ever served as president of the Chamber of Commerce have been the partners of this agency-Messrs. H. D. W. English and Wm. M. Furey. 1877 John C. Bragdon, a cabinetmaker's apprentice, established himself in wood engraving at 78-80 Fourth Avenue. In 1926 the business was incorporated in his name. About 1900 photo-engravings became the uni. versal method, and the first photo-engraving made to illustrate Pittsburgh's daily newspapers were made in this plant. The business is now located at 711 Penn (Continued on page 114) s I THE CITY OF OPPORTUNITIES O ONDER CITY of the middle west-the workshop of the world; * where there is the thrill of big business and where giant industries have been built upon a vast bed of natural resources; where enterprise and engineering skill and science have conqueredand will continue to conquer. That is Pittsburgh-the city of opportunities. The Carnegie Institute of Technology recognizes its good fortune in being located in Pittsburgh; it recognizes the value of the great laboratory material that this city provides for the education of its students in the fields of engineering, the industries, business, and the arts. College of Engineering College of Industries College of Fine A rts Margaret Morrison Carnegie College For information address the REGISTRAR CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. THOMAS STOCKHAM BAKER, President I 1 October 12, 1929 113114 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns (Continuedfrom page 113) / Avenue, where wood and photo-engraving as well as electrotyping are done. 1877 Wilm Price founded an exclusive men's furnishings business which is continued under his name. 1879 Alexander Cruikshank established a grocery business in Allegheny which developed into Cruikshank Bros. Co. As there was no refrigeration in those days, there was much loss of fruits and vegetables. One of the partners, Frank, deciding that there should not be so much waste, took the unsold fruits daily to his mother's kitchen and cooked them into jelly, preserves, and jams, selling these products during the following winter. He withdrew from the grocery business and devoted his energies to the preserving business which is now famous. 1879 Samuel Young and Samuel Mahood entered the business world at 933 Liberty Avenue as Young, Mahood Co., the business being incorporated in 1906 as Young Mahood Company. In 1927 the organization erected its own 5-story building at 2537-39-41 Penn Avenue, where a wholesale business in coffee, tea, rice, spices, and peanuts is conducted. 1879 Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company Limited was organized by a number of local glass manufacturers who, prior to that year, had been compelled to depend on the only firm in the United States that produced glass melting pots and refractories. Manufacturing was started in a building one hundred feet square in the Manchester district of Allegheny. From time to time additional buildings were erected until in 1893 the plant covered ten acres of floor space. The company was incorporated as Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company in 1889. It manufactures glass house clay products in its modern establishment on Reedsdale Street, N. S. In 1880 the population of Pittsburgh was 156,389 1880 Columbia Hospital founded by United Presbyterian Com plete Women's Association of North America. 1880 F. J. Kress Box Company founded for the manufacture of wooden boxes. The company was incorporated in 1903, and in 1911 began manufacturing the then new corrugated boxes. By 1925 the latter product had so encroached on the business of wooden boxes that the wooden box department was disposed of and the plant now specializes in the manufacture of cor- We offer exceptional rugated boxes and corrugated packing materials. 1880 E. I. Du Pont De Nemours Co., Pittsburgh agency facilities for the was handled by D. W. C. Bidwell. In 1903 the company established a branch office in the city. transaction of 1880 Pittsburgh Agency of The Equitable Life Assurance banking and trust Society of the United States, established with Dr. George Woods as representative. Later his son, Ed- business ward A. Woods, took charge, and in 1910 the Edward A. Woods Company was incorporated to represent the insurance company. It is said to be the largest life insurance agency in the world. The agency has occupied the second floor of the Frick Building since the building was erected. PEN E N _iIAI 1880 James T. and Albert Hamilton founded a glass house y, on 26th Street at the A. V. R. R., under the name J. T. T'R Ui j and A. Hamilton. In 1916 the business was incor-. lll Ufl BUR porated as J. T. and A. Hamilton Company. The company prospered'from the beginning, and in 1887 a 1 _____ __ __ ii _ _;1 __ IGREATER PITTSBURGH plant was established at Butler, while in 1902 it was necessary to open a third plant at Blairsville. At all time the most up-to-date equipment was installed, and 115 at present the company produces immense quantities of milk jars, bottles, etc. The Hamilton family has operated the company since its founding. 1880 The following names represent a partial list of Pittsburgh's old organizations which are not listed chronologically in the preceding pages. Data about these and any others that have been in existence over fifty years old will be welcomed. Aetna Life Insurance Co. Allemannia Fire Ins. Co. Barnsdall Corporation Birmingham Fire Ins. Co. Bradstreet Co. Demmler Brothers Dilworth, Porter Co. First National Bank Wm. Flaccus Oak Leather Co. Garland Manufacturing Co. Gilmore Drug Co. Graff Company Grogan Company Jos. B. Haines Sons Co. Winm. C. Hamilton Co. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. Hartford Fire Ins. Co. Hartley Rose Belting Co. J. M. Hoffman Co. C. G. Hussey Co. Iron Age James Irwin Co. Kier Fire Brick Co. Kingsbacher Bros. J. I. Kornblum Kuhn Bros. Co. M. Lanz Belt Co. Marshall Bros. Mass. Life Ins. Co. McConway Torley Co. McKinney Mfg. Co. C. A. Michel Co. Monongahela House Monongahela Incline Plane Co. Mutual Benefit Life Ins. Co. (Continued on page 116) New England Mutual Life Ins. Co. Penn Mutual Life Ins. Co. Penna. Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh J. H. Phillips M. H. Pickering Co. Pittsburgh Forge and Iron Co. Prudential Insurance Co. Sacred Heart School Seventh Avenue Hotel G. A. Sexauer's Sons Singer Sewing Machine Co. Spear's Winm. M. Stieren Stockman Farmer Publishing Co. Edgar Thompson Steel Co. Walker's Employment Agency W. H. Walker Co. Wunderly Brothers ALL MAKES NEW AND REBUILT Typewriters-Adding Machines-Cash Registers-Mimeographs- Calculator and Addressing Machines at Greatly Reduced Prices. ROYAL IORTABLZ DISTRIBU TORS FORT PITT TYPEWRITER COMPANY, Ime. 642.44 Liberty Avonue, McCloy Buiding Atlantic 8320 October 12, 1929 THE McCONWAY TORLEY CO. Railroad Car Equipment Steel Castings Jos. DeRoy Sons I -- -I 1- - - W- - - - g' 1GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 (Continuedfrom page 115) INDEX The numeral before each name represents the year of the organization's founding. A brief history of the establishment will be found in the chronological table under that date. See also list of names under 1880 for which there are no historic sketches. These are not indexed. GENERAL 1866 Allegheny Observatory. 1843 Arbuthnot-Stephenson Company 1871 Arsenal Bank of Pittsburgh 1840 Bailey-Farrell Mfg. Co. 1810 Bank of Pittsburgh 1877 Beckert's Seed Store 1874 Bell Telephone Co. of Pa. 1877 Berkshire Life Ins. Co. 1869 Boggs Buhl 1877 Bragdon, John C. 1869 Bunting Stamp Co. 1864 Byers, A. M. Co. 1871 Campbell's (Dept. Store) 1874 Chamber of Commerce of Pgh. 1817 Childs, H. Co. 1880 Columbia Hospital 1877 Consolidated Ice Co. 1879 Cruikshank Bros. Co. 1849 Cunningham, D. O. Glass Co. 1837 Dauler-Close Furniture Co. 1838 Demmler Schenck Co. 1850 DeRoy, Jos. Sons. 1852 DeRoy, Louis Bros. 1856 Diamond, J. Co. 1875 Diamond National Bank 1840 Dilworth Co. 1855 Dollar Savings Bank 1867 Duff, P. Sons, Inc. 1839 Duff's Iron City College 1852 Dun, R. G. Co. 1852 Dunlevy-Franklin Co. 1880 Du Pont De Nemours Co. 1873 Duquesne Club 1812 Elliott Nursery Co. 1836 Exchange National Bank of Pgh. 1832 Farmers Deposit National Bank 1808 Follansbee Brothers Co. 1871 Fourteenth Street Bank 1850 Gallinger, S. Jr. 1832 Gillespie, J. J. Co. 1875 Grabowsky, Wm. Son 1869 Hague, Walter E. Son, Inc. 1880 Hamilton, J. T. A. Co. 1867 Heeren Bros., Co. 1869 Heinz, H. J. Co. 1872 Hermes-Groves Dairy Co. 1866 Homeopathic Hospital 1849 Horne, Jos. Co. 1843 Hubbard Co. 1829 Insurance Co. of North America 1871 Iron Glass Dollar Savings Bk. 1804 Johnson, Charles Eneu Co. 1824 Johnston, Wm. G. Company 1852 Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation 1871 Kaufmann's Department Stores, Inc. 1829 Kelly, George A. Company 1873 Koehler, J. P. Co. 1880 Kress, F. J. Box Co. 1815 Kuhn-Renshaw Co. 1868 LeGoullon, L. Sons 1875 Liberty Show Printing Co. 1831 Logan Gregg Hardware Co. 1872 McCullough-Dalzell Crucible Co. 1856 McKenna Brass Mfg. Co. 1842 McMillin, James Printing Co., Inc. 1803 Mackintosh-Hemphill Co. 1831 Mellor, C. C. Co., Inc. 1847 Mercy Hospital. 1862 Miller, A. D. Sons Co. 1863 Oliver Iron Steel Co. 1843 Our Lady of Mercy Academy 1849 Passavant Hospital 1836 Paulson Bros. Co. 1869 Penna. College for Women 1850 Penna. Transfer Co. 1867 Peoples Savings Trust Co. 1871 Philadelphia Co. 1875 Pgh. Assn. for Improvement of Poor 1879 Pittsburgh Clay Pot Company 1853 Pittsburgh Legal Journal 1804 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 1871 Pittsburgh Railways Co. 1870 Pittsburgh Rolls Corporation 1825 Pittsburgh Valve, Foundry Construction Co. 1866 Porter, H. K. Co. 1852 Presbyterian Book Store 1877 Will Price 1871 Rasner Dinger Co. 1847 Reed, J. R. Co. 1845 Rees, James Sons Co. 1810 Reformed Presby. Theological Seminary 1846 Reymer Brothers, Inc. 1832 Roberts, John M. Son Co., Inc. 1867 Rosenbaum Company 1865 St. Francis Hospital 1859 Samson, H. 1863 Sankey Brothers 1802 Scaife, Winm. B. Sons Co. 1870 Semmelrock, John 1853 Smith Bros. Co., Inc. 1872 Smith, L. H. Wooden Ware Co. 1828 Spang, Chalfant Co., Inc. 1826 Stevenson, Geo. K. Co. 1812 Stevenson Foster Co. 1874 Storch, V., Sons, Inc. 1836 Stove Range Co. of Pgh. 1871 Superior Fire Ins. Co. 1832 Suydam, M. B. Co. 1863 Third National Bank 1847 Thompson Co. 1861 Trimble, W. F. Sons Co. 1836 Tranter Manufacturing Co. 1857 Union National Bank 1863 United Presb. Board of Publica1787 1872 1834 1876 1859 1875 1865 1848 182s 1869 1852 1880 1847 1879 tion University of Pittsburgh Valley Deposit Trust Co. Volksblatt Freiheits-Freund Ward Baking Co. Wattles, W. W. Sons Co., Inc. Weaver Costello Co., Inc. Western Newspaper Union Western Pennsylvania Hospital Western Theological Seminary Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Wilson, A. S. Co. Woods, Edward A. Company Woodwell, Jos. Co. Young Mahood Company L 116 PITTSBURGH SMELTING REFINING COMPANY SMELTERS and REFINERS Dealers in PIG TIN, PIG LEAD AND ANTIMONY Manufacturers of SOLDERS, BABBITTS AND LEAD.-. - - \- ELIZABETH ST. and B. 0. R. R. Office and Works iOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Greater Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago Progress Of Half-Century In Not Only Light But All Else Indicated In This Graphic Story By PERCY F. SMITH * IEWED from any standpoint a study of Pittsburgh half a century or more ago, is most interesting. The city had just come out of much financial and other tribulation and vexation of spirit, resulting from a combination of circumstances adversely affecting the municipality, just as it was about to put off swaddling clothes and take on the garments of the great city that George Washington foresaw, as he stood in his canoe at the Point and looked into the woods along the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers so many years before. The annexation of Lawrenceville Borough and the townships of Pitt, Peebles, Oakland, Liberty and Collins, rich in rural and richer still in "agricultural" area, involved the problem of street and sewer improvements, and the source of income to meet the cost of said improvements. At the same time, the city had not recovered financially from the storm waged over the Railroad Compromise Bonds, and was facing demands for immediate enlargement of the water works and the entire system of water supply. And the only light that Councils and the city officers had to help them out of the gloom was that afforded by a little more than 2,000 street lamps, supplied with flickering coal gas furnished by the Pittsburgh Gas Company, located on Second avenue, east of Try street. Free Gas The only comfort and compensation for the "dim flickering light" was the fact that for the franchise of occupancy of the streets with the gas mains, the taxpayers enjoyed the gift of 12,500,000 cubic feet of free gas annually. And thousands of people were willing to grope through the gloom, for few indeed, except the solitary guardians of the peace pacing their lonely beats, were abroad during the nights. Another bright spot in the government of the city, which had been completely revolutionized by the new constitution, was the "Hailman Fund" of $12,000, the interest of which was to be disbursed annually "during the win*Mr. Percy F. Smith wrote this article for the semi-centennial of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. ter" for the benefit of the suffering and destitute of the city. Then there was, too, the "Brewer Fund," the increment of which was spent for coal for the poor. Indeed it can with truth be said that there were "giants in those days"giants in finance, politics, in banking, industries, commerce, education, and the churches, all of whom builded better than they knew, and bequeathed to the people of 1924 a heritage which enables them to say in the language of Paul the Apostle, that they "are citizens of no mean city." "Snake" Day in Legislature Abolished The New Constitution of Pennsylvania went into effect on January 1st, 1874, and practically made over all growing cities like Pittsburgh. I recall two notable things it accomplishedthe abolition of private Calendar Day in the Legislature (when "snaix" of all kinds were railroaded every Friday during the session) and the divorce mill which was removed from the Legislature and placed in the hands of the Common Pleas Courts of the state. It was a good move; for if the Legislature still had the power to grant divorces it would be in session the year round, instead of for a brief time once in two years. The Disastrous Penn Avenue Act The classification of cities into first, second and third classes soon produced a crop of laws for the extension and growth of ambitious cities, and one of them was known as the Penn Avenue Act. This act authorized an issue of bonds for the improvement of Penn and other avenues on a gigantic scale, and the abutting property owners on long stretches of land were to be given time to pay the assessments for the cost. These long stretches of agricultural land asked and obtained the privileges of this act, and eventually the indebtedness along these lines was over $5,000,000 (the assessments being a mortgage on the property). Some paid on account of the assessments, but the vast majority benefited were "slackers,"' and more joined their ranks, when Mr. Chas. B. Seeley, of the East End, went -into Court, in a suit to test the validity of the Penn Avenue Act. The suit was most earnestly contested, and at length the act was pronounced unconstitutional. Then as a "tale that is told," the Councils authorized a compromise of the liens filed against the properties involved, and in hundreds of instances, the liens had to be satisfied with payment of the costs only. A Property Assessment Tangle The "Kitty Roup case" was another thorn in the flesh to the city law makers, who had levied taxes on the basis of assessments, classified as city, rural and agricultural. It was contended that the newly annexed townships, etc., should have been assessed as "agricultural," instead of "rural." And the Court sustained the contention. There had been figured in the estimated receipts about $110,000 in assessments due from this source; and a large sum already collected had to be refunded, which was another financial jolt to the budding city. The Famous Water Works Scandal But still another big financial handicap occurred when the Commission for the Water Works Extension fell into hard lines over the completion of that vast undertaking, which included a" reservoir on Brilliant Hill, 239 feet above the level of the river, and the Hiland Reservoirs, 369 feet above said level. This was at that time the highest direct lift of water in the world, through a 52-inch rising main. Some fault was found with the Lowry engines, and there was some trouble in restoring bonds alleged to have been wrongfully used, but the nearly $5,000,000 in bonds were absorbed, and ere many years had passed, the engines had to be renewed and the entire works and system practically rebuilt. City Government Privately Financed Following is a brief summary of the stewardship of leaders of finance in those days. William Phillips, James McAuley, James Herdman and Win. R. Brown were members of the Finance Committee of Councils, and with Thos. Steel, by using their individual funds and their individual credit, they saved and secured 133 bonds of $1,000 each, known as the Compromise Bonds of the (Continued on page 118) 117GREATER PITTSBURGH No smoke... No dirt No work..... if you heat with Gas 1 It is amazing how easy, comfortable and enjoyable life is in the home automatically heated by gas. There isn't a single, solitary thing for anyone to do. ) Every burden associated with hand fired heating methods vanishes as if by magic. Frankly, there isn't any improvement you can / 7 make in your present home nor any appliance you iii..... can include in a new home that brings as much \ X.;....... physical comfort and real family happiness as an automatic gas heating system. Gas heat is not expensive either. Modern gas boilers and gas warm air furnaces are scientifically i.. designed to operate at the highest efficiency and -.... automatic controls'prevent waste. 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Declaring to the Legislature that they desired the city to have the benefit of said bonds and the interest accruing thereon for the extinguishment of the bonds issued and to be issued by the city to the railroad companies, they asked for a law creating a Sinking Fund for that purpose, and their wish was granted. The gentlemen named were empowered to take charge of the bonds and hold the same for the gradual reduction and final extinguishment of the railroad bonded indebtedness of the city in 50 years, expiring in 1913, in the manner following: "The coupons to be invested in the Railroad Bonds and added to the original number of 133, and adding and adding until they are all used, or the compromise bonds paid off." Bonds and fund shall not be diverted or used for any other purpose, nor be differently managed. Councils were authorized if deemed advisable, for the more speedy absorbing of the railroad bonded indebtedness, to levy and collect a tax of one mill upon the assessed valuation of property in the old ten wards of the city, the sum so raised to be added and applied in the same manner as above described, to be controlled by the Sinking Fund Commission. It doesn't appear that this tax was ever levied. It seems not to have been necessary in liquidating the debt. Controller Thos. Steel, reviewing the situation a little over fifty years ago, said: "The year just ended may be considered most prosperous. The city's financial affairs are in such fortunate condition that she is fortified in every direction by the money on hand, so that her exhibit is better than it has been since the unfortunate'heresy of repudiation' seized the public mind that proved so disastrous to the city's interests; and nothing but a reckless course of extravagance and mismanagement can prevent her from successfully overcoming all financial embarrassment." And Mr. John Shipton, chairman of the Finance Committee, would frequently warn the spendthrifts: "Gentlemen, beware; pay day will surely come." Toll Gates Within City Limits Another voice from the past I encountered was that of Jacob F. Slagle, Esq., City Attorney, afterwards Judge of the Common Pleas Court, who notes the abolition of the "toll gate within the city limits," on the Greensburg and Pittsburgh turnpike (about Thirtythird street now) on payment to the company of $5,000. Thereafter speeders (that is, the drivers of fast horses) were not held up by a closed gate, and autos are now allowed to speed past the site of the old toll gate as they glide over Penn avenue into the beautiful East Liberty Valley and the Squirrel Hill region, one ward of which when first annexed to the city prior to 1870, contained "four square miles of territory, and had but one policeman, as the aggregate benefit of consolidation." Upon the point of area and police protection, I am quoting as nearly as possible the remarks of the member of Council from the 22nd Ward (Squirrel Hill), shortly after the annexation of the townships. The Railroad Compromise Trouble City Attorney Slagle also furnished at the time an interesting history of the "Railroad Compromise" trouble, from which I now cull a few extracts: "As the result of suits entered in the Courts, executions were issued on the first judgments obtained and the stock held by the city in the Pittsburgh Gas Company was levied upon and sold, the 480 shares bringing only $364.80. Then 3 STEP S Every family head should talke Every wife should be assured of tranquil declining years, of a home of her own and the means to maintain it. Every child should be assured an edu7i g inication, financial backing for a start in life. 1S \ a Every family head can assure these things by three simple stepsProcuring adequate Insurance Protection. (.2.) The execution of a Life Insurance Trust. (.3.)The designation of The Union National Bank of Pittsburgh as Trustee. Our Booklet, "Life Insurance Trusts" illustrates these things briefly. May we send you a copy? CAPITAL 2,.000,000 SURIPLUS $S.000;000 THEUNION NATIONAL BANK OF PITTSBURGH Grourth, enue at 9Wood StreeW nl~'~lll I:l I,lll II IIII I IIIIIIII [..e.--.-...I:.....................Y 118October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH the U. S. Marshal sold the stock of the Pittsburgh Connellsville Railroad Company, Allegheny Valley Railroad Company, Chartiers Valley Railroad Company and 4,000 shares of the Pitts-- burgh, Fort Wayne Chicago Railway Company. Some 1,088 shares of the latter company were not sold, nor was any of the stock of the Pittsburgh Steubenville Railroad-now part of the splendid P. C. C. St. L. lines of the Pennsylvania system." Next executions were issued attaching all monies in the city treasury. The city contended that the money in the treasury had been appropriated for specific purposes for the government of the city, under a budget system, and were immune. But the financiers "played safe" and held the money "padlocked in the treasury," saying that for nearly a year no money was paid out. Present day "padlocking," although of a different kind, is therefore no new idea. Just how the city operated officially is not stated. Private funds must have been used. Previous to the sale of the railroad stocks the Mayor had transferred the stocks to five persons as trustees of the bondholders, and notwithstanding the sale by the United States Marshal was declared illegal, some of the railroad companies refused to transfer the said stock to the trustees. But to show how the Irish and Scotch Irish hold on, no matter how extended the fight outside of the Pittsburgh and Connellsville stock, the trustees had enough stock to control in all of the roads and to effect a compromise with all the bondholders. The "kickers" kept up the fusilade of litigation, however, and on an execution seized the city water works, and exposed it to public sale; but the UTnited States Circuit Court dissolved the writ and the City Attorney thus closes the review: "These decisions of the Circuit Court, it is hoped, will have great influence in inducing the bond holders to accept the terms of compromise proposed by the city and thus save the Courts and all parties from continual trouble and vexation." Another Indebtedness Problem Prior to the decision of the Court that the Penn Avenue Act was unconstitutional, city officers took the position that the indebtedness under this act (over $5,000,000) "should not be strictly considered a part of the municipal indebtedness, maintaining that the assessments, as already noted, were a first mortgage on the property against which they are made," but the fact that they were not a real lien against the property was settled by the decision of the Court. From a lengthy review of the Penn avenue improvement by City Engineer Dempster, I note the following: "Five commissioners, chosen by Councils, had charge of the improvements with full authority. The value of property was greatly enhanced in the suburban districts by the improvements inaugurated and land that sold from $500 to $1,500 per acre before consolidation with the East End townships, brought from $.5,000 to $15,000 per acre after the improvements. Under the improvement "mania," Mr. Dempster explained main avenues were not only improved, but also side and back streets. Severe criticism was plentiful in regard to the open sesame for improvements by the commission. On this point Mr. Dempster said: "The transferring of supervision and control of said improvements to a higher plane of purity and integrity than that on which city officials were supposed to stand, was the cause of the creation of the commission. Such was not intended perhaps, as a reflection upon the probity of Councils, but was done in deference to the opinion entertained by many that (Continued on page 120) CADMAN ALUMINUM BABBITT METAL Acorn Brand CADMAN BEARITE BABBITT METAL Master Makers of Fine Bearing Metals since 1860 Both pre,eminent for extreme high speed and heavy duty bearing service FOUNDERS OF Bearing, Worm and Gear, Gun, Phosphor and Acid Bronze, Bronzstox Bushings and Bars A. W. CADMAN MFG. CO. 2814 Smallman Street..-...-. - - Pittsburgh, Pa. Bell Phone ATlantic 6683 119 lr I IGREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continutdfrom page 119) the work could be done more efficiently and honestly outside of that circle." Referring to the new water works indebtedness, Controller R. M. Snodgrass, in 1874, said in part on the question or the outstanding bonds of over four millions of dollars: "While the investment does not yield a present revenue, yet if we are to judge by the old works, the new works will not be in operation long before it will yield a revenue sufficient to pay both the interest and Sinking Fund for the payment of the principal and thereby relieve real estate and other subjects of taxation within the city limits for that purpose." Historic Street Names Obliterated One of the hardest knocks the residents of the rapidly unfolding Pittsburgh received was the change in street names, following the annexation of the territory known as the "East End" additions, fully accomplished in 1868. The streets running from Liberty Street to the Allegheny River were numbered, and I mention only those from First to Sixteenth, which blotted out old names and events deeply interwoven in the history of Pittsburgh. For instance, First Street blotted out "Point Street," the site of Fort Duquesne. Duquesne faded from the signs and merely Second street was all that remained to remind one of the fort. And then, in order, Third to Sixteenth streets took the places qf Marbury, Hay, Pitt, St. Clair, Irwin, Hancock, Hand, Wayne, Canal, O'Hara, Walnut, Factory, Adams and Mechanics streets. With every name there was something of interest suggested, and a page could easily be filled with the appropriateness of the names mentioned. Streets from Water to Seventh became "Avenues," and Fifth avenue, Fifth avenue extension and Pennsylvania avenue became Fifth avenue. The Pittsburgh Expositions The Exposition, which led to the organization of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, first opened its doors in a building on South avenue. Allegheny, in 1875, and with its fire works, balloon ascensions and Loan Exhibition department, was a financial success. In 1883 the building and contents were totally destroyed by fire, starting, it was believed, by the ignition of fumes from the gasoline used in a bath to a big balloon. Then followed the organization of the Western Pennsylvania Exposition Society, with 1,200 life members, who paid $100 each, and in turn received twenty-four complimentary tickets at twenty-five cents each, or six per cent on the investment. The city leased the ground to the society for a period of fifty years; the public school children were to be admitted free every year, and there were to be no dividends, and Pittsburgh proved to the country that a permanent annual Exposition could be successfully maintained. The music feature alone enabled thousands annually to hear Damrosch, Sousa, Herbert, Innes, other national musicians and orchestras and famous singers at the popular price of "twenty-five cents for the entire show." Another proof that Pittsburgh boasted "giants in those days," and it was one of the best advertisements for Pittsburgh ever projected. The Growth of the Street Railways The story of the growth of the street railway system in Pittsburgh is interesting. The Citizens line on Penn avenue, from a point below St. Clair street to the cemetery gate in Lawrenceville, was the enterprise of James Verner and associates. The Pittsburgh Birmingham ran from its terminus on Smithfield street, near Fifth avenue, to Ormsby Borough, or about the location of the company store of the American Iron Works, Jones Laughlins, in Old Brownstown. This line was organized by Wm. M. Hirsh and others. Both of these lines were prosperous. The Pittsburgh Ormsby line over Second avenue, Tenth street covered bridge and Sarah street was of the bob tail order-one-man car; so was the Pittsburgh and Minersville line, of which the popular Richard G. Herron was superintendent. It covered Wylie avenue, Fulton and Center avenue to Minersville, which at the time was considered quite out of the city. POST FLAGG Established z888 GROUND FLOOR: HENRY W. OLIVER BLDG. PITTS B U RGH Phone Atlantic 2885 Oakland Branch FORBES NATIONAL BANK BUILDING FIFTH AND OAKLAND AVENUES ENTRANCE II12 OAKLAND AVENUE Phone Schenley 2580 Stocks and Bonds COFFEE, COTTON, GRAIN, PROVISIONS MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK CURB ASSOCIATION NEW YORK RUBBER EXCHANGE NEW ORLEANS COTTON EXCHANGE NEW YORK CoTToN EXCHANGE PITTSBURGH STOCK EXCHANGE NEW YORK PRODUCE EXCHANGE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE LIVERPOOL COTTON EXCHANGE NATIONAL RAW SILK EXCHANGE NEW YORK COFFEE SUGAR EXCHANGCE OUR BOND DEPARTMENT (SMITHFIELD STREET AT OLIVER AVE.) Handles All Bonds and Investment Securities ALSO Specializes in Unlisted Securites MAIN OFFICE: 49 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK 120 1, IOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Railroad managers were wont, on stated occasions, to take the newspaper people over their lines as their guests, and Col. Herron, not to be outdone, entertained the press representatives with an excursion over the entire Wylie avenue, Fulton and Center avenue route, with lunch at the barn. Not only mules drawing the cars, but the cars themselves were suitably decorated. "We turned the corners in style, my boys," wrote one of the guests in his account of the excursion in his paper, but he forgot to add that when this was accomplished nearly every one of the guests was whirled off his seat. The Pittsburgh, Allegheny Manchester Passenger Railway was the enterprise of Commodore Win. J. Kountz and associates, and started from Market and Liberty streets via St. Clair street, over the Suspension bridge (built by John A. Roebling Company) to Federal street, Ohio, Western, Allegheny, Pennsylvania and Beaver avenue to Woods Run. This last named road was a fine dividend payer. Commodore Kountz for a number of years owned and published the Allegheny Daily Mail. The paper which was not a financial success, was later removed to Pittsburgh, and continued for a time, but disappeared when the Pittsburgh Evening Telegraph was launched in 1873. I should have remarked before now that the fare on the street railways was six cents-raised from five-and one conductor jocosely explained that the odd cent was to enable the companies to buy horse feed--"the collectors needed the balance of the money." The day of cash register devices had not arrived, but if my memory serves me right, few dishonest conductors were developed. As a newspaper reporter, I rode for years with the same conductors, whose reputations were above reproach and who were held in high esteem, not only by the traveling public, including students in our city schools and high school, but also by the company owners and managers. The Jones' Ferry Company, from the Point to Temperanceville and Saw Mill Run was for a long time "the street car line" to the West End, but Burns Reilly, livery stable keepers on Grant street, who operated a line of old omnibuses on Second avenue to Hazelwood, soon organized a fleet for the West End, and shortly after (with Thos. S. Bigelow and others) organized the Second Avenue and also the West End Street Car Line. Cars on the Second aventue line started from the corner of Market and Fourth, and the West End cars from Market street and Fifth avenue from a spur that was a nuisance from the beginning. The idea of looping had not then occurred to the owners, but these two street car lines were about the most profitable in the city. The Pittsburgh Oakland line traversed Fifth avenue to a point beyond Craft avenue, and was one of the first lines bought by C. L. Magee and associates. It was of the "bob tail" car system, organized by Mr. Bidwell and others, and was not a success financially. After its purchase it was practically scrapped and a new line was built. The Federal Street Pleasant Valley Passenger Railway traversed Smithfield street from the Post Office corner at Fifth avenue, where the cars were turned on a "turn table." Think of a turn table at Fifth avenue and Smithfield street, always Pittsburgh's busiest and most crowded corner! The cars turned at Seventh avenue into Liberty, then made their way to Ninth, Anderson, Union, Sandusky, North avenue, Monterey, Fremont street, etc., to Pleasant Valley. This line was organized by Governor Wm. A. Stone, Hon. W. H. Graham, David F. Henry and others. It had the bob-tail equipment, and in winter time not only this but all other lines covered the floors of the (Continued on page 122) I J 121 THERE IS 68 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE BACK OF CBEAMER HANDLES The oldest Handle Makers in the Pittsburgh District Ask For Beamer Handles, For The Name Implies Quality Sold by the Leading wholesale hardware and supply houses of Pittsburgh. So conveniently located that rush orders can be executed within a few hours. For 68 years Beamer Handles have been the best and most in demand. Makers of High Grade Hickory Handles BEAMER HANDLE COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1861 MANOR, PA. BELL PHONE, IRWIN 74 _ __ _ I ___ _~ I IGREATER PITTSBURGH October 12,' 1929 Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continuedfrom page 121) cars with straw to keep the passengers' feet warm as the mules and horses ambled over the cobble stone pavements at a speed not over three to five miles an hour. Patrons "were nearly tickled to death" when they rode in those straw-filled cars, with the thermometer below zero; but when they thought of the conductor on the open platform they were warm. The railway companies at this time paid into the City Treasury about $4,000 as an annual license for the whole number of cars operated. The Duquesne line was organized by C. L. Magee and William Flinn, and with subsidiary lines covered every street and avenue in the city not already occupied. Its competitor was the Pittsburgh Traction Company, and in the fight for supremacy, the Pittsburgh Traction Company reduced the fare to three cents. Not long thereafter the lines were merged into one system and in later years became the property of the Philadelphia Company, of Pittsburgh, under the title of the Pittsburgh Railways Company. Pittsburgh's Trunk Lines Fifty Years Ago As already noted, the steam railroads were struggling for existence, the exception being the Pennsylvania east and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne Chicago west. The Pan Handle was designed to handle freight. The Pittsburgh Connellsville ran only to Connellsville and thence by a short line to Uniontown; and on one occasion when the conductor sought to enforce a new rule, an inebriated passenger hiccoughed: "Say, you talk just as if this was a railroad." The Allegheny Valley was operated as far as Franklin, then South Oil City; but the earnings of both of the lines mentioned were most discouraging to the investors. But when the Pittsburgh Connellsville was extended to Cumberland, Md., and became part of the B. 0. system, it took on new meaning for Pittsburgh. Then the Allegheny Valley pushed on to Warren, Oil City, Corry and Mayville (Chautauqua Lake) Brocton and by connection with Buffalo. Then by way of Redbank it reached Driftwood on the Philadelphia Erie Railroad, and is now the Buffalo Allegheny Valley division of the Pennsylvania Railroad-one of its most prosperous divisions. So we must never despise the day of small things. I am reminded here that Bob Burdette, the humorist, saw one of those hard luck railroading days. He was on his way to Pittsburgh over the A. V. R. R., and had an engagement to lecture here. He failed to show up, but got in next day in time to make good for his lecture the following evening. On being introduced to the audience he apologized for the disappointment by stating that the train was laid out miles from no man's land, without eatables, wash water, etc., for about twenty-four hours. When at length the train was under way, a division conductor, who looked at the reduced fare limited ticket on which Burdette was traveling, said: "This ticket has expired." Burdette replied: "So have I, pretty near." The conductor punched the ticket and went on to find many other tickets expired but good for destination. About the time we are alluding to the railroads to Erie and Cleveland required seven hours for the trip. Now the Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Lake Erie both cover the distance easily in a little less than four hours. Speaking of the P. L. E. R. R. reFifty Years of ImprovementWeaver, Costello Co., Inc. PITTSBURGH Manufacturing Chocolates and Confections 122 INDEPENDENT TOWEL SUPPLY INDEPENDENT TOWEL SUJPPLY COMPANY Exclusive Towel Service Bell Phone-2915-2916 Fisk 3618-3620 Penn Avenue PITTSBURGH, PA. W OULD you like to cut down your fuel bills and at the same time have more real comfort in your home next winter? The New Pierce Boilers and Radiators will do exactly that for you. Pierce Heating Equipment is surprisingly economical in operation. The New Pierce Boilers have a more than ordinary reserve capacity and are designed to extract every possible heat unit from the fuel. Classic in line, of sturdy screw-nipple construction, the Pierce-Eastwood Radiator combines beauty and utility without sacrifice of either. This heating unit will blend with every decorative. PIERCE, BUTLER PIERCE MFG. CORP. 600 Second Avenue Phone C0-0163 PITTSBURGHOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH calls an interesting tale. The Legislature of 1873 granted the charter for its incorporation. Hon. Andrew B. Young, member of the House of Representatives from Allegheny County, being the sponsor and owner of the charter. For a long while it reposed in the capacious pocket of Farmler Young, as the proposition for a railroad on the south bank of the Ohio to Beaver and thence to New Castle and Youngstown, was considered by many as merely a dream. Besides the railroads already in existence competing for business to those points named would not encourage the project. In fact they opposed it. At length Mr. Young sold the charter for a paltry sum of money (according to reports at the time), an organization was effected, bonds issued to the amount of $2,400,000, and the road was speedily constructed, the contractor taking most, if not all, of the bonds. There was not a gill of water in the stock, and the earnings permitted dividends of not less than ten per cent from the beginning. Later on it was given the name of the "Little Giant" because of its gilt edged earning power. Fifty Years Ago In a Nutshell Here are some of the things that made up Pittsburgh as'I saw it fifty years ago: Its railway and railroad depots, Court House and jail; custom house and p.ost office; gas works; rolling mills; oil refineries; engine building shops, boiler yards and foundries; steel spring, shovel and rivet manufacturers, planing and saw mills; cabinet and chair factories; chandeliers, flour mills, glass works, brick yards, tanneries; breweries galore; rectifying distilleries double galore; livery and sale stables-more than a hundred; printing offices and binderies in abundance; miscellaneous manufactories too numerous to mention, including tobacco factories, more than a half hundred churches; schools and colleges a plenty; theaters and lecture halls, hospitals, public baths; stores, offices, warehouses and workshops by the thousand; hotels, taverns and boarding houses whose names would fill a book; and finally a multitude of stores with dwellings attached. The Days of the Small Retailer These dwellings with stores attached mean an army of small merchants in all lines of trade, whose clerical force consisted of the members of the family, and whose business was prosperous enough to provide a liveliihood, and in addition to keep the children in school until their education at least to the high school grade. Many of these small tradesmen paid from $15 to $25 per month for store and dwelling, and their little businesses expanded from year to year until the department stores were organized, whereupon the small merchandizer disappeared. The Allegheny Cotton Mills Bear in mind I am talking of Pittsburgh only. Allegheny had manufacturies also, notably cotton mills, and the Southside was studded with mills and factories, all of which became a part of Pittsburgh later on. Among the large mills in Pittsburgh proper (not counting the Southside) were Moorehead, McCleane Co., The Linden Steel Company, The Eliza Furnaces, Keystone Rolling Mill, Hussey's Copper Works, Elba Iron and Steel Works, Lloyd Blacks, Kensington Iron Works, Reese, Graff Dulls Rolling Mill, nut and bolt works at Frankstown. Lucy Furnaces, 23rd ward, and many others too numerous to mention. The Butchers' Run Flood Pittsburgh fifty years ago also had its record of disasters, for example, the (Continued on page 121) p F, a Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay. --Emerson Barge Paint Men wise in the ways of the river... from the headwaters of the Ohio to the Gulf... can tell you how important a part paint plays in inland navigation. For many years Thompson Company have manufactured water resisting and rust inhibitive barge paint... paint that has played as important a role as the men and boats themselves. %_1 --lo fty years have slipped away since the youthful Edison ensnared electricity in his modest laboratory and imprisoned it in glass to light the world. Fifty years... in which we have ceased to wonder but not ceased to appreciate his greatest of all gifts. Each year we have learned to expand its applications... to adapt it hourly to our needs.. to increase its usefulness... to conserve it wisely. We have learned that light must be reflected and refracted to achieve maximum efficiency.. and that clean, bright paint provides the necessary reflecting surface to multiply daylight and artificial light alike. No wonder, then, that Thompson Daylight Mill White Paint... compounded for this purpose... is used where light efficiency affects human efficiency. Try it in your factory, shop, warehouse, or any interior. It will multiply your light... and reduce your light bills. Thon pson Company Manufacturers of Industrial and Technical Paints 857 W. North Avenue Pittsburgh, Penna. 123 5 I e B IGREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continuedfrom page 123) Butchers' Run flood, which was brought on by a cloud burst and phenomenal storm which not only swelled the run to a mighty torrent, but included in its sweep Spring Garden avenue. One hundred and twenty-five lives were lost, seventy-five houses swept away and 600 wrecked, involving a loss of over a million dollars. The Fourteenth and Eighteenth Regiments were in charge of the devasted district for quite a while, and Pittsburgh extended generous relief. The Railroad Riots of 1877 The one dark page in the history of Pittsburgh during the time referred to, covers the third week of July, 1877. The Pittsburgh riots, considering the loss of life, destruction of property, injury to business enterprises and disturbance of the public peace, was the worst disaster known in the history of the city. The riots were precipitated and carried on by the lawless element of the city, and from all parts of the country. The total property loss was over $4,100,000. The County of Allegheny, held liable for the damage, paid to those who had lost property in the riot, including the claims of the. