The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-03
HAMILTON FISH,
JOSE Polo BARNABE
How Wheeling Looks.

,IyAn oil Cmp!oyc Of the Intoligencer Ju.t re.
turned
To ia habilues, the healthy growth OF
atOwn Is sort Of snail's gait-slow, but
sure. They go up and down Its streets,
sud with whatever Of change takes place,
they ever keep the connecting link. There
iiuUthiDg new 10 them. The streets con.
liaue Us familiar US the threshold OF their
UTn domciis. Years oil absence are o
magic lantern that throws new pictures
in strong light on old familiar grounds.
We have returned from our wander.
iugs, aud there is in certain localities Of
tue city just enough Of the old familiar
tOimprcss us lorcibly with the march Of
Improvement that has characterized the
l4s, few years. There Is something OK.
ceediugly gratifying to the Wheelingite
10 comparing the slow but steady adj
vance our city has made, with the mush-
room growth ol more pretentiOus towns
snd cities that stand today where but
yesterday was q wide uncullivated plain
rsptimilive forest. In these improve.
ments We note nothing OF the
gaudy tinsel Of elaborate display,
capped with terrific cornices indl.
c4lIve Of more terrific mortgages. Every
Improvement has healthy appearance,
plain and strong as the hills which shelter
US, Many Of these improvements indi-
cate even 10 the stranger the sure aud
safe motto of the projcctors-"build as
you can and pay as you CO."
Buildings once as familiar 10 us as our
board bills, with the vacant lots that
made them conspicuous have lost their
identity In solid blocks. The solid squat.
tiness Of others has been relieved by i'm
posing height added just so soon as the
cash certificates Of the owner enabled him
to conform 10 his surroundings. The ex.
tent and numbers Of these improvements
show that they have rot been made with
uiggardly hand. G While there u no elab-
crate msgniGcence, everything is suggest
i've Of solid usefulness, comfort and con
venienCc. Not one Of them. indicates or
it's very face that the proprietor is .
banker or railroad magnate, or q
pIelhoric money bag OF any kind, but they
all look as If they had been paid for and
the owner had something left, and that !!
the fact - IA
Every improvement in Wheeling repre-
seuls solid producing capital. Is It any
wonder then that the gripping money panic
has passed her by with some mighty un- :
comfortable twiBgcs, but nothing broke
oreven suspended ? Is II any wonder that
she has been able to conserve and preserve
her great industrial interests from the
whitening fire Of q commercial crisis? W.
have no doubt II Is more than seven
days wonder TO some Of the representa-
tiVes Of mushroom prosperity, who have
tWtted us with the old fogyism Of Wheel
log. We laughed 10 our sleeve because
they had no 'experience-no history
They worked and prayed for railroads II
some OF them bristled like asterisks, and
Just now they are not happy. They ar
buying an experience. Wheeling bough
and paid for hers long ago, and Ceased t
put her trust In visionary schemes ant
cane down to solid work, and her uork
wlllllve after their authors, Her wisdom
will be justified Of her children, sn(
that's how she looks to US after sever
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