The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-27
"Reminiscences Of Old Times In
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Nearly every one in this country able TO
read, has read Of "Tippseanoe, and Tyler,
too,s log cabins and hard cider, and Of
that Presidential election In 1910, when
men, especially the citizens Of Wheeling,
had searcSly anything else to do, save 70
chase the political (WhiEl heresy known
as Two Dollars q day, and roast beef
or that other dogua, "compstition with
European psuper labor, and "Ten csnts
q day and no dinner
Well, the log cabin and hard cider wing
won the day, and no wonder, for the ms,
had been the ms so long, and corruption
seemed TO have such complete control Of
the game, that tho people thought no
change could DO for the worse, and were
slmos. ready to leave the frying pan for
the FIRE.
The present Court House was Just fn.
ished ia that day, and on the open space
Immediately opposite where the Odd Eel.
lows Hall now stands, there was erected
what was called a"Whig pole,n tall, sub.
stantial, mast rugged and about as high
Is our present church steeples. At the
foot OF said pole a speakers stand had
been erected, from which songs and decla.
nations were made, TO amuse and arouse
the populace. Another recreation for
the times appeared In the shape OF barba.
cues and political gatherings, called con-
yentions, at which latter the partisan
leaders and their followers came and
went in procession, in oil directions, and
BY every possible conveyance, within q
radius Uf 20, 80 or eyen agreater number
OF miles, hauling log cabins, hard cider,
huge balls, Il or is feet in diameter, sus.
pended between wheels, and every avail.
able foot OF its surface emblaEoned with
the names Of the States and their mot.
toes and the political sayings Of the chiefs
whom they delighted TO honor. Trades:
men 10 wagons piled their occupations,
and the banners which they carried were
designed as burlesques upon the sayings
OF political opponents, or intended to
illustrate and enforce the views and
opinions OF the processiouists; so that,
taking ail IN all, not q few Of the boys Of
that period look back At II only as u gala
day, deeply tinged with unprecedented
sorrow. No teltgraphic Communication
blessed that day, but the slow courier and
the slower mail made the various cleo
lion days Ia each State continued 70 %
for conjecture, suspense, hope or despair.
Wheeling was very Whiggish then,
alive 10 The protection which a protective
tariff would give 10 her rising manufae.
lures; but, alas, her fond hope, were blast
ed by a son Of proud old Virginia, and
her daughter Of the Western slope was
blasted with a blight from which most oil
tho older c~iliEsns never recovered. Ruin
and bankruptcy overlook many OF them
But this Is 4 depression, nevertheless
almost an unayoidabl one, for the terri.
BILE depression caused by the closing Of
almost every industrial establishment III
our midst, and in which there was left
scarcely any power Of recuperation, over,
balanced any aud all efforts TO compete
with the more fortunate and but little
larger cities Of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
Louisville and 81. Louis. See their cen.
sus statistics and consider the fact, that
in addition to our equal river facilities
we possessed the great National Road
which all had expected would confer the
greatest benefits.
East, and west Of (6th), Eoff street, and
north Of Monroe (l2th) street, q might
have counted the houses on their fingers,
Some Of them have since been torn down
others r~emodeIled, while some yet Stand
and are recognizable almost to an open
Ing.
school room occupied BY the elder Mr.,
Hildretb, on 9th, where the Nolan
buildings now are. The Jail was then il
process Of erection. The Wheeling In.
%stitute, then under the tutorship OF th,
brothers Canning, has since been, as i
were, engulphed by the manufacturing
establishment OF Messrs. Mendel, Booth
& Cos. =.
now G. b. Hall property opposit.
thereto, the Knots residence, and the ad
Joining tenement, as well as IN old build,
log which stood where DR.. Hupps resi-
denoe now stands, Miss. Caldwslls then
D. MoClure's Dr.. Frisaelps then Archi-
bald Fishers, and Berry and Carotheri
then Thos. PauIls were old land marks
On Fifth (now Eoff), southwark, Dr.
Tanners and J. F. Lodwick's, now Good
and Alex. Rogers residences were seer
beyond the Mark Douglass PORK house
and tenement building, now Lindsey In
slitute lot; and the only other houses or
the west side Of Roff street, thence to the
creek were the old brick, lately occupied
by Mrs. Johnson, deceased, the sexton'i
house At the old graveyard, the engine
house, corner Zane and 9th (now 17th
and Eoa1 and 3 small one west Of II,
near the brewery; then Miss Elizabeth
Pools, and 4 small one.story brick that
stood by the Baldwin brickyard, in the
present enclosure OF the Bodiey Bros.
On the east side Of Fifth, Eotf street.
and south Of Monroe, was the Hervey
House, lately ]. G. Acheson's, recently
torn down to make room for the Second
and Thiri Ward public school house
then the Judge Caldwell house, nov s
Brady, Esq, which being built before
Hamden (1lth street, was laid out, in the
days Of yore %encroaohed upon that
thoroughtare.
Then q vacancy occurred until the
dwelling Of Henry Moore, Esq., on the
northeast corner OF 9th and Quincy (Eoa
and l5th) streets was reached, the out
lines Of which dwelling are but visible
among the huge piles Of brick and mortar
that did the duty OF a Convent, Academy
Of the Visitation, 90, until the Mountde
Chantal place vas purchased, aud the
buildings now there were erected. The
John Frew residence corner wa board
yard lot, and the Lofiny corner seated
Or. James Tanuer's Office. The Arthur
Little residence has supplanted White 4
Coen's carpenter shop, and the Edward
Reid residence, Mrs. Cummins' late pur'
chase, has taken the place Of the high
gravel bank and the Pippin domicil
which stood thereon. Major Bier, the
long recognized Alderman Of the Fourth
Ward, lived in a frame house, the out
line Of which Is seen in the second frame
from the present street corner, and 1t was