The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-29

hill and valley. There is nothing in
Italy 10 match it. There was another
thing that astonished me. As l gazed
on this city, so full Of wealth and indus
try, wondered that city OF 25,OOo
inhabitants was without q railroad.
You have switch here, l believe, on
which person is permitted to ride into
the city if he behaves himself, but let
me ask you where is another city OF
$4,000 in the United States without
railroad advantages and connections ?
As stood upon the hill where your
cemetery is located, l saw where a bill
could be dug down and valley filled
up, making building lots worth $lOOO
to $500 each and ready to hold homes
for the laboring men and mechanics
railroads will bring here.
Mr.. kellogg gave very humorous
description OF his travels in the early
days from Schenectady to Albany and
Buffalo and throughout the West, and
contrasted the mode of travel to-day with
that of other days. In referring to our
beauty of location he said: What do
you suppose the people out on the
pralries, if they had one OF your hills,
would do with it? Why, they would
put a pleasure garden upon the top aud
run nine railroads to it.
You will double the value Of the
property in Wheeling as soon as this
road is finished. Build this road in
town. Don't have your depot out OF
town. Put it in the city that you may
have all the advantages resulting from
it. You have one railroad. What's
one railroad? It's a good deal like a
man having only one leg. One rail-
road What's the use Of only one
railroad? Where there is but one
railroad the people are imposed upon
aud skinned. And they ought to be.
II they don't know enough to have
more than one they ought to
be slaves to it. Build this Lake
Erie railroad and it will place
you in such condition that you can
easily aid all others that may ask your
aid. These fellows who are objectipg
to your road understand that; they are
only laughing at you. They know that
if this road be built you can build the
others also. And you should. Vote
for the Lake Erie then for the Tusca-
rawas and every other one. When you
get one road built, don't stop, but keep
looking around to see where you can
put another. Railroads are necessary
to the prosperity of any city. We live
faster In these days OF machinery than
our fathers did. A man can accom-
plish more in fifty years now
than Methusalen could in all the
eight hundred years he lived.
Let me urge upon this audience Of
thinking, earnest men to build this road
and bridge. You will lind it the best
investment you ever made. Wealth
will flow to your city, labor will be in
demand, and you will enter upon a
new career OF prosperity and useful
ness.
MR.. DANIEL PECK, OF WHEELING,
followed Mr.. Kellogg in few remarks
warmly approving of the proposed rail.
road and bridge. He thought that the
reason why Wheeling had not kept pace
with Cleveland and Pittsburgh was
from her lack Of railroad facilities.
The proposed road would be a great
through line between Toledo aad Balti-
more and could not fail to be profitable.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Peck's re-
marks it was announced that railroad
meeting will be held tonight at Steu-
benrauch's Hall, in the Eighth ward at
which several speeches will be delivered
in English and German, and a meeting
will be held tomorrow evening at the
Hose House in the First ward. The
meeting was then adjourned.
During the progress OF the speeches
dispatch was received from Judge Hen
dry, of Saudusky, announcing that a
vote will be taken in that city in June
or July on the question of subscribing
100000 to the Wheeling and Lake
Erie road. A dispatch was also re-
ceived from Toledo, asking for tele-
graphic report Of the proceedings of
the meeting.
Taken altogether it was the largest
and most interesting railroad meeting
that has ever been held in this city.
The audience was densely crowded, but
the speeches were listened to with great
attentian to the close, and all present
seemed determined to both vote and
work for the railroad and bridge sub
scriptions next saturday.