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, $1,600,000; Pullman Car Company, $300,000, and many private property claims-a total of $2,700,000. For three days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) a perlod of excitement reigned unparalleled in the city. Notwithstanding these great disasters the city went on increasing in wealth and population, thus placing a special emphasis on the indomitable will and pluck of its citizens. A Great Lighting Scheme One George Maggy came before Councils, say about 1873, and offered to light the cities with the arc lights on towers on Mt. Washington, Herron Hill, Observatory Hill, etc.'He would install the system and the only compensation he would ask was the privilege of the lamp post advertising in Pittsburgh. In view of the fact that the era of electric lighting was not yet born, the offer of the eccentric German was not accepted. And yet I stalled when I was unable to find an explanation of the statement that one year some fellow paid into the City Treasury $11.00 for lamp post advertising, and the following year $14.00 was paid for the same privilege. Electric lighting did not materialize for quite a while, as the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 closed its gates at 6 P. M. for want of that which would "lighten the gloom." The Year Volunteer Firemen Quit The late City Controller, E. S. Morrow, was Clerk of Councils when the new Constitution went into effect and a Fire Commission was in charge of the paid fire department, which was installed by Act of Assembly in 1870. This put an end to the old volunteer fire department, organized after the big fire in 1845. The old companies taken over were the Eagle, Allegheny, Duquesne, Niagara, Washington, Vigilant 850 W. North Ave. and William Penn Engine and Hose Company of the old Firemen's Association; afterwards the Neptune, Relief, Independence, Good Intent and other companies were added until there were thirteen engine companies in the city. The Police of 1874 Roger O'Mara and Major C. C. McGovern were among the "corner men" -traffic directors is now the title. And occasionally raids were made by the Pittsburgh, Pa. 1851 1929 Theman Ranges in Colors that blend with Kitchen Trimmings THE GRAFF COMPANY 945 LIBERTY AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. PHONE ATLANTIC 3989 V 124 RASNER DINGER COMPANY General Sheet Metal Works i Let your furnishings as well as your lights brighten up your rooms For example--The china and glassware in the new Chamber of Commerce dining room. Furnished by DEMMLER SCHENCK CO. 432-434 PENN AVENUE IJI ii LiiiiiiiiiiI I iii iiiiiii ii ii iiiii iiiii i i i i i i iii i iii i ~ll 1October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH sleuths. Reports reached the Mayor on one occasion that the show in one of the theaters was not according to "Hoyle"--the women performers (dancers mainly) were said to be behaving in a manner to shock a censor board. When brought before the Mayor, in theatrical dress, they were found to be over clothed in comparison with Carrolls moving pictures of today. But in the interest of good morals the theatrical manager was fined and ordered to supply the performers with still more clothing. The Age of Street Fakirs Evenings the street corners were crowded with fakirs of all kinds. They would perform all sorts of feats of legerdemain, sleight of hand, etc., and wind up by giving those present an envelope filled with various trinkets, which as they dropped them into the receptacle would announce their value, a total of $3.00 or $5.00, and for twenty-five cents hand it over to the first fellow who had the longest arm or was agile enough to get in first. Others would sell tooth powder after demonstrating with a boy or man, whose teeth would become pearly white by its use a single time; or to bald headed men an oil that would produce a growth overnight and had been known to start hair on a door knob, where a bald headed man had neglected to wash his hands after he had used the perfumed petroleum. On a pleasant evening it was fun to watch those fakirs and to observe the number of gudgeons and suckers in every crowd. But both fakirs and audience enjoyed it and seldom was there disturbance of any kind. The audience whetted their thirst meanwhile at old fashioned wooden hydrants, at short intervals along the side walks, for the use of "man and beast;" and a tavern keeper had to swear he was fitted up to accommodate man and beast-but it was entirely different accommodation. There was no doubt of the alcoholic content of that for man-water was O. K. for the beast. The Pittsburgh Apaches Jared M. Brush was Mayor of the City in 1874, and he promised the people that before his term ended ne would rid Pittsburgh of the band of mudlarks, who were terrorizing the people. Especially at the Point, in Bayardstown, Soho and elsewhere. These fellows, answering to our modern bandits, except they more often beat up people than robbed them, were such pests that the Mayor knew they must be placed behind the bars or brought in dead or alive, as he, on one occasion, sent word to one of the law breakers at the point, who had defied the police officers to arrest him. And the Mayor made good, for the thugs were all in prison or dead before his term expired. The Finest Residence of 1874 William Smith, proprietor of the National Pipe Foundry Company, who furnished the water pipes for the extension of the system throughout the new city, built a red brick dwelling house on Winebiddle avenue, East End, said to be at the time the most handsome dwelling in Pennsylvania. Where Post Office'Was In 1874 The Park Building, at Fifth Avenue and Smithfield street, occupies the site of the old post office and Custom House still standing in 1874. The post office was purchased by Mr. Park from the government, and as I recall it the purchase price was a trifle under $500,000, and was paid in gold. C. L. Magee's Desk One old friend of fifty years ago you can still see if you will call on Mr. Edward Phelps, General bookkeeper in the office of the City Controller. This friend I must introduce you to. It is an antique stand-up desk, the intrinsic value of which is perhaps twenty-five cents. It was used by C. L. Magee, (Continued on page 126) DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PITTSBURGH, PA. Fifty-second Year COLLEGE OF ARTS, 1878 LAW SCHOOL, 1911 SCHOOL OF DRAMA, 1913 SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTS, 1913 GRADUATE SCHOOL, 1914 COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, 1915 SCHOOL OF PHARMACY, 1925 SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1926 SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, 1927 PREPARATORY: ACADEMIC, COMMERCIAL, SCIENTIFIC Boarders and Day Students Received Very Rev. M. A. HEH-IR, C. S Sp., L.L.D., - - - - - President 125 1878 1929 ___ ___ I MlGREATER PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continuedfrom page 125) City Treasurer, in signing and endorsing checks for deposit: by Thos. H. Phelps, his Chief Clerk and City Assessor; by Tom Gillespie, Jack Oakley, John McGill, Samuel Clark and others. It was salvaged by Mr. Phelps, who as he works upon it easily pictures the faces and forms of those who used it in the bygone days. Our Coal Barons of the 70's William H. Brown was the pioneer in the development of the river coal industry in Pittsburgh and vicinity, and through operations of great magnitude, maintained his place of leadership to the close of his life. Previous to 1858 he had shipped coal south in barges, a type of large keel boats, but the expense of such transportation had made the method unprofitable. Mr. Brown purchased steamboats and during the war supplied the United States Government with coal at Cairo, Memphis and Pittsburgh, besides supplying St. Louis with coal for the gas works. The first shipment by steamboats aggregated 230,000 bushels, and the flotilla of boats was flanked on one side by the steamboat "Grampus," and on the other side by the "General Larimer." Captain Samuel S. Brown, oldest son of William H. Brown, was in charge of the fleet. The experiment was a complete success, and through this new outlet for Pittsburgh coal a steadily increasing tonnage poured forth. I recall that in one year the Browns alone shipped fourteen million bushels-of coal south. Mr. Brown built a beautiful residence at Salt Works Station, on the Pittsburgh Connellsville Railroad, near his boat yards, and when asked why he had selected the location, remarked that out the hills, almost perpendicular, directly back of the home, he had obtained black diamonds, enough to enable him to erect the beautiful mansion, and then some, and he wished to pass the remainder of his days close to his first love. He was first employed on the old Pennsylvania canal, and later worked on farms in summer and dug coal during the winter months. He took good care of his meagre earnings, and finally concluded he had sufficient to embark in business for himself. His first venture was the use of a small wagon and one horse. Within a comparatively short time he had a number of teams and men delivering coal to the furnaces of Pittsburgh. Every person having business with him was impressed with his absolute integrity, and it is not to be wondered that during the greater part of his life he was regarded as the most able producer and shipper of coal in the region. His sons were all associated with him in the development of the business, the most prominent in active work being Captains Samuel and W. Harry Brown, the latter succeeding *to the management upon the death of the father in 1875. Mr. Brown's Sense of Humor It is related of the elder Brown that 1304 Keenan Building on one occasion, when the captain of a steamer was unable to make the trip to Cincinnati, the boss took his place. Prior to leaving Cincinnati, the mate was directed to fill the larder-boat supplies--for the return trip. Shortly after the boat headed for Pittsburgh he called the mate and clerk to check up the invoices. There were soap, candles, crackers, cheese, flour. apples, "one barrel of whiskey and one loaf of Pittsburgh, Pa. r Pennsylvania Underwriters Company L. S. BROWN, President Twenty one years in Pittsburgh. Writing all forms of Insurance. Life Insurance with no estimates. Split second service in Accident and Health Underwriting. Ninth Floor Chamber of Commerce Building Phone: ATlantic 5950 PENN-OHIO GAS CO. BENEDUM TREES BLDG. PITTSBURGH, PA. PITTSBURGH CLAY PRODUCTS CO. Manufacturers of Face Brick I I _ _ _ v October 12, 1929 126GREATER PITTSBURGH bread." When his eye caught the last two items he dryly said to the mate, "What do you want with so much bread?" A Big Checking Balance At the time of his death it was a matter of comment in financial circles, that he had in cash in banks, subject to check, more than a half million dollars -a phenomenal amount of live cashand that the vast estate was in such shape that it could be settled without a hitch. One thing more in regard to the manner of man known as William H. Brown. One of his strongest competitors was a companion coal digger, who broke away from him at the suggestion of friends and started in business for himself. His partner in time made up his mind to freeze him out, and finally became so bitter against him as to notify him that at a date a few days distant, he would either "buy or sell," at a price ridiculously low, adding that he preferred to sell. Mr. Brown's friend was still a poor "coal miner," with little acquaintance and no financial backing. In his stress he went to Mr. Brown, who received him cordially, as though nothing had happned between them, and learning of the situation, cheerily said: "If you think you can make it go, buy him out." But said the man, "I haven't any money, or any banking facilities." Well said Mr. Brown, "I have both and will be on hand with the cash, when you clinch the bargain." And he was, and for many years his friends and sons carried on an extensive opposition business in coal mining, wih Mr. Brown among his devoted friends. Mr. W. Harry Brown, who succeeded to the business was the youngest of eight children, and had charge until the interests passed to the Monongahela Pittsburgh Coal Companies. He held a captain's license, was skilled in navigation, and interested in eastern coast-wise coal-carrying vessels. He inherited many of the sterling qualities of his remarkable father, and greatly extended the business. Among other things he designed and perfected a crane for transferring coal from barges to vessels that soon became generally used. He also organized a number of coal and coke companies, and assisted several worthy persons to successfully engage in business. He was especially thoughtful of faithful service on the part of an employe, regardless of capacity. Mr. Brown, among other benefactions, established a home at Elizabethtown, Pa., to be known as an"Industrial Home for Boys, for orphans and dependent sons of members of the Masonic order." He was greatly interested in athletic affairs, and took a prominent part in all the leading clubs and civic organizations of the city. The Famous Iron Masters B. F. Jones began his business career in 1843 as receiving clerk in the Mechanics' Transportation Line of Pittsburgh, and four years later was manager and partner. With Samuel M. Kier he became interested in a crude little furnace in the Allegheny Mountains, but lack of fuel and poor quality of ores caused them to abandon the plant. Mr. Jones kept his eye steadily on the iron business, and in 1851 purchased an interest in the American Iron Works in Old Brownstown, Southside, already referred to. James Laughlin took the place of Bernard Lauth, who built the works, and pig iron was obtained from Mr. Laughlin's Falcon furnace at Youngstown, O. There was not a blast furnace in Allegheny County in 1853. Graff, Bennett Company, in 1858, built the onestack Clinton furnace in Sligo (Southside) and it is still in operation. Jones Laughlins erected the Eliza furnace expressly for the use of coke, on Second Avenue, Four-mile Run, in 1861. The plant at this time was among the most important in the country. The (Continued on page'128) INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER OF AMERICA INTERNATIONAL MOTOR TRUCKS 5200 PENN AVE. McCORM ICK-DEERING T RACTORS 810 W. NORTH AVE. CO. I _ I I 127 October 12, 1929,:u,,D,,':,Y I' UKLkA I'EK P1'I-'SBJURGH 11 City Illumination And Progress Pageant Hoover's Cabinet Here At River Dinner (Continuedfrom page 8) The Heinz Episode The H. J. Heinz episode will offeri one of the most colorful scenes of the pageant. Through it will walk the farmers of the world, agriculturists of America, Italy Spain, China, Morocco, Poland, Russia and other lands, each clad in their own distinctive dress and each bearing the products of the soil to the markets. Another striking feature of this episode, one which permits of colorful costumes, is a series of English, Russian, Polish and Chinese peasant folk dances. Shadyside Academy students will be the actors. In this episode, the vivid colors of the gypsy dress will be seen. The Blallet Of Light In the ballet of light in the Thomas A. Edison episode, the costumer and the electriciain have joined forces in what is promised to be a truly startling and beautiful dance spectacle. The incandescent lamp, whose birthday the jubilee celebrates, has been drawn upon to supply costumes for three solo dancers, these costunmes representing the red glow in the lamp. This episode will be presented by the Pennsylvania College for Women. In striking contrast to it will be the dark figures of early American Indians as in the opening number--the Indian fire and light preludethey depict man's efforts to progress to light through fire. Perry High school students have been cast as the actors. The Westinghouse Episode From semi-nude red men to 1873 is a long jump, but the costumer has made it for it is achieved in the George Westinghouse episode in which business men of that period associated with Westinghouse will be offered by Westinghouse High school. Fifty children in the "ballet of safety," clad in the accepted ballet dancers' costume, will furnish one of the colorful features of the episode. The various episodes will be acted out on three stages located about second base. The main stage is 75x50 feet, the second stage, 40x25, and the third, 10x12. County and( City Appropliations s With $65,000 appropriated by the county colmmiissioners for the electrical illumination of county bridges and buildings; with $60,000 set aside by City Council for sinmilar elaborate displays on city property and with industries, public utilities and merchants of the Pittsburgh district cooperating in a like manner, the observance of Light's Golden Jubilee here the week of October 21 promises to eclipse in color and pageantry anything ever before staged in Allegheny county. In addition to the great electrical display on buildings and bridges; on hotels and homes, boulevards and otheIr prominent thoroughfares are to be transformed into paths of gold by the simple expedient of changing present white streets lamps into ones of golden hue. Nightly during the week, as already noted, the beams of six huge U. S. Navy searchlights and numerous smaller ones, each placed on strategic llheights throughout the city, will illuminate the heavens. Night Air Carnival Actors on the ground below and actors in the skies above will vie with one another in arousing the interest of Pittsburgh and the thousands of visitors which the celebration will undoubtedly attract here. During the week, Pittsburgh will have its first night air carnival. Airplanes and blimps will disport themselves 6verhead as their beams of anti-aircraft searchlights flood thiir paths. Sky writing, (Continued from page 8) More than $3,000,000 of floating equipment, representing approximately thirty steamboats owned by local industrial corporations, will participate in the river parade to the Emsworth locks. Capt. William B. Rodgers of the Rodgers Sand Co., and Capt. A. O. Ackard of the Carnegie Steel Corp., are in charge of the river pageant. The boats will likely be moored, bows in, along the Monongahela wharf. A spectacle such as this will be has not been duplicated in the city since the famous marine celebration in Pittsburgh two decades ago. Safety Details Planned Although the moorings will probably be fifty or sixty feet apart and the pilots of each boat at his station until the ships stand out in parade, every other precaution to the safety of the equipment and crews have been well provided for. Responses to the committee indicate that each boat will have a big passenger list to be carried in the parade, Even to desert lands of Egypt, the completion of the canalization of the Ohio river, the American engineers' efficiency in building waterways under handicaps, has a meaning of importance. For that reason Mahmoud Samy Pasha, Egyptian iminister, engineer of the famous Nile river waterways project, will be present with cabinet members, governors and other executives interested in rail and water transportation at the banquet in the William Penn Hotel on the evening of October 17. He comes to get ideas that may be applied to engineering problems in the arid lands of the Pharaohs. James Francis Burke, toastmaster, who arrived from Washington last Saturday, announced that the Egyptian diplomat and engineer would be here to learn more of the Ohio river job that represents 50 years of work and an expenditure of $200,000,000. Pasha, as an engineer, faced the same obstacles in changing the historic Nile into a navigable stream of commiiercial value that the government engineers had to overcome to build a water stairway from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Ill., a distance of 1,000 miles, so that commodities from the Steel City might be transported the year around, regardless of weather conditions. flares and electrical displays thousands of feet above the city will feature this sky carnival. Getting back to earth, an illuminated night parade of floats is on the program for October 22 with an historic pageant entertaining the people at Forbes Field on the evenings of October 23 and 24. Nothing comparable to the night parade has ever been attempted here in the way of processions before. Practically every form of business and industry in the country will be represented by a float. The floats must be motordriven and electrically lighted. Each will represent or depict the progress that has been made in the business represented. The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the entire celebration, will be represented by a number of handsome floats. The Night Parade The priocession will pass from the North Side to East Liberty through miles of specially lighted streets and by buildings dressed for the occasion. The parade will form in Stockton avenue, North Side, proceeding to Federal street, to. iberty avenue, to Fifth avenue, through Oakland to Beechwood boulevard and thence to Penn avenue. It will disband at Penn avenue and St. Clair street, in East (Continued on page 13),,-,1-.-. 1 ~ ). 1 r)n rl% l%x ri INT% r% TNP-"r%V% I - GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continuedfrom page 127) original plant had a capacity of forty tons of finished iron daily. Mr. Jones introduced the sliding wage scale, by which the mill workers were paid a stated rate per ton, based on the selling price of the product. This system solved innumerable difficulties and averted countless strikes and disturbances, and he was always regarded as a stauch friend of the workmen. B. F. Jones' Rejection of U. S. Steel Bid His success in business was due largely to his far sightedness, and so quietly was the expansion of his industry carried on that people wondered why he did not go into the U. S. Steel Corporation, especially in view of the fact that $50,000,000 was reported to be the tempting offer of the corporation. This caused a smile to many wellposted business men who hinted that Mr. Jones wouldn't consider an offer four times the sum mentioned. Then it began to dawn on the people of Pittsburgh that the Jones Laughlin Steel Company was a gigantic enterprise, second only to the U. S. Steel Corporation, and itself the largest independent company in America. In 1884 Mr. Jones labored energetically for the election of James G. Blaine, his personal friend, for the Presidency. He also took an active interest in the McKinley campaign in 1896, and made a liberal subscription to the fund raised to induce the National Committee to bring the nominating convention to Pittsburgh, but the effort failed for want of hotel and auditorium facilities. Mr. Jones was connected with a number of the big financial institutions of Pittsburgh. I should have mentioned that his firm not only made an exhibit in the Centennial at Philadelphia in 1876, but furnished shafting, etc., used in operating the machinery of the great exhibition. In 1900 Mr. Jones retired as president and was succeeded by his son, B. F. Jones, Jr. The father remained a member of the Board of Directors, however, and retained a general supervision up to the time of his death. Before the Civil War he had been a Democrat, but that conflict made him an ardent Republican, and he took an active part in sustaining the Federal cause, both by promoting enlistments and by subscribing liberally toward the sustenance and comfort of the soldiers and their families. Another Famous Iron Group Spang, Chalfant Company, of the Etna Iron Works, was another of the earlier independent mills prominent and influential in the Pittsburgh district in the formative days of this manufacturing city. The Spangs descending from Holland immigrants and came to Pittsburgh from Huntingdon, where they had established an iron works. Charles F. Spang was aged nineteen when the father removed to Etna and built a mill, and the young man became its general manager. His headquarters were in Pittsburgh, and he immediately connected himself with all of its growing interests, municipal and otherwise, and soon was among its COAL Anthracite Smokeless Best Bituminous Lump most influential citizens. On the death of the father the firm became Spang Company, James McAuley befng the partner. In 1858 the firm became Spang, Chalfant Company, C. H. Spang, John W. Chalfant, Campbell B. Herron, A. M. Byers and Albert G. Lloyd being the partners. Mr. Chalfant and Mr. Herron were largely instrumental in attracting the attention of the whole country to their remarkable product. 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FLOWERS ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE Members-Florists Telegraph Delivery AssociationCharles Francis Adams Secretary of Navy Another Guest Of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Industrial Giants (Continuedfrom page 19) in a few years brought him to Pittsburgh where he amassed a huge fortune. He was president and after 1897 chairman of the board of directors of the H. C. Frick Coke Company, now the largest producer of coke in the world, operating nearly 40,000 acres of coal and 12,000 coke ovens, with a daily capacity of 25,000 tons. After becoming - associated with Mr. Carnegie in the steel business he came into public notice by his vigorous management of the Carnegie interests, which expanded notably. In 1889-92 Mr. Frick was chairman of the board of the firm of Carnegie Brothers, and later chairman of the board of managers of the Carnegie Steel Company. He was extensively interested later on in railroads, becoming a director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fe, the Chicago and Northwestern railways, the United States Steel Corporation, the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, etc. At his death he bequeathed many millions of dollars to educational and charitable institutions and made a gift to the people of Pittsburgh of a park of 160 acres in the heart of the city. Offspring: "Why do they have a buffalo on our fivecent pieces, Pop?" Progenitor: "Because it no longer bison nickel's worth. Go to bed." Women's intuition always keeps them a couple jumps ahead of men's logic. Occasionally, every parent skould ask whether he is rearing his children for ornaments or useful members of society. Light, Symbol Of Progress bolize his victory over the darkness of with the introduction of that tiny globe ignorance and fear and superstition. of light in 1879, began the most amaz(Continued from page 29) With that development has come great- ing economic period ever known-the those men who, against every obstacle, er safety to life and property, better Electrical Era. Well, too, may we, as have unselfishly borne the torch of hu- health, and infinitely greater comfort a nar the event that saged our rise to supremacy. Most man progress. and pleasure. It has made the Ameri thankfully of all shall we, individually, can home a miracle of beauty and con- pay tribute to those fearless men who pay tribute to those fearless men who venience. And the far deeper effect ight Dispels Fear venience. And the far deePer effect dared to snatch the thunderbolt from Certainly, no symbol of progress is which it has had upon men's characters the hand of Jove and harness it for the more fitting than the electric lamp. The by reason of these blessings one dare use of mankind. development of electric lighting which not even estimate. To them we pay reverent respect, our has ended man's long struggle against Well may the electrical industry cel- hearts filled with homage and gratitude. physical darkness, also may well sym- ebrate Light's Golden Jubilee! For We shall not forget. The Finest Room in Your House ITHAT is what you want your Let us show you the latest designs in. bathroom to be-a daily source Plumbing Ware-the kind you will of satisfaction, comfort and inspira- find in the handsomest bathrooms tion. Perhaps we can help you to everywhere. make it all that you have pictured. Come in or telephone. We are glad At moderate expense, too. to assist-no obligation. 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TOTAL VALUE OF PRODUCTS.............. Reliance Life Gains Large gains in September business are reported by the Reliance Life Insurance Company of Pittsburgh. Written life insurance last month amounted to $9,892,867, a gain of 64.44% over last September. Written accident insurance and weekly health indemnity each showed an increase of more than 47 %. The paid life business last month was $5,024,202, a gain of 22.06% over the same month in 1928. Paid accident insurance increased 26.76 % and paid weekly indemnity health insurance 45.41%. Reliance life enters the last quarter of the year with a paid volume of $50,393,759 of life insurance for the first nine months. During this period there was placed in force $24,272,450 accident insurance and $55,394.50 weekly health indemnity. The Company now has in force $427,9462,925 life, $153,132,622 accident and $333,383.25 weekly indemnity health insurance. Its assets total more than $60,000,000. Architects HUNTING, DAVE DINNELLS CENTURY BUILDING DelIgrners of mercantile bailding, uarehouaea end industrial pkants; consultants for Structural Enrineeringn of building project* E. N. HUNTING, Reg. Engineer L. N. DAvIs,Reg. Architect C. G. DUNNKELLS. Reg. Engineer Boiler Plant Engineers RUSH MACIINERY CO. Complete Boiler Plants, High Presure Boilers Steel Heating Boilers Unit Heaters Electrically Controlled Gas Burners Copes Feed Water Regulators Court 1520 127,910,100 65,669,200 39,625,600 35,678,700 26,770,200 14,312,400 12,198,500 2,719,500 1,157,800 59,420,400 $1,625,706,000 -00.9 % --00.8% +16.4% + 00.9% + 8.9% + 8.3% +.11.9% -16.2 % -14.7% -26.9% +13.2 % -00.4 %' Building Contractors Established 1852 Incorporated 1902 A. 8. WILSON COMPANY Con tractors and Builders 541 THIRD AVE. J. Charles Wilson, Pres. PITTSBURGH, PA Private Exckange. 0225 Court Dredging Bell T., Atlantic 0980-0981 MONONGAHELA OHIO DREDGING CO. General Dredging Contractors 224.1 Oliver Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. 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BDeteaducfl, Sp't On tracks of Pennsylvania Railroad -IY Ii - [ [! [ 1.. [October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH (Continuedfrom page 128) while Mr. Chalfant kept an eagle eye upon the finances and profits. John W. Chalfant's Aphorism I recall two incidents in the life of Mr. Chalfant worth recital, as showing his terseness of expression. His barometer of the fluctuations in the iron business was given at a National Convention of iron masters several years ago. Said this remarable captain of industry: "There are six or seven years in which we make money hand over fist; then mushroom concerns spring up over night, and by cutting prices, get in on the top wave; for the next six or seven years we do well if we keep level, and for the remaining six or seven years to complete twenty, we lose money like the devil." On Saturday, April 15th, 1865, a newsboy sold Mr. Chalfant an extra, on the death of Abraham Lincoln, and in the evening, among his receipts of twenty-six dollars, found a two dollar and a half gold piece, mistakenly given as a penny. Knowing he got it from Mr. Chalfant he, on Monday, called at his office, and this colloquy followed: "Mr. Chalfant you bought a Chronicle from me on Saturday." "Well, I shouldn't be surprised, for I bought every extra issued." "Well, Mr. Chalfant," said the lad, "you gave me a two and a half dollar gold piece in mistake." "Well, you durned little skeesicks, for being honest enough to come away down here to tell me about it, you can keep it," said Mr. Chalfant, and the newsy ever afterward spoke of it in his lectures on "Easy Money." The Glass Industry Fifty Years Ago Bakewell Company were the pioneer pressed ware glass manufacturers of Pittsburgh; O'Hara Company, bottles, etc.; S. McKee Company, window glass, etc. James Bryce, in 1849, left the employ of Bakewells and with his brothers John and Robert and other workmen who had learned the trade with the Bakewells, started a factory on the Southside, under the name of Bryce, Richards Company; later it was Bryce, McKee Company, then Bryce, Walker Company, and later still, Bryce Bros., until consolidated with the United States Glass Company, Running contemporaneously with the Bryce firm in later years, was the Sellers, McKee Company, Doyle Company, Ripley Company, Adams Company, Dithridge Company, Heisey Company, and numerous other firms. George A. Macbeth Company became the greatest producers of lamp chimneys and optical goods in America, while in window glass Chambers Company, S. McKee Company, Abel, Kim Company, and others had a production which soon put Pittsburgh in the front as a glass manufacturing center. Some idea of the extent of the pressed ware manufactories in Pittsburgh and vicinity drawn on by the cities of America and for export, at the time of the organization of the United States Glass Company, may be gathered from the fact that seventeen large plants were merged, and still some big independent companies refused to go into the consolidation. The American Window Glass Company is a consolidation of all the window glass factories, and on the death of Mr. Geo. A. Macbeth, his large factories were consolidated with the Evans Company, and became the Macbeth-Evans Company. No Gold In Glass Then All in all, it is no exaggeration to say that Pittsburgh controls the glass trade. Before the Civil war shipments south were made in keel boats, and most of the factories ran without profit. But after the close of the strife business took a rebound and the newly organized concerns which took the place of some of the old pioneers began to earn dividends. But the stockholders, who were mostly workmen, lived very (Continued on page 31) L131: I *1 Copperweld Wire, Strand, Ground Rods and Wire products are manufactured from Copperweld ingots by the Molten-Welding Process, whereby a thick exterior of pure copper is molten-welded to the steel core. The high strength of steel is combined with the non-rusting properties and high conductivity of copper. Copperweld Wire and Rods are non-rusting because their exterior of copper gives them the same resistance to corrosion as solid co,pper. The initial strength of the steel is never diminished. These Copperweld products are being supplied throughout the world for uses on electrical and mechanical services. Copperweld Steel Company General Offices and Mills Glassporl, Penna. _ r I iGREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Westinghouse Electric Man Honored By Export Trade Via The Ohio In recognition of his outstanding work in the field of electrical transmission engineering, Queens University at Kingston, Ontario, on October 11, conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Charles Le Geyt Fortescue, chief consulting transmission engineer for the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, who is known as a world authority in his field. Graduating from Queens University in 1898 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, Mr. Fortescue immediately became associated with Westinghouse, two years later entering the engineering department of that company. In 1918 he became manager of the porcelain, insulator and transmission department, and since 1926 has been chief consulting transmission engineer. Much of Dr. Fortescue's early work was in the development of transformers. He developed a systematic design of transformer, the "Type S" transformer line, an economic basis for watercooled and self-cooled transformers, and worked out the so-called basis faradoid principles, giving the form and Steel Plants Using Rivers (Continued from page 41) German government, although then owner of the railroads, spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the development of its waterways.. The mileage of waterways in Germany, including canals, amounts to 7,635 miles. Including barges and tow-boats, the German inland fleet numbers 25,000 vessels of a total tonnage exceeding 7,000,000 tons. Inland ports have been built which rival the proudest of the seashore, DuisburgRuhrort ranking first with an outgoing and incoming traffic by water in 1928 of 22,777,000 tons. In 1928 107,600,proportion for insulating surfaces. His work also has done much to advance the art of calibration of spheres, spark gaps, and the Baum principle of transmission. One of his important developments was the principle of "Symmetrical coordinance", a mathematical principle of great value in connection with the analytical treatment of polyphase machines and circuits, and which has also been applied to the solution of algebraic equation of the third and fourth degree. This principle is now in general use in this country, in Japan, in most of the European countries, and wherever difficult problems in polyphase machines and networks have to be solved. During the past several years Dr. Fortescue has conducted many theoretical and field investigations of lightning phenomena, involving the use of the Norinder cathode ray oscillograph. He is greatly interested in mathematics and physics and spends much of his spare time on these subjects. He was born in 1876 at York Factory, Manitoba, Canada. 000 tons of freight were carried by German inland waterways. All of which would indicate that the German business men are making good use of this cheaper means of transportation. The Ohio River, with a thousand mile 9 foot channel, connecting with the 9 foot channel of the Mississippi River, with vast quantities of commodities in its hinterland, with a rapidly growing industrial territory, with provisions for joint rail and water rates, with an expanding import and export trade, and with more efficient boats and barges, is envisioned by many economists as becoming within the next few years the "Rhine of America." A need, however, has been (Continuedfrom page 37) Considering. only the cities of 100,000 population and over located on the Ohio between Pittsburgh and Cairo, we see from the accompaniyng table, based on the Biennial Census of Manufacturers, that there has been a steady growth in the value of products produced since 1921. This has meant the movement of large quantities of raw materials as well as of finished products, much of which may be potential river traffic. Similar or even greater growth may be expected in the next seven years. Value of Products of All Manufacturing Industries 1921-1927 Cincinnati, Ohio Louisville, Ky. Pittsburgh, Pa. Youngstown, O. 1921....$408,949,330 1927.... 437,953,805 1921.... 176,022,554 1927.... 242,695,505 1921.... 393,430,540 1927.... 508,528,845 1921.... 165,374,774 1927.... 207,378,620 Teacher--"Give me a sentence using the word vicious." Little Johnnie-"Oh ye gods and little vicious." "Who gave you the black eye?" "Gave me? Boy, I had to fight to get that." "Bertha is certainly showing her age." "How's that?" "Why, look how wrinkled her knees are." The flapper is known by the milkmen she meets. pointed out regarding appreciation on the part of the people in this vast region of the possibilities afforded by their river.-Condensed from "National Waterways." 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Bryce, grandson of James Bryce; Edwin W. Bryce, son of Robt. D. Bryce, and sons of each of the gentlemen named. Small Start of a Fortune A good story is told on the elder Bryces, who, on Saturdays, after the close of the factory, were wont to go "away out of the city to Chartiers Creek" to fish, and while away the hours, after the long walk and return. They were prospecting for territory and could have purchased land on the Northside of the creek from McKees Rocks to Mansfield for about $1,500. Asked why they had not annexed the tract for an inheritance for their children, they answered, the only stumbling block in the way was the $1,500. Some of them were earning about a dollar and a half a day, and allowing part of the salary to be applied to the payment of stock, and a capital of $1,500 would be equal to a big fortune today. But these pioneers denied themselves many pleasures, in fact, I might say, even comforts, to blaze the way for Pittsburgh's greatness in the industrial world, and in the end they reaped the reward of their sacrificial labor. How much we owe to the founders of not the "Iron City" or "Smoky City," or "Birmingham of America," but to the "workshop of the World!" Board Walks on Penn Avenue in the Seventies When Fifth Avenue sidewalks were widened from twelve to fourteen feet, the space added was taken from the present "roadway or cartway," to use the exact language of the ordinance. Think of a cartway in Pittsburgh a half-century or more ago! About the same time authority for a board walk on the Southside of the Greensburg Pike from Mellon's Lane to Center Avenue was entered of record. The quietness of traffic on St. Clair Street from Market Street to the Suspension Bridge was due to its Nicholson (wood pavement), the blocks of which were treated to a chemical bath before being laid. Among other interesting ordinances were these: For a cinder walk on Center Avenue, between Kirkpatrick Street and Minersville, to terminate at "Jacob Ewart's corner" (the only thing missing was the oid-time white-oak post); for a board walk on Fifth Avenue, froim Soho toll house to Murphy Street; for a board walk on the Grecensburg Pike (now Penn Avenue), from Bellefontaine Street to Winebiddle Avenue, from Winebiddle to Pearl Street, from Pearl to AMain, and from Main to Elm Street in "Winebiddle Woods." Low Tariffs for Amusements The Mayor issued show licenses in those days, and operas cost five dollars a night, or twenty dollars for the week. And let me pause here long enough to say that no city in America more generously patronized the opci:.a perfo rmnances of that day. The records will show opera seasons, successful in every way, presenting the foremost operatic stars of the land. A circus was taxed ten dollars a day, which included water for the elephants and free passes for the Mayor and all city officers, police. etc. A menagerie was taxed twenty dollars, anid all other exhibitions five dollars a night. Old Masonic Hall on Fifth Avenue, where Campbell's store now stands, was 134 t THE LARGEST JEWELRY ESTABLISHMENT IN PITTSBURGH C2/VernouniinI oJY Jl Uanull JeweIs, A SPECIALIZED SERVICE of The HARDY and HAYES CO. requires a mind gifted in imagination and in vision. 1887-1928 who, taking jewels that have outlived their fashion, re-creates them fi into a piece of modern mode and beauty. What gift more precious for wife, or daughter, than a piece of jewelry built from precious gems that have been in the family for years. Orders for this service should be placed now if the work is to be completed for Christmas, to allow ample time for submitting ideas and sketches. I HARDYA HAYES i OODSREETATOLI/ERAVNE-PTSBRR G i g JANITOR'S SUPPLY COMPANY "Everything a Janitor Needs" LAUNDRY SUPPLIES' Third Ave. and Market St. Court 3727-3728 Pittsburgh, Pa. - ----- -October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH the popular place for' panoramas of the war, magicians and all other exhibitions outside of regular theatricals. The best known magician and sleightof-hand man of the timne was Signor Blitz. Unproductive F'ee Offices Here is something that will interest the budget-makers of the city in Anno Domini 1924. In one of his reports, City Controller Thomas Steel said: "The whole amount of revenue for the year is $919,600, the revenue exceeding the estimates by $41,000. The expenditures were $870,882." But this cautious and careful financier flashed danger signals in the following words: "Receipts will be light until June. There will not be too much money on hand to work the city finances with ease and make her credit equal to any emergency." Another paragraph from Controller Steel's report was: "The city gauger pays only the pitiful sum of $1,700. Considering that over 1,000,000 barrels of oil are brought to the city annually, there appears to be a leakage somewhere, so far as revenue to the city is concerned." Referring to the Bark Measurer, the report said: "Although he pays nothing, he admits the collection of between two and three hundred dollars, out of which the city is entitled to fifty or r' 1A sixty dollars. This he declines to pay over, from the fact that the amount he made did not justify him in measuring." The Controller recommended the abolition of this and other offices. The Board Measurer turned in fifty-five dollars one year, having measured over 2,000,000 feet of lumber. The Monongahela Allegheny River wharves were busy places every day, and were regularly transversed by the enterprising reports of the newspapers. I noted at the Allegheny wharf oil in barrels, steam boats, flats with oil keel boats, miscellaneous flats, and lumber rafts containing in a year 5,000,000 feet, shingles, steam boat furnishings; metal in tons, tow boats, coal bottoms, etc., and yet the total collection for wharf charges, rents, etc., figured only $3,063 for the year. Canal Boats Docked on Water Street The Monongahela Wharf was a regular bee hive of industry, and a glance at the record of one year showed two hundred and forty-one arrivals of craft, paying wharfage, including steamboats, flat boats, "Canal" boats and barges (with a tonnage of nearly ninety thousand, exclusive of coal); the Jones' ferry wharf boat and ferry boats, Brownsville Packet lines, Collins' wharf boat, and the Pittsburgh Cincinnati Packet lines. Wharfage receipts one year of $20,000 represented a vast business. Some readers may be skeptical as to the "canal" boats, but they were there all the same, bringing in pig metal from Sharon, Middlesex, Sharpsville and other points on the old Erie and Pittsburgh canal. At Beaver the horses were dispensed with and the boats were lashed to a towboat and towed to the city. The Vigilant towboat, "Captain Jim Gordon," had almost a monopoly of the canal boat towage. City Budget $2,224,380 in 1875 The City Controller, in his report for 1875, reported total receipts as $2,224,380, and disbursements, $2,222,735, leaving a balance on hand of only $1,645.20. Receipts from all Market Houses in 1875 were $51,000; Wharves, $11,000; Mayor's office, $26,000; vehicle licenses, $31,256, and so on. City officers in 1875 received in salaries $28,435; Fire Department, $138,000; police, $205,000 (the Mayor appointed all policemen); Water Works, $100,000; Street Departments, $106,000; gas lighting, $34,500; Board of Health, $20,000; Road Department, $30,000, created to make slag and other roads in newly annexed townships; Southside Gas Company, $16,000. Taxes and (Continued on page 136) 135 Integrity The Columbia Cold Finished Steel Bar business has grown to its present proportions by virtue of its integrity-its sense of responsibility to the consuming public. That this integrity shall be maintained; that the users of Cold Finished Steel Bars shall be given the best quality and service obtainable, is the pledge of the present management. Columbia Steel Shafting Co. General'Oices and Mills: PITTSBURGH, PA. I _ IGREATER PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continuedfrom page 133) water rents received aggregated $1,276,394 for 1875; other revenue about a million dollars. Young C. L. Magee's City Bond Deal During the year various bonds were redeemed, many of them being in the denomination of one hundred dollars, in the shape of paving bonds issued by the Southside Boroughs and outstanding when those boroughs were annexed to the city. Some doubt was expressed as to whether the bonds would be redeemed, but young Christopher Lyman Magee, clerk in the office of his uncle, Thomas Steel, the City Controller, on his own volition, purchased all the bonds for which he could scare up funds, on the best discount deals possible, and he made a snug sum of money on his first financial venture, as the bonds were redeemed at par. Mr. Steel thereupon induced his young nephew to give up the idea of studying law, advising him that he would make his mark in finance, and that two lawyers in the family, viz., Fred M. Magee, his brother, and Thomas S. Bigelow, his cousin, would be enough of a staff of counsellors, especially for financial beginners. And Uncle Tommy had a line on the first year's earnings of his lawyer nephews which did not reach the four figure mark. Chris had done very much better on one transaction, on change." Receipts from the Fifth Avenue Market House (on the site of the present Fifth Avenue High School) recall the May Music Festival given in the Old Market House. The chorus was trained by Prof. Carl Retter, and the week's festival was conducted by the famous Theodore Thomas, Christine Nilson being the star singer. The receipts were about $23,000, and the expenses about the same; but it was a most brilliant musical event. City Valuation in 1875 only $160,000,000 The total valuation of property in 1875 was $160,000,000 in the thirtysix wards, which included the Southside, and in the thirty-second and other Southside wards, the tax assessments had to be changed to the "two-third rate," on account of rural classification. Approximate worth of the city as a municipality in 1875 is appended. Gas franchise, $156,500 (free gas); Diamond Market House and fronts, $650,000; Fifth Ward Market House, $16,000; Fifth Avenue Market House, $150,000; Southside Market House, $125,000; wharves, $88,000; gas lamps, $105,700; S n y d e r Square, Second Avenue, Park and other property, $131,000; City Building and furniture, $750,000; Old Water Works, $960,000; New Water Works, $4,121,000. A significant entry is this found in the assets. "Due from Nations Trust Company, including, interest from June 15th, 1875, the date of composition, $415,817." The Trust Company was a disastrous financial failure, ruining a number of previously well-to-do merchants and business men, and the compromise referred to was for Water Extension Bonds, which in some manner found their way into the bank in the effort to bolster it up and prevent its collapse. There was also about one thousand dollars of assets in the shape of a horse and buggy purchased for the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department; same for the assistant, and a fuel wagon and horse; every other officer either hoofed it to his place of business or covered the city oi street car passes. There were no expense accounts, "private autos or taxis."