The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-26

tached extended through to Main street
where Mr.. Blond nov has his shoe store.
Tho Virginia Hotel, kept by the Nc.
Creary'p, where the Grant House lately
stood, had almost been forgotten, but the
Gen. Chapline residence, south OF II, and
still standing, shows something Of the
general style Of It's architecture.
The present "City Building" old "Ma:
sonic Hail." was the meeting place Of
that characterizing order, and Mendel q
'Crawiord's furniture shopl occupied the
site Of the now "WRshington Hail."
The names Of Harbour, Gordon. Robb,
"a. were familiar among the occupants
on the other aide Of the Market street
between what 10 now the "Martin" res
taurant and DR.. Surgisons. The Boyd,
(now HARBOUR houses were not yet built
and q vacancy extended thence to the
Eserter corner buildings. Messrs. Con-
nelly, Thatcher, Kemple and others gave
character TO the business on the east side
OF Market, south OF Union 10th street,
while Messrs. Sanger, Robinson Stock.
ing, james Mcconnell, DR.. james Glenn.
ems, &C., showed the class OF dwellers
here.
The Catholic Church, with the Rev.
Homer It's priest, occupied the lot on the
southeast corner OF Union and Fourth,
now Tenth and Cbapline, Immediately
above the 2 Jacob inow Jacob HULL lot,
and the names OF Mckee (Redick), Nor.
ion (Dr.), OF (ssmuel), Pollock, Bell,
Rawlings, Godfrey, Magruder, Douglass
Baird, Atterbury, Tyson, Paull, Arm
strong, Peterson, Warren, &C., were recog'
mixed as those OF the dwellers on Fourth
or Church street, but extending only a
short distance below Quincy Oath street.
However, the Wheeling Brewery, Wes-
colt Cotton (now Tack) Factory, and two
or three small frames, including that oil
Timothy Adams, were e on going lar
ther southwark, or to the creek, near the
bank OF which were the Richards and
Bodley blacksmith and machine shops
and a house owned by John 4. Smith.
Below Monroe street, on Water, Main
and Market street, things are very much
changed since the days ofour story. Lud.
wick, BoLsford, Jelly, Richardson, Slator
and a few other names were household
ones till we reached the Point Paper Mill,
which stood at the foot OF Water street,
on the south side OF South street, desig-
nations which have been obliterated by
the erection Of the Baltimore d Ohio
depot.
On Main street, from Monroe or from
the Gazette corner on the one side and
Kelsall'B on the other, scarcely q yestige
Of the past remains, north Of 14th street,
and south OF il on the east are only the
Root residence, (now WRrren's store
room) Reds store, and the remnant Of
the Miller foundry, converted into q
livery stable, while on the west the Brown
and MADDEN row, below South street, and
one building north Of said street are all
that are recognized.
On the east side OF Market from Mon
roe (l2lh) one might claim to see the old
"Red Hose House." In John P. Truschels,
the now John Bruce row, Of which Messrs'
Thompson & Hibberd have lately torn
down one tenement; the Reside, Hosack
store room, building, now Schnepf sdrug.
store; the frame building now occupied
by MIR. Ball, the locksmith, and Others
formerly Waller G. scott's, and the large
old three story brick now occupied by a
barber and others.
The Miller properties, Prather resi-.
dence, Cargil, now Mason's row, and the
old Forsyth mansion, together with the
old saw mill; then as now he"Hubbard u
are familiar objects, landmarks OF the
past, and guides 10 surveys In the future.
And yet the march Of Improvement
has here only taken away the Gillespie
blacksmith shop, the Miraben, Cargill,
Sockman, Rohan, Hubbard and Upde-
graf places, besides a few unlmportant
frames on the east and the Sockman,
Coen, three other brick buildings, and
the frame Woodcock foundry on the west