This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX PITTSBURGH A City which Takes Rank Industrially, Not with Other Towns, but with Nations--Though Eleventh among American Cities in the Number of Its Inhabitants, This Energetic Centre Has the Largest Population of Machinery Man-Power in the World--Incidents of Phenomenal Growth--The Social ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX PITTSBURGH A City which Takes Rank Industrially, Not with Other Towns, but with Nations--Though Eleventh among American Cities in the Number of Its Inhabitants, This Energetic Centre Has the Largest Population of Machinery Man-Power in the World--Incidents of Phenomenal Growth--The Social and Business Life of the Pittsburghers--The Scanty Beginnings of Civic Improvement--From the Murk of the City to the Sunshine of the Suburbs--The History of the City from the Time when It Was " Shannopin's Town" Down to the Present Day. PITTSBURGH is more than a city. It is the acme of activity; it is an industrial cyclone. To its steel mills and furnaces there is no intermission--no rest--no sleep. The blaze of its lurid fires is as ceaseless as the roar of Niagara. That which is elsewhere called "labour" is here an untiring fury to produce. In Pittsburgh, those three halftamed monsters, fire, steam and electricity, are shackled and goaded into a frenzy of omnipotence. It is less like industry than war--war with the stubbornest elements of nature. What radium is among metals, Pittsburgh is among cities. Both alike seem to possess that secret of perpetual energy which science cannot explain. Mighty steel kings come and go; Hussey follows Cowan, and Jones follows Hussey, and Carnegie follows Jones, and the corporation follows Carnegie; stocks may rise and stocks may fall, but the fires of Pittsburgh blaze on, as though they were part of the earth's central conflagration. Like the Grand Canon of the Colorado, there is nothing else with which we can compare it. Every word we choose has been put to smaller uses. As a manifestation of human power over the hostile forces of nature--as a region of industrial magic, where the push of a lever cuts...
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