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030 - Intellectual - Chapter 9 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty nine of short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel
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  Speaker 1: harden Church. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain,
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  Speaker 1: read by Tatiana Chichilla, Section twenty nine intellectual chapter nine.
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  Speaker 1: The first Pittsburgh book that I can find in my
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  Speaker 1: hurried review of the field is Modern Chivalry by Hugh
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  Speaker 1: Henry Brackenridge. The third volume of this book was printed
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh in seventeen ninety six, the first two having
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  Speaker 1: been published in Philadelphia. This writer's son, Henry M. Brackenridge,
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  Speaker 1: was also an author, having written History of the Late
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  Speaker 1: War between the United States and Great Britain, History of
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  Speaker 1: the Western Insurrection called the Whiskey Insurrection seventeen ninety four,
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  Speaker 1: Journal of a Voyage up the River Missouri performed in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eleven, Recollections of Persons and Places in the West,
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  Speaker 1: and several other books. Nevill B. Craig wrote a history
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  Speaker 1: of Pittsburgh published in eighteen fifty one, which is still
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  Speaker 1: a work of standard reference. Another history of Pittsburgh was
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  Speaker 1: brought out some ten years years ago under the editorship
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  Speaker 1: of Erasmus Wilson, who has also published a volume of
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  Speaker 1: Quiet Observations selected from his newspaper essays. But the most important,
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  Speaker 1: painstaking and accurate history of Pittsburgh which has yet been
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  Speaker 1: published is the one by Miss Sarah H. Kilikelly, published
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen o six. Another book of Hers, Curious Questions,
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  Speaker 1: is an entertaining collection of many queer things that have
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  Speaker 1: occurred in the world's history. Robert P. Nevan wrote Black
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  Speaker 1: Robes and Three Kings. Professor Samuel P. Langley was for
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  Speaker 1: many years in charge of the Alleghany Observatory, and one
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  Speaker 1: fame while here as a writer on scientific subjects. Also,
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  Speaker 1: the first models of his flying machine were made while
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  Speaker 1: he was a resident in Pittsburgh. W. M. Darlington wrote
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  Speaker 1: Fort pitt and edited the journals of Christopher Gist, who
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  Speaker 1: was Washington's scout when the father of his country first
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  Speaker 1: came to Pittsburgh. Two Men in the West is the
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  Speaker 1: title of a little book on travel by W. R. Halpin.
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  Speaker 1: Arthur G. Burgoyne, a newspaper writer, has published all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of pittsburgher's. George Siebel has written three beautiful plays which
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  Speaker 1: have not yet been produced because the modern stage manager
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  Speaker 1: seemed to produce un beautiful plays. One of these is
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  Speaker 1: Omar Khayam which was accepted and paid for by Richard Mansfield,
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  Speaker 1: who died before he could arrange for its production. Another
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  Speaker 1: is Christopher Columbus, and he has just finished an important
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  Speaker 1: tragedy entitled Oedibus dealing artistically with a horrifying story, which
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  Speaker 1: has been accepted for early production by mister Robert Mantel.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Sebel has published a monograph on the Mormon problem.
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  Speaker 1: Charles P. Sheerish wrote The Redemption of Labor and a drama,
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  Speaker 1: The Invisible Prince, which was played in the old Pittsburgh Theater.
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  Speaker 1: Bartley Campbell was the most prolific writer of plays that
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has yet produced, and his melodramas have been played
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  Speaker 1: in nearly every theater in America. H. G. Donnelly, well
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  Speaker 1: known as a playwright, was also a pittsburgher missus Mary
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  Speaker 1: Roberts Reinhardt is a young author who has come to
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  Speaker 1: the front as a writer of successful dramas, stories and books.
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  Speaker 1: Her plays The Double Life and By Order of the
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  Speaker 1: Court have been produced, and a novel, The Circular Staircase,
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  Speaker 1: has just appeared from the press. My own little play,
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  Speaker 1: The Brighton Episode, was played by Miss Sarah Truax at
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  Speaker 1: the Alvin Theatre, Pittsburgh, June twenty fourth, nineteen oh three,
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  Speaker 1: and by Miss Eleanor Mulready at the Fifth Avenue Theater,
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  Speaker 1: New York, January fifteenth, nineteen oh five. Reverend W. G.
