The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-03-04
BY.aosE DAYS.
Some Recoficctious Of Another Old Cit
ken or wheeling.

Some Rtcoficctious OF Another, Old CIT
ixen Of wheeling. n
10 he Editor otthe LatRtoneer,
slR:-The difficulty Of obtaining correc
testimony on any subject alter number 0
years have elapsed, when It depends on TIT
memory Of men, is due not only to lapsel
Ia this particular but much to the difficult
ty Of separating their actual knowledge
f'om what Is Evolutionary, In other words
from what hna been told them.
Az an illustration, permit mo to give my 70.
membranes Of certain things detailed
under the caption Of "By.Gone Days." In
your iealle Of February 20. While my yer.
sion will be almost at total variance with
the statements there made, l wish II Ia
be distinctly Understood that they arc only
my remembrances, and In no way chal.
lenge those statements, though in writing
them out ! will ask the privilege OF intro.
ducing such i%ncidentals a. may occur 10
my mind tending 10 %Corrobo,Rts my yer.
sion Of the story.
l am very reluctant to submit these col.
e%ections, least they may appear IS q critic.
Ism, and Us such touch the feelings oil the
gentleman who furnished the material for
the article, whom | have ever eateemed
and 10 whom l am under lasting obliya.
tons. am only induced to do Il, rs stated
ut tho commencement, In the interests oil
history. t
Taking as they come what I coneede TO
be the errors, tho fits: Is found In the state.
ment In regard to the ferry owned by Dr..
Eof, but better known at the time as Rey.
holds, when II says, "Tho ferry used 10
touch at the point Of the Island, and then
run over to whtrs West Wheeling now is"
This is quite a mistake, II the idea wish.
cd to be conveyed 10 that then there was
travel to and 'front.' the Island at that point,
Tor at that time all the lower part Of the
Island rs far up as the upper part OF what
Is now known as Stoue-town, was in It's
primitive forest, and was the most famous
nutting grounds In the neighborhood.
The next 10 where reference Is made 10
the number O. houses In thesquare bound.
I'd by Main, Market, Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, where 1t Is stated that
Noah ZIus'a house and the store room
formerly occupied by Robert Sweeney were
the only ones IN it, as ut that time Marks
had atavern where the Exchange Bank now
stands, while at the corner Of Twelfth and
Market was quite q bunch OF frame houses.
in one Of which a Mrs. Lewis kept board.
ers, mado memorable by All insane man
jumping from. the third story window 10
the ground without injury.
These buildings, or a portion OF them,
burned some years after. :
Another is in locating the paper mill Of
VIM. Lambdin where the Riverside Furni-
ture factory now stands, as this mill stood
on tho cornerol Twenty. third and Water.
and | will add was the first of the kind
built in the city or vicinity. 1t was G. s.
L1mbdin, q son Of William L, who con-
verted the old wooden mill that stood
where the furniture factory stands into a
paper mill, some eight or ten years subse.
quant to the erection Of the one by bis
father. Is. - 49,
The statement that all the ground below
the creek was mostly used Us farming lands.
while true, Is liable 10 mislead unless ar.
c%ompanied by the statement that Twenty.
fourth street, or what ia now Twenty.
fourth street, was then the southern bound.
airy OF the city, and that the farming lands
at II, there being a good many
houses between there and the creek. AS
to the statement that at that time boats
could come here that could not 20 to Pitts.
burgh, it is as true now as it was then, as
relatively there has been no change in the
depth OF the water in the river, n.
j Whes(tDu, March 9.