Source:Slogan-for-pittsburgh
"'Pittsburgh Promotes Progress': Slogan for Pittsburgh is selected: Contest judges find fitting phrase to boost industrial city: Young man is author: Over 6,000 suggestions are made to commission." Pittsburgh Sunday Post, Oct. 22, 1911, pp. 1–2. Newspapers.com 87356146, 87356147.
The slogan of Pittsburgh is "Pittsburgh Promotes Progress." The author is William Lichtenstul, 23 years old, a native Pittsburgher, a product educationally of the public schools, and a youth who has practically made his own way since the age of 15 years.
The Industrial Development commission decided the matter yesterday afternoon after several days of careful deliberation, during which the merits of many valuable suggestions were carefully weighed. The decision when finally made was unanimous. Mr. Lichtenstul, when told that his suggestion was the choice of the commission, said:
"I am glad to be able to contribute something to the movement for greater prosperity in Pittsburgh. I hope the slogan may prove of some help in the securing of new industries for the city. It is certain we need this to maintain us in our proper position.
"My opinion about the trouble with our city has been that it is due to excessive taxation. Being in the real estate business I hear a great many of the complaints of property owners and my observations convince me that they are well founded. I shall be glad, however, to help in any way I can with whatever measures may be decided upon by the industrial commission to better things."
SELECTION IS ONE OF SCORE FROM SAME MAN.
Mr. Lichtenstul received his education in the Forbes public school. He is employed by the Friedman Real Estate Company, of 402 Grant street, for whom he has worked since he was 15. He now occupies the position of manager of the rent department. He makes his home with his parents at 3441 Milwaukee street, Herron Hill.
Mr. Lichtenful's [sic] successful contribution was No. 517 out of a total of over 6,000. He contributed a score of suggestions.
The finding of the commission was based on a consideration of the fact that the slogan should be broad in purpose. One of the suggestions that was under consideration to the last was "Workshop of the World" and "Workshop for the World."
It was finally decided that this conception of Pittsburgh was general and world-wide and thus appropriate, but it was the sense of the commission and its advisory committee of newspaper owners and managing editors, that Pittsburgh should be presented in a broader light.
"Pittsburgh Promotes Progress" is expected to apply to the civic, educational, commercial, as well as the industrial advancement of the city. It was the sense of the joint committee that Pittsburgh has been specialized too much as to industrial achievement and that the world has become unconscious of the fact of the development of Pittsburgh as a residential center, as an educational center, and as a place worth living in as well as a place to make a living in.
City's Coat of Arms To Go With Slogan.
The commission will at once have drawings prepared embodying the slogan. It is the intent to use the slogan in connection with the coat-of-arms of the city, using the name Pittsburgh over the crest and "Promotes Progress" in a semicircle under it. Every user of the mails, every user of stationery, every manufacturer, every wholesaler and retailer will be urgd to use "Pittsburgh Promotes Progress" on every piece of matter sent out.
One of the suggestions considered by the joint committee was the slogan "Pittsburgh Needs No Slogan," but upon final consideration it was deemed too boastful.
The task of elimination out of the original list of over 6,000 has been going on for a week. All contributions were tabulated, numbered and timed and each contribution received given careful consideration. On Wednesday the list was reduced to 325. On Thursday the work of elimination brought the list down to 10 and Friday the list was reduced to five.
Medallion Proposed, But Is Rejected.
Many novel designs were submitted during the contest and scores of artistic conceptions were presented. One of the suggestions that received the careful consideration of the commission was in the form of a proposed medallion to be used as a pocket piece for distribution at conventions and public gatherings. The originator was Dean Widner, representative of a safe manufacturer with offices in the Magee building.
Mr. Widner, while not an artist, presented a sketch of a proposed medallion bearing on its front the resibn [sic] of the rising sun and the torch of publicity, together with the inscription "Faith, Unity and Progress," and "The Greater Pittsburgh," the suggestion for the reverse side, carries the coat-of-arms of the city, the name of the commission and the slogan. The suggestion is that such a medallion in the form of a fob or pocket-piece will offer a constant reminder of Pittsburgh. the commission had taken no action on the matter but is holding it for consideration together with other worthy considerations.
The slogan contest, while it presented the base for establishment of a wide public interest in the work of the commission, has acted as somewhat of a handicap. All the stationery of the commission has been of a temporary nature and much work has awaited the conclusion of this vexed question.
Preparing to Celebrate Navigation Centennial.
Preparations for the celebration of the centennial of the beginning of steam navigation on the western rivers under the auspices of the Historical society of Western Pennsylvania on October 30 and 31 and November 1 are rapidly approaching completion. As a preliminary thereto lectures on steam navigation will be given this week in the public schools by Rev. C. S. Bullock, of New London, Conn., a descendant of Chancellor Livingstone, of the firm of Fulton, Livingstone and Roosevelt, which built the New Orleans, the first steamboat to ply on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
A schedule of lectures, as prepared by the school committee, of which Superintendent Samuel Andrews is chairman, is as follows: Monday, 9:30 a. m., Grant school; 12:30 p. m., Peabody high schoo; 2:30 p. m., Highland school. Tuesday, 9 a. m., Allegheny high schoo; 11:15 a. m., Sixth ward school, Allegheny; 3 p. m., Eleventh ward school No. 1, Allegheny. Wednesday, 8:45 a. m., Central high school; 10 a. m., Fifth avenue high school; 1 p. m., Thaddeus Stevens school; 2:45 p. m., Central high school for Grade 8 of Forbes, Franklin, Oakland, Minersville and Moorhead school. Thursday, 10:30 a. m., Fifth ward school, Page street, Allegheny; 1:30 p. m., McNaugher school, Tenth ward, Allegheny; 3 p. m., Third ward school, North avenue, Allegheny; Friday, 8:45 a. m., South Side high school; 10 a. m., Morse school; 1 p. m., Sterrett school; 2:30 p. m., Howard school.
