EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. Pittsburg has a well-equipped educational system. which in cludes 86 ward and three high schools. In 1903 the number of teachers and principals was 1044, and the total enrollment of pupils 40,868. The expenditures for educational purposes were $1.658,716. The control of the ward schools is vested in district school hoards, the districts usually being coextensive with the wards. The Central Board of Education. composed of one representative from each district board, has direct control of the high schools and regulates the preparatory courses of study. Each district makes its own tax levy. The bonded indebted ness of the various school districts in 1903 was $1,957,000. Tide Central Board annually appro priates money for kindergartens and summer schools. which are pa rtly supported by societies. The private educational institutions of the city include the Pittsburg Academy, Pitts burg College of the lloly Ghost (Boman Catho lie), -leadenly of Our Lady of (Boman Catholic), for girls, Bishop Bowman institute (Protestant Episcopal). Pennsylvania College for Women, Shadyside Academy, Kindergarten College, departments of law. medicine. dental surgery, and pharmacy of the Western Univer sity of Pennsylvania. Institution for the Blind, and. in the suburb of Edgewood, the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb; also numerous paro chial schools.
1901 Andrew Carnegie offmcd to present to the city a free institute of technology. The oiler the city agreeing to furnish the site and maintain the school. ln 1903 a site, costing :;4350,000, was bought near the free library.
ommt.mr; AND INDUSTRY. Pittsburg has been since its foundation the natural transfer point bet‘‘cen the East and West. It is a port of entry, and its imports for the year ending 31, 1903. anointed 01 $1,504,705. The its's rapid growth. however, is due to its indus trial aetic it les, and these owe their supremacy to the abundant fuel supply. Coal and coke form the largest items in the immense freight tonnage of Pittsburg. a tonnage which surpasses that of
New York and Chicago combined, and which has no equal in the world. The railroad freight for 1902 exceeded 80,000.000 tons. while the water tonnage approximated 0,500.000 tons. The manu facturing interests of the city date hack to the eh ?se of the eighteenth century. Iron-working and glass-making were early engaged in, and glass and steel are still the leading products. According to the census of 1900 Pittsburg had invested in manufaetnring, within its municipal limits $193.162.900. and the annual product was worth $.203,261,23I. In adjoining cities and towns were plants with an invested capital of about two-thirds of the corresponding amount given above. The Greater Pittsburg produces an nually 3,500.000 tuns of pig iron, or about 22 per cent. of the entire output of the country. Finished products include wire, nails, boiler and hull plate, rails, angle iron, sheet, tinned sheet, agricultural implements. stoves, engines, boilers, plumbing and sanitary supplies. enam eled ware, electrical maehinery, tubes, armor plate, projectiles, and air brakes. The manufac tures of iron and steel have overshadowed the activities in other lines, which, however, are important. In 1900 the value of the glass pro duct wits $2,778.847. The largest cork factory in the world is in Pittsburg. The output of manu factured copper is 500.000 pounds annually. In the production of electrical cable for underground use 'it Wm rg leads the country. Among other industries of importanee are the manufacture of pottery, brick, chemicals. acids, jewelry, asbes tos, shoes, tobacco and cigars, mirrors, malt and spirituous liquors. clothing. oleomargarine, rub ber, and aluminum. In these employments and others 69.977 workmen were engaged in 1900. The number of manufacturing establishments was 193S. A large business is done in petroleum pro ducts. several refineries being in tbe city.