Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-20

were a0teceuenE W the sugar ESOatoO AZ
ventiOa. The memory of old Fort Henry,
McCo' l1ch's leap, and the traditions OF the
Zane family may fade. but the memory OIL
J. Vim Wait and Halstead will always be
fragrant. The Jacob street improvement
and the stone roller are gone and the thou
sands that they both cost, but their pro-
jector still lives, and like the late D. W.,
always will. Wheeling has spent more
money on her principal longitudinal
streels, Market and Main, in foolish and
impruyident manner than would be neces-
sary to Belgilu block them from curb to
curb from Jonathan's intestine to BOgg s
run.
A REGISTER reporter has, within the last
day or two taken walk over some OF the
principal streets in the city with reference
TO reproduction of his ideas OF their APP
pearance to him. In the First Ward they
have the National Road, which is always
kept in EgOcd repair north OF seventh
street. Market street, north Of Seventh, has
lately been cut down To grade, but it Is IN q
bad condition, and will likely be, as 1t is
not much travelled street; and as there
are nothing but residences above Seventh,
il is hardly probable that much
attention will be given to it by Council
Main street from Ninth north is in tolera
bly, fair condition, having been indifferent
~ well co6bled, but the street car tracks
cutting il up serve u make 1t very bad 1T
certain places. With the introduction OF
the fiat rail "a. D. 5000 much OF the pres
ent inconvenience will he relieved. The
lateral streets in this ward are so steep rs
to be used only under COmpulsion. seventh
street is a very good one. Eighth street s
a very bad one, while Ninth Is moderately
good. The other streets are not in con-
Stsnt use.
Main street in the Second ward is in very
good condition down to the ward line.
Market street does very we'll and also Chap
line street from Eleventh to Twelfth. The
latter streets are all in constant use, and
are kept in tolerable repair with cob5le
stones, but the many holes and uneven
places make it very h'rd on all vehicles.
The description of the Second ward will
answer for the Third and part OF the
Fourth, so far as reference IS had TO Main,
Market and Cbapline, and Of Eleventh,
Twelfth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets
from Eoff west In the Third ward Thir-
tenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets
east OF Eutf are in terrible condition III the
fall, winter and spring, none OF them hay-
ing been macadamizcd.
In the Fourth ward, Sixteenth street is
the best thoroughfare, but IL is only relia-
BILE in the summer time, and as this street
next To the pike i the only means OF get
ting out of town eaStwardly. its wretched
condition impose grave hardShipS, not only
upon farmers and cOhntrYmen geperS1lAAKE t NV
to iE St Neutral i'i. SEEssclns concerns which
do all their hauling over IT.
Seventeenth street i always bad, ana IN
winter il is next thing TO impossible. The
FordyCe family have closed up portion OF
il running from Chapline 70 Market, thus
making il a very roundabout route from
Market street to East Wheeling from the
lower end of town near the bridge. Eight
zenith and Nineteenth streets the same only
show more big mudholes. Over in MancheS-
ter the streets there need attention very
badly.
Over in the Fifth ward the streets are
fairly good, and in the Sixth ward are very
bad.
In the Eighth ward there is not even the
apology for q street, although the traVel
from Marshal county and from Bellaire is
very large. Jacob street was macadamizcd
at an enormous outlay OF money couple
Of wears ago or less but no one would ever
suspect anything of the kind now. Eotf
street is a good three Observation-Disclosures
street, and the same might be said OF Chap.
line and McColloch; but the Eighth ward
should have clear throughit first-class,
fine, all-the.ye round street, connecting
with one in the Sixth ward OF the same de-
scription, and so on to North Wheeling.
on THE ISLAND.
Ii the streets in the city proper are i'll a
condition 10 excite the most unfavorable
comment and criticism, what can be said OF
the neglected Seventh ward? There is not
a solitary street in that entire locality that
will bear comparison with the most
wretched road in Ohio county. In the
summer time they are bad on account
of the accumulation OF dust, and in the
fall and winter this dust becomes one huge
bed of yellow mortar, and 1t is next thlHg
To impossible to get even buggy through
il.
South Front street from Zane TO the Fair
Grounds. after very bitter opposition from
many members of Council, was treated TO
a dilute" dose of indifferent gravel, and
as a result is at certain seasons in inditfer-
ent condition, although the clouds of yell
low dust that come sweeping up the river on
fair days or on days when many vehicles pass
up and down the street, show how well that
street was attended u. North Front street,
from Zane 10 the Northern end Of the Is
land, has never been properly graded,
and a. consequence its CON
dition is ALWAYS bad. Near
its intersection with Zane street, after
ali rains pools of water accumulate on the
west side, and are allowed 10 stand and
Stagnate. These pools, or rather their ex-
halations, reinforced by those from their
nelghbors scattered about the Island in
wild profusion, may go far toward solving
the mystery surrounding the typhoid fever
cases that periodically abound in this
ward Then, too, the curbing along this
street has never been properly attended TO-,
and the paving is wretched in many places.
We have been asked time after time TO call
public attention to the neglect in this di-
direction TO the upper end OF the street,
Going west on the Island by way oil Zane
street one can not see single street that
exhibits the least mark OF attention from
the city authorities. Even the approaches
TO the city scales are next to impossible,
and unless something is done they will be
before the winter is over. York street North
and South, Broadway North and South, and
North Huron and South Huron streets, now
present the appearance of average county
roads, with their indispensable concommit-
ants Of yellow dust six inches thick, relieved
on either side by miniature mountains OF
clods, touching reminders OF the rlgorS Oh
the last winter. 1t would be work OF SD
pererogation to attempt TO give o bill oil
particulars" or to define the condition oil
the Seventh ward. and space at any rate Is
not available, but il would not, however,
be doing justice 70 the city Of Wheeling To
omit passing glance at the condition oil
Zane street, the connecting link between
this city and the State of Ohio. Thi! street
is standing reflection upon the actions Of
every Council that the city has ever had. II
is the means of entrance to the city fern
the people OF Belmont and Harrison
counties, who all do their trading here, OIL
rather would IL they could get in, bat they
can't and Bridgeport and Martins Ferry
reap the benefit OF our mistake 70 the tun'
of thousands annually. DIR. Logan
recognized this fact. and more than one
urged its importance upon the severa
councils Of which he was a member ou
fearful OF losing their identity they in
VariabIy "rep1sed" upon all proposition
looking 90 It's permanent repair.
The street car track bisec:s this street a