- And the walking was not always good-it was healthful, however. It cost larger sums to operate the city in 1874, viz.: Salaries, $30,000; Fire Department, $159,000,; police, FIRE CASUALTY AUTO INSURANCE COMPANY of NORTH AMERICA WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA OFFICE 600 Arrott Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. All Forms Of Insurance Except Life MARINE Tourist Baggage-Registered Mail-Parcel Post--Motor Truck MerchandiseJewelry and Furs-Horse and Cattle Mortality THOMAS SPACING MACHINE CO. PITTSBURGH, PA. Special Machinery and Machine Work Punching and Shearing Machinery Column Facing Machines and Multiple Drills WE HAVE THE LARGEST AND BEST EQUIPPED SHOP IN THE CITY - -- -- - ------ ---- -- -- ---- --- ---- (.)ctobei- 12, 1929 136October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH $206,000; Water Works, $114,000; streets, $137,000; roads, $40,000. Wilkinsburg In, Then Out Again A statement of taxable valuation of the city in 1874, at over $172,000,000, compared with 1875, is explained by the fact that Wilkinsburg Borough voted itself into the city, but shortly afterward dropped the title of Thirtyseventh Ward and returned to the borough government. The Advent of Natural Gas Natural gas as a fuel factor came into prominence in 1875, when Graff, Bennett Company, Spang, Chalfant Company, J. J. Vandergrift, Henry Harley, W. K. Vandergrift and C. W. Batchelor prganized the Natural Gas Company to drill and pipe to homes;and factories. The Panic of 1873 In September, 1873, a disastrous panic swept the country, following the announcement of the failure of Jay, Cooke Company, and various New York bankers. September 19th, the well known conservative firm of Fiske Hatch collapsed, and next day the New York Stock Exchange was closed and remained closed until the 30th. By pooling their interests and issuing certificates, the New York banks weathered the gale and dispelled the gloom. Proud of the Bank of Pittsburgh And let me pause here long enough to note that the Bank of Pittsburgh, in this panic, as through all other panics, stood as firm as Gibraltar, never suspending specie payment. That was something all Pittsburgh was rightly proud of. Pittsburgh workmen and manufacturers almost sweat drops of blood during the stagnation and depression which followed for six years, or until the Sherman Act went into effect in 1879. It was decided that "the way to resulme was to resume." and the return to specie payment was effected almost inperceptibly throughout the country. Where Labor and (Capital ('lasped Hands One remnlarkable instance of labor loyalty and the readiness of capitalists to sacrifice the last dollar was written into the history of the Cambria Iron Steel Company, at Johnstown, operated by the Hon. Daniel J. Morrell and associates. The company had large stores at Johnstown, cattle, sheep, etc., on a score of hills, flour mills, dairies, etc., but no currency of any moment. It was proposed to the employes that they continue at work; that the company would provide meats, flour, bread, groceries, etc., including tobacco, cigars, clothing-in short the necessaries of life, crediting the workmen for their wages and charging them with supplies. And for six weary years the compact was solemnly kept and the mammoth works turned out rails until every possible space available was piled high with the product. The day of resumption came, and with it a demand for hundreds of tons of rails. Men in every department, skilled and otherwise, were drafted into loading the rails, and some had to be dug out of the earth into which they had sunk by the weight upon them. Incredible as it may seem, the yards were soon cleared-not a rail left. Then came the reckoning, and every employe who had remained with the company, received the just recompense and reward of their faithfulness. As much as $8,000 was the enforced savings of some of the skilled men, and hundreds of others received checks which enabled them to annex homes of their own, and all of them more money in a roll than they had ever seen before. Skepticism As to the Telephone Several very funny incidents oc(Continued on page 138) Dilworth Porter Plant of Witherow Steel Corporation Pittsburgh WITHEROW DIE ROT,JED PRODUCTS Include Front Axles Rear Axle Shafts Gear Shift Levers Tie Rods and many other products DILWORTH PORTER PRODUCTS rA 5,,4il Rail Spikes G Tie Plates WITHEROW STEEL CORPORATION of PITTSBURGH, PA. 0 7R Neville Island Plant Witherow Steel Corporation Pittsburgh 137;uard Rails other accessoriesfor the railroads and Die Rolled Products I I m m I- _ _ _ _~~_--:Ca: r,has eenGREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Pittsburgh 50 Years Ago (Continuedfrom page 137) curring in 1876 and 1877 are noted. The first year mentioned was the occasion of the Centennial celebration in Philadelphia, the one hundredth year of American Independence. The telephone of Graham Bell was among the exhibits, and was tested by millions of people. Almost every person discussing it claimed it was a toy and that it was ridiculous to talk about as a business or commercial proposition. One of the new instruments was installed in a Pittsburgh newspaper office, and the proprietor was given one share of stock as a present. He directed that the phone be put in the coat closet, and that the stock be not entered on the books. He was afraid he might be liable for assessments. One day at ten minutes to three o'clock there was a big fire in McKeesport and the Assistant City Editor decided on a practical test of the phone. The proprietor warned him that three o'clock was press time and the forms must not be held a moment (printing presses then ran off about 1,500 papers an hour), and the edition was not off until six p. m. The National Tube Works at McKeesport had a phone, and a call was sent out for the purchasing agent at the works. Promptly came the answer and statement that White's Opera House and other buildings were burning and the loss would be about $100,000. The paper went to press on time, with a fairly full account of the fire. And now for the sequel! The phone immediately passed from the domain of a toy and soon became a live "reporter." But its slowness of introduction may be imagined from the minutes of one of the big banks in Pittsburgh, which as late as August, 1879, decided "That the Board of Directors agrees to subscribe fifty dollars per year for the introduction of a speaking telephone, conditioned that twenty banks are obtained at the same rate." Billy Smythe's Record-Breaking Excursion Many people will recall W. C. (Billy) Smythe, theatrical manager and newspaper reporter. But the one thing which linked him up with thousands was his Pittsburgh School Children's Excursion to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. When he suggested it to the Pennsylvania Railroad officers, they laughed him to scorn, but he carried his case to the general officers in Philadelphia. They at first frowned on the proposition, arguing that the parents would not allow the children to go. Meantime the children in the public schools had reached a riotous desire to go to the show. Smythe suggested a nominal rate of three dollars for the round trip, the railroad company to get its compensation by the fact that they would contribute to the greatest educational event of the century. The proposition crystallized, and next Smythe added not only the teachers, but the big brothers and sisters of the school children-and then by another amendment to the agreement, added half of the parents. When the day for departure for Philadelphia came, merchants and business men saw that every train load which started from Liberty Street, below Sixth, was supplied with milk, crackers, cakes and candies, etc., and generous lunches. Smythe went along with the eleventh section, and when the train halted at the agricultural grounds in Philadelphia, D. M. Boyd, the General Passenger Agent, who was handling the children, told Smythe there were ten more sections following-two hundred and ten car loads in all! The children spent the next day in the Exhibition, returning home the third day without accident or mishap of any kind whatsoever. And Mr. Boyd informed Smythe that it was the greatest undertaking ever handled by any railroad, and that neither he or any other man would ever again put it over in exactly that same way on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Pittsburgh's Philanthropists Persons who do for a community what has been done for Pittsburgh by Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Mary Schenley, Henry Phipps, C. L. Magee, William Thaw and Mrs. William Thaw, Henry W. Oliver, H. C. Frick, the Mellon family, James H. Park, Miss Jane Holmes, John H. Shoenberger, Henry Buhl, Jr., and many others, add immeasurably to life's sweetness and light. ears Pittsburgh is a great city-in manufacturing, in finance, in commerce and in culture. For almost Ioo years the Grogan Store has served the people of this community. The experiences gained during that period have resulted in better understanding and greater helpfulness until today the Grogan Company offers a service far ahead of even the newer and more "modem" ideas. X @ro qan zom' J' Z W oI, wR. dd 16*9gSILVURS WoodStdt6*Av, GroSnBk4, Pit 138 IThos. C. Foley, Secretary Light Jubilee Committee Badzib-"I was talking to your wife last night." Zibbad-"You were talking?" Badzib-"Yes." Zibbad-"Then you're wrong old boy, it wasn't my wife." Pittsburgh's Low-Accident Trophy H. F. Webb, safety director of the company an accident frequency rate of West Penn Power Company, has re- 4.335, nearly twice as good a record turned from the meeting of the Na- as its nearest competitor, the Duquesne tional Safety Council in Chicago with Light Company of Pittsburgh, which the trophy for low accident frequency compiled an accident frequency of during the first six months of 1929. The first five companies finished in The trophy, competed for by sixteen the following o der: The West Penn the following order: The West Penn of the biggest light and power compan- Power Company of Pittsburgh, with an ies in the United States, went to the accident frequency of 4.335; Duquesne company showing the least lost time Light Company of Pittsburgh, accident from accidents to employes in propor- frequency 8.304; Kentucky Utilities tion to the total time worked by em- Company, Louisville, Kentucky, acciployes during the period from January dent frequency 9.398; Arkansas Power to July. and Light Company, Pine Bluff, ArkanThe West Penn Power Company sas, accident frequency 10.328; The made a remarkable record. 2,548 em- Edison Electric Illuminating Company, ployes worked 3,460,000 hours and Boston, Massachusetts, accident freonly 15 accidents occurred to give the quency 11.660. Passenger (from car window) "Hey, Pearl-"Why do you wear such lowyou darn fool, here goes the train and necked gowns?" you haven't put my baggage aboard." Frances-"Oh just to show my Porter-"You're the darn fool; heart's in the right place." you're on the wrong train." Markson--"I'm going up to jail, I News Headline-"Ma Ferguson Los- want to talk with the bandit who took ing Her Supporters." my car." Stevenson-"What's the use?" Be careful, boy, flowers don't care Markson-"Maybe he'll tell me how who they lay's on. he got fifty miles an hour out of her." Globe Insurance Company of America PITTSBURGH, PA. HARDIE BROS. CO. Highland Confections PITTSBURGH, - - - PA.GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Notable Metallurgical Dinner The Metallurgical Advisory Board to the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the U. S. Bureau of Mines is giving a dinner to a large number of guests interested in metallurgical research at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association annex, Friday evening, October 18. The following is a partial list of the acceptances: Executives F. B. Bell, President, Edgewater Steel Company T. M. Girdler, President, Jones Laughlin Steel Corp. E. T. McCleary, President, Republic Iron and Steel Co. Kenneth Seaver, Vice President, Harbinson-Walker Refractories Co. S. G. Stafford, President, Vulcan Crucible Steel Co. H. D. Williams, President, Pittsburgh Steel Co. R. E. Zimmerman, Asst. to Vice President, American Sheet Tin Plate Co. F. J. Lanahan, President, Fort Pitt Malleable Iron Co. W. C. Reilly, Vice President, Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. John L. Porter, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Carnegie Institute of Tech. A. F. White, General Supt., American Steel Wire Co. John Follansbee, President Follansbee Brothers Co. Metallurgists F. N. Speller, Director, Dept of Metallurgy Research, National Tube Co. John Johnston, Director, Dept. of Research and Technology, U. S. Steel Corporation. T. D. Lynch, Consulting Metallurgical Engr., Westinghouse Elec Mfg. Co. W. E. Moore, Consulting Eng., Pgh. Elec. Furnace Corp. G. A. Reinhardt, Metallurgical Engr., Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. C. F. W. Rys, Assistant to President, Carnegie Steel Co. J. S. Unger, Mgr. of Research Bureau, Carnegie Steel Co. L. F. Reinartz, American Rolling Mills Co., Middletown, Ohio J. A. Succop, Heppenstall Forge Knife Co. Zay Jeffries, Consulting Engineer, Aluminum Co. of America W. E. Ruder, Research Dept., General Electric Co. F. C. Elder Metallurgist, American Steel Wire Co. C. L. Warwick, Secy., American Society of Testing Materials. A. E. Kunze, Metallurgist, Tennessee Coal, Iron Railroad Co. H. B. Allen, Mgr., Metallurgical Research, Henry Disston Sons, Inc. R. Reno, Chief Metallurgist, Follansbee Bros. Co. lteplresentatives of Technical Press E. E. Thum, Iron Age, New York T. H. Gerken, Iron Age, Pittsburgh W. G. Gude, Iron Trade Review B. E. V. Luty, American Metal Market Liberty Dairies Elect Schnars G. E. Schnars, production manager of the Liberty Dairy Products Corporation, has been elected a vice president of that organization. His selection comes through the elevation of Paul E. Reinhold to the presidency of Liberty Dairies. Mr. Schnars is thoroughly experienced in the milk business, being connected with it for more than 25 years. He was president of the Kittanning Pure Milk Company when that company was taken over by Liberty. I G. PATRIZIO, President and Gen. Mgr. PATRIZIO ART MOSAIC CO. Contractors for TERRAZZO AND MOSAIC WORK ii{{1 i i i i i i.iiiiiiu Grant 3942 2025 Fifth Avenue 140 PITTSBURGH STEEL FOUNDRY CORPORATION GLASSPORT, PA. (Pittsburgh District) Steel Castings For All Purposes I I _ I i r II Pittsburgh, Pa.,A chapel costing $600,000, to be given to the University of Pittsburgh by the Heinz family, will be erected opposite the Cathedral of Learning, it is announced by Chancellor John G. Bowman of the University. The chapel is to be known as the "Heinz Memorial Chapel." The complete fund for the chapel comprises gifts from the children of H. J. Heinz, Mrs. J. C. Given of New York, Howard Heinz of Morewood Heights, and Clifford S. Heinz of South Dallas ave., and the late H. J. Heinz Co., and a sum of money in the bequest of H. J. Heinz. Plans for the proposed structure have been drawn by C. Z. Klauder of Philadelphia, architect for the Cathedral of Learning. Will Seat 500 The chapel will have a seating capacity of 500, the first floor to seat 400 and the balcony an additional 100. The entrance to the chapel will be directly opposite the Cathedral of Learning, with the rear of the building facing Bellefield avenue. The edifice is to be considered neither a cathedral nor a church, it was stated. The chapel will serve as a symbol of spirituality for the student, and will be a place where students may ritire for quiet meditation and worship in accordance with their own beliefs," said Chancellor Bowman. The usual religious services will be held in the chapel each Sunday during the school year and the chapel will be used for such social activities of the students as will not be inconsistent with the uses and purposes of the building as expressed in the will of H. J. Heinz. Class Rooms Provided Space has been provided for class rooms in the basement. These rooms will be used for some of the activities GREATER PITTSBURGH 141 ENDORSEMENTS Committee on Charities and General Subscription Investigation has issued endorsement of the following: Allegheny Day Nursery and Temporary Home for Children. Allegheny General Hospital. American Citizenship League of Pittsburgh. American Red Cross. Associated Charities. Boys' Club of Pittsburgh. Boys' Industrial Home of Oakdale. Boy Scouts of America-Pittsburgh Council. Brashaer Settlement Association. Children's Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania. Allegheny County Auxiliary. Children's Service Bureau. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Coleman Industrial Home for Colored Boys. Curtis Home for Destitute Women and Children. Florence Crittenton Home and Rescue Mission. Fruit and Flower Hospital. Hadassah Medical Organization in Palestine, Pittsburgh Charter. Home for Colored Children. Industrial Home for Crippled Children. Jewish Home for Babies. Kingsley Association, Inc. Ladies' Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania. Louise Home for Babies. Lutheran Inner Mission Society. Montefiore Aid Society. National Guard Association of Allegheny County. New Future Association. Passavant Memorial Home for Epileptics. Pennsylvania Association for the Blind. Pennsylvania Committee on Penal Affairs Pennsylvania College for Women. Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor. Pittsburgh Council Catholic Women. Pittsburgh Federation of Social Agencies. Pittsburgh Free Dispensary. Pittsburgh Housing Association. Pittsburgh Goodwill Industries. Pittsburgh Home for Babies. Pittsburgh Homeopathic Hospital. Pittsburgh League for Hard of Hearing Pittsburgh Newsboys' Home. Pittsburgh Allegheny Milk and Ice Association. Presbyterian Hospital. Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania. Public Health Nursing Association of Pittsburgh. Rosalia Foundling Asylum and Maternity Hospital. Salvation Army. Sewickley Fresh Air Home for Convalescents and Crippled Children. Soho Community House. Soho Day Nursery. South Side Hospital, Pittsburgh. Surburban General Hospital. The Travelers' Aid Society of Pittsburgh. The Welfare Fund of Pittsburgh. Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh. Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Urban League of Pittsburgh. Volunteers of America. Western Pennsylvania Humane Society. Western Pennsylvania School for the Blind. Western Pennsylvania School for Deaf. Woods Run Settlement. Young Women's Christian Association. Zoar Home for Mothers, Babies and Convalescents. The endorsement does not cover Benefit Entertainments, Tag Days, or other collections on the streets, advertising, or other schemes where a large part of the receipts goes elsewhere than to the benefit of the organization. No other activities have any endorsement of the Chamber. now being carried on at the Heinz House on the hill, it was said. The design of the chapel is Gothic and an unusual feature of its construction is that the buttresses flanking the entrance doors will form the jambs of the doorway. The foundation of the chapel will be of reinforced stone concrete. In the vault of the chapel, ribs and diagonals are to be of limestone, crandall finish, with sarved bosses at the crossing of the ribs. In expressing the university's appreciation of the gift, Dr. Bowman said: "The Heinz Memorial Chapel is a new trust placed in the university. No words to the donors seem adequate." Business And The Census The concern of business in the forthcoming census, especially the census of distribution, is emphasized by E. D. Borden, Manager of the Department of Domestic Distribution of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Typical questions for which it is expected to provide an answer are these: What types of stores constitute the outlets through which a particular class of goods reaches the ultimate consumer? What are acceptable standards of sales per employe and compensation per employe? WVhat is the usual stock inventory and rate of stock turnover for different types of distributing agencies? What quotas can be fairly assigned to different sales territories? WVhat policy should be adopted by wholesalers and manufacturers with reference t.o retailers whose annual volume of sales is very small? It's all right to fall into a woman's arms, but it's hard to do without falling into her hands! Helen: "She's dieting, isn't she?" Ann: "Purely for conversational purposes." To re-discover the delight of eating go without a couple of meals. Willingness to work and assume responsibility are quickly recognized--by managers of uplift organizations looking for committee chairmen. Suggested slogan for tombstone manufacturer. "You Know Lots of People Who Need Monuments." The joy- of sleep is best known to the man who never quite gets enough of it. L October 12, 1929 Heinz Family's Handsome Gift To Pitt W. H. WOOD COMPANY Funeral Directors Forbes Street and McKee Place Pittsburgh, Pa. I I I L1GREATER PITTSBURGH ()ctober 12, 1929 Highway Finance Following a report on state and local road administration developed last year by a committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and several reports on phases of state and local taxation and expenditures by a committee on those subjects, subcommittees of these two committees are preparing to take up jointly the problems of highway finance. Study is being given to the proper relationship of four chief sources of highway finance-general revenues., special property assessments, special taxes against the highway users and highway bond issues. The facts already obtained show that there are nearly as many combinations of these sources as there are states, and they also show wide ranges in the status of highway development in the different states. When are bond issues justifiable? How shall they be redeemed? How shall gasoline taxes be applied? What should be the property owners' contribution to the highway past his door? What is the proper relationship of the Federal Government to the highway program? These are soime of the questions to be answered. It is. believed that the committees will find quite different sets of principles applying' to main highways and local roads, and see a need for nmuch more definite deterInination and separation of the two classes. It is expected that a report will be made toward the end of this year. The Social Side Of Industry A striking, if not new, note is sounded in a careful report which was presented to the Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce, meeting at Amsterdam last July, on public and private ownership, by an international committee which hasi been making a study of the subject. Deprecating the extension of governnient activity in the field of economic enterprise the Committee said: "Private enterprise has demonstrated that-better than public enterprise-it can adapt itself to the growing complexity of modern needs, foresee and stimulate future needs. Through experience, research and technical improvements, by the reduction of production costs, private enterprise increases the purchasing power of the consumers as a whole. The resultant increase in savingsi, the application of the greater part of the profits acquired to the extension of business and the creation of new productive equipment, permit the creation of new wealth. Private enterprise assumes the risk with which public enterprise burdens the taxpayers; it is an important element in the safeguarding of public finance. "The necessities of large scale private business enterprise have imposed upon business leaders the consciousness of their responsibilities towards workers, consumers and modern society. Business men are increasingly aware that their individual interests are linked with the public interest. They understand that the direction of production and distribution has become a social function which imposes upon them social obligations. Public and Private Ownership was one of the main topics of discussion at the Congress. Pert Young Thing--"Don't you think there should be more clubs for women? " Grumpy Old Thing-"Oh, no! I should be inclined to try kindness first." Yvonne says, "some girls are so dumb that they think a wise cracker is an Educator biscuit." A. E. MASTEN CO. ESTABLISHED 1891 BROKERS STOCKS - BONDS - GRAIN - ETC. MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE PITTSBURGH STOCK EXCHANGE BOSTON STOCK EXCHANGE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE NEW YORK CURB (Associate) VANDERGRIFT BLDG. 323 FOURTH AVE. PITTSBURGH, PA. KOPPERS BLDG. GRANT ST. AT SEVENTH AVE. BRANCH OFFICES WHEELING, W. VA. BUTLER, PA. PRIVATE WIRE CONNECTIONS FROM 142 rrrr i a COASTT TO COASTsands of people in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. In an interview with "Greater Pittsburgh," he emphasized this city's highway accessibility from all points. In recent months several important highways leading to Pittsburgh have been completed and these, in addition to numerous others, lately improved, provide motorists excellent facilities for coming here either to see the celebration or to transact business. Mr. Kloss comes to his Pittsburgh duties admirably qualified through past experience to carry on the work of the State Highway Department. Graduate of Phillips-Andover and Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute he served the Baltimore and Ohio, Pennsylvania and Erie railroads in engineering capacity prior to world war service in Europe. He has since been associated with the State Highway Department in neatly every part of Western Pennsylvania and was stationed at Hollidaysburg is Division Engineer before taking up his new assignment in Pittsburgh. October 12, 1929 Kloss New Road Engineer Henry E,. Kloss, appointed October 1 st, 1929. to succeed J. L. Herber, as Division Engineer of the State Highway Department, in charge of the work in southwestern Pennsylvania with headquarters here, has quickly caught the spirit of Light's Golden Jubilee, to be celebrated in Pittsburgh during the week of October 21st. He realizes the attraction that this will be to thouMoneytoLoan WILLIAM S. WISE on Mortgages Men's Custom Madees This company has money to 702 CENTURY BLDG. loan in small or large amounts ATlantic 1149 on approved mortgages- Loans are made on improved real IV estate by the ordinary mortgage My Businessmethod or under our partial payment plan. "Suiting You" Call at the mortgage department, I third floor. F I DEL IT Y T ITL E OLD VIOLINS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS A SPECIALTY AND FIREARMS T R U S T C O. Telephone 5207 Atlantic 341-343 Fourth Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. S. GALLINGER, Jr. Established 1850 Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry. j JENKINS ARCADE BUILDOING Bet. 9th and 10th Sts., Opp. Smithfield St. IMPORTED WOOLFNS i 929 Liberty Ave. PITTSBURGH, PA. Telephone FAirfax 6798 Hubert Transfer and Adrian Chemical Co. Storage Co. DISINFECTANTS-SOAPS 1009 Bidwell St., N.S. JANITORS' SUPPLIES Pittsburgh, Pa. 113 N. DIAMOND ST., WEST Cedar 0453 F. M ADRIAN, Mgr N. S., PITTSBURGH Office Phone Hiland 2442 BECKERT'S IRA C. WILCOX, Inc. SEED STORE General Concrete and 101 Federal Street Cement Contractors "Seeds you can't keep down" 6415 HAMILTON AVE. Opp. Broad St. PITTSBURGH, PA. THE PRESBYTERIAN BOOK STORE 4,L,G ILLESPIECO O Estab!i8hed 1852 J. L. GILLESPIE Co. PUBLISHERS AND BOOKSELLERS ]ENVELOPES CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPPLIES Boets in all ekpartments of Lit,ramtw 129 Third Avenue ROBERT J. GIBSON, Supt. Granite Butldlnl Pittsburgh, Pa. Sixth Ave. Wood St. PITTSBURGH, PA. EAT IN THE NEW CHAMBER RESTAURANTGREATER PITTSBURGH I THE KIER FIRE BRICK COMPANY Manufacturers of FIRE BRICK AND SPECIAL SILICA BRICK FOR HEATING FURNACES OLIVER BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PA. Real Estate Savings Trust Company 516 Federal Street North Side PITTSBURGH, PA. L. B. FOSTER CO. Pittsburgh New York Chicago JOHN F. SEMMELROCK Funeral Director PRIVATE RESIDENCE FOR CHAPEL PITTSBURGH, PA. 1720 CARSON STREET, SOUTH SIDE Telephone HEmlock 1520 and 1521 Prompt Attention given to orders Day or Night i I I --- ---;~ I 1-.q I I I Ii I 144 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PIT'TSBURGH Government And Business World business opinion was brought to focus upon the universal problem of public and private ownership of commercial enterprises at the Fifth General Congress of the International Chamber ot Commerce, which was assembled at Amsterdam, July 8-13. More than a thousand outstanding business men from forty-five countries took part in the meeting. The United States sent the largest delegation. National committees of twelve European countries and the United States put in their reports on the relative merits of private and public ownership. These cover underground industries, productive industries, public utilities, transportation and communication, financial establishments and insurance, monopolies of a fiscal character and miscellaneous enterprises, such as watering places and hotels. These reports have been consolidated in a single survey by Professor Gino Borgatta, of the University of Milan, and this constituted the basis of discussion. The American viewpoint was presented by Julius H. Barnes, of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Other subjects fully discussed by the Congress were the economic rehabilitation of China, double taxation, unfair trade practices, protection of industrial property, highway, rail and air transport. Industry's Man In The Cabinet The appointment of Robert P. Lamont as Secretary of the Department of Commerce was a great surprise to all the cabinet dopesters. How he came to be selected by President Hoover is told for the first time by Herbert Corey in an article in Nation's Busiiness. Herbert Hoover had met Robert P. Lamont once and for only ten minutes when he asked him to become the chief of the Department of Commerce. During that time Lamont read a report. That is no way in which to get on confidential terms with anyone. The flooding Mississippi was raising particular hob all around the conferees, including Hoover and Lamont. The engineer of a small steamer carrying the party was making faces at the captain through a speaking tube because the captain wanted enough steam to keep from sliding down stream with Hoover and a lot of big people. "What should be done?" asked Mr. Hoover. "We should do this," said Mr. La-inont. He was the acting head of the comimittee named by the United States Chamber of Commerce to make a "business, engineering and financial survey of the conditions in the regions devastated by the flood and report for a referendum to its membership." That committee consisted of men highly distinguished in law, engineering and business in New York, St. Louis, Chicago, Washington and the cities of the flooded country. It was deeply felt that this river nonsense had gone about far enough. Something should be done about it if anything could be done. Frederic Delano of Washington was the chairman but he had been called away and Mr. Lamont took his place. The fact that Hoover had only seen Lamont for ten minutes was no handicap. He had been through the story of Lamont's life with a micrometer. He had the lines of the portrait. The ten minutes spent in listening to the report only served to etch them in. 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Dickey, Agronomy specialist from State College, will discuss the proper methods to use in growing high grade potatoes. He will be followed on the program by Henry Reist, State College Marketing specialist, who will demonstrate the use of the potato grader on the farm. Mr. Reist will also deal with modern ways of grading and preparing potatoes for market. Every farnler in this County who is interested in growing and mlarketing potatoes should attend these meetings. To'Lengthenl Painting Season The Paint Varnish Council of the Chamber of Commeirce held a cooperative meeting at 6:30 P. M., on October 8, in the Chamber Auditorium. The purpose of this meeting was to discuss from all angles the question of "How To Lengthen The Painting Season." Mr. A. D. Graves of Pratt Lambert Co., Buffalo, New York, also chairman of the Save the Surface Executive Committee had been invited to address this meeting. All of the paint manufacturers, distributors, jobbers, retail hardware dealers, wall paper dealers, mastelr painters and decorators and the Brotherhood Journeyman Painters Decorators were present. A special co-immittee appointed by Mr. Adami E. Daum for this meeting consisted of P. J. Garvey. The EaglePicher Lead Company Chairman, L. C. Stuckratll, Secretary of Thompson Company and Joseph Stetler, Advertising Manager, W. W. Lawrence Company. In connection with the above meeting, P. J. Garvey addressed the Master Painters Decorators Ass'n., at their meeting on Friday, September 20 and on Friday evening, September 27 he addressed the Pittsburgh Retail Hardware Dealers Ass'n., at their meeting in the Roosevelt Hotel and also the Brotherhood of Journeymen Painters Decorators. THE Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York J. M. DALBEY, MGR. Arrott Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. DESKS A GOOD PLACE TO BUY GOOD OFFICE FURNITURE WOOD OR STEEL PGH. DESK CHAIR CO. E. E. BAKER, President 545 Sixth Ave. at Wylie Telephone Atlantic 4572 Formerly at 304 Wood. St. i i i, i i i iiiiii,i i _ IMPERVIOUS VARNISH COMPANY General Office: 436 SEVENTH AVE., KOPPERS BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PA. Works: ROCHESTER, PA. Manufacturers of Insulating Varnishes, Coatings and Impregnating Gum for the Electric Industry Enamels, Japans, Pyroxylin Lacquers and Varnishes FOR INDUSTRIAL FINISHES There is an "Impervious Varnish Product," specially made for a finish of highest grade and permanency. I ----~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ i a J I r1 Octob,er 12, 1929 146()ctol)er 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH The Airplane Frees A Continent Latin America is flying to the front says "Nation's Business". Across the broad Amazon Valley, over the jagged, branching Andes, above jungles never penetrated by white men, the airplane is weaving a network of travel and communication, bringing together peoples and ideas long separated because the natural difficulties of the country confounded all modern means of transportation. Through Andean passes and primitive jungle trails, pack trains have toiled with mail and merchandise. Important centers have been 18 to 30 days apart. Euilding of railroads and highways has been so costly and so tedious that little advancement has been possible in that line. But now airplanes, soaring above these natural barriers, roaring along established routes, maintaining established schedule from Mexico to Argentina, reduce to hours the journey that once took days and link iSouth American countries not only with each other but with the world. American aviation companies are playing a vital part in this developiment, competing with French and German lines for the mastery of those high cloud miles along which this forwardlooking continent is riding to commercial importance. But aviation is not the only industry affected. Machinery And Civilization Is indlustry shackling life with mliachines or is it striking off the shackles of drudgery? This question is raised and answered by Julius H. Barnes, Chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in an address before the National Electric Light Association. "Is our civilization too highly mechanized," he says, "or are we beginning for the first time in history to put a proper premium on the superiority of mind over muscle? "When we equip office and work-shop with invention and power that shorten the working day, has modern industry only contributed an opportunity for profitless idleness or worse? "When electrical servants in the home free the day of its ancient tasks there is no chorus from the emanciIs l)aLed homes of America that the home is being mechanized, destroying the crafts,manship of former times. There is no insistence from the women of America that we return to the domestic era of the wash-tub, the stifling range, the itinerant dressmaker and the dusty broom. Twenty million American homes connected for electricity evidence no inappeasable aspiration for the days of the kerosene lamp and the 8 o'clock seirvant maid. American homes pay today for kilowatt hours, but they buy light, warmth, coolness, relief from drudgery." All the knowledge you get in college ~won't make the folks act right when you get back home. Sign in Restaurant-"We don't cash checks. Banks don't serve soup, so don't ask us to cash checks." "Why did you divorce your husband?" asked Gladys. "Well," replied Alice, "he got mad one morning and pulled my hair, hit me, and then threw me downstairs." "No wonder you divorced him!" "Oh, I didn't mind that so much, but to cap the climax, he walked off without even kissing me goodbye." i 147 GLENSHAW GLASS CO., INC. Manufacturers Beverage Bottles Since 1895 GLENSHAW, PA. (Pittsburgh District) Link, Weber Bowers (Architects 407 N. Craig Street Pittsburgh, Pa. THE MODEL COAT AND APRON SUPPLY CO., INC. Quality Service 4805-11 PENN AVE. PITTSBURGH, PA. Hiland 8417-8418.iii i i )I1i.i.i.. ESTABLISHED 1878 HASLEY BROTHERS Transfer and Storage Local and Long Distance Moving Agent for Allied Van Lines Inc. "NATIONAL MOVERS" Fireproof Storage Warehouses for Household Goods Only 855-857 So. Canal St. N.S. Pittsburgh, Pa. Phone Fairfax 6104-6105 --- k 1 I ~~. I 1 I 1October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH City Illumination And Progress Pageant (Continuedfrom page 11) Liberty. Numerous bands will enliven the line of march. A partial list of those having floats in the parade follows: Partial List of Firms Entering Floats in Light's Golden Jubilee Parade Pennsylvania R. R. Co. Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co. Union Switch Signal Co. Pittsburgh Box Company H. B. Carter Co. Ochiltree Electric Co. Ready Mixed Concrete Co. H. J. Heinz Co. Equitable Gas Co. Duquesne Light Co. Pittsburgh Motor Coach Co. Pittsburgh Railways Co. Equitable Sales Co. Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Freedom Oil Works Co. Mellon National Bank Union Trust Co. First National Bank Pittsburgh Valve Foundry Const. Co. Cruikshank Bros. Co. Davison Coke Iron Co. Aluminum Co. of America Peoples Gas Co. General Motor Truck Co. Ford Motor Co. Pittsburgh Auto Equipment Co.:Mine Safety Appliance Co. Mack International Motor Co. W. H. Williams Lumber Co. Keystone Lumber Co. Builders Supply Co. Sand Gravel Producers Ass'n. Packard Motor Car Co. of America M. H. Pickering Co. Peoples-Pittsburgh Trust Co. Bell Telephone Company John Benkart Sons Co. Higgins Lumber Co. Firefoam Sales Co. Dravo Equipment Co. Hubbard Company Pittsburgh Screw Bolt Co. (2 Floats) Allegheny County League of Building Loans Jones Laughlin Steel Corp. Pittsburgh Steel Co. (2 Floats) Farmers Deposit National Bank East Liberty Coal Supply Co. General Outdoor Advertising Co. McKinney Manufacturing Co. Kroger Grocery Baking Co. The Bank of Pittsburgh, N. A. Goodyear Tire Rubber Co. Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Printers Council Chamber of Commerce,Carnegie Inst. of Technology International Harvester Co. Harris Amusement Co. City of Pittsburgh Chevrolet Dealers Air Reduction Sales Co. Hamburg Bros. Kennywood Park Corp. Electric Appliance Co. Gainaday Electric Co. Co-Operative Club Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. Carnegie Steel Co. Waverly Oil Works Co. Gulf Refining Company Rotary Club H. C. Frick Coke Co. Pittsburgh Pretzel Co. Haller Baking Company Liberty Dairy Co. University of Pittsburgh "Pennsy's" Fine Display One of the most spectacular displays of electrical illumination during the week of October 21, when Light's Golden Jubilee will be observed in the Pittsburgh district, is that being planned by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pennsylvania Station is to be outlined in varicolored lights with the center-piece being a huge keystone, the Pennsylvania's emblem, suspended over the main entrance. The keystone will be twenty feet high. Red colored lamps will illuminate it. A similar emblem will be suspended on the Fort Wayne bridge which structure the railroad also plans to outline in lights. Both these emblems are being fashioned at the Pennsylvania's Pitcairn shops and they will be brought here in sections. The Pennsylvania will also present another unique feature in floodlighting. Searchlights throwing many colored rays will play nightly on the escaping smoke and steam as it arises from the trainshed and yards. Hearing Arrangements For Pageant Spectators at the huge historical pageant to be staged at Forbes Field the nights of October 23 and 24 as part of Light's Golden Jubilee will be able to hear every word uttered by the players in this great spectacle. The problem of conveying the spoken lines of the various episodes of the pageant has been made the subject of much study by those in charge of the affair. Never had voice amplification on such a large scale been sought. Experts were consulted. A study of Forbes Field and of the grand stands was made with the result that a unique arrangement for amplification and proper distribution of loud speakers has been completed. This arrangement will insure the public of hearing very clearly the spoken lines of the pageant. Another innovation which should contribute to the enjoyment of the pageant is the construction of a great backdrop of tenting material to be attached to the eaves of the roof of the grandstand. It will extend along the entire rear portion of the grandstand and will drop down in the manner of a cover for the purpose of preventing cold draughts from sweeping down on the backs and heads of the audience. Special railroad rates and transportation facilities will feature light's golden jubilee in Pittsburgh. On these dates, within a radius of 150 miles of Pittsburgh, the Baltimore Ohio, Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Lake Erie and Pennsylvania Railroads are offering reduced one-day excursions. The Baltimore Ohio, Pittsburgh Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania rates will be 2.4 cents per mile for the round trip from any point within 150 miles of Pittsburgh. The Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburgh Railroad will operate excursions from Johnsonburg and intermediate points to Pittsburgh, on an excursion rate of $3.75 from Jolinsonburg and Ridgeway with proportionate fares from intermediate points. The Pittsburgh Railways Company from October 21 to October 26, inclusive, will establish a special round trip rate of 50 cents, good for a trip any point on their interurban lines to Pittsburgh and return, good on interurban cars arriving at or after 6:30 p. m. This rate will be covered by a ticket which will be sold on inbound trips by the conductors of interurban cars. 13f9 148 GREATER PITTSBURGH ()ctobler 12, 1929' - Thomas Alva Edison in 1879 Invented the Incandescent Lamp Eight Candle Power Today the Modern Photo-Enjraving Gallery Uses Fifteen Thousand Times the Power of Edison's First Incandescent Lamp V LIBERTY ENGRAVING C Artists, DesiO ners. Photo-Engravers, Commercial Photographers Post GazetteBld. 612Wood St. -.JPi-~ Pittsbur h Pa RIVER INC. 1891 FRONT FOR ALMOST A CENTURY Machinists Manufacturers Machinery Jobbers TRANTER MFG. CO. 105 WATER ST. PITTSBURGH, PA. mIp QUhamber of Qommerrr of tlitsburgh BOARD OF DIRECTORS WITH THE TENURE OF OFFICE 1930 1931 1932 Brown, Norman F. Bihler, L. C. Braun, Arthur E. Cassady, B. J. Costin, William G. Dunn, Thomas A. Chesterman, F. J. Dangerfield, Harry Heinz, Howard Davison, George S. Dorman, George R. Linderman, W. S. Gillespie, T. J. Haller, Fred C. Linhart, Dr. S. B. Humphrey, A. L. Knowles, Morris Main, Frank Wilbur McFarland, Stewart, C. Nicholson, John H. Monro, Wm. L. Rae, James Rodgers, William B. Neely, Harry W. Rauh, Marcus Rust, W. F. Neesle, J. B. Robertson, A. W. Smith. Lloyd W. Phillips, Frank R. Rosenbaum, Walter Tranter, Henry Robinson, C. K. Shepherd, A. B. Whiter, E. T. Shea, J. B. Past Presidents Now Serving as Directors Under New By-Laws: ROBERT GARLAND GEO. R. WALLACE GEN. A. J. LOGAN WM. M. FUREY Wa. H. STEVENSON GEORGE S. OLIVER T. P. GAYLORD Past Presidents A. L. Humphrey and Marcus Rauh are serving out their elected terms. OFFICERS, 1929-30 President... First Vice-President Second Vice-President Third Vice-President Treasurer Assistant Treasurer General Counsel Auditors EXECUTIVE STAFF ADMINISTRATION General Manager Accountant JAMES RAE THOS. A. DUNN F. J. CHESTERMAN Ti OYD W. SMITH W. S. LINDERMAN D. S. KERR JAMES FRANCIS BURKE MAIN Co., C. P. A'S. A. V. SNELL'..........E. D. FIELD SERVICE DIVISIONS ORGANIZATION (Membership-House--Entertainment) Manager REUEL W. ELTON {R. W. BAR BOUR Field Work I- -C. CORIE"LD Information... MISS M. A. HAGGERTY PUBLICITY (Research and Statistics-General Publicity-Official Publication) Manager. FRANK C. HARPER Assistant.. H. W. CORRELL, Statistics Manager TRAFFIC (Freight and Passenger) nOrALDt 0. Mnnoo Assistant CHARLES S. GORMLEY PROMOTIONAL DIVISIONS COMMUNITY AFFAIRS Charities-Education-Public Health-Recreation-Smoke Abatement (Electrification)-Life and Property Protection-City Plan (Streets and Thoroughfares)--Citlzenship. Manager DONALD J. 