PITTI PALACE 



PITTSBURGH 



NAPOLEON I, up to 1805. Consult Macaulay's His- 

 tory of England; Green's History of the English 

 People. 



PIT'TI PALACE, a famous palace at Flor- 

 ence, Italy, begun in 1440 after designs by Bru- 

 nelleschi. He died when but the first story had 

 been built, and the remaining two stories were 

 not added until over a century later. The origi- 

 nal designs had been lost, and new ones were 

 made, but despite this change of plan the build- 

 ing ranks as one of the most imposing palaces 

 in the world. Much rough stone was used in 

 its construction. 



Originally built for the Pitti family, whose 

 head was chief magistrate of the republic, it 

 became in the sixteenth century the property 

 of the grand dukes of Florence and to-day is 

 one of the residences of the king of Italy. A 

 new vestibule and stairway, quite in keeping 

 with the rest of the building, were added in the 

 r part of the nineteenth century. The 

 Pitti Palace is particularly noteworthy for its 

 collection of paintings, one of the finest in the 

 world, containing works by Raphael, Titian, 

 Andrea del Sarto, Durer, Rubens, Rembrandt 

 and others. 



PITTSBURG, KAN., a city in Crawford 

 County, in the southeastern corner of the > 

 1?9 miles south of Kansas City. It is on the 

 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Saint Louis 

 & San Francisco, the Kansas City Southern and 

 the Missouri Pacific railroads and has electric 

 interurban service. The population, which in 

 1910 was 14,155, had increased to 17332 (Fed- 

 eral estimate) in 1916. The area of the city is 

 nearly five square miles. 



In Pittsburg is located the Kansas Manual 

 Training Normal School. Other prominent fea- 

 tures are the public library, Y. M. C. A. build- 

 ing and Lincoln Park. The city, is the center 

 of important bituminous coal operations, and 

 ships annually 7,000,000 tons, valued at about 

 $15,000.000. 



In this city are the shops of the Kansas City 

 Southern Railway, a foundry, machine shops, 

 and manufactories of vitrified and building 

 brick (annual output, 1,000 carloads), mat- 

 tresses, artificial stone, knives and other com- 

 modities. Pittsburg was settled in 1876 and 

 incorporated in 1880. The city has adopted the 

 commission form of government, and owns the 

 water system. 



STORY OF PITTSBURGH 



ITTSBURGH, PA., the second city of the 

 state in population and in manufactures, rank- 

 \t to Philadelphia. It is popularly called 

 CITY, as it is the center of the 

 world's largest manufacturing district for iron 

 and steel. It is the county seat of Allegheny 

 County, and is situated in the southwestern 

 part of Pennsylvania, where the Mononnalu la 

 Irnheny rivers unite to form the Ohio 

 What is known as the Pittsburgh Met ro- 

 i District includes Homestead, M 

 \Vilkmsburg. Braddock and more than 

 IMT boroughs, all intimately associated 

 commercially and socially with th< 

 Taken as a unit, the district excels Philadelphia 

 in manufactures. The city of Allegheny, on 

 the opposite bank of the Allcplx n 

 annexed to Pittsburgh in 1907. The original 

 l'in>l>unih !"> i" tl,,- point" formed by the 



meeting of the Monongahela and Allegheny 

 rivers, and is built mainly on hilltops, some of 

 which rise to heights of more than 500 feet. 

 The uneven surface necessitates the use of 

 bridges, of which there are about fifty within 

 the city limits, besides many railway bridges 

 and those owned by private corporations. No 

 other city in the United States has so many 

 bridges. 



Characteristic Features. Docks, warehouses, 

 tenement^ and manufacturing plants are crowded 

 into the "point" near the n\r. wherever low, 

 suitable sites are found. Along the rm -r banks 

 for more than twenty miles arc situated tl*' 

 immense rolling mills, blast furnaces, foundries 

 and various other manufacturing plants of the 

 Pittsburgh District. In the early days tlns- 

 plants, using soft coal, caused much smoke, and 

 consequently the city was nicknamed THK 