During the latter part of the week Dr. Bullock will deliver two illustrated evening lectures in Pittsburgh and Allegheny.
New Orleans Schedule Is Partially Arranged.
The schedule for the voyage of the New Orleans has been partially arranged. The boat will leave Pittsburgh on Thursday morning, November 2, at 7 o'clock. It will stop at East Liverpool from 11:30 a. m. till 12:30 p. m., and at Steubenville from 3 p. m. till 4 p. m., reaching Wheeling at 6:30 p. m. It will leave Wheeling the next morning at 7 o'clock, arriving at Marietta at 3:15 p. m., remaining until the next morning at 7 a. m. A stop will be made at Parkersburg from 8:30 till 9:30 a. m.
Huntington will be reached Saturday evening at 10 o'clock and the boat will remain there over night. She will be due at Cincinnati late Sunday evening. Monday will be spent in that city. Louisville will be reached at 8 p. m., Tuesday, November 7. Leaving the Kentuck city at 10 a. m., Wednesday, Cannelton will be reached that evening. On Thursday afternoon, November 9, at 2 o'clock, the New Orleans will arrive at Evansville, Ind., and remain over night.
Friday night will be spent at Paducah. Cairo will be reached on Saturday morning, November 11, at 11 a. m. A stop of a couple of hours will be made and the boat will proceed to New Madrid. The next day, Sunday, November 12, the voyage will be continued to Memphis. Other stopping places below Memphis will be Helena and Arkansas City, Ark.; Vicksburg and Natchez, Miss.; Baton Rouge and New Orleans, La.
Cities Are Preparing Enthusiastic Receptions.
The whole voyage is expected to take about three weeks. Upon the New Orleans will be representatives of the city of Pittsburgh, the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Industrial Development commission, and the Ohio Valley Improvemtn association. Word has already been received by Mayor Magee from most of the communities along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers that preparations are being made for an euthusiastic [sic] reception of the New Orleans.
The members of the marine committee are all hard at work perfecting the arrangements for the great steamboat parade on the afternoon of October 31. During the week the positions will be assigned to the large number of boats which have been already entered for the affair. Among these will be two for the members of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, who will be specially cared for at all the events in connection with the celebration. Quite a number of new applications for membership in the society have been received by the secretary, Burd S. Patterson, 1410 Keenan building. Other boats in the parade will be assigned to the Chamber of Commerce, the Allied Boards of Trade, the bureau of mines, the railroad transportation committee, Harbor 25, Master Pilots' association and the Ohio Society of Pittsburgh.
The latter has chartered the steamer Kanawha for the day of the river pageant and has asked Governor Judson D. Harmon and the Ohio congressman to be its guests. Arrangements have been made for the entertainment of the society's guests while here, and it is expected that most of those invited will be present.
Pastors Will Take Up Subject in Churches.
In accordance with the resolutions passed by the centennial committee requesting the pastors of churches to deliver special sermons next Sunday in connection with the celebration, Rev. John H. Prugh, of Grace Reformed Church, Dithridge and Bayard streets, has announced that he will deliver such a sermon next Sunday. Rev. C. S. Bullock will also give a special sermon at the First Unitarian Church, Ellsworth and Moorewood [sic] avenues, of which Rev. L. Walter Mason is the pastor. Dr. Leonard Levy will preach a centennial sermon next Saturday at Rodeph Shalom Synagogue, Fifth and Moorewood [sic] avenues.
The first meeting of the celebration will be held at 2 p. m., Monday, October 30, in the lecture hall of the Carnegie institute, when several historical addresses will be made. In the evening there will be a great waterway improvement meeting held at Carnegie Music hall, which will be addressed by Governor John K. Tener, Mayor William A. Magee, Congressman Nicholas Longworth, Colonel John L. Vance, Dr. C. S. Bullock, Congressman John Dalzell, and William H. Stevenson, president of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. Tuesday morning, October 31, at 10 o'clock, there will be historical lectures at the Lecture hall of the Carnegie library.
President Taft Will See Steamboat Parade.
On the afternoon of that day the steamboat parade will be held in the presence of President Taft, and the governors of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; in the evening the Chamber of Commerce banquet will be held. On Wednesday morning and afternoon historical lectures will be given in the Carnegie library lecture hall. In the evening there will be a great meeting in the Soldiers' Memorial, at which historical addresses will be made and the prizes be given to the successful school children competing in the essay contest. Admission will be free to all of the meetings under the auspices of the Historical society, but tickets will be required for the special boats in the river parade, including the Virginia, which has been selected as the flagship upon which will be President Taft and other distinguished guests. All the railroads have made special rates for the celebration.
