Excerpt from Manual of the Civic and Charitable Organizations of Greater Pittsburgh: And of the Higher Educational Institutions, With a Brief Review of Mayor Guthrie's Administration Under the joint action of various civic and philanthropic organizations, upon whose invitation the joint annual convention of the National Municipal League and American Civic Association will be held in Pittsburgh November 16th to 19th, inclusive, a Citizens' Committee on Reception and Entertainment was appointed. In view of the reports of the Pittsburgh Survey to be made public at that time, under the auspices of the Sage Foundation, the sub-committee on Publicity decided that it would be an appropriate and useful contribution to the literature of the convention, both as a record and as a measure of comparison with other municipalities, to issue a manual of the forces engaged in ameliorating the conditions of living in Pittsburgh; this to include a review of the municipal, philanthropic and...