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PITTACUS 262 PITTSBURGH public career he was noted as a parlia- mentary leader and orator. He died in Putney, England, Jan. 23, 1806. PITTACUS, one of the seven sages of Greece ; born in Mitylene, in the island of Lesbos, about 650 B. C. He was a war- rior as well as a philosopher, expelled the tyrant Melantheus from Lesbos; and on becoming its sovereign, 590 B. C, dis- charged the duties of his station in the most exemplary manner; retired after a reign of 10 years, and died 570 B. C. PITTMAN, KEY, United States Sen- ator from Nevada. Born at Vicksburg, Miss., 1872 and began the practice of law in Seattle, Wash., at twenty years of age. When the search for gold occurred in the Klondike region he joined in the movement and worked for two years as a miner. During this period he fought the corrupt governments estab- lished in many Alaskan towns and fought for the miners in the courts against attempts to defraud them of their rights. In 1901 he removed to Tonopah, Nev. In January, 1913, he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and re-elected 1917. PITTSBURG, a city of Kansas in Crawford co., about 130 miles S. of Kansas City. It is on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Missouri Pa- cific, the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Joplin and Pittsburg, and the Kansas City Southern railroads. The city is in an extensive coal mining region. Among its industries are foundry and machine shops, lumber mills, packing houses, etc. There is a public library, a State normal manual training school. Pop. (1910) 14,755; (1920) 18,052. PITTSBURGH, 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 the Ohio river, and on the Pennsylvania System, the Baltimore and Ohio, the New York Central, the Wabash, and other railroads; 353 miles W. of Phila- delphia; 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 have a storage capacity of 230,000,000 gal- lons, 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 cov- ers 650 miles. There are over 500 miles of street railways. Notable Buildings. — The principal pub- lic buildings are the Allegheny court house; the Carnegie Foundation, includ- ing the Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art and Science, the Allegheny county court house, St. Paul's Cathedral, and many other churches; Masonic Temple; Eighteenth Regiment Armory; and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. There are also many fi.ne business edifices, hotels and theaters; the United States Bureau of Mines. Manufacttires.— The two chief indus- tries are the production of iron and steel; but there are many other flourishing manufactures. The city is well known as the Iron City, for there is nothing in the iron industry which is not here manufactured, including locomotives, bridges, shafting, brakes, all sizes of nails, and the most delicate watch springs. There are in Pittsburgh beside blast furnaces and iron and steel works over 2,500 manufacturing establishments, employing more than 75,000 persons. The most important manufacture next to iron products is glass in many varieties. There are also large tanneries, and man- ufactories of steel cars, paper bags, car- bon points, boots and shoes, white lead, etc. The lumber and pork-packing in- dustries are very large. Banks. — On Sept. 1, 1919, there were 22 National banks in operation, as well as many private banks and trust companies. Education. — At the close of the school year 1919 there were over 80,000 chil- dren enrolled in the public day schools. There is also an excellent system of night schools, kindergartens, and manual training schools, and many_ private schools. The institutions for higher ed- ucation include University of Pitts- burgh, Western University of Pennsyl- vania, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh Academy, Pittsburgh Female College; School of Design for Women, Pennsyl- vania College for Women, Carnegie In- stitute of Technology, several theological seminaries, several commercial colleges, Bishop Bowman Institute, Ursuline Academy, Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, and county and city medical schools. Churches and Charitable Institu- tions. — 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 Pres- byterian, 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-