Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-15
Now Dependent on the Generosity
of Wheeling.
Yesterdays Modified View Of the
Home Situation.
Cash and Provisions that Came to
Hand Yesterday.
Scenes About Some Of the Relief
Headquarters.
Other Matters Pertaining to the
One Great Theme.

Yesterday brought the best weather we
have had since the food began. Wednes.
day was too unseasonably warm and Tues
day was too rainy by half, but yesterday
was bright, crisp and sparkling, and
though the wind was cool, it was not
keen, and its every breath brought health
and dryness with it. The workers at the
relief stations pursued their kindly mis-
sions with energetic alacrity and the bright
weather infused new life and exertion into
both helpers and helped. In this connec-
tion it might be said that il any Of these
workers on committee desire any sugges.
tions made changes brought about or ad.
vice given, the REGISTER will print any
thing in that line that may be brought in
and, il deemed advisable, urge it upon
those in charge. The persons who attend
and are the most familiar with the prac-
teal workings of the relief system are the
ones who are best posted and the best
qualified to give advice and make sugges-
tions.
LOOK ABOUT TOWN.
The situation shows no remarkable
change since yesterday in any Of its fea-
lures other than the gradual improvement
wrought by the steady, unrenitting work.
There is nothing that more thoroughly
shows out the horrors and the terrors OF
the waters work than the apparently small
changes wrought about the submerged dis
trict by the very hardest work. On the
Island is this especially true. The labor
of bringing order out Of the chaos has no.
where been steadier than over there, yet,
to q casual observer, the improvement
wrought is scarcely noticeable. In some
localities the change is greater than in
others. There are many comparatively
wellto-do families over there and they
have had their premises put in the old.
time order, but their houses are sandwiched
in among those OF less fortunate souls who
have had neither time nor mes"s to do the
requisite work; consequently the general
effect is almost the same. Arduous is the
task OF removing the huge logs, the heavy
drift aud the vagrant outhouses that have
settled on some lots, and 1t progresses very
slowly 1t is quite amusing TO look at the
the great piles Of outhouses in certain
places. The owners have hunted them out
and marked their names upon them, and
to look upon that huge, incongruou4, but
carefully labeled mass, is one OF the ridcu'
lous things Of the flood.
In the business part Of town, the i'm
proyement has been much more marked.
Every store has turned its large force loose
upon cleansing work, and in such clses ii
counts. business has been resumed only
in isolated cases, and not until next week
will the current OF trade run snything like
smoothly.
THE WORST OF ALL.
The lower part Of the city shows the
least change and is still in most deplora'
BILE condition. The inundated district was
occupied, for the most part, by the labor.
ing classes, who are now out OF work and
have been unable to even think Of return
ing to their homes. In some cases, the fu.
ture holds out no hope, and the prospect
is blank enough. South Wheeling is still
at. "a behold. Its small houses are
~ Hrf twisted up, dismantled con-