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If you too would be logical in your selection of a manufacturing site, choose the Pittsburgh District. This Company invites your inquiries relating to suitable plant sites up to twenty acres in area along its road where it offers a high grade belt line service to all trunk lines serving the Pittsburgh District. MONTOUR R.R..PITTSBURGH, PENNA.descenot lap ransmos anealc precekn ofaificea illmiatiPon-ethe5thyaofnerf th natin'sgretest progress. ~~ serve mankind, man's~~o progresscabemaury ieteIt th progessiv step of ilumintionGREATER PITTSBURGH I AN IMPORTA NT NEW CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN WELFARE At this period which is so rightly commemorating Edison's great contribution to the welfare of the American people, comes the announcement of another truly great step in human progress. A step that will bring new comfort and better health to countless American homes. A new era in Heating is here. An era in which Heating has joined hands with a vital principle for the promotion of indoor health-Air Conditioning. But up to the present moment only to great public buildings, theaters, auditoriums and large costly homes, have the far-reaching benefits of this union been available... Follansbee, with the new Follansbee Fresh Air Heating System, now brings these benefits within practical reach of the everyday home owner and builder. As Edison brought into dim-lit homes a light that is second only to the great outdoor sunlight-so Follansbee now brings into chill winter homes, a warm, healthful atmosphere that is second only to the healthful freshness of a sunny June day. Something new has indeed happened in home heating! Something that all of us will want to know more about. f Rolkansbee FRESH AIR HEATING SYSTEM Originated and offered by FOLLANSBEE BROTHERS COMPANY 1 PITTSBURGH I II I L i.W October 1~2, 1929 14October 12, 1,929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Light And River Jubilee Committees List Of The Busy Men Who Have Given Their Valuable Time To Aid Chamber Of Commerce In Making Both Celebrations A Success For Light's Golden Jubilee Executive Committee-A. L. Humphrey, general chairman; F. R. Phillips, vice-chairman. L. C. Bihler, H. L. Johnston, W. S. Linderman, Raymond M. Marlier, R. S. McCarty, Joseph McKinley, J. C. McQuiston, William B. Rodgers, M. R. Scharff, W. B. Spellmire. H. C. McEldowney, general treasurer. Decorations Committee-William B. Rodgers, chairman; Harry Dangerfield, vice-chairman; J. Andrews, Jr., David G. Cameron, C. F. Chubb, James Hammond, E. W. Judy, Edward G. Lang, J. J. Mamaux, Benjamin Raphael, Stanley L. Roush. Finance Committee-W. S. Linderman, chairman; J. Rodgers Flannery, vice-chairman; C. J. Braun, Jr., W. G. Costin, J. McA. Duncan, Thos. M. Girdler, Arthur C. Kaufmann, R. K. Mellon, A. J. Millington, Jr., J. D. A. Morrow, Harrison Nesbit, H. M. Reed, A. C. Robinson. Lighting Committee-H. L. Johnston, chairman; P. H. Powers, vice-chairman; Pressley H. Bailey, F. C. Baird, 1F. C. Barrington, A. Callender, H. A. Camipe, H. A. Clark, Mrs. Carl E. Cosolowsky, J. O. Daker, R. C. Daugherty, H. W. Ewald, J. M. Froelich, Chas. M. Gilmore, J. C. Haines, Thos. G. Hodgdon, W. H. Horton, Jr., H. S. Hower, L. J. Kiefer, H. B. Kirkpatrick, A. R. L,oughborough, L. W. Margison, Jr., A. J. Meyers, A. W. Montgomery, J. Mueller, E. A. Peck, M. N. Putney, C. M. RIeppert, William Shore, E. W. Simon, E. W. Smith, V. K. Stalford, R. A. Stoner, H. E. Wilson, Donald H. Wyre, Bradford Young, Win. C. Zeigler. Pageant Committee-M. R. Scharff, chairman; Owen Kraft, vice-chairman; Norman Allderdice, Horace F. Baker, Dr. Thomas W. Grayson, Clark Haminond, Charles F. Lewis, B. U. McClintock, Henry N. Muller. Parade Committee--W. B. Spellmire, chairman; John F. Kelly, vicechairman; F. R. Cogswell, W. L. DeCoursey, George R. Dorman, W. M. Jocoby, Burton W. Marsh, Benjamin R. Marshall, C. L. Pierce, Jr., F. F. Schauer, James A. Simpson. Publicity Committee-R. S. McCarty, chairman; W. W. Rodgers, vice-chairman; A. W. Adams, Henry Allen, J.;.B. Bissell, H. M. Bitner, Andrew Connolly, Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl, H. V. Jamison, 0. J. Keller, J. J. McGowan, Harry C. Milholland, F. A. Weston. Speakers' Committee-J. C. McQuiston, chairman; C. K. Robinson, vicechairman; L. H. Burnett, E. P. Griffith, Leo G. Griffith, Mrs. Ralph W. Johnston, Louis K. Manley, John D. Meyer, W. S. Van Dyke. Visitors' Committee-L. C. Bihler, chairman; Elmer E. Sattley, vice-chairman; Thomas Fitzgerald, Ray M. Flocker, L. Fred Klooz, H. F. Moore, G. P. O'Neill, Mrs. J. M. Phillips, E. E. Smith, Joseph P. Taggert, Raymond Kenny, and Mayor Kline. Window Display Committee-Raymond M. Marlier, chairman; William Bradford, vice-chairman; J. T. Allen, C. F. Goettman, J. A. Hoeveler, Hugh L. Murray, W. S. Oxenreiter, R. E. Polk, George Sherman. For Ohio River Celebration General chairman, Alexander W. Dunn. Vice-chairmian, William B. Rodgers. Treasurer, W. S. Linderman. Secretary, J. Frank Tilley. Pittsburgh Coal Exchange-Wmn. B. Rodgers, chairman; A. O. Ackard, M. C. Angloch, Thos. Cavenaugh, Jas. L. Cox, Alex. W. Dann, A. N. Diehl, Jas. F. Hillinan, John L. Howder, Phil. Kussart, C. S. Lamb, A. B. Shepherd, John L. Taylor, J. Frank Tilley. Chamber of Commerce Special Committee-A. N. Diehl, chairman; L. C. Bihler, Harry Dangerfield, Harry W. Neely, M. R. Scharff. Pittsburgh Chamber of CommerceA. B. Shepherd, chairman; C. E. Beeson, C. C. Bunton, Arthur E. Crockett, A. N. Diehl, Frank R. Dravo, John P. Eichleay, Jas. F. Hillman, E. W. Judy, Phil. Kussart, C. S. Lamb, Thos. M. Rees, Phil. K. Rodgers, R. E. Withers, J. Frank Tilley. Publicity Committee-Frank C. Harper, chairman; Oliver J. Keller, John Y. Chidester, H. M. Bitner. City Council of Pittsburgh-R-obert Garland, chairman; John S. Herron, H. A. Little, P. J. McArdle, Jas. F. Malone, Daniel Winters. Finance Committee-Jas. F. Malone, chairman; Joseph CG. Armstrong, Geo. S. Davison, A. N. Diehl, Jas. F. Hillman, Robert Keeney, W. S. Linderman, J. D. A. Morrow, Wm. T. Mossman, Frank R. Phillips, I. M. Scott, Winm. H. Stevenson, H. D. Williams. Invitation Committee-Harry W. Neely, Wm. B. Rodgers. Entertainment Committee--Harry W. Neely, chairman; William Bradford, C. C. Bunton, W. H. Duff, Ray M. Flocker, J. C. McQuiston, Charles Orchard, J. C. Roush, Chas. L. Wood. River Pageant and Decoration Com. -Wm. B. Rodgers, chairman; A. O. Ackard, vice-chairman; Phil. C. Elsey, C. W. Forcier. Reception Committee, Ohio River Celebration-James Rae, Chairman; Marcus Aaron, Taylor Allderdice, W. S. Arbuthnot, Joseph G. Armstrong, E. V. Babcock, Thomas S. Baker, L. C. Bihler, John G. Bowman, Asthur E. Braun, A. H. Burchfield, James Francis Burke, J. Dawson Callery, John F. Casey, F. J. Chesterman, W. L.'Clause, Wm. G. Clyde, W. G. Costin, Alex. W. Dann, F. R. Dravo, R. M. Dravo, Thomas A. Dunn, Wm. M. Furey, Robert Garland, T. M. Girdler, Geo. R. Hann, Howard Heinz, John S. Herron, J. H. Hillman, Jr., A. L. Humphrey, Charles H. Kline, W. S. Linderman, H. A. Little, James F. Malone, R. K. Mellon, F. A. Merrick, J. D. A. "Morrow, P. J. McArdle, H. C. McEldowney, Chas. C. McGovern, Harry W. Neely, Harrison Nesbit, Geo. S. Oliver, E. A. Peck, F. R. Phillips, David A. Reed, A. W. Robertson, Wmin. B. Rodgers, H. B. Rust, A. B. Shepherd, E. W. Smith, Lloyd W. Smith, A. V. Snell, Wm. H. Stevenson, E. T. Whiter, H. D. Williams, Daniel Winters, Curtis M. Yohe. Motor Car Maintenance Practical measures for keeping motor cars in safe condition or keeping them off the highways will be considered by a newly created committee of the National Conference on Street and Highway iSafety. Hon. Robert P. Lamont, Secretary of Commerce, has succeeded President Hoover as chairman of the Conference, and A.,B. Barber, manager of the Transportation and Communication Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, is director. 1516 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Andrew Carnegie George Westinghouse Pittsburgh Industrial Giants Sketches Of Carnegie, Westinghouse, Heinz And Frick, Selected As Types In Pittsburgh Progress Pageant Andrew Carnegie Meantime his business fortune had opened with tne ANDREW CARNEBGIE, Amierican iron-master, manu- tentative adoption by the road, through his agency, of the facturer and philanthropist; world famous steel Woodruff sleeping car system, in which he shrewdly emmaster and philanthropist was born in Dunfermline, barked some borrowed money; his expert knowledge made Scotland, November 25, 1835. None of the mighty makers it investment, not speculation; and his dividends went parof their own fortunes began closer to absolute zero; cer- tially into oil lands around Oil City, selected with equal tainly none who have owed success not to fortunate spec- judgment. ulations, but to steady labor, sagacity and self-culture. At the outbreak of the Civil war, Colonel Scott was His father owned a small handloomn business, which made Assistant Secretary of War, and gave Mr. Carnegie was closed in 1848 by the competition of steam. He then charge of the eastern military railroads and telegraph emigrated to the United States and settled in Pittsburgh lines, and of this department there was no complaint or on the Northside (then known as Allegheny City). The scandal, and no breakdown except of Mr. Carnegie's health ten year old child here became a bobbin-boy at twenty cents from overwork. He was also the third man wounded on a day; his alertness in a few months brought him transfer- the Union side, while removing obstructions from the ence to an engine-room, his penmanship and arithmetic a Washington tracks. chance to do clerical work. Already a small capitalist, in 1862 the Pennsylvania Next a telegraph messenger boy in Pittsburgh (with a road's experiments in replacing wooden with iron bridges mother and younger brother to support from his slender led Carnegie to forecast the future monopoly of the latter, wages), Andrew promptly mastered telegraphy, was soon and organize the Keystone Bridge Works in Pittsburgh. given a place as operator, and won himself extra earnings This company built the first iron bridge across the Ohio and experienced in composition as a newspaper telegraph river. To increase their own profit by furpishing their own reporter. Superior fitness brought him the post of tele- Iron, he entered the field which has made him one of the graphic train dispatcher to the Pennsylvania Railroad; industrial sovereigns of all time. The first step was the then of secretary to Its general superintendent, Colonel erecting of the Union Iron Mills, furnaces and rolling Scott; and in 186f0 when his chief became vice-president, mills; the last, after Inspection of the Bessemer process in Mr. Carnegie was made superintendent of the Pittsburgh England, to establish It in this country in 1868. Division. Carnegie's subsequent career was one of swift aggreH. C. Frick H. J. Heinz gation of plant to plant, till Carnegie and his partners would not have had from any, the splendid judicious and dominated their class, and became one of the chief indus- permanently useful gifts with which he endowed it, and trial factors of the entire business world. By 1888 he had which no change of social ideals can render obsolete or acquired a controlling interest in his foremost rival, the harmful. No one has ever so royally returned to the public Homestead Steel Works, and in seven other immense es- what he had (to its own benefit) drawn from the public. tablishments centered around Pittsburgh; in 1899 he con- His gifts to philanthropy, largely for educational uses, agsolidated all these into one giant structure, the Carnegie gregated at the time of his death in 1915 more than $150,Steel Company; and in 1901 he retired from business life 000,000, of which the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh (intransferring his company at a valuation of $500,000,000 to cluding the Carnegie Institute of Technology) alone rebe merged into one still vaster, the United States Steel Cor- ceived over $30,000,000. poration formed by J. Pierpont Morgan. Such supreme success, fairly won in a struggle with George Westinghouse the world, is of course the result of a supreme individual George Westinghouse, American Inventor: was born genius not to be taught or explained, but as the amount of at Central Bridge, N. Y., 6 October 1846; d. New York, 12 work any one man can do unassisted is a trifle, the chief March 1914. He entered the machine shop of his father, instrumentality is always the faculty of organization. Mr. a manufacturer of agricultural implements when very Carnegie himself once said that organization was the busi- young and early evinced an inventive genius, designing at ness that if stripped at a blow of all his material property 15 a rotary engine. He served in the Union army in 1863and business connections, but left his organization, in four 64, and in 1864-65 was assistant engineer in the United years he would have re-established himself. But the or- States navy, after which he studied at Union College for ganization is simply the men who work it with their capa- two years. city of selecting capable subordinates, and understanding Shortly after this he moved to Pittsburgh where he public needs and the means of supplying them; and this continued his interest in mechanics, his first invention of leaves the faculty of creating and sustaining it no nearer importance being a railway frog. In 1868 he introduced solution than before. In the last analysis it means a nicely the famous Westinghouse brake (see Air Brake) which has accurate judgment of men, resulting from an intuitive gift since been developed to a remarkable degree of efficiency, informed and tested by long experience; and as men are and has come into international use. not pawns, it implies the power of persuading them into At first his invention was scouted as impracticable. and keeping them in alliance as well. The story is told that he interviewed Commodore VanderAlways a generous and helpful man, he had definitely bilt, and explained his designs. The Commodore is said to begun a few years before his retirement, a new existence have replied, "If~- understand you, young man, you propose consecrated to public service, and to which he will owe to stop a railroad train with wind; I have no time to listen enduring remembrance. Another generation would have to such nonsense." A few years later the "impossible" deforgotten the mere business man, howevet great; for after vice was operating on all the Commodore's lines. Its first all it would have had steel from some source, if perhaps successful demonstration was in Pittsburgh on the Panless cheaply; but it could not have had from lesser men, and handle R. R. (Continued on page 19) October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 17At the Sign of the Orange Disc Fair Retail Price 30c per Quart for E All Grades HIS ENTIRELY different two-base Motor Oil is just what you have been wanting... it is a tough, heat resisting, able-bodied oil, designed for the lubrication of the modern motor... it is made by combining the best properties of both the paraffine and naphthene base crude oils... it possesses all of the good and none of the bad features of Manufacturers of the single base oils. Famous Gulf Venom Insecticide with this new and different oil. At all ers. Gulf Service Stations and dealers.* Gulf Refininu Co. I Ab Ask~ ~~~ a I-1 -" IT I i' I -lll~F1 --I C I ~= II_ -I I; _F IIIIIIIII -C~-- ~1918g.GREATER PITTSBURGH THE KOPPERS BUILDING SEVENTH AVE. AND GRANT STREET The Koppers Building is a splendid expression of modern Design and Efficiency in Office Building Construction. It is easily accessible to the Union Station, Principal Car and Bus Lines, Boulevards and the proposed new Post Office. IN IT ARE THE OFFICES OF THE KOPPERS COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES WHICH INCLUDE The Koppers Construction Company The Koppers Gas and Coke Company The Koppers Coal Company The American Tar The Koppers Rheolaveur Company The Koppers Stores Company The Koppers Laboratories Products Company THE KOPPERS COMPANY PITTSBURGH, PENNA. October 12, 1929 18GREATER PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Industrial Giants (Continuedfrom page 17) Mr. Westinghouse was the world's pioneer in introducing alternating-current devices, and he succeeded in securing the use of this method at the Chicago Exposition in 1893. He also made numerous improvements in railroad signaling, and through his devices the safety of high-speed railway traveling has been greatly increased. Westinghouse erected extensive works in this country and abroad for the manufacture of his various inventions, the largest of them being the two great concerns at Pittsburgh, the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company and the Westinghouse Airbrake Company. He received the Order of Leopold from the Belgian king in 1884, and in 1889 the Royal Order of the Crown from the king of Italy. He was also decorated- with the French Legion of Honor. (Consult Leupp, F. E. "George Westinghouse: His Life and Achievements"). In an address at the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commierce in 1928 on the Electrical industry E. M. Herr, president of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, thus referred to Mr. Westinghouse's tremendous achievements in electrical science: "Why should Mr. Westinghouse engage in an electrical enterprise? He was an air brake man. His contacts were largely with the railroads. This project involved a radical departure front all his previous activities. The answer is plain. He foresaw in the development of the electrical manufacturing industry a great new instrument that would benefit mankind, and that would help build up his own and many other communities, and he wanted to do his part in this great work. The results, as far as Pittsburgh is concerned, certainly justified this vision. "Prior to 1886 central station electric lighting was by continuous or direct current only, and because of fundamental design limitations, the territory which could be served by central station was very restricted. In 1885 the attention of Mr. Westinghouse was attracted to a foreign invention which seemed to point the way to a iremoval of these limitations. With the promptness and energy which characterized so many of his acts, he at oncec acquired this invention and undertook its development. The invention was no less than an application of the wellknown principle of electic induction by alternating currents, which affords a ready means of changing current of small volumie and high pressure into current of largeo volumle and low pressure, or' vice versa. "By brilliant invention and ingenious design, Mr. Westinghouse's engineers soon removed some of the commercial limlitations of the English devices and shortly there resulted an alternating current electric light system which today is fundamentally the basis of the enormous and incalculably iimpoirtant light and power industry of the world." H. J. Heilnz H. J. Heinz was a typical American boy. He was born on the South Side, Pittsburgh, in 1844, and while still a lad, his parents moved to Sharpsburg, Pa. It was at the age of twenty-five that he founded the business that beairs his name. In planting a smiall patch of horseradish he sowed the seed fronm which has spriung an international business. He leased a smiall building near the garden, and there, with the assistance of two woimen and a boy, lhit grated, prepared and bottled horseradish., the first of the 57 Varieties of pure food products. Handicaps and obstacles were mlany, but my father's venture, based upon quality, rather than" quantity production, was a success and stimulated his ambitions. In 1871, pickles were added to the products bearing Heinz labels, and steady growth in the business followed. The business outgrew its Sharpsburg home in two years, and was moved to Second avenue, in the trade center of Pittsburgh. By 1876, the capacity of the new plant was doubled. But by 1889, so many people had come to like the products, that central Pittsburgh no longer afforded space for an establishment that would meet their demands. Therefore, the plant was moved to the north side of the Allegheny river, where it now stands, but, of course, it is much larger than in its original form, for there are now twenty-four buildings that cover more than fifteen city blocks, while its branch factories and distribuing warehouses are spread over the whole commercial world. As the enterprise developed, it was found that Allegheny county could not produce all the crops that the company needed. This accounts for the string of plants that extends across the continent and into Canada, as well as England and Spain. The founder has resolved "to protect the consumier by owning the product all the way from the soil to the table, free from chemical, coloring matter or other substitute," and this led to the propagation of seeds and plants that would produce the best tomatoes, pickles and -other raw materials, the building of greenhouses and nurseries, and the operation of experimental farms. The business which began almost fifty-nine years ago, with one variety, is now represented by more than 57 varieties of pure food products. In assembling raw products, more than 300 receiving stations and salting houses are maintained. The company operates twenty-five branch factories and kitchens in this country. England, Spain and Canada. The industry is really one of diversified interests, for the company operates its own.bottle, box and can factoiries, and also many of its own railroad cars. More than 1,000,000 square feet of glass were used in the construction of its greenhouses and nurseries. The supply garden, which once consisted of less than an acre, now comprises approximately 150,000 acres, the fields and gardens being located in many parts of America and in foreign lands, for each crop is grown where soil and climate unite to produce the best-flavored fruit and vegetables. These crops are planted, cultivated and harvested by 150,000 or more people. To distribute the products in the way that is most advantageous to the dealer and consumer, seventy-nine sales branches and warehouses are maintained in the United States, England and Canada, and there are more than 175 agencies in foreign countries. More than 1,400 traveling salesmen are regularly employed. The company's products are virtually as well known in some foreign countries as in the United States. In England, for instance, the company maintains a force of approximately 200 traveling salesmen, or nmore than any British food concern. The conipany's representatives travel through all channels of trade, buyers and salesmen circling the globe. Spice buyers recently returned from a 40,000-mile trip through the Orient. Heinz products are distributed to every civilized country of the world. Incidentally, wherever the 57 Varieties are known, they are associated with Pittsburgh. Henriiy Clay Frick Henry Cia~y Frick, American manufacturer: b. West Overton, Pa. 19 Dec. 1849. He began business life as a clerk for his grandfather, a flour merchant and distiller, and later embarked in a small way in the coke business, which (Continued on page 129) October 12, 1929 19October 12, 1929 Steel'Mill Equipment Iron, Steel, and Alloy Rolls trbon and Alloy Steel Castings trbon and Alloy Steel Forgings esta Patented Piekling Machines Gas and Steam Engines Large Power PressesGREATER PITTSBURGH 21 Westinghouse, Electrical Giant O. H. Caldwell, editor of "Radio Retailing," New York, and a well-known electrical engineer, in an address at the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce on Monday last declared that 95 per cent. of the electrical industry was based on George Westinghouse's discovery and use of the alternating current. Mr. Caldwell read the following: Estimate Of Westinghouse By Tesla The first impressions are those to which we cling most in later life. I like to think of George Westinghouse as he appeared to me in 1888, when I saw him for the first time. The tremendous potential energy of the man had only in part taken kinetic form, but even to a superficial observer the latent force was manifest. A powerful frame, well proportioned, with every joint in working order, an eye as clear as a crystal, a quick and springy step-he presented a rare example of health and strength. Like a lion in a forest, he breathed deep and with delight the smoky air of his factories. Though past forty then, he still had the enthusiasm of youth. Always smiling, affable and polite, he stood in marked contrast to the rough and ready men I met. Not one word which would have been objectionable, not a gesture which might have offended-one could imagine him as moving in the atmosphere of a court, so perfect was his bearing in manner and speech. And yet, no fiercer adversary than Westinghouse could have been found when he was aroused. An athlete in ordinary life, he was transformed into a giant when confronted with difficulties which seemed unsurmountable. He enjoyed the struggle and never lost confidence. When others would give up in despair he triumphed. Had he been transferred to another planet with everything against him he would have worked out his salvation. His equipment was such as to make him win easily a position of captain among captains, leader among leaders. His was a wonderful career filled with remarkable achievements. He gave to the world a number of valuable inventions and improvements, created new industries, advanced the mechanical and electrical arts and improved in many ways the conditions of modern life. He was a great pioneer and builder whose work was of far-reaching effect on his time and whose name will live long in the memory of men. NIKOLA TESLA. October 12, 1929GREATER PITTSBURGH 1,500,000 Brick Per DayA Nation Wide Refractories Service 1REATER PITTSBURGH, with its wide diversity of industry, may well claim leadership in the refractories field. Centered in Pittsburgh is the world's largest producer of refractories, HarbisonWalker Refractories Company. While Harbison-Walker operates more than 70 manufacturing plants, mines and other properties in the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and Wisconsin, the company is primarily a Pittsburgh institution. It was founded in 1865, with a single plant at 22nd St. A. V. R. R. The original plant had a production of 35,000 brick per day. To-day, Harbison-Walker's manufacturing plants have a capacity of 1,500,000 brick per day. HARBISON -WALKER REFRACTORIES COMPANY PITTSBURGH, PENNA. 22 Octobler 12, 19292COctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 23 The Canalized Ohio River U. S. Engineer Calls It Event Of Tremendous Importance To Vast Industrial Region That The River Serves By BRIGADIER-GENERAL HERBERT DEAKYNE Assistant Chief of U. S. Engineers F OR many years the people of the ernment became a stockholder in the chamber 100 feet wide and 600 feet Ohio Valley have labored to pro- company in 1826, and acquired com- available length, has given an assured cure the canalization of the Ohio plete control in 1874. Prior to 1880 9-foot depth, permitting continuous River by the Federal Government, to tolls were charged, but in that year the navigation except when interrupted by make it, in combination with other ini- canal was made a free waterway. ice and floods. The relatively long peEmsworth Dam, In Ohio Six Miles Below Pittsburgh proved rivers, a great inland transpor- Imnprovement Begins In 1879. riod required for the completion of tation route. Their dream has at last Until 1879 work elsewhere on the the 9-foot project was due partly to been realized, and 9-foot navigation is river was limited to the removal of ob- limited appropriations and partly to the now available from Pittsburgh to Cairo, structions, and the building of contrac- engineering difficulties encountered, connecting with the 9-foot project on tion works with a view to securing a which limited the working season usuthe Mississippi river. low-water depth of three feet. In that ally to not exceeding five months-July In its original condition, in addition year Congress authorized the construc- to November, inclusive-and sometimes to the Falls of Louisville, the Ohio river tion of a lock and dam about 5 miles to as little as 109 working days. was obstructed by snags, rocks, and below Pittsburgh, which proved to be bars composed of sand and gravel. The the beginning, half a century ago, of a depth over bars at extreme low water slack-water system for the entire river. The completion of this project is of was about 1 foot in the upper section The project at first contemplated a vital importance to the vast industrial and about 2 feet in the lower section, depth of only six feet and covered a region through which the river flows, with sonie intervening pools as deep as distance of only 90 miles, but additional and is of great value to the trade and 30 feet. By act of May 24, 1924, Con- improvements were authorized from commerce of the United States. The gress made the first appropriation of time to time, and in 1910 a project was Ohio's importance in our national sys$75,000 for the Ohio, and the superin- adopted calling for depth of 9 feet tem of rivers is due to the fact that on tendence of the work was assigned to throughout the river to be obtained by or near the river banks are enormous officers of the Corps of Engineers. In the construction of 54 locks and 1,ov- deposits of mineral wealth, such as 1825 the Legislature of the State of able dams. Certain modifications'have coal, fire clay, and limestone. The Kentucky authorized the construction since been made in this project, but the availability of these and other basic maby a stock company of a canal around completion of 50 dams, all but the one terials of the iron and steel, pottery, the Falls of the Ohio. This canal was immediately below Pittsburgh being of glass and kindred manufactures supcompleted in 1830. The Federal Gov- the movable type, each with a lock (Continued on page 25)GREATER PITTSBURGH Whatever the Structure, add Permanence... Economy... Safety... with..NATCO.. Whether you're building a cottage or a skyscraper, a garage or a warehouse, Natco-the Complete Line of Structural Clay Tile--will,onfer on the finished structure the priceless qualities of permanence, safety, and economy that you want and require. 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Your Natco Dealer, or the office below, will gladly furnish full information. NATIONA_ 1- lFIR PR(OFING'(X)MIPANY General Offices: Fulton Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 24 October 12., 1929 a rl 111 i I ~ rOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 2s d~1Th1 C li d Ohio River dence of the fact that the traffic on the river just reaching completion, and e anaRiver Ohio River system as a whole, has with the projects on some of the tribu(Continuedfrom page 23) doubled since the close of the World taries not yet completed, it is estimated plied the foundation upon which has War. that the system is even now yielding in been erected the most highly developed The Canalized Ohio river forms a freight savings more than $25,000,000 industrial district in the United States, most important link in our system of annually, a very substantial return on if not in the entire world. inland navigation. The vastness of this the investment. The movement of immense quantities system can be visualized by the fact The Army Engineers are particularly of coal and coke from the mines along that Chicago, the Twin Cities, Kansas proud of their hundred years of service the Monongahela River is essential to City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, New Or- on the Ohio river. As regards the the operation of the steel mills and leans, Mobile, Birmingham, Houston, many great and complex problems inother industrial plants along the Ohio. GaIveston and Corpus Christi will be in- volved on the waterway, the work carJ. L. MEMPHIS TERMINAL-By means of this modern electric, overhead travelling crane J. L. steel barges which come down to Memphis from Pittsburgh in regular monthly schedule are unloaded and their cargoes transferred directly to railroad cars for trans-shipment to interior points in the South and Southwest, or to stock piles in the J L Warehouse seen in the rear of the crane. Thousands of tons of steel pipe for the oil fields of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana are handled over this terminal as well as heavy tonnages of other steel products of Jones Laughlin manufacture. The great steel corporations are using terconnected by trunk-line waterways. ried on in improving the Ohio River is river transportation more and more to With its tributary or feeder waterways, believed to be without parallel in any reach the markets of the Middle West, this system represents a project that country in the world. A roster of those South, Southwest and West. The oil only a country of our wealth, energy officers and civilian engineers of the Encompanies are finding that they also can and vision could realize. This system gineer Department who have been conlower their transportation costs and will be completed in the not distant fu- nected with the work since the Federal reach additional markets by the use of ture and will then assume its place will be Government assumed charge will be tank barges, instead of tank cars, even without other important works for seen to contain a remarkably large where the distance by water is more navigation, such as our seacoast harthan twice the distance by rail. Such bors, our Great Lakes system with its movements have been established on projected deep channel to the sea, and the Monongahela, Ohio and Mississippi our intracoastal canals along the At- Economic Justification Rivers. lantic seaboard. The Engineer Department is confiEvery Improvement Justified A 30 Per Cent Investment dent that the future will fully justify Each successive improvement on the All of the works of river and harbor the Ohio River Waterway, from every Ohio river has seen a corresponding in- improvement constructed in the Conti- standpoint, and that the completion and crease in the traffic handled. The traf- nental United States have cost approxi- operation of this transportation system fic on the river has increased from 4,- mately one and three-quarter billion is an achievement of the first magnt600,000 tons in 1917 to 15,737,000 dollars. It is estimated that our an- tude. For this the Department actons in 1925, and 20,938,000 tons in nual saving on freight bills alone re- knowledges its indebtedness to its many 1928. Considering the Ohio river and sulting from the use of these improve- officers and civilian engineers who, in its navigable tributaries, the gross traf- ments is more than $600,000,000, pro- their various capacities, have been fic has shown an increase from a little viding a return of more than 30 per largely responsible for the vision shown more than 27,000,000 tons in 1917 to cent on the investment. The relative in the conception of the project, the 56,000,000 tons in 1927, an increase of importance of the Ohio river system,an sound judgment displayed in the formumore than 100 per cent. These figures be indicated bythe fact that on the river lation of plans and methods, and the teinvolve some duplication, due to move- and tributaries we have spent for new nacity and the skill with which the ments from one river to another, bui work a total of approximately $200,- work has been prosecuted to a successthey are comparable and afford evi- 000,000. With the project on the main ful conclusion.GREATER PITTSBURGH BTHIS IS TRE AGE OF ALUMINUM A statue, in aluminum, of Charles M. Hall While Edison's electric light was still in its early experimental stages, Charles M. Hall, then a man only 22 years old, discovered a method for extracting ALUMINUM from bauxite, a form of clay, by electricity. This was in 1886. He used the galvanic battery-the same source of energy that Edison often used for his experiments. Upon this discovery, the aluminum industry was founded. ALCOA After several unsuccessful attempts elsewhere, it was in PITTSBURGH that Charles M. Hall found men who were willing to invest money in his process-men who could visualize the future of aluminum. In 1888 The Pittsburgh Reduction Company (the predecessor of Aluminum Company of America) was incorporated. At the close of the first year, aluminum was being produced at the rate of 50 pounds per day. From that small beginning, aluminum stands today as the Fifth metal, in point of volume produced and used. Pittsburgh, the birthplace of industrial aluminum only four decades ago, is to-day the home of the world's leading aluminum producing company -a record of which any Pittsburgher may be proud. ALUINNUM COCMIANY cr AAMELIICA PITTSBURGH, PA. I Aluminum In Every Commercial Form I 26 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 27 Light, Symbol Of Progress Mr. Fisher's Essay On The Subject, Awarded First Prize In Light's Golden Jubilee National Essay Contest By WILLIAM M. FISHER Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation, Los Angeles, Calif. I STOOD upon a high hill, overlook- ening as it reached deep into the night I noted the beginning of artificial light ing a great city. Vaguely, the sky, and roving restlessly back and in the camp fire which served, not only scene seemed to resemble the pic- forth over the roofs of the city. for cooking, but for protection from tures of enchanted cities whereof I Stirred by the magic beauty of the wild beasts, for warmth, and for illuhad read in childhood. Those won- scene, my fancy carried me on a far, mination; then, later, the fire brand, drous pictures in my story book had far journey into the past, to the days followed by the pine torch. been, indeed, fanciful and awesome to of prehistoric man. In imagination, I Many more centuries along the way, Monongahela River Front, Water Street, Pittsburgh my romantic imagination. Yet, here at saw the figure of that early human, at about the year 1450 B. C., I permy very feet, was a city far surpassing crouched fearfully in the inky darkness ceived the discovery of the value of those of juvenile fiction; and this was of his cavern home. And there arose foul-smelling animal and vegetable fats real! I knew that there below me a within me a profound pity for that un- for illumination, the burning of tallow million people lived amid wonders such fortunate creature, my progenitor, who in open dishes. Then, the improvement as the most imaginative story teller of had been denied the consolation of even of a cotton wick inserted in the tallow; old had never dreamed. a candle light. finally, in the beginning of the fourth It was night. A countless nuimber of Then, continued visions carried me century, under the reign of the Emtwinkling lights revealed the city's forward through hundreds of centuries, peror Constantine, I noted the city of length and breadth, accentuating those and I saw the nunilbers of cavemen in- Byzantium lighted with candles! creasing, saw them become more soparts of greatest activity; long, straight reasing, saw them become more so- More hundreds of centuries, and ciable, banding together for protection' lines traced the lights of boulevards; a there appeared but little improvement. while, isolated in that great mass of. saw the evolution of society-familia, Truly, it was a Dark Age! In the bebrilliant dots, were occasional green and' clans, tribes nations; saw the growth ginning of the fifteenth century, I red flashes, like giant emeralds and of villages, towns, cities And, with found London streets lighted with "lanrubies set amid a cluster of goldeml it all, the growing need for Light. thorns"-a candle enclosed in four stars. From the top of a high tower The Camp Fire Light sides of transparent horn-and I heard shot a long, funnel-shaped beacon, wid- Far back along this prehistoric road, (Continued on page 29)OHIO VALLEy IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 3!5th AN'NUAL CONVENTI'OPN OCTOBER I9th-25th If29 I 2K't? nulv t 01 SO nlSld sl 3R N'"f3 NioliviOl3a ] tp R8YER DEDOCA4 p a, #3Ji.i:l "'l"URGl T0 CAI Prom Eag1as to A irplaner American eagles soared over the then town of Pittsburgh, whose population was about 15,000, when this bank was established ninety-seven years ago. Pioneer farmers and hunters soon started industries that drove those great birds to other realms. Every local industry since those early days has been measurably assisted in its financing and development by the Farmers Deposit National Bank. The aviation industry-alert, vigorous and ready to send flyers everywherefinds the Farmers Bank equally alert, vigorous and ready to assist its further development and achievements. FARMERS DEPOSIT NATIONAL BANK ESTABLISHED 1.832 CAPITAL AND SURPLUS TWELVE MTIIION DoLLARs PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA _% (b' / L I 1 - m _ -:-ii-~--~---~- - - - I I 11GREATER PITTSBURGH THE STEEL ARGOSY-This is a photograph of the Jones Laughlin tow of steel products that was sent down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in October, 1921, as an experiment to determine whether regularly established river delivery service would be feasible. All down the Valley this tow was hailed by river men, business men, manufacturers and newspapers as "The Steel Argosy," and predictions were made that it marked the dawn of a new day on the rivers. This prediction is rapidly coming true, and the time is not far distant when not thousands, but millions of tons of steel and other commodities will move to and fro on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers each year, to the gain of the whole nation in economies in the costs of national distribution. Today, the Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation is regularly sending out two tows of manufactured steel products a month for distribution by river and rail to distant inland points in the West, South and Southwest. for CO-ORDINATED DISTRIBUTION For many years the Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation has pioneered in the use of inland waterways by employing them for the concentration of its raw materials and for the distribution of its manufactured steel products. More than 35 years ago, J L began to use the canalized Monongahela river for transportation of coal from its mines along that stream to its own steel works and coke ovens in Pittsburgh. Eight years ago, J L awoke the nation to the value of the Ohio-Mississippi river system by employing it, in co-ordination with established railway lines, as a distributing facility for manufactured steel products. Since "The Steel Argosy," pictured at the top of this page, started down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, J L has developed an inter-works car ferry, operating a distance of 20 miles on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, for transporting freight cars loaded with products in process of manufacture between its two great works in Pittsburgh and Aliquippa. Such an extensive use of inland waterways is a physical demonstration of the Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation's belief in the development of every practicable means of transportation for distribution of products of mill, mine and farm, based on the proven theory that the more transportation facilities there are available the greater will be the development in industry, commerce and agriculture. Because of this belief, it is an established J L policy to make use, and encourage the use by others, of all four great distribution facilities possessed by this country as by no other, namely, Railways, Waterways, Highways and Airways, co-ordinated into one great National Svstem of Distribution. hi Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL WORKS Manufacturers of STEEL PILING, BARS FOR CONCRETE REINFORCEMENT, STEEL BARGES,,Hot Rolled Bars, Plates and Shapes, Railway Spikes, Tie Plates, Light Rails and Accessories, Forging Steel, Jalcase Steel in Hot Rolled and Cold Finished, Junior Beams, Fabricated Structural Work, Tubular Products, Wire Products, Tin Mill Products and Coke By-Products. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA October 12, 1929J 28 ~LOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 29 Light, Symbol Of Progress Only fifty years have passed since worked from early dawn far into the that memorable night in Menlo Park, night hours, slaving at back-breaking (Continuedfrom page 27) but what years they have been! household tasks from which early death the noisy cries of the watchmen as they As 1 stand atop my high hill that or invalidism was almost certain to repaced the narrow streets- ovellooks the city of millions of lights, sult. Their lives were a drudgery that my mind goes back once more to that left little time for the proper raising of "Lang out your lights! Hear!" prehistoric man crouching in the pitchy their children, and even less for madarkness of his cave. I see, in pano- terial pleasures. Today, we see the Gradually, came the development of rama, the hundreds of centuries of emancipation of women from that oil lamps from shallow vessels to the darkness and hardship and suffering. health-destroying drudgery. invention of the Argand burner in And I bow my head in reverent grati- Nor does emancipation stop here. In 1784, and soon after, a great stride for- tude to Thomas A. Edison, whose skill stores, offices, on farms and in factories ward, in the general use of gas. There and patience and toil have resulted so men have been freed from body-wreckfollowed improvement in the develop- beneficently to his fellow man. We can- ing tasks by the use of electric power, ment of gas burners through the first not hope to pay our debt to him; we with the result that they finish the MODERN TERMINAL AT CINCINNATI-Unloading steel from barges over the new Cincinnati inter-change terminal, installed last year by the Cincinnati River-Rail Transfer Company. There are two twenty-ton electric full-circle revolving traveling cranes at this terminal, one for high water and one for low water. The Jones Laughlin steel products unloaded here are handled with ease and without bending or distorting the material. The Jones and Laughlin Warehouse is nearby. half of the nineteenth century, the con- can but remember, and honor, and give day's work with greater remuneration, struction of gas manufacturing plants, thanks. and with bodies not too fatigued to eninvention of gas meters, and the steadi- joy the added hours of relaxation. No. ly increased use of gas lights. Vestinghouse's Great Contribtion longer must they work in semi-darikAnd then!