The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-01-09
WHEELING. January 7, 1874.

Editors OF the Register:
The Board of Commissioners were in
session last Wednesday. Among other
things that they did l see they ape
pointed Messrs. osterling, List and Fish
er q Committee on the part Of their
Board 10 confer with like Committee
to be appointed by our Council on the
subject Of the city and county jointly
building a public building, or buildings
to be called the city building and court
house for the county.
OF course, why not2. We must do
something. l am only sstonished that
they did not give them a rowing COM
mission to 90 west and buy railroad,
the Northern Pacific, or some other
one.
With your permission | want to say
q few words to these dignitaries. You
want this improvement and you must
and will have il, l suppose, money or
no money. II you have no money you
can issue bonds, and pledge our faith
that we will haye the money come day
As we will have no other use for IT
when we get it, Of coui.e let US have the
buildings. Make them both ornamen-
tai and useful. Build them high as the
heavens and OF huge proportions. Cover
q whole square with them. Put them
on a good foundation, solid rock Got
ages" if you plesse) Build them OF
granite, frescoe the ceilings. make them
glitter to dazzle the eye, even as the
gold from the sands of California, When
you have got then, Lord how you
will strut around and through them,
and escort our friends from other cities,
and the strangers who visit US from
abroad, through their spacious halls,
and courts, and say to them, Behold
our magnifcence and splendor. We
can do it. This you see is the result OF
our early economy, frugality and good
management. We have spent nothing
foolishly in building up our city; We
have ecouomised for this occasion, and
in this effor:. we are like the old hen
who tried 10 sit on fifty eggs; we have
spread ourselves. Now you see if we
had initiated other cities we would not
be able to thus spread ourselves, but we
didn't do it. We have not sQuandered
our means in building up great sys-
TEN of sewerage as you have done.
That is all nonsense We don't claim
such. Nor have we paved miles OF
streets and roads like some people have.
We have no use for such things. We
just say to people in both town and
country, if the mud on our streets is too
deep for you to wade through, you can
| wait until tomorrow, or next day. or
some other day when il is dried up. If
YOU don't believe it, visit our market
house on such a morning as yesterday
morning was and see il they have not
taken our advice.
True, we did act little strange If
not foolish with reference to some rails
roads that we subscribed to, but il WASH t
much, onlya few hundred thousand
dollare, a mere bsgatelle. Our Cincina
natl and Marietta subscri ption was no
success to us, but we Can console our
selves with the thought that if it did us
no good it certainly did to our neigh
bors and friends down the river, viz,
Marietta and Parkersburg. The Pitts.
burgh, Wheeling 4 Kentucky road,
the special pet of all our fond hopes,
has made an unfortunate start, but
never mind, q few thousand more will
set it straight y
Mr.. Editor, seriously and IN all can
dor, do you think our Commissioners
are in earnest or is it just one OF their
jokes? II they are in earnest, let US
reason with them, dissuade them from
their purpose, il it is possible. Before
they talk about any more improvement
for mere chow hsd1't they better &C
back to the starting point and lay s
foundation for a city; when that is doni
it will be time to talk about these mag
nificent Improvements.
Before we get such we want severe
and plenty OF them. Wewaut our street.
paved. We want our roads leading ou
OF town into the country reconstructed
or rather built. AS it is now we have
none. No city in the whole United
States OF our pretentions to-day is atIiict
&c by as poor roads or as few oil them
as we, therefore | say 10 both County
Commissioners and Councilmen {; gen.
tlemen, hold onl The first thing you
do you should appropriate every sur
plus dollar you have or expect to have
for the next four years, TO these pur-
poses, and if in your opinion your sur
plus will not be adequate for the pur-
pose, sell bonds, yea fifty or one hun
dred thousand dollars OF them, il neces-
sary to accomplish this end, il you want
to do good service and receive the thanks
OF your constituents. How much more
to our credit and good would it have
! been if the two hundred and fifty thou.
sand dollars in bonds that were put in
the P. W. 4 X. railroad had been
spent in this way, instead of being
squandered in the way it was. But
OF this more anon. A CITIZEN.