Excerpt from The Pittsburgh District: Civic Frontage In binding up the minor reports at this date in permanent form, only those are included which as transcripts of the human consequences of some phase of our civic or economic order, as cross sections of the community life, or as exhibits of either retrograde or nascent social institutions, will be of service generally to those at work upon the fabric of the common welfare. Booth compressed into a single masterful phrase the scope of his panoramic analysis of the People of London. He dealt with their life and labor. We fell into the same great division in our much less exhaustive study of the wage-earning population of Pittsburgh, taking up both the civic conditions which bore especially upon them, and their industrial relations. It has been natural to employ the same division in bringing out these final monographs under two titles: The Pittsburgh District and Wage-earning Pittsburgh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.