Pittsburgh, the greatest manufacturing city in the world .. . Pittsburgh— the Gateway of the West. / The geographical location of Pittsburgh—standing as she does at the gateway of the West—with her great network of trunk lines coming fromthe East, with a like system of steel arteries of com-merce radiating into the West, Northwest andSouthwest, pulsating with the incessant beat of in-dustries and the rumble and clatter of miles offreight trains by day and by night, gives the SteelCity advantages not possessed by other tradecenters of the East or West—she stands pre-eminentas the mistress of th
Pittsburgh, the greatest manufacturing city in the world .. . Pittsburgh— the Gateway of the West. / The geographical location of Pittsburgh—standing as she does at the gateway of the West—with her great network of trunk lines coming fromthe East, with a like system of steel arteries of com-merce radiating into the West, Northwest andSouthwest, pulsating with the incessant beat of in-dustries and the rumble and clatter of miles offreight trains by day and by night, gives the SteelCity advantages not possessed by other tradecenters of the East or West—she stands pre-eminentas the mistress of the situation, over which she ruleswith undisputed sway, challenging all her competi-tors to meet or undersell her in any line of commerce. Pittsburgh enjoys the advantage of five of thegreat trunk line railroads centering here, whoserails reach out to every point of the compass andset down passengers, freight and express from thegreat cities to the practically unknown cross-roadsstations that dot the great galaxy of States lyingto the east, northeast and southeast, where rollsthe Atlantic
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