- Great as is the blessing of electric ness, sacrificing eyesight, and oftenlight, the wonders that have accom- times life itself. The Workshop at Menilo panied it have been even greater. Since It was the year 1879. In a little that eventful night in 1879, other great Light and Industrial Conquests workshop at Menlo Park, New Jersey, names have flashed brilliantly across With the emancipation or the Ameria young American telegrapher had been the pages of electrical history-the can working man our country has risen working quietly and patiently. Whis- names of Westinghouse, Tesla, Stein- to world leadership. That our ecopers began to circulate through scien- metz and others. As a result of the im- nomic achievements are due to the untific circles that this man, Thomas A. petus of the first successful electric paralled efficiency of our industries is Edison, was succeeding in "sub-dividing lamp, we have witnessed the advent of generally conceded; that our efficiency the electric light." Powerful gas com- alternating current, the development of is due, chiefly, to the use of electrical panies became alarmed, as well they individual motors, and the host of elec- power is undeniable; and the developmight. For, on the last night of that trical mechanism which have grown ment of the electrical industry may eventful year, special trains carried from ridiculed novelties to the most es- well be said to have started fifty years more than three thousand people to sential features of our civilization. We ago in that little Edison workshop. Menlo Park to witness a demonstration have marveled at the telephone, elec- It is fitting that we, realizing the treof perhaps the most revolutionizing in- tric railways, radio, television. But, mendous influence of modern electrical vention in history-the first successful perhaps the most far-reaching effect lighting upon our individual health and carbon incandescent lamp! The arc upon human happiness has been the happiness, should commemorate the light, it is true, had been known for.change which electrical development- fiftieth anniversay of its advent. In so some seventy years. Its commercial -has made in the home itself. doing, it will be particularly opportune use, however, was never satisfactory, to reflect upon the wonders of electricand it was wholly unsuited for home Emity, and to express our appreciation to lighting. A few short years ago, mothers (Continuedfrom page 129)GREATER PITTSBURGH I MAIN OFFICES AND WORKS OF THE BLAW-KNOX COMPANY, BLAWNOX, PA. Blaw-Knox Products are used by nearly every industry in the land to reduce maintenance expense, cut production costs and increase output BLAW-KNOX COMPANY LEWIS FOUNDRY MACHINE CO. UNION STEEL CASTING CO. PITTSBURGH ROLLS CORP. NATIONAL ALLOY STEEL CO. El I _ __ __ _ _______1___1____1____ ___ October 12, 1929 30October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 31 How The Ohio Was Slackwatered PFifty-Three Locks And Dams, All Now In Operation, Crown Work Initiated Fifty Years Ago HE first lock and dam on the Ohio river was pro- Steubenville, Ohio................. 48.6 1884 vided by the River and Harbor Act of March 3, 1879, Wheeling, W. Va................... 52.1 1884 which made appropriation for a lock and movable Parkersburg, W. Va................ 58.9 1913 dam at Davis Island, 4.7 miles below the head of the river. Point Pleasant, W. Va............ 68.8 1913 The construction of additional dams was provided for by. Portsmouth, Ohio.................. 67.9 1913 the River and Harbor Acts, as follows: Dam No. 6, Sep- Cincinnati, Ohio................... 71.1 1884 tember 19, 1890; Dams Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5, June 3, 1896; Louisville, Ky. (below Falls)........ 70.0 1884 Hillman Coal Coke Co. Tow Above Pittsburgh No. 13 and 18, March 3, 1899; Nos. 8, 11, 19, and 37, June Paducah, Ky.............. 54.3 1884 13, 1902; No. 26, March 2, 1907. - Cairo, Ky......................... 54.8 1913 Low-water stage prevails generally for a period of In its original condition the Ohio river was much obabout five months each year between the months of July structed throughout its entire length by snags, rocks, and and November, inclusive. High-water stage occurs usually gravel and sand bars, rendering navigation difficult and during spring floods, but moderate freshets may occur at hazardous. The width of channel was exceedingly variable. any season of the year, being of infrequent occurrence, The depth available for navigation over the worst shoals however, during summer and fall months. The river is at extreme low water varied from a minimum of 1 foot benon-tidal; the flow is quite rapid on the upper reaches and tween Pittsburgh, Pa., and Cincinnati, Ohio (468.5), miles perceptibly less rapid as it approaches the mouth. to 2 feet between Cincinnati and the mouth of the river The average fall per mile at low-water stage between (500 miles). Pittsburgh and Wheeling, 90 miles, is 111/2 inches; between The following table shows how the work on the fifty Wheeling and Cincinnati, 378 12 miles, 5 / inches; and locks and dams now in operation in the Ohio river was between Cincinnati and the mouth of the river, 500 miles, done: 4 inches. At low water the drop at the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky., is 26 feet in a distance of 2 miles. The width between banks varies froln about 890 feet at a point 105 miles below Pittsburgh to about 5,910 feet at a point B 946 miles below Pittsburgh, or 22.5 miles above the mouth b6 of the river. LOCATION mP Z The extreme fluctuations of stage at different points With reference to nearest town or c5 c along the river due to floods, and the year in which they p; other geographical location occurred, are indicated in the following table: 6.1 Emsworth, Pa. (Replacing Nos. 1 Highest and 2)........................1919 1921 Recorded *3 10.9 Glenosborne, Pa................ 1899 1908 Stage Above *4 18.6 Legionville, Pa.................1898 1908 Place.Iow Water Year 5 23.9 Frerdom, Pa...................898 1907 a Feet 6 28.8 Beaver, Pa.................... 1892 1904 Pittsburgh, Pa.............' 35.5 1907 7 36.9 Midland, Pa................... 1910 1914 Beaver, Pa.................. 1907 (Continued on page 33)October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH IN THE CAUSE OF BETTER MATERIALS -when the architect and consulting engineer have submitted the drawings, estimates and mechanical specifications -when the estimate exceeds the appropriation of the building committee or the individual owner.--when substitution of inferior materials and cutting of corners seems the only course to insure an adequate return on the investment _then comes the decision whether outward appearance or true intrinsic value with freedom from maintenance expense, will predominate _hidden in the walls, buried in the ground or exposed to the corrosive action of the atmosphere, Genuine Wrought Iron Pipe will pay a high return on its investment. A. M. BYERS COMPANY Pittsburgh, Penn'a. Manufacturers of Genuine Wrought Iron Pipe since z864 BYERS PIPE GENUINE WIWOUGHT I I.ON 32BARGE LINE RAILROAD YARDS AT MEMPHIS-Partial view of the Paine classification yard at Memphis, owned by the city of Memphis and named after its progressive mayor, Rowlett Paine, under whose regime the the city has developed into the foremost river and rail interchange community in the country. The river terminals in Memphis have cost the city several millions of dollars, are the most modern in the world and are not only paying as terminals, but are serving to attract Northern and Eastern manufacturers to Memphis on account of its superior distributing facilities. The yard shown above is operated by the Federal Barge Line and has a capacity of 350 cars. 15 128.9 New Martinsville, W. Va.........1911 1916 Already the commercial effect of the series of com16 146.4 Ben's Run, W. Va............. 1913 1917 pleted dams is reflected in the marked increase in general 17 167.4 4 miles above Marietta, Ohio......1913 1918 traffic and in the amount of coal shipped from the. mines 18 179.3 4.5 miles above Parkersburg,W. Va.1902 1910 along the Monongahela river to industrial plants on the 19 191.4 Little Hocking, Ohio............1908 1916 Ohio river a Aliquippa and Midland, Pa., and Steuben20 201.7 Belleville, W. Va................ 1911 1917 ville, Ohio. Coke in considerable quantities is also being 21 213.8 Portland, Ohio.................1915 1919 shipped from the Monongahela river to steel plants at 22 220.1 Ravenswood, W. Va............1915 1919 Mingo and Bellaire, Ohio, and a large tonnage of pig iron 23 230.6 Milwood, W. Va...............1917 1921 and unfinished steel products is being transported between 24 242.0 Graham, W. Va................. 1913 191 9 steel mills on the Monongahela and upper Ohio. 25 260.0 5 miles above Pt. Pleasant, W. Va..1917 1922 Large quantities of coal are shipped from Huntington, 26 278.0 Hogsett, W. Va................1908 1912 W. Va., and from Point Pleasant, W. Va., the former from 27 300.3 4 miles above Guyandotte, W. Va..1918 1923 the Guyandot Valley and the latter from the Kanawha 28 310.9 Huntington, W. Va............. 1911 1915 river mines, to lower river points. 29 319.4 3 miles below Catlettsburg, Ky...1911 1916 Large shipments of crude oil are now being made from 30 338.9 3 miles below Greenup, Ky...... 1919 1923 the Kentucky river and from Catlettsburg, Ky., to Louis31 358.4 3 miles below Portsmouth, Ohio..1912 1920 ville, Ky., while there are numerous smaller movements of 32 381.7 1 mile above Rome, Ohio.........1919 1925 oil and gasoline in that part of the river, between Pitts33 404.0 3 miles above Maysville, Ky..... 1915 1921 burgh and Catlettsburg. Steel mills near Pittsburgh and 34 432.8 Chilo, Ohio....................1919 1925 at Portsmouth, Ohio, are making large shipments of steel 35 449.7 1 mile below New Richmond, Ohio.1913 1919 to the lower Ohio and Mississippi, total shipments to the 36 459.2 10 miles above Cincinnati, Ohio...1920 1925 Mississippi in 1927 being 250,000 tons. The shipments of 37 481.3 Fernbank, O...................1905 1911 oil, gasoline, and steel promise to increase greatly with the 38 501.3 McVille, Ky...................1920 1924 completion of the canalization project and the providing of 39 529.6 1 mile above Markland, Ind.......1914 1922 additional terminal facilities. 41 604.0 Louisville, Ky................. 1911 1921 The total amount expended by the United States GovNew Power Navigation Dam......1925 1,927 ernment on- te improvement of the river up to date has 43 630.2 3 miles below West Point, Ky.....1914 1921 been approximately $25,000,000. October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 33 How The Ohio Was Slackwatered 44 660.3 Leavenworth, Ind. 1920 1926 45 699.7 Addison, Ky...................1920 1927 (Continuedfrom page 31) 46 752.9 Owensboro, Ky..................1923 1928 8 46.1 Newell, W. Va................... 1904 1911 47 772.5 Newburg, Ind................. 1923 1927 9 55.6 New Cumberland, W. Va.........1910 1914 48 804.1 6 miles below Henderson, Ky.....1912 1921 10 65.7 Steubenville, Ohio..............1912 1915 49 838.0 2.5 miles below Uniontown, Ky....1924 1927 11 76.3 2.3 miles below Wellsburg, W. Va.1904 1911 50 867.7 Ford's Ferry, Ky.............. 1924 1927 12 87.0 2 miles above Wheeling, W. Va....1911 1917 51 893.0 Golconda, Ill................. 1925 1929 13 95.8 McMeechen, W. Va..............1901 1911 52 928.0 Brookport, Ill................ 1924 1928 14 113.8 Woodland, W. Va..............1911 1917 53 951.2 Foot of Grand Chain............1925 192934 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Committeemen For Ohio River Celebration Loo Tin hr TThe L, eggs -of 30 dozens each imported dur- dividual and inspiring him to develop Loopin e oop ing the same period 3,636 cases. his potentialties is the first concern of The survey also showed that 22 per a progressive business concern. How many communities in the United States are importing from other sec- cent of the dealers objected to using In an article in Nati.on's Business, tions of the country supplies produced local farm produce, their objections Fred W. Shibley, Vice President, Bankat their own doorsteps and returned being lack of dependable supply, lack ers Trust Company, New York, suggests to the same sections and where pro- of grading and poor quality. It would that despite the wonders of modern inducts are overlooking market demands appear that the trade area shipped out vention nothing has yet been found to of their trading centers are questions eggs and imported graded eggs. supplant efficient man power in our inraised by the "Developmental Study of The same area imported 193,462 gal- dustrial scheme of things. And yet, he a Rural-Urban Trade Area," the resulfs lons of cream and shipped 340,236 gal- says, very little attention is given to of which have just been published by ions. training of the human beings who are the University of Illinois. It imported 47,730 pounds of evapo- doing the working and the thinking in rated milk and sold 22,650. business. ~~~This model survey, covering Rock ~If the man at the top is wise he will Island County, Ill., was sponsored by Island Couin tyAs,ili,ws sponCom ered intime select, educateandtrainan orthe Moline Association of Commerce, the Rock Island County Farm,Bureau, Man Power Comes ganization of,key men who will be efiicient, whose minds will be coordinated the University of Illinois, United States F t with his mind will become Department of AgricUlture, Chamber of Fi t Department of Agriculture, Chamber of First brilliant in the reflected light of his Commerce of the United States and In an age of machines and system, brilliance, who will think in terms of other organizations. trained and efficient man power is still business ethics as he thinks and in time It shows, for example, that the same the most important cog in a successful learn how to exercise authority as wisearea which shipped out 11,611 cases of business enterprise. Training the in- ly as he exercises it.October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 35 Committeemen For Light's Golden Jubilee36 GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Prominent In Light Jubilee And River Celebrations New Industries Outnumber Relocations of federal powers. "Everything that has been bred into me by America and From "Domestic Commerce" by the trade-union movement of America " he writes, "objects to this develA survey of industrial development cent of the total plants and 25 per centlin the United States and Canada in of the total employees gained. opment of bureaucratic power. 1926 and 1927, conducted jointly by In the United States as a whole, the "The socialism of Marx we could the National Electric Light Association average branch plant had 103 employ- escape, because it could not come exand the Metropolitan Life Insurance ees, the average relocated industry 71, cept by a deliberate willing of its comCompany indicates that relocations ac- and the average local plant 25. The ing. It could not come upon us uncounted for only 9.4 per cent of the average for all types of new plants was aware. The new form of state socialply2,084 communities, 36 employees each, but this varied with ism-and I think that name for it is as which are said byto geographical areas, being 75 in the accurate as any-can come upon us South Atlantic States, 47 in New Eng- unaware, can grow upo us, can develof the total urban population of the land, and 26 in the Middle Atlantic land, and 26 in the Middle Atlantic United States and about two-thirds of States. op around and over us out of the very the urban population of Canada. New During the period investigated, 5 democracy we have cherished and can industries started within the communi- 303 plants were lost to American cities, seem, in the coming, to be a protecting ties themselves represented 81.8 per representing about 58 per cent of the f.orce instead of a blanketing incubus. cent of the plants gained. Branchl plants gained. About 18 per cent of "We are at a criossroads where we plants were responsible for the remain- these moved away, while the remaining must decide whether, in our vast new der of the gains and represented 8.8 per 82 per cent went out of business. world of industry, we are to submit to an insidiously envolving s'uzerainty of the state, or whether we are to find means of preserving the democracy of Matthew Woll, Vice President of the More and more, he says! in an article our fathers, the freedom of our earlier American Federation of Labor, believes in Nation's Business, we find state com- days, the institutions which have that the United States is unwittingly missions, boards, departments and bu- marked the United States apart among drifting into a species of state socialism reaus coming into being, enlarging on nations as a country in which the inthat will be no less oppressive, though delegated powers, intruding inch by dividual did amount to something and possibly more efficient, than the social- inch, budding into what already has could move about to please the inner ism of the sadly mistaken Marx. the semblance of a great bureaucracy urgings of a sovereign citizen." Charles H. Kline, Mayor of Pittsburgh James Rae, President,'Chamber of CommerceOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 37 To Be At Ohio River Dinner Hoover Likes Company Security Frauds City Building President Hoover has a great reputa- A concerted movement to run to Cities that are allowed to grow wild tion for recoiling from other people. cover perpetrators of securities frauds, without regard to the uses made of Commentators never weary of speaking who take from the pockets of the them are rapidly diminishing in numof his shyness. They love to dwell up- American people from $500,000,000 to ber, it is asserted by the Civic Developon his uneasiness and his embarrass- $1,000,000,000 annually, is in process ment Department of the Chamber of ment in the deadly rapid-fire intimacies of being launched by interested organi- Commerce of the United States. of tea table small talk. They thus zations. In a publication on "Zoning" which have built up for him a considerable Steps looking to a coast-to-coast at- has just been issued, it points out that standing as a hermit. tack upon this kind of swindling were although zoning did not begin in this It becomes clear, however, that the taken at a recent meeting held at the country until 1916, when New York handicap thus granted to him in the Chamber of Commerce of the United adopted the first zoning ordinance, the social game by the Journalistic Board States at which the National Associa- practice is now almost universal. of Governors of the Federal Village tion of Securities Commissioners, the "Today," says the foreword to the should be much modified and reduced. Investment Bankers Association of Chamber pamphlet, "this conception of The President is a hermit who refuses America, the National Chamber, the zoning is understood in nearly every to be alone. He is a recluse with a American Bar Association, the National city and village in the country. In passion for society. He is a solitary Better Business Bureau, the American less than fifteen years more than seven who is gregarious. He invites people in Bankers Association, the Associated hundred municipalities have been for breakfast. He sees them in his Stock Exchanges and other organiza- zoned. office all the morning long till lunch. tions and various departments of the "The present problem, therefore, is He invites them in for lunch. He sees Federal Government were represented. not so much one of education as it is them-more casually and familiarly An organization committee is now at one of procedure. What does a zoning and without appointment-on his own work laying plans for a conference to ordinance contain? To what extent impulse-through much of the after- be held probably later in the year, at does it regulate property, and how are noon. He then invites them in to din- which the attack will be formally these regulations put into effect? How ner and spends the evening-virtually launched. More effective laws and, are safeguards provided for so that inevery evening-in chat with them. It practices aimed at the regulation of the' justices to' property owners will be eliis calculated by the wags that in four issuance of securities and the protec- minated? These and other practical years he will have seen enough people tion of the investor will be among the questions are here discussed in outline to be a majority in 1932. subjects to be considered. form." Mahmout Samy Pasha Minister From Egypt Donald McMillan, Arctic ExplorerGREATER PITTSBURGH OctoLer 12, 192) X "L IGH T" OF THE PARTY In homes where lights are bright and cheerful... there happiness reigns supreme, especially on "party nights." For, where is the hostess who enjoys apologizing to her guests for lights that won't light be...,?' \cause bulbs are burned out... and admit there's not a "spare" -/ to be had anywhere in the house? Splendid indeed, is the household manager who provides a ='-, ~. _- carton or two of "spare" Lamp _"~- Bulbs placed away ready for just such an emergency., \ \ / S....................................................................', \/'"' Buy thatBox of "Spares" Today Your Nearest Dealer or the Gas and Electric Shops can supply you. DUQUESNE LIGHT COMPANY 2 r I r -- -GREATER PITTSBURGH ALLEGHENY METAL ASCOLOY 33 ALLtGHENY TtlL, COMPANY New York Buffalo Cleveland Chicago Detroit enal xO ir*C ced RIW'.e*a Milwaukee St. Lours Los Angeles RACKENRIDGE, tiA. Alle2nienY Shet rot Ausgouuobile Bodies Metalic Furnitur e Deep Draws Allegheny Metal Ascoloy Electrical Sheets Steel Casings. *elict Tubes Pip. 38 October 12, 1929 1i, ru;r rirrirr r r r r r ry IY i irY Y r i -L r rPittsburgh's Civic Center ~~~ ~~~~~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~~ ~~~5 ~~~ ~~~ gr::-.~li A raB x::;:; ~ =:.:::-;:il:-:::::~: ~~~~~:Ol -- _ ~~ ~c;~:,~:: Z#Big Steel Plants Using The Rivers Jones Laughlin Corporation, Carnegie Steel Company, And Other Pittsburgh Industries Shipping Largely HE greatest steel industries in and from 42 States of the Union other subsidiaries of the United States Pittsburgh, which means the through joint rail-water rates, approxi- Steel Corporation, by the Wheeling greatest in the world, are ship- mately 80 per cent of the all-rail rate Steel Corporation, the Pittsburgh Steel ping their finished product in large for the same service, where the service Company and other steel producers. quantities by river, and for that reason performed is partly by water and partly Probably no better demonstration of the completion of the Ohio river im- by rail. It operates on 2,500 miles of how an improved river will develop provements is to them an event of the river, touching 11 States, has inter- transportation service, can be pointed highest importance. change relations with 165 railroads, out than the building up of a service The present-day utilization of the in- and is planning to extend its service to like that of the Carnegie Steel Comland waterways began during the war the remaining six States, so that every pany, which in a little over eleven with the establishment by the United State in the Union may be benefited by years has developed the largest fleet of States government of the'Mississippi- its operations." boats and barges and carried probably Warrior Service, which was designed A complete reorganization of the the greatest tonnage on the rivers. This to relieve the overburdened rail lines. service was effective in August, 1924. service came into existence as a transThat service was established as a com- The average loss up to that time was portation adjunct to the by-product mon carrier upon the Mississippi river $973,305 per annum. In two and one- coke plant at Clairton, Pa., the largest between New Orleans and St. Louis and half years this has been changed to a installation of by product coke ovens in upon the Warrior river in Alabama be- profit of $219,511.96. the world. tween Birmingham and New Orleans In 1921, the Jones Laughlin Steel Coal is moved by barge from the and was operated under the Railroad Corporation, hedged in by restrictive mines to this plant which cokes about Administration in close co-ordination freight rates, undertook the experiment 30,000 tons of coal a day The movewith the rail carriers. It has since of utilizing the rivers to deliver steel ment is also to river terminals for debeen incorporated as the Inland Water- products to its distant customers in the livery in cars to other plants on the ways Corporation, and provided by Con- West, South and Southwest. The advenrivers having no barge unloading facilgress with a capital stock of $5,000,- ture was successful from the first and ities Coke also is delivered t f000.00. It has assets of approximately has expanded today into a regularly or- nace plants along the Ohio and Alleg $15,000,000.00 and its organization ganized private distribution facility for heny river functions along the lines of great pri- the benefits of this corporation and its vate transportation practice, the Secre- customers. The river service of this company was tary of War, representing the stock- Numerous pictures of the Jones and gradually expanded and with the inholders, controlling its functioning Laughlin Steel Corporation's river auguration of the hauling of finished through an executive, corresponding to equipment and its extensive rail-river products as far south as New Orleans a president of a railroad. terminals at southern points appear additional floating equipment became The extent to which the Inland elsewhere in this magazine. necessary. Tfe Carnegie Steel ComWaterways Corporation serves the na- The other steel companies in the pany now having the largest fleet on intion was recently stated by Major Gen- Pittsburgh district adopted the same land waters, carried in 1928 more eral T. Q. Ashburn, chairman and ex- methods of distribution. Today steel is than 13,500,000 tons on the Mononecutive, as follows: being systematically shipped out of the gahela and Ohio rivers. The fleet con"The corporation, operating its fleets district in steel barges by the Carnegie sists of fourteen modern steamers and as a common carrier, transports into Steel Company, acting for itself and the 449 barges, among the latter being 26 Carnegie Steel Co. Loading Terminal at Duquesne, Pa. Southbound Tow of Carnegie Steel Co. at Louisville, Ky.Carnegie Steel Co. Marine Ways at Coal Valley, Pa. By-Product Coke Plant of Carnegie Steel Co. on Monongahela River at Clairton, Pa. cargo barges and 2 acid barges. The trically operated locomotive cranes of An analysis of the traffic carried on steamers carrying the Carnegie ensign five tons capacity each, with magnet or the Ohio during 1927 indicates that are the City of Pittsburgh and the grab bucket as accessories. These are 97% of the 20 million tons consisted of Monongahela, which are of the Missis- used for unloading coal or other bulk the following commodities: coal, coke, sippi river type and used in the long commodities from barges and are avail- iron and steel articles, sand and gravel, haul traffic; The W. H. Clingerman, W. able in emergency for loading steel or forest products, cement, and oils, all of G. Clyde, A. O. Ackard, H. D. Williams, other materials for shipment by barge. which fall within the bulky, slow-movDonora, Allegheny, Youghiogheny, Wil- A central wharf at Munhall, Pa., is a ing class of commodities. Inasmuch as liam Whigham, Edgar Thomson, Clair- general terminal for all plants on the all of the transportation companies ton, Isthmian, and Homestead. Union Railroad and is available for operating on the Ohio-common, conThe company n o w maintains a handling material from other Carnegie tract, and private carriers-are opermonthly service between Pittsburgh plants outside the Pittsburgh district ated by private capital, it is significant and New Orleans and intermediate or for use by other subsidiaries of the that such a large percentage of the trafpoints, carrying steel products, and one Steel Corporation, on outbound ship- fic consists of this class of commodities. trip per boat per day between Monon- ments. The equipment here consists of This bears out the statement madej gahela river coal mines and Clairton a gantry crane, with double hoist of 15 earlier in this paper that our waterand Duquesne steel plants. M1iscel- tons total capacity and magnet and ways should carry the bulky, slow movlaneous commodities are moved be- under-wharf chutes for transferring ce- ing commodities. tween mills along the Monongahela on ment from cars into barges. Since 1921 the value per ton of the Ohio river plants at Bellaire and Mingo Additional terminals are operated at Ohio River traffic has decreased from Junction, 0. and the American Bridge both Clairton and Duquesne and at $13 to $8.40, in 1927, which indicates plant at Ambridge, Pa., including steel Bessemer, Pa., on the Monongahela that greater quantities of the low plates, shapes, bars, pig iron, ingot river, blast furnace plants at Pitts- valued commodities are being carried, molds, scrap, stirring rods, coke and burgh and Etna, Pa., on the Allegheny and that the higher class, higher flue dust. river, at the warehouse on the North revenue producing traffic is finding its Terminals are operated at various Side bank of the Ohio river at Pitts- way to the railways and motor trucks. plants and mines of the Carnegie Steel burgh, and at Mingo Junction and Bel- It is interesting to note in any study Company and the H. C. Frick Coke laire, O., on the Ohio river. of inland waterway transportation the Company, with facilities for handling Several docks are operated in connec- use Germany is making of her inland the heavy traffic carried on. At the tion with coal mines near the Monon- waterways. We should bear in mind in Clairton coke plant for instance, four gahela river, with belt conveyor systems relating facts pertaining to these waterdouble hoists, each having two 6-ton employed to move fuel to the barges- ways that the German people have had grab buckets are used for unloading At the Colonial Dock of the H. C. generations of experience with this coal from barges. A conveyor loads Frick Coke Company, 48 miles above medium of transportation, and accordcoal from cars to barges and there is Pittsburgh coal is moved from mines ing to their own testimony, have been equipment for pumping acid from tank located an average of six miles back quite successful in their operations. barges to the plant and for loading from the river by a belt conveyor sys- There are many German cities which creosote oil or tar into tank barges. tem from a central point. The longest have become great manufacturing cenIn the South the company maintains conveyor belt in this system is 2439 Lers because of waterways development. its own terminals, the big one at feet and this is the longest of the kind As examples, Duisburg, Mannhelm, and Houston being an example, a model of in the world. Ruhrort may be mentioned. Germany's its kind. With the improved condition of the'ndustrial ascendence has been closely At Duquesne, Pa., a terminal owned rivers there has grown a tremendous linked by many authorities with the exand operated by the Union Railroad, a traffic to the Southland, in finished steel tension of its waterways and the low subsidiary of the United States Steel prd,ducts along that runs into scores of freight charges thus afforded. The Corporation, is equipped with five elec- thousands of tons. (Continued on page 132)GREATER PITTSBURGH WEIRTON STEEL Co.I WEIRTON, - - - - - - W. VA. SALES OFFICES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES MANUFACTURERS OF OPEN HEARTH STEEL PRODUCTS Consisting of Coke Tinplates, Copper Bearing Terne Plates, Tin Mill Black Plate, Hot and Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Strip Steel Sheets, Galvanized Sheets, Black Sheets, Blue Annealed Sheets, Long Terne Sheets, etc. QUALITY is assured by our complete control of each process, from mining of iron ore to finished marketable product. DEPENDABLE SERVICE by all rail shipment is obtained through our plants located at Clarksburg, W. Va., Steubenville, Ohio, and Weirton, W. Va. BARGE LINE SHIPMENTS can be accomplished from our own extensive river docks located at Weirton, W. Va., and reaching all points located on the navigable waters of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and by rail connections to points beyond. SAVE WITH STEEL )~~~~~j~ __ 7iii -- l October 12, 1929 42FAR DOWN THE WIDE MISSISSIPPI-Thousands of tons of steel pipe, plates, bars shipped from Jones Laughlin mills in Pittsburgh have just arrived at the terminal at Memphis for unloading into railroad cars and ultimate distribution to customers in Memphis and interior points in nearby states. Fromi the beginning of the develop- lowest reached since 1890. However, out that our growing trade with these ment of our internal resources, says L. within a decade, by the end of the fiscal countries makes it desirable to have P. Nickell, chief of the inland water- year ending June 30, 1928, the traffic cheaper means of transportation to the ways section of the UI. S. Department of had grown to almost 21 million tons, seaboard, so that our commodities may Commerce, in an article in "National an increase of 345 %. Along with this better compete with those from EuroWaterways," which took place about increase has gone a greater diversifica- pean countries. The states bordering the close of the French and Indian War tion of commodities handled, and a the Ohio river and its principal tribuin 1763, until the decline of inland greater ton-mileage. The ton-mileage taries furnished large quantities of our water transportation the latter part of in 1928 amounted to 1,344,687,000. exports last year, and the percentage the nineteenth century the Ohio River There has also been a substantial in- might increase with utilization of the played an important part in the devel- crease in the average haul of the total river as a means of transporting the opment of its tributary territory. Al- tonnage. heavier products to the seaboard. most every type of commodity was The Ohio, with its tributaries, bids The Ohio river system, it is claimed, transported on the river in various faiir to becomle one of the greatest in- also offers opportunities for greater detypes of craft, such as the canoe, pi- land waterway systems in the United velopment of its hinterland through the rogue, bateau, barge, keel boat, flat States, if not in the world. This year connection it makes, together with the boat, sailing vessels, and finally the has seen the completion of the canaliza- Mississippi river, with our coastwise steam propelled stern and side wheel tion project which was outlined almnost service. Cheaper transportation would river boats, which carried both freight half a century ago, and as a result of enable producers to dispose of their and passengers. From 1850 until the this improvement the river today has products in markets which otherwise latter part of the nineteenth century a: minimum channel depth of 9 feet. "iwould be out of their distribution territhe Ohio and Monongahela Rivers were fr,om Pittsburgh to Cairo, Ill., a dis- ritory. among the most important for the car- tance of 1,000 miles, where it joins the In the states tributary to the Ohio rying of coal. In fact, coal was one of Mfississippi. This has been made pos- (Continued on page 45) October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 43 Export Trade Via The Ohio This And Other Possibilities Estimated By Expert- Huge Increase In Last Decade By L. P. NICKELL Inland tWaterways Division U. S. Depar7tment of Commerce N the revitalization of ourI inland the principal commodities carried dur- sible by the construction of 50 movable waterways the Ohio river and some ing the period mentioned. In 1886 it dams, with locks, for use in seasons of of its tributaries have held place constituted 75% of the traffic. low water. in the forefront. The Ohio proper and Records of the War Department, En- Commercial leaders have envisioned the Monongahela have amply proven gineers' Office, show that the traffic on possibilities of a closer relation besince 1920 their value for the transpor- the Ohio had declined in 1917 to 41/2 tween the development of the Ohio and tation of the bulky commodities, as million tons, the greater part of which Mississippi river systems and our trade they had proven earlier in the hey-day was coal, transported for relatively with the Latin American countries to of water transportation. short distances. This figure was the the south of us. It has been pointedGREATER PITTSBURGH Greater Pittsburgh's facilities, resources, and practical knowledge of Steel and Building problems have made possible the development of THE NEW RIBBED STEELTEX for PLASTER a modern plaster base employing the highly desirable welded steel fabric reinforcing principle. Suitable for Church, School, Hotel, Apartment, Home, and other buildings. Durable Permanent Steel-strong Steeltex is a Typical Pittsburgh Product Manufactured by the NATIONAL STEEL FABRIC COMPANY (pitb_s~th CoSlte The world's largest manufacturers of welded steelfabric-- reinforces concrete, gypsum, plaster, stucco, gunite--roads, streets, buildings, homes, bridges, airports, concrete pipe, and all major types of plastic material construction.., I11 411 411 i 4 41 411 411 41 411 41 Ii I wwww" -----..... -.....W---- i I------- ---------------.........Ml m m 44 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 45 Export Trade Via The Ohio Diesel principle to towboat power and rates. The expense of such litigaplants, and the use of the tunnel type tions, it is claimed, has been an obstacle (Continuedfrom page 43) screw propeller. These improvements in the path of private enterprise in the river are produced many of the raw ma- have resulted in more efficient floating operation of common carrier services terials used in the manufacturing equipment, which in turn has resulted on the waterways. Few joint rail and plants in the cities within the river's in cheaper transportation. The in- water agreements between water and hinterland. Numbers of these manu- creased efficiency of the equipment has rail carriers have been effected. facturers may be able to save sub- been an important factor in the in- However, progress has been made substantial amounts each year in their creased volume of tonnage annually toward the solution of this problem in transportation accounts by making use moved. The modern equipment month- the passage of the Denison Act, which of river or river and rail transportation. ly going into service on our inland provides, among other things, for the There is necessity, however, for the waterways presages a steady growth of establishment of joint rates and provision of adequate public river-rail traffic within the next few years. through routes between rail carriers and terminals. This is a matter which The rapidity with which private com- the Inland Waterways Corporation. should be given prompt attention, lest panies, such as the steel and coal com- While this particular legislation deals a large part of the value of the 9 foot panies, as well as contract and common specifically with the Inland Waterways channel be lost. As shown by recent carriers, have been placing new and Corporation, it provides that a water ARRIVAL AT MEMPHIS-A Jones and Laughlin Steel tow turns in the channel of the Mississippi at Memphis and comes up to lie alongside the municipal terminal for unloading. Five thousand tons of steel pipe and other steel products are contained in this single movement, some of which is for delivery in Memphis and the remainder for distribution to inland points. research conducted by the Transporta- modern equipment in service within the line may apply to the Interstate Comtion Division of the Department of past seven years is pointed to by inland merce Commission for a certificate of Commerce, the principal modern term- waterway proponents as proof of the public convenience and necessity,which, inals on the Ohio river, between Pitts- practicability of water transportation when granted, carries with it a mandate burgh and Cairo, are owned by private for the carriage of bulky commodities. to the Commission to fix joint rates and companies, and are not available for Research conducted by the Transporta- suitable division of revenue between the general public. There is encour- tion Division of the Department of Coll- the water line and all rail carriers conagement, though, in the fact that with- merce shows that there are 100 con- nected with its terminals. The Interin the past year or two a great deal tract, common, and private carriers now state Commerce Commission made a demore interest has been displayed in the operating on the Ohio River and its cision in Ex Parte 96 (April 20, 1929) provision of public river-rail terminals. tributaries. These companies operate providing for the establishment of There has been to the outside student some 2,200 vessels of all kinds, with a through routes and joint rates between an evident lack of "water-mindedness" total investment in floating equipment the Inland Waterway Corporation barge on the part of the residents of the Ohio of $31,000,000. This is indicative of lines and all connecting common carValley so situated as to be able to take the magnitude of the operations of riers by rail subject to the Interstate advantage of water transportation. these waterways, and they are but parts Commerce Act and their rail connecAnother evidence of the growing im- of our inland waterways systems. The tions, subject to restrictions to prevent portance of the Ohio as a medium of trade journals have just announced the unduly circuitous routes. This decision transportation has been the great incorporation of a new common car- was made on application filed by the Instrides in the modernization of river rier service, with an investment of $3,- land Waterways Corporation, pursuant equipment which the past eight years 000,000 in floating equipment, which to the Denison Act mentioned above. have witnessed. Among some of the will operate on the Ohio and Mississippi Another factor favorable to the improvements may be mentioned the. rivers. greater development of traffic on the more efficient and more durable steel In the past, with few exceptions, lVtl- Ohio and its tributaries is the growing barges which are capable of carrying * gations have been necessary for the ef- industrial hinterland of these streams. greater cargoes, the application of the: fecting of joint rail and water routes (Continued on page 132)GREATER PITTSBURGH Light's Golden Jubilee The progress of a nation can be gauged by its use of glass. Fifty years ago, the glass-blower's daily concern was the shape, the strength, the heat resistance of lamp chimfieys. Today, the glassblower spread-eagles the field of American industry, increasing in stature and capacity for service even as American industry itself. The Macbeth glass-blower grows young at his task. The same skill that produced Macbeth lamp chimneys is applied to the diverse problems of today-and tomorrow. For the Macbeth craftsman has formed the habit of looking forward as well as upward to the perfection of his art. The world soon forgets a name that has ceased to mean service. It never forgets a name that continues that service in accordance with public need. While the Macbeth glass-blower serves as American industry advances, the name Macbeth will be remembered. Commercial, Residence, Railway, Automobile and Street Lighting Glassware, Lamp Chimneys-Lamp Shades- Lantern Globes- Gas Globes - Tumblers Macbeth-Evans Glass Company CHARLEROI - PENNSYLVANIA I " ____ I i I I I II II I II I October 12, 1929 46October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 47 Pittsburgh Waterway Problems* Improvements Here Reveal The Surmounting Of Many Difficulties--Tremendous Increase Of Water Tonnage By J. W. ARRAS of U. S. Engineers, Pittsburgh District VERY stream has its own pecu- the first improvements were largely ex- in bars and near the shores. They were liar problems requiring solution perimental, although designed and con- usually of the comb type with slopes of in connection with its navi- structed in accordance with the best various width and pitch. In the search gation improvement, of which the Pitts- practice of their day. for rock foundations for the locks and burgh Engineer District has had its On the whole, navigation uses of the to reduce cost, locations were frefull share. These depend largely upon rivers were for many years the sole con- quently made in narrow reaches and the geology, meterology, industry and sideration, while water power, flood where the river alignment was exceedcommerce, stability of riverbed, volume control, etc., in by-gone years were ingly crooked. THE WORLD'S BUSIEST RIVER-The Monongahela at Lock No. 2, Braddock, just above Pittsburgh. This river is famous as a freight transportation facility, ranking above the Suez and Panama canals in annual tonnage: Suez Canal freight tonnage (1925).................................................................26,761,935 Panama Canal freight tonnage (1926)..-......5...................................... 26154,495 Monongahela River tonnage (1928)...-.................................................. 