Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-02
The Impressions sf a Xhss!Iun Man
While Locking Around
Louisville,
With Incidental Mention Of Mat
ters and Things Sen
En- Route Thfther.
The lameutable Absence OF Nail
City Exhibits---A Short
Sighted Policy.
How a Pan Handle Town Shook OF
the Grasp Of Morpheus and
AWoke to Life.
n,,.,o, cD,r,s,Orderc. OF ne REGISTER.

Special Correspondence OF The Register.
LOUISVILLE, KY, August 3n.-There are
90 many things to be seen here just now
that time has not permitted me to fulfill
any promises in the way of correspond
ence. Gen. Hancock, in his famous letter,
said hat st. Louis was hot and hotter than
-. A Wheeling man has no difficulty In
pr~onouncing Louisville just now the hot
test OF all.
All one can do is to sigh for the breezes
that HE themselves through the grand old
hills of Brooke and Ohio counties. and in
despair murmur in the eIasperatins an
gusge of the venerable and pious Henry
Beecher Of fascinating repar,e, its ID
hot.
All n World and His Wife
have come here t. see the Exposition, and
they are still coming. The people are Wild
with excitement and the murmurlng
sounds of Exposition. the everlasting Ex-
POSITION are here, there and everywhere.
In the long hall Of the Gait House guests
ard trayelt rs rave but the one theme; In
tie saloons the handlers Of the beer mugs
are resping untold hsrvests, and say Coo
bless the Exposition Palatial mansions
on Second. Third and Fourth avenues re
echo with the lisping and musical notes
that dance .Urth from femiaile lips
as tLey UNFOLD the glOries OF the
great Exposition TO attendant swans,
while grcenhorns, yerdant and rural,
roosters who have just passed through the
def hands, light fingers and delusive ma
nipulstions OF the polite and courtly gen.
tie M who rule and ruin in the many
Gambling bells hat ornament and charac-
reTlZe the city, in no very undertones for.
get not TO say Cd id the Exposition"
Bat enough Of the Exposition for the pres
ent.
Lcaying wheeling
last Tuesday, via the p, c. & St l.. road,
the writer bad u pleasant trip through
Ohio and Northern Kentucky. and arrived
here Thursday afternoon NJ O'Clock. Any
ordinary observer would soon discover a
difference between OHIO and Kentucky,
ard in nothing so much so as in close
cultivation; Ohio in many places reSem
bling a market. garden, while Kentucky IS
N open field and has every appearance OF
loose farming. When you get within huy
miles of Louisville, however, Kentucky l.
decidedly ahead in general appearance, and
along the J.. d y. Snort Line may be found
some Of the fin 81 farms and !oveliest rural
residences in the country. Between
W DteIlDR hIlu lOVlSNlIIt llltIt . LJlIluS
30 wonderful as the Wellsburg gas wells
and no erandrr spectacle is to be bcGeld
than the scenic effects that strike the eye
as you behold the flames from these wells
illuminating tie OEIo river from both
Sizes by night. Talk about leaving home
TO see the sights; within sixteen miles OF
Our Nail CiIy
You can find q oresplendid rIyerscene thal
zen OF poet can describe or pencil of artist
reduce 10 glowing canvas. Imagine TO your
self IL night scene on the LaBrlie ktvlere,
gas wells Oh both sides sending forth ilatnes
10 tie height of thirty or forty feet, the
river flowing ever on, and brhOlding, you
will say to yourself Lake lcIuan is not
more beautiful, Venice by moonlight is but
a shadow. and all thSt one has ever read OF
moonlight on the water is sur,
passed by this dazzling and be,
W!!G"ring spectacle, a thousand and
a thousand times. Leave home,
Nj. Editor, that ron may return with
your enthusiasm at white heat. your patri.
otiem SURPRISING that of II half day theatri
Csl Catos ana your will To- make much of all
that nature and art have given You, IN.
vrgoraicd and rcdOubIed. Mark my words,
should the WeIlsburg and neighbOring
wells indicate that they are there to stay,
within len years the value Of property in
the Pan Handle will qVadruElP, and that
section VIII become the first manufacture.
ing center Of the Union. Why should
il not? Vast fields Of coal, a mag.
nifcent river, first class railroad faCil.
ltics, incxhaustible beds of minerals
ana limItiess EtS are Advantages
hat will tell in any contest Tor maniiac.
iuIing and commercial supremacy. and
will, with the exercise OF a little tact,
mercy and properly.directed business
ralent, bring Ne well 10 the front in
IHc Next Decade.
BY the way, you newspaper men do your
CIV iniinite harm abroad with IlI.omencd
pr phccirs, and especially by an occasional
school census. II you cant take a school
census that will bring you out abead-thdt
IS, a gsiner in population, you had better
not take any at all. For tue next one, II
necessary. il might be well 10 rob the
grave, and enumerate a few good old men
who are resting quietly and peacefully IN
Mount Wood or Greenwood. Taey wont
mind tin fact, as they were useful IN
their lives, useful in a timely departure 10
thaL bourne which sends back not one
traveller, why should they object il the
census now should continue 10 make them
useful? The very first evidence Of pros
ptTity | saw on getting ont Of Wheeling
was WeIlsburg, aud during the Whole trip
the indications OF a rapid advance were not
% evident in any town OF similar size.
Wrilsturg is but an Illustration Of the
utility Of railroads which have made it thu
Kansas CITY, the rising Chicago OF West
Virginia. Fifty years ago that thrifty lit
re city had as large a population as it had
five years agO. 1t then got all idea
no iis head that it was full grown aud
hat whatever other places might do, it, a
east, would not grow any more. No tOTu
n the country adhered more parsistsntly
TO this theory and a new departure was no
lnong the dreams Of the oldest or the
youngest inhsbitant.
For Half "a Century
her sleep was sound. Not q funeral note
woke her up and not O distempered dream
msGe her suOre, grOdn or turn over in her
oed. Grass was growing in her streets, her
residences and her stores had become intirm
and old, her inhabitants, hands in pockets.
toes out OF the boots, patches on the seats
of tAe pents, wondered about with 8
listless ar and a vacant stare. Would
you believe it, that town had
more years OF good, sound and pious
sleep than old Rip Van Wrinkle by 30 years:
indeed, Rip must have been there and
tsught them Q beginning. Finally thing
came TO such a pass that half the inhabi
tants had no visible means OF support
Lawyers became SO lsnk and lean that o
solitary client became such a god SEND that
they skinned him so thoroughly that he
was thereafter too poor to get out OF town
Doctors were half starved be causs the