Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-04-24
THE WESTERN RESERVE
News Notes Gathered Along the
Shores of Lake Erie.
Ohio Temperance Where Garfield is To
Stand in History-Cleyeland and Erie
Matters-The Model Little City in
the Pennsylvania Panhandle.
KEYSTONE PEOPLE AND POLITICS.
.speca, co,respondenoe Of the Reotster.

through the Western Reserve, where the
original stock is mainly OF Puritan origin,
and the foreign element has not impressed
its views to any considerable extent on
public sentiment, the preponderance OF
opinion sustains the movement to increase
the tax on the liquor dealers and curtail
the Sunday business. The howl over it
will not be very earnest or effective until
you get to Cincinnati and the lower end of
the State, where the thrifty Teuton has in
trenched himself, and still adheres to the
beliefs of the Fatherland, including con-
viction that man ought to have unre-
stricted facilities for taking drink when
he wants to, and that Sunday is as good q
day as there is in the week for having
good time.
GarHeId's Place.
Recent attacks on Garfield do not seem to
have had any appreciable effect on the
monument fund, which, under the ener-
getic management OF Cleveland people, has
nearly reached the amount originally con-
templated. at is not possible to make the
general public believe any thing wrong of
Garfield" was the remark OF an observing
newspaper man to your correspondent. III
YOU convicted him of murder, they would
set it down as mere error of his judg-
ment. The reasen is they all believe that
the mans natural impulses were all right,
and that when he went wrong il was
through mistake or stress OF circumstances
which he had not courage 10 resist. Then
too, his brllianCy and genial manners cap
tiyated their Affection and the manner OF
his death intensified it; and just now you
might as well try TO damage the colossal
statue or the dome OF the capital with spit
balls as to lower their regard FOR him by
fishing up ROsccran> letters and political
scandals. Hereafter it may be different.
When personal recullections has passed
AWAY and the historian makes up the
record from undisputed facts, apart from
the bias and cOlOrinE of either affection or
prejudice, the place Garfield will occupy in
history may be very different from that
elevated pedestal on which his warm ad-
mirers now place him. Washington, as
YOU know, is full of "reminiscences OF his
weakness and vacillation, which his enc.
mics did not hesitate TO refer TO by stronger
description. The very elevation at which
his reputation has been fixed by recent
Biographies may induce other chroniclers
10 attest and preserve them.
Cleveland
is disposed to stick to and extend her sys-
tenn of electric lighting. Geo. Ross, who
used to he town and country Boniface at,
and near Wheeling, and who is now flN-
ture at the WeddeIl House, told me the
mast plan of lighting the business centres
had proven satisfactory, and without con-
sidcring comparative cost and the saving
Is..l.0 . hnt 1 O.
TO be. There are now four 'masts, erected
at different portions OF the city and
from each OF them the light is suiiicien,
to enable average eyes 10 read nonpariel at
n distance Of several squares. peculiar
ity of the light noted, is that il shows bet
ter on nights that are darkest, and some We
raCious or unverGciOus lake mariners claim
To have made out the harbor light from the
Pcelce Islands, with nearly seventy miles
intervening.
The Lake shore and Michigan South
ern.
the easiest running road under Jay Gould $
administration, runs tram pretty well
made up OF parlor cars through to Buid-
10, leaving Cleveland at : 30 in the morn
ing and rcaChug Erie three hours later.
The road runs along an open, pleasant
country, with the short crisp waves OF lake
Erie yashiE. against it, cmbankmentS on
one side. and the level, well kept farms OF
the Reserve stretching away on the other.
with plenty of thrifty little towns rolled
along the way. Mentor lies Just beyond
| and GarfeId's old home, plain little villa,
| shows itself on the right Ashtabula, where
the scene of the frightful bridge disaster is
| still pointed out, is harm-
less looking looking little village;
| inst east of the town. has direct railroad
| communication with Pittsburgh.
At Erie
| 81 Pressure Isle Bay. which is shared by tho
| philadclphia and Erie and the Pittsburgh
and Erie roads, both Of which have :he'r
| ,ermini here. The new Nickel Plato
road" which takes its name from an order
! given by its management for thousand
! cars with nickel finish OH their exposed
metal. laid its rails through the city some
| two weeks since choosing Sunday for the
work 20 avoid injunctiops from sundry
cnraged citizens, whose homes lie along Us
way. Besides these four railroads, Erie
| has the best harbor on the lake, from which
nnwards of 200, 900 tons OF Pennsylvania
coal and several million bushels Of grain
handled by capacious elevators, are shipped
! hv lake hsr9RS ..,....,
/ In od5it;Gn 70 its commercial iacil,,ies I =
- il h'ir,,iuI large Canada trade ana
%iIion ,a ihctude tho ,r &c fish and lake trout
market, Erie has good
Manufacturing Ad.
which is improving rapidly. IT, IL A.
close TO the anthracite field and 'an.'
numerous manufactures of heavy :. vi
work, has a good many establishments
which turn out lighter material. One Of
the largest organ factories Of the country
| is located here, and efforts are being made
| tC induce other extensive industries 70
| plant themselves on sites given by the city
| in consideration OF settlement.
The growth OF the city during the past
decade is shown by the census reports
| to have been greater than any other fenn-
| sylvania city of the sacred class.
II has now upwards OF 5000 inhabitants,
| nearly One.third of whom are OF foreign de-
scent, the large majority Of the foreign elc-
ment being made up Of enterprising and
| thrifty Germans. Will OXt0by, who used
| to be an appurtenance Of the REGISTER, and
| who is engaged here now in the jewelry
| business with Will Duffield, another Wheel
| ing contributor, told me when he first
| came here nearly every real estate agent
| wanted TO rent him a house, whereas
now it was matter of considerable difficult
| " 10 find residence or business property
| untenanted.
| social Features.
| Besides being city with business, pres.
ent and future, Erie has developed unusual
social advantages. Eighteen newspapers
| minister TO the intellectual cravingrof her
| inhabitants Three Of them are English
| dailies. the Diypateh being the morning
| newspaper end the Obserrer and the Herald
sharing the afternoon field, and the others,
beside covering German and Sunday publi-
| cations, include one Portuguese weekly,
the only one published in the United
| States.
The city has an excellent public and high
school system. is well lighted and watered,
| and its broad and level streets are paved in
great part with asphalt and wooden block
| pavement There is good deal OF wealth
| here in part descended from old families,
| such as the Reeds who baye built them
| selves a monument in the shape OF the line
hotel which bear. their name, and IN part
acquired by shrewd and lucky operators
, like ". l.. Scott; who has come to tie 'front.'
as a railway magnate within comparative.
Iy recent period; and this wealth pretty
generally distributed, finds expression in
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