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  Speaker 1: Mackay wrote tales of history under the title of The
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  Speaker 1: Skein of Life. Father Morgan M. Sheedy and Reverend doctor
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  Speaker 1: George Hodges, who used to strive together in Pittsburgh to
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  Speaker 1: surpass each other in tearing down the walls of religious
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  Speaker 1: prejudice that keep people out of the Kingdom of Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: have each given us several books on social and religious
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  Speaker 1: topics composed on the broad and generous lines of thought
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  Speaker 1: which only such sensible teachers know how to employ. Among
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Hodge's books are Christianity Between Sundays, The Heresy of Cain,
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  Speaker 1: and Faith in Social Service, while Father Sheedy has published
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  Speaker 1: social topics that devoted student of nature. Doctor Benjamin Cutler
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  Speaker 1: Jilson wrote a book called home Geology and another River
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  Speaker 1: Terrace's Inn and near Pittsburgh, which carry the fancy into
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  Speaker 1: far off antiquity. Professor Daniel Carhart of the University of
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has given us field work for civil engineers and
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  Speaker 1: Treatise on Plain Surveying from J. Heron Foster. We have
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  Speaker 1: a full account of the Great Fire at Pittsburgh. In
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  Speaker 1: eighteen forty five, Adelaide M. Nevin published Social Mirror and
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  Speaker 1: Robert P. Nevan Poems, a book with mood and feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Stephen A. Hunter, a clergyman, is the author of
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  Speaker 1: an erudite work entitled Manual of Therapeutics and Pharmacy in
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  Speaker 1: the Chinese Language. Walter Scott, who after taking a course
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  Speaker 1: at the University of Edinburgh, came to Pittsburgh in eighteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, was a very distinguished preacher and author. His
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  Speaker 1: greatest reputation was gained in his work in association with
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Campbell, in establishing the principles of the now mighty
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  Speaker 1: congregation known as the Christian or Disciples Church. His books
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  Speaker 1: are The Gospel Restored, The Great Demonstration, and The Union
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  Speaker 1: of Christians. A memoir of Professor John L. Lincoln by
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  Speaker 1: his son W. L. Lincoln, gives a record of a
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  Speaker 1: life so spent that many men were truly made better
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  Speaker 1: thereby father. Andrew A. Lambing, President of the Historical Society
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  Speaker 1: of Western Pennsylvania, has written useful monographs on the early
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  Speaker 1: history of this region, and he is one of the
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  Speaker 1: first authorities in that field. He has also composed books
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  Speaker 1: on religious subjects. E. W. Duckwell wrote Bacteriology Applied to
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  Speaker 1: the Canning and Preserving of food products. Richard Riulf was
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  Speaker 1: a poet whose songs gushed from his heart, and some
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  Speaker 1: of them hold a place in literature. His Monarch of
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  Speaker 1: the Forges breathes the deep spirit of industrial life as
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  Speaker 1: he found it in Pittsburgh. Mister Lee S. Smith, now
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  Speaker 1: nineteen o eight President of the Chamber of Commerce, has
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  Speaker 1: published an interesting book entitled Through Egypt to Palestine, describing
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  Speaker 1: his travels in the Orient. Our men who have written
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  Speaker 1: most knowingly on industrial topics are James M. Swank and
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  Speaker 1: Joseph D. Weeks. A young writer, Francis Hill has published
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  Speaker 1: a very readable boy's story, Outlaws of Horseshoe Hole, and
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Sandwood Pierre has published The Pedagogues, a novel satirizing
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  Speaker 1: the Harvard Summer School. Reverend Henry C. McCook's very successful
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  Speaker 1: novel The Latimers is an engaging study of the Whiskey
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  Speaker 1: Insurrection of early Pittsburgh days. Thomas B. Plimpton is remembered
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  Speaker 1: by some as a writer of verse. Judge J. E.
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  Speaker 1: Park and Judge Joseph Mellon have written historical essays. Josiah
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  Speaker 1: Copley wrote Gathering. Beulah Logan Conway is the author of
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  Speaker 1: Money in Banking. He has also written a series of
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  Speaker 1: essays on evolution. Miss Karra Reese has published a little
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  Speaker 1: story entitled and She Got All That. Miss Willa Siebert
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  Speaker 1: Cather has just published her poems. Charles mcnight's Old Fort
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  Speaker 1: Duquain or Captain Jack the Scout is a a stirring
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  Speaker 1: book that has filled the hearts of many boys who
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  Speaker 1: love a good tale. William Harvey Brown's story on the
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  Speaker 1: South African Frontier was written and published while he was
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  Speaker 1: curator in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh. Has produced a group
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  Speaker 1: of standard school books, always of the very first importance
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  Speaker 1: in the literature of any country. Among these are the
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  Speaker 1: books by Andrew Bert and Milton B. Gough, and a
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  Speaker 1: series of readers by Lucius Osgood. Henry J. Ford's Rise
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  Speaker 1: and Growth of American Politics is a well studied work.
