Business Interests of Pittsburgh:
• H. J. Heinz, p. 189.
• Joseph Horne Co., pp. 190.
• Boggs & Buhl Dry Goods Department Store, p. 191.
• Kaufmann's "The Big Store," p. 192.
• Dry Goods Store of McCreery and Company, p. 193.
  W. F. Frederick, p. 194.
• The Pittsburgh Steel Company, p. 195.
• The Pittsburgh Academy, p. 196.
• Brief Mentions, pp. 197-199.
• Boston Leather Binding Co., p. 200.
• The Church of Christ by a Layman, p. 201.

      The Cleanest, Largest, and Best-Equipped Pure Food Establishment of its kind in the World--comprising over 20 acres of floor-space--is located in Pittsburgh, and its doors are always open to visitors.

      A Few Facts About H. J. Heinz Co.--4,000 Employees, 400 Traveling Salesmen, 20 Acres Floor-space in Main Plant, 14 Branch Factories with 32 Acres Floor-space, 69 Salting Stations, 43 Branch Distributing-Houses, 30,000 Acres Under Cultivation, 40,000 Persons Required to Care for and Harvest Crops.

      Hours for Visitors from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guides in attendance. Only plant of the kind always open for inspection. Take Millvale car at Sixth Street and Penn Avenue, and ask the conductor. Ladies may be entertained in parties. Write for particulars.

      Last year over 30,000 visitors went through the Home of the 57 to see the care, the precision, and the marvelous equipment that have made Heinz Food the standard of excellence all over the world. [189]

      This store is not only the leading, but it is the largest and the oldest dry-goods store in Pittsburgh.

      Its natal year was 1849. From a pigmy it has grown to a giant. It has all the attachments of modern stores; eighty different departments, in which about everything for everybody can be obtained.

      It is situated in one of the most convenient spots in the city, at Penn Avenue and Fifth Avenue, and is accessible by all street-car lines, with the exception of those running from the South Side of the city.

      The illustration includes our new addition, which will be erected some time soon, and from the present selling-space of seven acres we will expand to a selling-space of twelve acres.

      All modern conveniences for the public, including Restaurant.

      Our mail-order business extends all over the country. A catalogue is published twice a year, March and September, and is mailed to any one who sends address.

      If you will let us have your name we'll mail you from time to time the catalogue, and other good literature which will interest you. [190]

renowned for its large assortments of medium to finest dry goods and related lines at small profit prices.

      Federal Street, Park Way, South and West Diamond Streets, North Side.

      A specialty store in everything it undertakes.

      A store that was founded in 1869--forty years ago; and its annual sales are many millions.

      Dress Goods, Silks, Furs, Women's Coats, Suits, Skirts, Waists, Muslinwear and Millinery.

      Men's and Boys' Clothing, Hats, and Furnishings.

      Rugs, Curtains, and Household articles of every description.

      Five minutes from foot of Fifth Avenue.

      Visits of inspection earnestly solicited.

      Mail Order Department that has a clientage in every State in the Union.

      Acquired this great Mail Order business with choice goods, furnishing them at the same low prices as sold over the counters. [191]

      Here are two things to remember when you come to Pittsburgh: First.--That Pittsburgh now has a population of over 600,000 (estimated), and is expected to rank as the fifth largest city in the United States at the next census.

      Second.--That Kaufmann's, Pittsburgh's biggest store, has 11 acres of floor-space, 2,500 employees, 100 delivery-wagons, and an electric plant big enough to light a town of 10,000 population. It sells "Everything under the Sun," and at such prices that it will pay you to defer your shopping until you come to this city.

      You are cordially invited to make "The Big Store" your headquarters while in Pittsburgh. It is right in the heart of the retail centre, near all the railroad-stations, and passed by cars that will take you direct to your Assembly. No better place to eat, rest, do your buying, and meet your friends. 'Tis the usual thing in Pittsburgh to say, "Meet me at Kaufmann's." [192]

      Women attending the convention of the Disciples of Christ will find one of the most interesting points of Pittsburgh to be the magnificent Dry Goods Store of McCreery and Company. This building is unique in every detail, and has many novel and fascinating features not found in other stores in the country.

      Beautiful rest-rooms, cozily and handsomely furnished, are provided for the comfort and convenience of patrons.

