Identifier: personalityofame01hung (find matches)
Title: The personality of American cities
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hungerford, Edward, 1875-1948
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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evelopment of the HotelSchenley, the great Soldiers Memorial Hall which Alle-gheny county has just finished, the even greater CarnegieInstitute, the graceful twin-spired cathedral, all are go-ing toward the making of this fine, new civic center,and Pittsburgh being Pittsburgh, and the Pirates socialheroes, Forbes Field the finest baseball park in all thisland — a wizardry of glass and steel and concrete —is a distinctive feature of this improvement. The freight trains are gone from the downtown shop-ping streets and the two wicked grade crossings dis-appeared when the Pennsylvania built its splendid newUnion Station. Other fine railroad terminals and newhotels have added to the comfort of the stranger. Theyare beginning in a faint way to give transfers on thetrolley cars, and there is more than a promise that someday wayfarers will not be taxed a penny every time theywalk across the bridges that bind the heart of the city.The bridge companies are private afifairs, paying from fif-
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PITTSBURGH i8i teen to twenty percent in annual dividends, and they hangpretty tightly on to their bonanzas. But the PittsburghChamber of Commerce is after them, and that Chamberis a fairly energetic body. It has already sought thedevil in his lair and tried to abolish the smoke nuisance,with some definite results. A New York girl who has been living in Pittsburghfor the last four years complained that she had neverseen but two sunsets there. There is hope for that girl.If the Chamber of Commerce keeps hard at its anti-smoke campaign, she may yet stand on the Point anddown the muddy Ohio see something that dimly resem-bles the glorious dying of the day, as one sees it fromthe heights of New York citys Riverside Drive. A keen-eyed man sat in an easy chair in the luxuryof the Duquesne Club, and faced the New York man. Are we so bad? he demanded. You New Yorkmen like to paint us that way. You judge us falsely.You think that when you come out here you are goingto see a sort of modern Sodo

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