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027 - Intellectual - Chapter 6 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section twenty six 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 six Intellectual Chapter six.
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh maintains by popular support, one of the four symphony
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  Speaker 1: orchestras in America. She has given many famous men to science, literature,
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  Speaker 1: and art. Her astronomical observatory is known throughout the world.
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  Speaker 1: Her rich men are often liberal beyond their own needs,
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  Speaker 1: particularly so William the Faugh, who spent great sums for
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  Speaker 1: education and benevolence, Missus Mary Schenley, who has given the
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  Speaker 1: city a great park over four hundred acres in the
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  Speaker 1: very heart of its boundaries, and Henry Phipps, who erected
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  Speaker 1: the largest conservatory for plants and flowers in our country.
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  Speaker 1: There is one other, Andrew Carnegie, whose wise and continuous
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  Speaker 1: use of vast wealth for the public good is nearly
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  Speaker 1: beyond human precedent. If Pittsburgh people were called upon to
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  Speaker 1: name their best known singer, they would, of course, with
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  Speaker 1: one accord, say Stephen C. Foster. His songs are verily
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  Speaker 1: written in the hearts of millions of his fellow creatures.
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  Speaker 1: For who has not sung Old Folks at Home, Nellie Bligh,
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  Speaker 1: My Old Kentucky Home, and the others Ethelbert Nevin is
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  Speaker 1: the strongest name among our musical composers, his Narcissus, the
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  Speaker 1: Rosary and many others being known throughout the world. Charles
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  Speaker 1: Stanley Reinhardt, Mary Cassotte and John W. Alexander are the
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  Speaker 1: best known among our painters. Henry O. Tanner, the only
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  Speaker 1: Negro painter, was born in Pittsburgh and learned the rudiments
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  Speaker 1: of his art here. Albert S. Wall, his son A.
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  Speaker 1: Bryan Wall, George Hetzel, and John W. Beattie have painted
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  Speaker 1: good pictures, as have another group which includes William A. Coffin,
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  Speaker 1: Martin B. Lesser, Jasper Lawman, Eugene A. Poole, Joseph R. Woodwell,
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  Speaker 1: William H. Singer, Clarence M. Johns, and Joanna Woodwell Hillman.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas S. Clark is a Pittsburgh painter and sculptor. Philander C.
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  Speaker 1: Knox United States Senator and John Dowzell, member of the
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  Speaker 1: House of Representatives, are prominent among those who have served
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh ably and the national government. End of Section twenty
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