. Book of the Royal blue . tthriving business cities, as well as oneof the most beautiful residence cities, ofthe United States. Many people who travel and whoseonly knowledge of a town is passing PITTSBURG. through it on a train, often form imper-fect impressions from the car windowwhich they adopt as a standard of meas-urement for the rest of the town. Es-pecially so of Pittsburg, as the railwaysentering it ]iass through the manufactur-ing district, and mills and smoke greetthem on every side. Pittsburg is built on a wedge of land,formed by the Allegheny River on oneside and the Monongahela
. Book of the Royal blue . tthriving business cities, as well as oneof the most beautiful residence cities, ofthe United States. Many people who travel and whoseonly knowledge of a town is passing PITTSBURG. through it on a train, often form imper-fect impressions from the car windowwhich they adopt as a standard of meas-urement for the rest of the town. Es-pecially so of Pittsburg, as the railwaysentering it ]iass through the manufactur-ing district, and mills and smoke greetthem on every side. Pittsburg is built on a wedge of land,formed by the Allegheny River on oneside and the Monongahela River on the of the city proper is estimated at about300,000; while if the population of itscomponent parts, not within its cor-porate limits, were added, it wouldincrease the number to at least 500, the industrial world, it is knownas the American center of the iron, steel,glass, coal and coke industries. Someidea of the immensity of many of theseindustries may be obtained from thefacts that the large bessemer steel. STUEET KUIUl^K other, which unite at the point into theOhio River. It is walled in by beautiful hills and is very picturesque. Acrossthe Allegheny River, to the west, liesAllegheny City, which has a populationof some 105,000 which practically belongsto Pittsburg, as do the many surround-ing boroughs of MrKeesport, Braddock,Homestead and about thirty smallertowns, which depend upon it commer-cially and financially. The population plant, the largest crucible steel plant,the largest plate glass works, the largestglass chimney factory, the largest picklefactory, the largest coke industries, thelargest tube works, the largest manu-factory of glass table-ware, the largestand most powerful engines and pumpsemployed to pump water, and the largestair brake works for freight and passen-ger cars, in the world are at these, to say nothing of the immense PITTSBURG. 3 steel rail rolling mills, electrical appa-ratus manufactories, locomotive works,arm
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