A home garden in Duquesne 

 and the gardener 



Near the end of the season in the 

 children's gardens in Duquesne 



Children's Gardens in a Steel Town 



Lena S. Thomas 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



The Cit}^ of Duquesne is situated on the west bank of the 

 Monongahela River and is about half an hour's ride by train from 

 the City of Pittsburgh. It is essentially a manufacturing town, 

 its growth being the result of the location there of the Duquesne 

 Steel Co. founded by Andrew Carnegie himself. The material 

 prosperity of the city is dependent for the most i^art on the pros- 

 perity of these mills. 



The town might almost be completely divided into two sections, 

 those east and west of the tracks of the Penn. R. R. which runs 

 north and south the length of the city. To the east of the tracks 

 are built the company's mill and to the east of the tracks dwells a 

 badly congested foreign population. 



I have been told that in the years before the ])lay-ground and 

 gardens became an established part of the community life there, it 

 was quite an unsafe place to walk the streets. That condition 

 must have long passed away for I have never experienced anything 

 but genuine welcome from, these same foreign i)eoi)lc. 



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