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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Doctor John A. Brashear. 



The main business streets and the finer residential portions of the city 

 are kept in as good condition as almost anywhere else. 



Thus far the reference has been to the physical and industrial 

 aspects. There are other elements worthy of note; lines of broader 

 development in which Pittsburgh has already attracted attention : 

 wherein she promises to exert, some day, an influence over a wide area. 

 These fields are represented by the Art Society, the Scientific Museum, 

 the Pittsburgh Orchestra, the Public Library System, the Technical 

 Schools, and the Astrophysical Observatory affiliated with the Western 

 University of Pennsylvania. One distinction must be named, the 

 observatory represents a field that has long since " arrived." Its work 

 is known to science the world over. 



The Pittsburgh Art Society was born in 1873; and out of that 

 society of thirty-five years ago have been developed the Carnegie Art 

 Galleries and the Pittsburgh Orchestra. The Museum, the Art Gal- 

 leries and the Technical School are several parts of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tute, toward the upbuilding of which, together with the library, Andrew 

 Carnegie has given many millions of dollars. The orchestra is a sepa- 

 rate entity, now self-supporting. 



