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023 - Intellectual - Chapter 2 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty two of short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel
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  Speaker 1: Hardin Church. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: read by Tatiana Chichilla, Section twenty two intellectual Chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: In Chenley Park is the Carnegie Institute with its new
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  Speaker 1: main building dedicated in April eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: o seven, with imposing ceremonies which were attended by several
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  Speaker 1: hundred prominent men from America and Europe. This building, which
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  Speaker 1: is about six hundred feet long and four hundred feet wide,
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  Speaker 1: contains a library and art gallery, halls of architecture and sculpture,
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  Speaker 1: a museum, and a hall of music, while the Carnegie
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  Speaker 1: Technical Schools are operated in separate buildings nearby. It is
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  Speaker 1: built in the later Renaissance style, being very simple and
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  Speaker 1: yet beautiful. Its exterior is of Ohio sandstone, while its
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  Speaker 1: interior finish is largely in marble, of which there are
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  Speaker 1: sixty five varieties brought from every famous quarry in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And it is his great Entrance Hall is a series
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  Speaker 1: of mural decorations by John W. Alexander, a distinguished son
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh. The library in which the Institution had its
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  Speaker 1: beginning in eighteen ninety five, contains about three hundred thousand volumes,
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  Speaker 1: has seven important branches and one hundred and seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: stations for the distribution of books. Mister Edwin H. Anderson
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  Speaker 1: inaugurated the library at the time of its creation, and
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  Speaker 1: after several years of successful service, was followed by mister
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  Speaker 1: Anderson H. Hopkins, and he by mister Harrison W. Craver,
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  Speaker 1: who is now the efficient librarian. The Fine Arts Department
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  Speaker 1: contains many casts of noble works of architecture and sculpture,
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  Speaker 1: sufficient to carry the visitor in fancy through an almost
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  Speaker 1: unbroken development from the earliest times in which man began
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  Speaker 1: to produce beautiful structures to the present day. It is
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  Speaker 1: now the aim of this department to develop its galleries
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  Speaker 1: on three lines. First to gather early American paintings from
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning of art in this country. Second, to
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  Speaker 1: acquire such portraits of eminent men as will, in the
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  Speaker 1: very passage of years, make these halls to some extent
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  Speaker 1: a national portrait gallery. And third, to obtain such pieces
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  Speaker 1: of contemporary art as will lead to the formation of
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  Speaker 1: a thoroughly representative collection of modern painting. The art gallery
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  Speaker 1: is already rich in this latter purpose and is renowned
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  Speaker 1: for its annual competitive exhibits, which are open to the
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  Speaker 1: artists of all countries for prizes offered by the Carnegie Institute.
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  Speaker 1: Mister John W. Bett, director of Fine Arts, has made
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  Speaker 1: the building up of this department his ripest and best work.
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  Speaker 1: The museum embraces sections of paleontology, mineralogy, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, entomology, botany,
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  Speaker 1: comparative anatomy, archaeology, numismatics, ceramics, textiles, transportation, carvings in wood
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  Speaker 1: and ivory, historical collections, the useful arts, and biological sciences.
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  Speaker 1: Its work in the department of Paleontology is particularly noteworthy
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  Speaker 1: as it has extended the boundaries of knowledge through its
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  Speaker 1: many explorations in the Western fossil fields. The success of
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  Speaker 1: the museum is largely due to the energy and erudition
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  Speaker 1: of doctor W. J. Holland, its amiable director. In the
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  Speaker 1: music hall, a symphony orchestra is maintained and free recitals
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  Speaker 1: are given on the Great Organ twice every week by
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  Speaker 1: a capable performer. When the orchestra began its work thirteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. It is doubtful if there were very many
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  Speaker 1: persons in Pittsburgh other than musical students who knew the
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  Speaker 1: difference between a symphony, a suite, a concerto, and a fugue.
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  Speaker 1: Today there are thousands of people in this city who
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  Speaker 1: can intelligently describe the shading differences in the Ninth Symphony
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  Speaker 1: and give good reasons for their preference as between the
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  Speaker 1: two movements of the Unfinished. The first conductor of the
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  Speaker 1: orchestra was Frederick Archer for three years, who was followed
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  Speaker 1: by Victor Herbert for three years, and then came Emil Parr,
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  Speaker 1: who is now in charge. The technical schools embrace a
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  Speaker 1: school of Applied Science, a school for apprentices and journeymen,
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  Speaker 1: a School of Applied Design, and a school for women,
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  Speaker 1: and already possess a capable faculty of one hundred fifteen
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  Speaker 1: members and a student body numbering one thousand, nine hundred sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Arthur A. Hammerschlag is an enthusiastic and capable director
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  Speaker 1: of this educational scheme. The Institute is governed by a
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  Speaker 1: Board of Trustees, of which William N. Frew is President,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Pitcairn Vice President, Samuel Harden Church Secretary and James H.