28,238,772 and character of the water and other given but little thought. Even power Of twenty-eight locks and dams conmore or less important regional condi- operation of the locks was omitted as structed within 75 miles of Pittsburgh tions. In the earlier stages of river far and long as the pressure of commer- in every direction, it has been practicwork in this locality, many of these cial movements would permit, mainly able to construct only three of the dams considerations were either overlooked in the interest of economy. Necessarily, on rock throughout; namely Nos. 4 and or neglected, or precedents in other lo- these methods made for inefficiency 8, Allegheny River, and Deadman Iscalities were followed without serious and greater cost in the end. land, Ohio River. thought of the consequences. The masonry locks in the MonongaFor this lack of comprehensive study Initial Mistakes hela River deteriorated rapidly, the of all of the important elements enter- Quite naturally, many initial naviga- stone not being constituted to withing into navigation improvement pro- tion improvement structures developed stand the elements, especially the acjects economy too frequently was the serious defects which as they became tion of hard freezing. Before many principal determining factor, eventually evident, methods were sought to cor- years, it became necessary to face the resulting in structures inadequate for rect. The original locks, built slightly lock walls with timbers which lasted their purpose and of rather inferior less than a century ago, were of stone much better than the original ashlar structural value. Thus reconstruction masonry laid with natural cement. masonry facing. All locks that have and replacement have played a large The dams were generally of timber been constructed in the Pittsburgh Enpart in the maintenance of many of our cribwork filled with rubber stone and gineer District during more than 30 river works. Then, too, not a few of and decked with heavy timbers. As years are built of Portland Cement conmuch as possible, the locks wqee crete. *Condensed from An Article by Mr.- founded on rock; but the dams, as' a However, a mistake was made in the Arras in the "National Waterways"* rule, were built on the riverbed gravel earlier stages of this work by a defiMagazine, John W. Black, Publisher.. with practically no excavation, except (Continued on page 49)Published Twice a Month by The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce FRANK C. HARPER, Editor 55th Year PITTSBURGH, PA., OCTOBER 12, 1929 Vol. 10, No. 10 Light's Golden Jubilee The Celebration In Which Pittsburgh Is Participating Is International In Scope And Has Been Officially Recognized By The United States Government By J. F. QUINLAN Executive Secretary, Light's Golden Jubilee National Committee T HE great international observance of Light's Golden Jubilee, marking the 50th anniversary of the invention of the first practical incandescent lamp by Thomas A. Edison, has been welcomed and supported by leaders of thought everywhere. The President of the United States, Herbert Hoover, when accepting the Honorary Chairmanship of the National Sponsoring Committee, said: "I shall be delighted to serve in any capacity which will be a genuine tribute to Mr. Edison's services." Light's Golden Jubilee will be just as much an occasion for serious retrospect, profound appreciation, and genuine inspiration as it will be a celebration, gala, festive and jubilant. It will be a celebration exclusive to no one company, to no one industry; nor will it be limited to any single nation. It is upon the grateful people of the world that the blessings of Edison's genius have been showered. Light's Golden Jubilee offers the electrical industry a golden opportunity to join hands with the world at large in standing beside the man who gave the world light without flame-the man whose life is an inspiration to all-the man who stands for all that is American and good. Individually and collectively the men of the electrical industry owe it to themselves to make Light's Golden Jiubilee the greatest tribute ever paid a living man. How Plan Originated Light's Golden Jubilee received its first formal suggestion on Edison's 8.2nd birthday. At a luncheon of the Edison Pioneers-that gallant body of men who were associated with Edison in his pioneering days-their fellow member, Dr. John W. Lieb, tentatively outlined the celebration. The Pioneers then unanimously approved the following resolution. "Resolved, that the President of the Edison Pioneers be requested, and he is hereby authorized, to appoint a committee of five from its membership to propose to the electrical industry at large, the organization of a Sponsoring Committee which may prepare plans for the appropriate celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Incandescent Lamp, occuring during the year 1929." Notable Festivals The preliminary light festivals of this suimmer have been notable. Light's Golden Jubilee was brilliantly inaugurated at Atlantic City on May 3lst. There hundreds of thousands of visitors joined the residents of the community who turned out en masse to witness a gorgeous spectacle of light and color, in which land, sea, surf, and sky mingled, and were bathed in all the hues of the rainbow. In the presence of Vice-President Curtis, Preston S. Arkwright, at that time President of the National Electric Light Association, delivered the stirring address which opened the ceremonies. - Two weeks later the City of Niagara Falls dedicated its Fifth Annual Festival of Light to the celebration of Light's Golden Jubilee. All of the principal streets were bathed in golden light, and the falls were illuminated by a battery of searchlights aggegating 1,440,000,000 candlepower. The Pageant Parade held on the evening of June 13, which opened the celebration, held hundreds of thousands of spectators fascinated for hours. The whole city was in festive attire; flags were flown, store windows were especially decorated for the occasion, and Edison's photograph was displayed everywhere. Saturday, August 31st, was Edison Day at the National Air Races, Cleveland. At 10 o'clock in the evening an open air show was held, attended by a number of distinguished guests and over 15,000 people. The program included: tributes to Edison by leading men in aviation; the Light's Golden Jubilee Derby, a race of air-mail pilots to Milan (Edison's birthplace) and return; a musical show featuring George M. Cohan's song, "Edison Miracle Man;" and a parade of girls representing the various stages of light down through the ages, coming to a climax with the modern incandescent lamp and the unveiling of a large photograph of Thomas Edison. All of the festivals mentioned above were broadcast over nation-wide hook-ups. Dedicated to Jubilee The opening night of the National Convention of the American Legion, our country's largest convention, held in Louisville, Ky., September 30 to October 3, was dedicated to Thomas A. Edison and Light's Golden (Continued on page 5)GREATER PITTSBURGH Structural Strength Green Bag Cement Because of its better quality Green Bag Cement is meeting with the unqualified approval of Architect, Contractor and Home Owner. It tests higher than ordinary cement but does not cost more. Among its outstanding advantages are, high early strength, high ultimate strength, consistent uniformity and excellent workability. Specify Green Bag Cement on the next job Sold by all Dealers in the Pittsburgh district. Latest approved Barges and conveniently located Plants enable us to make prompt river as well as rail and truck deliveries. BASIC PRODUCTS COMPANY Oliver Building Pittsburgh, Penna. Neville Island, Pa. Plants 0- Kenova, W. Vai I I I _ __ _ __ _I __ October 12, 1929 48October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 49 Pittsburgh Waterways fest defects and led to a fairly effectual failing in one respect. It has not remedy. proven satisfactory where the gradient (Continuedfrom page 17) The comb or apex is the particularly is steep, a condition that obtains from cient use of cement. One part cement vulnerable feature of every comb type Pittsburgh to Dam No. 6, a distance of to three of sand produces too lean a dam and is responsible for all serious approximately 30 miles. mixture for structures subjected to al- lower slope troubles, while the upward Here the average slope is 1.42 feet ternate wetting and drying, and es- and then downward slopes are the chief per mile with a maximum of 9 feet in 2 pecially freezing and thawing. One to causes for heavy undermining at the miles, from the head of Merriman's Bar two and one-half is unquestionably the lower slope toe. to the foot of the Trap, at Sewickley, limit and one to two for lock construc- The dam designed at Pittsburgh Pa. On such slopes, it was found to be tion is none too good. The coarse in- about 1888 to overcome these objec- impracticable to raise the dams until RIVER FREIGHT AT NEW ORLEANS FOR EXPORT-Scene at the Bienville dock of the Federal Barge line in New Orleans after arrival of a tow of miscellaneous freight from St. Louis, the greater part of which came from northern points to St. Louis by rail. The picture shows the diversity of cargo carried by the government barges. Manufacturers, farmers and others who utilize this service save money on their freight bills averaging about $1.35 a ton. The service is managed by Major General T. Q. Ashburn, as Chairman and Executive, directly under the Secretary of War. gredient is not so important so long as tions on gravel foundations, has a ver- the natural open channel depth had falthe interstices are completely filled tical upstream face to the full height of len considerably below the project with mortar. structure, a relatively narrow horizon- depth of 9 feet. tal crest, a downstream slope of ap- To remedy this situation, the Errsproximately one on three and a hori- worth Locks and fixed dams were comHowever, as to stability, durability, zontal step of good width at the bottom pleted in 1922, replacing movable and maintenance, the locks are never of the slope. Dams Nos. 1 and 2. This structure as serious a problem as the dams and would have been well worth the cost theirabtments. ThefogLater Dms Hold bwell worth the cost their abutments. The former being Later Daams Hold Well alone in providing a permanent harbor rarely wholly submerged and in daily Every fixed dam on a gravel founda- with a minimum depth of ten feet at use are therefore open to inspection al- tion built in the Pittsburgh District Pittsburgh. most continually and, as a rule, are not since 1890 has been, or now is, of this After a few years' satisfactory operahard to protect from undermining or section, not one of which has ever rup- tion of Emsworth Lock and Dam, a other threatened injury. tured or failed. Except in rare cases, similar structure was started at DeadOn the other hand, dams are con- involving unusual conditions, this type man Island which is now practically tinually submerged, often to great of dam, whether of timber or concrete, completed. This improvement will redepths, when they are subjected to the reduces undermining scour at lower place movable Dams Nos. 3 and 4 and severest action of floods and ice, fre- edge of dam to a minimum, in most will completely drown out the 9-foot quently without the remotest possi- cases practically preventing it alto- rapids between Merriman and the Trap. bility of knowing what is taking place. gether. On rock foundations where unGenerally, serious ruptures in or dermining scour is not feared, the Ogee Lock Location Important failure of dams have occurred during section of d a m is constructed as high water conditions. slightly less possibly. As already intimated, in earlier days, While for many years the comb type While the Chanoine wicket system of the locations of locks and dams were of dam for river canalization, mill and dams with which the Ohio River is too frequently determined from conPower purposes, etc., had been in gen- canalized is altogether feasible for the siderations other than those pareral favor, it was unsatisfactory on the purpose of navigation, and should be- ticularly affecting navigation. In conwhole. Its extensive construction for come more satisfactory in its service to pequence, many locks were in sharp low dike and cut-off dam purposes for water transportation, and generally bends, at the mouths of large ravines closing duplicate channels on the Ohio more dependable in the years to come, or other equally objectionable condiRiver, thoroughly developed its mani- it'has long since developed a decided (Continued on page 51)GREATER PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh's Own Insurance Companies NATIONAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Organized 1901 NATIONAL UNION INDEMNITY COMPANY Organized 1925 Home Office: 139 University Place City Office: Arrott Building Combined Assets $25,337,866.05 We are a Part of Pittsburgh's Progress Agency Representatives in Over 8000 Cities and Towns Branch and Service Offices, Field Representatives and Adjusters Located in Principal Cities National in Name U National in Scope J I I I 50 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 51 Pittsburgh Waterways hela River only two new ones were probable that with the anticipated furconstructed to replace the three. In ther increase in river tonnage addi(Continuedfrom page 49) the Allegheny River the elimination of tional lockage capacity will become tions, while the dams were in narrow Lock and Dam No. 1 and dredging of a necessary ere many years have elapsed. reaches of the river. channel up to Lock No. 2 has been No doubt these will also bring along The proper location of a lock and recommended to the War Department. their quota of perplexing problems. dam is now regarded as of the greatest The latter proposition is made As has been stated, the river improveimportance. While everything entering feasible because of Emsworth Dam, in ments heretofore made have ministered into the question should be given due the Ohio, which now backs its pool up primarily, and almost exclusively, to consideration and weight, a long, to Dam No. 2 on the Allegheny. Along the needs of navigation. More recently, comparatively straight lead into the this line there are under consideration however, consideration is being given lock from either direction, coupled with on the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers some to combining with navigation works the greatest possible crest length of dams with high adjustable gates on the use of the surplus water for hydroA VALUABLE TOW-A million dollars is the investment in this and similar tows sent out regularly by the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, including the value of the steamboat, the barges and the 10,000 tons of J L wrought steel pipe and other steel products. The photograph was taken at the Aliquippa works on the Ohio river in the Pittsburgh district as a tow swung out into the stream on its departure for a 2,000 mile voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi. fixed dam, are of major importance. their crest with a view to generating electric power and incidentally to effect Although it is not usually difficult to hydro-electric power. If these are con- a reasonable control of floods. secure one of these requirements, it structed of a height of approximately There is no good reason why the may be surprising to many how rarely 30 feet, one or more existing dams will principal tributaries of the Allegheny the two occur in the same locality on be eliminated by each new power dam. and Monongahela Rivers, and to a conthe local rivers in the vicinity of Pitts- siderable extent the heads of these burgh. Often they are miles apart and Pittsburgh's Huge Tonnage streams, should not be utilized to the occasionally they do not exist within a It will be noted from the foregoing full in every manner that can be reasonable distance from where a loca- that the radical improvement of the adapted to the use of the community at tion must be made, as determined by rivers for water transportation pur- large. While it may be difcult to the slope of the river. poses in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, has, justify an economical return on such an In lock and dam reconstruction or during the past sixty years, been investment at the outstart there can be replacement work, it has for several fraught with many momentous prob- scarcely a doubt concerning the evenyears been deemed desirable to reduce lems. tual outcome, viewed from the standthe number of structures as much as The Locks and dams originally con- point of economy. If this be true why possible. Not only does this diminish structed bear little resemblance to should we not commence operations in the construction cost materially, but it those which are now being built. To this larger field at once? at the same time effects an important accommodate a present annual comreduction in the aggregate annual cost merce of more than 32,000,000 tons on Hubby-"It says here a woman was of maintenance and operation. approximately 250 miles of canalized killed in the crush at a bargain sale Moreover, the navigator also derives river requires locks of increased capa- yesterday." a worthwhile benefit in that the pools city, operated in such manner as to ex- Wifey-"How dreadful! It doesn't are lengthened and the number of lock- pedite the movement of traffic and say by chance what the bargains ages reduced. Thus, in the replacement maintained and kept in repair so as to were?" of movable by fixed dams at the head of occasion the least possible interference If a man is down in his cellar the the Ohio River, two of the former, as with the regular movement of the river chances are he is out. far as practicable, are eliminated by trade. each new structure. The present river improvement plants' After staying out late six nights in In reconstructing old Locks and meets the water transportation require- succession, a man tells himself that his Dams Nos. 7, 8 and 9 on the Mononga- ments fairly well. And yet it is highly fatigue is due to overwork at the office.GREATER PITTSBURGH For years this company has helped to meet the individual piping problems of industrial plants, refiners and producers effectively as well as economically! A capable, skilled personnel and ample facilities, coupled with ripened experience, to serve your every requirement. POWER PIPING COMPANY, PITTSBURGH ___ __ __ 52 October 12., 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 53 And Now For The Canal Completion Of Ohio River Slackwatering Makes Building Of Canal From That River To Lake Erie The Logical Next Step By WILLIAM H. STEVENSON Chairman Pennsylvania and Lake Erie Canal Board W ITH the great revival of in- Broad and Comprehensive Inland from the Lakes to New Orleans and At terest in our rivers, with the Waterway System", both of which pri- serve thirty-two states; the importance constant demand for increas- marily involve the question of transpor- of the completely improved Ohio River ing transportation facilities, it is an op-tion. would be multiplied and the benefits of portune time to call attention to what In this interview it was pointed out cheaper transportation enjoyed by the many thoughtful and forward looking that the "Great Lakes-St. Lawrence entire nation. citizens believe of vital importance to Waterway to the Sea," connecting at The Shortest Route the future industrial expansion of the Buffalo with the New York Barge Canal This can be done by joining Lake Pittsburgh District; namely, a water- and at Chicago with an inland water- Erie with the Ohio River, by a canal at way to connect the Great Lakes with way system by way of the Canal and the mouth of the Beaver River. The the Ohio River. the Mississippi River to New Orleans Ohio River is nearer to Lake Erie at President Hoover, when Secretary of would provide a consolidated inland this point than any other in its entire Commerce, in a published interview, waterway system serving twenty states. course. It is the shortest route for joinsaid: "The time has come when the Visualizing this great plan and the ing the Great Lakes with the Ohio and United States should formulate a broad benefit of its realization, we m'ust not Mississippi Rivers providing transporprogram for the maximum utilization overlook a project that has been before tation to New Orleans and via the of the vast undeveloped water resources the people of Pittsburgh for many Panama Canal to California and the of the Nation." He proposed seven years and is now being considered by Orient. This project has been endorsed major projects, all of the greatest im- the United States Board of Army En- by the most able engineers, including portance to the growth and prosperity gineers, a project which linked up with, some of the foremost waterway experts of our country. Two of these projects; a System of Internal Waterways anad in the world, and is now under final first, "The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence "The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence" examination by a Board of United Waterway to the sea"; second, "A l!roject would provide a "short cut" (Continucd on page 55) (Continued on page$~5GREATER PITTSBURGH AoL]IV[6RWRMAm IRU[M1Sl APPROVED AND _EITED SINCE 1894 s ~~ Designed forall aces/ All Oliver Pole Line Materials have a neat balance between utility and simplicity of design and ease of installation. The stresses and strains to which every part is subjected in service have all been accurately calculated to a nicety by Oliver Pole Line engineers who have spent years in studying practical pole line problems. Simplicity of design has been the dominating keystone of their efforts. They have eliminated many useless or inefficient gimcracks and substituted a simple standardized line of pole line material that covers every practical need and every construction specification. And in addition to correct scientific design there is the exclusive double dip galvanizing process which adds years of extra service-one of the many features of Oliver equipment that make it so widely preferred throughout the electric industry. OLIVER IRON AND STEEL CORPORArION PITTSBURGH PENNA. 54 October 12, 1929important, but their traffic and useful- Mosquito Creek empties into the river. ness can be greatly increased by the im- The united length of the Beaver and provement of that tributary of the Mahoning Rivers, both of which. have Ohio,-the Beaver River and the con- been declared navigable, and Mosquito nection of its head waters by a canal Cteek is about sixty miles. All these streams can be easily improved with locks and dams and be deepened to twelve feet. The Mosquito Creek rises on a summit level which is twenty-nine miles long, eight miles of which will be transformed into a lake one mile wide by the canal dam at the southern end of the level. Over the level a canal will be dug in which of course there will be no other locks except the two at the ends. From the north end of the level there is an easy descent for sixteen miles by the valleys to Lake Erie at Ashtabula. Using Existing Water Courses The total distance from the Ohio River to the lake is 101X miles, of which fully 70 miles is covered by existing water courses. From these and from French Creek, the chief tributary of the Allegheny River, and from the upper Mahoning River, a most abundant supply of water properly conserved in great resorvoirs will be assured for the canal. The summit to be crossed is only 232 feet above the Ohio River and 327 feet above Lake Erie. This latter elevation is just one foot more than the summit of the Welland Canal above Lake Ontario, from which latter the descent has to be made in six miles as against sixteen miles for the Pittsburgh Canal. The summit of the Pittsburgh Canal is 900 feet above the sea. It is the lowest between the Allegheny Mountains and the Miami River. The canal will be twelve feet deep with a bottom width of at least 140 feet and a surface width of at least 188 feet. Its locks will be at least 400 feet long by 56 feet wide. They will number from 20 to 26 and will have lifts from 10 to 30 feet. The estimated cost of the canal is $100,000,000. Its capacity is estimated to be 35,000,000 tons. Route Taps Huge Tonnage The canal between the Ohio River and Lake Erie by the Pittsburgh Canal route is only 101% miles and traverses the greatest tonnage district on this globe. In this canal district more than 400,000,000 tons of freight is moved annually and the traffic is continually increasing. It may be remarked that eighty per cent of the nearly 92,000,000 ton record traffic on the Saulte Ste Marie Canal consisted of iron ore and bituminous coal and that eighty per cent of this came to or went from the Pittsburgh canal district. It is evident at least that 100,000,000 tons of heavy bulky traffic, iron ore, coal, coke, lumber, sand and other materials, including wheat and other nonperishable food products and many manufactured articles would naturally seek transport on this canal. (Continued on page 57) October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH And Now For The Canal with Lake Erie. The Beaver River enters the Ohio about twenty-five miles (Continuedfrom page 53) north of Pittsburgh. It is formed by the States Engineers in accordance with an junction of the Shenango and Mahoning Act passed by Congress. Rivers at New Castle, Pa. The MahonPittsburgh's three rivers and what ing River passes through Youngstown they are capable of doing themselves is and Niles, Ohio. At the latter townGREATER PITTSBURGH The Pittsburgh Hotelmen's Association CASTLETON New Castle ELMHURST INN Sewickley FORT PITT HOTEL Pittsburgh GEORGE.WASHINGTON HOTEL Washington HENRY HOTEL Pittsburgh MOUNTAIN VIEW HOTEL Greensburg NIXON HOTEL Butler PITTSBURGHER Pittsburgh ROOSEVELT HOTEL Pittsburgh RUSKIN Pittsburgh SCHENLEY HOTEL Pittsburgh WEBSTER HALL HOTEL Pittsburgh WILLIAM PENN HOTEL Pittsburgh 56 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 57 And Now For The Canal sonville. Thus the scope of the Lake wide system of waterways the farmers Erie Canal is nation-wide and, in fact, of the interior could get their products (Continuedfrom page 55) international. to all parts of our country and to our The canal could carry self-propelled The proposed Lake Erie Canal is not coasts and to foreign countries much river, canal and lake going boats of only a vital factor from the standpoint cheaper, as well as more promptly and 3000 tons, but its chief traffic is likely of service to a large proportion of the regularly. As a result the farmers to be in fleets of three towed barges population of the United States in a would largely increase their domestic carrying a total of 5000 tons where car- nation-wide Waterway System, but it is and foreign trade and their profits goes could be transferred or received at also the shortest route from the Atlan- thereon, and would have much less need that lake for only about eight cents a tic seaboard to the Gulf of Mexico. for tariff protection and great financial ton, the same or less price as the By referring to the map accompany- aid. present transfer between lake vessels ing this article, the reader will note and the railroads. that the distance from New York via Mainstay of Hoover Plan the Great Lakes, Chicago and the Mis- Pittsburgh's canal route to the lakes sissippi River to New Orleans is 2908 is now the mainstay in President The Lake Erie and Ohio River Canal miles, whereas the distance from New Hoover's proposed internal waterways is not merely a Pennsylvania, Western York to New Orleans via the Lake Erie system. WAITING TURNS AT THE LOCKS-This unusual picture taken by the United States Engineer Office, Pittsburgh, shows four big tows of coal waiting their turn at a lock chamber of the Ohio river. The fourth tow is discernible against the farther bank of the river. There are 24,000 tons of coal in the barges of these four tows which came down the Monongahela, the busiest waterway in the world. About 28,000,000 tons of freight are transported on it each year, most of which is coal for the steel industry of the Pittsburgh District. Ohio and Northern West Virginia pro- Canal and the Ohio and Mississippi The decision of the United States ject; it is a national one. It is true it Rivers is 2651 miles. In other words, Supreme Court, January 14th, denying will carry the coal and the iron and the loaded barges could be transported to further diversion of water from Lake steel products of Western Pennsylvania and from New York and New Orleans Michigan through the Chicago drainage to the Northwest, New York, New Eng- without breaking cargoes via the Lake canal, has completely upset the Missisland, and Canada and also bring to the Erie Canal and Ohio River at a saving sippi-to-theLakes canal project via the furnaces of these sections the iron ore of 250 miles shorter haul in addition Illinois River, it is now maintained, from the great deposits in the North- to serving thirty-two instead of twenty west, but the Canal will do much more. states. only practical outlet from the St. It will be the vital link in a great chain on ly practical outle t from the St. of waterways advocated by President President Hoover's Position Lawrence watershed. Hoover that will extend throughout the President Hoover in his message to The industrial potentialities of a nation. The Canal will not only connect Congress, referring to the question of canal to Lake Erie are almost unthe Ohio and Mississippi Rivers with farm relief said: "Some of the forces limited. Equitable rates on lake cargo the Great Lakes and the Gulf of working to the detriment of agriculture coal for this district would be adjusted Mexico; it will also connect the Ohio can be mitigated by improving our automatically and this constant strife River through Lake Erie, the New waterway transportation." about rates, the expenditure of vast York Barge Canal and the St. Lawrence It is not only our leading manufac- sums of money in contesting diswaterway with the Atlantic Ocean. turers and statesmen who are alive to criminatory tariffs and the recurring The boats passing through it from the the need of using our waterways. The upheavals of labor in the coal industry Mississippi and Ohio Rivers can go farmers of the country have at length would be minimized. Our steel industry without change of cargoes to New York been aroused to the fact that they will continues to suffer from discriminatory and Quebec, unloading at these ports greatly benefit by such use. The reme--, freight rates, and this condition would into vessels bound for foreign coun- dies proposed for the farmers are to in'- be corrected, which would be a contries. At New York they can enter the crease our export trade, to put a tariff summation devoutly to be wished by ultra-costal canal and go either to Bos- on our farm products, to loan the far- those who have faith in future growth ton, Philadelphia, Washington, Balti- mers more money and to reduce rail and prosperity of this great industrial more, Charleston, Savannah, or Jack- rates. But if we had a proper Nation- district.GREATER PITTSBURGH Light Progress MAN'S first problem was to conquer darkness. His first efforts were a firebrand, kindled by friction matches, then a flickering candle and finally come electric light in 1879. By slowly developing and constantly improving this great step in progress, man finally won the victory over darkness. Through this period of progress and research of light, The Bank of Pittsburgh N. A. progressed. In 1810 it served a population of 4,740 people and today this number has increased to over three million. With this enormous increase in population and service, its resources have grown taAoveT$66,ooo,ooo, but its hospitable and friendly service has remained unchanged. I A In 1810 69. Years Before the Invention of the Incandescent Light THIE BANK OF PITTSBURGH WAS ESTABLISHED,s THIS WAS w6 years before Pittsburgh was incorporated... 20 years before the first railroad...34 years before the invention of telegraph...40 years before the discovery of petroleum... 40 years before the California Gold Rush.. 41 years before Pittsburgh had a railroad... 66 years before the invention of telephone... I00 years before the perfection of radio, and when James Madison was President of a Union of 17 States. Te Bank of J tsbugh Natiorral nAs,s ociationr 226 Fourth Avenue A L I L I _ _ _~ __ I _I __ PI"Y ="L- ZX' I jr 1 - I f-, i -mz, I i lt 1 Ai rll: ll B;IMOFJ'.i r -,t" t4q,~C-CZ c -;tP - - A--=-I~~. - 71 71 r r, 11W I October 12, 1929 4,GREATER PITTSBURGH BROWN ZORTMAN MACHINERY COMPANY MACHINERY PITTSBURGH, PA. GEO. H. CHERRINGTON, President GLENN A. THOMPSON, Vice-Pres. GEO. M. HARROWER, Vice-Pres. WM. H. PARKER, Treasurer L,ESTER D. CONNOR, Secretary MACHINISTS SUPPLY COMPANY SMALL TOOLS AND SUPPLIES 325 SECOND AVENUE 324 THIRD AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. TRANSMISSION BELTING COMPANY Distributors for ROCKWOOD PAPER PULLEY STORES, INC. Paper Pulleys and Uni-Pull Drives AMERICAN PULLEY COMPANY Steel Pulleys and Hangers 325 SECOND AVENUE - T. B. WOOD'S SONS COMPANY Power Transmission Machinery - 324 THIRD,AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. I I I --.0 October 12, 1929 58October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 59 TERMINAL AT ST. LOUIS-View at the North Market street rail and river interchange, St. Louis, showing clearly the complete operation of transferring cargoes out of J L steel barges from Pittsburgh directly into railroad cars for delivery to customers of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation in St. Louis and points West and Northwest. Some of the steel pipe in this movement, having come 1,100 miles by river, goes on 1,000 to 1,200 miles by rail to the Western oil fields. Oliver Building, Pittsburgh Willian Penn Hotel, PittsburghJ. K. DAVISON BRO. ALLEGHENY RIVER SAND AND GRAVEL RAIL, RIVER AND TRUCK SHIPMENTS Telephone Fisk 1500 42nd and DAVISON STREETS A I I I ~- - October 12, 1929 60Chamber of Commerce Building, Pittsburgh, Home Of The Organizltion Which Is Sponsoring Light's Golden Jubilee And The Ohio River Celebration62 GREATER PITTSBURGH Since October 12, 1929 1832 Crrrucj IttL ------`` '=;J3JL.i-- I e LC ~" LhZ-f;eCCrL3LrCCV C1 C, - - r het-h--, C-h _I- Chr JOHN M. SON ROBERTS Co. ~429-4 42 4 1 Wood Street At Diamond Street Diamonds Jewelry W-lJatches Clocks Silver rl~~-- -U LL _October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Babson Bearish On Stocks Addresses Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Analyzing The Investment Situation And Forecasting Day Of Reckoning [ROGER W. BABSON'S Address Before Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce at Luncheon on Friday, October 4] A NOTHER year has come around and the stock market "leaders" are still high. What, however, has happened to the "leaders" has not happened to the market as a whole. There are today about 1200 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange. If we subtract from this list the forty leaders, we find that over one-half of the remaining stocks have declined during the year. This means that a great many people have lost money as well as made money. In fact, 700 stocks listed on the New York Exchange are today selling less than a year ago. A further detailed study of the market shows further that the group of advancing stocks is continually becoming narrower and smaller. In other words, while the leaders are continuing to go up, there are fewer and fewer stocks following them. This means that the group of stocks declining is constantly increasing in number and importance. From now on other selling waves may be expected which may ultimately cause a decline of from 60 to 80 points. Fair weather cannot always continue. The economic cycle is in progress today as in the past. The Federal Reserve System has put the banks in a strong position; but it has not changed human nature. More people are borrowing and speculating today than ever in our history. Sooner or later there will be a day of reckoning and it may be quite severe. Wise are those investors who now get out of debt and reef their sails. This doesn't mean selling all that you have, but it does mean paying up your loans and avoiding margin speculation. What is Keeping the Market Up? The three greatest factors in the market today are: (1) foreign buying, (2) investment trusts, and (3) the reluctance of people to pay Uncle Sam profit taxes. By foreign buying, I have in mind the money which investors in Great Britain and Europe are sending over here to America. This money is coming over for two purposes:--First, because of the tremendous profits which have been made in American securities; and secondly, because of the fear of confiscation in Great Britain and Europe. The average Englishman and European believes that his money is safer in (Continued on page 65),-IrJ.. ht l ~~~%~i;~~~P~~f~'3t WAT E R cAin abundant supply ofpure, whv/olesome water is afundamental necessity of every community We supply water to about I75,0o00 people for domestic, commercial, industrial and municipal uses and for public and private fire protection in the following municipal divisions: Parts of the i2th, I3th, and I4th Wards of the City of Pittsburgh Boroughs of North Braddock Chalfant Rankin East Pittsburgh Forest Hills Turtle Creek Wilmerding Pitcairn Trafford Part of the 4th Ward of Braddock and parts of the Townships of Penn Braddock Wilkins North Versailles Patton Source of Supply: Allegheny River at Nadine. Purification Plant Location: Poketa Road, Penn Township, adjoining Mt, Carmel Cemetery. Distribution Pipe System: 225 miles. Pumpage: I5,ooo,ooo gallons daily. Consumers: About 23,ooo-all metered services. Fisitors are welcome to inspect our plants daily, and system will be explained by competent operators PENNSYLVANIA WATER COMPANY Offices: 7I2 South Ave., Wilkinsburg, Pa. * 97I Air Brake Ave., Turtle Creek,iPa. 3I5S Fifth Ave., Trafford, Pa. I 6.3 Wilkinsburg Edgewood Swissvale I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I i i i i i i I i k k I ILe %A k2 A in A FAZ CW# - GREATER PITTSBURGH U The modern dual purpose car LaSalle Fleetway ALL WEATHER PHAETON All the comforts of an enclosed car for winter time use, easily convertible into the same comparative advantages for summer time use. I Royston CadillacLaSalle Company 5607 Baum Boulevard W. A. Royston, Jr., MW. T. Royston, President Montrose 2300 Vice-President Ii 0. I 64 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Babson Bearish On Stocks (Continuedfrom page 63) the UInited States than in his own country. Nevertheless, the greatest factor attracting this money to America is the profits which have been made in the New York market by their foreign friends. As is usual under such conditions, the heaviest buying is toward the end of the boom, because the average investor, whether American or foreign, does not get into the market until stocks are already high. American investment trusts have become a great factor in boosting prices by the buying of securities to hold. The average market operator, during the past twenty years, has bought today and has sold within a week. This means that the selling has always about equalled the buying. Under such conditions a market could be very active without any considerable increase in stock prices. Investment trusts, however, have bought the leading stocks and held them. This means that there has been considerably more buying than selling, by the same people. As a r~esult, the floating supply of the "leaders" has been pretty well cleaned up and it has been very easy to mark up the prices thereof. As a result, the yields of 240 representative industrial stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, now show an average rate of only 41,/2 %, while the rate on a representative list of public utilities is only 21/2 %. The railroad group is selling today at twelve times its earnings. The industrial group at seventeen times its earnings, and the public utility group at twenty-five times its earnings. Before this investment trust buying, the:general rule was that a stock was worth about ten times its earnings. Added to the above factors, is the reluctance by individuals (both American and foreign) and of investment trusts, to pay income taxes. WVhat T'o Bluy Today You lhave witnessed a tremendous growth in the electrical power branch of the public utility business during the past ten years. Independent concerns have experienced substantial growth and recently we have seen many of these companies imerged in big combinations under the leadership of Morgan interests. Further consolidations will undoubtedly coine as time goes on. You have had an opportunity to participate in the tremendous appreciation of the stocks of these companies. Such stocks as Buffalo, Niagara Eastern which I advised at 45 when last in Pittsburgh now sells at 130; MohawkHudson then advised at 40 now sells at 110; Southeastern Power Light then.advised at 50 now sells at 123; Northeastern Power then advised at 30 now sells at 70; North American Company advised at 90 now sells at 175; and others at prices showing correspondingly high prices. I believe such stocks may safely be held by permanent investors; but for new purchases at this time I believe that the gas stocks offer more attractive possibilities. I think the gas companies aire today in the same position that the electric light and powei companies were some, ten years ago. In view of Pittsburgh's location and industries and the fact that you still have the wisdom and wealth of the Mellon family in your midst, you men have a wonderful opportunity to profit by the big developEstablished 1863 Win. M. Stieren, Jr., O.D. Wm. M. Stieren, O.D. Three generations of Pittsburgh have found that the Wm. M. Stieren Optical Company rooms 204-205, 2nd floor Clark Building are best fitted to take care of their most precious gift, human eye sight. Wmin. M. Stieren Optical Co. Liberty at Wood St. 204-205 Clark Building Telephone: Atlantic 1500 muents ahead in the gas industry which may rival that Which I predicted in the electric power field some years ago. The future, in my opinion, will witness a clear cut division between the electrical and gas branches of the public utility business. I am still very bullish on most gas securities for the long pull. Babson Likes Gas Stocks The average investor probably does not realize the tremendous growth which is taking place in the gas business. According to the figures of the American Gas Association, sales of all gas is increasing very rapidly and the sale of natural gas increased 50 % for the first half of the present year over, (Continued on page 91) 1 65 D E-LIG HT-ED! WITH A BACK GROUND OF FIFTY-FOUR YEARS IN THE MAKING OF IMPRESSIONS-I LLUMiNATING THE MINDS OF GREATER PITTSBURGHERS WE GREET YOU AND OUR MANY CUSTOMERS LIBERTY SHOW PRINTING COMPANY MAKERS OF C POSTERS nCOUTDOOR FIBRE SIGNS, CARDS P AND WINDOW DISPLAYS PLATE CLASS BUILDING 632 DUQUESNE WAY PITTSBURGH PETER AVE''l"'A Hotel and Restaurant Supplies SEA FOODS 432 Boulevard of the Allies Pittsburgh, Pa..II - I rTOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 66 MISSOURI STATE The ProgressiveOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH What Of Next Fifty Years? Pittsburgh Industrialist Gives His Notions As To What The Future Of Pittsburgh May Be* By A. L. HUMPHREY, President of the Westinghouse Airbrake Co. W E may be certain that this rich, prosperous, highly industrious and industrialized Pittsburgh whose rise we have been tracing foreshadows the Pittsburgh which is to be. For my own part, I have both pride in the past and confidence in the futures as I turn to the question, "What will Pittsburgh be fifty years, from now?" To begin with, in our attempt to anticipate the character of our future development, it is my judgment that the first great event affecting the course of our program during the half century ahead will be the establishment of a greater city, whose area will be the same as that of the county. This event, as has been said, is now clearly within sight through the medium of the proposed constitutional amendment for the creation of a metropolitan government in Allegheny county. In view of the fact that the consolidation of contiguous urban areas is under way, and in view of the admitted waste and lack of efficient coordination inevitably resulting from the existence of 124 independent municipal governments in Allegheny county, the coming of a metropolitan government here sooner or later seems as certain as anything human can be. What it will mean to every citizen of Allegheny county to be counted as a citizen of a city of 1,500,000 people every businesis man knows. The commercial, financial, and industrial prestige attaching to a city of that size is at least twice as great as the prestige attaching to a city of the much smaller population now credited to Pittsburgh. With the prestige bringing about an entirely new attitude on the part -of the whole country to Pittsburgh there will unquestionably come new population, new trade, new industries, which can be secured in no other way. It is no species of day dreaming, but an exceedingly practical judgment acquired through a long business experience and acquaintance with the habits of men, which leads me to the belief that the new rank which will be conferred upon our city by the metropolitan legislation will benefit us far more in a material way than anything else' A portion of Mr. Humphrey's Address in the "Pittsburgh And The Pittsburgh' Spirit," Addresses At The Chamber of Commerce In 1928. that has happened for more than two generations. It is not only as a tremendous stimulus to our growth that the metropolitan city will affect us. It will also operate as a beginning of great community improvements, of county-wide proportions, which could not hitherto be undertaken because there was no way of securing the necessary concerted action. I trust I shall not seem too bold if I predict that the success of the metropolitan plan, making us the fourth or fifth city of the United States with a population of 1,500,000 in 1930, will so speed up our development as to give us a population of over 2,000,000 in 1940. The next great event playing a more than ordinary part in the molding of our future will be, I am bound to believe, a marked development of our water transportation facilities. It is a rather singular fact that while George WVashington saw the strategic importance of our position at the point where the Monongahela and Allegheny unite to form the Ohio, we have never enjoyed full advantage of that position commercially. We are virtually at the head of the greatest waterway system on earth, for nowhere is there a greater industrial and commercial region than the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. We cannot but think that the slackwatering of the Ohio should have proceeded faster. However, we now have reason to expect that the completion of the Ohio river improvements, bringing dependable all-the-year-round river navigation from Pittsiburgh to the Gulf, will be witnessed during the next two or three years. The recent tour of nearly four score of Pittsburgh's financiers and industrialists to the leading cities of the lower rivers was a proper recognition of the enormous expansion of trade which will without doubt follow in all the river ports from Pittsburgh to New Orleans shortly after all-the-year-round navigation begins. The vast river-railroad terminals that some of these cities have already built clearly indicate what is ooming. Pittsburgh now has a railroad t6?xnage of 175,000,000 annually with a river traffic of more than 30,000,000 tons annually. Our railroads are energetically enlarging their facilities to meet the demands of our constantly increasing industrial output, but there is no