The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-02-13
NrIennoRHooD NEWS.


lErLAfRr.
Only two more subscribers to tho telephone
are wanted and the number will be reached
that will secure central Office open al night.
Quite number Of people have had new in.
sGtuments put IN.
Marshall Thompson, Of ST. clalrsville, was
In town the latter part Of the week, doing
some surveying
The Sterling Comedy Company, In add.
ton to the three nights performance gave q
matinee on Saturday. The Monumental A..
ISOLATION has made some money from the en-.
gagement The company has done well aud
will no doubt have good house for itS bene.
1T Monday night.
Country people coming 10 town Saturday
said they found the roads in worse condI.
ton than they had been this wiAer.
]. W. YoSt and Carroll Yost expectSoon to
go to Columbus " make their home there.
Charles Faupel Is preparing to build a
dwelling house on Guernsey street.
viii Gothy is preparing to bEild q hand.
some residence on his foundation adjoining
the Methodist Church oil Guernsey street.
The fine weather OF Saturday afternoon
brought great many people into the streets,
and u was common remark, "H8w many
STANCE faces one meets" Yet these strange
faces are all at home here. People have
been coming steadily 70 Bsllaire and are
cooped up two or three families In house,
or boarding here or there till they can End i
house to live In. We haven't got elbow room.
AS soon as man drives stakes for new
house half dozen are after him to know II
u will be for rent. Houses are being built
lots OF them, but not enough.
There was no preaching at the Methodist
Church Sunday OH account OF illness In Rev
Chapman's family, Rev. Dean was away on
Sunday, consequently there was no preach.
Ing at the Disciples Church. In the MOI n.
ing, as Is the custom, there was pray or
meeting. Rev. MCKallip, OF the First Pres.
byterian Chrch, preached ringing seFmon
Sunday on the subject Of church music. Rev,
Payne, OF the Second NJ T. Church lcolOredl
preached temperance sermon and reClted
an original poem on the subject Of his ser
mon.
Col, Morris Is said to have caught that great
better afford to play such trick on his
eredulous friends, or succeed better Ia ii.
Get a reputation for early rising and you
may lie abed all day."
Congressman UpdCgraff has introduced
1AlA Au " eHe 4Vuse VI Representatives tnhl,
according TO custom, will probably pass the
House aud the Senate, authorizing Tue gov.
eminent 10 give four condemned brass can
non to the Bellaire Monumental Association,
TO be used on the soldiers monument
VIC. Barnard Is now having number 81
new coal cars made, and everything about bis
Indian run coal mines put IN order for an in.
crease In his business From the arst Of
March he intendst 10 mine thousand bushels
day more than at present, for shipment
down the river.
Pay day on the G. & r. this month is q tiay
late, as the usual date OF starting the car
from Pittsburgh comes on Sunday.
The Nail City and the Belle MCGOWAN had
collision between their tOws OF barges Satur.
day-stubbed their toes, as it were. They
were near the i. & o. bridge when they
struck one another in trying to keep far
enough from the piers. There was a great
whiStling through the fog, D crashing nj bar.
ges. and, although neither boat stop ed here,
there seemed to have been barge or so
sunk. The barges OF both tows were empty.
Tie high water and heavy fog made several
Of the boats that passed during the day mar
rowly miss accident
4 COMPLAINT ABOUT DEPOT.
Having had occasion to travel good deal
over this neighborhOod within the last three
or four months, and having done much OIL
that travelling by way of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. have had occasion during
many weary wait to take cognizance OI
the depots that company has furnished for
the accommodation OF its customers And
more especially has the one at Bellaire occu.
piedm attention. Fora few weeks it was
the rule, rather than the exception, that
trains on this route were behind time, some.
! times several hours. Persons coming 10 the
depot ut the advertised time for leaving OF
trains, were afraid 10 leave as "the way was
up such winding stair" they feared they
might not notice the approach. OF the train,
Here were men and women compelled to
wait in one room; no private acCommoda.
tons whatever; few hard, uncomfortable
seats, frequently not enough to seat one-hali
those in the room. Until recently, in case OF
fire all must trust to one mode Of exit, and
that down narrow wooden staircase. mo
smoking was placed conspiCuOusly about
the room. But the telegraph office was par
toned off one end, the partition extending
about two,thirdS Of the way up, and in this
office from two tOA dozen employees (none
else were admtted) pulled their cigars, the
smoke pouring into the passenger room us
freelyas though the cigars were pulled with.
In its sacred preciHts.
Nov, tilt Is necessary to prohibit those who
pay for what they get, from INDUCING a cigar
TO while away the long wait, wouldn't Il be
as well to extend the prohibition to those
who are paid TO stay where they are2 And,
II this prohibition is deemed necessary be.
cause of the presence of ladies, would it not
| be as well to provide separate room for
them, and let the men indulge in free
smOke7
Ought not the laws Of the State to compel
railroads to furnish private apartments, or
be liable for damages in case anyone should
be compelled to leave the depot on account
Of lack Of such accommodations, and there
by miss a train?
Ohio has for years had a law compelling all
public buildings to DO provided with two
modes of egresS, but this law has, until very
recently, been wholly ignored by the com.
pany controlling this depot.
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