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  Speaker 1: Reid Treasurer. Charles C. Mellon is Chairman of the Museum Committee,
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  Speaker 1: John Caldwell of the Fine Arts Committee, George A. Macbeth
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  Speaker 1: of the Library Committee, and William Conway of the Technical
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  Speaker 1: Schools Committee. The annual celebration of Founder's Day at the
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  Speaker 1: Carnegie Institute has become one of the most notable platform
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  Speaker 1: occasions in America, made so by the illustrious men who
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  Speaker 1: participate in the exercises. Some of these distinguish or at
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  Speaker 1: time tours are William McKinley and Grover Cleveland, former presidents
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  Speaker 1: of the United States John Morley and James Brice. Foremost
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  Speaker 1: among British statesmen and authors, Joseph Jefferson, a beloved actor,
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  Speaker 1: Richard Watson Gilder, editor and poet, Wu Ting Fong Chinese diplomat,
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  Speaker 1: and Whitelaw Reid, editor and ambassador. At the great dedication
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  Speaker 1: of the new building in April nineteen o seven, the
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  Speaker 1: celebration of Founder's Day surpassed all previous efforts, being marked
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  Speaker 1: by the assembling of an illustrious group of men and
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  Speaker 1: the delivery of a series of addresses which made the
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  Speaker 1: festival altogether beyond precedent. On that occasion there came to
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh as the guests of the Institute from France, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Leons Beneguitte, Director Musee de Luxembourg, Baron de Tournelle de Constant,
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  Speaker 1: member of the French Senate and of the Hague Court
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  Speaker 1: of Arbitration, Doctor Paul Dumay, late Governor General of Coach
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  Speaker 1: in China, and doctor Camille en Lart, Director of the
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  Speaker 1: Trocaderomus Museum from Germany, upon the personal suggestion of His
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  Speaker 1: Majesty Emperor William the Second, his Excellency, Lieutenant General Alfred
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  Speaker 1: von Lowenfield, Adjutant General to His Majesty the Emperor, Colonel
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  Speaker 1: Gustav Dickhoff, Lecturer on military science to the Royal Household,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Ernst von inn Hoff, architect, Sergeant Major de Kaisers,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Reinhold Cooser, Principal Director of the Prussian State Archives,
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  Speaker 1: and Professor doctor Fritz Schaper, sculptor. From Great Britain, Mister
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  Speaker 1: William Archer, author and critic, Sir Robert S. Ball, Director
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  Speaker 1: of Cambridge Observatory, Doctor C. F. Moberly Bell, Manager London Times.
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  Speaker 1: Sir Robert Cranston, late Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Sir Edward
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  Speaker 1: Elgar Composer, Mister James Curry Macbeth, Provost of dunfer Lyin,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor p Chalmers Mitchell, Secretary Zoological Society of London. Sir
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  Speaker 1: William Henry, Priest Consulting Engineer to the GPO, and doctor
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  Speaker 1: John Rice, Principal of Jesus College, University of Oxford. Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Ernest S. Roberts Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University. Mister William Robertson,
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  Speaker 1: Member Dunfermline Trust, Doctor John Ross, Chairman Dunfermline Trust, and
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  Speaker 1: doctor William Stead, Editor Review of Reviews and from Holland
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  Speaker 1: Yankeir R De Maries van Swindern, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
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  Speaker 1: Plenipotentiary to the United States, and doctor us Marius Willem
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  Speaker 1: van der Putten Schwartz Martin Martin's author, Mister Andrew Carnegie
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  Speaker 1: has founded this splendid institute with its school system, at
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  Speaker 1: a cost already approximating twenty million dollars, and he must
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the satisfaction of knowing it to be the rallying
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  Speaker 1: ground for the cultured and artistic life of the community.
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  Speaker 1: The progress made each year goes by in leaps and
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  Speaker 1: bounds so much that we might well employ the phrase
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  Speaker 1: used by Macaulay to describe Lord Bacon's philosophy. The point
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  Speaker 1: which was yesterday invisible, is to day its starting point,
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow will be its goal. The Institute has truly
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  Speaker 1: a splendid mission. End of Section twenty two