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Pittsburgh (City port of entry)

a city, port of entry, and county-seat of Allegheny co., Pa., at the confluence of the Monongahela and the Allegheny rivers, at the head of Education. At the close of the school year 1919 there were over 80,000 children enrolled in the public day schools. There is also an excellent system of night schools, kindergartens, and manual training schools, and many private ucation include University of Pittsburgh, Western University of Pennsylvania, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh Academy, Pittsburgh Female College; School of Design for Women, Pennsylvania College for Women, Carnegie Institute of Technology, several theological the Ohio river, and on the Pennsylvania seminaries, several commercial colleges, System, the Baltimore and Ohio, the New York Central, the Wabash, and other railroads; 353 miles W. of Philadelphia; area, 41.61 square miles; pop. (1890) 238,617; (1900) 321,616; (1910) 533,905; (1920) 588,343.

Municipal Improvements. - The city owns a waterworks system, costing over $7,000,000. The filtration plants ts have a storage capacity of 230,000,000 gallons, and the water is distributed through nearly 750 miles of mains.

There are in all about 1,000 miles of streets paved. The sewer system covers 650 miles. There are over 500 miles of street railways.

Notable Buildings. The principal public buildings are the Allegheny court Bishop Bowman Institute, Ursuline Academy, Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, and county and city medical schools.

Churches and Charitable Institutions. There are over 250 churches in Pittsburgh. The most important of these are St. Paul's Cathedral, Trinity (P. E.), St. Peter's (P. E.), First Presbyterian, United Evangelical (German), First Baptist, English Evangelical, etc.

Among the charitable institutions are the Western Pennsylvania, City General, the Homeopathic, the Mercy, St. Francis, Passavant's, St. Margaret Memorial, and East End Charity Hospitals; Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum, Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Western State Institu- PITTSBURGH UNIVERSITY 263 PIUS tion for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, ton. Here are waterworks, gas and Finances.-In 1919 the total bonded Home for Incurables, etc. debt of the city was $35,199,093, less sinking fund. The assessed valuation in 1919 was real estate $806,020,730, and tax rate $1.33 per hundred. ber of daily and weekly newspapers. It is chiefly a mining town, though there electric lights, several banks, ks, and a num are several manufacturing industries, including a knitting mill, a silk mill, foundries and stove, car-wheel, engine, and assessed property valuation of nearly $1,500,000. Pop. (1910) 16,267; (1920) 18,497.

History. In 1754, at the suggestion iron roofing works. The city was setof George Washington the English began tled about 1770, was incorporated as a borough in 1853, and became a city of site of the city. They were, however, the third class in 1894. Pittston has an driven away by the French, who built a fort at the junction of the two rivers ter two unsuccessful attempts to retake the place, the English Forbes made a third attempt, and the lish under General In the following year another fort was erected here, named in honor of William Pitt. Shortly after a village was established by some English and Scotch settlers. The British withdrew from the post in 1772, and it was held by Virginia in 1775-1779. The place was incorporated as a city March 18, 1816.