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  Speaker 1: Henry A. Miller's Money and by Metalism is a conscientious
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  Speaker 1: statement of his investigations of that question. Judge Marshall Brown
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  Speaker 1: has written two books, Bulls and Blunders and Wit and
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  Speaker 1: Humor of Famous sayings. Mark M. Bennett's Steam Navy of
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  Speaker 1: the United States is a useful technical work. L. C.
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  Speaker 1: Van Knappen, after pursuing his studies of Dutch literature in Holland,
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  Speaker 1: came to Pittsburgh and wrote a translation of Vondell's great
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  Speaker 1: Dutch classical poem. Lucifer Vondell published the original of his
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  Speaker 1: work some ten or fifteen years before Void Milton's Paradise
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  Speaker 1: Lost appeared, and critics have tried to show by the
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  Speaker 1: deadly parallel column that Milton drew the inspiration for some
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  Speaker 1: of his highest poetical flights from Vondeal. It is probable, however,
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  Speaker 1: that Milton was unconscious of the existence of Vandal's work. S. L.
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  Speaker 1: Fleischmann has translated the poems of Haine with Tenderness and Feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Ella Boyce Kirk has written several educational pamphlets. Morgan Neville
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  Speaker 1: published a poem Comparisons from that Prince Rupert of the Astronomers.
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  Speaker 1: Professor James E. Keeler, who has made more than one
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  Speaker 1: fiery dash across the borderland of known science. We have
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  Speaker 1: spectroscopic observations of nebulae that truly gifted woman. Margaretta Wade
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  Speaker 1: DeLand was born in Pittsburgh in eighteen fifty seven and
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  Speaker 1: resided here until her marriage in eighteen eighty. Among her
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  Speaker 1: books are John Ward Preacher, The Story of a Child,
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  Speaker 1: Philip and his Wife, and Old Chester Tales. Jane Gray
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  Speaker 1: Swisshelm wrote the recollections of an Eventful Experience under the
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  Speaker 1: title Half a Century of Life. Nicholas Biddle composed a
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  Speaker 1: studious life of Sebastian Cabot, and another book, Modern Chivalry.
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  Speaker 1: Missus Annie Wade has written poems and stories. The city
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  Speaker 1: has fathered many able writers against slavery and intemperance, among
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  Speaker 1: whom was William H. Burley, who wrote Our Country, William B.
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  Speaker 1: Conway wrote Cottage on the Cliff, from Reverend John Black,
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  Speaker 1: We Have the Everlasting Kingdom, and Reverend John Tassey published
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  Speaker 1: a Life of Christ. William G. Johnson's interesting book, Experiences
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  Speaker 1: of a forty nine Er, was published in eighteen ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: John Reid Scott has published two successful novels, The Colonel
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  Speaker 1: of the Red Hussars and Beatrix of Claire Martha fry
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  Speaker 1: Boggs wrote a romance of New Virginia. Then there are
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  Speaker 1: Polly and I by Cora Thurmston, Free at Last, and
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  Speaker 1: Emma's Triumph by Missus Jane S. Collins, Her Brother Donnard
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  Speaker 1: by Emily E. Verder, Essays by Anne A. Pierrepont, Sibitter,
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  Speaker 1: Human Progress by Thomas S. Blair Steele, A Manual for
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  Speaker 1: steel users, A useful monoger by William Metcalf, and Memoir
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  Speaker 1: of John B. Gibson by Colonel Thomas P. Roberts. Then
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  Speaker 1: there are some poor things from my own pen if
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  Speaker 1: in order to make the record complete, I may add
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  Speaker 1: them at the end. Oliver Cromwell History, eighteen ninety four.
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  Speaker 1: John Marmaduke, a romance of the English invasion of Ireland
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  Speaker 1: in sixteen forty nine. Eighteen ninety seven, Beowulf a poem
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  Speaker 1: nineteen oh one, pen Ruddick of the White Lambs a
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  Speaker 1: novel nineteen oh three, The Breton Episode a play nineteen
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  Speaker 1: oh three, The Sword of the Parliament a play nineteen
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  Speaker 1: oh seven, and this a short history of Pittsburgh nineteen
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  Speaker 1: oh eight. And such is the list, imperfect, though it
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  Speaker 1: may be, it is the best that I have been
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  Speaker 1: able to compose, But how large and full a measure
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  Speaker 1: of it? All is history, biography, philosophy, religion, nature, science, criticism, government,
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  Speaker 1: coinage and finance, art, poetry, drama, travel, adventure, fiction, society, education,
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  Speaker 1: All avenues of human ex activity, all themes of human speculation,
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  Speaker 1: have been covered in books written with more or less
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  Speaker 1: interest and power by men and women of Pittsburgh. Much
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  Speaker 1: of this volume of production is ephemeral, but some of it,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, is undoubtedly a permanent addition to
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  Speaker 1: the world's literature. End of Section twenty nine.