      The dining-hall, occupying the entire length of the building, on the ninth floor, is one of the most attractive features of the house. With its soft green walls, its grayish-green pillars, its green carpet, and its curiously tinted furniture, it displays a happy blending of color. The simplicity, the exquisite daintiness, the inviting repose, of such artistic taste is a matter of wonder at first, but most alluring in its unusual harmony. The furniture is of gray maple. The backs of the chairs are inlaid with pewter and copper in long, simple lines. Telephones are so arranged as to be placed on the tables when required.

      Guides are furnished on request to conduct visitors on a descriptive trip through this interesting and unusual building. [193]

      Starting as organist of the village church in the mountains of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, the boy William Franklin Frederick became, successively, music-teacher, piano dealer in the village of Listonburg, then in Uniontown, whence as a centre a vast organization has been built up, with stores in Washington, D. C.; Williamsport, Altoona, Johnstown, Charleroi, McKeesport, and Pittsburgh, Penn.; Cumberland, Md.; Cleveland and Canton, O.; and agencies all over the contiguous territory. The Pittsburgh store, occupying nine immense floors at 635-637 Smithfield Street, is the largest in the world devoted exclusively to selling pianos.

      And W. F. Frederick, eminent and successful merchant, is still church organist. Naturally, it is a pipe-organ at which he now presides, and it is a great congregation of a thousand souls whose worship he leads; but the soul of harmony and the heart of fidelity are just the same.

      All the pianos used in the Centennial sessions are furnished by the W. F. Frederick Piano Company, free of charge, and their Recital Hall is used for the weekly meetings of our Ministerial Association, on the same generous terms. [194]

      The Pittsburgh Steel Company is one of the largest industries in its line in the United States. It is a typical Pittsburgh enterprise, owned and operated by Pittsburgh men and managed with Pittsburgh energy and sagacity. Its immense plants are located at Monessen, Penn., and give employment to a great host of people. It was one of the few concerns that not only did not stop, but never even hesitated during the recent depression.

      It manufactures billets, bright wire, annealed wire, galvanized wire, barbed wire (on regular, pony, or 80-rod spools), galvanized twisted cable-fence wire, and hard spring-coil wire. In addition to all this it adds to its output wire-fence staples, poultry-netting staples, standard steel wire nails, large-head nails, and galvanized wire nails of all kinds. It manufactures steel hoops, steel bands, and cotton ties, and puts out the very best poultry fence wire.

      This is known as the "Pittsburgh Perfect." It is electrically welded and has stood the test of time and the stress of years.

      If you are interested to the least degree in the output of this celebrated firm do not hesitate to send for catalogue. Address, Pittsburgh Steel Company, Pittsburgh, Penn. [195]

      J. Warren Lytle, the president and founder of the Pittsburgh Academy, has built up an institution of commanding merit. Starting in 1882, with twenty pupils, the Academy has averaged more than five hundred each year since 1896. During its quarter of a century 7,000 young men and women have received their education wholly or in part in the Academy. Among these, many are prominent as ministers, lawyers, physicians, teachers, and successful business men.

      So well has the work been done that the Academy is well known all over the United States, and its graduates accepted in the leading universities without reëxamination. Besides fitting for classical courses in colleges and technical courses in scientific schools, there is a Normal Department that has qualified many of the finest teachers in the country. The Business Department ranks equally high. Well-graded and complete courses of study in bookkeeping and stenography fit students for the best and most exacting situations. The Academy now has beautiful and well-lighted rooms in the new May Building, corner Liberty and Fifth Avenues. [196]

      James Rees and Sons Company, Designers and Builders of Iron, Steel, and Wooden Steamboats. Pioneers in America in the building of Light Draught Knock Down Steamboats for Foreign Countries. They make a specialty of Steamboat Engines and Marine Boilers, Steam Capstans, Steam Pumps and Heaters; also builders of Rolling-Mill Engines, Gas Engines, and Gas Producers. Builders of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society's Centennial Steamboat "Oregon" for the Congo Mission.

      Some of the best printing done in Pittsburgh, including much of our own, comes from the Art Engraving and Printing Company, 3 Barker Place. The members of the firm work overtime. They buy directly from the mills, carry no bad accounts, and use the best machinery and latest approved processes.

