182 PITTSBURGH attended and maintained by the colored popula tion, 20 of these being Baptist and 11 Methodist. Many of the church edifices are large and some very beautiful and costly. Saint Paul's Catholic Cathedral, situated at the corner of Fifth avenue and Craig street, is a very large and stately structure in a somewhat inornate Gothic style, imposing by its mass rather than by the perfection of its lines. Episcopalian Church on Shady avenue, designed by Ralph Adams Cram, is pronounced in Baedeker's 'Guide to the United States' to be °the finest example of Norman Gothic in the New World.° Trinity Church, in the heart of the old city, is a fine edifice, and so also are the First and Third, the Shadyside and the Bellefield Presby terian churches, and Christ Methodist Episcopal Church. But these are only a few of the really noble church buildings which have been erected in the city, principally in the past three decades.
Hospitals, etc.— The city is well supplied with hospitals, some of which are very large, and most of which occupy buildings which are modern. There are 48 hospitals and infirma ries, the largest being the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, the Mercy Hospital, the Elizabeth Steele Magee Memorial Hospital, founded by the late C. L. Magee in memory of his mother, by the donation of about $4,000,000, the Alle gheny General Hospital, the Columbia, and the Homcepathic Hospital, but there are many others, nearly as large. There are numerous special hospitals, for the treatment of diseases of special organs, such as the eye and the ear, or for the treatment of special forms of disease, such as tuberculosis, etc. The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane at Dixmont, a nearby suburb, is a huge establishment, administered by the trustees of the Western Pennsylvania Hospital. Almost all the hospitals are in re ceipt of aid from the treasury of the State of Pennsylvania, but depend in the main upon the charity of the citizens.
Charities Other than Hospitals.—There are 250 or more charitable institutions or founda tions in the city, other than those which tare directly for the sick and wounded, and which ate maintained by charitable gifts by the living or with funds which have been bequeathed to them by the dead. One of the unique founda tions created by Mr. Andrew Carnegie is The
Hero Fund. His gift consisted of $5,000,000, which he entrusted to a body of 21 trustees with the power of self-perpetuation, who were in structed to use the annual interest in caring for those in civil life, who may have made heroic efforts at the risk of their own lives to save the lives of others, or in event of death in the performance of the act, to care for desti tute dependents. The operation of the fund is restricted to the United States, Canada and Newfoundland. Since the trustees accepted the trust in 1905 they have had before them over 20,000 cases of alleged heroism, and have made awards in over 1,500 cases. The awards con sist in every case of a medal, reinforced by a donation of money for a worthy purpose in all needy cases. The monetary award is made for the purchase of homes, the payment of debts, establishment in business or in the case of the young for education. Pensions are given to widows and orphans. At the present time the fund is paying pensions to 250 widows, and is caring for 226 children, left fatherless; is edu cating in school and college 46 young people; and providing for 16 other poor people. The fund through wise investments has increased to nearly $8,000,000 and its annual benefactions amount to nearly a quarter of a million of dol lars, carefully expended under vigilant super vision in such a way as to benefit and not pauperize the recipients. The Carnegie and United States Steel Pension Fund for the re lief of aged and incapacitated employees is ad ministered in offices adjoining those of the Hero Fund, and have at their disposal the interest of $12,000,000. The Western Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, the Western Penn sylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, are great and well-administered establishments. Scores of others might be named, but to describe them all would be to write a volume. Suffice it to say that in proportion to the num ber of its inhabitants there .is no other city in the country which has shown a more benevolent and altruistic spirit, recognizing the responsi bility of those who have to minister to those who may be in need. No call for help ever reached the ears of Pittsburgh which has been allowed to pass unheeded.