. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . somany shops and furnaces hangs over the lower parts ofPittsburg and has given it the name of The Smoky •tP ■ ^iPBi?^^ • -■ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K^ ^ *T ♦ ^ ^Hu Fig. 47. Pittsburg at Night City. James Parton says that on the first morning ofhis visit there he felt sure that he was rising very early,for the street lamps were all burning and he ate hisbreakfast in a room lighted by gas. As the room wasfilled with people, he thought Pittsburg was very enter-prising, and himself along with it, but he was quite takenaback when he looked at his watch
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . somany shops and furnaces hangs over the lower parts ofPittsburg and has given it the name of The Smoky •tP ■ ^iPBi?^^ • -■ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^K^ ^ *T ♦ ^ ^Hu Fig. 47. Pittsburg at Night City. James Parton says that on the first morning ofhis visit there he felt sure that he was rising very early,for the street lamps were all burning and he ate hisbreakfast in a room lighted by gas. As the room wasfilled with people, he thought Pittsburg was very enter-prising, and himself along with it, but he was quite takenaback when he looked at his watch and found that it wasalmost nine oclock, Darker even than the streets are the CITIES OF THE OHIO VALLEY 121 rooms in which thousands of miners, within a few milesof the city, dig out coal with their picks and shovels. If one rides into Pittsburg by night, he will see some-thing finer than fireworks. The train is likely to whirlhim past long rows of fiery ovens in which coal is beingmade into coke. And in many towns near by, as well as. Fig. 48. Furnaces near Pittsburg along the rivers by the city itself, the jets of flame willshow iron furnaces and steel mills, with grimy workmenmoving about in the strange light. The iron ore for these furnaces is brought from manyparts of the country, but chiefly from the lands aroundlake Superior. It is shipped down the lakes in large 122 FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY Steamers and loaded into cars at Cleveland or some otherport on lake Erie. Instead of carrying the coal to theore, the ore is thus brought to the coal, without which itcould not be worked. The reason for this is that Pitts-burg is much nearer the places where most of the ironis to be used. If the coal of Pennsylvania were taken tothe iron mines of Minnesota and the furnaces built there,much of the iron and steel would have to be carried backa long way to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and otherparts of the East. Glass mills form an important part of the citys indus-tries and
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