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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
LANDSCAPE WORK IN SCHENLEY PARK, PITTSBURG 
CONCRETE BRIDGE NO, 2, SCHENLEY PARK. 
Showing cut into hill in order to get out of the Ravine, 
One of the surest indications of 
the permanent advancement of any 
city is the condition of her public 
parks. These are not only her breath- 
ing places, but sources of culture and 
refinement. It is pleasing to note 
that the city known not so very many 
years ago as ‘‘The Smoky City," has 
emerged from the grimy atmosphere, 
and while now deservedly holding the 
sobriquet, “The World’s Workshop,’’ 
she has made rapid strides along lines 
of culture, and in none more notice- 
ably than through her splendid sys- 
tem of parks. 
A few years ago Pittsburg had only 
one park, a long narrow affair scarce- 
ly worthy of the name. Today her 
park system comprises more than 900 
acres, of which Highland, containing 
the “Zoo,” and a fine bronze monu- 
ment to her Stephen Foster, author 
of “The Old Kentucky Home,” is 
easily second in importance. But 
Schenley, 420 acres of magnificent 
scenery less than three miles from 
the heart of the city, compares fa- 
vorably with any of the great Amer- 
ican parks. 
Three hundred acres of this tract 
are a gift from Mrs. Mary Schenley, 
who inherited it from her grand- 
father, one of the pioneer settlers and 
the founder of the glass in.dustry in 
Pittsburg; the remainder she sold to 
the city for a nominal sum. The 
tract consists of rolling plains diver- 
sified by picturesque ravines, some of 
which are still in the primeval state. 
At the entrance stands Carnegie Li- 
brary building, a massive structure 
covering more ground than the Capi- 
tol at Washington, the greatest of 
Carnegie’s gifts. Beyond are the 
Carnegie Technical Schools, where 
nearly two and one-quarter thousand 
pupils are learning the best things in 
industrial education every year. A 
short distance away is the Phipps 
Conservatory, the gift of Carnegie’s 
playmate of barefoot days and part- 
ner in those which made millionaires, 
and one of the finest conservatories 
in the world. Thus the best that both 
nature and art can give are happily, 
clustered in Schenley; and the much 
debated question of which is the su- 
perior will still prove as difficult to 
answ'er as in the debating clubs of a 
generation ago. 
The visitor to Phipps Conservatory 
CONCRETE BRIDGE NO. 1, SCHENLEY PARK. 
Hougli .stony .surface conceal.s the concrete. 