question that it is in the directiol of our waterways that we must look chiefly for greater power to compete in the markets with rival cities. The Carnegie Steel Company, the Jones Laughlin Steel Corporation, and others of our steel producers are already shipping considerable quantities of steel by river to the great southwestern markets. This traffic is only in its infancy. It is easily conceivable that within the next decade we shall have found outlets by river for two or three times the tonnage now shipped in that way. The strengthening which will accrue to our steel industry from this more economic form of transportation cannot easily be overestimated. Furthermore, we have within our reach the Great Lakes as well as the Gulf. Just as the river improvements will make Pittsburgh a Gulf port, so the proposed Ohio river and Lake Erie canal will make it a lake port, enabling us to bring iron ore from the Lake Superior mines at such a material reduction of cost as, added to the natural advantage of our incomparable coal, will make it possible for Pittsburgh to achieve a more decided supremacy in the basic iron and steel industry not many years hence than it has ever had before. Just when the Ohio river and Lake Erie canal will be built it is not our purpose to undertake to say. Its feasibility from both the commercial and engineering points of view is unquestioned. Its bearing upon our economic future is vital. While, therefore, we cannot say when it will be built, its building seems inevitable. And from the moment when Pittsburgh is enabled not only to ship its finished products but also fetch its raw materials by water it will enter upon a growth and prosperity to which we would hesitate to set any limit. This waterway development of which we speak will in no sense, in my judgment, be a displacement of railroad business. We men of business are all aware of the tremendous additions that the railroads of the United States have been making to all their facilities and equipment, and the magnificent service which they render. How many billions of new capital they have invested in late years the business world knows. (Continued on page 69) 67October' 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Light's Golden Jubilee (Continuedfrom page 3) Jubilee. Plans were to make it the most brilliant and colorful convention ever held. Because of Louisville's central location more than 100,000 visitors representing every state in the union and 12 foreign countries were expected to attend. Thirty-nine blocks of the business district of Louisville were decorated and special golden lamps illuminated the district. Captains of Industry and Finance, and a distinguished group of men and women representing practically every walk of life in America make up the personnel of the National sponsoring committee. Mr. Henry Ford considers Light's Golden Jubilee "his job of the year" and made this comment to the writer recently when he visited Mr. Ford at Dearborn, Mich. The marked enthusiasm with which Mr. Ford has entered upon the task of giving to the world the story of what Mr. Edison's accomplishments mean to humanity indicates the deep, sincere affection which he has for Mr. Edison. All of us are familiar with Mr. Ford's manner of doing things, and it is safe to say that the culmination of Light's Golden Jubilee at Dearborn on the night of October 21st will be recorded as one of the finest tributes ever given to any living person. October 21 is the exact 50th anniversary of Mr. Edison's successful experiment. On this eventful night the attention of the world will be focussed upon Dearborn where Mr. Ford has started the foundation of a perpetual tribute to Edison. There, in connection with the Edison School of Technology, which he has endowed and built as a perpetual monument, Menlo Park lives again. Surrounded by structures of modern technical education, the buildings in which the Age of Light came into being stand as they stood on that day 50 years ago. Not reproductions or exact replicas, but the very buildings themselves, down to the last detail. And it will never be a dry, lifeless museum. At a twist of the hand the steam will rush through the lines, the old generators will hum, the old lamps will light. All the machinery is oiled, greased and ready. The program itself at Dearborn, is modest. Members of the party will be brought from Detroit to Dearborn on the afternoon of October 21, traveliiing on a 50-year-old train. During the day, the Edison School and Museum will be toured, along with the typical American village. A banquet will be Served to the guests in the early eventng at Independence Hall. To IReconstruct Light Following the banquet, the group will sojourn to Menlo Park laboratory, where the climax of the great celebration will occur. There, in company with distinguished men and women in his familiar original laboratory, Thomas Alva Edison will reconstruct the lamp of 50 years ago, and make the electrical connection to it which will cause it to light. The re-enactment of this momentous occasion will be shared not only by the distinguished gathering in the laboratory but by an interested public, who will be in attendance through the radio description which will be broadcast to them. Meanwhile, great preparations are being made. From large cities and small towns in very part of the land, and from many distant lands as well, comes information that committees are being organized to formulate plans for local observance. Street parades, lighting festivals, floodlighting of public building and dwellings, special fireworks display, dinners and meetings, and numerous other activities will be the order of the day and evening. In some parts of the country complete sections are being organized, as in New England. One state has its Governor as chairman of a state-wide committee. The Mayor of New York heads the sponsoring committee for that city. Special Postage Stamp Besides the acceptance of the Honorary Chairmanship by the President of the United States, our Government has issued a special two-cent postage stamp to commemorate the occasion. The manner in which this stamp has been received by the country at large is evidence of the great interest on the part of the public. Three hundred and thirty million stamps have been purchased since June 5. Stamps will be on sale during September and October in sheet and coil form. Owing to the unprecedented demand for coils, the Post Office Department has now decided to issue the stamps in coils of 3,000. Mr. Edison wrote the following letter to the Postmaster General, Walter F. Brown, in appreciation of this honor: "Honorable Sir: I wish to thank you most heartily for the very gracious recognition of my invention of the incandescent lamp, through the issuance of a special stamp, the first impression of which you have so kindly sent me. I assure you that the stamp and your expression of appreciation.will be highly prized by me. (Signed) THOMAS A. EDISON, 6-8-2 9" Literally, hundreds of letters have been received from chambers of commerce, women's clubs, fraternal societies, city officials, and other organizations requesting information as to how they might be of assistance in promoting interest in their communities. Governors of Arizona, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming, will issue proclamations or statements to the press prior to October 21. A number of foreign embassies at Washington will fly the flags of their countries as well as illuminate their buildings. So, truly, our country will stand by in honor of electricity's milestone and the universal progress made in the short span of 50 years. At a very early stage in the celebration-as early as July 1st-the Committee had received much information from foreign countries as to their plans for participating. Austria and Japan have definite plans for extensive celebrations to take place early in October. France, also, is enthusiastic, and is anxious to cooperate with this country. Italy's Light's Golden Jubilee Committee is composed of a number of the foremost people in the country. Germany, Holland, Sweden, China, Mexico, Canada, Brazil and Argentina are all planning to join in this truly worldwide celebration-this universal tribute to a great man. Fishing A Big Business With the aid of science, fishing, oldest of the vocations, has stepped into the ranks of big business. It is an industry employing nearly 190,000 persons, with a capital investment of more than $210,000,000. The annual sales amount to nearly $109,000,000. New methods of preserving and packing fish and of using fish products have helped to make fishing an industry, and as an industry it has its own problems, like steel, lumber and textiles. Some of these are cold storage, conservation, propagation, salting, water pollution, packaging, net preservation. These are now being studied by the Natural Resources Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States with a view to possible aid in the improvement of conditions affecting the industry. There are now nearly two score associations, the members of which are engaged in fishing or in the packing and distribution of fish products. 5GREATER PITTSBURGH I879 OUR 50T ANNIVERSARY ~ I929 For Half Century Three Generations Happily Served with CRU-BRO FOOD PRODUCTS Pure Fruit Jelly 10 Varieties CURRANT GRAPE RASPBERRY DAMSON PLUM CHERRY QUINCE APPLE BLACKBERRY CRABAPPLE STRAWBERRY Fruit Preserves, same 10 -Varieties FOOD PRODUCTS, FINEST QUALITY SINCE 1879 Fifty years ago the Cruikshank Bros. Co. first saw "the light," and in the development and marketing of their wholesome Food Products has, like the Incandescent Lamp, spread health, happiness and brightness everywhere. We are proud to participate in the "Golden Jubilee" celebration of the invention of the Incandescent Lamp. APPLE BUTTER PEACH BUTTER PEANUT BUTTER MAYONNAISE KETCHUP MUSTARD HORSERADISH MUSTARD PICKLES-Sour, Dill and Sweet SWEET PICKLE RELISH CHOW-CHOW SWEET MIXED PICKLES SOUR MIXED PICKLES WHITE SOUR ONIONS TOMATO SOUP TABLE SAUCE-Worcestershire Style RED PEPPERSAUCE APPLE CIDER VINEGAR WHITE DISTILLED VINEGAft SPAGHETTI MINCE MEAT SAUER KRAUT CRUIKSHANK BROS. CO. ~Pittsburrgh, Penna., U S. . 68 ('.ctober 12, 19291 0!October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH What Of Next Fifty Years (Continuedfrom page 67) They have never been spending larger sums or giving better service than now. Within the next decade or two there will undoubtedly be railroad electrification on a large scale which will stimulate one of our most important Pittsbu.rgh industries. The great electric locomotives produced by the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company will be standard equipment on many thousands of miles of American railways in no distant future. We have every reason to suppose that railroad development in the United States will continue at an accelerated rather than a diminished rate. The great days of American trade and industry are not behind but ahead. So enormous. will be the distribution of products throughout our great national domain that the maximum development of which our railroads are capable will still not avail to meet traffic demands unless supplemented by some such system of national waterways as Secretary Hoover is earnestly advocating. Mr. Hoover's program, let us note, assumes that a major role in his great drama of water transportation will be played by the river system of which the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio are a part. When Pittsburgh has become not only the head and center of the vast river commerce for which men of foresight are already equipping their industries, and when we have also diverted a large part of the commerce of the Great Lakes this way, we shall be ready for still another far-reaching stage of our evolution. This next phase, I confidently believe, will be an unparalleled diversification of our industries. I have already indicated reasons for my faith that our supremacy in iron and steel will remain unchallenged for a long time to come, as an editorial writer for the "Wall Street Journal" not long ago concluded. It is, in fact, within our power to increase our share of the country's iron and steel production by means of the waterway improvenments to which we have just been giving our attention. But apart from iron, steel, coal and glass, the industries which in a past generation were our staples and with which we were seemingly satisfied, an expansion of our productivity seems to be an inherent necessity of our geographical position and that expansion can hardly help taking the direction of very extensive diversification. We shall diversify, not because of any mere resolution to diversify, but because we happen to have virtually unlimtiited manufacturing facilities and transportation potentialities along with a situation within twelve hours' railroad ride of a larger_ population than any other city of comparable size in Amlerica. To be specific, within a 500mile radius of Pittsburgh there is a population not far short of 75,000,000 or more than sixty-six per cent of the population of the United States. It is the most highly industrialized and most prosperous region on the face of the globe. The population of this part of the United States within the 500-mile radius of Pittsburgh is nearly twice as large as that of all the rest of the United States. It includes more than 1,700, or nearly sixty per cent, of all the cities in the United States and Canada of a population in excess of 2,500. We have the richest coal beds on the continent and an unlimited supply of electric power at lower rates than any other American community with few exceptions, so we must set all economic laws at defiance in order to doubt the development of an enormous diversification of industry within the next generation at this favored -spot. Already the departure from the few great staple lines of production which contented us in the past has reached notable proportions. Considering that the cost of distribution is a fundamental factor in the success or failure of enterprise and that Pittsburgh is closer than any other large center to the bulk of population, we should be astonished if this foreordained diversification of Pittsburgh industry has not already manifested itself. Our railroad equipment, electrical machine, food, aluminum, refractory, by-product coke, chemical, oil-refining, and oil-field equipment, machine tool, cement, radium and vanadium industries are among the largest in the world. We have the largest steel plant, the largest air brake, railway signal and safety appliances manufacturing plants, the second largest electrical works, the largest aluminum plant, the largest cork works, and the largest food-packing plant, in the world. There are already in the Pittsburgh district no less than 300 lines of manufacture, most of them of a ferro-metallurgical character, but with scores entirely unrelated to the ferro-metallurgical irdustries. Iron and steel are manufactured in 51 communities of the Pittsburgh district; glass products in 28; clay products in 16; chemicals in 14; machinery and tools in 12; enameled ware in 11; non-ferrous metals in 9; railroad equipment in 8; tin and terne plate in 7; electrical equipment in 5; and paint and varnish in 4 communities. Perhaps some one will say that our anticipations of Pittsburgh's future take on too much of the color of our own desires. That is to say, the wish may be regarded as the father of the thought. It is well to note, under the circumstances, that predictions of gigantic growth here have been made by people who cannot for a moment be suspected of prophesying from self interest. (Continuedfrom page 71) EI fMEMEI4NT IN GLASSES Be as up-to-date with Glasses as with Clothes Good taste demands Glasses suitable to the occasion. You will be correctly "glassed" with our white gold rimless Glasses at all social events. Every one should have duplicate Glasses as a convenience. BII. EL LLIOTT CO. OPTICIANS 126 Sixth St. - ~ReAlvin - Pittsburgh, 69 * U as a Eu U zz=l.4, I I l,"GREATER PITTSBURGH I HILLMAN COAL COKE COMPANY Domestic, Metallurgical and Steam Coal from our own mines on Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG. 3 -- %;:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A.*~i- X-. Ir.A 0 I ll 0,t I' I I I il i i 70 October 12, 1929 PITTSBURGH,,PA,October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH What Of Next Fifty Years (Continuedfrom page 69) The world is moving so fast that the manufacture and sale of airplanes at lower prices than automobiles may come in five or ten years hence. At the same time, our inventive genius may produce a control which will enable the planes to land more advantageousily than at present. It will then be possible for people of even the most moderate means to live without inconvenience thirty, forty, sixty, even one hundred miles from the place of their employment. The barriers which now limit the geographical extent of cities will then have disappeared. There is accordingly nothing unreasonable in the expectation that cities covering an area equal to that of a half dozen of our present counties will be evolved. They will, of course, be free from the acute congestion which now afflicts our large cities in their central business areas. The cities of the airplane era, when practically all able-bodied men will be fliers, will extend over vast areas and will have many shopping and marketing centers instead of merely one or two such centers as now. They may even be so large that city governments will more and more take on what may be described as the federal form, with the subsidiary or local centers (call them boroughs or what you will) retaining and exercising a large measure of self government in purely local affairs. Even with this qualification we can hardly be accused of rashness if we forecast cities with populations of 25,000,000 and we are warranted in supposing that Pittsburgh will be among the largest of these huge aggregations of human beings, for reasons to which we have already referred. Whatever the future may hold for this America of ours it seems inevitable that Pittsburgh will gain rather than lose eminence. The fact that the territory for 200 or 300 miles on every side is the most highly industrialized territory in this or any other country gives us another ground. This wonderful industrialization is not the product of whim but of inherent and inalienable natural advantages, which are the assurance that it will continue. A third ground for our faith is found in the traditional, character of our population. It is a blessing, not a curse, that Pittsburgh has become a synonym for industry. It is a fashion here for even the richest to work. That fashion and that example have had their effect upon our people as a whole. Nowhere in the United States is there more industry or thrift. The spirit of 1877 has fortunately passed. Our labor is given, to a greater degree than in almost any other of our great industrial centers, to cheerful production rather than discontented agitation. The result is what one might have foreseen-namely, we have the best paid and most prosperous labor in America and per capita wealth of the people of the Pittsburgh district is higher than that of the people of any other section of the country. Metropolitan Pittsburgh, as may be proved by reference to the reports of the federal census, is the fourth metropolitan area of the United States in point of population while it leads all in individual buying power. If Pittsburgh fifty years hence were ten times as large as it is today, and I believe it will be; if it were several times as rich and powerful as it is today, and I believe it will be; if its commerce found a dozen new outlets, and great fleets of vessels.from both the Gulf and the Great Lakes were entering our harbor, as I believe they will be; if the vast factory power which has enabled us to hold our present ratio enables us to do likewise in the America of 200,000,000 people which in another generation is to be-if all this came to pass, but nothing more, we might yet be disappointed in the Pittsburgh of 1977. We desire all this magnifying of our population, our trade, and our financial power, but we desire just as muck that this shall be a better as well as a greater Pittsburgh. There are happy omens that this higher heritage also shall be ours. We are thinking seriously of our human obligations. We are cultivating good-will and mutual understanding between employer and employee. We are building great temples and cathedrals of learning to which our young men and young women are pressing in a multitude that brings within sight the day when Pittsburgh will be looked to by hundreds of thousands of youth in all parts of the land for the gifts of mind and spirit as eagerly as Israel in the desert -looked to the Promised Land. Our industry and our wealth must be transformed in constantly increasing measure into spiritual enlargement and social light and beauty, after the manner of the parable of industry which that great Pittsburgh artist, John W. Alexander, has left so beautifully painted in the Carnegie Institute upon the spacious walls of Alexander Hall. Our wealth and our industry are in vain unless they gain a richer life and a deeper Joy in even the lowliest work for us all. In those masterly murals Mr. Alexander not only fondly indulged a lofty dream for his city of Pittsburgh, but dared to make a glowing prophecy, and I take his prophecy for my prophecy, for I believe the Pittsburgh of fifty years hence will have made it come true. Eloping Bride-"Here's a telegram from father." Bridegroom (Eagerly)--"What does the old chap say?" Bride-"Do not come home and all will be forgiven." KEEPING PACE WITH PITTSBURGH'S PROGRESS A LMOST parallelling the development of electric lighting, a more recent industry, oxy' acetylene welding and cutting, points with pride, to its rapid growth over a period of little more than two decades. A ND as Pittsburgh has developed industrially, so has the Air Reduction Sales Company constantly enlarged and improved its facilities to serve efficiently and well the industries in this district and throughout the country. 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Automobile Fire, Theft, Property Damage and Collision Insurance j I II I i i DIi 1 4 i iI t BUILDING I __~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T i,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~i October 12,'1929) 722October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH All Roads Lead To Pittsburgh Visitors To Our Light Jubilee And River Celebration Will Testify To Pennsylvania's Splendid Highway System By H. E. KLOSS District Engineer, State Highway Department P ITTSIBURGH is extremely fortunate in the large number of improvements which have been made by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways during the past five years in southwestern Pennsylvania leading into the City. There is a large progranl now under way and extensive work will be carried on during 1930. The William Penn Highway, U. S. Route 22 east of Pittsburgh, connecting Johnstown, Altoona, Indiana, Punxsu tawney, Dubois and Clearfield is now in excellent condition. This important trunk line leading to Pittsburgh from the east is now a modern highway throughout its entire length. Work was also started on the William Penn Highway west of Pittsburgh in 1924 and is now completed connecting Steubenville, Ohio, Weirton, West Virginia with Pittsburgh with the exception of a short section now under contract between Moon Run and Imperial. There is an improved detour around this work by way of the Campbells Run and Baldwin Roads. Major lmproveellellt s Ea,st While actual construction was under way on the William Penn Highway east of Pittsburgh, the State Highway Department was preparing to make major improvements on the Lincoln Highway east. It was impossible to close both of these trunk lines to travel at the same time and upon the completion of the William Penn Highway east of Wilkinsburg work was started on the Lincoln Highway replacing the old, high crown, crooked macadam road with a hard surface pavement straightening out dangerous curves and reducing the steel) abrupt grades. Within the past Inonth the Lincoln Highway between East McKeesport and Greensburg was thrown open to traffic and we now have both the Lincoln and William Penn Highway trunk lines from the east leading to Pittsburgh. The replacing of the Lincoln Highway between Greensburg and the Somerset County line at Laurel Ridge, is still under way. The work is progressing rapidly and it is expected that the pavement will be completed this season between Ligonier and Laughllintown as well as both sides of Long Bridge over the Loyalhanna Creek. It was necessary to place this pavement in half width sections and maintain traffic as there was no available detour for the heavy traffic using this important interstate route. Great Turtle Creek Project Studies are now being made looking forward to the construction of the biggest highway project ever undertaken in this Country-the building of a viaduct and modern hard surface road from the east end of the present Ardmore Boulevard over the Turtle Creek Valley to the top of the Turtle Creek Hill at East McKeesport. Allegheny County is participating with the State Highway Department in this major improvement which will relieve the through traffic congestion in this industrial section. It is estimated that this important improvenment alone will cost $3,500,000. The old Lincoln Highway west of Pittsburgh, Route 30, was formerly irouted along the Ohio River through; the -numerous boroughs. Traffic was delayed due.to congestion, and inadequate highways and streets. The officials of the Highway Department realized the necessity of irelocating this important thoroughfare in order to accommodate the heavy traffic coming into Pittsburgh fronm the west. In 1924 surveys were started and studies imade looking forward to relocating this route on a direct line to Chester, West Virginia and East Liverpool, Ohio. Actual construction woirk started in 1 925 and the route selected was by way of Crafton, Moon Run,. over the old Steubenville Pike, now the Williani Penn Highway, to a point about one mile south of Imperial where the two trunk lines diverge, the Lincoln Highway going practically in a straight line to Chester, West Virginia through Imperial and Clinton. The portion of this route between Crafton and what is known as the Cliff Mine Road about six miles in length, when completed will be 30 ft. in width. The balance of this route west of Pittsburgh is in excellent condition. Big Road Expenditures There has been expended during the past five years on the Lincoln and W,iPz liani Penn Highways:through Westmoreland, Allegheny, Washington, and Beaver Counties over $6,700,000. This does not take into consideration the cost of the proposed viaduct over Turtle Creek Valley. The Freeport Road, known as Traffic Route 28 along the Allegheny River from Pittsburgh to Freeport and Kittanning is in good condition, and the section between Pittsburgh and Cheswick was rebuilt during the past three years, the old macadam road being replaced by a 30-40 ft. hard surface pavement. This is the heaviest travelled low grade road leading into the City of Pittsburgh. The amount of money expended on this route during the past three years has amounted to about $1,000,000 e:clutive of property damage. lPopular Ittoute 19 U. S. Route 19 between Pittsburgh and Clarksburg, West Virginia, via Washingtorn, Waynesburg, Morpantown' and Fairmont is in excellent condition, with the exception of a short section bet tween Heidelberg and Bridgeville which is now under contract and a 30ft. hard surface pavement will be conmpleted on this section in 1930. The Pittsburgh-Uniontown R o a d, known as Traffic Route 51 is not completely improved throughout its entire length and it is suggested that through traffic to Uniontown travel by way of Route 88 to Monongahela City, thence over Traffic Route 31 to a point about two miles south of Monongahela City thence by way of Webster and Monessen to Route 71 and thence over Route 51 to Uniontown. By following this route there will be only ione shott stretch at Waltersburg which is uniWni proved. There are three grade cross4 ings to be eliminated at Waltersburg. This matter is now bef6re the Public Service Commission and wotk will bq done in 1930. Route 51 from the West Newton4 Belle Vernon Road north toward Elizabeth is now under contract. Studieq are being made to improve Route 51 between the Brentwood intersection with the Brownsville Road and Overt brook Borough thence connecting,with the Saw Mill Run Boulevard now-teini built by Allegheny County. Upon the completion of these three projects (Continued from page 81) 73GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 Everlasting Protection for Electric Wiring Systems Grant Building, the entire wiring system is protected with Garland Conduit "GALVADUCT" and "LORICATED" electric conduits are being installed in many modern structures. The 68 story Chrysler Building, being erected in Nlew York, is another splendid example of modern architecture where these conduits are being installed. GARLAND MFG. CO. Pittsburgh, Penna. _b iS_'-- -I-- Mn. w - "The Daddy of Them All" The FEATURES of Wall "Superior" Ice Cans are CONTINUOUS Corners Bottom Construction, Uniformity of Product, Best Materials and Skilled Workmanship. "DREADNAUGHT"' Blow Torches foria Gasoline or Kerosene, with Automatic Cleaning Needle, with Patented Burner, Steel Tank and Seamless drawn brass Pump with double Check Valve. "DREADNAUGHT" Furnaces will also burn either Gasoline or Kerosene. Designed to meet the demands of heavy work. Thev will operate continuously to the last drop of fuel even in zero weather. Capacity 3 quarts. I:! L -'. . 1-I: 7 -'----- - - ---- 7 - - I i 0 t -A I 1 ML 74October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 75 The Present Status Of Pittsburgh Metropolitan Plan again passed by the Legislature at Harrisburg in 1931. From this decision the Metropolitan Plan Commission and the Commissioners of Allegheny County appealed to the Supreme Court, a hearing occured in-the first week of October. The decision of the Supreme Court, rendered ten days ago, was that under the declaratory judgment act, the supreme court had no jurisdiction. The Court, however, reversed the decision of the Common Pleas Court, and thereby placed the whole matter as it was immediately following the election of June 25. The reason for this was that the Supreme Court held on the facts developed that there was not a true controversy before the Court by reason of the fact that the matter-had been taken before Common Pleas Court without definite action, either pro or con, by the Commissioners of Allegheny County, and that, therefore, under the declaratory judgment act no real controversy existed. The purpose of the Metropolitan Plan Commission is to have the situation clarified at as early a date as possible by another petition to the Commissioners of Allegheny County asking them to place the Charter question on the ballot and from their decision the points of issue can again be raised in true controversy form and submitted to the Common Pleas Court first and finally to the Supreme Court. It is hoped that the Metropolitan Plan Commission's petition will receive prompt support to the end that a definite decision can be had not later than January and the charter again voted on, if possible, in the May primaries, 1930. Alice-"So you accepted that young postal clerk?" Ruth-"How could I help it! He addressed me rapidly, then enveloped me in his arms, stamped a kiss on my lips, and sealed it with a hug!" "Dear!" With a glance she tried to cow him. But he only looked sheepish. "Dog!" she exclaimed. He chocked-there was a frog in his throat. Then realizing he had made a monkey of himself by acting like a bear, he ducked. Jos. T. Miller, Chairman of The Metropolitan Plan Commission ter in original form, as passed by the Legislature in April and which, under the peculiar terms of the constitutional amendment, was not accepted by the people of Allegheny County at the election on June 25, the Metropolitan Plan Commission holding that the County Commissioners had ample authority for so doing under the constitutional amendment adopted by the people of Pennsylvania in November, 1928. The petition of the Metropolitan Plan Commission to the Commissioners of Allegheny County was that they make this resubmission at the November election, 1929, or as soon thereafter as in their judgment they saw fit. The Commissioners desired first to secure judicial direction, and acting through the legal department of the County placed the question before the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. The decision handed down in August.bh that Court said there could be no resubmission until after the charter had been Carried Lost Cities............... 1 3 Boroughs............ 3 32 Townships...... 15 38 The history of the Plan since the election on June 25 is that first the Metropolitan Plan Commission by resolution requested the Commissioners of Allegheny County to resubmit the charNow that Pittsburgh is celebrating fifty years of progress, and magnificent progress at that, in connection with the Ohio River celebration and Light's Golden Jubilee, a multitude of readers will be interested in knowing just what is the present legal status of the project for the consolidation of all of the 123 municipalities of Allegheny County into a metropolitan city to be known as Pittsburgh. The constitutional amendment authorizing this consolidation was ratified by the voters of Pennsylvania at the election in November, 1928, and in pursuance of the provisions of the amendment a charter for the consolidated city was submitted to the voters of Allegheny County at a special election on June 25 last. Although a large majority of the 123 municipalities voted in favor of the charter, and although it actually received more than two-thirds of the total vote cast throughout the County, it failed of legal adoption for the reason that it did not receive a two-thirds majority in a majority of the 123 municipalities. The minority of municipalities and the minority of the voters of the County were thus able temporarily to forestall the consolidation, it is regarded as inevitable in the not distant future inasmuch as the constitutional amendment permits its resubmission until adopted. The vote on June 25 according to the returning board figures was as follows: Yes No Pittsburgh......... 50,402 6,976 McKeesport.......... 548 7,121 Duquesne............ 627 754 Clairton.......... 538 71 5 26 Boroughs.........25,122 15,705 53 Townships..... 10,570 9,702 87,807 40,973 Municipalities carried by a majority: Carried Lost Cities............... 1 3 Boroughs............ 52 14 Townships.......... 29 22 82 39 Two townships are tied on the charter-Sewickley, 21-21, and O'Hara Township, 209-209. Results of the election based on the two-thirds requirement are:GREATER PITTSBURGH Century Wood Preserving Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. * --Operating Plants O-Sales Offilces Operating Companies: PI,TTSBURGH WOOD PRESERVING CO., - - Koppers Bldg., Pittsburgh THE OHIO WOOD PRESERVING CO., - - Koppers Bldg., Pittsburgh DELAWARE WOOD PRESERVING CO., - - Finance Bldg., Philadelphia MICHIGAN WOOD PRESERVING CO., - - - Reed City, Michigan NEW ENGLAND WOOD PRESERVING CO., - - Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Boston EASTMAN, DILLON COMPANY 3rd FLOOR, OLIVER BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PA. Investment Securities Complete Listed and Unlisted Trading Facilities Phones, Atlantic 9630-4332 MEMBERS New York Stock Exchange New York Curb Exchange Chicago Stock Exchange Philadelphia Stock Exchange Pittsburgh Stock Exchange Stocks and Bonds New York Scranton Philadelphia Reading OFFICES Chicago Detroit Allentown Richmond Washington Trenton, N. J. r L III -- i I _I I _ I I October 12, 1929 76Terminal Inspectors To Visit Westinghouse Plant The Railroad Terminal Excurston Other points of interest on the trip tensive plans to insure an interesting I'arty of the Shippers' Council of the will be modern classification yard of the trip to portions of the Pittsburgh TerChamber of Commerce, on October 25, Pennsylvania Railroad at Sharpsburg, minal District not possible to see from will make a tour of Pittsburgh District other yards at Pitcairn and Scully, B. regular trains. terminals, including a visit to the East O., Glenwood Yard, P. L. E., Mc- Many out-of-town industrial and railPittsburgh plant of the Westinghouse Kees Rocks Yard. road executives have been invited to Electric Mfg. Co., followed by a The Committee on Arrangements, participate, and a number of acceptluncheon in the Company's cafeteria. Paul K. Shultz, chairman, has made ex- ances have already been received. Pennsylvania Railroad's Sharpsburg Classflcation Yard, Pittsburgh An Honorary Reception Committee has been appointed, the personnel of which follows: J. M. Belleville, Chairman, F. E. Guy, A. F. T. M., J. B. Montgomery, G.T.M. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Universal Portland Cement Co. J. B. Montgomery Co. C. B. Ellis, Vice-chairman, W. S. Guy, T. M., J. M. Morris, T. M., G.T.M. Gulf Refining Co. Carnegie Steel Co. National Tube Co. A. J. Bien, T. M., J. A. Henderson, V. P., W. F. Morris, Jr., V. P. American Metal Co. Pgh. Term. Whse. Trf Co. Weirton Steel Co. A. J. Bihler, V. P., It. F. Hunter, Pres., J. C. Lindsay Hardware Co. Hukill-Hunter Co. Jones Laughlin Steel Co. S. S. Bruce, T. M., E. A. Jack, G. T. M.. Koppers Company Aluminum Co. of America R. M. Paisley, G. F. P. A., W. P. Buffington, T. M., A. R. Kennedy, T. M., Pittsburgh West Virginia Ry. Pittsburgh Coal Co. Pittsburgh Steel Co. A. J. Sevin, A. G. T. M., R. E. Cook, T. M., John J. Koch, A. G. T. M., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. H. J. Heinz Co., Pennsylvania Railroad Co. F. T. Sladden, G. F. A., W. M. Councill, T. M., S. E. Marks, D. T., Pittsburgh Lake Erie R. R. Nat'l Fireproofing Co. Westinghouse Elec. Mfg. Co. H. H. Smith, T. M., Harry Dangerfield, V. P., It. H. McKnight, A. T., American Sheet Tin Plate Co. Reymer Brothers Garland Mfg. Co. A. L. Doggett, S. F. A., Chas. McNichol, T. M., Consolidated Storage Co. Baltimore Ohio R. R. American Bridge Co. F. M. Garland, G. T. M., M. F. Metcalf, G. F. A., Benj. S. Thomas, G. T. M., Pressed Steel Car Co. Pittsbur.gh Railways Co. Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. J. E. Gray, D. F. A., W. L. Monro, Jr., E. T. Wasmuth, T. M., American: S. W. Co. American Window Glass Co. H. H. Robertson Co. Hints Fo T'rhe lBusiness Mall Be content with small beginnings stingy. Don't worry: don't overbuy; don't and develop them. Make friends, but not favorites. go security. Be wary of dealing with unsuccessfull Don't take new risks to retrieve old Keep your vitality up; keep insured,men. - losses. keep sober; keep cool. Be cautious, but when a bargain is Stop a bad account at once. Stick to chosen pursuits, but not tomade stick to it. Make plans ahead, but don't make chosen methods. Keep down expenses, but don't be them in cast iron.GREATER PITTSBURGH'U President JAMES D. CALLERY Vice President W. O. PHILLIPS V. Pres. and Cashier M. L O'BRIEN Asst. Cashier L E. HUSEMAN Asst. Cashier J. L FOSTER Asst. Cashier C. A. JOHNSTON THE DIAMOND NATIONAL Pittsburgh's Down-Town Bank AT FIFTH AND LIBERTY AVENUES'An enduring financial land-mark of what has been for years one of Pittsburgh's most active business centers. Exceptional Banking facilities are at the command of the customers of this institution. YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE WELCOMED Capital Stock $600,000.00 Surplus-Undv'd Profits $2,300,000.00 I --- jr ----- - - ---------- ~~M I October 1.2,`1929 6 ~1~. GREATER PITTSBURGH October 12, 1929 HOT and COLD ROLLED STRIP STEEL Superior Steel Corporation General Office: Works at 3122 Grant Bldg., Carnegie, Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa. Sales Agent for Rustless Iron Corporation of America RUSTLESS IRON STRIPS COPPERWELD STRIPS Save With Steel Heat For The Home or I I DAU Lfl-C e J[ Industrial Plants Gas or Oil 1929 Manufacturers of CELEBRA JING GAS, OIL or COMBINATION GAS OIL Ninet-to years of837Piogress BURNERS FOR ALL PURPOSES TURBO ELECTRIC BLOWERS 1 OZ. TO 16 OZ. Welding, Bra7ing and Cutting of Cast Iron, Steel, Brass and Aluminum Heavy Mill or Foundry Work Welding of Automobile Frames, Mud Guards, Cylinder Block, Bumpers, Etc., our Specialty. N. C. DAVISON GAS BURNER WELDING COMPANY _ Fuel and Welding-Engineers Creators and makers of distinctive furniture. Interior Architects.Decorators 2939 Smallman St.PITTSBURGH, PA. I A, I 0-oJ PA. |M ArTEC1 PITTSBURGH, PA, ~: DAUtELC~LOrl rUI~NIIUI~eCo. Day Phone: Atlantic 8921Night Phone: Lafyet 2094I 636'638 Smithfield St Fi tturhJ-: m 78 _ __ ___ _.October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Allegheny County Plants 100,000 Trees Allegheny County planted over one hundred thousand trees in the spring of 1929. Thanks to the Chamber of Commerce, the people of the County are awakening to the need of reclothing the barren hillside as each year finds interest growing in reforestation. The importance of the work has impressed itself on all who give the subject even minor consideration. Lands which once were covered with virgin forests are now bleak hillsides each year losing much of their rich soil through erosion. Many of these tracts are no longer valuable for growing any annual commercial crop or even for pasture land. They will, however, grow trees and landowners are now realizing that young trees are a valuable asset and will in a few years provide a marketable crop. There are thousands of acres of land in Allegheny and surrounding Counties, otherwise useless, on which trees can be grown and which through the use of intelligent forestry methods can, in a few years, be converted into valuable property. The subject of reforestation is receiving much attention at this time over the whole country. National, state and civic bodies are at work on the problem and are conducting an educational campaign with which it is hoped to arouse the public to a realization of the importance of the work. In Allegheny County the County Farm Agent and Forestry Service field men are assisting the public with tree planting problems while the subject is being taught in each Boy Scout troop by an instructor employed by the Forestry Committee of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. Tree planting and the care of growing trees require some study. Certain varieties of trees flourish and grow rapidly in this climate while others are not adapted to this section of the country and will not prove satisfactory to the property owner. Then, too, the effect of smoke and gas on growing trees must be taken into consideration in planning tree plantings of any appreciable size. Dependable data on this effect of smoke and gas on trees is not available at present. This subject is one which the Forestry Committee of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce is urging the Federal Forestry Service to study with the view of learning which varieties of trees will grow best under local conditions. Some kinds of trees have been observed to grow rapidly for a few years and then die while other varieties planted in the same soil and at the same time maintain a healthy growth. It is quite essential that this information be obtained as soon as possible for it would be a grave mistake to set out thousands of trees and then discover years later that they cannot resist local atmospheric conditions. Contrary to general belief it does not take all trees a lifetime to reach a marketable size. Many commercial varieties can be grown in comparatively few years. If a property owner faced with the problem of getting returns from waste lands will adopt a tree planting program covering a period of years, use the governmental agencies at his command, and put out a new crop of trees each year, he will within a few years realize a substantial yearly return from land ordinarily worthless. Almost every farmer could plant several hundred trees on his land and make good use of them while they are growing. Trees make an excellent windbreak and will act as a snow fence to keep snow from piling up on roadways or yards. Many fine examples of this use of growing trees may be found in Allegheny County. Many new homes in Pittsburgh suburbs are being beautified with tree plantings and on numerous older estates young trees are being set out to replace those that have been cut down or which have died. Every home owner has room for a number of trees. It will improve the appearance of his his property and will prove valuable in many ways. If every home owner in Allegheny County will plant a few trees on his property and every farmer will set out as many trees as he has available land and if the owners of large tracts of waste land will go in for reforestation on a large scale, within a few years the problem of our lumber supply would be solved and many conditions now caused by the sparse stand of timber would be materially improved. It is all a problem of education and determination. Judge--"Come, now, tell me in your own words just how this riot started at your house." Prisoner--"Well, yer honor, when I came home from work last night this bird was sittin' in the parlor with my wife in'is lap, and as I was hangin' up me hat he up and knocks out'is pipe on a new rug that I paid four dollars for only last Saturday." A bride and groom were going abroad for their honeymoon. While leaning over the ship's railing the bride dropped one of her rings overboard. She was deeply grieved over the loss. Some days later, dining in a hotel in Naples, they ordered fish, and what do you suppose they found in the fish? Bones. 79 FIFTY PLUS THREE Three years before the first electric light appeared in Pittsburgh, scores of customers used to drive regularly to the little bake shop of Jacob Haller, famous for its bread. Today, Haller's Oven-to-Home service blankets the entire metros politan district. More than one hundred trucks and wagons are in daily use. Haller's has kept pace with Pittsburgh's Progress. Fred C. Haller, President HALLER BAKING COMPANY *GREATER PITTSBURGH PRIVATE EXCHANGE LEHIGH 4800 H. G. DETTLING, PRESIDENT E. J. DETTLING, TREASURER H. G. DETTLING COMPANY Builders Supplies Cut Stone--Meter Mixed Concrete Distributors LUPTON STEEL WINDOWS Manufacturers CONCRETE BUILDING BLOCK 2615 WEST LIBERTY AVENUE One Mile From South End of Liberty Tubes L RELIANCE STEEL CASTING Manufacturers of STEEL CASTINGS SINCE 1898 PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH 20th and WHARTON STREETS I' CO. JOHN EICHLEAY JR. COMPANY Fabricated Structural Steel For Buildings, Bridges, Tipples, Etc. PLAIN MATERIAL IN STOCK Heavy Structures Moved, Raised or Shored - -- I _ I 80 October 12, 1929: PPITISURGH, PA.