      The Pittsburgh Life and Trust Co. absorbed the Washington Life Insurance Co. of New York, to the advantage of the policy-holders of both. Its management is safe and aggressive. W. C. Baldwin is president and James H. Mahan secretary.

      Prof. Geo. Kyme of 209 Bissell Block, Pittsburgh, Penn., with his revolutionizing methods of "Lightning Sight Reading," who develops in six lessons self-reliant readers, is open for engagement. [197]

      Born just thirty-seven years ago, in a storeroom so small that "you had to back out to the sidewalk to turn around."

      But now--Pickering's have forged to the front as the "largest credit furniture and carpet house in the world."

      Mention "Pickering's" anywhere within a several-hundred-mile radius of Pittsburgh and hear how quickly some one answers, "Your credit's good" or "Nuf ced!"

      The reason for the unprecedented growth of the business is as well known as Pickering's popular trade-mark expressions: fair dealing, nothing else. That means the best possible goods at the lowest prices consistent with a living profit; a hearty willingness to extend the people credit; an honest, wholesome way of treating customers after the goods have been delivered.

      At Tenth Street and Penn Avenue you will find furniture, carpets, rugs, draperies, gas and coal ranges, heaters, dinner-ware, toilet-ware, framed pictures, cut glass, and bric-a-brac.

      Pickering's have a beautifully illustrated book, telling all about this big business, which they will be glad to mail free to any point within a hundred miles of Pittsburgh. This book also contains an unusual Free Railroad Fare Offer to prospective purchasers. [198]

      "Mellor stands for Melody;" but while C. C. Mellor and Co. have been educating Pittsburgh up to the Steinway standard, they have also been among the leaders in all civic progress.

      The Freehold Real Estate Company offers the public unequalled facilities for the selling, buying, renting, and guardianship of property. 334 Fourth Avenue.

      The Rosenbaum Company's great department-store, Market Street from Liberty to Fifth Avenue, began forty-one years ago as a little millinery-shop.

      Campbell's Department Store, 327 Fifth Avenue.

      C. L. Netting, Jr., Tailor and Furnisher, 626 Smithfield Street.

      John Fite, Elgin Butter, Cheese, etc., 300-308 Ferry Street.

      Annie J. Schuyler, M.D., Room 21,146 Sixth St., cor. Penn Ave.

      Pittsburgh Provision and Packing Co., Union Stock-Yards.

      Taylor Brothers, House Furnishings, 934 Penn Avenue.

      James W. Houston Co., Wholesale Grocers, Fourteenth Street and Liberty Avenue.

      John Dimling's Confectionery, 409 Market Street.

      S. B. Charters, Groceries and Fresh Meats. Three stores: Grant Street and Third Avenue, East End, Wilmerding. [199]

      To develop business and make your advertising effective use articles made from leather that are especially adapted to serve the every-day needs and convenience of the user.

      They are the most useful, most permanent, the best appreciated, and most effective, and therefore they are the most economical, form of advertising that can be used.

      Business houses, large and small, in every line, use them in ever-increasing quantities, with gratifying profit.

      We are the manufacturers of the largest and best line of these special goods made or shown in America, manufacturing and selling direct to those desiring to develop and increase their business.

      We invite correspondence, and shall be glad to send illustrated descriptive matter embodying suggestions; also detailed plans for effectively using them in your advertising. [200]

      In three years Mr. J. A. Joyce, General Selling Agent, alone, with headquarters at 209 Bissell Block, Pittsburgh, has filled orders from all parts of the world for 34,000 copies. The fourteenth edition, revised, is now on sale. It is also published in Chinese and Japanese and is being translated into Hindi.

      A strong and rational plea for Christian Union by restoring the New Testament Church, "unencumbered by artificiality of Man-made Creeds and Denominational Divisions, which simply adopts Christ and His teachings in their original clearness, comprehensiveness, and purity."--Funk and Wagnalls Company, Publishers.

      "The Christian Commonwealth," London, says: "A most fascinating book."

      President J. W. McGarvey writes: "It presents the Church of Christ correctly and in a perfectly intelligible way."

      Charles Reign Scoville says: "Any Christian living a thousand miles from any church could take this book and with its description of the Church and its references to the Bible organize the Church of Christ and invite men of any faith to meet in Him." [201]

[CCP 189-201]