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o commemorate another hero of the war." "I saw 'Duquesne Way' marked on the map," announced Ethel Blue. On the following morning they awakened to find themselves opposite a large and beautiful park with a mass of handsome buildings rising impressively at the entrance. "It is Schenley Park and the buildings house the Carnegie Institute. We'll go over them by and bye." "It's a library," guessed Dicky, who was not too young to have the steelmaker's name associated with libraries in his youthful mind. "It is a library and a fine one. There's also a Music Hall and an art museum and a natural history museum. You'll see more fossil ferns there, and the skeleton of a diplodocus--" "A dip-what?" demanded Roger. "Diplodocus, with the accent on the _plod_; one of the hugest animals that ever walked the earth. They found the bones of this monster almost complete in Colorado and wired them together so you can get an idea of what really 'big game' was like in the early geological days." "How long is he?" "If all the ten members of the U.S.C. were to take hold of hands and stretch along his length there would be space for four or five more to join the string." "Where's my hat?" demanded Roger. "I want to go over and make that fellow's acquaintance instanter." "When you go, notice the wall paintings," said his mother. "They show the manufacture and uses of steel and they are considered among the finest things of their kind in America. Alexander, the artist, did them. You've seen some of his work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York." "Pittsburg has the good sense to have a city organist," Mr. Emerson continued. "Every Sunday afternoon he plays on the great organ in the auditorium and the audience drifts in from the park and drifts out to walk farther, and in all several thousand people hear some good music in the course of the afternoon." "There seem to be some separate buildings behind the Institute." "The Technical Schools, and beyond them is the Margaret Morrison School where girls may learn crafts and domestic science and so on." "It's too bad it isn't a clear day," sighed Ethel Blue, as she rose from the table. "This is a bright day, Miss," volunteered the waiter who handed her her unnecessary sunshade. "You call this clear?" Mrs. Morton asked him. "Yes, madam, this is a bright day for Pittsburg." When they set forth they shook their heads over the townsman's idea of a clear day, for t
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