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026 - Intellectual - Chapter 5 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty five 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 five intellectual chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: In the East end is the Pennsylvania College for Women Presbyterian,
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  Speaker 1: chartered in eighteen sixty nine, which has one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: two students. On the north side Allegheny are the Allegheny
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  Speaker 1: Theological Seminary United Presbyterian, founded in eighteen twenty five, which
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  Speaker 1: has six instructors and sixty one students, the Western Theological
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  Speaker 1: Seminary Presbyterian, opened in eighteen twenty seven with sixty four
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  Speaker 1: students and twelve instructors and a library of thirty four
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  Speaker 1: thousand volumes, and the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, founded in
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  Speaker 1: eighteen fifty six. There are five high schools and a
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  Speaker 1: normal academy, and also the following private academies. Pittsburgh Academy
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  Speaker 1: for both boys and girls, East Liberty Academy for Boys,
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  Speaker 1: Late of Mercy Academy for girls and for boys in
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  Speaker 1: the lower grades, the Stuart Mitchell School for Girls, the
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  Speaker 1: Gleams School for Girls, the Thurston School for Girls, and
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  Speaker 1: the Ursuline Young Ladies Academy, The Phipps Conservatory Horticulture, the
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  Speaker 1: largest in America, and the Hall of Botany are in
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  Speaker 1: Shenley Park and were built by mister Henry Phipps. There
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  Speaker 1: is an interesting zoological garden in Highland Park which was
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  Speaker 1: founded by mister Christopher L. McGhee. The Pittsburgh Gazette, found
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  Speaker 1: in July twenty ninth, seventeen eighty six, and consolidated with
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Times eighteen seventy nine in nineteen o six
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  Speaker 1: as the Gazette Times, is one of the oldest newspapers
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  Speaker 1: west of the Allegheny Mountains. Other prominent newspapers of the
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  Speaker 1: city are the Chronicles, Telegraph eighteen forty one, Post eighteen
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  Speaker 1: forty two, Dispatch eighteen forty six, Leader eighteen seventy, Sunday
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  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four, Press eighteen eighteen three, and The Sun
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  Speaker 1: nineteen o six. There are also two German dailies, the
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  Speaker 1: Volksblat and Freeheights Frund, and the pittsburgher Biobactor, one Slavonic daily,
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  Speaker 1: one Slavonic weekly, two Italian weeklies. Besides journals devoted to
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  Speaker 1: society and the Iron Building and glass trades. The publishing
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  Speaker 1: house of the United Presbyterian Church is located here, and
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  Speaker 1: there are several periodical journals published by various religious bodies.
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  Speaker 1: The city has some very attractive public buildings and office buildings,
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  Speaker 1: and an unusual number of beautiful churches. The Alleghany County
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  Speaker 1: court House, in the Romanesque style, erected in eighteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: four to eighteen eighty eight at a cost of two million,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars, is one of Henry H. Richardson's masterpieces.
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  Speaker 1: The Nixon Theatre is a notable piece of architecture. The
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  Speaker 1: post office and the Customs Office are housed in a
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  Speaker 1: large government building of polished granite. The city has twenty
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  Speaker 1: or more hospitals for the care of its sick, injured,
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  Speaker 1: or insane, of which have schools for the training of nurses.
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  Speaker 1: There is the Western Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of
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  Speaker 1: the Deaf and Dumb in Pittsburgh, which is in part
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  Speaker 1: maintained by the state, where trades are taught as part
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  Speaker 1: of the educational system. The state also helps to maintain
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  Speaker 1: the Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, the Home for
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  Speaker 1: Aged and Infirm Colored Women and the Home for Colored Children.
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  Speaker 1: Among other charitable institutions maintained by the city are the
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  Speaker 1: Home for Orphans, Home for the Aged, Home for released convicts,
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  Speaker 1: and extensive system of public baths, The Curtis Home for
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  Speaker 1: Destitute Women and Girls, the Pittsburgh Newsboys Home, the Children's
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  Speaker 1: Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Protestant Home for Incurables,
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  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Association for the Improvement of the Poor, and
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  Speaker 1: the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
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  Speaker 1: to Animals, children and aged persons. Under the management of
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  Speaker 1: women's clubs, several playgrounds are open to children during the summer,
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  Speaker 1: where competent teachers give instruction to children over ten years
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  Speaker 1: of age in music, manual training, sewing, cooking, nature study,
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  Speaker 1: and colour work. The water supply of Pittsburgh is taken
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  Speaker 1: from the Allegheny River and pumped into reservoirs, the highest
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  Speaker 1: of which is Heren Hill, five hundred thirty feet above
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  Speaker 1: the river. A slow sand filtration plant for the filtration
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  Speaker 1: of the entire supply is under construction, and a part
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  Speaker 1: of it is in operation. In this last year, the
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  Speaker 1: legislature has passed an act prohibiting the deposit of sewage
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  Speaker 1: material into the rivers of the state, and this tardy
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  Speaker 1: action in the interest of decency and health, will stop
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  Speaker 1: the ravages of death through epidemic fevers caught from poisoned streams.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section twenty five