The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-04

louFeh OpefR 01hl1g o44ooas hsAl
briEhts cigar store, The Instiiuts saloon,
Tidal Wave sAloop, SchDspfS drug store
ths OperA Ho0se Rlz1 The hall d The Ger
mzniG Singing Society. We had Al1ost
lorEoltea Wax Lee, Hho flung Chinae
aaS TO The bFeSns IN front Of his laundry.
The city baElaing Was brilliantly illn-
minated, and decorated With Gags Of III
nations. A string Of lanterns crossed The
street here, and Two other strings ran 70
the top Of the G1etAf In front The dec
oratiouand illumination were both most
elaborate, and reject great credit uPoH
The proisclors. From I3th street 70 the
Rsgia9 oG6es, On each side Of Market,
we're te,Ioons Of evergreen, containing
doEers, GGe, WFeAths, etc. The whole
forming quite an important addition 70
the decorations Of the b0ildingS upon that
tLoroughIRre.
There were also several bsHnen Scrus
Market street 1t this point, une bearing
The words, welcome 10 the World, an
other sHarmouy, FrAsFFAity and Patriot
inn Today and sill another : Hon@ty
and Prosperity Tia IS. y, Society
also Displayed hammers, notices e.ss
iron their room over Browns ieEelEy
store. In front Of Mr., c, A. Helm
bright's cigar store were Ebeautiiul star
Of ga jels, 4 fBe portrait Of Washington
and other appropriate emblems, notices,
etc. n Was the opinion Of many that
Mr.. Helmbright made the finest display Of
the evening,
Twelfth street presented enc appear.
ance, The Odd Fellow Hall was decora-
ted and illuminated, and suspended across
Chapiine street was an immense banner
upon which were the three representa-:
tive links. Hugo IDoos hAd an arch oil
tobacco atens in front Of his place. A
large arch Of gas jets Illuminated the
Ohio Valley Bank, which was also finely
decorated. The Franklin Insurance
Ofice, the City Book Store, HAre's plumb.
ing establishment, and the houses Of
John Rice, John StallmRn, LAkin 4
Pierson and ]. w. Heiskell were all
decorated and Illuminated.
The Court House, school buildings,
market houses, engine houses, steam
boats, etc, were all gaily decorated; also
the rooms Of the Board Of Education, IN
Crangle's block. ,
Among the private residences and
offices deserving Of mention, We note
those Of 0. c. Dewey, Robert Craugle,
DR.. Logan, DR.. Baird, DR., Hqpp, DR.,
BaguIey, LIS. Delaplaip, DR.. Jepson,
Daniel Darrah and Dr.. Cummins. There
may be, and no doubt are, others worthy
Of mention, but II SO they have escaped
our attention.
On Main street, below l4th, Fred. Huse-
mems arbor in front Of his livery stable
was very pretty. Mr.. Luke Fitton, also
on this street. diplayed with gas jets,
"l77G,"" CentenniGl, ""ls7G."
EAST AND ClSTRE wHREIlSG.
These portions Of the city were entirely
free from the tumult, Understandable as
pandemonium itself, which concentrated
ON Market and Main streets north Of the
Creek bridges.
The decorations were quite general,
many Of them very artistic and some oil
them elaborate.
The boarding house Of the Misses Sims
on the corner Of l4th and Chapline was
beautifully decorated, the two long l.
shaped porches atfording abundant room
fora tasteful display Of Gags without an
oyerdone appearance. The whole length
Of the two pOrches fronting on Chapltne
street were strung with red, white and
blue muslin, with row Of stars, while
from toe posts was tRsteiully arrayed
display OF flags Of all nations. In addi-
ton 70 the lanterns, every pane OF 8 ass
in the house was illuminated with a
candle.
The Capitol building had on two Of its
towers, flag stats with two fine flags, ..and
on u line stretched from one pole TO the
other numerous flags. Upon the undn-
fished central tower is erected an illumi-
Mating arrangement made Of gas pipe,
the ton part representing bell and I'M
der it double circle embracing star
and underneath 1t again, the figures 1875.
This, when the gas was turned on and
lighted, presented a most brilliant APP
pearancc and could be seen all over the
city. Fourteenth street and Fifteenth
above Chapline both we're extensively
decorated with flags and great numbers Of
houses were Illuminated. On 10Th, per-
haps the most elaborate display Of flags
and LANTERNS was on the residence
OF Mrs. Harding, which when Light
cd presented very fine appear
ance. There were also numerous other
residences very tastefully decorated. Mr..
]. NJ. Dillon had n pipei arrangement ex-
tended from an iron tank in his yard ont
into the street. The tank was filed with
benzine and Water.pipe inserted in the
bottom. When the water was turned on
itforced the benEine through burner on
the end Of the pipe, high into the air like
the let Of fountain. This when lighted
made display not only beautiful and
brilliant, but novel. twas fountain
Of light.
On. McCulloch street there was also
quite an extensive decoration with Gags,
and many more would have Been arrang-
ed had that part Of the city been in.
cluded in the route Of the process
sion, which takes place to-day. As it is,
however the display Of flags was quite
general. Between 18th and 10th streets
there werO four rows Of lanterns suspend
cd, ono OF which crossed diagoually from
the residence Of Mr.. Moulter to Mr.. Cd
ber8 store. About the middle Of this and
supported by stays were two large circles
wreathed with red, white and blue paper
and bristling with flags. The Fourth
Ward school house had the national col.
ors hanging in featoons from window to
window all around tho building. TWAS
also decorated with flags. :, q
Seventeenth street (old Clay with
friend Crumbacker's beautiful libertypOle
at one end and the liberal display Of flags
and the tasteful decorationsof numerous
doors and windows with wreAths Of red,
white and blue looked exceedingly patri-
etc, one OF the finest displays on this
street was thas OF Mr.. Prayer, also Mr..
McKees store and reSidence. The Fourth
Ward Hose house presented neat array
Of flags, while our friend Chris. Stoehr
had made his premises a literal bower OF
of evergreens, with q unique display Of
lanterns and flags. Going towards Cen
ter Wheeling the first and finest display
is the arch across the stone bridge con-
structed Of gas pipe. Thirty-seyen burners
illuminate as many glass globes Of red,
white and blue, and it was one Of the
most elegant diSDlaYs Of the evening.