WHITNEY, PA

An early 1900s article in The Coal Trade Bulletin described Whitney and nearby Hostetter. "Considerable attention has been directed recently to Hostetter and Whitney, the two towns which have grown up around the plants of the Hostetter-Connellsville Coke Co., near Latrobe, Pa.

While in no sense social experiments or 'model' towns, the care that has surrounded their growth and development has resulted in making them ideal industrial communities. The general features of the two towns are practically the same as others of the kind. The company houses, numbering about 120 in each, are of the usual type, except, possibly, that their construction is somewhat better than the average. The population is the usual mixed order and the usual social and convivial habits of such communities are not lacking. There is, however, a vast moral and physical difference between those towns and other industrial communities. Both were laid out on approved scientific lines, with wide streets and plenty of ground room for the dwellings, which are double. Shade trees adorn the streets, good schools and churches have been provided, the town has its own mountain water supply, and with low rents, cheap fuel, reasonable prices for the commodities and steady work, there is every reason for the inhabitants to be satisfied. The advantages thus provided have inculcated a spirit of civic pride among the dwellers, and industry and progress are watchwords with them."