The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-26
wheeling About Thirfy-eIght or
ThIrTy-nine Years Ago.


wheeling About Thirfy-eight or
ThIrry-nine Years Ago.
PofthO IntsllISeucer.
Would IL not be well, II among those
who have already passed their first half
century; or those who are upon the
last step thereof, some one should
break away the cObwebs, with
which neglected memories are COW
cred, and rehearse for the benefit OF
their children, or childrens children, the
membranes Of their long ago; when, in
almost. idle bpyhood, they roamed
thoughtlessly through the fields, or
orchards, or wandered aimlessly and
carelessly along the roads, or ways, or
upon the commons; where nov the major
portion Of our citizens reside.
One IL aImos. surprised, when he sits
Ndown for a review, at the small amount
OF life's and workings which make
sufficient impressions upon the brain 10
enable him to recall them, and could al.
most wish that he had q firm hold on the
crank, which would reverse some phono-
photographed Uranium and exhibit its
observations and impressions.
The bearings, features, and almost the
name OF u playmate may seemingly never
recur 10 ones memory, 30 we are led BY
earthly experience to imagine, and yet
perhaps some simple circumstance, even
~ the falling Of a leaf, may awaken a
train, perhaps Of joys, perhaps OF sorI
rows; and mayhap both OF them may ind
their place, and alternating, produce
scarcely les Of pleasure, than Of paiR; and
thus even the Rev. DR.. Beecher might
II he chose, obliterate all OF our ideas oil
that local hell, in which we and our faith
ers we're wont to believe; but can be or
any other earthly power or mind, hold
those dreaded, pungent memories oil an
evil done, or d fault we might have
taught a fellow to shnn; and all local
beauties, and make even an outward par
adise, minister to the crushing influences
OF an inward psndemonium.
Sectional animosIties ran high, in our
city's younger days, and there YVES q lack
OF that brotherly sentiment which now
exists between the boys Of the different
sections; 80 that II is not surprising that
the youngsters OF the upper and lower
sections, have scarcely any distinct rec
ollections Of the others.
However, as early as 1888, a congenial-
ity OF temperament led me on more than
one Saturday afternoon, TO go 10 the play
grounds OF d comrade named-and have
an indistinct recollection Of q frame
house In ths orchard, somewhere near the
present site OF the Wheeling Hospital,
but OF my then play-mate, and oil any and
all Of his connections, all traces are APP
parently lost. Shall say Tin the dark
hea OF forgetiulneSs."
0ne old citizen whose name is ~ Ia.
miliar NJ a household world, lived in the
same North Wheeling %Company's) add.
ton, then but lately thrown open, and he
with his strong will and retentive facul-
ties might pen or describe an almost
complete history OF that section, ii he
could be prevailed upon TO do so,
The iron works Of the Shoenbergers,
operated by Messrs. Aguew and others,
stood where ths Top Mill now stands.
The Sweeney glass works, Sweeny foun-
dry, Garden tannery, Dunlevy and others
boat yard, Phillips foundry and machine
shop, and the city water works we're then
in the zenith Of their prosperity and
fame.
AM Junkins, II my memory proper.
" serves me, ran the Touring mill which
then stood on the west side OF Market
street, below 9Th, on the site now occupied
by the dwelling houses Of Clark Hanes,
E,o in one Of which the editor OF the
Reoissr now lives. The "Black Horse"
tavern was kept on the northwest corner
Of 7th and Market streets, in an old frame
building, a part Of which Ia still standing
This being the oldest part oil the then
newly lsdged "City Of Wheeling" one
can readily point out the residences or
business places OF such old citizens as the
Sweeneys, Irwins, Phillips, Hughes, Boy.
mer, Rhsbim, McConnells, Greess, Cots,
Mckay, Laughlin, Wise, McNaughten,
Woodrow, Mcclure, Mcclure, Cooper,
Fawoett, Fry, Mcclellan, Todd, McCrea'
rvs, Chaplines, Paxtons, Crumbackers
Jamisops (hatiers), McCleans, Kigers
Goshorns, Dulty, Rnote & Sanger, Gun
ninghaln, Robinson & Bishop. A. & r
Fisher, PCntoney & Harrison, P. w
Stocking. s. Lolther, j.. Senseney, John
Fisher, s. d. Harper, John Chaddock,
Chapline & Pierson, J.& J. Reilly, j.. &
j. Godfrey, Hall & Wickham auction
eers), George Baird, the Robinsons, Nor
risons, SO, and l think DR.. John EoG &
Son kept a drug and medicine store on
Union (now 10th) street, north side, while
Joseph Mellor kept his music store on
the south side but lived on the north.
" 1t IL sometimes difficult 10 separate the
ideas which arc bound by associations,
and hence q later date and name may
occasionally iutrude itself among its
antecedenb.
AT the time OF which we write the old
ZINE homestead stood upon the high
ground south Of Union Clltl) street, eaS,
Of Main. Messrs. King & CrumbaCker
kept wines, liquors, tobacco and cigars in
the lower floor OF the old building at the
southeast corner OF Union (llth) and
Water street, while the Times and Adper.
tiser Office and roOns-James L. Wharton,
Editor and Propfietor-was established
in the upper stories, and the prlntert
devils are said to have had a fondness
for the grapes and fruits which the black
men cultivated at the Dorsey nee Zane
mansion grounds, insomuch that 1t was
rumoted that gun shots were frequently
heard thereat, and one or more Of the
printers boys found 1t convenient tC
stay at home for u season and TO be chary
about telling just the how and the where
the wounds we're received.
About this time one Of Mr.. Wharton's
miatortuBes occurred. The King Crum.
hacker establishment was burned out, and
the Times Office overhead vas seriously
damaged.
The principal commission and forward,
ing merchants, as well as groeers, wer,
then located on the river bank, and or
Monroe street (12lh), and the firms o.
Knox & Lloyd, Mckee, Harding & Vel
den, Atterburg, Caldwell & Co., VIM. B
, Tyson, Alex. Rogers, W. II. Houston, NJ
& Il II. Sweeney, Agnew 4 Blake, Cries
mer & TRllapt, DR.. james Baker, George
Kellsall; 7. Brakely, SO, &c, were well
known.
The Wheeling Go-sNs office, John N
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