The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-03-19
TuIRTY.FIVE YEARS AGO.


TuIRTY.FIyE YEARS AGO.
There seems TO be quite TASTE for
local antiquities just now. Old news
papers are ransacked and old books
overhsuled in order to revive the re-
membrance OF old times, Speaking OIL
this disposition, a friend handed US q
few DAYS ago some fragments OF copy
OF the Wheeling Directory for the year
1889. To rekipdle the recollection oil
the men who were prominent IN tbs
community thirty five years ago we
puhlish some Of the names:
Moses W. Chapline was Mayor OF
the city. The City Council was COM
posed as follows: Thomas Hughes,
John McLure, Daniel Dunbar, Robert
Morrow, VIM. S. Wickham, Redick
Mckee, Henry Moore, VIM. B. Tyson,
John Sexton, Jacob E. Bier, Robert
baldwin, Joshua Hunter, John K
Hall, Il. Echols and VIM. Stoneman.
James s. Wheat was Clerk for the
Council and George Carrothers was
City Sargent.
,ua. ,,mr was divided in-
10 FIVE wards, and, according to the
COMPILER Of this Directory, was divided
bv the creek into North and South
Wheeling.
Mraru Van Buren, was President OF
the United States and George W.
Thompson was Postmaster OF Wheel
;pg:L S. DelapIain, c. J. Love, Fl. d.
Fepnev, ". A Isett, j Stevenson aud
E Bier were clerks in the postoftice
which was located at No. pa Main
street two or three doors north Of the
slev between Madison and Jefferson
streets, now Ninth and Tenth.
The newspapers in the city then were
the Wheeling Gazette, edited by John
NJ. McCrearv, and the Wheeling Time
and advertiser, edited by james +
Wharton. They were both tsi-week!y
and were Issued on alternate days.
Among the manufacturing establish
ments are mentioned the crown glass
factory OF Messrs Ritchies d Wilson
the flint glass works Of Messrs, Plum
ket d Miller; the wibdow glass works
OF Messrs. Eucell & Cuthbcrt and the
South Wheeling window glass works
which had then recently been put IL
operation by Messrs McNames Il Ad-
ans. A rolling mill belonging TO Mr.
David Aspew at the northern extrem'
i,y OF the city manufactured bar, bolt
sheet and boiler iron and MALE, and
employed 100 hands. The ircn AND
brass iounGry and steam engine fscto'
~ Of Mr. Arthur n. Phillips is men
TONED also the iron foundry and pillow
factory OF Messrs. Sweeney, Mathews
and Grey; the iron foundry and ma
chine shops OF M.ssrs. Helm ssc
Richardson; aDd 1t wa
stated that new foundry, called
the Union Foundry" had lately been
put in operation in South Wheeling by
Messrs. R. & W. Miller. 1t is siugu'
lar fact that OF these firms engaged II
the manufacture OF iron and glass il
this city thirty five years ago, not ont
(uuless Sweeuey's be an exceptioD) ii
now in business here, and even TIT
names OF the firms have been almos
forgotten.
TIE Virginia paper mill Of Messrs
William Lambdiu & Sons WAS then II
operation; also the Point paper mil
OF A. & Il. Fisher aud the Fulton paper
mill belonging 10 A. Armstrong x Co
The steam saw mill and window ssst
mandatory Of Mr Dana Hubbard il
referred 10 and lsth ma
chine invented by Mr.. Hubbard re-
ce,ves first class notice from the com
piler OF the Directory. Joseph Jun
KIN g. Sons owned the Wheeling -four
ing mill at No. 1926 Market street, an,
manu- actured 80 barrels OF flour pc
day. Mr.. James Pemberton was tn
owner OF TIE steamboat yard, and boa
building was then an extensive an
profitable branch Of industry.
The highest price then paid for cos
in any Of the factories was ~ cents pc
bushel. and some OF them obtained
as low as 2 cents. Specializing upo'
the possible exhaustion ''in half of
dozen ages yet to come" Of the coal II