Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-01-15
Journalists In tho War.
THE QUAKER CITY.
The Centennial Grounds as They
Now Are From Opulence To
Pcnury Nicissitudcs I'm the
Life of the Great Hymn
other Matters.


Singer Other Matters.
Correspondence ot the Register
PuLApELrHIA, January l3
The weather, that ever ready aud
never failing topic, has been thus iar
this winter rs peculiar rs the notions oI
Susan q. Anthony, who, by the way,
lectures at Association Hall, this week,
uu Woman wants Bread, not the Bal
lot. Susan, Who was young lady
when Mcthusclah was babe, should
take iur her subject, Woman wants a
Man" II would be more appropriate,
aud would take a great deal better than
her present lecture Try it, susie We
won't charge YOU Tor the advice.
Its un IN wind that blows nobody
good. isu tritc saving, aud applies 10
the mild weather, as It saves the city :
three costly c. boats from active duty,
and the coal pile - - aud ~ per tom
Iurs not brcomc smaller by degrees
yud beautifully less So rapidly rs IN
severely cold weather, and thus II
operates as great boon To- the poor.
While. as wc notice in the EEGISrEE,
Jupiter pIuyius selected the Ohio val
lev ior complete baptism, hc mcrci-
fully spared tins section. and the rain
lIll iur the past month was very light.
The centennial grounds, AZ TcmGm-
hetrl hy the millions that visited
70 Iu 1876. have undergone con
siderable change. There remains yet the
main building, Memorial and llortlCul-
iuul Halls. the English buildings, and
several smaller structures Oi minor note.
Al the rest have been cleared away.
The narrow gauge railway which car
rird Centennial visitors around the
world in five minutes lor five cents, -
also numbered with the things that were.
The Centennial fountain, erected at Il
.,st ul about $4,000. by the Catholic
temperance ,urivtivS during the tCutcu-
mai wear, ~ now one at the main at
fractions on the grounds, AMI will be-
one ui the most enduring ui the me
mnrlliS ui the celebration Oi our first
centenary. Five drives from different
parts oi the Park centre mt the fountain.
The myTiad ui mushroom buildings
that were erected 10y parties sangulnc Of
making fortunes. n the immediate
nrighhnrhuud ui thCC Centennial grounds,
lul known "a Shanty town, were all
torn down. hv ur,lcr ui Mayor Stukcly.
Eut the substantial brick and stone
bulliugs. such as the Elm Avenue aud
Gluhr Hotels. still remain and sccm to
hr doing "A good business.
SOME time since the arrogant uabohS,
The Park commissioners, issued an
uka~r. thai the Main Blilling, which is
hCiug used by the Permanent EAhibi-
iinn Company, b. removed from the
plrk. The people raised such a howl
over the ORDER that they drew lu thclr
horns. and whlir they dil not rcscjnd
the ORDER entirely, they gave the Ter
mautuI International Exhibition q
chance to renew It's lIlG by agreeing that
il tue Exhibition company rulscd iund
of SlOO. 600 and would use the building
strictly for exhibition purposes, as per
the plan a the Crntcnnial exhibition,
the building would be- allowed to re-
main The CurporaturS, who are COM
po ga ui such men a, J. H. lLppinrott,
the publisher. and others equally prom
inrut. claim that they will fulfill their
part oi the contract, aud there Is every
reason 90 believe that the concern will
De- placed uu "A sale footing, and viii ~
man, rs 1t nov is, the pride Of Phladcl.
phla a.
George u stuart, once merChau,
prince. renowned phIlJuthropist, AMI
O. whom money was As plenty as though
DO Nuuit newer reach AN yud, To day is a
p,uni,eSs mau. His opUlecuy was we'll
kuvwu, and his Chc,k WAS spod az any
hunk In this city until last summer,
when the great Liverpool house ui stu.
Jrj Is Co. u.lrd. They were the hgst To
80 ulr liquidation, when the PANE
swept over England, during last year.
The lauurO involved the Philadelphia
house az Stuart X Co, aud made G.. IL
Stuart a muncylcSs man. lie still oCCu-
pies th, uiHcr in the largr establishment
ON Strawberry street, above Chestnut,
uur,. belonging To the StuartS, hut
SINCE the ailup has been sold by
the hauidatOT, aud MT. stuart has
the use oi the office only hy SudcuuCc
S,uar; i 4 religious enthusiast, AMI his
whole liiy has htcn devoted TO dce'ls
that halluW his name and add 10 his
glory llewaS President aud oi the on
ciu8;nrS ot the United States Sanitary
CVmmJssinu, which position he held
throughout the war. That fac; alone is
enough o. endear him 10 the country.
Ills name has been proposed Tor the
Russian Mission, but We doubt his az
ycVtdnCe ii offered 10 him. Mr.. S,uart's
career plainly shows the Whims OF Dame
Fortune, and how by one turn oi the
wheel amillionaire may become pau
yer and thc revcrs,A
Linked sweetness long drawn out,
ilr the lawyers, is the Whitaker will
CsSe NV being heard before Judge Al
ison, 10 Common Pleaf, No. /. Briefly,
il IS The same OLD story. Robert Whit
aker died worth million dollars, which
he devised by will. When the docu-
ment Was offered for probate II was con-
tested. like SIR Joseph Porter, h. &. T.,
/ by "his sisters and his cousins and his
aunts, horde Of claimants. They claim
the will is fraudulent and never was
written or caused TO be written by the
dece,leut. They claim IL bold forsery
and that Robert whitaker never made =