()ctober 12, 1.929 GREATER PITTSBURGH All Roads To Pittsburgh (Continued from page 73) there will be a direct route to Uniontown considerably shorter in distance than heretofore by way of the Liberty Tubes, Overbrook, Elizabeth, Perryopolis, and Waltersburg. The Perry Highway, U. S. 19 between Pittsburgh and Zelienople is now closed due to construction work between Pittsburgh and West View, and also from Warrendale to the Allegheny-Butler County line. It is suggested that traffic going north use the Butler Plank Road, Route 8, by way of Etna, to Butler, Slippery Rock, Grove City, Franklin, Mercer and Meadville. This road is in good condition. Coming Prom New C(astle Traffic to New Castle from Pittsburgh has the choice of several routes; first, by way of Bellevue, Sewickley, Ambridge, Rochester, Beaver Falls, and Wampum, or Rochester, Ellwood City, New Castle; second, via West View, Ingomar and thence via the PittsburghRochester Road and the Big Sewickley Creek Road to Ambridge, thence over either of the above routes; third, via Route 51 to Coraopolis, Monaca, and Rochester thence over either of the above routes. All of these routes are in good condition with the exception of one or two short sections. Sevelal Routes F'rom Youlgstownl Traffic to Youngstown, Ohio, can follow any of the above mentioned routes for traffic to New Castle as far as Rochester thence going by way of Traffic Route 51 to Bridgewater, Fallston, Darlington, and East Palestine, Ohio. This route from Rochester is in excellent condition. Traffic Route 28 from Wellsburg, West Virginia by way of Avella, Hickory, Venice and Bridgeville is closed at the present time due to construction work in several places. This work will be completed in 1930 and will make a through route from Wellsburg to Pittsburgh. Route 31 from Somerset by way of Mt. Pleasant and Ruffsdale to West Newton is in excellent condition and a direct connection can be made for Pittsburgh by several improved routes. National Highway Contract The National Highway between Somerset County line and Uniontown in Fayette County is now under contract. Sharp curves and heavy grades are being eliminated with a 20 ft. hard surface pavement replacing the high crown crooked macadam road. Additional work on the National Pike between Uniontown and Brownsville is now under way. Over seven miles of macadam road is now being replaced with a 20 ft. hard surface pavement. Dangerous curves and grades through Centerville Borough in Washington County are also being done away with by replacing the old macadam road with a modern hard surface pavement. A contract was recently awarded for the building of the National Pike between Washington and Claysville. Studies are being made looking forward to the replacing of the balance of this road from Claysville to the West Virginia State line. This work will undoubtedly be placed under way between 1930 and 1931. Clean Sanitary Linen Towels vs. Paper or Pulp Substitutes and Imitations A Phone Call Brings Us-Fairfax 1800 Did This Ever Happen to You? Did you ever, after vainly trying to dry your hands and face with flimsy, mushy paper towels, use your handkerchief as a desperate last resort? Of courseEveryone has. Why do it when you can have the good; old-fashioned linen towels? There is no satisfactory substitute. There is no other means of thoroughly drying hands and face. Our Service supplies towels of good satisfying linen; sweet, fresh and clean -and as often as you say. Our continuous towel cabinet solves this problem. USED IN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, ALSO IN MANY BANKS, OFFICES AND BUSINESS HOUSES OF PITTSBURGH, PA. IDEAL TOWEL, COAT APRON CO. COR. PARK WAY AND W. DIAMOND ST., N. S., PITTSBURGH, PENN'A Advertise in "Greater Pittsbiurgh", Official Organ of The Chamber of Commerce *8IGREATER PITTSBURGH -- I THE DRAVO CONTRACTING CO. Contractors - Engineers - Builders DRAVO-DOYLE COMPANY Merchant and Contracting Engineers KEYSTONE SAND SUPPLY CO. Washed River Sand and Gravel DRAVO EQUIPMENT COMPANY Contractors' Equipment and Supplies DRAVO 300 Penn Avenue INLAND RIVERS WHARF CO. Loading - Unloading - Weighing Service CHARLEROI SUPPLY COMPANY CHARLEROI, PA. Builders' Supplies STANDARD BUILDERS SUPPLY CO. LEETSDALE, PENNA. Builders' Supplies EASTERN OHIO SAND SUPPLY CO. EAST LIVERPOOL STEUBENVILLE, OHIO River Sand and Gravel BUILDING PITTSBURGH, PA. The Schnabel Company South 10th and Muriel Sts. S. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. THE HOUSE OF COMPLETE VOCATIONAL EQUIPMENT FOR MOTOR TRUCKS LIGHT AND HEAVY DUTY Consult Us On Your TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS TELEPHONE HEMLOCK 1690-91 ESTABLISHED 1860 Copy from "Old Organizations in Pittsburgh" as prepared by The Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh "1859-H. Samson established himself as a funeral director, the business being continued at this date by his son, under the original name, H. Samson, Funeral Director. This is believed to be the only establishment of its kind in the city which has never been associated with any other activity, such as livery, furniture, etc." H. SAMSON, Inc. 537 Neville Street PITTSBURGH, PA. Member The Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh and The Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. of America l I I 82 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Various Activities Of Chamber Against Loading Legislative Bills With Riders-Awards For Architects-New Councils To Be Organized In Pittsburgh THE Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce is decidedly opposed to loading legislative bills with unrelated riders and has so recorded itself with authorities in Washington. The practice of hitching to bills of ordinarily general appeal, riders without bearing on the main points at issue is not uncommon with many legislative bodies. In this case, the Chamber's action of protest, was taken upon recommendation of the National Legislation Committee, W. L. Clause, chairman, with especial reference to riders covering insurance of debentures for export of agricultural products and for a tax on stock sales which efforts are being made to attach to the pending tariff bill. Radio Wave-Length Control The Chamber, too, has interested itself in the matter of radio wavelength control. At the instigation of our Postal Affairs Committee, of which W. F. Rust is chairman, a report has been approved recommending that the Federal Radio Commission award to R.C.A., Communication, Inc., certain short-wave channels for radio communication service. Development of the Squaw Run Park and Water Recreational Project has appeared of such particular importance to the community, that following urge of the Recreation Committee, E. T. Whiter, chairman, this matter has again been endorsed by the organization. Calendar Reform For the present, the Pittsburgh Chamber is witholding a "yes" or "no" commitment in connection with the muchly-discussed question of calendar reform. This is a matter which various of our members indicate is being brought before most every business body in this country, as well as abroad. Many have declared themselves favorable to some change in the present calendar. After consideration at the hands of our Committee on Taxation and Finance of a U. S. Chamber of Commerce Referendum, with A. E. Braun, chairman, the Chamber expressed itself as believing that here is a subject that must be made one for much further study and investigation, not only nationally, but internationally. Favorable action has been taken on the report of the Council Organization Committee, presented by George R. Dorman, chairman, recommending creation of a Medical Council, Merchant Tailoring Council and a Real Estate Council. Awards To Architects Many will be interested, also in the Chamber's creation of annual Chamber of Commerce awards to Allegheny County architects, for the best institutional building, the best mercantile project, and the best residence or housing (Continued on page 95) I I I l - - Looking Backward Very shortly after Thomas A. Edison invented the "Light," fifty years ago, which event Pittsburgh is now celebrating, the Pittsburgh Printing Company (Now located in its own Six Story Building at 530-534 Fernando Street) began its career in a modest way in Third Avenue and has kept pace with Pittsburgh's advancement, making high-grade Printing and Binding for many of Pittsburgh's leaders in Financial, Professional and Commercial spheres-who were responsible for the city's greatness-whose names Pittsburgh delights to honor. The Pittsburgh Printing Company is running under practically r the same management with which it started, and is still -.. t Forward! 83 ft I I i i.5 5 I IGREATER PITTSBURGH The DUQUESNE NATIONAL BANK Established 1866 Welcomed the advent of the ELECTRIC and now jolns it THOMAS LIGHT i paying homage to A. EDISON to whom we all owe so much. WE BUILD ANY TYPE TRUCK BODY STEEL - ALUMINUM - WOOD PAINTING - REPAIRING H B 0 D I E S C A B S AUTO TRUCK EQUIPMENT CO. 7501-7515 PENN AVENUE Hiland 6200 WOOD HYDRAULIC HOISTS Federated Metals Corporation SMELTERS and REFINERS OF METALS PITTSBURGH, ^ PENNA. r- --I I a~~~~~~. I.1 i I m I I I I I j II I I I 4 I I w QA O)ctober 12., 1929()ctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Allegheny County's Annual Production $1,525,706,000 A preliminary page from the 1927 Census of Manufacturers which was made by the United States government has been received by the Statistician of the Chamber of Commerce; and in view of the celebration of Light's Golden Jubilee and of fifty years of Pittsburgh's progress, being sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, it is interesting to compare the current census figures with those of 1880. Fifty years ago Allegheny County the real Pittsburgh, had within its borders a total of 1,895 industrial establishments which employed on an average twenty-five wage earners each, and each wage earner received an average wage of $454. The total number of industrial- wage earners and total wages at that time were 49,171 and $22,371,951, respectively. In 1880 the value of products in Allegheny County was $105,272,739, an average of $55,552 per plant, the average value produced by each wage earner being $2,140. Through the intervening years Allegheny County has not acquired many additional plants, the increase being only 0.8 %; but the plants have increased tremendously in size in many cases, so that the average number of employes per plant is 77, or 208% more than in 1880; while the wage earners receive an average annual wage of $1,520, an increase of 234.8%. According to the census report the number of industrial wage earners in Allegheny County in 1927 was 147,868, an increase of 200.7% over 1880; and the total payroll for these workers was the huge sum of $224,790, which is an increase in the period under consideration of 904.7%. Due to improved methods and machinery, industrial plants were able to manufacture products valued at an average of $628,479 per plant, this being an increase of 1031.8% over 1880. The average value per worker was $8,126, an increase of 279.7 %. The total value of products from the county's 1912 industrial establishments in 1927 was $1,201,653,252. The above statistics tabulated for easy reference are as follows: sions, the data of the Government department and those of the State department cannot be compared; but inas(Continued on page 130) ALLEGHENY COUNTY 1880 1927 Per cent. increase Number of industrial establishments 1895 1912 0.8 % Total wage-earners (not including salaried employes)........ 49,171 147,868 200.7 % Total wages..................$ 22,371,951 $ 224,790,490 904.7% Average number wage-earners per plant.................. 25 77 208.0 % Average wage per year......... $ 454 $ 1,520 234.8 % Value of products............$. 105,272,739 $1,201,653,252 915.0% Average value of products per plant...................$ 55,552 $ 628.479 1,031.8 % The Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs has just released industrial statistics for the year 1928, and the data for- Allegheny County are given below. Because of entirely different methods of arriving at concluOntario Biscuit Co. Pittsburgh, Pa. BY USING an upto-date fountain pen that suits your hand and work, a great savings is noted in cost of materials, also in time reaching to well, dipping, shaking off extra ink, blotting the writing and picking up a pencil for notations. If you are not equipped with a satisfactory pen call at SINGER PEN GIFT SHOP Jenkins Arcade, or Phone Atlantic 8548 for a representative to "fit" you. I FIRE.:. AUTOMOBILE.:. WINDSTORM.:. INLAND MARINE 85 E. A. FLICKNER, Secretary N. A. WEED, President REPUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY 202 East Ohio Street - "I " LGREATER PITTSBURGH WELFARE FUND of PITTSBURGH m They, too, Deserve to be Happy! Second Annual Campaign November 12-22 A greater call in the name of Humanity than Pittsburgh has ever received. The greatest step toward Philanthropic Efficiency that Pittsburgh has ever taken. More than thirty important Welfare Institutions operating in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County financed in one effort-at one cost-in ten days-once a year. Give of your influence as well as your means. Teamwork for Humanity! Investment Securities.Hl I I K. W. Todd Company INCORPORATED Diamond Bank Bldg. Pittsburgh, Pa. Atlantic 4817 Kuhn-Loeb Bldg. 5g William Street New York, N. Y. No matter what type of Haulage Unit you preferPorter Builds it! H. K. PORTER COMPANY PENNA. PIITSBURGH POR,ytaRo _ ot. 1 0 "IL1~E Z Builders of INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVES FOR EVERY PURPOSE SINCE 1865 _ ___ ---~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I - I m I 7 I i 86 October 12, 1929GREATER PITTSBURGH It's good business to own a Buick KEYSTONE BUICK COMPANY Buick - Marquette Motor Cars Baum Blvd. and Liberty Ave. Brisk Retail Trade In Pittsburgh August retail sales in reporting stores in Pittsburgh were 10.4 % greater than in August, 1928, according to a report of the Federal Reserve Bank. This, the fourth consecutive monthly increase through the slack season of the year justifies those who early in the year prophesied good business; and the steady growth of sales may well be taken as an indication that retail business through the fall and holiday seasons will be much better than it was in 1928. In August only four cities in fifty that made reports had greater increases in sales than Pittsburgh, three of them being at far distant points. The report indicates that Pittsburgh's prosperity is shared by the entire local district, for increases were experiencd at Akron, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Wheeling and Toledo, ranging from 0.7 % to 7.6%. In more distant and larger cities increases were less than in Pittsburgh, being: New York, 4.2 %; Philadelphia, 1.3%; Chicago, 3.2%; Detroit, 3 %; San Franciso, 2.7%; and Los Angeles, 1.7%. Retail sales in southern and western cities generally had a slight general improvement, although the poorest business of the month was in a western city--Minneapolis, where there was a decrease of 8% below August of last year. Considering the period January to August, inclusive, compared with the same period last year, Pittsburgh had an increase of 2.7 %; while Philadelphia experienced a decrease of 2 %. In August 58.3 % of all sales in Pittsburgh's reporting stores were on charge accounts, and 9.1% were on the deferred-payment plan. Recent increases over corresponding months in 1928 were: August............... 10.4 % July................... 1.3 % June.................. 4.0% May.............. 4.4 % Unprofitable Litigation The American is noted as a fighter. The title is merited. He has the quality of stick-to-it-iveness in his nature that wins. Sometimes, however, he loses-even in victory. Where a principle is involved, especially, his spirit Baum and St. Clair St* of combativeness may carry him on to such an empty triumph. He may be wrong, but he hangs on to his conviction to the contrary with bulldog tenacity. Nowhere is this more strikingly shown than in the legal field. There are numerous instances where a dispute over a few pennies has cost a small fortune in litigation, and other instances where the legal contest for the possession of an estate has eaten up many thousands of dollars and bankrupted the contestants. Many people are so constituted that they would rather risk the loss of thousands of dollars in costs than pay five cents they think they do not owe; others will risk thousands to recover an infinitesimal amount they believe due them. Thus, in a recent case, a merchant spent more than $900 to recover the value of a five-cent postage stamp. Another man contested the claim of his mother-in-law for 16 cents. He lost and was forced to pay $612 in costs, besides his attorney's fees. There is a record in New England of a case where suit was brought for one cent; and not infrequently people get into a legal fight where less than a dollar is involved. DUTCH BOY PRODUCTS NATIONAL LEAD OIL COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA General and Sales Offices: Commonwealth Building PITTSBURGH -I I I I - ~~ -- e -9'S I 1 r l 87 October 12, 1929October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH 7 City Illumination And Hoover's Cabinet Here Progress Pageant IX U. S. Navy searchlights, the most powerful in the United States, have arrived in Pittsburgh. Their powerful beams will form part of the great night electrical display during the week of October 21 which is to form part of Pittsburgh's observance of Light's Golden Jubilee under auspices of the Chamber of Commerce. At that time the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent electric lamp by Thomas A. Edison will be jointly commemorated with 50 years of industrial progress in the Pittsburgh district. It was decided by the committee in charge of the celebration that the searchlights should be placed on top of the Cathedral of Learning, East End Savings Trust Company Building, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Farmers National Bank Building, Oliver Building, and Boggs Buhl Building. This will permit the lights playing over a considerable area of the Pittsburgh district. They project a beam that enables one to read a newspaper at a distance of 25 miles from the point of projection. The task of putting these huge searchlights in place on top of the buildings mentioned has been an engineering feat of no little skill. Each light weighs over 2,000 pounds and each will have to be hoisted many hundred feet in the air before they are finally placed. On at least one building, the Cathedral of Learning, engineers have estimated that they will have but two inches leeway on the roof surface when the light is finally placed there. Parade and Pageant Details of the great pageant to be staged at Forbes Field to depict the advent of light in the world and also the progress of Pittsburgh are rapidly reaching the rehearsal stage. It had been originally planned to hold the pageant on one night only October 23, but because of the thousands of visitors expected from points outside of Pittsburgh it has been decided to present it also on the evening of October 24. The railroads are offering special rates on October 23 and that evening the pageant will be staged for the visitors, while the following evening (when the same pageant will be given) is designated "Pittsburgh Night." All the leading educational institutions in the city are co-operating with the committee to make the pageant a success. Students from the Pennsylvania College for Women, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University and Carnegie Tech will participate in the various episodes dealing with the burning of Fort Duquesne and incidents in the lives of Andrew Carnegie, George Westinghouse, H. J. Heinz and Henry Clay Frick. The Chamber of Commerce committee in charge of the pageant was delighted when Barney Dreyfuss generously donated the use of Forbes Field for two evenings. Reports received by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, under whose auspices the celebration is being held, indicate that Pittsburgh will be ablaze with light and color the week of the Jubilee. Most of the large stores and buildings and many of the smaller ones early signified their intention of decorating their exteriors and windows with vari-colored lights. The colorful night parade scheduled for the evening of October 22 is also receiving the support of industry and stores. It is hoped to have almost 100 electrically illuminated floats in line each depictiig 50 years of progress in its own particular business. In iddition to the building (Continued on pate 8) At River Dinner FOR the first time in the history of Pittsburgh, five members of the cabinet of the President of the United States, are visiting it at one time, coming here to join governors, senators and distinguished railroad, business and corporation executives in the banquet in the William Penn Hotel, October 17, formally opening the Ohio river celebration. Enthusiasm greeted the announcement last week by James Francis Burke, toastmaster of the banquet, at a meeting of the Pittsburgh celebration committee at a luncheon meeting in the Chamber of Commerce, that Secretary of the Navy Charles Adams had promised to be present here with four other cabinet secetaries for the celebration, which marks the completion of the nine-foot stage in the Ohio river between Pittsburgh and Cairo, Ill. Besides secretary Adams, there will be Secretary of War James W. Good, Secretay of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of Labor James J. Davis and Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lamont. The absence of five cabinet members from Washington for this event may establish a precedent in governmental history. The party will arrive the morning of October 17 in a special car. Six Railroad Presidents Come Although the Ohio river celebration marks an engineering achievement that links Pittsburgh's rivers to the sea, the significance of the event from a transportation standpoint is enhanced by the presidents of six of America's greatest railroads. Those to be present in Pittsburgh at the Ohio river celebration banquet in the Wm. Penn Hotel are: Daniel Willard of the Baltimore Ohio railroad; General W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania, P. E. Crowley of the New York Central lines, Charles H. Markham of the Illinois Central, J. J. Burnet of the Chesapeake Ohio and Frank Taplin of the Taplin railroad interests. Two Governors Also Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsylvania and Governor William G. Conley of West Virginia have accepted the invitation to the banquet at which Secretary Good will be the principal speaker, and like the cabinet members and others, will arrive in the city the morning of the seventeenth. At the committee meeting chairman Alexander W. Dann, presiding, it was decided to hold an informal luncheon for the visiting guests on the seventeenth. Secretary Good Principal Speaker As the secretary of war, Mr. Good will be the principal speaker at the river celebration banquet. Addresses will also be made by Secretary Mellon, Secetary Davis, Governor Fisher, Alex. Dann, president of the Pittsbugh Coal Exchange and chairman of the river celebration committee as well as by the toastmaster, James Francis Burke. The River Parade William B. Rodgers, vice chairman of the general committee, and chairman of the river pageant, reported to the committe9 that there will be between 24 and 30 steamboats in the parade down the Ohio to the Emsworth dam. A 50piece band in uniform, followed by a float depicting the im(Continued on page 8)GREATER PITTSBURGH CONSOLIDA'rED ICE COMPANY PITTSBURGH The Consolidated Ice Company and the Companies of which it was formed have been serving the People of Pittsburgh for over Fifty Years. Introducing A WVNorthy Successor To a Great Success NASH "400" SERIES FOR 1930 NASH PITTSBURGH MOTORS COMPANY Mayflower 6100 430 N. Craig Street ii iiiiii -I, i i i...U. U. I. II.Iii III I II I I l lll Il I II -- I-IIIIIIIII II IIIIIIIIIII I IIIIII I I IIIIIIIIllILI IIIIIIIIIIII II IIIII I II I II IIIIIII. I PITTSBURGH BRIDGE IRON WORKS STRUCTURAL STEEL Engineers, Designers, Fabricators, Erectors FACTORY BUILDINGSFOUNDRIES -COAL TIPPLES POWER PLANTS CRANE RUNWAYS BRIDGES MACHINE SHOPS OFFICE BUILDINGS AIRPLANE HANGARS General Office: Pittsburgh, Pa. New York Office: Cleveland Office: Works: Rochester, Pa. 150 Broadway 310 Fidelity Building -_-I- ~i..!.' -.!"" -:' " " "... -..' ".:. -. -....-....... ---. -'-'"...'.._. IA I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~7-.-- 0 I I 1 V8D October 12, 1929LGREATER PITTSBURGH Westinghouse's Vast Electrical Achievement Iittsburgh Day by Day Column, Pittsburgh Press While it is Tlhoiiias A. Edison's invention of the incandescent lamp that is the basis of the national celebration next week known as Light's Golden Jubilee, Pittsburghers are not overlooking the fact that a large part of the electrical progress of the intervening half century was due to a Pittsburgher. It is in no sense a disparagement of Mr. Edison's epochal invention to say that had it not been for the discoveries of George Westinghouse in the alternating current, and its application to the basic discovery of Mr. Edison, there would be much less to celebrate. It was the application of the alternating current to the devices first made by Mr. Edison that opened the door to long distance transmission of electric current and gave rise to trans-colltinental and trans-oceanic telephony, radiation, and all our )present-day electrical wonders. O. H. Caldwell of New York, foirmner l'ederal radio commissioner and now editor of a national electric magazine, Safety First Organizing Setting up of a complete safety first organization and program for the some 3,000 employes of the Pittsburgh Group of Columbia Gas Electric properties l-as just been completed, it was anniounced this week by Special Agent William H. Adams, chairman of the General Safety committee in the Pittsburgh offices. With the inauguration of the prog.ram, a new Safety Code, compiled after comprehensive study of working conditions, is to be introduced and will be distributed among all employes who are asked to earnestly observe all rules and provisions. The programll for the coming year will include such activities as employes meetings of educational and social character, competitive first aid meets, comprehensive surveys and other phases of safety work. The general committee, which will serve in an advisory capacity to the various district committees, is comi)osed of W. H. Adams, chairman; ('eorge Gray, secretary; T. H. Hann, EX. J. Egan, D. B. McCune, R. A. Cameron, W. P. Sadler, and J. F. Nestor. District and division chairmen are as follows: Charles Wernet, Olean, N. Y.; J. A. Harwood, Salem, O.; S. C. Ross, while here day before yesteirday declared that 95 per cent of the electrical and radio industry as we know it today came from the discoveries of Mr. Westinghouse. Mr. Caldwell made one'statement which was wholly new, to me, and very interesting. It was to the effect that electrocution was instituted as an attempt to discredit the alternating current system, which was then being introduced into the electrical world by Westinghouse. What the enemies of Westinghouse lhoped to accomplish by the electric chair (operating by the alternating current) was, according to Caldwell, to give the world such an impression of the deadliness of that current that there would be no chance of its extensive commercial use. Of course, this strategy failed. The alternating current is practically the only current commercially used today, for long distance transmission of electric current is entirely dependent on the alternating system. Bellevue; W. G. Cairlin, Wheeling, W. Va.; A. J. McClellan, Pittsburgh; J. A. Fletcher, West Brownsville; C. J. McMahan, Brookville; C. F. Schaffer, Coraopolis; Henry Cummings, Washington; J. W. King, West Brownsville; Hairry Moore, hIundred, W. Va., and F. G. Burson, Lisbon, O. Partly Endorses Babson The stock market may be at its pleak now and for many months to come, Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale University said in a speech last Tuesday night before the Purchasing Agents Assn. of New York. Prof. Fisher intimated that many market operators should get out of debt and out of margin account, and stated there is some unwarranted speculation. Fisher's statements agreed in part with recent predictions of Roger Babson. However, Prof. Fisher did not agree that Babson's pessimistic outlook would be realized, inasmuch as earnings of industrial corporations have increased rapidly in the last year r Fisher said he believed the invest-,ment trusts as a whole "had acted to,stabilize the stock market rather than to make its fluctuations more violent."' 89 0,, Mr. Cushing Honored William C. Cushing, Engineer of Standards of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has just been notified that he has been awarded on honorary membership in the American Railway Engineering Association. This honor, which has previously been conferred upon by five other men, comes., "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the science of Railway Engineering, and for invaluable services rendered in the capacity of Committee Member, Committee Chairman, Director, Vice-president, President, and Past-President, and for acknowledged preeminence in railway engineering and management." Mr. Cushing has been affiliated with the Pennsylvania Railroad since 1887, and has held many responsible positions with the organization in the Maintenance of Way and Engineering Divisions, Opposed By "Pennsy" The Pennsylvanla Railroad asserts that the C o m m e r c e Commission should reject the proposal of the Baltimore and Ohio to acquire control of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh by purchase of a majority of stock in a brief filed last week at Washington. The assertion is based upon the argument that the commission should not permanently allocate the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh to any system previous to consideration of other trunk line interests incident to the promulgation of a railroad consolidation plan which the commission has announced it soon will publish. Transportation Agreement A plea for co-operation between railW roads and waterway transportation companies was made at St. Louis this week in a speech before the Associated Traffic Clubs of America by Carl J. Baer, vice president of the Mississippi Valley Barge Line. "I am convinced that any plan for utilization of the inland waterways of the United States should be upon a basis that would in every way assist and make possible further development of railroads and trunk lines," Baer said. If rivers are to be utilized to the fullest extent they must be supplemented by already established agencies of transportation, he added. George Hannauer, president of the Boston Maine Railroad, in an address on motor transportation said the railroad "is the logical agency to operate highway motors bet-ween communities in its territory. It can use the highway or rail whichever best fits the Job." 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Jeffrey Company Keystone Building, 324 Fourth Avenue - Phoi INSURANCE-ALL KINDS -Court 1942 - Pittsburgh, Pa. IF IT'S HANKEY'S--IT'S GOOD HANKEY'S BREAD At Your Grocers Nine years of continued success in serving the public with Quality products QUALITY - SERVICE - - GOOD WILL IHII 3 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I ii _ I I I I October 12, 192' ) 90 neOctober 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH RAPHAEL ELECTRIC CO. Electrical Contractors 1405 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. Babson Bearish On Stocks (Continuedfrom page 89) the first six months of 1928. Natural gas which formerly has largely been lost at the wells is now to be mixed with artificial gas in many localties, while new uses will also be found for the further development of the industry. The use of gas for heating in winter, the many industrial uses, and possibly the refrigeration of homes, hotels, offices, etc., in summer, will be among the important developments. Gas is already being used in refrigeration for the preservation of food. Gradually gas companies will be linked up into extensive super-systems the same as electric light and power companies. Gas can be transmitted 500 miles with far less loss than in the case of electricity. With big developments in view for the gas industry unl(ler the sponsorship of the largest financial interests in the country, investors should carefully study the field of gas companies stocks. I believe the retail gas distributing companies are in the best position and am directing my studies along this line. Moreover, I am leaving tonight to spend a month studying the great natural gas fields of the southwest. Rendering Service All Important What of the future? Sooner or later the stock market boom will collapse like the Florida boom. It is constantly becoming harder and harder to pick stocks which will give a profit. Soime day the time is coming when the sellers will exceed the buyers and paper profits will mostly disappear. Then there will immediately be a stampede, to save what paper profits still exist. Investment trusts wil first begin to sell. They have so broadly advertised their paper profits that they will be very anxious to cash in on them. As soon as the heads of these investment trusts really believe that we are in a bear market, they will rush to sell. It seems to me that such selling will be as great a factor in accelerating a decline in prices as the buying by these trusts has been a factor in increasing prices. As soon as word gets abroad that the large American investment trusts are selling, the European houses will begin to sell for their customers who are now buying in the American market. The general public which is now borrowing $6,760,000,000 through brokers will then follow with a desire to cash in. Then margin accounts will be closed out, and then there may be a stampede ]for selling exceeding anything that the Stock Exchanges has ever witnessed. One thing more to remember: Thus far there has been few deaths amongst those with very large public utility stock holdings. Before long these men will begin to die and their holdings will be put on the market. This especially applies to power and light stocks. However, it is not the purpose of the Babson Organization to forecast market movements-or even to advise the sale of good investment securities. Our job is to aid merchants in the purchase of commiodities, to aid investors in the selection of stocks, and to aid manufacturers in the discovery of new sales territories. We advise investors to keep always a certain amount of money in stocks, and a certain amount in bonds, and a certain amount of money liquid in order to take advantage of special opportunities as they arise. Hence, today, instead of attempting to guess what the market will do, I advise you to keep in a position so that you will be safe whatever happens, and be in a position to take advantage of bargains when, as and if they appear. Real Bargains Lie In Bonds Of course, the real bargains today are in the bond field. High grade bonds can be bought today to yield 6% and (Continued on page 93) 91 BRAUN BROTHERS COMPANY WHOLESALE BAKERS BAKERS TO PITTSBURGH FOR FORTY YEARS L I_ I IGREATER PITTSBURGH cThe McKinney Manufacturing Co. PITTSBURGH, PENNA. MqJ'akers of High yrade BUILDERS' HARDWARE Hinges and Hardware Specialties Garage Hardware, Forged Iron Hardware Forged Iron Lanterns i DRIVE SAFELY! M4C1AY TIt CHAI NS EIIUT AN END TO THiE SEKED lWIL CL UNITED STATES CHAIN and FORGING COMPANY PITTSBURGH, PA. NJ Established 1879 D. J. KENNEDY COMPANY Wholesale and Retail COAL AND BUILDERS' SUPPLIES 7535 Thomas Street YARD TELEPHONE BRADDOCK AVE. HILAND 7100 PITTSBURGH, PA. THOMAS ST. 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I especially wish to call to your attention the bargains existing in non-taxable bonds, having in mind both the high grade non-taxable municipal bonds of northern cities, and the low grade Farm Loan Joint Stock Land Bank Bonds. These Joint Stock Land Bank bonds can be bought today to yield 6 % and 7 %, free of taxes. Of course, some of these Land Banks are in a weak position and there may be one or two more receiverships, but the farm industry is improving and with such an iimprovement these banks must improve and before long many of these Farm Loan 5 % non-taxable bonds, selling now around 70, will again be selling at par. Fortunes are made not by following the crowd, but by doing what the other fellow is not doing. When we advised light and power stock ten years ago. many were in receiverships and very few investors were interested in them; but those few who took our advice have made fortunes. Today everyone is crazy to buy these same electric power stocks. Although I still believe in the electric industry, the greatest opportunity today is in the bond market. Wise are those investors who are cashing in their profits on uncertain stocks and reinvesting the same in good bonds. Ultimate safety and profits come from service. We render the greatest service by helping that group of securities which are temporarily depressednot by buying the most popular ones. The group which merits our support today is the bond group. Sometimes common stocks are unpopular and then we can be of greatest service by buying common stocks; but this is not the situation today. The need of American L. H. Smith Wooden Ware Co. Eighth Street Pittsburgh, Pa. business today is more bond buyers and those who rally to the call will be well rewarded. The HARTLEY-ROSE BELTING CO. 425 First Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. CANADIAN PACIFIC WINTER CRUISES FROM NEW YORK One Management-Ship and Shore WHAT HAS THE WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM PLANNED? 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While the matter of detail is yet to be worked out, the Board of Directors will probably v i s i t Philadelphia, shortly, there to be the guests of members of the Board of the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. It is felt that the closer contact possible of establishment in this manner between our two great cities will be of inestimable value. An interchange of visits on the part of the two boards is under discussion. New Layout Is Admired Our members are most of them finding opportunity for inspecting the improved headquarters of the Chamber. The work involved a sizeable program under supervision of the House Committee, headed by Fred C. Haller, chairman. So far it has invoked the highest praise from members and visitors, alike. Light's Golden Jubilee and the Ohio River Celebration are two events in which the Chamber is aggressively interested, the first being under its exclusive auspices. Both affairs are fully reviewed elsewhere in this issue. Junior Apple and Potato Show Farm boys and girls from the 44 Counties in Western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia will have an opportunity of pitting their skill against one another in the Junior Potato Show. This Show, sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, will be held October 31, November 1-2 in the Exposition Hall of the Chamber of Commerce. Teams of three members each, representing the different Vocational Agriculture classes and 4-H Clubs in the three states, will judge a special exhibit of potatoes and to the winners will go three cash prizes. To the team whose score is closest to that of the official judges a prize of $15.00 will be awarded, second prize will be $10.00, third prize, $5.00. This judging contest will open at noon Friday, November 1, and will end at noon Saturday, November 2. Teams may be made up of either boys or girls or they may include both boys and girls. More detailed information on this feature of the Tri-State Show may be obtained from any County Farm Agent, County Home Demonstration Agent or by writing to the National Resources Division of the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. (Continued on page 116) Leadership. Ninetieth Year Over 100,000 Graduates Based on 90 years' success in the contribution of well-trained young men and women to business. DUFFS.IRON CITY COLLEGE 424 Duquesne Way:: PITTSBURGH:: Atlantic 4875-4876 A Complete Lettershop Convenience PITTSBURGH Addressing, by Hand or Typewriter Lists, National Form Letters Mailing Personalized Letters Mimeographing Hooven Automatic Letters Duplicating 23 Years Established in Pittsburgh Tanki Mail Advertising Service 319 FIFTH AVENUE ATlantic 1290 Out of town orders given prompt attention Write, wire or phone your copy for quick service. Members: Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh Advertising Club. i i Service 95 ARCH MACHINERY CO. 1001-1004 Park Building Pittsburgh, Pa. 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L 0 I --- ~ ~ i,r~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I m I October 12., 1929~October 12, 1929 GREATER PITTSBURGH Pioneer Pittsburgh Concerns The Historic Development Of The City Graphically Indicated In The Following Thumb-Nail Sketches Of Organizations From 50 to 100 Years Old By H. W. CORRELL Statistician of The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce CENTENNIAL booklet distributed by one of the district's old churches contains a paragraph which has, in the compiling of the following table, been found to be only too true. It reads: "After a generation of people has lived and died, it is seldom that any one in the next generation takes sufficient interest in it to record its deeds; and almost always, if that generation did not think enough of its own life to write it for a memorial in a book, it did not leave enough material behind it out of which anyone living a few years later can construct a continuous history. The longer it is delayed the more difficult it becomes, as time passes and old records are mislaid and finally lost and the number of living witnesses constantly decrease until all are gone." The Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh has long realized the need for some dependable information concerning Pittsburgh's old organizations, and twice within a year Greater Pittsburgh published a request that all business concerns fifty or more years old communicate with the Editor. It was found that already many facts about the history of Pittsburgh's older business houses, churches, industries, etc., have been forgotten; and it was with considerable difficulty that the material here submitted was assembled. From the difficulty thus experienced it would seem that it would be an excellent plan for the head of every organization to assign to some one the duty of preparing a history of the organization from its earliest days for preservation in the private records or for publication in house organs or otherwise. No doubt in this study much has been omitted that would be extremely interesting to the younger Pittsburgher, who knows little about the history of the business houses whose names are so familiar to him; and without doubt many old organizations have not been mentioned. Omissions are of course entirely unintentional and due solely to failure to receive the desired information. Historic sketches or outlines of organizations not listed herein will be welcomed for possible future use and for permanent filing. The amount of space devoted to any organization is in no sense intended to indicate the present size and importance of that organization nor the esteem in which it is held. The entire purpose of this study is to record such items of general historic interest as might be available, so that an idea might be formed of how Pittsburgh grew from year to year. A mimeographed report of over twenty pages, including the organizations mentioned in this article and scores of old churches as well has been prepared for reference purposes; and those who have a use for the large list may have a copy by requesting it in writing. It is desired to record here hearty thanks and appreciation to the many business executives, reference librarians and others who so kindly assisted in gleaning the following material from scattered and often difficult sources, and to request that, if errors or omissions are noted, they be reported in order that future publication of the material may be correct. 1786 John Scull and Joseph Hall began publishing the Gazette on July 29th. In 1820 the name was changed to The Pittsbugh Gazette and Manufacturer and Mercantile Advertiser; and in 1833 it was changed to Daily Pittsburgh Gazette. In 1877 the publishers gained control of the Commercial and the name became Commercial-Gazette. Through a merger the name was changed in 1906 to Gazette-Times, and for the same reason the name was changed in 1927 to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the early days the difficulties of publication were great; and at one time, because the pack animals failed to reach Pittsburgh from the east in time for the regular issue, the editor appealed to the commandant of the fort for enough cartridge paper for the current edition and issued the news on it rather than fail to have his sheet appear on schedule. Through disseminating news (although sometimes weeks and months late), the Gazette nobly did its part in clearing the wilderness and founding the city of Pittsburgh. 1787 Pittsburgh Academy. In 1819 named Western University of Pennsylvania, and in 1908 named University of Pittsburgh. First building was at Third Avenue and Cherry Way. In 1908, after various moves, located in Schenley District. (See notes under 1866 in re. Allegheny Observatory.) 1802 Jeffery Scaife founded a factory to make articles from copper, tin, and sheet iron, as well as Japanned wares, at 4th Avenue and Market St. In War of 1812 made sponge baskets for artillery. In 1834 name changed to Wm. B. Scaife Co. In 1892 works moved to Oakmont. The company now known as Wm. B. Scaife Sons Co., has continuously been in the control of the family since founding. It is believed to be the oldest manufacturing concern west of Harrisburg. 1803 Joseph McClurg established the "Pittsburgh Foundry"-the first in the city. In 1807 he and his son Alexander formed a partnership. In 1812 the company manufactured cannon balls for Perry's fleet. In 1842 produced the first Chilled Roll (for rolling sheet brass) in the U. S. In 1850 at their Ft. Pitt Works built first locomotive assembled west of Alleghenies. 1860-64 furnished all kinds of ordnance for the army. Various changes of name, and mergers, ending in 1922 when the name of the organization became Mackintosh-Hemphill Company. (Continued on page 98) 97