Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-17
GONE A
Or Else TO Mountain or Sea Side
Resort.
Three Thousand WheeIingites Idle and One
Thousand Away-Which is Why
the City is Quiet at
Present.

That the good city Of Wheeling is ex'
tremely and unusually quiet at present il
is entirely unnecessary to state. Every
body knows, without telling, that q per
ennial air of peace and repose broods ovei
us. 1t is not alone that the clatter OF the
nail machines and the rumble Of machin'
cry is no longer heard, but that news in
every circle and every department is dull
to lethargy. no news and nothing going"
is the reply poked at the pencil pusher al
every turn, until his item-freed brain
puzzles itself over a solution. A little
thought brings it.
THE PULL SEASON. '
July is to the year, what noon is to the
day. It brings the period Of rest, relaxa
ton or recreation, as the case may be. II
is the time when the commercial world
oppressed by the heat, takes its summer
sfests. 1t is the time when the man oil
business and the professional man betake
themselves off for q vacation. 1t is the
season when the society flower OF the city
already half worn out with the winter gave
ties, goes to the summer resort to complete
the 1OO. Anu hooFo Oil, ~ simo "non
the toiler in the mill and glass factory
goes down the river on a fishing trip. This
is why the city is dull.
Ali OF the mills and all Of the glass fac
tories in the city are closed down. The
furnace fires are out and the roar and bus
tie has given way to q stillnes only broken
by the dickering of the repairmen. Three
thousand men and boys, who, q week ago,
were sweating and stewing. before hot iron
or glass, are now quietly lying about, either
at their homes or scattered among the hun
bred fishing camps in the vicinity.
ALL JONI FIsHINs.
Their absence makes the city dull. With
in twenty-four hours after the mills drew
their fires, fully 500 men were ready. to
leave the city, and in as much more time
that many had gone. Go up or down the
river and there, scattered among the fish
ing camps that lie within a hundred miles
in each direction, aud you will find one.
third of Wheeling's mill men.
The stoppage Of the mills and the glass
factories ~withdraws from circulation
thousands of dollars weekly. The absence
OF people from the city has always the
effect of largely curtaillng purchases:
Taken together, these causes have knocked
business down. This makes the city quiet
in a commercial way.
THE SOCIAL EXODUS
The other class Of absentees is somewhat
different. 1t is made up of those who seek
the sea shore for its salt breezes and enlty'
ening baths, or the mountain resort for its
GOODNESS and its bracing air. Wheeling has
sent out many of these. They are scattered
ihickly at the b. d o. resorts; less thickly
at the great springs and the sea shore, and
still more thinly at the European Spas
Still, some are abroad, admiring statuary
at Florence, Studying music at Paris, or
drinking beer at Munich. There are a few
who are saving money at their country
relatives. ard a few boarding at quiet sum.
.,ser boarding houses The absence Of all
these makes society dull.
EPIDEMIC OF DULLNEss.
Why the city is so dull is then apparent.
But how dull it is, nobody but a reporter
can conceive. 1t is dull at every public
building and in every department OF State
and municipal government. 1t is dull in
police circles and quiet in the ranks OF la.
Dor. Society is ~stagnant and the wheels CT
are at a stand still. The tizz of
the soda fountain is about the liveliest
thing in the city.