The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-04-14
GheGntelliqetreer
wrsr VIRGINIA AT THE CENrENv1A1.

We had a call last evening from Mr..
HIS. White, Of Bellton, the contractor
who has in charge the West Virginia
building at the Exposition. He returned
from there few days ago, having been
on experimenting tho putting up ot a
portion Of the West Virginia headquar-
ters. He will ship altogether about ten
car loads Of prepared lumber from BELL
ton, and will be ready to open up early In
NAV. It costs him sos per
car load of G,OOO feet OF lum-
Der, 10 reach the Centennial grounds,
viz, $50 per car to Philadelphia and Sl5
terminal charges. He says the PennSyl-
vania road is doing an immense business
in these terminal charges, by moving
from 200 to 500 cars per day to the
grounds. That company will coin money
this year, as will also the various Phila-
delphia street car lines, all OF which have
prepared themselves 10 do an immense
business, and several Of which run direct
" to the grounds.
Mr.. White says that people away from
Philadelphia have no idea Of the i'm.
.nensity OF the Exposition buildings,
grounds and arrangements. There will
he hotels ad in6nitum out at the grounds.
The Continental will have on
the grounds an immense branch
of their present building on the cor
ncr Of Chestnut and Ninth streets, and
It's guests will receive tickets good at
either place. They propose to charge
50 per day. There will also be vast
prepTationS for accommodating people
eGo"o6mically disposed. Tickets will be
sold by n general agency which will en-.
title the holder TO the use Of room at
some private house for 80 many days,and
that will permit him to take his meals on
the European plan, that is, wherever he
finds it convenient. He will pay for his
ticket on its receipt and for his meals as
he gets them.
Philadelphia expects to make millions
out Of the Centennial. Public sentiment
is divided on the question of keeping it
open on Sundays. It is claimed that to
shut it up on that day would be to lose
million Of dollars in the way Of receipts.
Besides this consideration, there will be
another in the shape OF the pres
encc Of large masses Of Europeans whose
IDEAS on the Sunday question differ ma
tcrially from those generally hold in this
country. 1t ia therefore pretty safe to
say that the Exposition will lie open
every day in the week.
The West Virginia headquarters oc-
cupy the most desirable situation on the
grounds, as compared with those OF amy
other State. They are close by those
Of Great Britain and japan, and
will therefore afford every oppor-
tunity to show of TO the hest adj
vantage everything the State haS to
exhibit. Japan is spreading herself and
really taking leading place aS an ex-
hibitor. Mr.. White thinks the foreign
display generally will throw this country
uui,e in the shade. The United States,
according to present appearances, will be
the only laggard at the feast when it itopens.
The arrival OF foreign goods at Philatlel'
phia during the past two weeks has
been constant and enormous. Pic
lures, machinery and manufactured
articles Of thousand kinds are
pouring in from abroad ms fast as
they can be unboxed and put in
position. The art display will be mag
nifcent. In addition 10 the superb
French collection, comprising nearly
seven hundred Of the best paintings Of the
best modern Parisian school, England
has now on the way to Philadcldhia one
hundred and nincty-sevcn oil painting
and fiity.six water colorS OF the first rank.
This British collection is very choice,
embracing more than a hundred pieces
that have been exhibited in the Royal
Academy. What sort Of a display Amer
ican artists are going to make is not an
nounced, but they certainly ought to
make supreme effort.
Two hundred trains pass daily over the
Pennsylvania Railroad between New
York and Philadelphia. A train leaves
Jersey City every seven minutes, night
aud day, After the Centennial has fairly
opened it Is reported that the number Of
trains will be nearly doubled.